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Beth Hannon

@elizaha.bsky.social
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They poison philosophers, don't they? Deputy Editor @thebjps.bsky.social An Irish abroad. For the birds.

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Beth Hannon @elizaha.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It's really clear that referees vastly prefer imperfect English over anything that sounds remotely like AI. Rather than levelling the playing field, whatever disadvantage you experience by not having perfect English, AI exacerbates it. Don't do this to yourself!
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Beth Hannon @elizaha.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It's really clear that referees vastly prefer imperfect English over anything that sounds remotely like AI. Rather than levelling the playing field, whatever disadvantage you experience by not having perfect English, AI exacerbates it. Don't do this to yourself!
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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Like much AI hype, turns out what they really discovered was how to offload the work onto other humans without credit
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Beth Hannon @elizaha.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Hard not see this as (part of) one generation pulling the ladder up behind them (possibly also setting fire to whatever it is in this metaphor that they’ve climbed onto)
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Erik Angner @erikangner.com · 11/08/2023
As we approach students-don't-read-the-syllabus season, a quick reminder that professors don't read emails or follow instructions either 🧐
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Beth Hannon @elizaha.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Doing it for free is actually a form of scabbing, ruining it for other workers who rely on the income.
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Beth Hannon @elizaha.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I think the core of my concern here is: anon review is really important, esp. in disciplines that trade so heavily in ideas of brilliance, and this remains a concern that AI-funded work hasn’t eclipsed. The latter can be handled in other ways (disclosure post-review, in talks, public engagement etc)
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Beth Hannon @elizaha.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Evergreen
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Beth Hannon @elizaha.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I’m very much behind disclosure in a general sense, but wonder about its purpose in peer-reviewing philosophy papers (answers welcome!)
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Beth Hannon @elizaha.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Musk is a generationally repulsive monster. But he didn't make the Today Program's Justin Webb say that migrants in NI “have been able to come here and get access to services’ that local people can’t”. He didn't make the BBC head its live coverage of the pogroms with “Belfast Knife Attack Latest”.
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Beth Hannon @elizaha.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Worries about AI have raised the salience of citations for referees, so now papers with bog-standard errors due to reference managers (they generate so many!) or papers that use unfamiliar citation styles lead some referees to flag papers as AI generated.
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Beth Hannon @elizaha.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
A little graphic I made for a thing, relevant to today’s iteration of peer review *~discourse ~*
Flow chart titled publishing ecosystems: Labour go in, press go brrrr. A ‘loop’ shows money, via wages to academics, flow into a journal, an ecosystem that runs on indirect barter, which outputs a paper that editors are happy to see published, which is sent on to publishing employees (who are sad and put upon),  who output a journal that universities subscribe to, which generates money that in the case of non-profit journals (eventually) goes back into the university.  There are two sources of loss from this loop: free riders (authors who submit papers but don’t review) and for-profit publishers.
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Beth Hannon @elizaha.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Recently had to clean up some racist graffiti—swastikas, racial epithets—but did not remove ‘cunt’. I will not be negatively polarized into adopting the American understanding of this word.
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Beth Hannon @elizaha.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Much enjoyment (schadenfreude, baby) at humanities peeps trying to fit science research into the humanities research box.
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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 08/05/2026
Every three minutes on Bluesky today: oh that's a delightful name for a town! Dudly-on-Friendton. I see they have voted for the Murdering Orphans party.
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Beth Hannon @elizaha.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
The academic tendency to treat of everyone else’s labour (and not only that of other academics’!) as negligible
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Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe @lisalibrarian.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Intriguing to see the returnn of the acceptability of the embargo period.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
i appear to have asked a question akin to "how do Rebel Alliance schoolteachers feel about Darth Vader?"
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Beth Hannon @elizaha.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
People who are annoying on the internet and the people who over-react to them: A political history of the twenty-first century
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Beth Hannon @elizaha.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Amazing work
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British Journal for the Philosophy of Science @thebjps.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
New BJPS Short Read! Why Does Causal Reasoning Work? Naftali Weinberger, Porter Williams & James Woodward on the role of worldly infrastructure www.thebsps.org/short-reads/... #philsci #philsky
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Why Does Causal Reasoning Work? | BJPS Short Reads
Naftali Weinberger, Porter Williams and James Woodward on the role of worldly infrastructure
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Jamie @fctwentebenson.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
The burglar who stole your telly charging you to watch it at his house
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British Journal for the Philosophy of Science @thebjps.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
We now have a brand new youtube channel, where we'll be sharing BJPS Short Reads (new episodes as they are released; back catalogue whenever we can...). And we're starting with a banger... youtu.be/VTE87PDMNuc #philsci #philsky #hpbio
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Death in Mind | BJPS Short Reads
What does the opossum’s playing dead tell us about animal minds? By Susana Monsó and Laura Danón Read the essay here: https://www.thebsps.org/short-reads/monso-danon-death-in-mind/ #philsci
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David Crotty @dacrotty.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
To be fair, Elsevier bought Aries and EM in 2018 after allegedly spending tens of millions of dollars on their own failed eVise system. And it’s not like anyone has built a better system than EM in the intervening years. These systems are notoriously difficult to create
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The End of Aperta: Journal Submission Systems Remain Challenging - The Scholarly Kitchen
Why is it so hard to build a good journal article submission system?
