David Hume’s tomb attacked by satanists! @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Alarmingly relevant new paper out in @apsrjournal.bsky.social by Turku Isiksel and @tompepinsky.com. They take on the question of whether citizens of authoritarian states should vote in their often unfair elections, & find reason to do so. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The Dept of Energy (DoE) overhauled a set of nuclear safety directives and shared them with the companies it regulates, without making the new rules available to the public. The changes affect various aspects of reactor operations, including saf... TAT: [Attacking Science | Controlling Information]

AAAS voting ballots should've arrived in your inbox today. Lots of #HPS scholars on the ballot, including @jordicat.bsky.social & @bhgross144.bsky.social Donald Opitz & Mary Susan Lindee. Voting open through February 2nd.

“Science-speak” has invaded the fashion, beauty, and food industries—even as actual science has come under considerable threat, @elcush.bsky.social argues. She explores the rise of faux-scientific jargon:

At the AAAS Annual Meeting in Phoenix on February 14th join us at 1pm for annual Sarton Lecture on "America's Cold War Science Experiment," by Dr. Jacob Darwin Hamblin of Oregon State University, which explores the history of federal support for science since WWII. #HPS 🗃️ @historyscience.bsky.social

Reminder that years ago it was found out that the FBI straight up made up a whole bunch of fake forensic sciences, plural. People have gone to jail and been executed due to literally pseudoscience. Hair forensics, for instance, is totally nonsense. They admitted it. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Obituaries reveal shifting cultural values across time and place. Here’s what psychology researchers found when they sifted through 38 million published from 1998 to 2024 buff.ly/oTAueW7

The missing episode of Netflix's House of Guinness reason.com/2025/12/01/o...

“We are sold the myth that the language of legality is preferable to the language of morality because it is impartial and fixed. But as this whole dispute makes plain, that is least apt to be true precisely when it matters most.” Joseph Margulies on Trump’s murders in the Caribbean:

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🎥 Watch the Lakatos Award Lecture 2025 by Mazviita Chirimuuta on "Apocalyptic Technology: #AI and the Limits of #Science" Mazviita Chirimuuta received the award for her book “The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience” www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KkX...

Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other. Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq

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Just published: our introduction to the history of peer review in the humanities! (with Marie-Gabrielle Verbergt) link.springer.com/article/10.1...

While AI earbuds promise to eliminate language barriers for tourists, researchers say true language learning offers far more: creative thinking, deeper cultural understanding and access to communities you can't reach through a translator.

Valuing vs value. Sometimes shared valuing is more valuable than a shared value.

Science research is increasingly privatized, especially away from academic settings. What does it mean for the survival of research in the humanities, especially within academia? At the mercy of private funding and no less discretionary government interests? Can it survive outside academia at all?

Much analysis of the recent election results appear to assume that citizens/voters represent political parties rather than the other way around. Party dynamics remains, however, the same: parties represent themselves, their own interests, which often do not overlap with those of voters.

The open access pdf has been out for a while but so much more exciting to hold the physical book in my hands!

It's Nobel Prize week! A good time to remember that the economics prize was created by Swedish bankers in 1968 (67 years after the 5 original Nobel prizes) against the wishes of the Nobel family, partly to legitimize neoclassical economics in the public eye and partly to help banks avoid regulation.

More by Friedrich Georg Jünger in 1942

The First Amendment shields protesters, critics and even offensive voices (even at funerals).. It doesn’t protect threats, incitement or defamation. A legal scholar explains the line:

Updated, capitalist, technological and extra-terrestrial Orwellian farm rebellion in Alien: Earth.

Dark times under bright lights. Dark times in broad daylight.

#PhilJobs Dept Philosophy @ Stanford University AOS: Philosophy of Physics (understood broadly to include all physical sciences, complexity, etc.), Philosophy of Science AOC: Open Open rank: tenure-track Assistant Prof, tenured Associate Prof, or Full Prof Deadline: November 1 #PhilSci #philsky

'What differentiates Switzerland and the United states is the beneficiaries of the [fallout] shelters: the population in the case of Switzerland, the government leaders in the case of the United States. Switzerland's goal is to make certain it can enact "legal equality"

Don't require or expect logical consistency where the relevant virtues are practical consistency and effectiveness.

'the 1959 invention of CPR as an instance of why the United States –and by implication, every other country– should continue to support universities.' Elaine Scarry, Thinking in an Emergency (2011)

Proust in Venice, 1900

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NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! Today David talks to @leaypi.bsky.social about her new book 'Indignity: A Life Reimagined'. A conversation about death and displacement, identity and betrayal, secrecy and salvation. Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! Today’s episode in Politics on Trial is about the most famous trial in literature and one that never actually takes place. David talks to writer and literary scholar Ian Ellison about Franz Kafka’s The Trial, first published in 1925. Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com