"The Muppets Take Edinburgh" has a nice ring to it. Wouldn't you agree, @historyscience.bsky.social? #HSS2026

Biological Laws with Kermit, Sweetums, and Elliott Sober

At Whipple where expired dicks are being thrown at ICE vehicles and those believed to be agitators. The area has been a place of protest since thousands of federal agents arrived in the city. Near Minneapolis February 7, 2026

As an officer of the Philosophy of Science association, I would like to officially invite the Muppets to the next PSA conference in San Diego @philsci.bsky.social

I had APA interviews that felt like this

Next time someone asks me what my philosophy is, I'm just going to tell them this

Humans: we like dumplings, bbq, and telling people about neat animals we saw in the woods one time.

I'm so glad to see this. Boo JD Vance every chance you get. And cheer for the Americans who want nothing to do with him.

Blueskyese and Xian share an obvious common root as both being Twitteric languages, the difference is that after the split Xian became a hybrid Twitteric/Channer-linkedin tongue, while Blueskyese changed less overall but did pick up some tumbleric and redditor loanwords

the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran

I once said to my parents that it must have been very interesting to live during the Nixon years. I think I owe them an apology.

This morning at the Minnesota State Capitol. An ice sculpture that reads "PROSECUTE ICE". I'm told the organization behind the sculpture is Common Defense.

actually I’d probably go even further and say that when regular people act supererogatorily it’s usually because they feel like it’s required of them (assuming they’re morally motivated in the first place)

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

I love the delighted kids jumping up and down with excitement at the end. Science!

Working on a college campus and explaining to students: "I’ve wheat-pasted stuff, made zines, protested for long hours, and read about materialism too much, too, but all of that accomplishes 1/1,000th of what we could if y'all just voted in things like city council primaries consistently...

The irony here is that I think the only way one plausibly achieves truly leftist goals in the United States is by using some milquetoast-seeming Will-Stancil-esque liberal as a trojan horse for them. I am not particularly a socialist, but the only way to socialism in America is 'Sewer socialism.'

I find the @whstancil.bsky.social backlash strangely fascinating. At its core it seems to be a desperate effort by folks further to the left to avoid having a liberal (with communication skills) become the face of their movement. But, to be honest, winning was always going to require that.

A thing that is funny about the moral grandstanding by Repubs re: Christopher Columbus is that nobody knew or cared about him 100 years ago. His "holiday" is barely 50 years old and was pushed through by Italian-American lobby groups in response to...anti-immigrant prejudice.

Classical statisticians be like

A perfect summary of where we are

The meeting is adjourned. Mayor Kevin Sartor ended the long meeting by saying “We hear you, we have a lot to consider and your voices are impactful and powerful.” Surprise showed tf up. The overflow room filled + hundreds outside. It ended with only 2 speakers in favor of the ICE camp.

"rich dipshit owner doesn't understand the industry he's bought into and clumsily destroys what made it good" feels less like a narrative unique to the washington post and more like the music that's been playing in the background of all our lives for at least 40 years

Check out this recent podcast with our PI, Catherine Herfeld, which touches on her work on the history and philosophy of rational choice theory, her forthcoming book Conversations on Rational Choice, and, of course, #ModelTransfer!

Carnegie Mellon has a long history of using technology to improve learning. Home to one of the world’s first university computation centers, CMU’s commitment to learning science continues today. Learnvia scales these efforts widely and engages a broader set of educators in learning engineering.

THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent cattle I have met on walks. You will find the captions for the photos in the alt text.

Meanwhile, in political philosophy

Join us as we sit down with senior fellow Kareem Khalifa to learn more about his research and work here at the Center! Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/0vPEDIEf5G8

this is up to 5,335,376. wow.

Every time I straighten up the house

Measles has one of the highest basic reproduction numbers (R₀) of any disease (12 to 18), meaning one infected person can spread it to 12 to 18 others in a fully susceptible population, making it extremely contagious. Need 95% vaccination status to achieve herd immunity. Get vaccinated!!

You: you're just making up a guy to be mad at Me: it's called writing a philosophical dialogue. Look it up, Simplicio

Straw Man has birthed so many avatars, especially in the last decade. It has gone from a caution to a goal: To create a magnificent straw man is considered coefficient to an idea.

There is a collective version of "made up a guy to be mad at." Someone makes up a guy to be mad at. Someone else reads it and thinks the person exists, so they also post about it. Suddenly everyone is arguing with no one, but they are all convinced he exists because everyone is arguing with him.

Downtown. Fifth Ave - Duquesne Club. Caller is employed there as the help and says that a peasant parked their unsightly Toyota behind the property for quite some time. They are requesting the constabulary to dispose of it.

The two best studies I know about the impact of pre-registration are Laviolle et al. (2024 ; N = 1500) in medecine and van den Akker et al. (2024 ; N = 400) in psychology. Both find the same proportion of null results with and without pre-registration (about 30% of null results in both cases). (2/N)

HSS Dissertation Travel Grant to support travel to sources for PhD students in history of science and technology working on their dissertation. Grants may be up to US$2,500. Grad students from any university are eligible Deadline Tuesday, March 31. hssonline.org/page/dissert... #HPS

the issue with american politics is that not that there's no taboo against lying, but rather that there's zero taboo against outright fantasy and delusion. i'm not talking about things like "we can have everything without raising taxes" esque stuff.

Please, please, please tell me this has been trained on sovereign citizen bullshit.

I'm gonna become the first guy to walk out of family court sentenced to death

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

This is exactly the lesson we should be drawing from this.

You know your movement is winning when...

no you see that's actually how they order pizza

An entire political movement founded on uncovering hidden messages in documents to discover the powerful secret pedophiles and meanwhile the powerful pedophiles out here sending gmails saying "Hi fellow pedophile when are we meeting to do pedophilia again"

As a Canadian, what I've learned so far: - Minnesotans are very nice and VERY organized - Mainers are aggressively xenophobic but in a way that lCE will not like - Philadelphians crave the blood of their enemies - LA is ground zero for chaos tactics that never lose - New Yorkers love gay hockey

In sum: America, the concept? Trash, settler colonial, throw it out America, the people? Incredible, salt of the earth, would die for them

Shit rolls to the weakest link

No no no. Hell hath no fury like a bird in the hand.

Can’t believe they released the Epstein files to cover up for the Melania movie.