If you're looking for illustrations for "AI", don't use robots, glowing disembodied brains, or computer code in empty space. Here are a some alternative suggestions:

REVIEW: “The Penitent” by M.J. Klimmek sffreviews.com/2025/11/15/r...

Who knew that Melville was, fundamentally, an optimist.

We are launching a new Winter Coat Swap at Orkney Library & Archive. If you have any winter coats you no longer need we'd be delighted to have them. We're looking for coats to fit any age and size, adult or child, as long as they are in good, clean condition ready for wearing. 🧥 #GreenLibraries

REVIEW: “Crabs Don’t Scream” by H.H. Pak sffreviews.com/2025/11/13/r...

My jaw dropped, I googled and found www.bbc.com/news/article..., shared it with my husband, and his response was: I don't think that's legal. Doesn't this require an act of Congress?!

any translation publishers out there willing to share how many pitches they receive a year on average?

So louche.

Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. " www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

Today I tried to offer two of my students the mnemonic for distinguishing φ from psi by remembering that ψ looks like a trident, like Poseidon has, and Poseidon sounds (sort of) like ψ, and utterly failed when I realized that, having grown up in China, they weren't familiar w/ Greek myth details!

I've managed to get SO many of these done this week (especially if you count the non-work ones I did while hunkered down at a bowling alley for two hours Sunday afternoon while G had her birthday party. Nearly caught up on reviewing the books I've read this year!). Like, 13 of them! It feels good.

G and I are watching Typhoon Family (because one of the OST songs is by Han from Stray Kids...). It's set in 1997/1998, and she's finding the "olden times" setting fascinating. The idea of pagers somewhat baffles her.

Ooooh, I want to read this! (This is one of the things I LOVE about bsky/twitter-like ecosystems. Random fascinating research papers on topics I don't really know anything about -- but I will know *something* more by the time I'm done reading them!)

We are excited to announce the next talk in the seminar series "Women in Logic Online" by @elainepimentel.bsky.social! TITLE: Classical Versus Constructive: An Ecumenical Approach Date: Wed, November 26, 2025, 17:00 CEST Venue: Zoom You can register for free at tuwien.zoom.us/webinar/regi....

We're a bit behind on holidays here in the Uckelhaus, but time is conventional anyway so we're not going to let "dates" or "calendars" stop us. G carved her pumpkin tonight. I was NOT expecting her to be able to do this SO well!

Cool. Client is happy with tattoo design. This will be a wraparound neck piece. I bet the finished tattoo will look even better.

Had an amazing weekend -- went to a film festival (in York, England) where a documentary I took part in was being premiered. (Voice Shift -- about various trans femmes journeys with their voice.) it's a weird experience seeing yourself on a large cinema screen.

REVIEW: “Daisies for Going Out, Pansies to Return Home” by Amy Power Jansen sffreviews.com/2025/11/09/r...

The bargain I make with myself when I watch historical Thai costume dramas is that I have to promise to just NOT LOOK AT THE COLLARS (which are all manifestly machine sewn on), and then I won't spoil my enjoyment.

I'm "at" my kid's birthday party today, in the sense that I am in the same venue as the party, but as far away from the partyers as I can be. This is a first for me. This is ALSO the first time boys have been invited since we stopped doing all-class invitations. I guess this is what 14 will be like!

I received an employment reference request the other day that asked me to comment on the applicant's _appearance_. I'm surprised this is even legal. I put "n/a".

I talked to the @unibonn.bsky.social magazine forsch about perfectionism, the Middle Ages, and why we could do with more creativity in scholarship. This is the English translation. www.uni-bonn.de/en/universit...

REVIEW: “Conveyance” by Isobel Mackenzie sffreviews.com/2025/11/05/r...

Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.

We are speccing out a new laptop for me, and we'd just about decided on something when I asked to look at the keyboard. Good thing I did, because it's not the same as what I currently have: It moves \ above and to the right, and replaces its spot with a longer "enter" key.

Deaf and Deaf-adjacent folks, I need some help. I have a student who needs to hire a writing coach that specialises in helping folks who are primarily ASL speakers write in English. Where do I look to find one who is able to assist with dissertation-level academic writing? Does anyone know someone?

Are you a marginalized author (or the editor/agent/publicist of one) who has a trad pub book coming out in 2026 that is science fiction, fantasy, or horror and either adult or young adult? This book critic wants to know about it! Small press strongly encouraged. bookjockeyalex.com/contact/

"...by reason of the traditionally posited rule: 'whatever mobilizes the immobilized immobilizes the mobilized'." (Taken out of context, Buridan sounds like he's suddenly talking about labor organisation, and not formal logic...)

Poor reading outcomes in 13yos? Surely the ONLY possible reason for this is that they aren't tested enough, not, say, lack of funding to schools so they can recruit sufficient and sufficiently qualified staff... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Doctor Logic Awkwardly Does Logic What is Logic? #254: Defining the Canonical Model www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XJo...

As we come to the end of our @edicaucus.bsky.social funded 'Divergent Minds in the Archive' project, we're delighted to invite you to 'Accessing Archives and Collections: Disability, Neurodivergence, Chronic Illness' - a free online symposium on 17th and 18th November. 1/n

Well shit. I think my laptop keyboard has died. So much for my "from 10:30-4:00 I only have one meeting, I'll get so much done!" productivity plan for today...

Well, this one's coming along nicely!

Not one but TWO of my meetings today finished 25 minutes early!! This is amazing.

I FOUND THE BOOK WITH THE ORB

REVIEW: “Top Five Places to Worship Him, Most Terrible” by L. Fox sffreviews.com/2025/10/26/r...

UK HE friends, colleagues, and followers... Does your university have an "admissions tutor"? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Baking was critical to the Lower Kingdom. It allowed the stationing of large forces to counter tribal raids into the fertile Nile region. Bread production on that scale required advanced yeast filtering through linen bags. If hadn't been for cotton-tied dough, they'd been harried long time ago.

Thinking fondly of a girl I asked out in high school who, not wanting to be mean, explained to me the distinction between "dating" and actually going on a date. We "dated" without actually going out for like 2 weeks then she broke up with me. Anyway I hope she became an analytic philosopher.

Ahhh, Ladyhawke! A movie which made such a big impression on me as a child that in volume 1 (out of a planned 4) of my sequel to The Lord of the Rings was named "Navar".

It is customary to begin with Jonathan Edwards, but Mather is over 60 years his predecessor.

Truth was born in 1800.

Happy birthday Cow Tools! Here’s Gary Larson explaining how it made him “want to crawl into a hole somewhere and die”

"Happy Paper Submitted (And It's Even Three Days Before the Deadline!)" Day!

I just heard C. S. Peirce described as "the first American philosopher". What a strange claim! (I don't think it was the speaker's own definition, they were quoting others, but: What kind of view of philosophy must you have to think it didn't exist in America until the 19th C?!)

Bugger, I have an abstract to write. I hate writing abstracts.

This was such a great talk. More than a decade ago (when G was not quite a year old so I was still finding my research feet again after maternity leave), I gave a talk on Possible Impossibilities in Medieval Logic, which I've always wanted to revisit and turn into a proper paper.

Back in the late twelfth century Al-Baghdadi saw your post about how ancient aliens built the pyramids and is embarrassed for you.