I regret to announce that I am leaving my post as the Wykeham Professor after mounting pressure from administrators who insist I never worked at the university.

The editors are delighted to announce Tareeq Jalloh as the winner of the 2025 JoAP essay prize. #philsky #philosophy #essayprize Read the winning article 'Speech Acts and Unspeakable Raps' 👇 doi.org/10.1111/japp...

It’s book release day! I’m back on social media! I feel slightly awkward about it because part of the book is about how social media transforms your motivations for communication! But honestly writing a book is lonely, weird basement-work, and now I want to talk to people about this weird jank.

New paper forthcoming in Nous by Dan Harris (@danielwharris.bsky.social) and myself! Check it out! I think there is something useful here for people working on all sorts of topics in philosophy and elsewhere, and we plan to expand further on this ourselves in future work.

1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!

Thanks to all my friends at @cardiffphilosophy.bsky.social for the lovely Welsh dragon that's keeping an eye on things in the office as we head into the new year!

The AI gossip paper @joelkrueger.com and I wrote got picked up by Vice! We argue that chatbots generate gossip about people and consider how this gossip becomes ‘feral’ without the social constraints that usually moderate human rumor-spreading 🗣️🤖💬🫢 www.vice.com/en/article/a...

As someone who spent a lot of time in Russia between 2009 and 2015, incl. a year at the beginning of the 'Fair Elections' movement in AY '10-'11, it's unsettling how easily the phrase 'the US pro-democracy movement' rolls off the tongue ... www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

Umeå University (Sweden) - an awesome department in an awesome location! - has an open PhD position in philosophy with a focus on gender. PhD students are paid very well and get all the same vacation/leave/retirement benefits as any other state employee. Have a look! www.umu.se/en/work-with...

The Mapping Black Language project is working to document how Black Americans speak, and how their language shifts and varies—and they’re looking for people to interview

CALL FOR PITCHES! Our Spring 2026 edition “the #1 issue: the job market” needs you. See the full CFP on our website. The theme is the job market and the content is however you all need and want to engage with that 💥

In her #NWAV53 plenary, King discusses an example of a juror being dismissed from the pool due to forestressing in the word police (so PO-lice), because the prosecutor claimed that the pronunciation showed animus towards law enforcement. And this is exactly why I study prosody!

Introduction to JBLAC Webinar Nov 7, 2025 | 6–7:30 PM ET Learn about the Journal of Black Language and Culture (JBLAC)—its mission, vision, & role in advancing Black language & culture scholarship. Hear from the team & discover how your work can engage with this new community. bit.ly/48Cjc0V

Come join our department!

In my latest piece, I write about satire's power to clarify our vision and deflate authoritarian rhetoric.

📣JOB ALERT📣 Lecturer or Associate Professor in Philosophy at University of Leeds. AOS: Social Philosophy + at least one of: Metaphysics, Epistemology, or Philosophy of Language, Logic, Mind, or Action. Details at jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx.... Closing date 5 Nov 2025. #philosophy 1/2

Everyone go read this!

Linguists swear up and down that natural language determiners are uniformly conservative. But three HVAC techs we spoke with in the parking lot outside a Hobby Lobby in Redding, CA aren't so sure ... @nytpitchbot.bsky.social

A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond. I hope you’ll read and share the piece. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...

A fundraiser has been launched to help pay for the legal expenses of the philosophy major taken by ICE earlier this week, and the Columbia Department of Philosophy has issued a statement about the situation and calling for the university to help him.

Last week we were informed that our #NEH grant for the #WiseWomen series was being terminated. We were close to finishing season 2 and had recently applied to produce two new seasons. But with that funding now off the table, we find ourselves in a precarious position. Our future is on the line. 1/3

I wrote about the Kristi Noem’s El Salvador prison video and its relationship to the horrific practice of lynching postcards. Read at @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/kristi-noem-...

every person involved in this needs to be in prison

what does ‘misbehaviour’ sound like? in new open access work i ask this question in the context of school discipline policies, looking at how ideologies of ‘im/proper language’ and ‘im/proper behaviour’ coalesce and get co-constructed with one another. doi.org/10.1080/0962...

Tired of calling your Congresspeople? You could always also call your state reps! I’m calling mine to ask that the state stop cuts to the UCs and CSUs in light of the federal government’s attacks on higher ed. In CA, find your folks here: www.sos.ca.gov/elections/wh...

Extremely stoked to be organizing this conference highlighting philosophy done from queer perspectives at UC Santa Cruz this April! Especially glad to still have this happen given, you know... everything. Registration here, with a remote option: forms.gle/bhPt4xQ2jR5q...

Today would be a good day to consider donating: savelife.in.ua/en/

“Putin, along with other dictators around the world, can finally look at Trump with confidence & think: one of us.” @radiofreetom.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Book launch! Meaning: A Very Short Introduction by Emma Borg and Sarah Fisher Wednesday, 26 February 2025 18:00-19:00 Cathays, Cardiff Full details ––

Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes. You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment. My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc. www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...

A petition in support of the School of English, Communication, and Philosophy at Cardiff, who are being threatened with job cuts that would be devastating for staff, students, and the university

Oh hey! My book is already on Amazon, I did not know! Look how pretty! If you are a person who still uses Amazon, will you please consider pre-ordering? It's cheap, and it really helps with the algorithm and with my ability to promote the book. I hate to push my own stuff but I would be so grateful!

Is the term "racist" losing its meaning through overuse? Theorists and pundits across the political spectrum say that it is. But what evidence do we have that "racist" is "conceptually inflated" beyond mere vibes? @liao.shen-yi.org and I take a close look in a new paper: philpapers.org/rec/HANMCI

A few more days to our interdiciplinary event on drill rap and social justice! We'll have voices from philosophy, sociology, criminology, linguistics & art! More info here sites.google.com/view/chillab... & register here for location details and/or Zoom links www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/folks-need...

Did a little interview for the European Day of Languages: “You can’t solve a human problem like linguicide with a view of language that removes the human component.” www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...

“They don’t know what someone like her is supposed to sound like,” Holliday told me. “And that also makes her sort of a linguistic Rorschach test...this can work in her favor for people who are inclined to like her anyway. But it’s also the basis of their accusations.” www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

As CUP is slow with production at the moment, I am posting the manuscript of my recently accepted critique of the terminal anorexia diagnosis on PhilPapers. This is an important and distressing topic and I want this paper to be available. #philsky philpapers.org/rec/JEFTAT-3

Daisy Dixon "Slurring Images" on Open for Debate #philsky #philosophy blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openfordebat...