Just 1 example of the kind of thing unis are getting for their massive spend on consultants. ANU spent $6k on a "non-significant meeting" with a reputation management firm at which apparently no one took a note. That's more than a tutor gets for a semester's work thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

OpenAI ”acknowledged in its own research that LLMs will always produce hallucinations due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering, marking a significant admission from one of the AI industry’s leading companies.” You can’t trust chatbots.

mill's dedication: this is a jointly authored work a century & a half of male editors: mill exaggerated out of a sentimental fondness for his wife mill's letters: no, really, most of "my" work was partly by her, i really could not be clearer on this

yesss shove it in my veins Chapter 11 Strategies for organising against AI in higher education Robert Ovetz and Lindsay Weinber > the future of AI in higher education is not a foregone conclusion. Academic workers can organise to contest, refuse and ban extractive AI

I'm excited to share my last paper of 2025, which is out now in Human Studies. This one means a lot to me, as I draw on my own experience of synaesthesia in grappling with Merleau-Ponty's claim that 'synaesthetic perception is the rule'. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A publication for a special issue of the International Journal of Philosophical Studies to close out the year. I examine the role of the heart as a temporalising and motivating organ for human experience in the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and María Zambrano. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/KSBQS...

Leadership would have you so tired, so poor, so disempowered, that you only watch your own back. This is what happens when we don’t watch each others back. Join a union that cares about *everyone* and work hard to keep everyone safe. Including people that are at risk from viruses.

Congratulations to my @emorylaw.bsky.social colleague Deepa Das Acevedo on her new book The War on Tenure. www.cambridge.org/us/universit... Zoom in for the 9/26 book launch:

AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations”

what can i say? i’m good at what i do

Back after a short hiatus, in our latest episode, @ptmcconville.bsky.social speaks with Anya Daly. They discuss meditation and perception, the divide between continental and analytic philosophy, and human and animal lifeworlds. Follow the show and listen wherever you find your podcasts!

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

Here's me in Guardian Australia on the total debacle with Meanjin. www.theguardian.com/books/commen...

Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago: "If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."

“Universities educate students, but they are also incubators of new knowledge and discovery. ... For example, by supporting areas of research that might not be economically “efficient” but which will be required for our future.” theconversation.com/universities...

Exemptions to copyright legislation for AI would disadvantage Australian writers – and set a bad precedent. 👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/the-pro...

WU-TANG FOREVER 👐🏽

One of the best experiences I had in graduate school was joining a reading group on @bryanvannorden.bsky.social's Introduction to Classical Chinese Philosophy (and the accompanying books of readings). There is still so much missing from mainstream philosophy.

“It was a very heated response, and one that reflected immense ignorance” fivebooks.com/best-books/w...

An especially good one today on the humanities in Oz. Every word true. graemeturner.org/2025/07/20/w...

In our latest episode, @ptmcconville.bsky.social speaks with Lexi Eikelboom. They discuss rhythm and time in cubist painting, letting the shapes of art speak for themselves, and art as confrontation and incitement to change. Follow the show and listen wherever you find your podcasts!

As you can see, I'm not keen on UTas' proposed cuts to the humanities, social sciences and creative arts. www.instagram.com/p/DLRqxFwSQo1/

Mind-blowingly revelatory point about AI as a socially & eocnomically disruptive technology, from @chrislhayes.bsky.social's recent interview with @karenhao.bsky.social on her new book Empire of AI on OpenAI: They're DEFINING "artificial general intelligence" as AI capable of replacing human labor!

In our new episode, @ptmcconville.bsky.social speaks with Timothy Deane-Freeman. They discuss bourgeois culture, shock, chronopolitics, and Afrofuturism as the place of the new. Follow the show and listen wherever you find your podcasts!

Selfie-editing technologies are leading some young people to want to start altering their physical bodies.

You will want to crack into this impressive edited collection on social epistemology (with a striking, impressionistic cover) edited by @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social and Jennifer Lackey. Do yourself a favour and also listen to chapter author @ywcath.bsky.social's podcast episode.

In our most recent episode, @ptmcconville.bsky.social speaks with @ellie-ibis.bsky.social. They discuss music and the state of mind for writing technical philosophy, being part of a philosophical ensemble, and the local heritage of logic. Follow the show and listen wherever you find your podcasts!

