an email that says Nice work. Michael! With 34 new reads, your contributions were the third-most-read contributions from your department last week

i swear ResearchGate is negging me

a tiny wax seal kit

found this little wax seal kit at a local loppemarked. lemme know if you want to receive some guaranteed untampered correspondence

that this made blunder made it thru peer review is more damning that the various sokals

not sure this is the best but I like it

you say 'Kelsey signs are letter' trunk said 'Tuesday'. it's all arbitrary to me baby

this arbitrary deadline is as dumb and pointless as trumps, and just as bad

don't do it

Does it matter how recent a job applicant’s teaching experience is? If I’ve just completed a year of adjuncting, can I pivot to more research-oriented positions (e.g., non-teaching postdoc, permanent research associateship)? Or will committees desire recent teaching experience, such that I should continue adjuncting with some regularity? If so, how much would be a good benchmark?

I don't mean to be mean, but if this person (asking this Q on a philosophy blog) is actually asking whether they should do adjunct work to improve their chances on the philosophy job market, their PhD program has utterly failed them

center alignment for a whole essay? are you psychotic?

imo this shouldve been number 3

I have read and enjoyed ben lerner's Transcription. and so can you

it better be now

but what's the second I in AIIbirds stand for?

be like me! have a light phone! don't use it!

i mean, what do you expect from a kid named avuncular?

[pulls up a chair, sits down backwards on it]

you know who else did something cool after 3 days??

Matthew Shields, Diving for pearls: conceptual abandonment, conceptual engineering, and the limits of thought and language - PhilPapers References to conceptual abandonment are ubiquitous in philosophy. I argue that making a case for abandonment is much harder than philosophers have realized and that this difficulty has striking, broa...

I have a new paper coming out on conceptual abandonment: philpapers.org/rec/SHIDFP-2. Abandonment is a ubiquitous strategy in the history of philosophy – philosophers have advocated getting rid of folk psychological concepts, the concept of harm, the concept of democracy, among many others.

nothing? not even genocide? you sick fuck. you absolute monster

going to a concert tonight like it's 2019 again

nnoooooo i want the job market posts!

(but seriously: that's nice)

as the light flashes outside and the wind of the shockwave rushes towards you, the words 'we decided to pursue candidates who better fit our current needs' enter your brain for all eternity

maybe one day i'll come to terms with emoji reacts to emails in outlook, but today is not that day

is this how you soft launch your goatee?

there's a lot of reasons to hate andy weir. chief among them his attempts at humour

maybe it's just me, but it's elitism and (seeming?) disdain for front line work put me off

6 pictures of old people in marine uniforms. 4 out of the six are screaming, the other two seem to show the same dude who looks quietly scared but isn't screaming

lately the chumbucket ads I've been seeing on local news pages keep featuring (ai generated?) stock images of old dudes in marine uniforms, usually screaming

morning sunrise in Tromsø

tromsø

imo: not cool

it remains amazing that Trump somehow managed to pick two completely different sorts of dorks to be his vp

having just been to Exeter for a workshop on social AI, I can attest that it'd be a solid place on those topics for a couple years

more of this bs in Canada's future as carney hollows out the federal bureaucracy