"I got my PhD by writing prompts instead of doing research, I'm winning" got some bad news, there still no jobs and now you also know nothing

Disgusting and awful from Sheffield Hallum, and far from the first scandalous decision they've made. The leadership team should be shamed out of ever working in the sector again.

Just fascinating to see Blair, a man whose reputation was ruined by the Iraq war, advocate joining a war that is exponentially stupider and more chaotic. How is it possible to learn nothing from the worst mistake of your life?

I’m so fucking tired of hearing about Trump every fucking day..

Matt Badloss, is it?

I wrote an essay responding to Philip Goff's recent anti-science meme. Hopefully successful in clarifying the relationship between science and philosophy, and perhaps even changing the minds of some philosophers. walterveit.substack.com/p/to-hell-wi...

'The Blue Posts, Berwick Street, Soho' by John Duffin johnduffin.co.uk

He has no idea who she is and she probably paid him for the photo opportunity. It’s a moment that’s devoid of any dignity. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Letter to the FT that stingingly sums up Brexit and the shit creek we now find ourselves in. A terrible idea (naive, prejudiced and uninformed) that has deeply divided us and left us poorer and less secure… but unwilling to face up to the damage we’ve done to ourselves. While the EU moves on.

A letter circulating online calls on Australia’s Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, to resign and is said to come from someone named Peter Singer. To be clear: if such a letter exists, it is not from me, and I do not support any call for the Prime Minister to resign.

Just published: Devin Sanchez Curry, (2025) “On IQ and other Sciencey Descriptions of Minds”, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 28. doi: doi.org/10.3998/phim...

I wrote something about analytic Philospphy, and Christoph Schuringa’s book for the Ideas Letter @stefanschubert.bsky.social @lbenardo.bsky.social www.theideasletter.org/essay/bloodl...

Tylenol’s lawyers

Terminator 2’s let himself go.

Dunning Kruger defecting to Reform is another win for nominative determinism

Brilliant.

As it’s #WorldSwiftDay here is a montage of Swift photos I’ve taken. One of the most challenging birds to capture in flight as they are super fast and turn on a sixpence. They are one of my favourite birds and I love to listen to them “ screaming” over the rooftops ❤️

JOB! 3yr funded post-doc in Theory of Mind inspired by the knowledge first epistemology of Williamson, and the work of @jsphillips.bsky.social. Looking at knowledge and ignorance processing in adults with me and Richard O'Connor at the Uni of Hull. Please re-post. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNE794/p...

Happy to share our latest study on (Un)intentionality bias in action observation! We found that people perceive ambiguous actions as intentional—especially when posture aligns with the goal. This bias shifts with schizotypal cognitive traits. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

JOB! 3yr funded post-doc in Theory of Mind inspired by the knowledge first epistemology of Williamson, and the work of @jsphillips.bsky.social. Looking at knowledge and ignorance processing in adults with me and Richard O'Connor at the Uni of Hull. Please re-post. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNE794/p...

At least we have this to look forward to…

And yes, I did go to the beach. Once.

And another....

In Thailand. Not thinking about politics or HE in the UK....

latest Craig Brown satirical diary in Private Eye

there has to be something severely wrong with you psychologically to sit there while people bull shit you like this

Finally, the correct tariff formula (from Private Eye)

Brilliant...

Once a cunt, always a cunt. Johnson, a bumbling parody who in a nasty & snide way tooled himself a political career, despite being fake & phoney. A self-aggrandizing ruling class oik who fails to understand the rest of humanity. The arse-end of a pantomime horse. Desperate and irrelevant #STFU

Good. Fuck off.

The suffering that will be unleashed on Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos is horrific. And that's not because they have "raped" America. It's because they're poor, they can't afford many US goods but they can become wealthier by exporting to rich countries.

this is gob-smacking: www.ft.com/content/e025...

prediction vs reality

When I said - 'Fuck you, Vice-president Couchfucker' I didn't even mention Vance. I meant some other random Vice-President Couchfucker.

Jeff Bezos is a dick.

Jack Reacher describing how I make PB&J sandwiches: “He spreads peanut butter on both faces before applying the jelly. Smart. Prevents the moisture in the jelly from soaking the bread. Doesn’t make a difference if you eat it right away, but if you’re saving it for later? Guy knows what he’s doing.”

When I worked in UK academia I recall hearing of a Japanese man who was baffled at how Britain had decided to run its universities like firms. “Why? Your universities are excellent and your firms are terrible.”

This one is wild...

Fuck with your dad by looking at his thermostat setting and saying "wow somebody likes being comfy"

Wow. Just listen to this from Canadian MP, Charlie Angus on Trump's tariffs: “The threat comes, of course, from the president of the United States—a convicted felon and known predator”

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It's Telegraph Logic Day.

This is well worth a read

Yep

Watching every Tory/Reformite now toadying up to Trump. Their grim sycophancy ties them to all Trump’s acts of degeneracy, to his cruelty, personal greed and ruinous prejudice. It exposes their disloyalty to us and their readiness to undermine our country and our democracy. Keep the receipts.