Very happy to announce that the CFP is now open for APSA26: The Inaugural Biennial Conference of the Asian Philosophy of Science Association! It will be held at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. The keynote will be Craig Callender. Submission deadline: 31 Dec 2025. URL: tinyurl.com/APSA26

Feels like I am doing something right enough in life that when I die, no one will think, thank god the trolley got em, whoever redirected that trolley thereby spared so many other people.

Youngest Child just wrapped up a long think about the best ever books for kids younger than him. Results: When the Robbers Came to Cardamom Town, and The Monster Under the Hill.

Ebeneezer Murderbeak is back! Just in time for the start of Fall term. Here he is atop the AQ, admiring some brutalist Arthur Erickson architecture in the morning light filtered through wildfire smoke. Waiting for his moment to lecture some students and snack on some koi. #sfu

Oh summer garden drama. Stolen rhubarb-weird? but whatever. Then stolen tomatoes, which is pure sacrilege. After 8 years w/out a single apple, our little tree did so well! Kids were proud. Till a bear sat on it and squashed the whole thing, trellis and tree. Still a great garden year, though

Great triple header topic! I wish I could join in person, and am also very glad for all the discussions that Zoom enables instead. Looking forward to meeting participants

University teachers, we may very well be next. No one will pay us for sabbaticals and prep time if our right to strike lasts 12 hours. If your flight is delayed, please remember it's because someone else is doing your civil disobedience for you. #cdnpoli #canadasky www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Head canoning: if you crack open an Infinite Improbability Drive from the Hitchhiker's Guide, what you will find powering it is a Lucky Day plot hole #LuckyDay by Chuck Tingle is a great read, especially if you are a "cuddling with numbers to reassure myself" type of queerdo

A fantastic discussion last night about climate change, how nice it is to NOT be at war, found & built family & community, queer culture & robot culture, for Automatic Noodle @annaleen.bsky.social Already planning the next Phil&Scifi syllabus, feeling lucky to live in hopepunkville AKA Vancouver

Got the new Chuck Tingle novel on release day, cracking it open to start tonight 💀🎲🗡️🏳️‍🌈

Vancouver, BC, friends! Tomorrow, 8/12, I'll be talking about Automatic Noodle with @hishamzerriffi.bsky.social at Iron Dog Books, 7pm! Come for the robots and noodles; stay for a discussion about rebuilding our infrastructure! irondogbooks.com/events/30790...

Short pet peeve rant! When people push back against "scifi got too woke/too many women these days" by saying that scifi was invented by a woman, AND THEN give the credit to Mary Shelley. It goes at least back to natural philosopher Margaret Cavendish, The Blazing World, 1666. #philsky #sff

Bad news is I found a wasp nest. Good news is somehow it looks very cozy and homey? I kinda want to crawl inside with some tea and a blanket and book and take a nap?

Went for a long lovely walk this evening. He used to be so much smaller on evening walks on this trail! But also the trees used to be shorter, so. It gives pics of him here this kind of out-of-time character

There was a bomb threat called into campus today. Whole mountaintop cut off, people sheltering in place, etc. RCMP and neighbourhood lists/groups/chats were superhelpful and timely. NOT A WORD from @sfu.ca Apparently there's an app? Who knows? There is also email and basic consideration to use

Was not expecting this, thank you Mark Carney 🇨🇦 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Saw an exhibit of work by Håkon Gullvåg at this sprawling hilltop fortress in Halden, in one of the old storehouses. Teens were enthralled and terrified, they refused to be alone with it. This trio was my favourite, reminded me of The Twisted Ones by @tkingfisher.com

Just got a spam academic email addressed to "Dr. Unknown." My new pseudonym/Spiderverse villain name

Today's #pride celebration small moment. Youngest Child did a poetry analysis thing for class, and chose the lyrics for Particle Man by They Might Be Giants. Presentation was a huge success, teacher loved it & played the song for the class, now they are all TMBG fans youtu.be/mLjRouIKYsU?...

One nice small moment a day for #pride month. Today, listening to these two read out loud in the hammock in the evening, I learned what chelicerae are

Couldn't attend a #NoKings event. And we have never gone to a #pride parade, because none of us like large crowds, loud noise, too much sun etc. We did have really good discussions with kiddos about all this. They see the hope and community, they see how many people want to fight for it. Thank you

I am really enjoying the Murderbot show, and probably my favorite bit of casting, out of a lot of really great casting, is John Cho in Sanctuary Moon. I now am headcanoning Cowboy Bebop as also some other show in the Murderbot world and it's Planetary Rim's fault there aren't more seasons

Pride month celebration of one small nice moment a day. Today feels like I do this through gritted teeth. My activism is quieter and behind the scenes, not usually in posting, even though I'm also so sad I cannot be in LA dancing on a street corner with all the awesome neighbours. Meantime, this 1/n

A small nice moment in a pic for today's Pride celebration. This mango. Best one I have ever eaten #pride

Happy pride! Still celebrating with one small nice moment each day. Today: had my headphones on as I walked across campus towards home so I ran smack into pedestrian traffic jam (of the scenic and sonic variety). Talking the long way round and enjoying the pipes and drums #pride #SFU

