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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

NEW: In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump was reelected and eviscerated the FBI and DOJ teams handling public corruption probes.

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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way

After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

For a while, a common dilemma in video game RPGs was "Who do you support, the problematic hypernationalists or the rootless cosmopolitan hypocrites?" and I think it aged poorly seeing how the past decade has pretty conclusively proven the correct answer is "sign up with RCH and get over yourself."

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Proof of a literacy crisis: pundit Derek Thompson can't read the studies he quotes. This is about "self-published genre fiction ... primarily sold on Amazon" and not “the book industry.” Imagine looking at TikTok slop and declaring “the film industry” is being replaced by AI actors and directors.

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Of the many, many books that predicted some dystopian effects of AI, few or none of them, to my knowledge, predicted that one of AI's first major effects would be to disrupt the book industry itself.

But that's exactly what seems to be happening.

- The number of AI-written books with any sales has grown by a factor of *19* since 2003
- Books with “substantial AI text” are making more money with every passing year
- Authors who don’t write with AI are earning less per book in almost every genre

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/08/2026

El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"

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Corey Dethier @cdethier.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I have a new paper out at Philosophy of Science. (Open access link below.) Briefly: Hasok Chang's main argument for his account of truth is that it makes truth "verifiable" in practice. I show that if that's right, errors are impossible. doi.org/10.1017/psa....

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What use the Realist for a Theory of Truth? | Philosophy of Science | Cambridge Core

What use the Realist for a Theory of Truth?

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Corey Dethier @cdethier.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I saw a very bad video on climate graphs a couple days ago, and since that's something I work on, thought that I should ... I don't know, make a blog post that maybe 20 people would see finals once were over?

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Skeptical Science @skepticalscience.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

We just published a paper in Geoscience Communication where we measure the impact of reading climate myth rebuttals available on our Skeptical Science homepage - a technically challenging research with some nuanced, complex results. sks.to/sksexperiment (1/n)

Screenshot of our paper published in Geoscience Communication where we measure the impact of reading climate myth rebuttals on our Skeptical Science homepage.

https://sks.to/sksexperiment

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Micah @rincewind.run · 31/03/2026

if someone is confused about trans rights or Pratchett’s support thereof, tell them to READ THEORY

Cover of Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett

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Corey Dethier @cdethier.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

We're hiring! Lecturer in Philosophy, AOS/AOC open, but should be able to teach courses titled "Logic and Critical Thinking" and "Science and Values." Applications due Mar. 30. philjobs.org/job/show/31125

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Lecturer in Philosophy, Clemson University - PhilJobs:JFP Lecturer in Philosophy, Clemson University

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Corey Dethier @cdethier.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

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Lecturer in Philosophy, Clemson University - PhilJobs:JFP Lecturer in Philosophy, Clemson University

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Corey Dethier @cdethier.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

We're hiring: 3-year VAP, AOS Phil Law, 3/3 load, application date Mar. 23. We're also searching for a lecturer who can teach logic and a research ethics-type class. I'll update when that ad is posted. philjobs.org/job/show/30989

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Visiting Assistant Professor, Clemson University - PhilJobs:JFP Visiting Assistant Professor, Clemson University

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Jordan aka Jirdan @slclunk.com · 28/02/2026

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 28/01/2026

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 19/01/2026

The new directive asks USDA workers in the agency’s research arm to use Google to check the backgrounds of all foreign nationals collaborating with its scientists. The names of flagged scientists are being sent to national security experts at the agency, according to records reviewed by ProPublica.

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Trump Administration Orders USDA Employees to Investigate Foreign Researchers They Work With

The new directive asks workers to check the backgrounds of foreign nationals collaborating with the department’s scientists for evidence of “subversive or criminal activity.” Their names are being sen...

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Corey Dethier @cdethier.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Another of my papers, "Stability, Robustness Reasoning, and Measuring the Human Contribution to Warming" is now online. This one gets in the weeds of the last decade-ish of research on the human contribution to warming to motivate a simple philosophical claim ... (1/2) doi.org/10.1017/psa....

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Stability, Robustness Reasoning, and Measuring the Human Contribution to Warming | Philosophy of Science | Cambridge Core

Stability, Robustness Reasoning, and Measuring the Human Contribution to Warming

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Corey Dethier @cdethier.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

So this is obviously almost unbelievably stupid. But also, prediction: yes it will, it will just only approve those by companies that Trump likes. www.cnbc.com/2025/08/20/t...

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Trump says U.S. will not approve solar or wind power projects

The president's comment comes after the administration tightened federal permitting for renewables last month.

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Corey Dethier @cdethier.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Wondering what I've been working on for the last couple years? (Probably not.) Wondering what philosophers of statistics even do? (I'm betting no.) Were you thinking to yourself: how would Deborah Mayo's project function outside a Neyman-Pearson setting? (Lol)

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Corey Dethier @cdethier.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Brian McLoone, Steven Orzack, and Elliot Sober have a new paper out in which they argue (among other things) that I'm wrong about robustness. I think *they're* wrong, of course -- indeed, I think I addressed all their arguments already in the paper they cite. Unsurprisingly, they disagree!

