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Katie Mack

Find our Sentientist Conversation here on the Sentientism YouTube and here on the Sentientism Podcast.

Katie is a theoretical cosmologist who holds the Hawking Chair in Cosmology and Science Communication at Perimeter Institute. Her academic research investigates dark matter, vacuum decay and the epoch of reionisation. Katie is also a popular science communicator who participates in social media and regularly writes for Scientific American, Slate, Sky & Telescope, Time and Cosmos. She is the author of the book “The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)

Katie is vegan and has a sentiocentric moral scope. She has a naturalistic worldview, saying here: “I had a lot of trouble believing in anything that I didn’t have strong evidence for. It comes back to the scientific view point maybe. I didn’t have religious experiences. I didn’t have a feeling of connection with the divine. I wanted that feeling of connection … I found the practice very meaningful, but I never got the faith.”

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Disorientation, a poem by Katie

Latest work

In the classroom!

I recently gave this presentation (YouTube and podcast links below) to a network of Religious Education (RE) teachers from Northumberland in the UK. It’s aimed at helping teachers bring the […]
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In the classroom!

I recently gave this presentation (YouTube and podcast links below) to a network of Religious Education (RE) teachers from Northumberland in the UK. It’s aimed at helping teachers bring the […]
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Just How Big Should “The Moral Circle” Be? – Jeff Sebo on Sentientism Ep: 229

Jeff Sebo is Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at New York University. A Sentientism conversation about his new book "The Moral Circle".
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Our First IRL Sentientism Meetup! Plus Education and Other Updates

If you’re in range of London on the 27th July come and join our first in person meetup, a picnic in Regent’s Park. As with all of our communities and […]
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