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Today in Science and science: Ice age hunters’ penchant for female mammoths, a detailed vagal map, and more

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I just spent a little while trying to re-find this article, so I thought I should share it for anyone who missed it the first time around. This piece (by the philosopher Troy Jollimore) prompted me to think the damage of student use of LLMs in a deeper way than I had previously.

I Used to Teach Students. Now I Catch ChatGPT Cheats | The Walrus

I once believed university was a shared intellectual pursuit. That faith has been obliterated

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Remember the idea of a Tobin Tax: micro taxes on financial trades to put sand in the machine to slow down and stabilise the market? AI has led to something equivalent , but for scholarship, and for no good reason.

Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦@merz.bsky.social · 3d ago

#AI #LLM Something I've not seen commented on is the explosion of bot-impeding pages (e.g., via Cloudflare) that now appear before web pages load. The cumulative time waste for human users has got to be in the billions of person-hours. An immense burden imposed on everyone by the AI-bro assholes.

Advice I now give to my students: don't write using AI at all, at any stage (outlines, drafts, edits, anything). It's nearly unavoidable in searches. But in writing: draw a line. Be explicit: 'this is AI-free writing.' In some fields it will be good, soon, to have a reputation of this kind.

"The link between broad-based literacy and the rise of democracy is well known:…What happens when the process goes into reverse? When people lack the patience to absorb arguments…[or] the ability to contradict those arguments because they’ve never honed..the most essential skill for clear thinking?"

Opinion | I’m Begging You: Never Write With A.I. (Gift Article)

It’s bad for your brain and worse for democracy.

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On today's episode of Knowing Animals, I speak to @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social about Feed the People (2026, @basicbooksgroup.bsky.social, with Gabriel Rosenberg). We discuss food systems, UPFs, animal ag, and more. Available below or in usual podcast places! knowinganimals.libsyn.com/episode-252-...

Sodding Wiley now float an offer of an 'AI companion' to give commentary over journal articles you're trying to read. In order to get rid of it, you have to click, maximising the fucking thing, & then dismiss it. They make their website & published research worse to push AI garbage, arghh.

NEW PUBLICATION 🎉 In this paper, just out in Moral Philosophy and Politics, I've tried to articulate my current thoughts on why/whether we should represent animals politically (although I already disagree with some of the things I say!). Link below:

Philosophy job klaxon! Enquiries welcome to me.

Job Opportunity at Lancaster University: Lecturer in the Philosophy of Psychiatry

Lecturer in Philosophy of PsychiatryAbout usThe School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University takes a bold and distinctive approach to addressing the complex and multi-dimensional problems facing h...

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Very excited that this piece I co-wrote with @carlafehr.bsky.social is finally out. Please share widely! www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...

Students as Conscientious Objectors to Gen AI (opinion)

We should listen to them—and treat their objections with respect.

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📆 interested in #AnimalPolitics & #mutualisms? Check out this exciting conference in Sheffield 8-9 Sept - with a really fascinating set of papers ⬇️ multispeciesmutualisms.org/event-social...

Come work with us at @durham.ac.uk : Teaching Fellow in Ethics and Political Philosophy www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSI217/t...

Teaching Fellow in Ethics and Political Philosophy at Durham University

Discover an exciting academic career path as a Teaching Fellow in Ethics and Political Philosophy at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!

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There are lots of interesting papers in the latest issue of Food Ethics; although it publishes on a rolling basis, I admit these passed me by when they first appeared. Three personal highlights follow.

Food Ethics

The journal is a global forum for academic discussions of food ethics. It is published in close association with the European Society for Agricultural and ...

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Very happy to announce that our article "Animals and Human Rights" is now out in Philosophy Compass. It was wonderful working on this with my friend and colleague Dr. Valérie G. Topf! Check it out here: compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

My department is hiring a lecturer or senior lecturer in philosophy. It's an open call in terms of research specialization, but we're keen to hire someone whose teaching/research speaks to PPE in some way. This is a great job in a great department. Please help me spread the word!

Loughborough International Relations, Politics and History@irph.bsky.social · 3w ago

JOB KLAXON! We're looking to hire a lecturer or senior lecturer in philosophy. This is a permanent, full-time teaching-and-research position. The deadline for applications is 26 August. Further details below. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSG697/l...

