Great news - 1600 academic workers won their first collective bargaining contract at the University of Kansas @afthighered.bsky.social @aaup.org www.aft.org/press-releas...
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Great news - 1600 academic workers won their first collective bargaining contract at the University of Kansas @afthighered.bsky.social @aaup.org www.aft.org/press-releas...
Absolutely not (bc of the Nazi thing). But look forward to you returning here
So turns out Cantor stole the proof that \\(\mathbb{R}\\) is uncountable from Dedekind https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-man-who-stole-infinity-20260225/
Book cover of “Organic Progress and Evolutionary Theory” by Silvia De Cesare in the Cambridge Elements: The Philosophy of Biology series. Against a black background, the title is surrounded by Ernst Haeckel’s illustrations of marine organisms—radial, symmetrical forms in vivid blues, oranges, reds, and greens.
New Element in the #PhilBio series by Silvia De Cesare—free to download until March 2! De Cesare examines the thorny issue of 'evolutionary progress,' recounting the arguments against and in favor of cashing out this contested notion 👇📕 www.cambridge.org/core/element... #evosky #HPS #philsky
"Purdue has since warned faculty against speaking with the media."
A UChicago-led team unearthed ‘Spinosaurus mirabilis,’ a fish-eating giant and the first new species of its kind in a century, where nothing like it was supposed to exist
news.uchicago.edu/story/hell-h...
Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it.
Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:
ABSTRACT. Although the urgency of our present environmental crises is not in doubt, claims that we are in the midst of a sixth mass extinction are highly controversial. Our aims here are, first, to shed philosophical light on this scientific debate—the many conceptual and methodological challenges involved in answering this scientific question—and, second, to offer new perspectives on what the value of asking this question has been, and if that value persists. We argue that a straightforward answer to the question of whether we are experiencing a mass extinction is undermined by the challenges in defining ‘mass extinction’, uncertainties in past and present diversity assessments, and data incommensurabilities. Further, an excessive focus on the mass extinction framing can be unhelpful to conservation efforts, leading us to miss out on the many other valuable insights that Earth’s deep time can offer in guiding our future.
From the latest issue:
Are We in a Sixth Mass Extinction? The Challenges of Answering and Value of Asking
– Federica Bocchi, Alisa Bokulich, Leticia Castillo Brache, Gloria Grand-Pierre & Aja Watkins
Abstract in alt text or read it here:
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
#philsci #philsky
100+ Minnesota musicians banded together to put out an anti-ICE album, with all proceeds going to the charity Mutual Aid at MNTogether (disclosure: my nephew in Minneapolis helped organized this, more info in the link below) meltice.bandcamp.com/album/melt-ice
Really great new paper using agent-based modelling to show how an exploratory childhood can lead to innovation in the population at large.
royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
🚨Recent work from Brian Leahy, Michael Huemer, Katie Holmes & Susan Carey:
Do older 2-year-olds deploy explicit possibility concepts in action planning?
Our new paper, with colleagues from the Strategic Council of the National Academies, offers an integrative framework of the several components that contribute to making research findings trustworthy including ethics, methodology, transparency, inclusion, assessment, etc
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Texas A&M ends its women's & gender studies program while hundreds of syllabi remain flagged and censored under top-down review policies.
“I have never seen anything like this.”
— Dr. Leonard Bright, @tamu-aaup.bsky.social President
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@cwa-tseu.bsky.social
An image reading the statement "The Future is Diamond" alongside the logo of the Open Journals Collective.
We've officially launched! With our new #DiamondOpenAccess investment campaign to help libraries build a sustainable, community‑led future for scholarly publishing & support journals flipping away from costly subscription models. Read the Press release here drive.google.com/file/d/10Hgf...
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Psychophysics to understand the visual cortex: frontiersin.org/journals/sys... - another paper by a great group from Tehran whose webpage is gone now.
Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning
A few days after finishing Metamorphosen in 1945, Strauss wrote in his diary:
"The most terrible period of human history is at an end, the twelve year reign of bestiality, ignorance and anti-culture under the greatest criminals, during which Germany's 2,000 years of cultural evolution met its doom"
"While there may be an argument to be had about whether her vehicle was moving in the general direction of that officer ..." there's really no reason to clutter the monologue w irrelevant arguments like this, conversationally implying their resolution might mitigate a murder. Otherwise, thank you!
With some trepidation, I'm putting this out into the world:
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class.
My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.
From an email to one of our faculty members....
Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!
Good interview, esp for exposing Shockley's absurd evidential sources of local anecdote, personal convos with white "industrialists" about their black workers, and no personal relationships with black people at all over his 70 yrs except a few black women who served as his maid or nurse.
With its 100th article published this year, the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Sciences (OECS) has rapidly become one of the most contemporary, authoritative, and comprehensive reference works in the field, and it's completely open access!
New Perspective from myself, Sarah Heilbronner and @myoo.bsky.social . “Rethinking the centrality of brain areas in understanding functional organization” in Nature Neuroscience. 🧵
rdcu.be/eVZ1A
Interested in the intersection of #philsci and machine learning? This open access book is where the most recent contributions by the leading voices in such debates are taking place.
Glad to be a part of it challenging the idea that computational reliabilism can pragmatically lead to trust in AI.
This is an amazing book - highly recommend for experts and casual readers alike!