On a fantastic arc in my u-grad Explanation seminar right now. The Naive Action explanation part of Thompson's Life and Action, then Danto's "Narration and Knowledge", and now Roth's "Narrative Explanations: the case of history." Deep dive on distinctively temporal aspects of explanation #philsky

For a couple months, I have been half jokingly telling Eldest Child, born in LA county, that they might be eligible for a passport if California decides to say fuck it and walk. 4th largest economy in the world AND street party protests, maybe those high speed rail lines would get finished

Pride month pic-a-day! Youngest told us last night that BTW he needs 10 crème brûlées for "french cafe" language class tomorrow. We improvised - 1 big dish, and 10 patches of burnt sugar that will surely be soggy by the time they eat it, but also serve as scooping guides for the kids. Phew! #pride

Happy pride! One pic a day. I have been reminiscing about different neighbourhoods in LA I got to live or spend time in. I wish I had a pic of one of those little lizards that hang around outside. Instead, here is a cat that came over one afternoon and chilled with us #pride

The war zone in LA today is gutting me. Not surprised that this city has so many people standing up. I lived on and off in Socal; there will be no LA left if you let ICE work. Thank you for your bravery, I am so sorry it is this awful Today's pride pic for them, a coyote caught on night cam #pride

A pic each day of Pride month to celebrate small lovely moments. On a walk yesterday evening with friends to the sunset viewing hill at Burnaby Mountain park. Clear view all the way out to Vancouver island. #pride #SFU

Happy pride! Some electric pink ginormous rhododendron blooms glowing in the afternoon light #pride

Posting a nice moment each day for Pride month, and also, my Science and Values seminar took a field trip today! We went to Rudy Reimer/Yumks archaeology field school in Squamish. He showed around the area and gave us a lot of background knowledge about the area. Super interesting #pride #philsky

Happy Pride month! Pic of a small lovely moment each day. Here is a jewel-encrusted bee doing a barre routine in a gorgeously blue iris near sunset #pride

Having an emotional moment at the Citizenship ceremony for the last non-Canadian citizen in the family. I was in this exact room 9 years ago for mine. Kid 1 missed theirs (complicated logistics) and I was by myself. So now all four of us are here! Live blogging so I am less likely to tear up

So much awful stuff going on and not many avenues for me to help, which overall makes me avoid posting. But it's Pride Month! So a joyful pic each day this month to celebrate small lovely moments. Youngest Child holding a salmonberry wet with fresh rain, on an evening walk #pride

Job alert in Montreal! The McGill Biomedical Ethics Unit is seeking a postdoctoral fellow with background in philosophy, decision sciences, or epidemiology. #philsky #philsci #ethics bioethicstoday.org/jobs/postdoc...

Drama weather out the window today, to go with seminar discussion on Davidson (Actions, Reasons, and Causes; and Laws and Cause) and some Hornsby (Agency and Actions). Putting this after Sellars on Scientific Image, Hempel on DN, and von Wright on action and causation, has been great #philsky

Terry Fox sporting a new spring hat #SFU

Someone at the community garden has been stealing from my rhubarb and I feel like such a hobbit about it. Yes, Mordor is rising and the whole shire may burn if we don't get our act together, but also, garden drama stop stealing my rhubarb I need that for cake ugh

Wait so Americans now have to do medical tourism to Canada just to get a COVID vaccination? Maybe we (=canadians, who on average don't hate Americans and don't want you or your kids to die of preventable diseases) set up drive thru vax sites at border crossings on our side? WTF dystopia is this

Used Spider Georg in class today, thanks to my kiddos. Soon we will be able to do 20 minutes worth of explanation in 3 seconds by saying things like, "the problem with this is like Spider Georg." Kids these days! Communicating sophisticated statistical info with a single meme! #philsci #philsky

Writing about 20thC pragmatism, remembering excellent advice I got while dissertating from Olav Gjelsvik in Oslo. I'd just read Davidson on actions, reasons, cause, laws, and was so excited. This could solve so much! He was glad for me that I had "entered my Davidson phase" #philsci #philsky 1/n

Got this in the mail today, very excited to dig in #philsci #philsky @thebusyowl.bsky.social

Voted! And volunteered for vote scrutineering this evening. Partly because of boring civic views on how society works only because sometimes individuals do a bunch of things that are boring but have to get done. And partly because it sounds like scrutiny+mutineering. Steampunk science vote counting

Flying, I noticed a major shift from years past: a lot of men projecting a kind of aggro macho image, in the past would've never done a voluntary biometrics scan. The attitude used to be, Just try and make me, govt. If there was a right to refuse, they would've. And now they performatively comply.

Great discussions so far at the Res Philosophica Pragmatism and Scientific Inquiry conference. And this room! #philsci

General psa/temperature check. The vibe at the YVR airport US customs was verrryyyy different this morning than it has been in recent travel through there, including just last week. First time at YVR I have ever been in that back room there for extra checking

Given our location, Simon Fraser Philosophy has a great opportunity to do *something* to mitigate impacts from US politics on colleagues in the field, grad students,etc, by funding more students, rounding up postdoc or visiting faculty lines if we can, holding events here. But one issue ... #philsky

The Cambridge book table was 👍 this APA. Got both these, total cost $14USD. I've read the Chang book electronically but still prefer to read paper. And I did not even realize Khalidi's book was out! The start of the summer reading pile #philsci #philsky