I am very happy to share with you the thought-provoking exchange I had with The Dissenter. Thanks a lot, Ricardo, for having me as an interviewee on your fantastic channel/podcast. I really enjoyed it! The whole interview can be seen at: youtube.com/watch?v=i6j6AY…

A philosophy graduate student in Florida is seeking asylum in the US to avoid persecution as a queer woman in her home country of Iran. She could use your help. dailynous.com/2024/03/27/flo…

We are hiring a postdoc @Labss @ISTC-CNR in Rome to work with giulia andrighetto and Eva Vriens on a computational project on #social norms and #cooperation in collective action problems under risk. Deadline on 17 April to apply: istc.cnr.it/it/content/ass… Contact giulia andrighetto for details.

This was a lovely response by Dennett to a question about the nature of philosophy.

Divertente vedere some Lajatico sia il comune toscano col reddito medio più elevato (il doppio di Firenze). Bell'esempio della poca rappresentatività della media in ambito di code sub-esponenziali e grasse. A Lajatico appaiono così ricchi perché c'è un Bocelli su 1300 abitanti.

Quella del CV, al di là dei casi particolari, è altra questione rilevante: il PD sembra associarsi al rifiuto populista per la competenza - competenza di cui la sinistra da sempre è stata bandiera invece - finendo per rincorrere il re degli ignoranti (no, non Celentano)

I can’t believe I have to explain what’s happening here, but here goes. Elite students of Ivy League schools have glamorized oppression so much that they have now reached role play status to satisfy their fantasies. Here, the students have appropriated the suffering of Gazans and

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📢📢 Heads up! The 2nd "Antonio Pigliaru Workshop" is just around the corner! 🔜 This Friday, discover how malaria has shaped society! Catch us live at 9 AM in Cagliari (Piazza Arsenale) or join via Zoom at (tinyurl.com/apigliaru2024) 📢📢

Cristiana De Filippis, European Mathematical Society Prize 2024 youtu.be/MHNjOgSHed8?si… via YouTube

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Colleagues in *Italy* Are there programs/fellowships for sabbatical stays in Italian universities? I have in mind the fall semester of 2025. I taught in Turin for a semester before in English, so I'm happy to teach if that leads to more opportunies.

I’m looking for a Postdoc in Philosophy of Neuroscience! Please spread the word! Info available at this link: jacquelineannesullivan.com/wp-content/upl…

As an open access book, The Edge of Sentience can be distributed for free in any format - send me conversions and I'll put them on the website. The latest addition is a basic EPUB conversion suitable for e-readers. edgeofsentience.com

Bertrand Russell said, "Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty — a beauty cold and austere, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music." Then, Yann Pineill made this beautiful short movie, "Beauty of Mathematics." 😍

I'm hiring two researchers to work on complexity & human behaviour in the physical space and in the online space respectively. Please help me spread the word by retweeting, and feel free to reach me out with any question!

📢#JOB And we are hiring again: We now look for a 3y-postdoc in philosophy of science with an interest in the philosophy of modelling/model transfer. Deadline September 26. 👇 uni-hannover.de/en/jobs/id/732… #ModelTransfer #ERCStGr Institute of Philosophy LUH

On this day in 2015 we lost Dr. Oliver Sacks. This clip from an old doc on Awakenings shows how fascinated he was by the human condition, and how much he advocated for the treatment of each patient as an individual person rather than a pathology.

Sei anni fa il ministro dell’Istruzione e Lorenzo Fioramonti nominava il suo “manager della comunicazione” Dino Giarrusso a capo di un “Osservatorio sui concorsi nell’Università”, con l’obiettivo di scovare i concorsi truccati. “Chi meglio di un’ex-Iena per farlo!” #NeverForget

Today's NYT article by Yuval Harari repeats "GPT-4 Hired Task Rabbit Worker to Solve Captcha" story & concludes "This incident demonstrated that GPT-4 has the equivalent of a 'theory of mind'." Time to re-up my fact-check of this oft-repeated story. ⬇️