I did a little radio show about time once, with musical interludes. Your rando’s theory was expressed much more eloquently by the great Ms Joplin.

Babas, awaiting their rum fate.

Does it prove that the mean policeman is a fair cop?

It’s an ill wind, says my garden.

The Embassy staff of Germany, France and the United Kingdom sing Schedryk in the Kyiv underground. Wonderful!

This ancient text might be what you have in mind. There’s similar material in Ch. 4 of my book. I second your recommendation about Professor Myrvold. arxiv.org/pdf/gr-qc/93...

Philip Dawid, visited by ghost of Christmas counterfactual.

Merry Christmas! Stay weird y’all.

Philosopher Kate Manne (author of Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny) on the real and troubling conspiracy theory about Trump and Epstein. Worth a read. katemanne.substack.com/p/the-actual...

”Raspberry Queen“ – known in Vienna @martinkusch.bsky.social?

Job opening in #histsci #philsci at Wageningen University: Asst. Prof. of Philosophy of Life Sciences, in a group led by Rachel Ankeny. Deadline Jan 12! www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/a...

Excellent opportunity at @rotmanphilosophy.bsky.social #philsci #sts

JOB IN CANADA!! I hereby encourage leading #STS and #HPS scholars working in areas including advanced digital technologies and democracy to apply for a job in STS at UBC: research.ubc.ca/federal-rese...

Nice to see Miss M getting some attention from philosophers. @loigic.bsky.social and I made exemplary use of her talents in our piece ‘Heart of DARCness’ a few years back. philarchive.org/archive/LIUHOD

This looks like a fascinating project! #philsci

Tenure

Postdoc: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (Cold Spring Harbor, New York) is offering 3-year postdoc for a Historian of Life Sciences at its Center for Humanities & the History of Modern Biology. #HPS #PhilJobs 🗃️ www.schooljobs.com/careers/cshl...

It’s an ill wind – grandfathers safe in their cradles tonight! philpapers.org/rec/SMIBEF

Doesn't say much for Australia's security if we can't bring 40 kids and their mothers home. Even less for our humanity. Bring them home @albomp.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

And a subcommunity who combine that with cuckoo clocks. www.facebook.com/groups/33466...

Train? Road? What century are you living in? improbable.com/airchives/pa...

BOOM! Now over 90,000 signatures. Let’s get it to 100,000 and get this done! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

Florentina, a Kordes rose.

This reminds me of my mother buying ‘lights’ for our labrador. At some point I learnt that they were lungs, and assumed that they were called lights because they were full of air. Was I right?

Between Kant and @srdfrench.bsky.social – could do a lot worse!

Thank you, do you know this one? Thirty years downstream, and with a genuine decision theorist as co-author. philpapers.org/rec/PRIQBF

🚨We're hiring! A tenure track position at McGill University in the area of #bioethics and / or philosophy of science, with a special focus on the ethics of medical technologies. Please share widely. #philsky #ethics #philsci philjobs.org/job/show/30402

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

“It’s troubling to think that the deep structure of quantum mechanics violates such a foundational principle of relativity,” argues Emily Adlam. | https://bit.ly/423GMiQ How can we solve this? Adlam argues that the idea the future can affect the past is the key to this quantum enigma. #philsci ⚛️🧪

It is hard to read this piece without imagining oneself as @wiglet1981.bsky.social

Or vice versa, presumably.

Awesome conversation between Brian Greene and Alain Aspect on the history and significance of quantum mechanics 😍 Alain Aspect recounts his love-at-first-sight with quantum mechanics (QM) after reading John Bell's four-page article. 1/3 youtu.be/2olKOaG_7JA?...

The Red Cape (Madame Monet) - 1873 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/7311

It would still have been a lot, even if you hadn’t thought about it.

JOB College Lectureship and Fellowship in Modern History and Politics (c20), Trinity College, Cambridge [This includes a teaching requirement for International Relations] www.trin.cam.ac.uk/vacancies/co...

Big news for philosophers of probability, MIND 1994 has hit British soccer. Great to see Ramsey getting a guernsey! www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/footba...

My department (philosophy, University of Melbourne) is advertising a 4-yr fixed-term lectureship in metaphysics and philosophy of science. Open to people with Australian work rights. Philosophy folk, please feel free to repost etc unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/UoM_Ex...

Lest we forget.

What are birds? We just don't know. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh0Y...

I’m not going to delete mine. I like the web page they made for me too much.

Heftig. Dieses Foto ist vor wenigen Minuten im New York entstanden wo Mamdani aufs Rathaus gestiegen ist um eine kommunistische Fahne anzubringen. Wie man sieht liegt die Stadt schon Stunden nach seinem Sieg auf seinen Befehl in Trümmern

📢Come work with us: We’re looking for a research assistant to contribute to an ongoing two-year project focused on developing a benchmark for measuring the ability of Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents on real-world data science tasks. Apply by 16 November. www.lcfi.ac.uk/get-involved...

Latest piece with @kenwharton.bsky.social ABSTRACT: In statistics and causal modeling it is common for a selection process to induce correlations in a subset of an uncorrelated ensemble. We propose that EPR and Bell correlations are selection artefacts of this kind. …1/ #philsky #philsci #quantum

Some background – my little piece on Hawking on this issue, from Nature in 1989. prce.hu/w/preprints/...

Fascinating stuff. Would the Nobel prizes get unawarded in the recollapsing phase? @seanmcarroll.bsky.social? #philsky #arrowoftime www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Do you know of her sister-in-law, the photographer Lotte Meitner-Graf? The NPG collection includes a portrait of Meitner. www.npg.org.uk/collections/...

Dickens, after seeing a prairie: “I would say to every man who can't see a prairie—go to Salisbury Plain, Marlborough Downs, or any of the broad, high, open lands near the sea. Many of them are fully as impressive, and Salisbury Plain is *decidedly* more so.” Right @michaelmorrisphil.bsky.social?

Happy World Jellyfish Day