Reposted by Huw PriceJo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026When the internet finally grinds to a halt I’ll remember this shop. 9594
Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I once won a guess the weight of the Christmas cake competition. I did it by mentally comparing the weight of the cake to that of a known cat on the other side of the planet. (True story.) 1172
Reposted by Huw PriceGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It's not just that we had two wasted years under Keir Starmer - years in which, with a vast majority and quite a lot of goodwill - he could have turned this country around. On crucial issues, we had two years of spiralling backwards, towards a very dark place. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comEd Miliband to acknowledge Labour’s former stance on Palestine fell shortForeign secretary will tell party’s conference ‘we are not here to accept the status quo but to change it’ 821702506
Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The first true Spring rose, as opposed to over-wintering pretenders. It is Lorraine Lee (Alister Clark, 1924). 040
Reposted by Huw PriceH.K. Andersen @hkandersen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Devastating for Canadian programs too, which also require TOEFL or IELTS. Grad faculty: Talk to admissions, at the University level (often where the requirement is enforced), before deadlines. It would be deeply wrong to just deny Iranians admission when they can't access the test #philsky #philsci 1127
Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 18/09/2026It turns out that Sydney’s own Granny Smith is the analytic philosophy of apples #philsky 040
Reposted by Huw PriceHubbub🕊️ 🇪🇺 @hubbubbub.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Cathedral of Steel by: Cushla Monk. Sydney Harbour Bridge, N.S.W. Australia. The Mono Awards 2026. 📷 #PhotographySky 03913
Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 16/09/2026This reminds me of the old joke about the chap applying for a visa to Australia. "Have you ever been convicted of a felony?" "No, sorry, I didn't realise it was still a requirement." 0141
Reposted by Huw PriceGoldstein (still not a pseudonym) @goldstein.latinsky.app · 16/09/2026Things are going well for him, I see. 3234
Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 13/09/2026It’s also worth mentioning that some of the leaders in raising concerns about autonomous weapons are *also* leaders in concerns about existential risk (from AI as well as elsewhere) – for example, the excellent @futureoflife.org 061
Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 13/09/2026We can walk and chew gum at the same time, folks. In other words, we can – and obviously should – be concerned about more than one kind of risk (and about their connection). Here’s my response to an earlier round of this ridiculous polarization. royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...royalsocietypublishing.orgBig bang, low bar—risk assessment in the public arenaAbstract. One of the basic principles of risk management is that we should always keep an eye on ways that things could go badly wrong, even if they seem u 1173
Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Spring rose #2, heroic effort by a tiny plant of Maréchal Niel (1864). 011
Reposted by Huw PriceKen Wharton @kenwharton.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I'm looking forward to visiting Perimeter next week! It'll be fun to talk foundations with everyone. Good timing, too; the paper I'm presenting was just accepted yesterday. My seminar is 11am Thursday; I'll post the recording at some point. Abstract below. events.perimeterinstitute.ca/event/2618/events.perimeterinstitute.caLocalized covariant quantities appear to underlie quantum systemsAny quantum system can be closely approximated by a quantum circuit with spatially-localized qubits. We analyze such quantum circuits and present evidence that the local weak values comprise a covaria... 382
Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 06/09/2026@martinkusch.bsky.social As promised, our first Spring rose – a Charles Darwin. Technically perhaps the last Autumn rose, I think it hibernated. Here supported among lemon leaves, to show its face. 1100
Reposted by Huw PriceDavid Papineau @davidpapineau.bsky.social · 01/09/2026We are hiring—a permanent lectureship in Ethics/Political Philosophy—deadline 15 Nov www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/144566-...kcl.ac.ukLecturer in Ethics and/or Political Philosophy | King's College London 02928
Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 01/09/2026No roses yet, @martinkusch.bsky.social, but some winter produce on the first day of spring. 1100
Reposted by Huw PriceMartin Kusch @martinkusch.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Summer in Austria. -- "A late summer rose," for Huw Price, as requested. #Vienna #Austria #photography 1211
Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Canada has a “golden” opportunity here – the future Trump Island? 🙂 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pee_Pee...en.wikipedia.orgPee Pee Island - Wikipedia 021
Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 26/08/2026“Glencoe itself is perfectly terrible. The pass is an awful place. It is shut in on each side by enormous rocks from which great torrents come rushing down in all directions. … They really are fearful in their grandeur and amazing solitude. Wales is a mere toy compared with them.” – Dickens, 1841. 030
Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 25/08/2026youtu.be/h5r3HAJh8es?...youtu.beVegemite "Happy little vegemites" TVCYouTube video by AdNews Australia 000
Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 25/08/2026It takes the biscuit, as one might say. www.timcrane.com/jaffa-cakes....timcrane.comJaffa CakesAccording to Wikipedia, Jaffa Cakes were in 2012 'the best selling cake or biscuit in the United Kingdom'. But this just raises the question: are they cakes or biscuits? Jaffa Cakes had always been..... 220
