Just deleted my academia.edu account after 17 (!) years -- the company's exploitative new terms of use are outrageous, and it's a shame such a blatant commercial sell-out is able to operate under the .edu top-level domain. If you are still on academia.edu, please consider deleting your account too.

[disappointed tone but maintaining the chant's cadence] oh, jeremy corbyn

Alex's philosophical manifesto is a must-read.

The new issue of Synthese emails bizarrely always load the first image from each article. Today, finally, this paid off.

CUP have written to all their authors asking for permission to include their work in deals for LLM training data. I'm sort of on the fence. Opinions and advice welcome. Thoughts below.

CUP have written to all their authors asking for permission to include their work in deals for LLM training data. I'm sort of on the fence. Opinions and advice welcome. Thoughts below.

Top tip: thank the "helpful referees for their insightful comments" in your acknowledgements section. A sneaky way not to thank to the unhelpful ones.

In the spirit of syllabus season, here’s a link to an extinction studies course of the #envhist #envhum variety. From the dodo to dire wolves...Please borrow, adapt, share! drive.google.com/file/d/1SzKp... cc: @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social!

Microsoft: We are on the way to gAI. Microsoft Word: Right, print to pdf, easy peasy, let me just connect to the printer one second.

1 like = One random comment or theory about the Christopher Nolan film 'Tenet'

You may have noticed a few *NEW* things on the DRL website! Our Re-Categorisation Project is now complete, and our brand new indexing system and search filters are now LIVE!

I only just spotted this workshop but it looks 🔥🔥🔥 sites.google.com/view/worksho...

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh ama philosopher of easy virtue

is a skilful player (of Settlers of Catan). A weak player is someone who has the desire to trade sheep around, and perhaps does, but does not yet possess the ore needed to build a city. Have fun, colleagues, but play well.

is a skilful player (of Settlers of Catan). A weak player is someone who has the desire to trade sheep around, and perhaps does, but does not yet possess the ore needed to build a city. Have fun, colleagues, but play well.

New book alert: Gelfert/John/Frisch, Communicating Scientific Knowledge in Times of Crisis, 100pp., €16.90, Berlin: Logos-Verlag -- shorturl.at/vanWv #philsky @mathias07.bsky.social

I am advertising for 4 post-docs to come to Imperial and formalize, in Lean, *statements* of theorems from recent issues of the top generalist pure mathematics journals. www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-... Positions are for 2 years, start date 1st Oct this year. Deadline 15th August.

New Cambridge Element | The Philosophy of Linguistics by Ryan M. Nefdt | Now free to read for 2 weeks! www.cambridge.org/core/element... #philosophy #linguistics #PhilSky #LingSky

This is very curious. LLMs are strange.

Here is Gary Marcus, pointing out that some of the answers that OpenAI's model gave in the IMO are less than impressive. But when it comes to LLMs, I'm always more impressed by the mistakes than the successes. The fact that it gave an answer like this, means that it came up with it itself.

ah here's where I saw it! x.com/lpachter/sta...

Kurz vor der Sommerpause ging‘s nochmal rund für #IchBinHanna: BVerfG-Urteil zum #BerlHG & Positionspapier des @wissenschaftsrat.de zu Personalstrukturen liegen nun vor. Was folgt daraus für die Debatte & die anstehende Reform des #WissZeitVG? Heute in #ArbeitInDerWiss. Tl;dr: All 👀 on you, Bund!

My favorite bit of engineering lore is that before the mid-20th century, instead of ball bearings, train axles were just stuffed with oily rags. Which would sometimes just catch on fire and could derail the train. Which is where we get the term "hot box".

This just seems like common sense at this point. 🙃 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

We had a lovely workshop on Friday, and Axel got some nice pictures!

Precarity is a necessary condition of academic freedom! Thanks Germany! www.spiegel.de/panorama/bil...

Oooo Charles Pence & Daniel Swaim are putting together a special issue on the philosophy of the historical sciences (and you can publish in French!). pencelab.be/en/events/rp... #philsci

Genuinely don't understand why Corbyn (and the others) aren't just switching to the Green party. This could be a genuinely strong political force, rather than a vote-splitter. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

As of late, I started to seriously entertain the reality that this thing I got into 16 years ago simply isn't worth it. Philosophy is a capricious discipline, where standards of merit are settled by prestige, trendiness, networking, all the while coming with an aura of rigor that 1/

The Philos-L welcome email still has a helpful analogy to teach you how to use an email list: it is just like a FAX machine.

The video of my talk at the Isaac Newton Institute a few weeks ago is now online: "Can Mathematics Be Hacked? Infrastructure, "Artificial Intelligence" and the Cybersecurity of Mathematical Knowledge" www.youtube.com/watch?v=O11k...

The video of my talk at the Isaac Newton Institute a few weeks ago is now online: "Can Mathematics Be Hacked? Infrastructure, "Artificial Intelligence" and the Cybersecurity of Mathematical Knowledge" www.youtube.com/watch?v=O11k...

I found this from @hiphination.bsky.social interesting, and also its kinda grimly funny how Rise of Skywalker is paradigmatic of a certain kinda way of being bad. I think my work is bad in this way too, among other ways! Much to think about. hiphination.substack.com/p/philosophy...

@garymarcus.bsky.social got Imagen 4 to draw and label the parts of a bike. The image gets funnier the longer you look.

@garymarcus.bsky.social got Imagen 4 to draw and label the parts of a bike. The image gets funnier the longer you look.

A poster for our Symposium on Phil. Math. and Epistemology on the 11th July at the TU Berlin.

Endlich regt sich der Protest wieder - die Plakate der #TUBerlin sind da! #unkürzbar (Anmerkung: Systemrelevant war ich nie - aber vielleicht ist das als Gleichnis zu sehen und meint das komplette Bildungssystem.)

My paper 'Diagrams as joint epistemic actions: A dialogical account of diagrams in mathematical proofs' is now online #OpenAccess at the Journal of Mathematical Behavior. Abstract 👇 It was fun to 'meet' again my old friends Prover and Skeptic 😀 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Another better use of computer power: figure out how to enable copy and paste from a pdf without inserting loads of random linebreaks.

Always fun reading the "thinking" traces for this kind of thing

It’s out today! www.penguin.co.uk/books/456203...

On the 11th of July, the TU will host a workshop on philosophy of mathematics and epistemology. Details below. Speakers will be @guidotana.bsky.social, Nastasia Müller, Bernadette Lessel, @asgeirberg.bsky.social and me. All welcome! www.tu.berlin/hpstl/verans...

“Dip Dip Hurrah” — the Berliners campaigning to be able to reclaim / swim in the Spree. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

One year job in Bristol in philosophy of maths and science. www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Ursula Martin, who has long been a leading figure in mathematical practice research, is now Dame Ursula Martin! www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/71878

Ursula Martin, who has long been a leading figure in mathematical practice research, is now Dame Ursula Martin! www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/71878

There is an air of permanence about such as the London Metropolitan Archive, but…

This is starting today!