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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Elsevier spends $2B/year on tech. Springer Nature has spent hundreds of millions. Sobering numbers for non-profit tech initiatives trying to compete newsletter.journalology.com/p/journalolo...
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Journalology #146: Bank of mum and dad
Hello fellow journalologists,
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Beth Hannon @elizaha.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Dune Roaming
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British Journal for the Philosophy of Science @thebjps.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
New season of BJPS Short Reads! Death in Mind – Susana Monsó and Laura Danón on what the opossum’s playing dead tells us about animal minds. Read or listen here: www.thebsps.org/short-reads/... #philsci #philsky #hpbio
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Beth Hannon @elizaha.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Deep lore here
Vince McMahon meme of increasingly amazement. Text reads: mentions James Connolly, Roger Casement. Dunnes strike, Mary Robinson, Palestinian liberation
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Dara O Briain @daraobriain.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Oof. This is impressive. Not the usual green-tie nonsense.
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Beth Hannon @elizaha.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
The BJPS asks referees to return reviews within a month. Are you aware of journals that offer less time than this? Please share—it’s for a thing!
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Beth Hannon @elizaha.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
The BJPS asks referees to return reviews within a month. Are you aware of journals that offer less time than this? Please share—it’s for a thing!
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Beth Hannon @elizaha.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Populism runs rife in academia when it comes to discussions about publishing
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British Journal for the Philosophy of Science @thebjps.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
And the winner of the BJPS Popper Prize for 2025 is... www.thebsps.org/auxhyp/bjps-... #philsci #philsky
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Beth Hannon @elizaha.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
How about: Insofar as AI will ever be able to do a good enough job at such things, there’s a spectrum of responses AI might generate that run from the useful to the incomprehensible: ‘This subset of scans are from people with very early stage cancer’ might be at one end; ‘42’ might be at the other.
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Beth Hannon @elizaha.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
This move would be easier for journals if @altmetric.com were to stop including Twitter stats (if you measure it, they will come)
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Beth Hannon @elizaha.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Everything about this is (a) horrifying and (b) rampant. Even if we could apply the brakes immediately, cleaning up the mess already made in this short time would be an enormous and very difficult task.
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Ash G. @kilomonster.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Funny animal videos no longer being trustworthy just fucking sucks all around. I love the wonder of animal behavior and what it says about the experience of being alive. It's because it happened in reality that it's so fun. It's not fun if it was just made up. There's no wonder there.
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Beth Hannon @elizaha.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Philosophy bros and tech bros are two cheeks of the same arse, and the point of intersection is where you find the real arseholes
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Todd A. Carpenter @9thprime.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Doll for all those people out there who think open infrastructure and open content is free, can you please remember the following two things: 1) Everything on the internet is rented. 2) it’s not free, it’s “included”. Someone somewhere is paying
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Beth Hannon @elizaha.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
media.tenor.com
two cups of water are sitting on a window sill
Alt: Jurassic Park scene with water in cup reverberating in response to incoming dino onslaught
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Beth Hannon @elizaha.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
‘At all levels of university’ is spot on here. Under-discussed and theorised is the way these sorts of undergrad trends mirror trends in authorship, peer review, etc.
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Overly.Honest.Editor @editoratlarge.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
From @aip-publishing.bsky.social: cost of a peer reviewed article is $2700 (*before* you start giving back to the community). Would like to see a more detailed split, but it does align with estimates from eLife and EMBO #ScientificPublishing www.stm-publishing.com/cost-transpa...
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Cost Transparency at AIP Publishing: Why We’re Sharing Our True Costs
AIP Publishing is committed to building a more inclusive and vibrant future for the physical sciences. Open science can accelerate global progress by breaking barriers to open and fair research commun...
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Beth Hannon @elizaha.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
And we’d do it again
Headline reads, ‘Did women ruin the workplace?’  Byline: Ross Douthat (obvs)
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Beth Hannon @elizaha.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
These sorts of moves are completely understandable and bound to cause problems for philosophers of science
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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Some people argue that 'the British Isles' isn't political and we shouldn't be bothered by it, which is why they're invariably so open to my suggestion that we should switch to 'the Irish Isles' for the next few hundred years while we work out a solution.
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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 11/09/2025
every time there's political violence discourse i think about how jo cox was assassinated in broad daylight by a fascist who shouted "britain first" as he shot her, and now nine years later her party is dedicating every moment in power to placating the ideology of her murderer
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Beth Hannon @elizaha.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
It really seemed, at least from this distance, that the US was making real strides in the unionisation of poor & precariously employed workers, and now business is aligned with an economically illiterate president and there’s AI slop as far as the eye can see. They really hate paying people huh.
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