Kensington Market, Toronto, 2023. Me: “A flat white with oat milk, please” Barista: “I can’t make a flat white without milk!” @quantumaephraim.bsky.social is my witness!

My son is so disappointed by my lack of egg hiding imagination that he's now gone around to hide the eggs himself...

Galen Strawson responds gracefully and with good humour to my dig at panpsychism in @thetls.bsky.social @michaelpollan.bsky.social www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...

A tourist attraction between the Cathedral and Cromwell’s house? You must mean this one, sadly topical for other reasons. www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/history...

I'm delighted to have a piece, along with many friends, in this lovely open access collection. The volume is superbly edited by Yvonne Huetter-Almerigi and Robert Sinclair, as a birthday treat for Bjørn Ramberg. Happy Birthday, Bjørn! #philsky #nordic #pragmatism nordprag.org/nordic-studi...

@allhails.bsky.social Do you recognize either of these spots, from January 1973?

📢 New Episode Alert! This week, I chatted to Prof. Alan Winfield (@alan-winfield.bsky.social) from @uwebristolofficial.bsky.social about developing new standards for ethics and transparency in robotics. 🤖 Listen now: www.robottalk.org/2026/03/13/e... #Robots #Robotics #Ethics

The maddest March March is the March March March. www.marchmarchmarch.org.uk

It feels difficult to warn people about scale of shockwaves coming everyone's way. Thank you Isabella & Gregor Here is a sketch of what might be coming: inflation, redistribution shocks, shortages, stagflation & financial instability. And what to do about it www.newstatesman.com/internationa...

Video version, with commentary from a fellow passenger 🙂

Good afternoon from the Heads.

Sounds good! techxplore.com/news/2026-03...

I'm looking to hire two postdoctoral researchers on The Consensus Project. Full-time research positions for three years. Preferably people in social/formal epistemology and/or philosophy of science. Please share widely! More here: philjobs.org/job/show/31193 #philsci #philsky

Do you know this interesting piece? On Describing Author(s): S. E. Toulmin and K. Baier Source: Mind, Jan., 1952, Vol. 61, No. 241 (Jan., 1952), pp. 13-38 Published by: Oxford University Press on behalf of the Mind Association Stable URL: www.jstor.com/stable/2251447

One of them Gerd Buchdahl, first lecturer in #HPS at Cambridg!

Eastern APA tenure track job interview, circa 1997

Working Knowledge: A Simon Schaffer Reader, eds. Charlotte Bigg, John Tresch, and Simon Werrett – @uchicagopress.bsky.social, April 2026 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

When my ANU colleague Fred bought one for his office in 1983, it was still called a word processor. “Come on, Fred”, we said, “Process a word!“

Sie hätten einfach fragen können. Das ist unsere Version, und sie liegt seit Jahren in einem Aktenschrank in Freiberg.

Explains the link between pigeons and macchiato – it’s not what we thought.

Some lesser known facts (and fables?) about this meme for survivorship bias. First, the original wartime work is often attributed to the Hungarian-born Columbia statistician, Abraham Wald – though the story may be partly apocryphal.

Also acceptable at night, video at link below.

He who is tired of Sydney is tired of life

Jenann Ismael and I once had a talk called The Difference Between Buses and Trams, illustrated with a movie shot from a Lisbon tram.

🎥 Some highlights from this year's Adolf Grünbaum Memorial Lecture, given by Professor Wayne Myrvold. The lecture will be available to watch on our YouTube. #philsci

Krokodil Gena arbeitet als Krokodil im Zoo

Thanks @jowolff.bsky.social – it reminded me that I met AOR just once. In 2004 I’d arrived in Venice for a conference, with my friend & ANU classmate Peter Menzies. We disembarked at Accademia, & there by chance was our former ANU teacher, Jenny Lloyd. She introduced us to her travel companion, AOR.

Peering at the peers, as it were?

Any guesses about the varieties? #roses

When we had northern visitors at the Centre for Time in Sydney, I used to mention that because we were the Southern Hemisphere, the sun would rise in the West.

My wonderful colleague Poppy Mankowitz is advertising two 3-yr postdocs & one funded PhD on her ERC project Expressing Value in Language, which investigates evaluative adjectives (‘good’, ‘bad’, ‘beautiful’, ‘tasty’, etc.) from the perspective of philosophy & theoretical & experimental linguistics.

@martinkusch.bsky.social Autumn in the mountains.

Australian friends might consider signing this.

Huw can really put a Price on a good pun? """ nonFACTuality, as we might call it """ --- a man who writes with the correct level of seriousness for the matter at hand

Here’s @craigfrench.bsky.social’s Dad on a fiver – long overdue recognition, I expect.

US visa denial policy makes continued basing of the UN there untenable. Same for World Bank, IMF and any international organization.

We logicians have got this covered: (∃!a)(∃!b)(From the a to the b, Palestine shall be free)

Interesting piece here, citing among other folk the excellent @danwphilosophy.bsky.social

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:

Chris Murphy: "I Just came from a two hour, closed door classified briefing on the war. It just confirmed to me it's totally incoherent. We are not gonna be able to achieve any of our stated objectives ... this is a disaster of epic proportions, a 10 day debacle"

Boosting this for the link to Tony Leggett’s 1977 piece. It contains a very early and little-known discussion of Bell’s Theorem – by, as we know, a future star. #quantum #philsci #philsky

Sad news about Tony Leggett, who was a lovely man. I first came across him in a 1977 book The Encyclopaedia of Ignorance. He was the first author I ever discovered who toyed with the idea of a retrocausal approach to EPR-Bell. Full piece here, extract in the image. drive.google.com/file/d/1zFaR...

Beautiful! And a lot more natural than they usually are when viewed from an Australian perspective.

Since people are doing "is AI conscious?" discourse on here again I feel like this philpapers.org/rec/BIRACA-4 by @birchlse.bsky.social remains my favourite piece on the current state of affairs.

Wrote for @thenation.com about how catastrophic the Iran war could be for Israel's grip on US politics—and why this is a moment to be seized for anyone who wants the US-Israel alliance to end. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

I remember a case when the clock dropped off the wall, hitting the candidate. Subtle but effective.

This year's Adolf Grünbaum Memorial Lecture will be given by Professor Wayne Myrvold. Visit our website for more information: https://www.centerphilsci.pitt.edu/event/annual-lecture-series-wayne-c-myrvold/ #philsci

How shameful this is after what we did to Afghanistan. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...