Excellent reporting from Heated and Atmos. It looks like some of the biggest investors in the anti-trans movement are fossil fuel billionaires who are trying to use trans issues to ensure that Republicans pass policies favorable to their industry. heated.world/p/fossil-fue...

My revised and expanded entry on the Ethics of Cultural Heritage is now live in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy! Appropriation, repatriation, monuments, and more, as well as a new section on the nascent aesthetic injustice literature. #philsky plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethi...

Can reasoned arguments shift moral behavior? In a new preprint, @eschwitz.bsky.social, Jason Nemirow, @fierycushman.bsky.social and I explore this question in the context of charitable donation. (1/10)

It's Publication Day for The Fruitfulness of Normative Concepts! 🥳 Thanks to the friends and mentors who helped make this happen, and to my editor Lucy Randall for her encouragement and input throughout the project. Oxford University Press and Oxford Scholarship Online links in the comments.

New paper with @jowylie.bsky.social and @anagantman.bsky.social on art, morality, and the true self, forthcoming in Cognition! #philsky #psysky

A National Guard report accidentally emailed to the Post says veterans and active-duty troops view the D.C. deployment with "shame and alarm" @alexhorton.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Early copies of my book arrived! :) Did a little unboxing after bringing the kids home from school. The Fruitfulness of Normative Concepts is officially out in print September 19.

Nice review of recent research showing that younger children start out with a more expansive moral circle than older children and adults @juliamarshall.bsky.social, @mattiwilks.bsky.social, @karrineldner.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The reporters tell us they interviewed dozens of anti-immigrant protesters and “also…asylum seekers.” By the end the article finally states only two asylum seekers were interviewed, who only say asylum seekers shouldn’t commit crimes. Thanks for the balanced view BBC. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

In his new book, Prof. @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social explains how ordinary actions—when done with others—can help reshape unjust systems

I think all of this online content is a lot more vulnerable to just being totally lost than we realize. Future historians may have none of this stuff. Which kinda makes you ponder how much more we could learn about, say, the Jacksonian era if we had access to all his late night thoughts

Why aren't people talking more about this book, which not only shows how terribly democratic collective action has atrophied in the US but gives detailed analysis of how to change that. By a true legend of democratic organizing (who cites Olivia Chow as one of his former students, for 🇨🇦).

Final call for global collaborators on this replication collaboration on @bioxphi studies — moral psychologists and x-phi researchers wanted! especially based in SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE! global-bioXphi | moral science lab www.mscilab.com/globalbioxphi/

Every time your electricity bill goes up for the next 10 years, it can be traced back to this Administration’s actions. They are making solar and wind power illegal to build in the United States. They are artificially restricting supply while demand is going up.

USask philosophy class encourages kids to ask the ‘big questions’ Philosophy for Children class examines important issues, develops critical thinking skills artsandscience.usask.ca/news/article...

Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.

the reason this discourse will never end is because it is completely untethered from any kind of evidentiary standard. as long as there is a 19-year-old barista somewhere saying “cultural appropriation,” guys like nichols will complain that “democrats” use alienating language.

People really need to distinguish between two claims: 1) certain views should not be given a platform vs. 2) progressives have to do more to try to win over the general public. I see 2 being treated as a basis for rejecting 1, but it isn’t one.

Illinois is launching a first-of-its-kind legal hotline for LGBTQ+ individuals — Illinois Pride Connect. As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.

I wrote in the @nydailynews.com on why NYC schools should declare a moratorium on AI for the classroom: www.nydailynews.com/2025/08/03/n... AI is a climate, pedagogical and privacy disaster: we shouldn’t recklessly force it on our teachers & kids

Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations. The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.

From the basement of a Bushwick bodega to a marina in Gerritsen Beach, one man is aiming to map every single pool table in New York City.

generating examples for my fall undergrad Perception students on why they should not use LLMs as study aides...

