Reminder: If the Supreme Court upholds Trump’s attack on birthright citizenship, some of the ICE officers currently brutalizing Minnesotans may be reassigned to apprehend newborns from the hospital for immediate deportation. Just read the Trump administration’s own memo. slate.com/news-and-pol...

First time having a personal website! www.josephmfortephd.com Will be helpful for students wanting to know more about who’s teaching them, potential textbook adopters, colleagues interested in my research, and/or anyone looking for a guest speaker with my expertise #academicsky #philosophy

Proud to report I’ll be starting this academic year with a promotion to Associate Professor (non-TT, like all FT hires at my institution in the past 8 years or so)

Loved returning to @tcddublin.bsky.social last week after 22yrs for many reasons, but their “wild” spaces stand out. I bet they’re great for reducing greenhouse emissions and also helping pollinator populations. Would love to see more of that on US campuses. #environment #highered #Ireland

E.g. Recently the CEO of Blackrock said he didn’t want finance or comp sci majors. He wanted history majors and English majors. Goldman Sachs agreed. / 3 fortune.com/2024/05/17/b...

80 professional and state-based medical associations with a shared statement.

Interesting and hopeful, Provides insight into why my Republican leaning district in Maine keeps rejecting the MAGAs who want to slash and burn public education

My NYT ballot for the best films of the 21st Century. I’m sure I forgot a few great ones!

Some of the most important projects of the Enlightenment are still very much works in progress: 1. One man’s whims can still throw entire nations into turmoil w/o having his power sufficiently checked. …

Don’t watch the press conference. That’s what he wants.

www.nokings.org#map #nokings Find a protest near you today, fellow Americans. Let’s be on the right side of history—we know those in power here aren’t.

Excited to announce that my friend Jeff Buechner and I are under contract with Springer for our co-edited book in progress titled Informal Logic and Critical Thinking in Practice: The American Philosophical Association AILACT Sessions 2019-2025. #philosophy #philsky #academicsky

I’m as anti-MAGA as they come, but the part of this that involves levying more taxes from institutions with huge endowments appeals to me. If non-profit universities want to conduct themselves like for-profit businesses, there should be a tax on that. I disagree with the religious exemption though

Wow, after reading this, I’m very interested in Mary Midgley! Well worth the read! #philosophy #philsky #academicsky #ethics

Was pretty cool to come across this NYT article featuring a research project my good friend Francis Fallon has been a big part of. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/s... #philosophy #philosophers #philsky #academicsky

Was nice to finally hold the physical copy of this one in my hands. Tough to get in the US, even for those involved in producing it! Now available through ILL thanks to my good friends at Rivier University’s Regina Library #philosophy #academicsky

Public lecture happening at St. John's University soon: "On AI Personhood Without Sentience" Paper co-authored by Seth Lazar (ANU) and Ned Howells-Whitaker (Pittsburgh) Queens Campus Th April 24 D’Angelo Center, Rm 206 1:50 p.m. More info? call 718-990-6378 #philosophy #academicsky #AI

AI verbal diarrhea generator: Shat GPT

So what’s happening right now in simple terms? All those messed up dangerous people, haters of empathy, practitioners of cruelty = they are giving themselves official government badges and all the power that comes with it.

Here comes the end of the American republic and the beginning of the dictatorship: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/o...

Compelling take against one size fits all teaching as well as manufactured scarcity, despite much of it being unrelatable to those of us who don’t teach at elite institutions (which is most of us).

Time is closing in on the first federal election of 2025 Josh Weil is the Democratic Nominee for U.S. Congress in the special election for Florida's 6th District. 🦋REPOSTS APPRECIATED🦋 Please support his campaign @joshweil.bsky.social secure.actblue.com/donate/weil-... #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy

Trying unsuccessfully to get more info about the links between the NY Yankees and Project 2025. Also LLBean and the latter. Ive been a big fan of these 2 institutions for a long time, but will disown them if they’ve aligned themselves with MAGA in any way. Can anyone help?

RIP John Sallis, who taught me so much about Heraclitus, Plato, Monet, Nietzsche, and Heidegger during my MA studies at Boston College. Such an excellent lecturer and writer. #philosophy #philsky #academicsky

I get the sense from many of my colleagues here on #academicsky that the problems US universities are facing due to the current admin are worse than this article suggests: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/u... Interested in your thoughts.

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How does @bsky.app verify accounts?

A worthy read for sure. Highly recommend. #academicsky

Merry Christmas to all on @bsky.app who celebrate! Following so many academics has been pretty cool. I’d like to share this uplifting thought I just had:

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How humanities classes benefit students in the workplace and combat loneliness theconversation.com/how-humaniti...

This is well worth reading for those of us in academia who need reminding about why our work matters even though we won’t be the next Kant. #academicsky #philosophy

Are there first-tier and second-tier philosophers (short answer: no) helendecruz.substack.com/p/against-tw...

Enjoying following so many academics; Notice many who say “award winning” or “celebrated” in their bios; So ambiguous; If my kids celebrated my book, does that make me a “celebrated author”? I feel like it does. Do awards in Facebook groups make me “award winning”? I say so.

Looking forward to reading this once I get back to my project on the history of hope! #philosophy #philsky #history #academicsky

For scholars of early modern philosophy: the Leibniz Society of North America just posted its call for abstracts for the next LSNA conference, which will be held in California in October 2025! Please share widely. #philosophy #Leibniz #earlymodernphilosophy #philsky

Interested in reading recommendations about what the relationship between the pilgrims and native Americans was really like. #thanksgiving #history #academicsky

I’ve been connected to Khora. Pretty cool. www.palinode.productions/news/partner...? #AI #philosophy #edusky #academicsky

It’s a good time to watch Free State of Jones on Netflix.

Going to give this one another shot with some additional tags. Let’s see how it goes. #environment #academicsky #ethics #philosophy #edusky

Compelling NYT piece today about the relevance of Rawls Theory of Justice. Very interested in your thoughts #academicsky. #sundayscholar #philosophy #politics www.nytimes.com/2024/11/24/o...

SAVE THE DATE: The first Annual Arthur & Barbara Gianelli Lecture on The Philosophy of Science will be held at St. John's University (Queens Campus) on 4/24/25 The first speaker will be Seth Lazar (sethlazar.org) Details to follow. Sent on behalf of Francis Fallon of SJU #philosophy

Here’s Rose Wang, the Bluesky COO: another liberal arts grad running technology companies. www.linkedin.com/in/rosewang2...

This advice has fallen out of style but unless you’re taking out a billion in student loans, basically still sound. A liberal arts education will prepare you for the unknown and unknowable future and loving it and thriving in it will help you more than scrapping through your finance program.

To sum up: get a liberal arts education. This is the best way to prepare for an uncertain future where specific jobs get eliminated. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/stud...

Gosh, as I make decisions about which #philosophy accounts to follow and which posts to engage with, I’m realizing I’m interested in a lot more of my field than I previously thought! If only I could spend my days simply reveling in those many interests!

This is awful!! One business model I don’t mind seeing made obsolete by AI, hopefully sooner rather than later.

#bluesky must have the capacity for automatically translating posts into one’s native language. I wonder when we’ll see that. #AI