Joyce Havstad

The Secretive Company Filling Video Game Sites With Gambling And AI After being sold to Clickout Media, sites like GamesHub, The Escapist, Videogamer, and others have added gambling and casino stories and AI content

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Portrait of Bill Wimsatt

I’m excited to finally announce a Festschrift SI at Acta Biotheoretica honoring the work of Bill Wimsatt with the SI’s first publication by @consume.red and @philosofir.bsky.social! The editors (@caitlinmace.bsky.social and I) are delighted! #philsci #hpbio link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I wrote a paper with @philosofir.bsky.social about the relationship between the work of Bill Wimsatt & Mark Wilson. We talk about their shared interest in knowing how limited beings know a complex world, and explore the deep sympathies between the answers they find. You can read it here :^

The boys’ club: How Epstein’s influence shaped the exclusion of women in STEM In one email, an AI researcher suggested it’s “hard to be brilliant if you are worrying if you look fat or why another woman hates you.”

19thnews.org/2026/02/epst... “During his [Summers’] time as [Harvard] president he was also scrutinized for the lack of women in tenured positions. The Guardian reported that under his reign the share of tenured positions offered to women fell from 36 percent to 13 percent.”

“no really smart women - - -none”

that’s right

A lot of people, including me, were wondering how an IRB could ever approve this study.

The answer is that no IRB did. The person who “signed off” on approval from the only ethics board that reviewed it had resigned three years earlier. His signature was used without his knowledge.

PhD Scholarship

My Centre is a unique place to do a PhD in Philosophy, because you can be in constant contact with experts in veterinary medicine, psychology, zoology and policy and be part of a team united by a shared interest in animal minds. We now have our 1st ever PhD scholarship: www.lse.ac.uk/sentience/phd

some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing

Historian of medicine here. Yes. Yes, they did.

Stats

Journal metrics: impact factor, cite score, and downloads on the rise, processing time shrinking, and an acceptance rate that does not make you lose the will to submit. #philsky #philpsy

GM: Charisma check.

Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]

GM: that’s a d6 how did you

Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

whoa excited to revisit @iphilluh.bsky.social and rejoin the #SOCRATESgroup as a fellow this coming spring and summer!! very grateful 🥹

ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA A DAY OF TRUTH & FREEDOM

MINNESOTA: Friday is a statewide day of non-violent moral action and reflection. That means no work, no school, and no shopping — only community, conscience, and collective action.

Plus, there will be a peaceful march and rally in downtown Minneapolis: iceoutnowmn.com

FDA deletes warning on bogus autism therapies touted by RFK Jr.‘s allies The agency used to warn of chelation, used by RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine ally David Geier.

There’s a big story everyone is missing—but this article hits on it.

We aren’t just seeing public health dismantled bc we’ve been taken over by conspiracy theorists and lunatics.

What we’re really seeing is the giant, predatory, underegulated wellness industry come to Washington.

hi, political philosopher here! this is not funny, central banks only do this when they're in extreme distress

This is the sort of statement that was expected from every university president and law firm partner over the last year. That those statements weren’t made played a huge part in where we are now and people will remember.

AIDE Summer AI + Data Ethics (AIDE) Summer is intended for graduate students with advanced training in applied ethics, ethical theory, philosophy of science, metascience, epistemology, or other areas with potenti...

Thanks to generous funding from the @sloanfoundation.bsky.social, John Basl and I are thrilled to be running the AI and Data Ethics summer school in 2026! ~12 graduate students, $10k stipend, 9 weeks to learn about scientific and ethical issues raised by AI. Please apply! aidesummer.org

An email from Martin Peterson to university administrators.

Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

From an email to one of our faculty members....

Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!

It’s 1990, I’m 1 years old, and the republican president of the US is attacking a petrol state

It’s 2004, I’m 15 years old, and the republican president of the US is attacking a petrol state

It’s 2026, I’m 37 years old, and the republican president of the US is attacking a petrol state

ISHPSSB 2027 will be in Buenos Aires, Argentina 3rd week July. #HPS
ishpssb.org/meetings

Activist Shot While Open Carrying at ‘No Kings' Protest Will Not Face Charges, but Security Volunteer Will - UNICORN RIOT Salt Lake City — Prosecutors announced last week that they would not pursue charges against Arturo Gamboa, an activist in Utah who was arrested in June after a volunteer “peacekeeper” opened fire at a...

Activist Shot While Open Carrying at ‘No Kings’ Protest Will Not Face Charges, but Security Volunteer Will

haha check out this world of wanimal crossing amiright

Just failed at carving a turkey at its joints so don't know why metaphysicians think they can do it for nature.

Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.

these emails infuriated me way more than i expected. here's us losing sleep over doing right by students, colleagues, community, losing our health, breaking our brains to do our best. there's them, these elite assholes ingratiating themselves with the most depraved, failing their way up as they go.

Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

My old pal Pete Coviello — one of the best writers and thinkers I've ever known — wrote the piece of the moment

lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

make yourselves gods is so, so good. Also tomorrow’s parties!

Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending' A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." Stephanie Sy examines what’s b...

A Nature poll found that 75% of U.S. researchers are considering leaving the country.

Guyz, even the *historians* are leaving or contemplating / likely to go. Including, at least 3 historians that I know of in my subfield. 😢