Zoe Drayson @zoedrayson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Yesterday was my first day back teaching after sabbatical and it destroyed me 2180
Zoe Drayson @zoedrayson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I thought I could rely on Rob Harvilla for light relief after I finished teaching my philosophy class on the nature of explanation. But the mailbag was full of questions like “What it is it for a song to explain a decade?” and “What makes these songs explanatory, per se?” 🙄🤣 000
Reposted by Zoe DraysonEric Brown @sophisteuein.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I was going to avoid posting or reposting on Yom Kippur, but surely this is an acceptable exception. 061
Zoe Drayson @zoedrayson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Found this paper yesterday and can’t figure out if it’s serious or a parody but it’s absolutely brilliant either way 2364
Zoe Drayson @zoedrayson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Attention philosophers of language who also work in theoretical linguistics: the Philosophy department and the Linguistics department at UC Davis are jointly hiring a TT Assistant Professor. Apply! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07874recruit.ucdavis.eduDepartment of Philosophy/Linguistics - Philosophy of Language/Computational LinguisticsUniversity of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now! 24117
Reposted by Zoe DraysonFrances Egan @francesegan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Mind and Language has published a symposium on my book Deflating Mental Representation (MIT Press, open access) with excellent commentary by Ken Aizawa kenaizawa.bsky.social, Angela Mendelovici braininavat4eva.bsky.social, and Adam Toon adamtoonphilos.bsky.social, and a reply by me, all open access.onlinelibrary.wiley.comMind & LanguageClick on the title to browse this journal 28022
Zoe Drayson @zoedrayson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Today in fluid dynamics: the chips are the other side of the pool from the salsa. (No, the teaching quarter hasn’t started at Davis. Yes, it’s 100F.) 060
Reposted by Zoe Drayson🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹 @okaydaniellle.bsky.social · 10/09/2026🥳 The call for papers for the SSPP is now available! The QR code takes you to the submission page or find it linked below. Come hang out with me and @natashasnature.bsky.social 🥳 11911
Zoe Drayson @zoedrayson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Scottish Bluesky today is mostly people being (rightly) disappointed by The Proclaimers 2131
Zoe Drayson @zoedrayson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I could have sworn I put this in a footnote but nope, 2010 me apparently opted for a parenthetical in the main text. Cringe. 161
Zoe Drayson @zoedrayson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026"Correction: An earlier version of this story featured a picture of a kea wearing love heart sunglasses. There is no suggestion that kea were involved in kākāpo fuck season." 010
Zoe Drayson @zoedrayson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Nothing will convince me that @adrian-currie.bsky.social did not write this article. thespinoff.co.nz/science/08-0...thespinoff.co.nzUpdate: This was the best kākāpō fuck season everThe world may be burning but at least the world’s fattest parrot has been boning. 020
Zoe Drayson @zoedrayson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Yesterday I saw a Matchbox 20 tribute band at a watermelon festival in rural northern California and it was better than when I saw real Matchbox 20 at Wembley Stadium in 2003. 2110
Reposted by Zoe DraysonJustin Weinberg @dailynous.com · 26/08/2026The Lebowitz prize is awarded to two philosophers with contrasting views on a topic. This year's winners are...dailynous.comDe Brigard and Robins Win 2026 Lebowitz Prize - Daily NousThe American Philosophical Association (APA) has announced the winners of its 2026 Dr. Martin R. Lebowitz and Eve Lewellis Lebowitz Prize. They are: Felipe De Brigard, Professor of Philosophy and Psyc... 1427
Reposted by Zoe DraysonDevin Curry @devinsanchezcurry.com · 25/08/2026exhaustive list of entities 4yo now knows to be dead: some family pets some roadkill hundreds of spotted lanternflies a neighborhood whistlepig some stars in the sky a few great-grandparents Kobe Bryant Donald Davidson Dolly Parton 292
Zoe Drayson @zoedrayson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I like to tell people that I have a taste for desert landscapes than show them photos of my vacations in Palm Springs 010
Zoe Drayson @zoedrayson.bsky.social · 24/08/2026I feel like the philosophers could have some fun with this 1120
Zoe Drayson @zoedrayson.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Happy six-year anniversary of that time MC Hammer shared @chazfirestone.bsky.social's paper 1372