Our PBS is a national treasure. Our research shows the prices Australians would pay if the US had its way and dismantled our Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme. Heart disease/cholesterol medicine: $25 v $968 Depression medicine: $32 v $2,244 Female contraception: $28 v $621

This month, @ptmcconville.bsky.social speaks with @michelleybliu.bsky.social. They discuss representing music in visual forms, whether arguments have aesthetic properties, and the role of mental imagery in poetry and philosophy. Follow the show and listen on your favourite podcast platform!

Artificial hearts are remarkable devices with great promise. But patients and families also deserve to know how these extraordinary treatments might change how they feel about themselves and the world.

If you're thinking, "I wonder what it's like to have an artificial heart? I mean, that must change the way you experience things, right?" then have I got the dissertation for you: bridges.monash.edu/articles/the...

Newsletter: There is no AI Revolution. Consumer adoption of generative AI outside of ChatGPT is barely 100 million people, every single company in generative AI is deeply unprofitable, Microsoft is pulling capex, and OpenAI spent $9bn in 2024 to lose $5bn. www.wheresyoured.at/wheres-the-m...

What can be beautiful? A painting of Venus with "improbable" anatomy? Transgressive pictures of bodies and bodily fluids? What about ideas? Catherine Wesselinoff shares her thoughts in our new episode, available online or via your favourite podcast platform. www.conceptart.fm/2025/02/24/s...

I wrote for The Contrarian about my decision to leave the New York Times contrarian.substack.com/p/departing-...

Today’s Australian Financial Review article by Julie Hare features a discussion about my blog post about plastic goldfish www.afr.com/policy/healt...

Who does Elese Dowden think makes Trump look even goofier than he makes himself look? Find out, along with discussions on make-up, hyperrepresentation, and sovereignty, in our latest episode. Available now on your favourite podcast platform: search for Concept : Art or @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social.

Rounding out the year with our last episode of season one: @ptmcconville.bsky.social speaks with Elese Dowden about fabrication and sovereignty, make-up artistry and hyper-representation, and patriarchy and postfeminism. Listen on our website or your device! www.conceptart.fm/2024/12/30/s...

Governing councils of universities across Australia are totally misaligned with the aims of teaching and research. Thanks to @megwebb-mlc.bsky.social and the Legislative Council for listening to concerns about @utas.edu.au and making some sensible recommendations. @nteunion.bsky.social

If you're curious to learn more about vaccination as a long-lived artistic motif here's something I wrote for Artforum that considers its iconography and does a deep dive on perhaps the most iconic artwork about vaccination, by renowned Mexican muralist Diego Rivera www.artforum.com/columns/the-...

When President Biden pardoned Hunter, liberal analyst @mollyjongfast.bsky.social said she needed time to process it. Her pause became a story, revealing how our politics values #quicktakes over thoughtful reflection. https://buff.ly/4iwCqr9 (Robert B. Talisse, Vanderbilt University) #polisky

I'm really happy to have just published a paper in Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, just squeaking into release before the end of the year. This paper is about how all the numbers displayed by artificial hearts can crowd-out how patients cope. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The ABS have just released their figures and union membership numbers are up - both actuals & density. Now would be a good time to join www.australianunions.org.au

We can, and must, do more to protect students from Long COVID (and staff). Long COVID is a massive invisible problem in higher education theconversation.com/we-can-and-m...

Come join us (in person or online) for this amazing workshop next Friday run by @lvself.bsky.social, Tracy Llanera, and me! We’ll be talking tradwives, baddiecore, endo support groups, gender critical websites, and more… Registration below ✨ www.eventbrite.com.au/e/digital-tr...

Despite feeling like I’ve been working solidly on research, I had reconciled myself to a year without getting anything published. So I was surprised and excited to receive an email over the weekend that one of my papers has been accepted by the journal Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences.

Listen to our episode with @ywcath.bsky.social online or with your favourite podcast app, then rush out to buy Yuri’s fantastic book! (It’s also free for December; perfect holiday reading!) www.conceptart.fm/2024/08/12/s...

I’m looking forward to tomorrow’s book panel on Emily Hughes and @marilynstendera.bsky.social’s “Heidegger’s Alternative History of Time” at the Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy conference.

For more of an intro to me and my work this is a podcast interview with @ptmcconville.bsky.social where we chat about my research but also my journey from art school to philosophy and the connections & disconnections between those two worlds. www.conceptart.fm/2024/08/12/s...