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that med school is also super controversial, may end up really making SFU worse off, not better

Depends on the kid. My just-turned-13 YO saw it. He is sensitive to violence, but telling him the basic plot really helped. At one point there was a lot of tension, he was going to leave, but once he knew "this is the big end battle," he was fine. Closed his eyes for a few explicit bits. Loved it.

On a rough thick brown paper notebook cover is a line art drawing of a snail. It is sluglike with a lovely curved shell, and lots of great texture details in fine point ink. It has two glorpy eyes on stalks and two mouth tentacles for waving slowly and sighing. It is a handsome boi.

Eldest child drew me this amazing snail blorbo on my notebook cover, had to share

what we should really be debating, is banana flavour and blue raspberry

Intersecting angles of brutalist concrete quadrangle style buildings, in the twilight with a dark blue sky behind

Blue hour Academic Quadrangle on the walk home
#sfu

on the other hand, my mom drank a 12 pack of Diet Coke every day for years. She is now a mid 70's woman with stage 3 stomach cancer. statistical generalizations, eh

The Carney doctrine Open comment thread on the PM's Davos speech

ok damn this is a good speech.

paulwells.substack.com/p/the-carney...

a samurai lego figure stands in front of a fire Alt: Lord Garmadon from Ninjago movie glares in his secret lair

Or maybe that Lord Garmadon has shark people minions, that seems to be the level of discourse

Tell him Obama has a lower Bacon-Erdos number

argh thanks for noticing, I will email them about fixing that tomorrow

yes, should be fun! Though I have to note, it's AndersEn. So much email goes astray when people use the O

Just gotta point out that "Canadian content" got us both Strange Brew and Heated Rivalry which combo is an amazing Canadian taxpayer contribution to society

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadia...

It takes special bravery in a family game of Apples to Apples for a teen to play the "Your mom" card.

as a professional philosopher who works in/on pragmatism I firmly endorse this!

I am working on this but it is unwieldy, getting long, also unsure where to publish it. Cambridge elements is a good idea, though I will confess that I really dislike that cover they use for the phil sci ones. Maybe I could
convince them it belongs in a different topic area and get a different cover

A meme format with new details filled in. On the left, it reads, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Then a red arrow with text above and below. Above text reads, Kissing a guy's wife is fine if you kiss him too. Below text reads, Everyone is imperfect, but being honest and forthcoming about our mistakes is the path to redemption.

Eldest child made this arcane lore christmas meme. Happy christmas eve!

Holly K. Andersen, Foundations of Causation - PhilPapers Drawing on historical episodes where new fields of science branch out of philosophy, I offer six distinctive developments involved in such episodes as a template that can be applied to the ...

Preprint for "Foundations of Causation", from my 2024 talk at the Minnesota CPS. I've been saying this offhand for years, so it was good to finally get specific and into the weeds about what it means to branch out a new science of causation.

#philsky #philsci
philpapers.org/rec/ANDFOC-2

Kid 2 got a plasma ball birthday gift. Here it is in slo mo.

woohoo, congratulations!

A couple years ago, it was discovering that any .ac.uk email had been pre-filtered. Trying to explain that's the ENTIRE UK academic suffix, being 'splained to that "its on a list of spam generators" and so IT refusing to allow those in. How many emails did I miss from colleagues? Will never know

This year's quality IT moment was explaining that U of Pennsylvania and U of Pittsburgh are not the same school

Pitt and USC definitely affected.

Heads up to PhD letter writers and to programs using My Liason system for grad letter submissions. I am not receiving any emails from Liason to my SFU address, even to reset my password. IT Services can't find anything; this happened last year also. You might need to go looking! #philsky #philsci

Giving a talk today! I am excited to be working out how to structure this overall argument, lots of moving pieces and not in any final form yet. And definitely longer than 1 paper. In the meantime, here's the bit I am focusing on now. #philsci #philsky

philosophy.ubc.ca/events/event...

woohoo! I had a similar experience, though mine involved the "didnt notice about my kids because I was like that -> kids get diagnosed -> -> I get diagnosed" path. started adhd meds about 2 years ago. Like turning down the static volume knob. wish I had known sooner. good luck with the new meds!

Tidal is pretty awesome and much better for paying musicians

we had to do 2 "publishable quality papers" for comps and it was super useful, both because you had to level up from term paper writing to do it, and because some people discovered they actually hated writing papers like that and it was better to complete the master's and move on, than write a diss

I do have a bit in my talk for Friday about epistemic wrongs vs epistemic harms. Does it work for this case? Dunno, will think about it

this sounds amazing! Cannot watch in live time, will a recording be posted?

I got myself a neuron scarf for my talk in Bloomington at IU HPS and it is so awesome. Bringing to attention of philosophers of science if you want to support small biz artists #philsci