Online hostility is predicted by economic & political inequality Inequality breeds online hostility because people crave status in unequal societies and status-seekers constitute the main perpetrators of hostility in political settings, whether online or offline. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

CfP for a special issue of Hypatia on ‘Gender and Nation’: philevents.org/event/show/1...

I'm happy to announce this new paper — we compile evidence on the extraordinary harms caused by IMF and World Bank structural adjustment programmes in the global South since the 1980s. gh.bmj.com/content/11/S...

quill kukla uses the 'what if i volunteer to be a human table at an orgy?' objection, for, i believe, the first time in the pages of Ethics

a major question in cognitive psychology is which tasks are Easy and which tasks are Hard

1. The biggest threat to academic freedom today is rightwing anti-intellectual, anti-higher ed propaganda, which uses moral panics about cancel culture, wokeness, DEI, etc. to justify everything from cuts to science funding, to government censorship, to the destruction of institutions of higher ed.

I do study this and it’s fascinating: online political hostility is driven by the need for social status, and amplified by algorithms, social norms and intergroup conflict. Plain old trolling is linked to dark triad traits—narcissism, psychopathy and machiavellianism. Fun stuff.

I'm going to become a money influencer and teach people how to save by never going anywhere or doing anything. It'll be called going tree mode

Nothing to make you lose faith in human reasoning like grading a critical thinking test

Who knew philosophers of cognitive science were so hot?!?? 🥵 @n1c0n1c0.bsky.social

I finally read this paper after having had it bookmarked for a while and found it delightful.

É aqui para escrever a favor dos direitos das pessoas trans em Portugal, que estão de novo sob ataque da direita (que quer voltar a exigir relatório médico para mudar o nome e dificultar acesso de menores): www.parlamento.pt/Cidadania/Pa...

Something that never ceases to astound me is the vastness of the gulf in the quality of human experience between going out dancing with friends and filling in reimbursement forms

My wonderful colleague Poppy Mankowitz is advertising two 3-yr postdocs & one funded PhD on her ERC project Expressing Value in Language, which investigates evaluative adjectives (‘good’, ‘bad’, ‘beautiful’, ‘tasty’, etc.) from the perspective of philosophy & theoretical & experimental linguistics.

I love it that in a philosophy talk it is totally normal to say things like “Love is a Four-Dimensional Worm”.

Getting whiplash going from US students emailing me "Hey Miss [most entitled question you've ever seen]" to Portuguese students starting their emails with "Most Excellent Professor, [pretentious paragraphs detailing their take on 4 Great Philosophers]".

Various pro-war arguments of the form "Did you know the Iranian government is very bad actually!???" betray a Marvel film level understanding of international relation (tbh probably _less_ sophisticated than the better of them!) and are a painful reminder that journalists learned nothing from Iraq.

Recently learned that, in Portugal, a legally allowed name for girls is “Excel” (for boys, only “Exel”, sorry). What are all you nerds waiting for

We need an eternal moratorium on tech or media literacy as solutions to problems that are literally about how the entirety of our societies are built. "Literacy" is not going to stop individual people buying into gender stereotypes or ideological views that everything around us teaches us are right.

Finding out that god asking people to do referee reports is even worse than getting requests for referee reports

Today would be a great day to join your union (if your workplace is unionized). No reason. It's just always a good day to join a union.

Look at this sexy new volume on "WTF is belief?" - a crucial question for understanding persuasion, irrationality, propaganda, religion, misinfo, you name it! I have a chapter in it. 1/

New and free online: @msgjonhere.bsky.social & my edited collection of essays on belief with Oxford University Press: academic.oup.com/book/62410 Table of Contents in thread

The pronoun practice we will have in queer utopia is *obviously* referring to everyone as "comrade"

Just realized analytic philosophy is not actually hard to define. It’s basically a specific set of dry geeky lore: fake barns, brains in vats, cleverly disguised zebras, swampmen, blockheads, a scientist who never saw red, etc. and then we write fanfic.

"Advocates such as social psychologist Jonathan Haidt—who submitted an amicus brief supporting Texas’s law—have called for broad bans on social media use by minors, policies already adopted in countries like Australia." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-far-righ...

Excited to be part of this snazzy line-up! (and to go to Vienna in July - haven’t visited before) www.knowledgeconference.at

Tag line for philosophy as a discipline

external shaming is even more important when internal shame fails

It’s not even 9am and I have managed to use the university printers. I am invincible

"Today, the Brazilian Supreme Court announced that they had convicted the masterminds behind the assassination of socialist Rio de Janeiro City Councilwoman Marielle Franco guilty on all counts." massive news in Brazil today, writeup by @mikeelk.bsky.social paydayreport.com/rio-police-c...

Falei com o Expresso para este artigo para defender a nostalgia outra vez

This looks like truly fantastic work.

My pet theory of "why do people think the economy is doing poorly despite unprecedented levels of wealth?" is because everyone knows they're getting shorted.

New online, a web supplement to our issue 36 forum on the left and the good life: Ege Yumuşak on making space for political engagement in everyday life.

My new paper is out! lnkd.in/d7QhdqVD Publishing on racism against people racialised as Eastern Europeans and its impact on health is not easy. I’m deeply grateful to everyone who supported me throughout this process. #philsci #racism #health

News you can use, from the @wired.com security team (who are the best in the biz). They asked technologists, activists, aid groups, and cybersecurity experts for guidance on how to organize and collaborate in an age of surveillance. Here’s the result:

If you were to create a philosophy of LLM course, what kinds of things would you cover? My thoughts in thread, but eager to hear what others would do

The correct attitude that one should take toward AI is as a left technocrat. Be relentlessly empirical about the powers and pitfalls of the technology, but do not forget the contingent material circumstances that shape its deployments. Incidentally, I am a left technocrat.

This is happening on Thursday! Do come along if you’re interested!

Say goodbye to seeing your life as a big narrative and embrace the wisdom of thinking of life as a bunch of experimental eras! Absolutely loved this piece.

Sorry to the haters, “Wuthering Heights” was a pure camp softcore hyperpop delight. My only complaint is that *obviously* Heathcliff should have been a butch dyke.

I feel like this is a good time to re-up my review of public opinion about American identity www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

i'm sure nobody will misunderstand this post

Unlike some liberals on Bluesky, I do think LLMs can be useful and will take over some white collar jobs. I mean, just look at this Tyler Austin Harper-style Atlantic article I can generate in a second with a naive prompt on the free tier of Claude!

I also feel extremely thankful to be part of the special issue that this paper introduces. Because of that I got to discuss these topics with some of the scholars I most admire. I can’t overstate how much I learned from those discussions.

Contra o pânico moral de banir os jovens das redes sociais, hoje em português no @shifter.pt (bónus: informação embaraçosa sobre como o PSD escreve projetos de lei) shifter.pt/2026/02/pedi...

So good at projecting an authoritative, distant, professorial image that after one class students are already replying to my emails with 🥰🥰 emojis