You become an adult when you come to accept that every “stainless” product can get rusty.

could be one of the coolest photos I’ve taken (with my left hand)

Partner thought her mint candies were covered with mold. Under microscope (100–400×) they looked like crystals to me and after some googling I concluded these were menthol crystals grown thanks to humidity and heat. She still didn’t want to eat them. doi.org/10.1039/D4CE...

Two scientific figures I designed for @ahugumrah.bsky.social and @ozge-akbulut.bsky.social respectively have been published: pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1... pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

What a wonderful person Helen was. RIP

Kant softening the blow like “I wrote this easier, shorter version for you dimwits, and if you still don’t understand I’m sure you’ll do great in physics or something”

Back in the 90s I led a team of artists and researchers mapping out all the debates about AI. It was a huge project. We read over a thousand papers and organized it all into a massive set of debate maps. 1/3

I visualized how the population distribution by provinces in Türkiye has changed since 1927 (not showing the total population growth in this one). Dots are distributed uniformly within province boundaries; they don’t claim to show settlement areas. Thread↓

Donna Haraway (Situated Knowledges)

just watched the whole Jordan Peterson vs 20 Atheists after all the hype and found out I’m a Christian because I’m not a terrible person (I think?) and haven’t committed suicide yet

We wouldn’t have to deal with this much disease if we solved this gas exchange thing more gracefully, without taking it all in every few seconds through wet sticky pipes and bags inside us. Breathing was a bad idea.

Seneca argues astrology is useless, even if its predictions are true.

Eşkurucumuz ve koordinatörümüz Yunus Şahin (@herrbokologist.bsky.social ), Türk Felsefe Derneği’nin Çağdaş Ontoloji Seminerleri kapsamında “Zihnin Ontolojisi ve Bilimi” başlıklı konuşmasıyla yer aldı. Konuşmayı dinlemek için: youtu.be/_MyLHhwdiPQ?...

We’re out of town and he’s fallen in love with this armchair.

one of those where it’s impossible to stop highlighting

I’ll donate my body to science. But to physics, not to medical science. They can throw it around to study gravity or something.

Bilim Akademisi için tasarladığım deprem direnci ile ilgili kitap dizisi artık açık erişimde! Pdf olarak indirebilirsiniz. (Bu dizinin başka başlıklarla devamına ve benzer çabalara destek olmak isterseniz kitapları satın alabilirsiniz.) sarkac.org/2025/05/bili...

People are making fun of the handwritten “Covid-19” but I think it’s a wise typographic choice that visually supports their claim that SARS-CoV-2 is human-made – almost like a signature. So maybe the photo layout choice that suggests Trump leaked it is also intentional...

Rorty on the relationship between social-political movements and philosophy (from “Feminism and Pragmatism”)

New hospital study: air purifiers cut airborne COVID by 98%. Rooms with HEPA ventilation had zero virus detected. Clean air is essential public health infrastructure — not a luxury. Study: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #CorsiRosenthal #CleanAir #PublicHealth

In a collaboration with KONDA Research and Consultancy, we designed a data visualization that looks at Türkiye’s history and present. Links↓ — KONDA ile Türkiye’nin geçmişine ve bugününe bakan bir veri görselleştirme hazırladık. ↓ denizcemonduygu.com/portfolio/tu... kontent.konda.com.tr/101/

missing those times when we globally had 7 funny videos in total (office man destroying his computer, etc.) and didn’t have to keep up every day

“Here’s a disease that harms the cardiovascular system.” “Here’s a vaccine that decreases its effects.” People, after getting the disease (multiple times) and the vaccine, experiencing cardiovascular problems: “It must be the vaccine!” This is just too weird for me.

