Wait I could have just been listening to Merzbow in class this WHOLE TIME?????
26.02.2026 17:14
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Wait I could have just been listening to Merzbow in class this WHOLE TIME?????
Email from the University of Minnesota that reads as follows: Office of Information Technology Hello, You are receiving this message because you have opted in to use Gemini with your University of Minnesota Google account. Starting today, you will begin to see Gemini features integrated into Docs, Slides, and Forms. These features were previously only available for those with a Gemini Pro License. Please note that it may take up to two weeks for these new features to appear. Once the rollout is complete, you will see the Gemini icon in the top right corner of your screen when accessing these apps. Selecting the icon will open a side panel that lets you leverage AI within the application to summarize, refine, or generate content
Oh fuck off
Second time in a week that a student had asked me if I am majoring in philosophy
To 99% of ICE-occupied Minneapolis, the line between good and evil over the past two months has been absolutely clear. Yet the #UMN administration has consistently picked the wrong side.
www.startribune.com/politics-uni...
eLeCtAbiLiTy
Imagine how much they’d show up there if it was still SUPER AMERICA
Dear Kant Scholar friends: do you know of any texts in which Kant reflected on the Russian occupation of Königsberg during the Seven Year’s War? Starting a course on Kant next week and trying to make it more relevant to the current events in (occupied) Minneapolis. #philosophy #kant
I’m going to go with the latter.
alive and trollin'
screenshot of email from Steve Fuller to the HOPOS listserv with content that reads "Scholasticism on overdrive"
we're so back #hopos
Magneto perfection meme: on the left are three images, of Mariah Carey's "All I want for Christmas is you," Dean Martin's "Let it snow," and Mannheim Steamroller's "Christmas." On the right are captions "I want traditional christmas music," "I said traditional christmas music," and "perfection"
Well, I’m at least happy that Pitt took Gabel off of our hands.
google is out of control. google docs' auto grammar check just told me I should split my infinitive. 😡
website text reading "Appointments in Philosophy: New; GRLpGpAG has been appointed as Mr. at GRLpGpAG (1) starting in 2026. Doctorate: 1, GRLpGpAG. Current position: Mr. at GRLpGpAG. AOS: 555. 1967 Category: Junior/Other Posted: November 9, 2025"
philosophers out here just hiring anyone these days smh
UMN administration has not taken this simple step.
3 year PhD position at U of Copenhagen for a philosophical analysis of animal models in translational neuroscience. Those with MA in HPS, philosophy, anthropology, psychology, STS, etc. are welcome to apply. Application deadline is Oct 31 #HPS #STS employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...
Podcast episode description from The Daily, titled “The U.S. Keeps Killing Venezuelans on Boats. Is That Legal?”
Real @nytpitchbot.bsky.social energy here…
Sick. Congrats! I'm going to have to get myself a copy.
Oh and it was also eventually rejected 🥴
I once had a series of R&Rs where MY responses alone totaled 10k words. I want credit for another article for that.
There's still time to submit to HOPOS 2026 - The Sixteenth Biennial Congress of the International Society for the History and Philosophy of Science.
June 22-26, 2026 at The Ohio State University.
Deadline: 11:59 PM (PDT), September 30, 2025.
hopos2026.dryfta.com/index.php
🎙️ New HPS Pod!
I chat with Prof. Lydia Patton about HOPOS — the history of philosophy of science. From her editorship of the journal to the future of the discipline, Patton shares why a historical lens reshapes core philosophical questions.
🎧 Link in bio!
#HOPOS
Nah, you can't do that. That's Ohio State's thing.
Chuck Schumer will write a very strongly worded letter.
Forearm with a fresh tattoo of an illustrated elephant.
New tat substantially increases my #HOPOS cred
Unsolicited advice for incoming PhD students:
Be wary of faculty who tend to shit-talk their colleagues in the presence of students. Don't allow yourself to be conscripted into their petty rivalries
(Not casting aspersions. I do it myself. And now that I am doing work that's more social/institutional history, I find myself writing with conflicting tenses regularly...)
Has anyone written on historians of philosophy's propensity to write in present tense about historical philosophical theories? There is some sort of Platonic assumption about the atemporality of the conceptual systems we are engaging with, right?
Your post made me read that DN article. SO THANKS FOR THAT.