Reposted by Nikhil Venkatesh Dave Dustin @dustin.nz · 07/10/2026"YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK" 9877992102
Nikhil Venkatesh @nikvenkatesh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Thanks! That is interesting, will have to think about it 000
Nikhil Venkatesh @nikvenkatesh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026"If my booking a flight does not make a difference to the plane taking off and to climate change, what reason is there for me not to fly?" I wrote a chapter in a book about such questions, published today and free to read online! www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...taylorfrancis.comThe Ethics of Inefficacy | Mattias Gunnemyr, Rutger van Oeveren, Jan WIf my booking a flight does not make a difference to the plane taking off and to climate change, what reason is there for me not to fly? If my small donation 130
Nikhil Venkatesh @nikvenkatesh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Good to see that Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy now has an entry on Friedrich Engels plato.stanford.edu/entries/enge...plato.stanford.edu Friedrich Engels (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 030
Nikhil Venkatesh @nikvenkatesh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Me, choking on the fumes as fascists burn the last acre of the Amazon rainforest: "At least this will be good for bond yields!" 0274
Reposted by Nikhil Venkatesh Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis.bsky.social · 04/10/20261/ Burnham’s Conference Speech: Positive signs for progressive politics, but the work isn’t done. 🧵 It’s been a tumultuous summer with a new PM. Continuing themes set out over the summer, Andy Burnham told Labour conference the country has been on the wrong path for 40 years. 218736
Nikhil Venkatesh @nikvenkatesh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026If you're a teacher at a state school or college in London, Derby or Sheffield and want a university philosopher to come in get on touch! 011
Nikhil Venkatesh @nikvenkatesh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Just gave a talk to a great group of students at Notre Dame High School in Sheffield! So nice to be around young people who are interested in philosophy 140
Nikhil Venkatesh @nikvenkatesh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettier...en.wikipedia.orgGettier problem - Wikipedia 000
Nikhil Venkatesh @nikvenkatesh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026As any philosopher will tell you, the way to get the job is to be the man with ten coins in his pocket 2110
Nikhil Venkatesh @nikvenkatesh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Sheffield won't let me spend it on books! They say the library provides all the books I need (and to be fair the library does a good job) 110
Nikhil Venkatesh @nikvenkatesh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Bluesky academics: tips for what I could spend research funds on? Excluding travelling to or organising conferences (and not lab/fieldwork stuff; I'm an armchair philosopher) 1140
Nikhil Venkatesh @nikvenkatesh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This cover is pretty good too open.spotify.com/track/6IRkoS...open.spotify.comFirst We Take Manhattan - Digitally RemasteredJennifer Warnes, Stevie Ray Vaughan · Famous Blue Raincoat: 20th Anniversary Edition (Digitally Remastered) · Song · 1987 000
Nikhil Venkatesh @nikvenkatesh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026One interesting thing about this song is that Leonard Cohen explicitly described it as an admiration of terrorism, but they will still play it on BBC radio 101
Nikhil Venkatesh @nikvenkatesh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Inspired by a Jacobin headline on recent mayoral elections, becoming obsessed with this song (again) open.spotify.com/track/6UEzGV...open.spotify.comFirst We Take ManhattanLeonard Cohen · I'm Your Man · Song · 1988 161
Reposted by Nikhil Venkatesh Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 24/09/2026after consideration, I have produced this necessary reference guide, perhaps @sundersays.bsky.social may be interested. If someone wants to provide funding after the fact, I can promise it won't constitute a donation in kind to Reform. 107417
Reposted by Nikhil Venkatesh LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 23/09/2026this is daft. driving passengers away is the whole point of a bus 5781100
Nikhil Venkatesh @nikvenkatesh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I know part of the story is higher standards of safety meaning crumple zones etc. Maybe also a collective action problem of not wanting to be the smallest car on the road? 110
Nikhil Venkatesh @nikvenkatesh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026With three kids fair enough, but more generally it's interesting that average family size is falling, society is becoming less car-centric, but cars are getting bigger. What's going on here? Just higher standards for comfort? 210
Nikhil Venkatesh @nikvenkatesh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Elite projects and progressive projects need different strategies I guess 140
