The issue with Stephen Hawking was whether entropy would decrease if the universe recollapsed. Dieter Zeh thought it was clear that it would. In fact, he thought the Big Bang and Big Crunch were the same event – the Big Brunch, as he called it.

Someone I met on my morning walk.

Delighted to see Dieter Zeh getting due credit here. I got to know Dieter after my commentary piece on Hawking appeared in Nature in 1989. He wrote to say he ‘agreed with every word’ – welcome news for a young Australian philosopher, criticizing a famous physicist. … prce.hu/w/preprints/...

Welsh name like that, he should be Igor the Team Engine.

I’ve just read @emilyherring.bsky.social’s excellent biography of Bergson, Herald of a Restless World, and now I want a bowler hat.

Only in Vienna? I suspect the coffee is better here in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney 🙂 freudiansip.com.au

He's right! Well said, @duncanivison.bsky.social.

Honoured to discover that Academic Philosophy has such worthy neighbours.

For me, nothing will top this Bad Bunny.

HMS Ark Andrew

Man i love liberalism. So utterly incoherent

Surely he goes by Chuck

BREAKING: Over 680 members of the National Academy of Sciences, Medicine, and Engineering have endorsed articles of impeachment against RFK Jr. (1/2 🧵)

As Israel’s President visits Australia, genocide continues in Gaza and serious legal concerns remain unanswered. We’re calling on the government to uphold Australian and international law: Detain and investigate Isaac Herzog. ✍️ Add your name getup.to/YmaMqWFlCKVEC4

Jonah Messinger just gave a great talk on these issues at HPS Cambridge. There’s a video here. #philtech #sts #philsci #HPS www.youtube.com/watch?v=o43x...

Reposting this recent piece on gatekeeping in cold fusion, written with the physicists Jonah Messinger and Florian Metzler – they are involved in some of the most interesting current work, including an ARPA-E funded project based at MIT. #sts #philtech #philsci #HPS

My Centre is a unique place to do a PhD in Philosophy, because you can be in constant contact with experts in veterinary medicine, psychology, zoology and policy and be part of a team united by a shared interest in animal minds. We now have our 1st ever PhD scholarship: www.lse.ac.uk/sentience/phd

Wrecked in New Jersey – one for you @roberttalisse.bsky.social?

Another one for @martinkusch.bsky.social – the lower flower is more than a week old, hanging on despite heat and heavy rainfall!

Hence the old joke, in Greenland they have seventeen words for fuck off, but no word for penguin.

Board of Peace makes me think of Seat of Ease.

Postdoc opportunities: The MCMP's Chair of Logic and Philosophy of Language (Prof. Hannes Leitgeb) at @lmumuenchen.bsky.social advertises two Postdoc positions (deadline 31 Jan 2026). See job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/7...

Critter on one of our roses.

📣 British Academy International Fellowships 2026 at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge: www.phil.cam.ac.uk/jobs/british...

When the shit hits the fan, as it were.

Now on arxiv too. arxiv.org/abs/2601.09996

A new piece with the physicists Jonah Messinger and Florian Metzler – abstract in the ALT text. #philsci #sts #philtech

I bet that went down like a Led Balloon

Miami 2012, via FB memories.

There’s a speech act variant. Everything we can say in earnest can also be said tongue in cheek. How do I know this question is not asked tongue in cheek?

I once heard Anscombe point out that there’s a parallel argument for books. Everything we take to be real also happens in books. How do we know we’re not in a book? #philsky

More people should be paying attention to this.

They should have just looked in Free School Lane, where all the other particles were. Sheesh, that’s Induction 101, right @mattfarr.bsky.social? #hps universityarms.com/events/the-c...

Some excellent jobs in a new teaching program in #xrisk in Germany – please share. Link to the page for the course below. jobs.fernuni-hagen.de/job/Teaching...

2 year Postdoctoral Research Fellow opportunity at the University of St Andrews on my project "Aesthetic Values and the Social Dimensions of Science" www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... #philosophy #philsci

New on the Archive: Covoni, Niccolò and Rovelli, Carlo (2026) Tractatus Quanticus. [Preprint] https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27713/

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...