oh hell yeah youtu.be/nGZOFyLrCwk?...

Ted Chiang: "In the here and now, a philosophical question might be strictly theoretical, but in the world of a science fiction story, it could have practical consequences. That means there could be inhabitants of that world for whom the answer to that question is hugely important."

boy it's a shame Ted Lasso turned into sentimental pap in its second season, because a show about somebody trying to be good while running a football club would be genuinely interesting.

How did Taiwan quietly become the world's top buyer of a Russian oil product, despite Taiwan’s opposition to Russia’s war in Ukraine?

I've introduced a mid-class dance break for my students at Parami university, because sitting in front of Zoom dulls the spirit. And today's track of choice was the brilliant Sauljaljui, with Power跳起來. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo7m...

"Patients will still be able to receive and donate organs, but many internal oversight functions will stop while the government remains closed"

In our grand age of generative AI, faculty development centers should help people develop some retro skills. Like, I have no idea how to write good true/false and multiple choice questions anymore. It would be helpful to get some heuristics.

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

This is a cool paper “chemical synapses have a major role in brain rhythms…post-synaptic neural firing requires rhythmic action of populations of neurons…waves of ion fluctuations in the chemical soup surrounding the neurons are important” #neurosky @pessoabrain.bsky.social @earlkmiller.bsky.social

This is the squad that might play the quarterfinals at home.

I'm really excited about the ethics bowl movie. However, I would recommend that the fees be indexed to something like endowment per student. What seems like a small fee for, say, Princeton is not a small fee for us! etherealfilms.org/order-reques...

It's not just that they're going to strike down a law against conversion therapy, it's that they're going to do it on behalf of made-up claims from a straw plaintiff who can't honestly show the law affected her at all

George Orwell’s Animal Crossing

I know this might further contribute to my increasing professional irrelevance, but I think I have to expand my journal boycott from Springer and Elsevier journals to Wiley journals too. It's all rather terrible.

Anticipating changes to the 25/26 Covid-19 vaccine regulations @sefyfe.bsky.social & I updated our previous analysis of off-label pediatric Covid-19 vaccination. It is out now in @jamapediatrics.com & accessible here. Many things happened since we submitted this! I'll touch on a few of them 🧵

(ps. Here's the data if you don't believe me. The median small family farmer in the US is a millionaire with a 6-figure income. Yes, after you take out farm debts & expenses.)

They did have Matt Beard as part of the team earlier, so EGS isn’t the first philosopher they’ve had. I agree it’s very fun philosophy for kids. www.case.org/dr-matt-beard

Our kids independently (I swear, we didn't even know about it) discovered that Australian Broadcasting Company philosophy for kids podcast called Short & Curly a couple of years ago. Even though the hosts weren't philosophers, the content seemed quite good. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

She’s still out here ✌️

proud of my dept

oh look the fears of everyone who understands data privacy are valid

Nice post from @nescio13.bsky.social on why academic freedom is not freedom of speech. crookedtimber.org/2025/10/01/a...

Tacoma Public Library celebrating the arts—especially hip hop—by promoting a book that argues hip pop culture made him beat his girlfriend.

Should I reply all to let my child's teacher know that he should not be sending emails to all parents without bcc?

🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨

Here I was talking about the consequences of the changes in classifications (and who was labelled as belonging in them) for conceptualising biological studies. Our discussion focused on the use of such classifications in microbiome research.

Very excited to be presenting new work at the University of Puget Sound at the end of the month!

Feels like a natural experimental philosophy of medicine project: is “addictive” an inherently normative term? (My guess: yes.)

I just couldn't stop thinking about how weird sperm whale mouths are and yet how perfectly shaped for inserting giant squid into

Here is an increasingly popular position that I hope the poll-centric politicians will take up.

I tell you a lot about myself in this post, but it's in service of discussing #Taiwan's healthcare system.

we should bring back shame actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

Buckle is just correct about reactionary centrists in the UK, they are a genuine threat to our democracy and will have us down the same path as the USA. Seeing how much of the authoritarian drive in the US has been due to elite acquiescence has shaken me. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

This workshop on perspectives with many of my favorite philosophers and psychologists is going to be incredible! (with sessions on rational polarization, perspective-taking, collective attention, and folk psychology)

A former philosophy major at Columbia, kidnapped by ICE last April but then released, is back in court owing to a government appeal of the decision that freed him.

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

Life satisfaction mostly declines with age. Previous findings (esp. the famous U-shaped age-SWB trajectory) were artifacts of misspecified models. doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

yeah they're just murdering random people on these boats

The bees have discovered Brutalism

Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.

Guys I am freaking out. The subway design is mine!!

It really is an amazing speech

Sex dolls: the Evolutionary Psychologist’s electrode

I have a forthcoming paper in Phil Imprint! It's an attempt to reconstruct Suhrawardī’s theory of imagination. Please admire the insane Figure 1 (it took me hours!!). philpapers.org/rec/HADIAI

Netanyahu had fewer attendees than an 8am panel at the MLA.

"In the early days of the war, Reuters shared with the Israeli military locations of its teams in Gaza... to try to ensure they would not be targeted...But after many journalists were killed in IDF strikes, Reuters stopped giving precise coordinates." www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Forced assimilation: A crucial instrument of genocide past & present; in Nazi Europe and East Turkestan. I compare Xi Jinping's forced assimilation (Sinicization) as genocide of Uyghurs and others, with the very similar Germanization of Czechs in Nazi-Occupied Europe. sinopsis.cz/en/comparing...

wrote something about disagreeable speech. find it here theopinionpages.com/2025/09/thou...