Still a beautiful thought.
"Habermas’s basic philosophical insight is that genuine agreement cannot be compelled. It can only be achieved when what he famously called the 'non-coercive force of the better argument' prevails."
Still a beautiful thought.
"Habermas’s basic philosophical insight is that genuine agreement cannot be compelled. It can only be achieved when what he famously called the 'non-coercive force of the better argument' prevails."
Here is my best Habermas story.
I am grad student waiting in LONG line for Habermas talk. There is a tall man waiting in front of me. Line moves so we are eventually visible to organizers, a woman looks over & makes horrified face. Runs out: "Prof Habermas! You don't have to wait in line!"
Jurgen Habermas, philosopher and German, European public intellectual has died, aged 96 (Spiegel)
www.spiegel.de/kultur/philo...
Now he wants warships from those weak, decaying countries of Europe.
"Persistent physical and mental health impairments remained common up to 2.5 years (...)
Karolinska Institutet researchers followed up on 130 adults with PCC who were never hospitalized for acute COVID and were assessed at a specialized post-COVID clinic in Stockholm, Sweden."
What is this ‘attention economy’? Is there really a market where people buy and sell human attention? If so, what’s wrong with that? New paper by Katharine Browne and me that argues: yes, there is an attention market and yes, there is something wrong with it. 🧵
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
I've written something about why banning kids from social media could be a terrible idea.
paulbernal.wordpress.com/2025/12/03/b...
I’m shocked, stunned etc.
Meanwhile, everywhere else around the world assumes Australia has cracked it and are rushing to copy their law.
Just saw Bloomsbury have put my book up on their website. It’s suddenly feeling very real!!
Great cover!
A fantastic gift was waiting for me on the office desk ✨️
Big congratulations, Annie, great work! 🎉 I just read the paper and found it very interesting to compare the differences and similarities with my findings in Sweden.
My first empirical paper from my PhD is out! It examines biomedical ontology in women’s reproductive health through endometriosis. I expand my concept of “ontological friction” showing how symptoms move thru porous configurations w/o coordinating as “disease”.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Judith Butler in Who's Afraid of Gender?: “The weaponization of this fearsome phantasm of ‘gender’ is authoritarian at its core.”
Looks like we need a new category:
☑️ all of the above
Vad roligt, grattis! Jag kommer gärna på disputationen. I Albano eller?
Börjar låta som en bok!
My book Hegel on History, Politics and Philosophy is just published. Essays, old and nw, with the last essay dealing with Hegel today. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Per The Economist/YouGov, half of Americans support ABOLISHING ICE.
Literally, "abolishing."
yougov.com/en-us/articl...
"I shall be asked whether I am a prince or a lawgiver that I write on Politics? I reply that I am not, and that that is why I write on Politics. If I were a prince or a legislator, I would not waste my time saying what needs doing; I would do it, or keep silent."
/Rousseau
Just adding onto your point: Goldenberg points out that the EBM framing seems to promote this misunderstanding about those who critique it. After all, who would oppose using the best evidence in medical decision-making?
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Fascinating. The immune system is fascinating.
"How strep throat may trigger autoimmune disease"
"Could post-strep immune changes spill into chronic fatigue syndrome?"
Can feed algorithms shape what people think about politics? Our paper "The Political Effects of X's Feed Algorithm" is out today in Nature and answers "Yes."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I've thought of this place ever since I began the PhD.
Lovely reel with shots of the interior (and Swedish narration):
www.instagram.com/reel/DU2H6Mz...
Thanks! Haha yes, I hope so too!
Just booked this cute villa, Konditori Lyran, for my PhD defense party in April!
Henrik Ibsen, Selma Lagerlöf, and Oscar II all used to party here. It was built in 1867, and according to legend, the Swedish expression "being at Lyran" (vara på Lyran), meaning being drunk, originated here.
The FDA recently published guidance on Bayesian statistics in clinical trials.
If there's one thing you read about it, let it be this great post by Adam Kroetsch:
www.clinicaltrialsabundance.blog/p/will-bayes...
It's probably also a product of media and social media (like X) influence.
Politikerna är inte i fas med väljarna – har de missat det?
"76 procent av svenskarna tycker att det är fel att utvisa barn som vuxit upp i Sverige när de fyllt 18 år om deras föräldrar får stanna."
"74 procent av regeringens väljare tycker att det är fel att ungdomarna utvisas."