“using real concerns to put reactionary political views in the mouths of people i am not actually going to speak to or give the dignity of their own voices” is a classic move for this clique

It’s amazing that so many institutions see numbers like this and decide “the message is clear, let’s obey in advance harder”

there's "charitable interpretation" and there's "being a mark" and the inability or refusal to distinguish between the two is practically a credential in some circles

HEY here's a new piece for @crikey.com.au! Sparked by David Suzuki's recent comments, but more broadly in response to the recent rise of performative fatalism: the reassuring, widely popular and lazy idea that fighting back against fossil fuels is worthless www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/14/c...

"It means that ICE is not above the law. It means that ICE and the federal gov't have to meet basic minimum requirements relating to how they treat immigrant detainees." Alexandra Rizio from our legal team said on how the Temporary Restraining order will change the conditions at 26 Federal Plaza.

"Meta struck the provision after Reuters required..." This is a very typical experience for tech reporters, the unpaid moderators of Meta. I remember calling Facebook to inquire about police surveillance tools violating their rules ~2015 and the response was: show us proof and we'll take a look.

Wrong Side of the Sun, the debut album by Femi and the Foundation, available everywhere this Friday 🌇 www.unionstagepresents.com/shows/femi-a...

Excellent essay by Toby Buckle on the disturbing role of humiliation in our politics and how to respond to it. We need a lasting coalition asserting “the conviction that everyone should be able to walk with their heads held high.” @polphilpod.bsky.social www.liberalcurrents.com/the-politi/

Very happy that our paper on how 'thoughtful frequentists' should use hypothesis testing is now an award winning paper. It was very nice to have @laabho.bsky.social over for a visit in Eindhoven during his PhD to start this project! www.linkedin.com/posts/aom-rm...

come see us and Clifford Cartel get after it live on Aug 15th at Pearl Street Warehouse! www.unionstagepresents.com/shows/femi-a...

The Guardian reports they have reviewed records revealing that charges have been dropped in at least five cases — a total of eight felonies dropped — owing to the fact that agents straight up lied about having been assaulted by protestors. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I realize that this may be a true post-tenure post™, but it really seems settled now that people think empirical research can be valuable and important to draw on in philosophy. 🧵 It was a weird time in the earlier 2000s... /1

And it's out! "Letting Go", first single off the coming "Wrong Side of the Sun" album. Check it out here or wherever you stream music open.spotify.com/track/2satqr...

Attention philosophers, x-philosophers and moral psychologists - I'm hiring! Two, 3-year research fellowships on an interdisciplinary project in the Philosophical Moral Psychology Lab at the Uehiro Institute, Oxford. Pass it on! For more info and to apply: tinyurl.com/mrwwuyaw

Tenure and promotion to Associate Professor! I’m so grateful to all the people who helped along the way. Thank you, I will continue to try to pass it forward.

"broad and carefully executed, offering a wealth of insights" Really thoughtful review of my Neuroethics book in NDPR by Andrea Lavazza. ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/neur...

i, one of like 4 trans journalists in the state of texas, wrote about said bill here www.chron.com/culture/arti...

I will admit it is vaguely darkly funny to make your whole thing "comedy is legal again" and then use the weight of the federal government to shut down comedians in unprecedented ways. like if they somehow outlawed saying "merry christmas" this year

Republican election clerks in Colorado say a GOP strategist claiming to work with the Trump administration asked for insider access to voting systems. They refused. #copolitics

Called customer service, which directed me to the online chat, which directed me to the web form, which directed me to email, which directed me to CALL THE PHONE LINE AGAIN

Medical debt shouldn’t ever be a thing in a developed country. No other Western industrialized nation has it.

Tried to put my 3-year-old to bed but he “needed a few more minutes to perform an experiment.” Couldn’t be more proud. 🥲

Very excited about the possibilities for democratic social technology that Eurosky is exploring. #eurosky #eurostack

A popular and very old argument for the value of philosophy claims that studying philosophy cultivates important intellectual abilities and dispositions. But empirical evidence for that claim has been hard to come by. Until now! 1/4

One computer scientist’s “stunning” proof is the first progress in 50 years on one of the most famous questions in computer science. www.wired.com/story/for-al...

The study found that 87% of farmers have experienced reduced productivity in the face of recent extreme weather, 84% had suffered a fall in crop yields, and more than three-quarters had taken a hit to their income. www.theguardian.com/environment/...