Excluding the "especially in politics" bit, I'm generally baffled by people insisting you should categorically abstain from meaningful life activities like romance or sex with coworkers, people who share a space/activity with you for a large part of your week. Could it be messy? Yea. But that's life

easily one of the funniest guys america has had in decades

lol my manuscript mentions rickrolling and the journal copyeditor rickrolled me in a comment

I write things that are meaningful to me, & dont expect them to be the most popular. But I would be lying if I said I wasnt happy to get an email saying my paper "Beyond gatekeeping: Philosophical sources, Indigenous philosophy, and the Huarochirí Manuscript" is one of last year's most cited papers.

Letterbox is the best social media app because it’s 99% finding cool new movies from friends and 1% like a Free Willy Stan gets mad at you

Maybe even farther

La gente que confunde "a ver" con "haber" debería hirviendo cómo mejorar su ortografía.

Just saw an AI image of Habermas. It gave him a prominent moustache, which I thought was odd cuz, I thought, Habermas never had a moustache. Googled him and it turns out he has a moustache in tons of photos. In my slight defense its small and sparse so hard to notice, but still, what the fuck

Vol 17, Iss 3 (2025) has dropped! Worth the wait, w/articles on sex/gender, ecology in context, Darwinizing Gaia, and theories in physiology. We love the diversity of articles that are sent to us—keep them coming! PTPBio is, as always, diamond #OpenAccess: completely free for authors and readers!

"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

Lol. Lmao.

came across a piece by someone, looked them up, and it strikes me as "worth looking into" that they somehow have 7 pubs over 8 years in the same biannual journal and has co-authored twice with the two editors-in-chief and got their phd at the university one of the co-editors is faculty at

Dragon Ball Super*

Previous personal best for late rejection shattered. UW-Madison rejected me in Feb 2025 for a job I applied for in Oct 2023. Not to be outdone, UNC-Chapel Hill just responded today to my Oct 2023 app.

Letitia and I published on gender and animals together a few years ago and about Gaia last year. Her most recent paper should be interesting! doi.org/10.3998/ptpb...

Thrilled to report that the edited collection that I've been working on with André Krebber, ~Zoopolitical Thought: Seeking Interspecies Justice in and beyond Western Political Traditions~ has been approved for publication with University of Toronto Press! Stay tuned!

For all my fellow cough drop fiends: all you can eat cough drops at the Chicago Symphony lobby

This elitist view that only rich/Ivy/private school kids should study/have access the liberal arts is so deeply ingrained in so many highly educated Democrats’ views (including tons who majored in the lib arts themselves) that they don’t even realize they hold it, let alone how ugly & elitist it is

Yea I'd fucking hope so given that we hired him with a starting annual salary of 2.4 million the same year our university president emailed saying 1500+ faculty may not get a 1% salary increase because we have to understand "that adds up to 5 million a year"

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

My uni has installed hideous big screens to display advertising. One ad has our logo and says "A top public R1 research university", and I feel that's the kind of line you would use to defend it, not promote it.

We face two potential missteps in ecophysiology: 1) measuring animals under socially unrealistic conditions & 2) extrapolating results to nature, where social dynamics alter trait expression, plasticity, & evolutionary outcomes. Our new commentary in @jexpbiol.bsky.social : doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

I somewhat regularly see people gripe that most philosophy today is bad. If you yourself think this or feel this way: can you share why? Do you earnestly believe it, or are you just reporting a vibe or expressing an affect that you feel? If you believe it, can you elaborate why?

I know there's more involved, but imo it's pretty funny to be like "this is THE guy when it comes to this sentence"

I wonder why people would make different assessments with regard to two different people working at different things at different scales, maybe they're just weird, capricious, and inconsistent

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... In a new paper in Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Eze Paez and I introduce “sentientist political liberalism,” an attempt to reconcile the ideas of society as a system of cooperation and public justification with taking animals seriously.

After several months, @dualipa.bsky.social still has not DMed me to talk about animal ethics. BlueSky is frankly not sustainable as a platform.

It’s interesting how we default to assuming animals are not like humans until proven to be so. With an evolutionary framework, what is the right null hypothesis?

This Friday, philosophers Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka join us to discuss their groundbreaking book "Animals and the Right to Politics." Could reimagining animals as political beings change everything? Listen Friday wherever you get your podcasts! #AnimalRights #AnimalPolitics

i bring this up all the time, but jason stanley once tried to say that knowing LaTeX was privilege and then blocked me for asking whether .docx was "the people's format"

Can confirm, they loved receiving my feedback too

Thank you google ai, for letting me know that "diary-free" usually means "dairy-free", which I spelled correctly in my search

Government accounts just post like this now and that’s how policy is made

From an email to one of our faculty members.... Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!

My partner (early modern scholar) remarked that her peers seem to be the only historians of philosophy who don't endorse the views they interpret. Why is there a dearth of Leibnizians but tons of Aristotle, Aquinas, Kant, Hegel etc. scholars all saying '[my guy's utterly insane shit] is right'?

I think it’s okay for people to post about their lives actually. If something good happens to me, I’m probably gonna post about it. I don’t think that’s cruel

Colombia es la doctora Polo

If you google "dedomestication" the first result will be the wikipedia article on "breeding back", which, according to the wikipedia article itself, should not be confused with "dedomestication."

lmao the end, "I refused to write the required DEI statement and received no job offers or interviews". "incomplete application" is like literally the first filtering mechanism when you're looking at hundreds of applications for one position lol

Eduardo Mendieta has passed away. He was a friend and mentor to me, and he was responsible for so much of the activity in Latin American philosophy in the US in 90s and 00s. He is sorely missed.

Just in time for Xmas 😀 My paper on the absence of sustained discussion of power relations in R. Brandom's inferentialism is out! "Who Gets to Play? Power in the Game of Giving and Asking for Reasons". Abstract 👇 journals.openedition.org/ejpap/5366

Briefly thought of doing this as part of my dissertation when I was but a wee grad student, looks cool

in the movies this is the screensaver on the computers at the world’s most evil company

removing 1 and 2. IME these allowed approaches for responding to prompts can lead to completely undefended or reasoned answers. Without several courses in the field in question for students to serve as calibration for what types of responses are acceptable, you tend to get these types of answers.

Are you interested in doing a PhD about what humans infer about animal minds? Check out this opportunity @northumbriapsy.bsky.social with me, @mdconstable.bsky.social and Lee Shepherd! Deadline 23 Jan 2026 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

People get so mad on the internet they trick themselves or lie about silly shit. Melodrama over the quality of the writing of that OU student assignment. It is a bad assignment. It is not unreadable. It is not the worst student writing you've ever read, not by a longshot, come on now.

I have news. Wonderful news. New paper on #disinformation. The title is the thesis. Think of disinformation as content that functions to optimise the decisions of the audience for the disinformant. This doesn't require deception or content that induces false belief. philpapers.org/rec/LITDIF