Published online today and available soon at your favorite purveyor of fine reading materials. And it's open access.

I’ve been training my whole life for this moment

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waar wachten wij nog op. Utrecht gaf al het goede voorbeeld, nu volgt de Sorbonne.

studenten zijn in een bepaalde zin consumenten, niet van entertainment, maar van onderwijs. Dat begrijpen ze zelf maar half, met als resultaat dat ze hun tevredenheid als consument doorgaans meer laten afhangen van amusementswaarde dan van leerwinst.

Now in high impact journal, crows learn new behaviors through trial-and-error. Ignoring Skinner for now, let's reiterate Tinbergen in The Study of Instinct: Animals must learn to i) do new things, & to ii) refine existing behaviors. Our five cents on this: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

#AcademicSky Submitting your grant application at the 11th hour

dit kan niet genoeg herhaald worden.

Interestingly, when a rolling deadline was introduced for the FIFPRO scheme in Norway, this led to a DECREASE of the number of applications (and an increase of the success rate).

I’ve done reviews for funding bodies where the top rating was 'outstanding' and the next-best 'excellent'. Anyone after that was, at best, 'very good'. This shows three things: (1) funders should buy a dictionary, (2) grade inflation is everywhere, and (3) science funding is broken.

Ban grant-writing consultants.

In our latest work, we show that risk estimates for patients are HUGELY uncertain due to model, data, and population uncertainty. Even for well performing models (c statistic, calibration, utility) based on large N. @laure_wynants @ESteyerberg @lasaibarrenada.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2506.17141

We now have some data on the environmental impact per AI prompt: Gemini: 0.00024 kWh & 0.26 mL water ChatGPT: 0.0003 kWh & 0.38 mL ...the same energy as one Google search in 2008 & 6 drops of water. Seems to be improving, too: Google reports a 33x drop in energy use per prompt in a year. But...

My two co-authors Michael Brownstein and Alex Madva talking about our soon-to-be-a-real-thing book _Somebody Should Do Something_ on The Philosopher's Zone podcast @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social @madva.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

If you were offered the chance to know the exact moment of your death, or indeed to *choose* it (knowing it would be definitive), would you take it? Or is there a limit to what we wish to know and to control? If so, maybe IVF treatment is approaching it: buff.ly/CXM25Tl

🚨 New, short article by myself, Clark Barrett and @kevinlala.bsky.social on the legacy of Wilson's 'Sociobiology: The New Synthesis', which was published 50 years ago. @science.org #ehbea #histbiol #evobio #psyscisky Revisiting the human sociobiology debate |Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

new working paper: osf.io/7v4zj tl;dr: taking the "marketplace of ideas" metaphor seriously requires taking the nuances of actually-existing markets seriously, which means thinking about tradeoffs between transaction costs and conformity costs. applied to misinfo and ideological belief systems.

🐱"Huemer argues that politics and not science explains the continued belief in the IAT. This is electric because one wonders how so many academics could base beliefs about bias on an unreliable and invalid test, and one that suggests that society is even more biased against men than blacks."

Ik kon het niet laten om een antwoord te schrijven op het opiniestuk in @standaard.be over "Het is tijd voor wat e-bikeschaamte" (www.standaard.be/opinies/het-...).

This is weird indeed. We can ask: what is the function of reviewers and editors? I'm not saying that they don't have a function. But I'm saying that we should start asking this question, systematically. And we should be prepared to find out that there is none.

wat een absurd slechte begeleiding krijgen onze thesisstudenten soms. En als het dan misloopt, moet de student (en niet de promotor) op de blaren zitten.

The tumble.. 😅

Lots here to enjoy, but I was particularly taken by "The President ACED it!"

As I wrote a couple years ago, systems assuming writing can act as a proof of effort, ability, or care are going to collapse and need to be reconstituted Everything from letters of recommendation to expert reports to essays to performance reviews to resumes... www.oneusefulthing.org/p/setting-ti...

AI generated podcast of the SEP entry that @andreasdeblock.bsky.social and I wrote a few years ago h/t @evanwestra.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/5fBJ...

"The four Einsatzgruppen (or mobile killing battalions), which were the vanguard of the Final Solution, had an exceptionally high proportion of university graduates among their officers."

My favourite one like this is Don Henley getting Brian to autograph a copy of Pet Sounds. Brian signed it "thanks for all the great music" then thought for a second, crossed out "great", and wrote "good"

Get it while it's hot: BJPS Associate Editor Dana Tulodziecki's (@193.bsky.social) addition to the Cambridge Elements series, Underdetermination and Theoretical Virtues, is out now and free #philsci #philsky #hps

Fukano and Soga offered an interesting reply to our piece. We then had the chance to respond in turn. Our conclusion is clear: it's time to lay the biophilia hypothesis to rest once and for all. www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

in case you’re a rich patron looking to sponsor a professorship, please think of the very talented @thomscottphillips.bsky.social And all the others should just read the story.

I very much appreciate that PhilJobs allows you to search for philosophy jobs by world region, including specifically in Antarctica. Nothing going at the moment, but keeping an eye on it just in case.

'Qui'!

Jur Deitmers, de jongen zonder gisteren, komt op 15 mei naar Leuven om samen met het publiek de filosofische vragen te verkennen rond zijn eigen fascinerende verhaal. Mis het niet. Toegang is gratis, maar registratie verplicht: ghum.kuleuven.be/LCHH/calenda...

These young journalists are digging into the world of grant consultants. If you've worked with one - or have a story to tell - get in touch!

zie ook www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pst...

Jur Deitmers, de jongen zonder gisteren, komt op 15 mei naar Leuven om samen met het publiek de filosofische vragen te verkennen rond zijn eigen fascinerende verhaal. Mis het niet. Toegang is gratis, maar registratie verplicht: ghum.kuleuven.be/LCHH/calenda...

Politici zeggen dat ze in de privé meer kunnen verdienen. De enige sectoren waarin deze lui kunnen functioneren zijn verkoper tweedehandswagens in de Borinage, specialiteit terugdraaiende kmteller en immomakelaar, afdeling karaktervolle woning met aanhorigheden en veel potentieel.

My PhD thesis is now openly available to read online :) www.repository.cam.ac.uk/items/4aedae...

Michael Brownstein, Alex Madva and I are thrilled with the cover for our book, Somebody Should Do Something The release date is 9/16, but you can do preorders now mitpress.mit.edu/978026204978... #CoverReveal #Bookstagram @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social tein.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social

weinig wetenschappers kunnen het zo helder uitleggen als @olivierhonnay.bsky.social www.demorgen.be/cs-b8722c1d/

Be skeptical of much of cutting edge science. Science often settles very slowly and a large part of what is published won’t stand the test of time (as measured in weeks or months). On this theme see my book Trust Issues. Hopefully out next year.

COLLINS: Can President Bukele weigh in on this? Do you plan to return Garcia? BUKELE: How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States? Of course I'm not going to do it. The question is preposterous TRUMP: These are sick people

At this rate MAGA will only be able to afford to rent the libs.

1. Does research by @caraocobock.bsky.social & others, widely reported in SciAm & elsewhere, finally dispel hunter-gatherer myths that have persisted since the 60's? In a preprint led by @vivek123.bsky.social The Meanings & Dividends of Man the Hunter: osf.io/preprints/os... we respond 🧵🧪

Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq

written more than ten years ago, but still very relevant. We should remove the word 'excellence' from all academic websites, funding calls, and university policy plans. www.theguardian.com/science/poli...