How is this ok?? I know Academia.edu has been annoying lately, but, really? Turning academic papers into comics? And without consent? Or maybe it’s just a dishonest clickbait subject line. #academicsky #ai

Sometimes academics get email notifications for conferences or workshops that, when shown only partially, sound like very different sorts of events. #academicsky

PSA for undergrads & grad students: never ever lose your notes from college and/or grad school. Keep 'em in a vault. Keep 'em in an undying shared folder. Years later you might want--or need!--those notes. If you can't find them, you'll rend your garments & gnash your teeth. #highered #academicsky

A sequence of events: handed back exams at the end of class; considered eating banana; applied hand sanitizer first; learned immediately that multiple fingers suffered paper cuts from handing back exams. 😑 #academicsky

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Pandora sphinx moth! Ran into this fantastic moth at a medical center. Just chillin on the window, looking awesome. #entomology

Is it just me, or is Adobe Acrobat becoming dreadful? Typically I use other PDF readers, but I needed Acrobat for something. Upon opening it, multiple additional window frames pop up, one by one (not simult.), pushing me to use AI assistance, AI summaries, etc. I just want to print! #academicsky #ai

Looks like a flooded road might be coming up in 1.8 miles? (If you know, you know.) #philsky #academicsky

Is there new, groundbreaking research showing that using headphones or earbuds will cause one’s head to melt, or immediate infertility, or one’s appendages to fall off? I’m trying to understand why so many people (not just young) are playing videos aloud on their phones in public. #academicsky

It is UK publication day for "The Magic Kingdom and the Meaning of Life" (from @politybooks.bsky.social). I guess it's a strange time for a book about Disney to arrive in the world, but this project means a lot to me, and I'm really proud of it. www.wiley.com/en-ie/The+Ma...

Interested in the ethics of AI-generated art? Check out this short video on the awesome work my undergrad research advisee, Ashley Li, has been doing at @wakeforest.bsky.social! (There's a bit in there about my work, but Ashley's the star of this show!) #aiethics #ai #academicsky

Getting some love from the @wakeforest.bsky.social news folks, about my interview on the Deacs.AI podcast! #aiethics #academicsky

I mentioned Descartes's dualism as an unrelated aside during a day on logic in my moral problems course. After class, a student asked me to recommend a good translation of Descartes. I emailed him this photo. This week, he brought his new copy to class to show me. Life is good. #philsky #academicsky

Concerned about AI in higher ed & society? Or excited? Or somewhere in the middle? You might find my interview on the Deacs.AI podcast interesting! We talk about AI in higher ed, AIs & consciousness, robot rights, AI friends, and more. #aiethics #academicsky #ai

Wake Forest neuroscientist Kenneth T. Kishida has been named a Wells Fargo Faculty Scholar. His research measuring brain chemistry in real time is transforming how we understand decision-making and mood. #ProHumanitate #WFUResearch https://wakefo.rest/3K3aI8F

Plato has Laches express well why doing philosophy can be hard: "I am really getting annoyed at being unable to express what I think... I still think I know what [X] is, but I can’t understand how it has escaped me just now so that I can’t pin it down in words and say what it is.” #philsky

Love this: just got a note from a former student--from a class 3 yrs ago!--wanting to chat about Bostrom's simulation argument & current agentic AI systems. Another part of the job that I love! What's the simulation argument? See link! #aiethics #philsky #academicsky simulation-argument.com/matrix/

Bonkerstown. $100 chicken nuggets meal at the #USOpen www.cbsnews.com/amp/newyork/...

Today is no ordinary Monday. It’s Mega-Monday: when the 1st day of college classes falls on a Monday, and a kiddo’s doc appt. Thus, in accordance with the laws of the universe, when I tried to start my car this morning, it broke massively. The sound of the fabric of spacetime imploding. #academicsky

Rougher seas ahead for CS students… 😕 #academicsky #computerscience www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/t...

I assured the student that I’m indeed alive, not dead. 😁 (I also told the student that I’ve done he same typo myself, even in a few grad school cover letters!) #academicsky

Welp, congrats, North Carolina DMV system. You’re actually worse than the California DMV system. That’s tough to do.

That feeling when you’re like so totally prepared for that podcast interview, and you’re pumped about it despite being stressed about putting off some semester prep for it… and then you realize, one hour before the interview, that the interview is next week. Not winning today. 😆🤦‍♂️ #academicsky

Please don't throw your pets to the wolves... er... tigers or whatever. apnews.com/article/denm...

Feeling this hard today. #AcademicSky

Cool, but chill. Profs, keep in mind: this is an optional mode, so students must themselves be motivated to learn deeply *in spite of* powerful incentives leading away from learning deeply. So, before assigning this, ask whether students will actually use this mode & if you can verify. #academicsky

1/3 One of my undergraduate mentors, emeritus professor Stephen Daniel at Texas A&M University, has passed away. Dr. D, as we undergrads affectionately referred to him, was a wonderful teacher, scholar, and person. ... dailynous.com/2025/07/10/s... #philsky @tamu.bsky.social

Watched F1: The Movie over Independence Day weekend with my daughter. Best classic American-style fun movie since Top Gun: Maverick. Worth seeing. (Since movie popcorn is $11, you bet your bottom I got that free refill for us afterwards!)

