The new APDA data is out!
Announcement: APDA now has three directors! @kinozhao.bsky.social and @travislacroix.bsky.social joined the project last month and will help lead this year's data gathering/survey effort. Our joint blogpost provides a brief history of APDA and more information about the new co-directors π₯³ #philsky
Does this make me think twice whenever I want to ask a Q in subsequent talks? Yes. Does it make me a worse Q asker? Probably. Is it a sign that Iβm too weak? Who knows.
So, I slept on it and decided to whine some more. Just to be clear: I asked my question at the 15min mark of a 30min long Q&A block and was told to βwrap it upβ after ~5 sentences. The last Q was just as long. Does it have something to do with me being the only nonwhite person to ask a Q? Who knows.
#EPSA
So, as it turns out, I still see things others donβt see. And I will have to very begrudgingly tell others about it. For me. For others whom I donβt see either. It sucks. Iβm doing my part. I donβt enjoy it at all. But Iβm doing my part. So Iβm on Bluesky now. 4/4
I also finally revisited the assumption that the reason people who (1) have read my work, and (2) are working on the exact same topic, but (3) donβt cite me, is perhaps not because I wrote poorly and no one understood. It took me 4 or 5 instances to entertain this idea but I got there eventually. 3/
I thought my days of seeing others donβt see have passed. Thereβs no good reason to think this but I did. I was proven wrong.
Today I was the proud recipient of the only βplease wrap up your questionβ from the chair of a session, where at least 5 other people asked questions of the same length. 2/
Hello philosophers, Iβm on Bluesky. #philosophy
Some of you may know that I hosted a philosophy Mastodon for a few years. When I shut it down, I was going to stop doing social media. But today I realized I couldnβt afford to be off social media. It wasnβt an option for me. 1/