AG Holdier (Academic Job Applicant Edition)

Super interested to hear what's got you thinking about this 👀

weird: i don't think I've had this problem

Screenshot from Ted lasso showing Roy, Ted, and Coach Beard looking confused and surprised.

Me deciphering wtf DN did based only on y'all's subtweets:

read *and* write?

in this economy?

A "wrestler posing while winning" meme with her feet labeled "analytics with thoughts™ on ai today" and her face labeled "phenomenologists half a century ago"

A photoshopped cover of a book by Routledge made to look like the title is "why it's okay to make sure the reader knows your politics" by Cranky McBadfaithson

🤔

The ending made me cry while sitting in an auto shop's waiting room [positive affect]

Commenting so you can note that I did not "like" this

Recent coauthored publication, we need you now more than ever. philarchive.org/rec/HOLARA-2

I haven't read this closely enough yet to have a view (beyond "ugh. ETS scores 🙄"), but it is funny that 'Pharmacy' is apparently both:

- the second-best undergrad major for high LSAT scores, and

- the second-worst major for developing intellectual virtues
doi.org/10.1017/apa....

Me re-reading my old draft:

Normal Reader: "awww, the power of friendship!"

Me: "this smells oscillatory: let's add coauthors until we reach equilibrium and finally solve imposter syndrome!"

i always thought imogen heap was british

*Philosophers*

I'm the book review editor at the Journal of Moral Philosophy. We have a pile of books looking for reviewers. If interested in reviewing a book in ethics/political/action that came out in 2022, 2023, 2024, or 2025, please keep reading. And please share this too!

I think I have an abstract somewhere that's even more directly arguing for op's less-than-fully-serious point 😅

Decent chance Jonathan is joking here, but uhh... if you're at NASSP next week I'll be presenting @agholdier.bsky.social's and my work on this!

A badly photoshopped screenshot of Brett Karlan quote-tweeting himself. The original tweet has been edited to read "boutta check the hype" with a blurry screenshot of the PPR article 'Slurring Silences' by A.G. Holdier. The quote-tweet has been edited to read "lol, sucks a$$"

pshhh like i don't keep receipts

I hate that it took me almost two weeks to see this incredible photo 😄🍻

Dumber philosopher of language here. 🙋
"team of grad students" = "the present king of France"

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?

Lewis (1969) famously defended the view that common knowledge is infinitarian: common knowledge happens when everyone knows that P, everyone knows that everyone knows that P, everyone knows that everyone knows that everyone...

"causal power of absences" 2.0

Being Trans in Philosophy issue #0 release. Subtitle: download, make your own. Url: https://being.transinphilosophy.org. Image of 5 zines arranged in the trans pride colors, stacked on top of well-known trans books.

Title: ‘welcome to the WTF.” Image of a biohazard symbol overlayed on a world map with lines radiating from the center of the symbol, and the spires of the biohazard symbol are impinging on two scared trans symbols. A very long list of anti-trans events since 2021 portraying the looming threats to trans life from violence, media, and governmental disenfranchisement. Footer text: https://being.transinphilosophy.org.

Text header: issue #0, june 2025, https://being.transinphilosophy.org, our stories, “we are not trans in a theoretical way”. A list of contributors with each name on a black badge over a purple splatter. The names are: Imogen Sullivan, Erin Beeghly, Ray Briggs, Anonymous, autogyniphiles_anonymous, Emmie Malone, Kelly Potter, Elin McCready, Penny Haulotte, Amy Marvin, Alex Adamson, Perry Zurn, Emil Eva Rosina, and Maximiliana Rifkin.

Text header: issue #0, june 2025, https://being.transinphilosophy.org, our stories, “we are not trans in a theoretical way”. A block of white text on a stippled purple star background reads: “being trans i not a controversial idea. it’s a lived reality.” Under the text appears a black and white image of a feminine eye.

Issue #0 of Being Trans in Philosophy zine is out now! “We Are Not Trans in a Theoretical Way”. Download & print ur own 🖨️. being.transinphilosophy.org

#beingtransinphilosophy #trans #philosophy #gender #feminism #zine #diy

Going to attach this article to my dissertation revisions

(I'd link to the (quite good) paper, but it's not out yet and I don't want to point to it until the author's finalized everything)

Ron Swanson dressed in a hat and jacket, standing outside and looking towards and past the camera with a happy, satisfied expression on his face.

MFW I read a paper acknowledgment thanking someone

"who served as a commentator on a previous version of this paper, which resulted not only in valuable feedback, but also the occasion of our first meeting and eventual marriage."

remember: you, too, can make citations like this
(i believe in you!)

Are any of my mutuals fluent in French?

Screenshot of the counter for the comments on the latest Daily Nous article (currently showing 111 comments)

Launching a DDOS attack might legitimately fall under "Service" on a CV

really makes you [not] think

shark-jumping branding for APA totes, when?
(👀 @kmdoublev.bsky.social)