Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken ceramics, making them even more beautiful than before. Here’s a fine example in our favourite local Japanese restaurant.

"AMPA receptor (AMPAR)"

Running????? This is the time to squat heavier

CHOTINER: And when was that? MY CAT: I mean at least 14 hours ago CHOTINER: Well hold on. You're telling me you haven't been fed at all today but if I look in your bowl here I see a- MY CAT: An untouched serving, I know, but if you'd let me finish- CHOTINER: Yeah, of course.

Normally not nosey like this, but someone had ChatGPT open on their phone screen on the bus and I looked long enough to see their query: "when is [our university's] Thanksgiving break?" There is a webpage dedicated to displaying every important date on our academic calendar, come on

Have often seen people reference this but has anyone looked into whether this is specific to American Gen Z or the anglosphere?

I haven't read the brief, but while the alchemists didn't figure out a way to do this, it is actually possible since we figured out atoms are not indivisible and can undergo radioactive decay or be smashed together in accelerators to change their atomic number, so what's that do to this argument

something about being in the rightwing conspiracy hellhole makes you talk like sephiroth

the Will Smith track “Wild Wild West” just came on the radio and: 1) it was weird that for several years whenever Will made a tentpole movie he also rapped about it in partial character 2) we should make more actors do this

re: Francione, you can find posts by him 1) insisting that hormones naturally make "biological males" more aggressive so of course trans women are a danger to cis women; and 2) complaining that pitbulls are maligned as naturally more aggressive and violent when really its abuse & socialization

one funny thing about the 'universities are hostile to debate' thing is, if you try to effect the sort of political debate that is banal in a university setting, in more or less any other social setting, people will react like you are being an antisocial weirdo

"and advocates" ah but yea white supremacist shootings are not of broader concern, just isolated weirdos

RE: Charlie Kirk "doing politics right" and fostering "free debate and discussion", I was told that last time he was on my campus someone asked him to share a time that all this debate and discussion led to him changing his mind, and he got mad

Texas A&M president fires an instructor after a politician complains about what is being taught in her course, then says "this isn't about academic freedom."

The number of people who read your philosophy article, regardless of where you publish it:

I have heard so many stories of previous generations of philosophers being such assholes to graduate students (particularly at 'elite' programs) that I'm surprised at the dearth of anecdotes of them being decked

Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.

In grad school, we referred to this as "pulling out the Jack." It was named for countless responses to talks about Rawls that started with, "Well, what Jack told me was..."

My good friend @jordandesmond.bsky.social doin' it big once again www.jesp.org/index.php/je...

Now on the Oxford University Press website, complete with cover: Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka's Animals and the Right to Politics, the long-awaited sequel to 2011's Zoopolis. An expected release date of 11 December. Just in time for Christmas! global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Newsom: We are better than them! Also Newsom: But they have good ideas

my leisure time is not the Selma Montgomery march. as such the number of racial slurs I would find worth tolerating at a random restaurant or cafe is somewhere near 0

I would leave a website if the *font* was annoying enough. I myself don't see what counts in favor of the "accept a baseline level of overt racism" level of patience from a voluntary activity I do in my spare time.

"But if you're posting on the Internet, you can't let a few N-words get you down." I think a few N-words is a fine reason to leave any corner of the Internet actually

3 - we did a lit review of 'regenerative dentistry' research again. turns out there isn't any such research unless you count mount teeth, so add 20 years to the ETA 4 - we did an n 57 study of this quack device a boston-area VC came up with. also it's unblinded & i am the VC

4 types of papers in dental journals: 1 - we did 'epidemiology' & 'found out' that poor people had bad teeth. let's moralise 2 - did you know that periodontitis is weakly correlated with this unrelated condition? neither did we but we kept looking til we found a 1.02 hazard ratio

Philosopher's Annual... what's next: Philosophical Quarterly?

Let's call a spade a spade. Instead of using these terms, "Training Cattle to Virtual Fencing", a more accurate description would be "Training Cattle to Shock Collars". #AnimalWelfareWashing #AnimalWelfare #AnimalSentience

Fishes can readily “bounce back” from challenges in their environment. While this resilience is often portrayed as beneficial for their welfare, its pursuit in aquaculture settings raises serious ethical concerns. faunalytics.org/fish-resilie...

My gonads had a developmental screw-up and are producing sperm instead of ova

🚨Paper🚨 scientists often (should) rethink their work to mitigate potential harmful consequences. Should the same apply in philosophy? Yes, but I show philosophical defences of biological race don’t do a great job with that. #philsky #HPbio #evolution #popgen link.springer.com/article/10.1...

What is original sin if not Lamarckism about evil

"doing evil makes you ugly" is silly and bad but it doesn't sound like eugenics or like anything having to do with heritability

Re: the daily nous "alex rails" post, it is imo deeply embarrassing to be a '“do things that lead to flourishing”-type' of moral philosopher and have to manage something like: "One must also know how to resist the urge to brag too much or to publicize one’s flings", what are you a fucking teen boy

My paper on the history of biological organization was accepted at HOPOS! The paper looks at organicist efforts in the first half of the 20th century to elevate organization in biology as a central practical and theoretical notion. #hpbio #philbio #histbio www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Online right wingers can't tell if someone is hot without breaking out a large set of calipers and a calculator

Having my blog on the daily nous doesn’t sound so bad now, does it??

lol

i'm sorry i'm sorry i'm trying to stop

one thing about reading books about politics written after like 2014 is they’re all just discussion of twitter bullshit. matt yglesias comes up in this book repeatedly. oh well

porn culture. porn addiction. this is a form of porn in the same sense that snuff films are consumed by some people.

Wiley officially closes the Journal of Political Philosophy, which was abandoned by its editorial team and shunned by academics after Wiley attempted moves that would have compromised the journal's editorial independence.

Very sad to learn of the death on 18th July of Margaret (Maggie) Boden, a titan of cognitive science and AI. I met her many times, and respected her greatly. www.theargus.co.uk/memorials/de...

Related: its funny being the object of speculation for hypocrisy for not condemning Bill Clinton for shit when he was in office. Yea a bunch of were 12 or younger when he left office

i know you’re joking but let me address this post w joyless gravity

Chloe Kelly’s goal celebration face is the exact look my sister used to give me behind our mum’s back when I was being told off