My department is hiring a lecturer or senior lecturer in philosophy. It's an open call in terms of research specialization, but we're keen to hire someone whose teaching/research speaks to PPE in some way. This is a great job in a great department. Please help me spread the word!

Loughborough International Relations, Politics and History@irph.bsky.social · 3w ago

JOB KLAXON! We're looking to hire a lecturer or senior lecturer in philosophy. This is a permanent, full-time teaching-and-research position. The deadline for applications is 26 August. Further details below. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSG697/l...

Deadline today!

School of Politics and Economics@kcl-spe.bsky.social · last mo.

🔔 Job alert 🔔 ➡️ AEP Lecturer in Public Policy and Ethics The position is open to anyone with the ability to deliver excellent introductory teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate level on policy processes, and ethics and public policy. Apply ⬇️ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSC917/a...

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June heatwave killed up to 440 people a day in England and Wales, data suggests

Extreme temperatures in May and June led to about 2,700 lost lives in total with climate crisis adding 3C to 4C

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On the latest episode of Knowing Animals, I speak to Professor Marcy Norton (Uni. Pennsylvania, History) about her The Tame and the Wild (Harvard). Among other topics, we discuss hunting, farming, 'pets', and witchcraft. Available at knowinganimals.libsyn.com/episode-251-... or in the usual places.

🔔 Job alert 🔔 ➡️ AEP Lecturer in Public Policy and Ethics The position is open to anyone with the ability to deliver excellent introductory teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate level on policy processes, and ethics and public policy. Apply ⬇️ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSC917/a...

AEP Lecturer in Public Policy and Ethics at King's College London

Recruiting now: AEP Lecturer in Public Policy and Ethics on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board

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Philosophy job in beautiful Lund 🇸🇪 lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/... #philjobs

Senior Lecturer in Practical Philosophy

We are seeking a candidate for a full-time permanent position as Senior Lecturer in Practical Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy at Lund University. Workplace and academic environment The Depa

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We'd be really grateful if you could share this petition for Exeter alumni too! We're planning to submit this to the Vice-Chancellor in the coming hours, so any final signatures would be very valuable

Alumni petition against the planned cuts to the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

Any Exeter alumni who wish for their names to be added to the petition below should please complete the form at this link: https://forms.gle/SpdYvmmsCaJbmZft6. If you are not an alumnus, but still wis...

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I am very glad to see how widely covered the insanity at Exeter is, but please I beg everyone, understand this is happening EVERYWHERE in UK universities. If people care about anything valuable that this sector does or contributes too, they need to get loud, now.

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · last mo.

Something deeply troubling & shocking is happening at Exeter University*, where a mass cull of staff is planned, even though it's in surplus. No good justifications given. @jamesgdyke.info provides the details: www.technosphere.earth/the-bonfire-... *Disclosure: I have a Visiting Fellowship here. +🧵

A petition objects to faculty cuts that represent an “existential threat to humanities and social science disciplines at Exeter.”

Exeter’s Executive Board Proposes Massive Cuts; Petition Launched - Daily Nous

The Executive Board of the University of Exeter has proposed cutting around 150 staff roles, reports the BBC, with with 115 of them in the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, according to...

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Philosopher Rebecca Tuvel is interviewed about the lessons and effects of "almost getting canceled", nine years after the "Hypatia Transracialism Controversy"

“I’m much less concerned about how people react to me” - Daily Nous

That was part of Rebecca Tuvel's answer to a question from journalist Evan Goldstein about "the benefits of almost getting canceled." Professor Tuvel (Rhodes College) was interviewed recently by Golds...

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I'd be happy to support potential applicants working in my research areas, including (but not limited to) animals in moral and political philosophy.

Loughborough International Relations, Politics and History@irph.bsky.social · last mo.

We welcome applications from competitive early-career scholars for the MSCA postdoctoral fellowships. (Scheme details linked.) If you are interested, reach out to a potential supervisor comfortably in advance of the internal deadline of 3 July.

Philosophy job at Sheffield (fixed term); please share! #PhilJobs #philsky jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Lecturer...

A lot of media coverage of the ‘AI’ reading of the Herculaneum scrolls really fails to understand what’s happened here. There’s no language processing happening, the AI/ML is not trained on a corpus of texts or language. It can detect ink to see shapes. HUMAN EXPERTS are then transcribing the text.

Applications are open for UK scholarships for applied philosophy. www.appliedphil.org/funding/doct...