My most controversial seasonal takes: 1) Die Hard is not a Christmas movie 2) Home Alone 2 is better than the original 3) Jaffa cakes are biscuits

Season's greetings, everyone! We are staying open throughout the holidays for your proofreading needs. www.lexacademic.com

Season’s greetings, peasants

Thrilled to see this @bloomsburyphilo.bsky.social volume out — and to have contributed a chapter co-written with Danièle Moyal-Sharrock! @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social

Our first cat, Meno, captured here on the day he discovered Marx and Engels and subsequently tried to overthrow us

📖 🎄 Looking for something to read (or gift) over the Christmas break? 🎁 If so, do consider one of the titles from this year's Nayef Al-Rodhan International Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy shortlist. Find the list here: buff.ly/pNLoh9y

This 1973 wine bottle in the Cambridge Museum of Archeology and Anthropology (@maacambridge.bsky.social) is making me feel old and strange

Video highlights from the @triphilosophy.bsky.social awards ceremony for the 2025 Nayef Al-Rodhan International Book Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy youtu.be/kEXJ0QrqEl4

guy who is famous for being dramatically disproven publishes opinion everyone else already thinks is embarrassingly quaint. terrific stuff

I'm thrilled that Lou Chapman and I have joined the @waidecenter.bsky.social for Applied Ethics at Fairfield University's Charles F. Dolan School of Business as Distinguished Visiting Faculty. We greatly look forward to collaborating with the Center’s Director, Professor @greggdcaruso.bsky.social!

This is happening in 20 minutes at @uehiro.ox.ac.uk. It's free and open to all, you just need to quickly pre-register to receive the link. www.uehiro.ox.ac.uk/bitesize-eth...

@nadirafaber.bsky.social let me know when you next visit!

Welcome @csandis.bsky.social! We are looking forward to working with you!

Very pleased to be joining the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics (@uehiro.ox.ac.uk) as a Research Associate.

OK predictive emojis

'I was at school with Nigel Farage. This is what I saw' @davidedmonds100.bsky.social for @newstatesman1913.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Overheard on train: ‘I go online to find Xmas presents but keep going down rabbit holes and buying stuff for me. My corridor is full of parcels and my partner is asking “what are all these?” I say “they’re Xmas presents you leave them alone”. But they’re not. They’re all for me.’

This is a very bad idea

It is with deep apologies to family and neighbours that I announce that this is #nowplaying

Video of my Barnes Philosophy Club talk, previewing some ideas from my forthcoming book for @yalebooks.bsky.social, How to Understand Others From Locke to Wittgenstein: How to Understand Others without Mindreading | Constantine Sandis www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO8U... #Wittgenstein #Locke

New arrival!

It is wonderful to see Lex Academic collaborating with the great philosophers of my alma mater. We have been really enjoying supporting the Uehiro Oxford Institute in improving its editorial efficiency and look forward to seeing their forthcoming works in print.

Call for Papers: Wittgenstein and Ancient Philosophy Athens, Greece 29 June – 1 July 2026 finninstitute.gr/en/kalenteri... Hope to see some of you there! @brittwittsoc.bsky.social

Mamet: "Spielberg asked Tom to write the screenplay for Jaws, and Tom said he couldn’t as he was writing a play for the BBC. Spielberg said, 'I'm offering you a fortune to collaborate with me on a Hollywood blockbuster, and you turn me down to write a play for BBC TV?" "No," Tom said, "BBC Radio."

This is the only thanksgiving I want to see www.independent.co.uk/life-style/t...

Thanks for a great evening Barnes Philosophy Club!

Some @lexacademic.bsky.social news

Tonight! One night only!

London friends, I'll be speaking about my @yalebooks.bsky.social book in progress on How to Understand Others at the Barnes Philosophy Club (OSO Arts Centre) on Tuesday 25th November @ 19.30. All welcome! www.visitrichmond.co.uk/events/barne...

I resent LLMs for many reasons, but forcing me to act like a cop to keep fake garbage out of publication is high on the list. I want to read people’s work in a spirit of generosity and curiosity again (‘I wonder what cool ideas might be in here?’) instead of ‘I got you now, you lying little shit’

London friends, I'll be speaking about my @yalebooks.bsky.social book in progress on How to Understand Others at the Barnes Philosophy Club (OSO Arts Centre) on Tuesday 25th November @ 19.30. All welcome! www.visitrichmond.co.uk/events/barne...

Hats off to the person who just spent a 3 1/2 hour Teams meeting like this

In honour of Plantinga’s 93rd m.youtube.com/watch?v=4nDO...

The authentic and sensitive representation of #neurodivergence in the media is a moral imperative. Our latest @lexacademic.bsky.social blog underscores why recruiting authenticity readers with lived experience of neurodivergence is essential. #sensitivityreading #authenticityreading #ADHD

Wikipedia feels likes the Encyclopædia Britannica when compared with ‘AI Overview’

Why does hardly anyone in academic philosophy care about reading? | By Martin Lenz (@goingloopy.bsky.social) While there are numerous guides on writing philosophy or on reconstructing arguments, there is next to nothing on reading handlingideas.blog/2025/11/01/w... #reading #PhilosophySky #philsky

AI chatbots are sycophants — researchers say it’s harming science Nature asked researchers who use artificial intelligence how its propensity for people-pleasing affects their work — and what they are doing to mitigate it. www.nature.com/articles/d41... #AI #science #philosophysky #philsky

Deliver Me from Mustard www.stereogum.com/2328144/the-...

The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI (oxunipress.bsky.social) by Jonathan Birch birchlse.bsky.social has been selected as this year’s Nayef Al-Rodhan International Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy. Learn more: royalinstitutephilosophy.org/news/winner-...

📣 I am hiring a postdoc! aial.ie/hiring/postd... applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome pls share with your networks

What emoji symbol should we use for the Andrew formerly known as Prince?

The winner of the 2025 Royal Institute of Philosophy Nayef Al-Rodhan Book Prize is @jonathanbirch.bsky.social for his book, The Edge of Sentience. Congratulations! And bravo for the vision speech about how philosophy is changing

A wonderful @triphilosophy.bsky.social evening. Congratulations to the finalists! royalinstitutephilosophy.org/news/shortli... Special congratulations to @birchlse.bsky.social for winning the 2025 Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy for his book The Edge of Sentience.

The @royalinstarch.bsky.social Nayef Al-Rodhan Book Prize ceremony. Shortlist, Adam Lovet, Jules Holroyd, Jonathan Birch, Manuel Almago, Peter Godfrey-Smith (in absentia) interviewed by Edward Harcourt, and the evening introduced by Lucy O’Brien and our judging panel chair @csandis.bsky.social

Has this happened to you yet?

I shall be giving a talk on my current work-in-progress for the Barnes Philosophy Club at the OSO Arts Centre, 25th November at 19.30. Tickets are £5 (optional donation to the club) or free for those unable to pay. chiswickcalendar.co.uk/event/barnes...

Looking to do a Philosophy MA next year? We've got a dead good programme here at Durham! www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Hear me out: #MartinShort should star as @barrymanilow1.bsky.social in major biopic

Bought a new thesaurus today. It is good.

Please spread the word: @lexacademic.bsky.social are offering three bursaries (with complimentary proofreading) for graduate students with dyslexia in philosophy, classics, and art history.