Happy take-your-plant-to-work day for those who celebrate

Publication day! It’s been a long journey to get to this point, and I’m grateful to everyone who’s supported that, and to @routledgebooks.bsky.social for publishing it.

PITCH: Biblical era Home Alone with Herod going the houses around trying to slay childer but getting caught in all sorts of traps.

I’ve been seeing this cover over and over and I just… In the original you’re aware of the horror of falling, but the body positions of the workers are solid on the beam. Here, most of them should be falling off, yet they don’t, because they live in an unreal, consequence-free space.

Upon reflection, I acknowledge it was a mistake to enter the LHC wearing a purple dinosaur costume and roller skates. This was a moment of poor of judgement and not reflective of my profound commitment to citizen science. I will be taking time away from my youtube channel and from social media.

Upon reflection, I acknowledge it was a mistake to enter the LHC wearing a purple dinosaur costume and roller skates. This was a moment of poor of judgement and not reflective of my profound commitment to citizen science. I will be taking time away from my youtube channel and from social media.

Call-for-papers: Hypatia Special Issue on Feminist Philosophy of Mind Guest Editors: Gloria Andrada and Carolina Flores Deadline for submissions: 15th January 2026 Details and links to submit on the website:

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

It’s publication day! Spread the word. The perfect Christmas gift for the pessimist in your life.

I am just now learning that Gil Scott-Heron did the voiceover for the "You've been tangoed" ads in the 90s

And just like that, the notes could, in fact, note the noted.

On a train down to England and noticed random guy sitting next to me is writing a paper on truthmaker semantics. We are legion.

Everyone should be allowed one turn each on the Large Hadron Collider, just to check the results for themselves

Society of Applied Philosophy conference is back in Edinburgh next summer, and has @jennysaul.bsky.social and Ishani Maitra, amongst others, as keynotes - the call for abstracts has just gone out.

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

It’s official - “Nigel Farage is right, don’t vote for him” is a demonstrably awful strategy for Labour. Boosts salience of immigration, costs votes on the left, doesn’t persuade any voters on right (why would they accept a crap knock-off when they can have the original?)

Pausing my social media hiatus to say that my first paper 'The Problem with the 'Now What' Problem' is now out in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice! The paper is open access so anyone should be able to read it. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

ALL WORK AND NO PLAY MAKES KOKO A DULL BOY

New study shows that given infinite time monkeys crippled by lack of meaning and purpose in life, refusing to type anything

As a matter of existential urgency, the UK desperately needs a national broadcaster willing to report basic facts about the Reform Party.

My current not-very-informed-but-its-the-best-I-got take on the electorate in rich western democracies right now is that they really really hated post-pandemic inflation and did the typical thermostatic public opinion thing where they just blamed whoever was in power for that. So far so normal...

"Misplaced Trust in Expertise: Pseudo-Experts and Unreliable Experts" by Michel Croce & Neri Marsili doi.org/10.1080/0269... The persistence of scientific misconceptions is often attributed to a decline in trust in experts. #socialepistemology #journal #article #trust #expertise #misinformation

This paper is now out in PPR. In it, I argue against the widely held assumption that trust is inherently risky, showing that we can often be 'merely' vulnerable, where this need not entail an associated risk. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

An Open Letter to BBC Management, Written by BBC Journalists and Signed by Media Industry Professionals: "The BBC is not reporting “without fear or favour” when it comes to Israel." docs.google.com/document/d/1...

In case of emergency, play jazz flute to your ventriloquist dummy

In case of emergency, play jazz flute to your ventriloquist dummy

Inspired by the success of the 'strictest headteacher in Britain' I am henceforth committing myself to becoming Britain's meanest postdoc

Happy to share that our Landscape Study on Responsible AI has just been published: zenodo.org/records/1519... If you can't be bothered to read the whole thing, we even summarized it for you: braiduk.org/the-responsi... @braiduk.bsky.social @technomoralfutures.bsky.social

🗞️ Is trust necessarily risky, or "merely" vulnerable? Our @mattjope.bsky.social explores in his latest paper, forthcoming in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. philpapers.org/rec/JOPTRA

📢 New paper forthcoming in PPR on the connection between trust and risk philpapers.org/rec/JOPTRA

📢 New paper forthcoming in PPR on the connection between trust and risk philpapers.org/rec/JOPTRA

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

📝 New paper forthcoming in Episteme: philpapers.org/rec/WOOTES I argue that when others change their minds, that can give you a reason to change yours, too. I changed my mind a lot in the process of writing this---and if the paper's right, hopefully for the better!

I very much appreciate that PhilJobs allows you to search for philosophy jobs by world region, including specifically in Antarctica. Nothing going at the moment, but keeping an eye on it just in case.

"joe rogan" is indistinguishable from an incompetent medieval lord with internet access. bro's fief is in shambles i promise you

🏔️ Brad is lost in the wilderness—but doesn’t know there’s a town nearby. Was he forced to stay put? In our #CogSci2025 paper, we show that judgments of what’s possible—and whether someone had to act—depend on what agents know. 📰 osf.io/preprints/ps... w/ Matt Mandelkern & @jsphillips.bsky.social

My grandmother used to always share old Irish proverbs with us. One that stuck with me through the years was "Tá sé ceart go leor ‘eipiste’ a chur os comhair ainmfhocail", which roughly translates to "It's totally fine to put 'epistemic' in front of nouns. Like really, don't worry about it at all."

Workshop at Aberdeen on 27th May

Reviewers, I double dare you to accept my papers

Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns

Zuck: the average American has three friends

📣 Delighted to share that my paper "Methodological Nationalism is Not the (best articulation of the) Problem" is forthcoming in Philosophy! 🎉 (1/8)

 A preprint is available here: philpapers.org/rec/BEAMNI

It lives! You can now preorder my philosophical biography of Schopenhauer. Out in November.

Five years since lockdown began in the UK and the centre of Edinburgh became a ghost town

this is next week!

Well, this got a bigger reaction than I was expecting - thanks! The paper is 'Epistemic Objectification in Pornography', and it'll be published open-access in The Philosophical Quarterly at some point. In the meantime, there's a short, accessible version of the main ideas in this (2019!) blog post:

NEW from me in the FT today... The UK's university 'system' is now in freefall. How on Earth did the disaster unfold? Read all about it: www.ft.com/content/0ec7...

if i lived in the 1800s and making dinner meant spending every waking hour baking bread and plucking a chicken or whatever and then my husband sat down and said "let's thank god for this meal" i think i'd poison him

It's shrovin' time.

☀️📚🧐 We're hosting a summer school! Join us from 27 July to 2 August to discuss a wide range of topics, from analytic philosophy to health ethics, social epistemology to the ethics of AI. The deadline for applications is March 28th. Further details: