Hajo Greif

The next Annual Conference of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP) will be hosted at @universityofkansas.bsky.social from 15 through 17 July 2026. The call for papers is now out on iacapconf.org. Submissions due 31 January 2026. #Philosophy #Computing

Ganz pragmatisch: Dann nehmen wir einfach Gendersternchen zur Kennzeichnung für #Fleischersatz – die sind gemäß #Genderverbot doch jetzt frei 😉 Nicht wahr, @realmarkussoeder.bsky.social? Also z.B. "Wur*st", "Schnitz*el", "Söd*er". Danke für diese schöne Realsatire, liebes @europarl.europa.eu

My department at Warsaw University of Technology is hiring an assistant professor in philosophy: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/353296. International candidates are encouraged to apply. Deadline: 17 July 2025.

'For now'? I'm afraid the damage is done. IMHO, we are all in a Humpty Dumpty sort of predicament, but people are only starting to realise this on either side of the Atlantic.
NB: Merz' post-NATO statement does not figure very prominently in German news media.

Not sure about this 'split', but for sure there will be one between disappointed trans-Atlanticists adapting to a new reality (UK, France, Germany, Poland, the Nordic countries and others) and those NATO countries already in TrumPutin's pocket (Hungary, Solvakia and some more). Interesting times...

Last night's nightmare:
3. But I realise I am just shouting at a TV screen – and I wake up. Why do I feel that this nightmare somehow captures the spirit of our times? (Disclaimer: I also have pleasant dreams.)

Last night's nightmare:
2. Yet people continue to run outside in search of salvation, instead of taking shelter as deep inside as possible. As the rocks and bodies pile up, I shout in dismay: "Why do you keep running outside when you can see this will be your downfall?"

Last night's nightmare:
1. watching a dark cityscape live on b/w TV with a sense of foreboding. Rocks start falling from the sky, pebble-sized at first, but getting bigger and bigger. (Their origin? Nobody knows.) Panicked inhabitants run outside and are hit, injured and eventually killed.

EXCLUSIVE: NSF starts vetting all grants to comply with Trump’s orders Grantee accounts remain frozen, while union accuses NSF of ignoring rules governing peer review

Exclusive: NSF this week began to search through billions of dollars of grants the agency has already awarded for anything touching on topics that President Donald Trump has criticized. And NSF has blocked grantees and trainees from accessing funds while the review is underway. scim.ag/3El0NZh

This is a big deal, y'all. Federal health websites are being stripped of content or removed in their entirety. Stick with this thread for a look at what's disappeared so far! 1/x

Predicting the winner of the US 2024 elections using trust analytics A number of models and techniques has been proposed for predicting the outcomes of presidential elections. Some of them use information on the socio-economical status of a country, others focus on can...

Here's what some of my colleagues at Warsaw University of Technology posted on 1 November, 2024: "Predicting the winner of the US 2024 elections using trust analytics" by K. Budzyńska and E. Gajewska. arxiv.org/abs/2411.10457. Interesting methodology. Spoiler warning: they got it right...