The last decade of work on the question-sensitivity of cognitive attitudes (incl. inquisitive semantics, etc.) seems like a good example of philosophers of language, mind and epistemology working together to make meaningful progress and I think that’s cool.

The people who care most about brackets are logicians and people setting complicated running sessions

Running instagram is currently going through a big debate about AI run training plans, after a big influencer for one of the training app companies got a stress fracture

Robert Hughes in the Shock of the New had SWAG

LLMs increasingly shape how people understand the world. But what if the “world” they present is systematically uneven? New research from the @oii.ox.ac.uk, alongside colleagues at @universityofky.bsky.social, offers an answer. 🔗 tinyurl.com/4bwkh4yj 🧵👇 #langsky #linguistics #bias #AI #LLMs

Filton acquittals: The start of a sea change News, Feb 5th The public is clearly uncomfortable with jailing peaceniks for trying to stop weapons supplies to a genocidal regime ~ Andy Meinke ~ freedomnews.org.uk/2026/02/05/f...

This has a *wild* prosody/AAVE vs standard AmEng twist www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8mH...

Remembered that Lupe Fiasco’s mural exists www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkHr...

Has anyone been compiling an ‘ai deskills people’ list?

Has anyone written about no-self views and predicativism about names?

What happens when philosophy of mind takes everyday mental diversity seriously? Léa Salje, Heather Logue (Leeds) and Laura Gow (Liverpool) are putting on an interdisciplinary workshop to find out! When? 10-11 June. Where? Leeds. Want to be involved? See the full CFA here: www.leasalje.com/cfa.html

It's easy to get caught up in 100 year cycles, but what if Effective Accelerationism is just Italian Futurism round 2?

14 mile run with the boys Sunday morning; because cis men need gender affirmation too

The greatest stylist of contemporary English is Guz Khan. unparalleled shit

an internet person has made a searchable version of Borges‘ library of Babel and it’s way more horrifying than the actual story libraryofbabel.info

Please read this extremely thoughtful & careful post on Tim Walz, Anne Frank, & the US Holocaust Memorial Museum from Martin Shuster, philosopher, Isaac Swift Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies, former Holocaust Memorial Museum Fellow, & scholar of genocide, the Holocaust, & authoritarianism:

"when somebody has used a computer to write work that is demonstrably better than Dante's, and when this better is demonstrably attributable to the use of a computer, then I will speak of computers with a more respectful tone of voice, though I still will not buy one." Wendall Berry

We can now name the Oxford Professor said to have raped a junior academic: Bent Flyvbjerg.

I'm actually genuinely interested in what this schedule would look like with a serious running and lifting routine in it. I work a strict 9-5-5 and run 50 mile weeks year-round, and there's zero way I could lift seriously

My PhD students are too Young to be aware of Colin McGinn trying to say that when he asked a young woman student for a handjob he was testing her to see if she was a Genius, and the fact that she didn't realise he might have been asking for a manicure is what led him to (sadly) conclude she was not.

The digital deskilling divide what?

8 years ago, I submitted my PhD thesis. Since then, I've: • Had 7 fixed-term teaching contracts • Lectured >5,000 students • Given >40 talks at conferences/workshops And published: • 13 research articles • 3 book reviews • 7 general audience pieces I'm tired guys. And still precarious.#AcademicSky

"That cyclical book is God" Fuck me Borges

I got bumped from something (in the media) for the first time today!

This hits me in my nerd humor spot.

Alright, Williamson is Nicki Minaj, Thomasson is Cardi B???

This ‘white heat of technology‘ 2.0 rhetoric is a damp fart

Linguists cite page numbers challenge!

Gettier showed us that disjunction introduction is invalid for indicatives, as it is for imperatives and interrogatives

No, and we should!

New Open question just dropped

Every few weeks if you forget to keep a close eye on the UK, they get up to some real fucking bullshit

I don’t listen to much US political rhetoric, but this is so clearly fascist (and Christian nationalist)

Actually bananas how good Matthieu Van Der Porl is at cyclocross

Final Palestine Action hunger striker may die within days, says doctor

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how many episodes does he survive?

As clergy pray, arrests begin

Real horseshoe moment in the critique of work under capitalism

Don't lets have anyone who's a non-reactionary philosopher sign up for an event at this!

In defence of HowTheLightsGetIn Hay 2026, they may have a gender fascist (Stock) that's championed maybe the one person you can legally call a Nazi in the UK (Nina Power) and a red-brown crank (Zizek) as headliners, but at least it's not last year's headliner, the outright fascist Curtis Yarvin

Lads, it's very important that no-one likes or reskeets @add-hawk.bsky.social stuff!

More 'Josh tests sentences'. How about: 'Lemme get a burger, shall I?'

Best use of this meme i’ve ever seen

Empirical hypothesis for linguists: 'allow' in Multicultural London English has been grammaticalised as a negative first-person plural imperative in the same way that 'lets' has been grammaticalised as a positive first-person plural pronoun.

I've fucked myself and convinced myself that 'have an Oyster!' is a first person imperative

Language question: in your dialect of English, does the following sentence sound grammatical? 'Let's me and you get together for a couple of pints'

How am I just finding out about the Atlas of World Language structures??? (lots of maps of funky grammatical structures) wals.info

i laughed aloud at this response from an academic after I asked for a copy of a paper they wrote:

Who is the Big Tobacco of today? In new work, we find 50% of high profile social media papers are connected to big tech through funding, collaboration and employment. Most connections aren't disclosed. @jbakcoleman.bsky.social @jevinwest.bsky.social @carlbergstrom.com 1 arxiv.org/abs/2601.11507