New publication in sports ethics & philosophy of games. What are cheap tactics in esports (eg, camping, spamming, etc)? I develop an account of cheapness and clarify the moral grounds for complaints about cheapness. philpapers.org/rec/FLACTI #philsky #esports #videogames #sportsethics #sportsethics

My son bought me this Fortnite skin: Peelosopher Bananocrates. This. Is. Amazing. I need more professor-y skins. #fortnite #academicsky #philsky

Very sad to hear that @helendecruz.net passed away today. dailynous.com/2025/06/20/h...

A storm as it rolled in tonight. #weather #storm

1/2 Y'know, you'd be forgiven for thinking these AI companies are *trying* to undermine higher ed. To be clear: I don't believe that's the intent. But *obviously* they target students. Context: I was looking up a reference, and Google hit me with this big pop up. #aiethics #academicsky #highered

Just ran across this kinda epic Google review of a local Asian grocery store. (I’m hunting for fresh holy basil or Thai basil, but finding this review was cool, too.) #groceries

Ran into Tally, the grocery store inventory-checking robot at Martin’s in South Bend, IN. (Sorry about the overly quick video. Simone was coming and I felt weird recording it!) Will post in the comments a news segment about Tally in another grocery store.) #robots #aiethics #robotethics

When you’re trying to record your lecture videos, but the construction workers outside intermittently drill, then tag in the people honking car horns to pick up summer camp kids, and they repeat the process, repeat, repeat, repeat. #academicsky #highered #teaching

I'm excited to be a part of this meeting tomorrow! I'll be talking about how to think about honest/dishonest actions with deepfakes. #philsky #aiethics #techethics #academicsky #ethics

Dang! @ncstate.bsky.social’s bookBot, a robotic library storage & retrieval system on their engineering campus, is very cool. Maybe a good way to, y’know, actually continue to store physical books in a library? Would like to know more about this robotic system! #academicsky #robotethics #techethics

“Deepfakes and Dishonesty” | Philosophy & Technology So great to see the print version! Available open access here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Always nice to get little sketches and thank you notes on final exams #academicsky

Had a blast competing in the Super Smash Bros tourney with our awesome @wakeforest.bsky.social students at the We Play Together event this weekend. Didn't get far, but I won a set against a strong player! 😆 Fun being the only prof in the comp. wakethearts.wfu.edu/we-play-toge... #SSBU #academicsky

Uh oh. I just thought, "Hmm, maybe I'll rearrange the chairs in my office." I did. Standing back a bit, I thought, "Naw, that's worse", and I had the immediate mental impulse to, quite literally, hit Cmd+Z to undo it. Then I felt disappointment that I couldn't. Then I laughed at myself. #academicsky

It's cool when a student stops by just to say she's finished reading a philosophy book you didn't even assign. Early in the semester, I assigned the virtue ethics chapter of Mike Schur's "How to Be Perfect". This student went & read the rest of the book! #philsky #academicsky #ethics a.co/d/iMeKfug

Being a philosopher is totally hazardous. Like Thales, who reportedly fell in a well while lost in thought. Completely unrelated PSA: when using double doors, be sure to push open the same door you’re attempting to walk through. 🤦‍♂️ #academicsky #philsky www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?...

One of my students remarked cheerfully, during a group podcast on animal ethics: "…he’s trying to put us in the lobster’s shoes. I never thought I’d be in college trying to think like a lobster!” Excellent. 😁 They read DFW's "Consider the Lobster". www.columbia.edu/~col8/lobste... #philsky #ethics

Funny: a publisher that sends me occasional marketing emails just emailed me, saying I haven't accepted their updated privacy policy! And if I don't, I won't continue to receive their marketing emails! Uh. Ok, cool. #academicsky (Also, they offered me a discount if I'll accept the new policy. 😄)

Halfway thru @togelius.bsky.social's new book on AGI. So far, a super smooth & enjoyable intro to AGI but also AI in general. (Been reading while proctoring exams. 😄) Worth it for more seasoned folks, too. Prob will make my CS-bound teen read it! #ai #academicsky mitpress.mit.edu/978026254934...

Nostalgia drove me to buy and drink a bottle of Yoo-hoo today. And y’know what? It was pretty great, precisely as I’d remembered it. Of course, my adult mind is now aware of the ways in which it isn’t awesome.

Hey academics, any of you users of both Mac & Skim PDF? Esp. if it's a part of your research process/workflow? I use these lots, often aided by custom Applescripts and Keyboard Maestro macros, and it'd be cool to be in touch/share with academics doing similar things. #academicsky #philsky #highered

Congrats to my flippin’ awesome colleague, Emily Austin! It’s a kick-butt award! Buy the book! It’s worth your time. #philsky #academicsky @wakeforest.bsky.social