The Isle of Arran from Seamill Beach on the Clyde Coast. One of the wonderful things about living in Glasgow is how close we are to some rather stunning countryside. Cont./ #glasgow #seamillbeach #arran #scotland #beach

A three way fight between medievalist conservatives, bureaucratic enlightenment modernisers, and Romantic idealists results in a compromise no one quite wanted but also is drives a huge portion of innovation and technical advance in the modern world. Fascinating! asteriskmag.com/issues/10/th...

Mathematicians are still scratching their heads about precisely how GPT-5.4 Pro came up with its proof. Terence Tao read a log of its "thinking", and wrote this analysis: www.erdosproblems.com/forum/thread... (3/n, n = 3)

I’ll never forget watching The Wicker Man with my outer Hebridean mum. “I just don’t know where there got all that wicker from”

The time for chaos with Ed Miliband may soon be upon us

#sophiefromromania’s favourite thing is helping with washing up

here is a manatee named Ayurami who lives at the Dallas World Aquarium with her best friend, a log

there are many photos of Gilbert Ryle, but this one captures his dispositions best

It is wild to be doing philosophy of maths at a time where strange and new things are happening! This week "GPT-5.4 Pro (prompted by Price)" solved Erdős problem 1196, a conjecture of Erdős, Sárközy, and Szemerédi. www.erdosproblems.com/forum/thread...

Exactly one year ago today:

imagine trying to sustain a serious intellectual culture in the midst of this

bluesky is a deontologist smh

The gardens by the philosophy dept looking particularly nice today

Exactly a year since this slightly surreal moment...

one of my many toxic traits is that when a cat meows at me I'll often say "I know" even though I have absolutely no idea what they're saying and I am simply trying to be agreeable

obviously it isn't the most socially destructive genre of AI video but I do think AI cat videos are the most spiritually destructive. cat videos exist to remind us of the wondrous chaos of the universe

Mehrangarh, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India

Poor Sleep Linked To Gong https://theonion.com/poor-sleep-linked-to-gong/

I will not be ragebaited. I will instead look skyward. Condense my rage into a whisper. And simply ask: “To what end?”

looks like they're being processed after getting arrested for trying to steal some super cheap cider from a mini tesco's

Turtle hatchling release at Pangumbahan Beach, Indonesia, involving the release of endangered green sea turtle hatchlings. IG: malasabuzzhub

As a woman, I offer my sympathies to the Pope who is now being told hourly by very many random men what he actually means

Tach Khaouli Palace, Khiva, Uzbekistan

Kaneda Kazuo- Cat on Peach Tree

If you're looking for the clown, he's two storm drains over

This is NUTS www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-usai...

NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health. 'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:

Train Watchers have had it too good for too long. The British state needs to put them back in their place

Also if you see they’ve been hanging around for a long time doesn’t that mean *you’ve* been hanging around for a long time?

It has been a lifelong dream to be chaired by Coffee itself

And as I'm making my round in the supermarket, I see that <someone is making a mess>, bad philosophy papers strewn across the floor. I follow the trail of bad philosophy papers, I end up in the same place as I started, even more of a mess on the floor now. I realise <I am making a mess>.

heading over to tiktok to talk about accuracymaxxing and finally make analytic philosophy cool

yes, uk train travel is extremely uncomfortable, profoundly stressful, and unfailingly delayed, but at least it’s also eyewateringly expensive

Nooo why would he be called the 'edible' dormouse 😭 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europea...

take which some people consider bad but which I know to be true: Lawvere theories are no more "syntax-free" than the usual algebraic theories.

i wonder whether vance might care to come and stump for reform a bit?

Ruby-crowned Kinglet very active with the other Kinglets at the Pool, Central Park, NYC markscheflen.com #birds #bird #rubycrownedkinglets #centralparknyc #biodiversity #birdseenin2026 #birdphotography

OUP tells me I should share this. And publicise my book. So here it goes. Please read my book. It has a pretty cover. It's cheap (for an academic book) and you can have this discount! Also please review it, somewhere fancy if possible!

Does Oxford University have a problem with Sticky Toffee Pudding?

gottlob frege, linguistic trendsetter

Edinburgh Castle and Rainbow :) #moody #urbanphotography #photography #edinburgh #scotland

first in my bloodline to see someone get excommunicated by a community note

TIL despite the opening sentence of “Reasons and Persons”, Derek Parfit did in fact *not* own a cat.

Almost certainly the best thing I was ever told about owls was when I met an owl handler at an owl sanctuary and he told me that the wild owls who lived near the sanctuary worried about the tame show owls there and sometimes stopped by to leave them shrews and mice as presents.