Happy 120th birthday, special relativity! Albert Einstein introduced special relativity in the paper "On The Electrodynamics Of Moving Bodies," published in Annalen der Physik #OTD in 1905. 🧪 ⚛️ 🔭 Manuscript: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... English: www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einst...

Turns out the ‘magic’ coffee in the coffee shop just has an extra shot of espresso. And now my hand is trembling somewhat. 😵‍💫

Paracetamol? 🙄

Noted.

You can also be a competent academic and occasionally finish first in the 40-45 category in the local ParkRun. 🫣

Amazing run by Cambridge alumnus Amy Hunt for a silver medal in the 200m at the World Athletics Championships.

Google's "AI mode" is basically a means for paraphrasing without assigning credit to the source. In niche areas (e.g. philosophy of science) the sources used are so narrow that it as good as guarantees that people who use it in the writing process will end up plagiarising the work of others.

Sat on deleting this particular account far too long.

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

The Marathon at the World Athletics Championships had both a false start and a photo finish.

It was a smart move for Radiohead to wait for all the Oasis fans to spend their annual gig money before announcing their shows.

When you use your own razor beyond necessity.

I have questions.

Trinity looking nice for a return to work.

I'll be running the London Marathon in April in memory of our recently departed and much loved mum, fundraising for the Macmillan Caring Locally, a charity that provides palliative care for terminal illnesses. You can read more at the link. www.justgiving.com/page/matt-fa...

You’ll have to excuse me…

Rainbow Lorikeet in a Flame Tree, University of Queensland, 2014.

Physicists simplify the universe by studying closed systems. | iai.tv/articles/the... However, philosopher of physics Karim Thébault argues that embracing the openness of physical systems can lead to a better understanding of the world. #philsci ⚛️ 🧪

At Tate St Ives even the windows are artworks.

Questioning the uniformity of the passage of time while waiting for the final minute of the washing machine cycle to elapse.

Carving Nature at its joints.

First day of school holidays, and it turns out our daughter *is* capable of getting up early enough for school. 🥱🙃

Black Sabbath were initially named the “Polka Tulk Blues Band.” How different things could have been.

"What perfect albums were released when you were 16?" 00/01

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It’s nice that tennis remains in good hands post Roger/Rafa/Nole

Watching tennis, thinking about bagels…

Happy Flying Ant Day, to all who celebrate.

Peak summer at Trinity.

Quite the contest at last weekend's ParkRun.

White shirt and pomegranate salad: not the ideal combo.

Pulp at Glastonbury. Lovely.

Just the 2.5 minutes off Kipyegon’s mile time at ParkRun today 🔥

Doing proofs: possibly both my favourite and least favourite part of the job. 📝☑️

A weekend project with the little one. All this photo of our hedge required was a shoe box, pinhole, tracing paper, sellotape, and an iPhone 11.

I am devastated to learn of my dear friend and fellow philosopher Helen De Cruz’s passing. With Helen's blessing, her husband Johan and I agreed to circulate a GoFundMe on their children’s behalf. Please feel free to share and circulate widely. www.gofundme.com/f/support-he...

Sometimes I think that taking a break from an argument I've been struggling with, and then returning days/weeks later, is an effective way of getting perspective and improving a paper. Then, later, I realise it's simply that time away led to me forgetting the specific problem with the argument.

'ChatGPT users had the lowest brain engagement and “consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.”...ChatGPT users got lazier with each subsequent essay, often resorting to copy-and-paste by the end of the study.' time.com/7295195/ai-c...

Without fail, marking week is precisely when peak summer hits.

🗓️ Save the Date: IAPT X in Santiago, Chile! The International Association for Philosophy of Time (IAPT) is pleased to announce its 10th annual conference, which will take place at the University of Santiago, Chile, from 7–9 July 2025.

Revealed: Thousands of UK university students caught cheating using AI

In this week’s issue of Nature, Alyssa Ney argues that Bohr, Wheeler and their intellectual descendants were demanding a new conception of reality. www.nature.com/articles/d41... (The same can be said of London and Bauer - sorry couldn’t resist a mention!) #physics #philsci

RIP big dog

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Alcaraz is like watching a bit of Fed, Nadal and Djokovic rolled into one.

Latest post. Don’t know how many I have still in me helendecruz.substack.com/p/cant-take-...

There’s something about streets like this that reminds me of late 90s video games.

“Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time. Plans that either come to naught, or half a page of scribbled lines,” wrote Pink Floyd, you know, whilst writing Dark Side of the Moon in their 20s.