The sad irony of @theguardian.com providing the name and title of each of the men and none of the women in the photo. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/a...

What if God was one of us Just a slob like one of us Just a stranger on the bus

Very sad to see this. Got to know Dale and his family when they visited Aberdeen. That rare combination of a truly great person and a top-notch philosopher. A huge loss.

Our Ulrich Stegmann's chapter in the forthcoming collection, Images of the Plant Humanities, discusses the history of plant morphology - specifically the 18th century insight that different-looking floral organs (like petals and stamens) are actually 'the same' organ. www.abdn.ac.uk/people/u.ste...

🗞️ Our Eilidh Beaton's latest paper, 'Methodological Nationalism is Not the (best articulation of the) Problem' is now out in Philosophy. The paper raises worries for calls to outright reject methodological nationalism - i.e. nation-state-centric ways of seeing.

This is so fun to browse: archive.org/details/aada...

Pleased to have had the opportunity to write this email.

The Aberdeen Unity March takes place on 18 Apr, assembling at Rubislaw Terrace. Opposing racism, the far-right and Islamophobia ahead of the Holyrood election. Bring your neighbours and show up for the city. More 👇🏼 postabdn.com/out-and-abou...

<trying to get a big, bumbling fly out through my office window; mentally cursing Wittgenstein>

For those curious. This is the Stawell Gift. Australia's oldest and richest short-distance running race which has a handicapped start. It's a great watch. The US sprinters are through to the semis. Read more about the Gift here if interested en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stawell....

Looking to hire another 2-year Postdoc for the Unity Project! AOS in Metaphysics, Social Ontology, or Formal Ontology. Apply here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRA671/r... (Also please share widely, thanks)

Självporträtt http://kokoelmat.fng.fi/app?si=A+V+4775

The TSA Colloquium continues! This Thursday (15:00 CET): David Barack on "Zetetic agency" Manolo Martínez on "What does influence without communication look like?" Everyone welcome! @upf.edu @logos-group.bsky.social Thanks to @karlbergman.bsky.social for the pic. www.upf.edu/web/thought-...

📖 New piece on Psyche magazine by Giuliano Torrengo (University of Milan) and Davide Bordini (University of Genoa): “When we fear the past, we’re actually still looking ahead” A fascinating take on how our emotions reveal the future-oriented nature of time. 🔗👉 goo.su/smUUEq2

Anyone aware of any work on male aging and increased appreciation of Dire Straits?

This is an important one. A unity march takes place in Aberdeen on 18 Apr, opposing racism, the far-right and Islamophobia as part of a Scotland-wide series ahead of the Holyrood election. Show up and stand up for the kind of Scotland we want to live in. More 👇🏼 postabdn.com/out-and-abou...

Now this looks cool. Nowruz Aberdeen runs 14 to 22 Mar across various venues, with nine days of music, film, food and workshops celebrating Nowruz across cultures and generations. Highlights include film screenings, a jazz house party, fashion show and poetry night. More 👇🏼 www.nowruzaberdeen.com

Who at Netflix greenlighted a Monday release for this!? Completely disrespectful to Garfield.

🤖 💭 Check out this workshop on AI Epistemics taking place at the Onassis Library in Athens, co-organised by our Jesper Kallestrup via his Digital Knowledge Project.

Title slide done for talk at The Geneva Linguistics & Metaphysics of Time Workshop next week: goo.su/zgagZp9

There's (literally) no time like the present to read Dave Ingram's newly revised entry for the Spring 2026 edition of The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy on Presentism! plato.stanford.edu/entries/pres...

Three-year postdoc in our ANR- and DFG-funded project (with Kourken Michaelian) on the semantics of episodic representations: jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/3... Please share widely!

Very excited after a fabulous TSA kick-off! Many thanks to the online/onsite audience and the speakers Elisabeth Pacherie, Hong Yu Wong @stephantorre.bsky.social & Krisz Orbán for incredibly inspiring talks. Videos, summaries and next session coming soon! www.upf.edu/web/thought-...

This week, Marta Jorba (Pompeu Fabra University), and co-authors present their recent paper open access 'Person-first and identity-first approaches to Autism: metaphysical and linguistic implications' published in Synthese. #philsky #philpsy imperfectcognitions....

"Take in your hen: Fittingness and Hedonic Adaptation" is now available, open access at @philimprint.bsky.social. Come for the Julia Donaldson reference, stay for the question of whether hedonic adaptation is irrational. journals.publishing.umich.edu/phimp/articl...

🌀 Geneva Linguistics & Metaphysics of Time Workshop An exciting event bringing together leading specialists at the intersection of linguistics, metaphysics, and the philosophy of time. ⌛ 13-14 March 2026 Organizers: Fabrice Correia & Giovanni Merlo More details: goo.su/zgagZp9

NJ Proud.

Off to pick up a robot named Marty that I reserved from my local library. #librariesrule

Looking forward to this next week (even though it ends close to my bedtime...)

2 lecturer posts have been advertised today, at the University of Aberdeen, for criminal law and criminal justice. Come and join a great law school, and a subject area that seeks to be a strong part of the school's profile! Happy to discuss with anyone interested! www.abdn.ac.uk/jobs/vacanci...

Sumner, Mississippi https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/26810/

Looking forward to this conference on Linguistics and Metaphysics of Time organized by Fabrice Correia and Giovanni Merlo

✨ BIAP Conference ✨ “Lies, Fiction, and Manipulation in Propaganda” 📅 12 i 13 de febrer de 2026 📍 Sala Polivalent (24.S18), Edifici Mercè Rodoreda, Campus de la Ciutadella, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Looking forward to this conference our postgrads put together!

From a 1961 letter from Lewis to the Dean of the Graduate School at Princeton. Interesting to see 20yo Lewis's influences. Not much discussion of John Wisdom these days. Curious to read his Philosophy and Psycho-Analysis.

Sound of Falling (In die Sonne schauen) blew me away. One of the best films I've seen.

This CFA reads like one of my fever dreams rather than an event that's actually taking place.

Swan song http://kokoelmat.fng.fi/app?si=C+III+B+I+249%3A2

Go Learner Go!

Recently at the Royal Statistical Society, I talked about hooking policymakers' attention with strong narrative The research was part of a Health Foundation project on getting impact at the NHS www.youtube.com/watch?v=FD9V...

Stan Wawrinka pulls a Stone Cold Steve Austin and pulls out a beer during his last Australian Open What a legend 😭😭😭😭😭😭

Another great post from Wo: www.umsu.de/blog/2026/826

SAVE THE DATE! 📢 Call for Papers: PLM8 – Barcelona 🧠 Philosophy of Language & Mind Conference | 17–19 June 2026 @upf.edu 📝 Abstracts due: 1 Feb 2026 🔗 Submit & info: eventum.upf.edu/142984/plm8 #PLM8

Horrendous. Let's all see this for what it is: the unprovoked execution of an innocent woman by federal agents in the streets of Minneapolis. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

Fuck Louis Althusser (1918–1990) #philosophy

Since it's a tense time of year 🫠