Reposted by Huw PriceCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24/08/2026If you just happened to pick this week to start yelling about the importance of academic freedom, I sure hope you did more than watch silently for the past 18 months as the Trump administration assaulted everything from mRNA vaccine research to gender studies to the very idea of having universities. 152092441
Reposted by Huw PriceMichael Morris @michaelmorrisphil.bsky.social · 18/08/2026The difficult truth about Jason Arday - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FTgiftarticle.ft.comThe difficult truth about Jason ArdayFrom the beginning, investigations were accompanied by a cloud of excessive references to his race 121
Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 15/08/2026The excellent and long-awaited Carnap-Handbuch is out, and it’s all open access. Here’s my little piece. #philsky link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...link.springer.comFrom Non-Cognitivism to Global Expressivism: Carnap’s Unfinished Journey?Kaplan, Abraham Schilpp, Paul Arthur Carnap was one of the first to use the term “non-cognitivism.” His linguistic pluralism and voluntarism, together with his deflationary views of ontolo... 4286
Reposted by Huw Price852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Bro. People are cool as fuck. 274164412324
Reposted by Huw PriceSimon Glendinning @simonglend.bsky.social · 11/08/2026If you haven’t already done so, please sign the petition to save the Philosophy programme at Dundee. c.org/5Smh96VnfGc.orgSign the PetitionSave the Philosophy Programme at Dundee University 02925
Reposted by Huw PriceAlan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Operation Quiet Piggy 092
Reposted by Huw PriceAnna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Losing Exeter philosophers of science would be devastating to our field and to the international standing of U.K. universities. Please help us publicise this letter and put pressure to the Exeter execs. Their work as teachers and researchers is irreplaceable #philsci #HigherEd 19567
Reposted by Huw PriceBritish Society for the Philosophy of Science @thebsps.bsky.social · 10/08/2026We have published an open letter to the University of Exeter Executive Board expressing our concerns about proposed redundancies. Read it here: www.thebsps.org/news/open-le...thebsps.orgOpen Letter to University of Exeter Executive Board regarding proposed redundancies- BSPS 07543
Reposted by Huw Pricedepths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 10/08/2026not to be confused with quesadilla 5581041803
Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Derrida wins a Dirac Medal!ictp.itICTP Announces 2026 Dirac Medal Recipients | ICTPICTP has awarded its 2026 Dirac Medal to four physicists who have made important contributions to statistical mechanics, a framework used by physicists to describe the collective behaviour of systems ... 171
Reposted by Huw PricePhilSci-Archive @philsci-archive.bsky.social · 05/08/2026New on the Archive: Price, Huw (2026) Bell Correlations and Selection Bias. [Preprint] philsci-archive.pitt.edu/30685 043
Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 04/08/2026A new version of my piece arguing that Bell correlations are selection artefacts. Much improved by discussions in recent weeks, including with audiences at CausalWorlds 2026, Grenoble, and @lmu-mcmp.bsky.social, Munich. #quantum #philsky #philsciarxiv.orgBell Correlations and Selection BiasMethods of selecting samples from larger populations may produce bias, in either direction: inducing correlations between variables independent in the full population, or masking correlations between ... 293
Reposted by Huw PriceSteffen Rayburn-Maarup @rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 02/08/2026I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet. 209109802166
Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Interesting results here for cold fusion fans. “[F]usion yields enhanced by more than 10¹⁸ relative to bare-nucleus (unscreened) expectations. … These results reveal a previously unrecognized regime of low-energy nuclear reactions in solids.”nature.comEnhanced nuclear fusion in the sub-keV energy regime - Nature CommunicationsFusion at very low energies is normally strongly suppressed. Here, authors show that deuterium fusion in palladium and titanium hydrides reaches a finite low-energy yield floor, revealing that solid m... 010
Reposted by Huw PriceKourosh Kalantar-Zadeh @kouroshkalantar.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Bronte Beach, Sydney New South Wales, Australia Sunday, July 26, 2026 1151
Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Do you know this little special issue, celebrating its 50th birthday? www.organonf.com/journal/volu...organonf.comVolume 33 (2026), Issue 2Organon F, Volume 33, May 2026, Issue 2 ISSN 2585-7150 (online) Download PDF | Published online: 31 May 2026 | 6 articles | Pages 151–237 Editorial ... 1102
Reposted by Huw PriceAriel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 26/07/2026depends on the altitude: if you're throwing the bread from somewhere high, it's naan of the above 1110613
Reposted by Huw PriceYusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · 20/07/2026“Islamophobia has become so common as to be mundane in large parts of the British media. Foremost among the offenders is Britain’s oldest political magazine: the Spectator.” @nesrinemalik.bsky.socialtheguardian.comWhy has Britain’s oldest political magazine become such a rabid cheerleader for Islamophobia? | Nesrine MalikA report on the Spectator’s coverage of Muslims makes for grim reading. Conservatism is now focused on this minority to the exclusion of everything else, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik 23011