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Corey Dethier @cdethier.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Recently, I asked ChatGPT to write the intro to a paper in my style, because I curious how good it would be at imitating an author, and the best way to tell that would be by asking it to imitate the author I know best. (Don't worry, there's a punchline here. 1/3)

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Corey Dethier @cdethier.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

My article on classical statistics and the base-rate fallacy is now officially out at Philosophy of Science. The short pitch: classical statistics does not commit the base-rate fallacy, despite what some Bayesian philosophers have suggested. doi.org/10.1017/psa....

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Who’s Afraid of the Base-Rate Fallacy? | Philosophy of Science | Cambridge Core

Who’s Afraid of the Base-Rate Fallacy? - Volume 92 Issue 2

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

seeing takes about the aid institutions and their role in imperialism. correct. If someone said "investor-owned hospitals exploit the vulnerable to benefit shareholders" I'd nod. If their followup was "and that's why I'm turning off your mom's dialysis machine" I'd...have some followup questions

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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 31/01/2025

Everyone seems to be framing Trump's freeze on federal grants as a Constitutional fight over powers of the purse & whether presidents can disregard Congressional appropriations. It is that. But also at stake is the fundamental validity of government contracts! I see much less discussion on this... 🧵

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Ran Blekhman @blekhman.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Yes, they can hallucinate papers that don't exist, discuss results that seem to be imaginary, and can be confusing and inconsistent. But talking to tenured professors may still be helpful

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Corey Dethier @cdethier.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

It's depressing how many job ads read as: "we expect you to carry a 4/4 load while running the major and doing community outreach; pay is 45k a year and the closest place you can afford to live requires 2 hours of commuting a day in a city with 0 public transit."

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Corey Dethier @cdethier.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Just a reminder to come check out our session Thursday! (Or don't, I would understand that too.)

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Corey Dethier @cdethier.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Anyone who is going to be at the Eastern: Jamee, Mathias, and I will be talking climate change, astronomy, robustness, and the work of the late George E. Smith on Thursday morning.

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Corey Dethier @cdethier.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Had a dream in which I was late for my intiation into "Noux: the secret society for people who publish in Nous." The robes were straight-up ripoffs of the Stonecutter Society and @lastpositivist.bsky.social sponsored me. Gutted that there wasn't a "who keeps the continentals down" musical number.

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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

We have always relied on the oil and gas industry to self-report methane emissions. Now we have independent ways to of measuring those emissions and it turns out they were lying about the emissions. By a lot. The blue lines are actual measurements. The pink are industry numbers.

Bar chart showing actual methane emission from the Permian oil field several times higher than industry reported emissions.

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Crystal Lee @handle.invalid · 10/12/2024

oh my god overleaf I DO NOT WANT AI WRITING INTEGRATION

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Corey Dethier @cdethier.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Ok, this is real Simpsons rabbit hole stuff, but despite what we all remember, the joke in the pictured segment *is on the adults*. The kids are just straight-up describing Power Rangers, a show that had existed for 3 years before the episode aired.

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Corey Dethier @cdethier.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Really enjoying @bweatherson.bsky.social's new book, but like a lot of philosophy these days it relies heavily on some pretty unrealistic cases. I mean, a Sox fan who can't remember what year the curse was broken?

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Corey Dethier @cdethier.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

My research projects if I didn't have to devote so much mental energy to job applications:

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Corey Dethier @cdethier.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

For anyone interested in philosophy of climate science: Wendy Parker's new Cambridge Element on the subject is available online for free (!) until the end of the month. www.cambridge.org/core/element...

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Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - Climate Science

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 03/12/2024

So proud of the great work happening in Minneapolis, which shows that boosting housing supply helps make homes more affordable.

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Corey Dethier @cdethier.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

The percentage of my feed that is about Overleaf being down is not high, but it's high enough that it says a lot about who I follow.

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Corey Dethier @cdethier.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Every Christmas when I was a kid, in addition to some traditional Christmas songs, my grandmother would have us sing the Union battle hymn "John Brown's body." At the time, I did not appreciate that this was both (a) weird and (b) extremely cool. Lyrics: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Br...

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John Brown's Body - Wikipedia

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Corey Dethier @cdethier.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I don't know if anyone who follows me on here will appreciate this meme but I was compelled to make it.

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Corey Dethier @cdethier.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Graphs (and other visualizations) are one of primary means of scientific communication. To date, philosophers have treated visualizations as a species of picture. This is too simple: visualizations require distinct choices with their own epistemic and ethical consquences. My work explores these.

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Lukas Beck @becklukas.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

CfP: What is the appropriate role of climate economics in decision-making and climate policy? What role do value judgments play in its models and methods? How does it relate to other disciplines? If you have answers, submit them to our topical collection for the EJPS: philsci.eu/Phil-Climate...

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European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA) - Philosophical Perspectives on Climate Economics

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

PHILOSOPHY OF MACHINE LEARNING, Spring 2025 syllabus Week 1: Richard Evans's work on why ML needs to encode Kant's categories to have true intelligence Weeks 2-16: Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason

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Corey Dethier @cdethier.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

For my own sanity, I really need to start abiding by my own "refuse to referee any paper without page numbers" rule.

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Corey Dethier @cdethier.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Just want to say that (a) the center is awesome and (b) Minneapolis is an amazing place to live.

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