This strikes me as emblematic of a problem with many people on the right. It's not that they aren't empathetic, in fact they can be very empathetic. They just can't empathize with something that isn't right in front of them.

onion person@junlper.beer · 2d ago

elon musk has more empathy for lines of code than a majority of humanity

Here's a very nice write-up from UCI! Thanks @ucisocsci.bsky.social for the lovely article, and thanks @apsphysics.aps.org for bestowing the honor! Very nice for a philosopher of physics to be recognized in this way. #AmericanPhysicalSociety #APShonors www.socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/n...

Weatherall named fellow of the American Physical Society

socsci.uci.edu

I have been advised not to use this license for academic works. This license allows someone to, for example, leave the title and author the same but change the content and then redistribute it. Just a fact you might be interested in.

John Stuart Thrill@jsthrill.modphi.com · 2d ago

Fun reminder that every article in JCI is under a Creative Commons license: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/...

Epistemology be like

brainplan@brainplan.bsky.social · 2d ago

Today is the day that the NFL's hopes of UK expansion died

brainplan@brainplan.bsky.social · 2d ago

I appreciate that Hurts always keeps it real

It's out and open access baybeeeee www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

@lastpositivist.bsky.social · last mo.

Yay I also got a paper acceptance in the Journal of Causal Inference, wherein we (me and coauthor Dan Malinsky) argue that if for social constructionists about race one shouldn't neatly separate "racism causes X" from "being of such and such a race causes X" and this has methodological implications.

The metaethicists are out protesting today in Pittsburgh

The threat of human brain decoders is not that they could work to read thoughts and be abused, but the tech doesn’t work the way it’s being sold and is adopted anyway. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/w...

U.N. Warns Against Technology Used to Read Citizens’ Minds (Gift Article)

A report by the secretary-general warned that new technologies could be used to access and criminalize people’s innermost thoughts.

nytimes.com

I hate how good this is.

Makes sense that JD Vance can't spell Pittsburgh right, but I'm a bit surprised you can hear that from the audio

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

Vance: "Some of America's most elite universities bring in foreigners to undercut wages of American residents. There are 9 universities in particular we believe merit an investigation. Those are Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Brown, the University of Pittsburg, UC Davis, Cal Tech, Arizona State, and MIT."

It seems quite natural that there could be a feedback effect in presidential approval (having low approval causes approval to go down and vice versa). I have absolutely no idea how to test that empirically

it's going to seem like everyone in your cohort knows more than you do. they also all feel the exact same way

Justin Weinberg@dailynous.com · 4d ago

Philosofriends, if you have a piece of advice for beginning philosophy graduate students, please share it in the comments at Daily Nous. Thanks!

rip to one of the coolest software engineers who ever lived

Maybe the single most important topic in Smith's Wealth of Nations is just his account of *what it means for a nation to be wealthy.* The mercantilist idea is a giant pile of gold; Trump's talk of 'saving' billions by not trading is the same. Smith says wealth is having more of the stuff for living

Kevin Zollman@kevinzollman.com · 3d ago

Mercantilism is really intuitively appealing. I think it's genuinely difficult to get people to recognize that a country's wealth just works differently than a person or company. I think this is the fundamental reason that we don't want businesspeople running the country.

Mercantilism is really intuitively appealing. I think it's genuinely difficult to get people to recognize that a country's wealth just works differently than a person or company. I think this is the fundamental reason that we don't want businesspeople running the country.

@lastpositivist.bsky.social · 4d ago

It is actually interesting to see a real life early modern Mecantalist monarch, to see someone who actually just sincerely believes that worldview. Bit odd that he graduated from one of the most prestigious business schools in the world tbh.

The ghosts of Adam Smith and Ricardo teaming up for one last job

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d ago

Trump: "If we decided not to buy watches from Switzerland, they wouldn't be elite anymore and we would save about $40 billion"

Sabbatical goals

American Statistical Association History of Statistics @hos-asa.bsky.social · 3d ago

Edward Wright baptized #OTD 1561. In 1599 he proposes the median as a measure of central tendency & methods of variance estimation for navigational application. He is also the first (& so far only) Fellow of Caius College Cambridge to be granted sabbatical leave to be a pirate.

Personality fit is more important than specific topic fit in econ as well. Fields/subfields matter a lot, but subtopics not so much

Kevin Zollman@kevinzollman.com · 4d ago

Find an adviser that you like working with. This is more important than topic and more important than fame. It's not that those other things don't matter, but you will do your best work when you get along with your advisor

The first day of grad school, identify the biggest idea in the room and kick its butt.

Justin Weinberg@dailynous.com · 5d ago

If you could give beginning philosophy graduate students just one piece of advice, what would it be? (If you're tempted to respond "don't", don't.)

Wallace and Gromit carrying yinz on their backs like Atlas.

Join us as we sit down with postdoc fellow Shimin Zhao to learn more about her work here at the Center! Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/DrdTvgr4L4E Don't miss Shimin's Lunchtime Talk on Oct. 13: "From probability raising to actual causation" #philsci

I'm a (moderately) successful philosopher—I've published work I'm proud of, have won teaching awards, etc. I would have failed out of grad school without my advisor, and it all came down to fit.

Find an adviser that you like working with. This is more important than topic and more important than fame. It's not that those other things don't matter, but you will do your best work when you get along with your advisor

Justin Weinberg@dailynous.com · 4d ago

Philosofriends, if you have a piece of advice for beginning philosophy graduate students, please share it in the comments at Daily Nous. Thanks!

If I go to someone’s home and find out they have a mannequin set up that they hit and yell racial slurs at I would probably leave that home, even though neither of us thinks the mannequin is person

So you're telling me a rapper turned actor won the Nobel prize in physics?

What is the IceCube neutrino observatory? Neutrinos are elusive particles that rarely interact, but can create flashes of light when they do. Most neutrino detectors are giant water tanks surrounded by light detectors. IceCube is kilometer-long strings of detectors embedded in the Antarctic ice.

Physics World@physicsworld.bsky.social · 5d ago

A rare solo #NobelPrize in physics goes to neutrino scientist Francis Halzen “for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin”. Full coverage here: physicsworld.com/a/francis-ha... 🧪⚛️

“Watson’s 1968 book, amid other slights & sexist language directed at Franklin, implied the flash of insight was his. Popular accounts still routinely suggest Franklin missed the significance of the photo. She never had a chance to challenge Watson’s dismissive narrative; she died of cancer in 1958”

Science Magazine@science.org · 6d ago

Exclusive: A new analysis refutes James Watson’s claim that he was the first to recognize the significance of the famed photograph 51. https://scim.ag/4rTKck8

My department is hiring! The position is for an assistant professorship of Ethics and Political Philosophy. We're a great department with a very collegial atmosphere 😊 (Fyi I am not involved in this search procedure, just advertising it.) werkenbij.vu.nl/vacatures/as...