Yet another philosophy department under threat in the UK. Sign the petition to save philosophy at Dundee: c.org/9hQv8N8fhJ

Just rewatched Do the Right Thing and am shocked to realise the actor who plays Buggin' Out's character, i.e. the one who initially boycotts the Pizzeria, also plays Gus from Breaking Bad

Starmer saying the next PM will inherit a country that is 'fairer' than the one he inherited 2 years ago. In the one Starmer inherited, trans people could use public toilets.

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

Sad to be hearing about this only now, just as tickets have sold out

the phrase "lipstick on a pig" has always inspired a deep sadness in me. I think of the pig, looking forward to her big night out, and I bring myself to the verge of tears.

Enraged to learn, via the NYT mini crossword, that some people use 'alumns' rather than 'alumni'

Great funding opportunity for a PhD in Philosophy of Education here at Glasgow www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/soc...

Another fire going on in Hollyrood Park

Damn, I was looking forward to delving into the rich tapestry of nuanced issues

Recently, for *obvious reasons*, I've been thinking about what it means when anxiety and sadness are caused not by individual predispositions, but by the state of the world itself. This led me to early 19th-c. France and the notion of "mal du siècle" (sickness of the century) aeon.co/essays/young...

Temporary philosophy job at Glasgow: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...

The OG ballmaxxing

If you're looking for something to get you through the long weekend, here's an interview for Embrace the Void on epistemic injustice, primary harms/wrongs, hermeneutical injustice, and whether appealing to the notion of epistemic injustice helps defend or undermines the notion of objective truth.

Looking forward to heading back up to Aberdeen this Friday to give a talk at this workshop

A 🧵 of iconic closing sentences of influential books in philosophy: 'And that's the 411 on what matters.' - Derek Parfit, On What Matters vol. 3 'Not the first sex, not the second sex, but a secret third thing.' - Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

For a refutation of Nagel's view, see Streuper (2026)

Since people are doing "is AI conscious?" discourse on here again I feel like this philpapers.org/rec/BIRACA-4 by @birchlse.bsky.social remains my favourite piece on the current state of affairs.

Call for Abstracts The British Society for the Theory of Knowledge invites contributions to its 2026 conference (Exeter College, University of Oxford, 2nd-4th 09 2026). bstk.org.uk/events.html Please submit abstracts (500 words, suitable for blind review) to [email protected] by April 30 2026.

I'm organising a workshop in Glasgow in May, about how people should respond to ethically tainted sporting events. I've just made a PhilEvents page. If you've got any questions about it, send me an email! philevents.org/event/show/1... #PhilSky #PhilosophyOfSport #Ethics #Boycotts

Change (2024) Change 2: the Changening (2026)

Doing my part for All Epistemic Everything with a new (open access!) paper on "Epistemic Magnetism" The gist is that agents' local epistemic environments are pervasively shaped by properties of agents that, on the surface, have nothing to do with epistemology #philsky philpapers.org/rec/HAREMJ

EPISTEMIC Insane Clown Posse

2 year Postdoctoral Research Fellow opportunity at the University of St Andrews on my project "Aesthetic Values and the Social Dimensions of Science" www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... #philosophy #philsci

Just found out there is a Tory peer whose name is Lord True. Must be embarrassing for him anytime he gets things wrong.

Started new job last week as a Lecturer in Philosophy at Glasgow. First lecture today on the regress problem went well, though I did discover there's a limit to the number times I can say the word 'infinitism', ironically.

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...