Went into 2025 with no new year's resolutions, didn't have a great year. So in 2026, I resolve to fix my entire life and all my failures as a person, though I suspect that won't work out either. It's a dialectic approach, I expect it will all come together in 2027

the secret to overcoming writer's block is to despair for a few hours and then eventually write for 15 minutes

So you think you're a depressed overachiever, but did you even know there's a ranking?

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

One of my favourite things I learned this year is that the local nature conservation organisation keeps a list of particularly kind duck mums that will adopt orphaned ducklings. I have a sneaking suspicion that these duck mums may just be bad at counting, but it's adorable either way.

you'll be fine if you've read the origin story "Naming and Necessity"

I love the metaphors in popular science writing. I'm now imagining all kinds of molecules as messy polygamous divorces with nuclei fighting over their shared electron children (from this article: www.sciencealert.com/physicists-h..., it's not new but still very cool)

Yes! I helped run a grassroots mutual aid fund for multiply marginalised trans people in the pandemic, many of them homeless or disabled. People in dire need, but unlikely to help an immigration case. It feels sick to force people into a position where that would even be a consideration.

Many people are clearly struggling, and the response is essentially "we will review the numbers, so hopefully we can tell at least some of them to just suck it up" instead of "how can we help them?" www.bbc.com/news/article...

It was the best of all possible worlds, it was the worst of all possible worlds

uhhh, what the hell?!

Definitely not the most profound, but a piece of writing advice I think of almost every day is "think of each paragraph as a mini-essay"

I'm SO tempted to use "Lacking Substance" as a title for my thesis (on the philosophy of chemical kinds and chemical structure)

So much in the world would be so different if men could just be normal about women.

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Bertrand Russell: I spent months staring at a blank piece of paper.

This is why billionaires should not own the media. @teenvogue.com had become a fantastic site for fresh perspectives on social justice and well-researched political journalism. Now, it belongs to Jeff Bezos and the entire politics staff has been fired.

KPop* Demon Hunters *Karl Popper's

I thought about thermodynamics for too long and it's making me want to learn more maths 😭

Making people hate you so much they prep an eviscerating obituary for you just so this can be published after their own death is next level, truly

Philosophers: "everyone wants to hear my opinion (no citations)"

Teaching a philosophy seminar feels like an elaborate magic trick, where you get people to talk and ask questions, and if you pull it off, a learning outcome seems to appear out of thin air

if you’re a researcher into extremism, conspiracism and disinformation but you feel you’re above “distractions” like racism, misogyny, anti-queer ideologies etc, then you’re not actually doing the job. unfortunately those are animating forces behind the movements you’re supposed to be analyzing!

bro are you a homeostatic property cluster? because you are naturally kind

This is great news. An institution that prides itself in creating an excellent environment for education and personal growth for some should not be invested in taking this right away from others forever, whether through wars, occupation, or the climate crisis. I hope others will follow this example!

EU friends -please sign and share this! especially if you're in the countries mentioned!

Ethics people and puzzle enthusiasts, I need help. A puzzle I bought at the charity shop is missing a piece, do I re-donate it, knowing full well that someone might have an unsatisfying experience but maybe helping dying children a little, or do I throw it out?

Brb, I just need to stare at the ceiling for a little while

Exciting news! My paper "Can Chemical Substances Be Natural?" is out now doi.org/10.1080/0002... #philsky #philosophy #philsci #chemistry

Does it make any practical difference whether I choose a CC-BY or CC-BY-NC-ND copyright licence for publishing a philosophy paper? Which one would you recommend? #academicsky #academicchatter #philsky

Academic publishing is such a scam. Babe I just wrote you a chapter for free and now I am also ... copy editing it for free. And I will make zero monies from this. Cool cool cool cool. Well at least the book will be affordable and lots of people can read it? Wait I am getting some information...

Me hedging judiciously for every conceivable objection: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Me navigating an illegible verbal labyrinth of my own doing: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

Letting drunk people play around with explosives eve went great in Berlin, nothing to see here

Couldn't be me. If your paper has a fun title, I'll find a reason to cite you

I bought a pretty advent calendar but sadly discovered that the pictures inside are clearly AI. Instead of a whimsical advent tradition I'm getting a daily reminder that artists everywhere are being replaced by AI slop. AI christmas is here and it's snow inside houses and deer that make no sense

Sorry we’re not riding at dawn. We’re having coffee and catastrophizing the day at dawn. Then we’re doing Wordle. Then we’re doing 35 minutes of doomscrolling, then we’re taking the longest hottest shower, then we’re sitting on the edge of the bed staring at nothing for a while, THEN maybe we ride.

Students should study the humanities not because it makes them better workers but because it rips you open and breaks your brain and changes everything you thought you knew. I *promise* you this. I *promise* it has this ability, no matter how smart you think you are. I have seen it countless times.

Somebody had to do it! Here's a History of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS) Starter Pack. Reply or DM if you want to be added to or subtracted from the list! I tried my best, but there are certainly many HOPOI whom I missed. #hopos #philsky #philosophy #philsci #hps #histsci go.bsky.app/47TTJCm

Philosophers doing their little thought experiments

New life hack: using dictation to write motivational statements, because explaining how great I am is so much easier when I can do it in a sarcastic voice

Nothing beats the rush of submitting a project proposal seconds before the deadline

Received a review saying that analytic philosophy is not relevant for addressing issues in the real world. Just wanted to pass this on in case any of you are also still doing analytic philosophy, I guess we're gonna have to change the whole approach

Friends, the time has come, I'm looking for a PostDoc. If you hear of any positions (ideally in Europe/UK, starting next fall) that could be a good fit for a philosopher of chemistry, let me know! I'd love to branch out and collaborate across disciplines. #philsci #philsky

My new paper on the notion of chemical substance is out now! doi.org/10.1007/s106... #philsci #philsky

trying to write a paper

Who needs drugs to fry their brain when a PhD gives you ✨sleep deprivation✨ that damages your brain at no added cost

The way scientists use the word model sure is adventurous sometimes #philsci

Why do so many people, including scientists and philosophers, tend to assume that extra small (preferably invisible) things are somehow extra explanatory? #philsci #philsky

"Universities were invented in Europe in the twelfth century as a convenient way to get annoying people to go yell at each other somewhere other than the local cathedral." 💯

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