@emilyheydon.bsky.social
Philosophy, Politics, and Economics PhD student @ Buffalo 🦬 | California transplant | recovering homeschooler | thinking about niche construction theory, Bayesian games, and the role of false evidence in deception | 🏳️🌈⛸🌎🌿
These betting markets pose a threat not only to journalists who refuse to comply with bettors' demands, but also to democracy, from journalists who alter what they report in response to bettors' promise to share a portion of the winnings.
have found a new type of guy (reads two evolutionary bio papers from the 80s, draws up a critique of why Darwinian evolution rests on bad philosophical assumptions, is politely desk rejected by an editor, proceeds to announce that philosophy of science is too rigidly opposing a necessary revolution)
my plan from last year is about to pay off big time
thankfully there is a clause in the rubric which states that any work that doesn’t make an effort to cite any sources whatsoever gets a 0
it (finally) happened to me: i had a kid in a “meaning of life” class turn in a completely un-cited essay that had nothing to do with the assigned reading and was entirely about the student’s own religious beliefs with vague references to the story of Noah’s Ark
Ever wondered why you can see underwater bubbles: invisible air in invisible water?
It's because light bends slightly at the boundary between air & water, so light coming from behind the bubble is diverted away from your eye. The resulting dark line shows you the bubble must be there. Beautiful!
It is actually possible to regulate gambling advertising, and while designing such a regulatory regime could be complicated, it can also be very simple, such as "there shall be no gambling advertising".
This is awful. It looks strikingly like the immigrant detention camps in the USA
Both are awful. Both need to stop
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...
Polymarket, Kalshi and all the rest of these prediction markets need to be wiped off the face of the earth. They provide absolutely nothing of value and are corrupting everything they touch.
Jesus fuck
the just dumping people out in the street thing is so enraging. pick them up so they can meet their arrest quota and then throw them away like trash
there have been so many more deaths just since I made that list, it’s so awful
writers: can you believe some venues don’t even pay you for publishing with them
academics:
welcome to the northtowns of Buffalo, where the streets are so poorly designed that you will need to force your civic to jump a curb in order to get out of the path of an oncoming ambulance
Some Tech CEO every day: "You don't get to own things now. I own your refrigerator. If you say mean things about me I will turn off your fridge and spoil all your dairy and eggs and meat. If you don't like it you go to jail."
People in my mentions: "Lmao are you REALLY a luddite? smh"
i feel like if i was tasked with not starting a war and bringing back US manufacturing jobs, i could have done a better job than this
“Her daughter’s new student enrollment form was denied due to “license plate recognition software showing only Chicago addresses overnight” in July and August... “Although you are the owner on record of a house in our district, license plate recognition shows that is not the place where you reside.”
as someone who is forced to work around a lot of ontologists who work with the DoD, I never thought I would actually hear ‘ontology’ and ‘lethal capacities’ in the same news clip
People been trying to warn the public about this man for a decade and a half but her the fuck we still are
the idea is that it’s white men in power setting the double standards for what counts as “adequate” service and care work, but that a minority faculty member then refusing to abide by those set norms undermines their own credibility and influence (“they don’t understand how things are done here”)
^ this argues that the way minority faculty are guilted into doing excessive amounts of care work involves an oppressive double bind: they either take on the extra work and let their research + well-being suffer or risk the ire of majority white male depts threatening their jobs for being “selfish”
I have found a very good philosophy blog piece on this topic blog.apaonline.org/2024/01/10/c...
"how are we gonna explain to people who are likely gonna have less good, and less interesting jobs.” - future is looking lovely
My wonderful colleague Poppy Mankowitz is advertising two 3-yr postdocs & one funded PhD on her ERC project Expressing Value in Language, which investigates evaluative adjectives (‘good’, ‘bad’, ‘beautiful’, ‘tasty’, etc.) from the perspective of philosophy & theoretical & experimental linguistics.
WBAL in Baltimore helping viewers understand the difference between watches and warnings
this, but it’s my Spotify account 😬
thank you!! I just needed confirmation that I am not crazy
Oh most definitely, I see that in my senior faculty colleagues. If they want to sacrifice their health/mental energy to the alter of academic misogyny, they can. That doesn't mean us younger folks need to follow suit.
(hopefully that gives you more of an idea of the attitudes and expectations I’m dealing with. Just no boundaries at all! And that is what is expected of women here!)
