Computer Science is in many ways applied philosophy of language and thus—like Mathematics—not a Science at all, but more properly a practically useful branch of the Humanities.

On the other site, I once quipped that one of the best public outreach activities that historians could do was accurately maintaining Wikipedia pages. This might be more prescient nowadays…

A788.1 Falling stars as pieces of the moon.

It's done! Took me 9 months and about 30 skeins of yarn, turned out WAY bigger than planned, and weighs 3kg!

A toddler swings gently in the toddler swing in the park, and his dad swings next to him, listening attentively as his child talks animatedly.

Perfection.

I honestly had no idea he was still alive.

Please notice that Kumārila distinguishes between genuine universals (e.g., dogs, gold…), more or less equivalent to what we would call "natural types" and upādhis 'adjunct conditions', that work as universals, but are not such. An example of an upādhi is "cook" or "Taylor Swift fan". 6/

REVIEW: “Emerald Gears” by Beth Goder sffreviews.com/2025/09/28/r...

I feel like this tweet and @iss-piss-tracker.bsky.social need to meet.

REVIEW: “Out of Print” by Wen Wen Yang sffreviews.com/2025/09/26/r...

I bet you'd find this thread interesting, @amphelise.bsky.social .

Read this skeet and the one it replies to. Then guess who of the two is a data scientist working in management consultancy, and who is a university professor of computational cognitive science. #mansplaining

Awww, it's the 200th anniversary of the first passenger-bearing train trip! I do like trains. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is the man that ICE just detained. This isn't about catching criminals, it is about Ethnic cleansing www.iowapublicradio.org/news-from-np...

Talk has been delivered, and I *may* have been convinced by the audience that I don't actually need to have the existential dread underlying my motivating question, and that I CAN answer it via pragmatics rather than metaphysics (yay!). Slides: sluckelman.webspace.durham.ac.uk/wp-content/u...

Anyone who has been to more than one Borefts bierfestival knows of "guy with the windmill hat". What a wonderful thread of memories!

I got into onomastics when I was 10. I discovered in the front matter of my parents' late 1970s World Book Dictionary a list of the top 100 most popular male and female names in the US in the year of publication, and was hooked.

It already isn't. I have had a NINo for over 10 years. Never once has that been sufficient for me to establish my right to work.

Check out the comments if you need a shot of optimism today 👇

The reason I love crocheting blankets in winter is they keep you warm while you're making them!

@nealauch.bsky.social (first, how was I not already following you here yet?!) -- my kid has art homework to set up a still life in her room and photograph it from three angles. I shoved All is Vanity into her hands for inspiration. She was equal parts horrified and delighted!

REVIEW: “Yet Another Unforgettable Luncheon” by Leo Rein sffreviews.com/2025/09/24/r...

21st C parenting is your kid showing you a new crochet pattern ("isn't it cute?!") and you immediately thinking "how do I google 'how do I explain to my kid what it was like to have lived through the era when Microsoft introduced Clippy?'?"

By the time I step down as co-president of Durham UCU (not for another year!) I wonder just how many hours of meetings I will have chaired...

Casual reminder that the Tocharian B adjective meaning 'bad, evil' is yolo.

Two anecdotes from the last two days reminded me of how much of an academic I am... Monday night I was at a fancy dinner, and conversation turned to Open Days and how people present (and, for some of them, their children) chose their UG uni. I pipe up, "I was 5 when I decided what uni I'd go to."

Doctor Logic Awkwardly Does Logic What is Logic? #253: A Lemma About Possibilities youtu.be/-3_XI-pKK4s

bro is that your gyre? shit is widening my man

Happy one year anniversary to this banger tweet that got so ridiculously blown out of proportion that it got us 70k wishlists in like a day

Help, #academicsky, I'd love to cite something that covers current/recent thinking to the effect of "laziness doesn't exist, there's always another explanation for what we think is laziness", but googlescholar is giving me only questionable self-help-ish type sources.

OMG, the Logica Yearbook 2023 FINALLY has a page on the publisher's website!! www.collegepublications.co.uk/logica/?00037 This means I can hopefully finally stop pointing people to philpapers.org/rec/UCKLAL for my Logic as Liberation paper, but instead to the real volume!

Book selfie! This book (academic.oup.com/edited-volum...), which has a chapter by me on Christine Ladd-Franklin, came out awhile ago, but I'm cleaning up books in my office and realized I hadn't taken my book selfie with it yet! It's almost too heavy to hold easily one handed...

It's super cool getting a draft of a translation of one of my papers -- my "Fiction Writing as Philosophical Methodology" paper (periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/pr...) is going to be part of a volume of papers written or translated into Portuguese!

*clears throat* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

REVIEW: “The Last Items of the Forgotten Hero, or the Grandchild’s First Dragon” by Guan Un sffreviews.com/2025/09/22/r...

REVIEW: “Silence, in the Doorway, With the Gun” by Nadia Radovich sffreviews.com/2025/09/20/r...

I know it's only September, but I'm calling it -- this is my series of the year for 2025. It was just fantastic.

In 2009, a small brewery in a small Dutch town hosted a small beer festival (maybe 100-200 people). Thread. #Borefts #BoreftsBierFestival

B555 Animals serve as bridge across stream.

Be part of a vibrant academic tradition! 🌍 FoLLI is seeking hosts for #ESSLLI2027, the European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information @ESSLLI_official Bring 300+ students & researchers to your institution. Preliminary proposals by Nov 15! jakubszymanik.com/call-for-pro...

If you’re a woman working in logic, please consider checking and adding/updating your entry in this directory: womeninlogic.org/WiLSpreadshe... The more up to date it is, the better it can serve to increase our visibility, and the more comprehensive the directory is, the greater its use!

millennials are band directors now and I think that’s terrific

REVIEW: “The Body, Electric” by Lauren Kardos sffreviews.com/2025/09/14/r...

British Logic Colloquium Day 1 www.signbsl.com/sign/logic Found @saraluckelman.bsky.social

REVIEW: “No Laughter in a Vacuum” by Anna Clark sffreviews.com/2025/09/10/r...

21st C parenting: I'm off at a conference, my kid as at home, but we're both logged into Netflix and have coordinated timings via WhatsApp so we can watch an episode of Haikyu "together" via text. I love it.

REVIEW: “Textures” by Lisa Fox sffreviews.com/2025/09/08/r...

Ooh we've opened our call for small research grants. £10k for any humanities or social sciences research. Open to independent scholars. We use partial randomisation to allocate the funding: random allocation between all that meet the quality threshold www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-l...