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For @aftermath.site's Hater Week, I wrote about how deeply I hate Adobe aftermath.site/i-hate-adobe/

I Hate Adobe

Adobe is a wretched, exploitative company that loves generative AI. Many are coerced into paying money for their software and the software runs like garbage.

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“genocide operates on a continuum... In Stanton's framework, persecution is stage eight of ten, immediately preceding extermination. It is not hyperbole to say that the machinery of state operating upon trans life is genocidal in nature… The state has said so itself, in its own press releases.”

Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com · last wk.

“If this were occurring abroad, to an ethnic minority, we would call it ethnic cleansing.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-american...

A few days left for our call for papers on Philosophy through Art, Games and Fiction, dedicated to Helen De Cruz think.taylorandfranc... I am convinced that being playful and creative makes us better philosophers. Prove me right! #philsky #philosophy

Resistance is possible www.thebanner.com/sports/rugby...

A trans ban came to rugby. Baltimore’s Ferals played on.

In February, USA Rugby banned transgender women from competing with other women at all levels. Something interesting happened: Many teams refused to listen.

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The German Research Foundation has outlined how independent research is increasingly vulnerable to political interference, urging the research community to take action to become more resilient to such attacks. www.chemistryworld.com/news/german-...

German research funder issues warning over threats to academic freedom

External influences - such as politics, funding and the media - are increasingly putting the autonomy of research under pressure

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c.org/GGSXMQmgbP Support workers at the University of Exeter via this petition. Protest their callous treatment. Call out administrative slop.

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Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter

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deeply annoying that creative breakthroughs don’t come on schedule from direct work but from things like “open-ended conversations with interesting people” and “doing nothing”

Hasok Chang opening the 11th biennial conference of the Society for the Philosophy of Science in Practice #spsp2026 - as ever, fantastic to see so many dear friends and beautiful minds together in one (large!) room! #philsci spspcambridge2026.com

Heading to Cambridge today: spspcambridge2026.com/program #spsp #philsci #hps

SPSP Conference 2026 Program | SPSP Cambridge 2026

The Society for the Philosophy of Science in Practice 2026 conference program. Hosted at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge.

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Science coverage of this open letter with quotes from @bayesianboy.bsky.social @cailinmeister.bsky.social Craig Callender, Matthew Liao @naomioreskes.bsky.social and me. Journals, the ball is in your court now.

Philosophers call for their journals to require conflict of interest disclosures

A new petition urges greater transparency amid growing ties to AI and other companies

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Anna Alexandrova@annaalexandrova.bsky.social · last mo.

Signed as soon as I read it. True, some philosophers will cheerlead for free (due to their tech optimism or with the expectation of funding later) and such behaviour is not covered by the proposed policy. But it would still be useful to be able to detect some cheerleading worth discounting.

Philosophers! Craig Callender and I are circulating an open letter calling for better COI disclosure in our journals. If tech companies fund and employ philosophers working on AI, we need to know and to be thinking about the impacts 1 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Open Letter about Industry Funding and Disclosure in Philosophy

*For full list of signatories, updated every few hours, please click here.* In recent years, philosophical writing on areas such as climate change, technology, misinformation, and artificial intellige...

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And it’s out - our homage to the inimitable John Dupré, a giant of contemporary philosophy, from his loving colleagues and a stellar cast of contributors link.springer.com/book/10.1007... : #philsci

Life Beyond Human Boundaries: John Dupré’s Philosophy and the Interdisciplinary Study of the Life Sciences

This open access book is self-standing as the only substantive anthology of writings centered on John Dupre’s work.

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About to do the annual Applying for Philosophy PhD Programs session. If you have undergrads or MA students, now is a great time to start thinking about application prep. Guide here: www.hkandersen.com/applying-for... #philsky #philsci

Applying for Ph.d. programs

​These notes were developed over the years for the annual "Applying to a PhD program" session for Simon Fraser University Philosophy MA students. This offers a perspective on how to prioritize your...

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Finishing an exciting workshop on concepts and normativity today @iphilluh.bsky.social with a commentary response format: seen here are my comments on Bryce Huebner‘s work on dynamic views of concepts and minds, discussing great work by @smellosopher.bsky.social amongst many others! #cogsci #philsky

Been signing many such pleas lately, lost count. But for some reason this particular new instalment of vandalism towards the incredible humanists at Exeter is hitting me especially hard c.org/TMyFPYcBDh

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Das Forum Wissenschaftsreflexion ist eröffnet! Der erste geistes- und sozialwissenschaftliche Neubau an einer technischen Universität in Deutschland bündelt Forschung der #LUH zu drängenden Zukunftsfragen und zum Verhältnis von Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft. go.lu-h.de/zLXYE

Interesting perspective of the 6 camps within the growing ‘discourse coalition’ that is metascience. open.substack.com/pub/macrosci...

The Six Camps of Metascience

A field guide for policymakers (and everyone who cares about American science).

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It’s been five years since Alex Jones lost InfoWars to the Sandy Hook families. As the verdict came down, he asked: “Do these people actually believe they’re getting any money?” He hasn't paid them a penny. Well, The Onion is going pay them anyway. The new InfoWars begins July 2nd at 8 p.m. ET.

The Onion says it won’t wait for the courts, will launch Infowars to pay Sandy Hook families

The Onion’s staff is tired of waiting for the courts to settle its pending takeover of Alex Jones’ brand, so the new Infowars will launch next month.

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All the efforts to rewild a Northern California stream leads to salmon rewilding themselves.

The curious comeback of Putah Creek’s salmon - High Country News

All the efforts to rewild a Northern California stream leads to salmon rewilding themselves.

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Marjane Satrapi 1969-2026

obviously, i am too square for this rad workshop. nonetheless, bwsah.org

Berlin Workshop on Speech and Harm

Join the Berlin Workshop on Speech and Harm, an academic event focused on speech research. Register now for free!

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Incredible! Scientists receive a rare standing ovation after announcing that a new treatment can double the survival time for pancreatic cancer, the deadliest cancer which was once considered “undruggable.” When we fund and support science, we can achieve anything! (Video: Dr. Wish Dhillon)

heck yeah i am excited for this workshoptoknowsciencethought

Institute of Philosophy LUH@iphilluh.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Reminder: In June, #ForumWissenschaftsreflexion will open its doors. We are excited to move into our new research building dedicated to the #ScienceOfScience, and want to celebrate with you! For this purpose, we are hosting our Inaugural Conference from June 17-19. #PhilSci #HPS #SocSky #STS

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

From the new issue: Effective and Selective Realisms – John Dougherty Abstract in alt text or read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #philsci #philsky

There is no clearer case for the necessity of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 than how quickly southern states moved to eliminate Black-majority districts and dilute Black power after SCOTUS eroded Section 2. SCOTUS’s reasoning was immediately disproven by reality.

I’ll vote for whichever 2028 candidate promises reconstruction 2.0 at this point

Witnessing southern states rush to dismantle black voting power is truly truly some heartbreaking shit to behold