also: i was, on the basis of this paper, awarded the Nancy Hartsock Endowed Graduate Student Award, which recognizes creative achievements of an emerging scholar doing work in feminist theory.

hey, look! my first paper was published in Hypatia

hi everybody! if you're an academic philosopher and would prefer your colleagues didn't produce propaganda which furthers the trump administration's attempt to eradicate transgender people from public life, consider reading/signing this open letter about it! dearprofessorbyrne.wordpress.com

The revolution is full of 60-year-old women who love their trans kids.

1/5 I am pleased to announce a new paper, based on a talk I gave last year at the annual meeting of the Human Biology Association. This link is open 4 a free read for a while but eventually it will get pay-walled because I can't afford open access. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

The next administrator who sends me a “be patient—this is business as usual” email gets this piece in reply. Worth a read.

I was walking down Canal Street and bought this. It’s crazy how quickly they can get merch made these days.

fortunately this year's #SSWR25 is taking place just a few miles from home. looking forward to meeting the wonderful social work researchers :)

i think i stumbled upon a fake (or AI generated?) book that uses the name of a Yale historian.

what Brett means is that there are no good philosophers. it’s just the contemporary form of Plato’s no knowledge argument

Alison has written such a diverse body of work and i have found it all insightful! her work on standpoint theory got me interested in the project i’m working on in my phd, and she is also fostering my appreciation of phil sci. i’m so glad she’s getting more recognition!

when i did DSP work in Kansas City the pay was abysmal. i cannot imagine that personal budget in NYC

kinda wild, as a grad student in philosophy, to just keep learning about more of the disciplines closet skeletons

Sex! Based! Rights! Aren't! A! Thing! - sincerely, a human rights expert

minimalist hell (listening exclusively to 'variations on a theme' while grading student papers all on the same prompts)

I know the school officials here failed miserably, but I also want to note just how unprepared schools are for this. Realistically, the legal landscape here is not clear cut, and enforcement (at all levels) is abysmal. We're failing young victims in all sorts of ways.

All of these “gender tests” are state-sanctioned sexual assault. It is so inherently violating to have your body sized up so that someone can determine whether to violate your rights.

me being tucked into my dogmatic slumber

I just published this paper that argues that, in the US, criminal law cannot carry feminist messages. This is a reason against using criminal law responses to combat gender-based violence. Please check it out! philpapers.org/rec/WIRMMH

yeah but like. that's just subjective man

Embarrassing! Just found someone appealing to an inductive argument as if it shows anything. Do they even teach Hume in schools nowadays!? Wtf is going on in chemistry grad school.

love a good distinction

“A cisgender boy who wants testosterone to kick off the development of male sex characteristics can still get it. A transgender boy who wants testosterone for the exact same reason cannot.”

Barrett and other conservatives don't seem to see how state-sanctioned discrimination against trans people basically always takes the form of sex discrimination—imposing unique restrictions on people's rights based on their sex assigned at birth. Frustrating that the argument isn't breaking through.

still holds true

my first publication “Concealing Gender Non-Conformity: A Trans Phenomenology of Disability” is now forthcoming in the Journal of Philosophy of Disability. In it I explain how cissexist perception shapes and harms the lives of disabled trans people. You can read it here: philarchive.org/rec/KELCGN

Me and my friends would've thrown hands with Moore if we saw his proof of an external world I can tell you that much

Post an Onion headline that lives in your head rent-free www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpzV...

“Our ethnographic study of research practice suggests that researcher discretion is an integral and inevitable aspect of research practice, as many elements of a research protocol will either need to be further operationalised or adapted during its execution.” link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Today (Dec. 1) is World AIDS Day. Spare a thought for all those who perished. 🌈🏳️‍🌈 www.instagram.com/p/DDC6vPzPj5...

Hi, thanks for your talk, it was really interesting. I guess this is more of a clarificatory question, but I noticed that during the talk you didn't really make eye contact with me and I'm just wondering if you still like me and whether we are still friends?

“thanks so much for the feedback”

Deweyians be like theonion.com/every-moveme...

i maintain that Elizabeth Anderson started one of the best genre’s of book review

and this goes for most all of you!

“The aim is not … to delve into the differences between the incel movement and the feminist movement. Rather, the article sets out to point to epistemological similarities between two movements that politically stand very far away from each other.” journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Dianne Feinstein three days after the 2004 election: "[Gay marriage] has been too much, too fast, too soon"

We're now on Bluesky! Spread the word 📣

my homies in the seminar room

Intro for new followers: I’m a PhD student in the philosophy and physics departments at the University of Washington working in philosophy of physics and mathematical physics. My research is mainly on conceptual and foundational questions about Quantum Field Theory and Renormalization Group methods.

Yes, I'm nonbinary (neither analytic nor continental)

in response to Zollman (2024) i’m going to write a new paper about the responsibility for epistemic social workers at the epistemic border

maybe old news but gains for the two largest private prison companies (geo group and civiccore) are just wild since the election.

As a philosopher I’m not afraid to speak the truth: Pumpkin pie functions as a mere vehicle for whipped cream. In this way, it is no better than a spoon.

I created a Social Philosophy Starter Pack. Please tell me who I should add (including you)! #philsky

look i know my vision isn’t, like, great

Intro for new followers: I am a grad student working in philosophy (PhD) and social work (MSW). Here is a brief view of how I have been working at the intersection of these fields:

Re-sharing this broad gender-based violence (GBV) starter pack! Let me know if you want to be added or can suggest people who should be included. @meaganbrem.bsky.social created another for IPV/SA! #AcademicSky #PhDSky #PsychSciSky #PsychSky

Transfeminist friends - please reply with all of the feminist/gender theory shit you recommend I read over the next 3 years. Love you all.