“He is, unmistakably, a sixteen-year-old boy.” Israel brutally starved and beat Mohammed Ibrahim in its torture camps for months on end. Now, he’s back in Florida, as Israel continues to do the same to at least 350 Palestinian children.

Philosophers. I’ll be in Baltimore at the APA meeting if you want to meet.

Carnegie built libraries and museums to get his name on them (apparently he was fou”bd of applause); Trump, a billionaire cuckoo, just put his name and face on the work done by others.

Happy new year! If you are early career or graduate in Phil of Bio, consider European summer school below: fantastic venue, brilliant mix of junior & senior scholars, a wealth of debates, PPTs & skills training organised by @thomasreydon.bsky.social and myself. Deadline EXTENDED to 31 Jan! #philsci

Give $$ to @bradlander.bsky.social. You just need to know that his AIOAC funded opponent is endorsed by Jeffries to know he is a useless dem.

I think we should have a tiny desk series for academics.

Sue them, Sue them. Don’t fold. They will lose most of the time.

Apparently it’s available tomorrow

She is a terrible person. After kissing the boots of Netanyahu she is now licking those of Trump. She’ll do anything for power. Shame on the Nobel prize committee.

📣 Registration for both online and in-person SIPS 2026 is officially open!!!📣 SIPS 2026 is an action-oriented meeting aimed at improving psychological science. The conference sessions will focus on: ✨Initiating and conducting projects, ✨Learning new skills, ✨Discussing new ideas.

Stop apartheid. The goal is to destroy Palestinian culture. Boycott Israel.

Harvard has removed a resident dean -- a Black lecturer in psychology -- for writing posts critical of Trump and law enforcement www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

And we're live, Lecture A1 is online. Introduction to Bayesian workflow, generative models, estimands, estimators, estimates, error checking, beginnings of probability theory and Bayesian updating. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztbY...

Trump now floating the possibility that oil companies will be reimbursed by the US government for building the infrastructure that will allow them to pillage Venezuelan oil. You can’t even make this up.

15 January is the deadline to file a brief Expression of Interest to be nominated for a Canada Impact Chair @UBC. Only candidates working and residing outside of Canada are eligible to apply, including expatriate Canadians. More info and the EOI portal are at research.ubc.ca/federal-rese...

Court: University disclosure of researcher’s misconduct did not violate due process #ResearchMisconduct #ResearchIntegrity #WCRI2026 #WCRI retractionwatch.com/2026/01/05/f...

I am talking about experimental philosophy of medicine on Thursday. ruhr-uni-bochum.zoom.us/j/67803558818

Caligula

From American Institute of Physics policy newsletter (reminding myself to subscribe)

Competition for heritable wealth, not cultural group selection, drives the evolution of monogamy | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

They want to kill us

When you have a genocide to hide

A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.

Available next week! My third book.

Please Welcome our new incoming Spring Fellows! Laurenz Casser Chris ChoGlueck Marton Gomori Mark Risjord David Thorstad They will be joining our senior visiting fellow, Kareem Khalifa, and postdoctoral fellows Marta Bielinska and Margaret Farrell. Read more: https://www.centerphilsci.pitt.edu/

Useful thread on the BOLD signal.

You can find a précis of my talk on AI chatbots and mental health crisis in the DARE team's blog post about our recent @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social seminar: dare.ed.ac.uk/blog/2025/da...

Ecological meta-analyses often inherit medical assumptions. High heterogeneity, small sample sizes, etc. break those assumptions. In the first post of a new series, I show why a “significant pooled effect” can be statistically correct but practically unhelpful. drmattg.github.io/Uncertain_Ec...

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

Is Philosophy an Armchair Discipline? Our co-Director Emma Swinn argues against this idea with Stephen Law in this new paper:

Trump is basically a bully or a wannabe mafioso. He wants everyone to cower in from of him. He can’t bully Americans and even undocumented immigrants fully because of the courts. So he is now turning to the rest of the world, where his perversion cannot be restrained by the law.

On X, a senior U.S. Justice Department official is promoting a post that praises colonization as “one of the greatest things that ever happened to the backwards parts of the world.”👇

Israel kills two people in new attack on southern Lebanon https://aje.io/5glbe3

The rate of global mean sea level rise has increased from ~2.1 mm/year in 1993 to ~4.5 mm/year in 2023. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Time to look back at my 2025 research. I published a bunch of empirical and philosophic papers (links below) but perhaps my favorite is this one. Kind of a précis for my forthcoming book. Below the other articles somewhat ranked according to how much I like them.

But just like Palestinian lives Venezuelan lives don’t matter

Ackman is a terrible human being, an Islamophobic racist, and also a very stupid individual

You have a bit of time in the next two months. Learn a little LLM via this free online course from Stanford (8 courses). Go beyond AI boosting or hatred. Learn how it works. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ub3G...

You know where to find people with the blood of dozens or hundreds of thousands of victimized in their hands? Look at the White House since bush: all of them are responsible for an enormous amount of misery and death.

The ethnic cleansing and oppression of Palestine has not stopped

There's weather and then there's genocide. #GazaGenocide‌

This is exactly what corruption looks like: power used as a commodity, war treated as a profit center, and human lives reduced to line items. This isn't leadership or strategy-it' pay-to-play imperialism, and it's indefensible.

Innovation of the oil industry in the United States. #generalstrike

Here is a commitment. Follow all the lectures this time, although asynchronically.

Corruption grift racism. This is trumps admin

Beautiful in these dark times

Individual differences in cognition — hard work ahead! Replicate Me if You Can: Assessing Measurement Reliability of Individual Differences in Reading Across Measurement Occasions and Methods - Haller - 2026 - Cognitive Science - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

This is how you do it. No preamble to swear to God you don't like Maduro.