Pablo Magaña

Like me, this guy is spiritually in his 80s-90s lol

Much better now

(After 5 days of sun, it had to rain the day I had to do the laundry lol)

It’s #WorldBookDay! 📚

This month’s Favourite Read comes from Dr @pmagana94.bsky.social who selects Josep Pla’s 'The Gray Notebook' - a young writer's reflections on life, uncertainty, and the future.

Read more here 🔽
www.tcd.ie/philosophy/a...

#philosophy #philsky #BookSky

Dublin Airport recorded its wettest February ever, with rainfall 255% above average Met Éireann analysis shows drier than usual weather in western counties last month, with heaviest rain along east coast

Dublin Airport recorded its wettest February ever, with rainfall 255% above average

💡PUBLICATION ALERT

"Private Media, Public Funds, and Democratic Allocation: Outlining the Civic Strategy in Media Policy"

Philosophy & Technology

Read article in Philosophy & Tech: rdcu.be/e5OqM

Preprint: philpapers.org/rec/MARPMP-6

👋 Ongoing this week! PhD seminar with Professor Ernesto Sosa, Rutgers University.
The course is based on a new book that Prod. Sosa is concluding:
Dawning Light Epistemology and Bounded Knowledge
aphil.ub.edu/activity/daw...
@biap.bsky.social
@logos-group.bsky.social
@filosofiaub.bsky.social

How to stop a dictator I spent months studying how authoritarians like Trump lose. The answer is shockingly simple.

I have spent the past several months studying the cutting-edge research on modern democracies that have defeated authoritarian leaders.

I've learned that the conventional wisdom on the topic is wrong — in ways that have clear implications for the US going forward

THREAD www.vox.com/politics/479...

I have a very simple rule of thumb for concerts: if the venue is small and the median audience member is in their 40s/50s, it's going to be kick-ass.

Chimpanzees have culture. Do they also have cultural heritage worthy of protection? @simonfitzpatrick.bsky.social and I argue they do in our new paper, because their cultural practices create value.
link.springer.com/epdf/10.3758...

Thanks for all the help during the process! :)

Also, consider submitting something. They are extremely kind and helpful (plus it's an important and beautiful initiative, which is very nice to support!).

Can relational egalitarianism apply across species? Devon Cass and I explored this question in a recent paper in Philosophical Studies. If you want a taste, check this post we've written for @justiceeverywhere.bsky.social.

For a few years now, Colin McGinn has been the "old man yells at cloud" poster child. But this is another level. This is old man yells at cloud, planes, the entire climate system, the Solar system, the Milky Way, the entire known universe, and beyond.

If you want to get rid of some incriminating documents you don't want anyone to see, the best course of action is to hide them on the top floors of the most famous twin towers in the world and hit them with two hijacked passenger planes.

A line curve showing number of awards for fiscal year 2026 compared to fiscal years 2021-2025 across NSF. The fiscal year 2026 curve lies well below curves for other fiscal years.

NSF Update

Funding curve overall. A little bit of progress in the past week, but only a little bit.

Now by Directorate...

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Title card for Mindscape podcast episode with Tom Griffiths.

Mindscape 343 | Tom Griffiths @cocoscilab.bsky.social on The Laws of Thought. Everyone knows the laws of thermodynamics, but do you know the laws of thinking? #MindscapePodcast

www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026...

It’s hard to be a scientist. Even Darwin.

Sandymount

Epstein’s ugly world of science As with Peter Mandelson, so in the science world: the Epstein files are not telling us anything that most ordinary punters didn’t already know, but are revealing the full, rotten, appalling extent …

Just added this to my WordPress site, so it's free to read.
homunculusmusic.wordpress.com/2026/02/14/e...

The NYU Center for Mind, Ethics, and Policy and the NYU Center for Environmental and Animal Protection are both hiring full-time researchers!

If you have strong research skills and an interest in animal and AI welfare (for CMEP) or food and wildlife science and policy (for CEAP), please apply!

Our response to Coglan & Parker's commentary on our 2025 paper with @petersinger.info, Yip Fai Tse, & @ziesche.bsky.social is out in P&T!

We argue adequate consideration of animals' interests requires advancing beyond basic AI-animal alignment as it becomes feasible and desirable.

Link below.

CFP: Special Issue of Moral Philosophy & Politics on "Citizenship and Global Inequality".

Please consider sharing & submitting. Open to interdisciplinary work that engages with philosophical debates.

#migcitsky #poltheory #philsky

www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/...

I swear to god, the second I get tenure, I'm gonna become one of those guys who's a great hang in the department, and who everyone loves talking philosophy with, but who publishes once every like 5 years

The elusive nature of consciousness A writer grapples with neuroscience’s hardest problem

My review of Michal Pollan's book on consciousness: www.science.org/eprint/FTJG7...

Oatly banned from using word ‘milk’ to market plant-based products in UK Swedish company claims ruling is anti-competitive and ‘solely benefits Big Dairy’

This is such a waste of everyone's time and of government resources. Let people use normal words that have been flexibly used in many contexts for centuries ffs

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Social Ties in Animal Politics: Mutuality Beyond Humanity Social and political relationships constitute the foundation of our shared communities. Yet, scholars working in the field of animal politics have not had these social ties as their primary focus. The...

Conference announcement/CFP:

Social Ties in Animal Politics: Mutuality Beyond Humanity
University of Sheffield
8-9 September 2026

This is the latest installment in the long-running Animal Politics series. Abstracts due 12 June. Spread the word!

I am sorry to hear that. I understand that institutions receive a lot of submissions, etc. but that's no excuse. No answer is just disrepectful :(

Starting the week with a postdoc rejection 🫠

Opinion | We Shouldn’t Want to Eat Like Our Great-Great-Grandparents

"The policy tools exist to minimize the harms and maximize the benefits of a system that provides food, much of it healthy, in abundance. But first we need to stop demonizing industrial food, and instead think about how to make it better."

Gabe & I for @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/o...