Matt Jope

Upon reflection, I acknowledge it was a mistake to enter the LHC wearing a purple dinosaur costume and roller skates. This was a moment of poor of judgement and not reflective of my profound commitment to citizen science. I will be taking time away from my youtube channel and from social media.

Upon reflection, I acknowledge it was a mistake to enter the LHC wearing a purple dinosaur costume and roller skates. This was a moment of poor of judgement and not reflective of my profound commitment to citizen science. I will be taking time away from my youtube channel and from social media.

Call-for-papers: Hypatia Special Issue on Feminist Philosophy of Mind

Guest Editors: Gloria Andrada and Carolina Flores

Deadline for submissions: 15th January 2026

Details and links to submit on the website:

Hope so, otherwise seems like pretty solid grounds for despair

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

It’s publication day! Spread the word. The perfect Christmas gift for the pessimist in your life.

‘People still blame me for their perforated eardrums’: how we made the Tango ads ‘Gil Scott-Heron did the closing voiceover. He was giggling away, saying, “You English guys are crazy!”’

I am just now learning that Gil Scott-Heron did the voiceover for the "You've been tangoed" ads in the 90s

Rome is nice, you should check out the old town. Though some of it has fallen into disrepair, sadly.

And just like that, the notes could, in fact, note the noted.

On a train down to England and noticed random guy sitting next to me is writing a paper on truthmaker semantics. We are legion.

RFK is gonna be so mad when he finds out Descartes did this bit already

Everyone should be allowed one turn each on the Large Hadron Collider, just to check the results for themselves

Society of Applied Philosophy conference is back in Edinburgh next summer, and has @jennysaul.bsky.social and Ishani Maitra, amongst others, as keynotes - the call for abstracts has just gone out.

How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."

me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually

www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

It’s official - “Nigel Farage is right, don’t vote for him” is a demonstrably awful strategy for Labour. Boosts salience of immigration, costs votes on the left, doesn’t persuade any voters on right (why would they accept a crap knock-off when they can have the original?)

Congrats!

The Problem with the ‘Now What’ Problem - Ethical Theory and Moral Practice It has long been assumed that the moral error theory faces a ‘Now What’ problem. The error theory says that all moral judgments are false, and the ‘Now What’ problem asks what we should do with our mo...

Pausing my social media hiatus to say that my first paper 'The Problem with the 'Now What' Problem' is now out in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice! The paper is open access so anyone should be able to read it.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

ALL WORK AND NO PLAY MAKES KOKO A DULL BOY

@jameshutton.bsky.social

New study shows that given infinite time monkeys crippled by lack of meaning and purpose in life, refusing to type anything

bring da caucas

As a matter of existential urgency, the UK desperately needs a national broadcaster willing to report basic facts about the Reform Party.

My current not-very-informed-but-its-the-best-I-got take on the electorate in rich western democracies right now is that they really really hated post-pandemic inflation and did the typical thermostatic public opinion thing where they just blamed whoever was in power for that. So far so normal...

I've never seen the pointy bridge and I was definitely at this talk

Misplaced Trust in Expertise: Pseudo-Experts and Unreliable Experts The persistence of scientific misconceptions is often attributed to a decline in trust in experts. Against this simplistic picture, we emphasise that misplaced trust in expertise plays a crucial ro...

"Misplaced Trust in Expertise: Pseudo-Experts and Unreliable Experts" by Michel Croce & Neri Marsili doi.org/10.1080/0269... The persistence of scientific misconceptions is often attributed to a decline in trust in experts. #socialepistemology #journal #article #trust #expertise #misinformation

This paper is now out in PPR. In it, I argue against the widely held assumption that trust is inherently risky, showing that we can often be 'merely' vulnerable, where this need not entail an associated risk.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

An Open Letter to BBC Management, Written by BBC Journalists and Signed by Media Industry Professionals:

"The BBC is not reporting “without fear or favour” when it comes to Israel."

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Council still not replying to your letters?

Hot Grim Summer

An image from an airplane safety guide showing an adult and child. The adult is holding the child in one hand and inflating the child's life jacket with the other, blowing into what looks like a flute but is presumably supposed to be the inflatable blowhole.

In case of emergency, play jazz flute to your ventriloquist dummy