🎃👻 SCAREd Smith 👻🎃

San José State University - Details - Assistant Professor in Philosophy of Technology

My department is hiring! Tenure-track assistant professor in philosophy (AOS: philosophy of technology) jobs.sjsu.edu/en-us/job/55...

(this is a trap for cognitivists)

three things I can intend, two things I can believe, and one thing I can publish

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Your periodic reminder that you have the right to find out why your health insurer denied your claim.

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PBS NewsHour

Many thanks @pbsnews.org for the great opportunity this evening about our new book #ScienceUnderSiege @michaelemann.bsky.social @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social @publicaffairs1796.bsky.social

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They advised federal health agencies on the ethics and impact of scientific research. They’re no longer wanted The Trump administration has been shedding scientific expertise and patient perspectives in the name of slimming down the federal government.

They advised federal health agencies on the ethics and impact of scientific research. They’re no longer wanted. Trump administration has dismissed experts and patient advocates on dozens of committees. www.statnews.com/2025/10/07/h... via @statnews.com

Acting CDC director calls for MMR vaccine to be broken up into three shots There's no evidence that breaking up the MMR shot would make the immunization safer or more effective.

Acting CDC director calls for MMR vaccine to be broken up into three shots: There’s no evidence to suggest breaking up the vaccine makes the shot safer or more effective. www.statnews.com/2025/10/06/t... via @statnews.com

I’m something of a scientist myself

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie is, at base, a narrative telling of Hume’s notion that reason is and ought to be the handmaid of desire

I fear they can catch this gingerbread man

Ah yes the reverse robocop approach

2026 Application & Overview — JAWS

Female journalists interested in health reporting: the fellowship I did at @womenjournos.bsky.social last year is open again for next year! Deadline to apply is December 5. www.jaws.org/apply-here

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Are you interested in #ResearchEthics or research related to #DeceasedDonation, or a someone who has had family donate their organs after death? We are a group who are creating research ethics principles for research on deceased donation and we'd like your input (see flyer).

The Measles Resurgence This Viewpoint discusses vaccination levels and the resurgence of measles in the US.

What the past teaches us about the current measles outbreak.
Note: paywall.
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What about the tiny little ones? For parties?

“I’ll wait. But not forever.”

it’s mostly gliding isn’t it? unless you’re talking about the gargoyles

“Is mustard not a condiment?”

with some Hershey kisses mixed in because they deserve a treat

“The title is good”

Text that says: Research Abstracts Present your neuroethics scholarship to international colleagues next April. Neuroethics 2026 - Stanford, Lucca, Stellenbosch

Neuroethics annual meeting April 15-17, 2026, including Stanford/Bay Area! Neuroethics: interdisciplinary examination of ethical, legal, social and cultural issues in brain sciences/ mental health/neurotechnology -- submit your abstract or session proposal: neuroethicssociety.org/meeting/neur...

Mary and the Know Nothings

She Sees Red

Twin Earth Water Crisis

Immanuel and the Last Murderers

Mary Didn’t Know

DHS begins targeting unaccompanied children with 'voluntary' deportation offer Children asked to waive right to see a judge in exchange for $2,500

The Department of Homeland Security has begun targeting unaccompanied children in the immigration system with what they call a “voluntary option” to return to their countries of origin. via @laist.com

Opening here at the LMU: a W2 Professorship in Philosophy Education at the Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and the Study of Religion. The position combines research in philosophy with a strong focus on didactics.

Application deadline: 15 November 2025

job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/b...

Putting aside the question of AI personhood, a slur requires a history of dehumanization.

In order to fuction, the slur has to call into being that history of dehumanization for its injurious force. There is no such history for LLMs, regardless of claims otherwise.

Texas L.G.B.T.Q. Teenagers and Families Navigate a Public School Clampdown

Texas L.G.B.T.Q. Teenagers and Families Navigate a Public School Clampdown www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/u...

This is a really outstanding post. "That’s the point of the compact. .... It is about control. Specifically it is about turning existing federal law, over which the administration has limited control, into terms of a 'deal' that offers the government much more control."

Can we pretend that airplanes in the nightmare are like shooting stars?

amazing