We’re excited to share our latest In Too Deep blog post by @dencemond.bsky.social, offering an inside look at the creation of his interactive Kumu project on Western philosophy💡 Check it out here: blog.kumu.io/mapping-thin... #philosophy #networkmap #datavisualization

So that’s how you dealt with depression, epilepsy, psychosis, and infectious disease before modern science. (After Eggers’s Nosferatu)

A new era for the Open Visualization Academy newsletter: openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com/p/a-new-era (website: openvisualizationacademy.org)

Modernist abstract painters would be sad if they saw all the lazy academic book covers using their art.

Good to see St Anselm alive and kicking after all these years, trying to stay relevant

My friends' Misi and Eszti (the cutest pair on Earth btw) new project, Data Beads!

Great to be featured on Daily Nous again

FRESH WORK After 10 years of work on the sentence-based version of my History of Philosophy, I created an auxiliary interactive visualization, a force-directed graph with philosophers as nodes. Link: denizcemonduygu.com/philo/philos... Detailed post: www.denizcemonduygu.com/philo/new-fo...

Something’s cooking.

Nice nod to Leibniz on #CunkOnLife

We usually expect coherence from one another. I prefer to make a distinction and look for synchronic coherence (between beliefs/actions at a time) but not diachronic coherence (through time); one should be allowed/expected to change (through transitional periods of incoherence).

I’ve been reading some history of philosophy of law lately so I’ve added positivists like John Austin, Hans Kelsen, and HLA Hart, along with sentences on natural law by Aquinas, as a start. (More to come, incl. Fuller, Finnis, Dworkin, Raz.) Here for Hart: www.denizcemonduygu.com/philo/browse...

For every like this post gets, I will increase the number beside the heart icon below by one.

“We have then, in place of an explicit definition of “phenomenal properties,” a circular chain of interchangeable technical terms—a chain with very few links, and little to relate those links to non-technical terminology. The circle, then, is vicious.”

I had the pleasant surprise of seeing my 2010 MA thesis project Graphagos (graphagos.com) on a poster in an Evostar conference photo. I am no longer in the academy but it always feels good to see my old work referenced in recent research on evolutionary design.

Real end-of-year listening report (incl. December) with real dataviz from last.fm

It’s Friday night and what better than reading some legal philosophy to relax after an exhausting week.

Still trying to get over the attitude Anders gave us for not being energetic enough at the In Flames Istanbul show in October. (He was right.)

“In Dennett’s view, what needs to go is not so much folk psychology, but the gloss on folk psychology that philosophers have imposed on it. In that regard, he belongs firmly in the tradition of his mid-century heroes, Ryle and Wittgenstein.” aeon.co/essays/as-re...

Hot take: The analytic-continental divide started with Schopenhauer-Hegel.

Uzun zamandır üzerinde çalıştığımız, editoryal tasarım ve bilgi tasarımlarını yaptığım, depremlere dirençliliği konu alan (biri Naci Görür editörlüğünde) iki kitap Bilim Akademisi Yayınları’ndan çıktı. Gurur duyduğum bir iş oldu, umarım faydası olur: www.denizcemonduygu.com/portfolio/bi...

I really enjoyed this one when it was released a year ago. It was refreshing to go over the usual philsci topics (realism, causation, natural kinds, etc.) within the context of chemistry.

So maybe after we’ve restored our mental health and energy here for a year or so, we can go back and take over Twitter again as a horde. Non-stop high-quality content creation. Full-on friendly engagement. The algorithm will be terrified.

The disappointment when you understand some part better on your second reading but don’t understand another part which you had previously understood

I’m glad to see Yunus being active here, follow him and you’ll get a stream of stimulating ideas/questions/jokes on phil cog sci.

I notice that my disposition to get excited by new music decreases with age. So I feel extra thankful when I discover a band like Stoned Statues that manages to make me excited and feel young: open.spotify.com/album/0NpgSt...

One of the reasons I don’t use AI for text generation is that I love writing, even if it’s a weird work email. I get pleasure out of it. So for me it’s like “Here we have something that’ll automatically eat your chocolate for you”. No thanks.