Funny how talk of social contagion is always about restricting the identities and behaviours of young people, never about, say, once-respectable academics collecting reactionary ideas like an 8 year old collects interestingly-shaped rocks

Nick Barlow@nickbwalking.bsky.social · 3d ago

In a move that will surprise absolutely no one who's been paying attention, Stock has decided that women with disabilities are suffering from "social contagion"

Travelling after conferences to make the most of my carbon footprint

I don't think there's ever been much of an intellectual justification for this kind of culture, to me the aggro Q&A is pretty transparently service to inert nerd masculinity and serves no other function

Anjali Dayal@anjalikdayal.bsky.social · last wk.

I don’t really want to get into this with people who feel this way, but i don’t think this is a good thing! We don’t need to behave this way! It’s not healthy to approach academic discourse as an exercise in harshness!

August as an academic

“There are no sex scenes, and all the food looks horrible.” Emily Wilson 🤝 Alex Rails.

Pitch idea: “How to do Cocaine at a Conference” by Alex Rails

Missed all the fun on philosophysky, I was at a conference doing the optimal amount of flirting (zero)

If only Berlin airport had been built by someone who's been to an airport before

I'm officially a Dr!

[Whispers]: any conference can be this type of conference if you just try

Jo Wolff@jowolff.bsky.social · 2w ago

From time to time I toy with the idea of organising a conference composed entirely of tea, coffee and lunch breaks.

One thing I absolutely love about academia is that I get to visit friends all over the world

A homeless guy in Berlin just told me I have a non-smoker face, so I take it that not smoking is really working out for me in place of a skincare routine

This gorgeous essay from the social-media-less Lily Hu is everything: on what it means to "do" philosophy amidst pressure to automate it (with lessons that travel much more broadly). Rhymes with brilliant insights from @biblioracle.bsky.social @janerosenzweig.bsky.social Ted Chiang & others

Lily Hu · Un-Doing Philosophy

Analytic philosophers in the United States are increasingly embracing AI, both by taking advisory positions at tech companies and by using large language models for their own research and writing. Som...

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transphobia has been epistemically disastrous for academic philosophy. on the left is Alex Byrne claiming that Simone de Beauvoir defined sex by gamete size. on the right is Simone de Beauvoir explicitly stating that sex cannot be defined by gamete size.

While there are some losses in higher education, the UK remains highly competitive in the easily preventable crisis sector

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · last mo.

British Academy President's statement on the UK's higher education crisis, July 2026.

Finally have the time to put the video's of the Liebig-replications on my YouTube channel. The description of this video contains some more information about the experiment and the set-up (and what exactly you're seeing in the video). youtube.com/shorts/71K1W...

Liebig analysis of organic compounds: replication

YouTube video by Beck In The Lab

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Watching the German government quickly dismantle a century of workers rights that people have striked, fought, and even died for, and people just go "eh, this sucks but what can you do"

(ignoring the pile of unread books on my nightstand) maybe I should hit the bookshops for summer reading?

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

Publishers are asking researchers to pay public funds to other publishers, so they can print an image other researchers produced using public funds. Both publishers profit.

Train productivity is a fickle mistress

Twin 2: "it must be nice to be a philosopher, because it sounds like 'velociraptor'"

The Department of Philosophy and Moral Sciences at UGent has issued a statement protesting the recent hire of Nathan Cofnas. Despite the dire situation, I am incredibly heartened by the fact that my department is united in taking such a strong stance. www.ugent.be/lw/philosoph...

Taking a stance against unqualified DEI hires (edgelord conservatives brought in mostly for their opinions under the guise of bringing "balance")

I am in no way exaggerating when I say that Wikipedia is critical infrastructure, even more so in the age of AI. I hope the foundation is smart enough not to let all that die on the hill of a bullshit anti-union stance

Mia Sato@miasato.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New: If Wikipedia breaks, the rest of the internet breaks. But now a series of layoffs at the nonprofit that supports the site has alarmed volunteer editors. Hundreds of them — responsible for millions of edits — are threatening to strike. Gift link: www.theverge.com/report/93944...

“The corporate takeover of language and thought will only succeed if academics and students allow it.” Edinburgh Philosophy telling it like it is #philsky #ai

Does Your Department Have an AI Policy? Here’s Edinburgh’s - Daily Nous

Has your department instituted an AI policy? If so, whom does it govern, and what does it say? What should such a policy say? Has your department considered an AI policy but held off on writing or imp...

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I beg scientist to read one (1) philosophy of science book other than Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions and Popper's Logic of Scientific Discovery before putting their philosophical reflections on their field in writing

Bluesky disappoints my worst impulses as a discourse spectator because we haven't had any academic main characters who defend slop citations in face of the recent arxiv policy

Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

taken.

A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.

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