Nikhil Venkatesh @nikvenkatesh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Apparently it's national postdoc appreciation week. Feel free to appreciate me uk-postdoc-appreciation-week.webnode.co.ukuk-postdoc-appreciation-week.webnode.co.ukUK Postdoc Appreciation WeekPostdoc Appreciation Week (PAW) is a celebration of the fantastic contribution postdocs and researchers make towards research and academic life in general. It's a special time to showcase, recognise, ... 030
Reposted by Nikhil Venkatesh Ersatz Doctor @ersatzdoctor.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Every semester: “I took on way too much. Never again!” The next semester with my goldfish brain: “Yes of course I’ll take on that new project. Why not?” 1111
Nikhil Venkatesh @nikvenkatesh.bsky.social · 19/09/2026From the people I follow on here I see the outlines of a political programme that nobody in politics caters to, a kind of anti-populism: Higher taxes, higher immigration, heavy regulation of big tech, less regulation on other markets (esp building), anti-fascist but sceptical of woke shibboleths 140
Nikhil Venkatesh @nikvenkatesh.bsky.social · 19/09/2026You may be interested in my article on this - capitalism may be structurally unable to properly prove such risks philarchive.org/rec/VENCATphilarchive.org 000
Reposted by Nikhil Venkatesh a rare photo of sean connery signed by roger moore @steamedhamms.bsky.social · 18/09/2026it’s actually good for your everyday behaviour to be pro-social 27511
Nikhil Venkatesh @nikvenkatesh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I grew up in almost all-white areas, rural and then suburban. Very few complaints about racism in my childhood. But recently things are happening that make me very glad that I moved to London 080
Reposted by Nikhil Venkatesh Chris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social · 15/09/2026New substack: You can marginalize Marxism, but you cannot marginalize the facts. chrisdillow.substack.com/p/marx-on-aichrisdillow.substack.comMarx on AITechnical change is an issue of what capitalism does to workers. 63726
Nikhil Venkatesh @nikvenkatesh.bsky.social · 14/09/2026"Gary Becker was an Africana philosopher" is the way to sell this 192
Nikhil Venkatesh @nikvenkatesh.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Why would you do work that you think has a significant chance of wiping out humanity? The answer is capitalism! 271
Nikhil Venkatesh @nikvenkatesh.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I wrote about this here: constrained by the coercive laws of competition, you can keep doing something you know is very dangerous for fear of a rival doing something worse theconversation.com/why-openai-i...theconversation.comWhy OpenAI is a prime example of the ethical limits of capitalismMoney and morality are a challenging corporate combination. 060
Nikhil Venkatesh @nikvenkatesh.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Help! Went to pick up my phone and the screen came clean off! this black tape thing seems to have snapped. phone still working underneath (buzzes when called etc.) but without screen it's useless. any tips? 100
Nikhil Venkatesh @nikvenkatesh.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Batter should be trying to keep the ball on the grass so they can't be caught out - or, if they do hit it in the air, hit far away from the fielder. Because of the pace of the ball he's not decided which of these to do, and mistimed his shot so it's given an easy catch. 110
Nikhil Venkatesh @nikvenkatesh.bsky.social · 10/09/2026This is exactly how *I* get out playing fast bowling. You don't expect it of someone whose full-time job is playing cricket www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricke...bbc.co.ukEngland v Pakistan Third Test: Jofra Archer removes Shan Masood in an easy wicket 140
Reposted by Nikhil Venkatesh Bonnicula | Vampire Vtuber ⚧ @bonnicula.bsky.social · 27/06/2024the ancient texts speak of the "Philosopher's Mayo", 2337659
Nikhil Venkatesh @nikvenkatesh.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Makes for the best moment of any sport ever imo 010
Nikhil Venkatesh @nikvenkatesh.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The degree to which PhD students are dependent on their supervisors is terrible and opens the door to all kinds of abuse 17714
Reposted by Nikhil Venkatesh Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Fundamentally, no social democratic party worth its salt and with any sort of historical memory should be incapable of, when seeing fascism re-rear its head, instantly recognising it as the greatest evil, the most existential threat, there is. 216635
Nikhil Venkatesh @nikvenkatesh.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Just hearing that not all impact is good impact, more as we get it 0131
Nikhil Venkatesh @nikvenkatesh.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Between Stock, Cofnas and Orr philosophers are certainly having ~impact~ on politics at the moment! 3326
Nikhil Venkatesh @nikvenkatesh.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Gordon Brown comes across very well in this interview, though I do feel the journalist has a duty to tell us what exactly these jokes were www.theguardian.com/politics/202... 051
Reposted by Nikhil Venkatesh Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Pretty sad commentary on this website that this has 400+ reposts and AFAICS no one has pointed out that it is obviously completely invented. The "average person" (median world income) is up more than 3-fold (200+%). World GDP per capita also up a lot but by less. 2743472