Zoe Drayson @zoedrayson.bsky.social · 19/08/2026The glamorous life of a Full Professor: writing a promotion letter in your bathroom the day before your colonoscopy 0210
Reposted by Zoe Draysonokay Kelly @kmdoublev.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Cheers to everyone writing their own papers today. ☕ 520714
Reposted by Zoe DraysonBritish 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 Zoe Drayson🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹 @okaydaniellle.bsky.social · 06/08/2026i have a forthcoming paper that defends standard mapping views of computational implementation. i argue that their generality is a virtue and i make it clear how & why they are formulated as such, why that matters, + how the view relates to computational modeling in CS: philpapers.org/rec/WILWWD-4philpapers.org 1194
Zoe Drayson @zoedrayson.bsky.social · 05/08/2026A Drayson family member's contribution to the topic of the day 1100
Reposted by Zoe DraysonElizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 03/08/2026I see a lot of you talking about "dopamine" and I wish you'd go back to talking about your astrological signs because at least then you wouldn't be confusing yourself about a real thing 111013133
Zoe Drayson @zoedrayson.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Unless the academic in your life teaches on the quarter system, in which case they're thinking about swimming holes and bear-watching trips, probably 2151
Zoe Drayson @zoedrayson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Imagine coming to give a talk at the UC Davis philosophy department and all the faculty are taking notes in theseraisingcanesgear.comChuck Norris x Raising Cane's Spiral Notebook Set - Expected to ship by OCT. 15Three notebooks. One legendary collection. Jot down your next big idea with this limited-edition set featuring three exclusive Chuck Norris x Raising Cane's cover designs. Raising Cane’s Restaurants, ... 070
Zoe Drayson @zoedrayson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Chuck Norris is so powerful he can advertise National Chicken Finger Day ™️ from beyond the grave 141
Zoe Drayson @zoedrayson.bsky.social · 23/07/2026I've been telling people that I took up weightlifting to protect against menopausal osteoporosis but really it's so I can be Matt Damon's stunt double some day www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...cbc.caMatt Damon's stunt double in The Odyssey is B.C. woman with 'the greatest arms' he's ever seen | CBC NewsShe might be small, but this B.C.-born stunt performer is making big waves for her part in Christopher Nolan's box-office busting epic The Odyssey. 1160
Zoe Drayson @zoedrayson.bsky.social · 19/07/2026There are only 39 cinemas in the entire world which are equipped with true 70mm IMAX film projection and one of them is a ten minute bike ride from my house. 080
Zoe Drayson @zoedrayson.bsky.social · 15/07/2026When you go to a concert and the merch table is selling “EZ Grip” jar openers, it means you’re really young and cool, right? 😎 090
Reposted by Zoe DraysonFrances Egan @francesegan.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Happy that my book, Deflating Mental Representation, has been long-listed for the Royal Institute of Philosophy's Nayef Al-Rodhan international prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy: royalinstitutephilosophy.org/news/announc...royalinstitutephilosophy.orgAnnouncing the 2026 Nayef Al-Rodhan Book Prize Longlist - Royal Institute of PhilosophyThe longlist for the Nayef Al-Rodhan Book Prize 2026 has been announced. Find out more about the longlisted titles. 34113
Zoe Drayson @zoedrayson.bsky.social · 29/06/2026There's a new 'Innateness and Language' entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy by my colleague Gabe Dupre plato.stanford.edu/entries/inna...plato.stanford.edu Innateness and Language (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 1329
Zoe Drayson @zoedrayson.bsky.social · 25/06/2026"never take advice from someone you'd never fuck" is is astoundingly bad advice 390
Reposted by Zoe DraysonRazzball @razzball.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Scots found a dog and immediately made it their new God 642096403
Reposted by Zoe DraysonRichard Moore @richardmoore.bsky.social · 23/06/2026The Philosophy department at Exeter is exceptional. It has both a concentration of world leading researchers in the philosophy of the biological and cognitive sciences, and a unique departmental profile in the UK. It would be a catastrophic loss to the UK philosophy scene. 16031
Reposted by Zoe Drayson🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹 @okaydaniellle.bsky.social · 16/06/2026this year @natashasnature.bsky.social and I will be taking over the SSPP as Philosophy Program Co-Chairs 🥳🥳 We can’t wait to plan some sessions 🤓🤓 See yall in Atlanta! ✌️🍑 southernsociety.org/AnnualMeeting/southernsociety.orgThe Southern Society 0173
Zoe Drayson @zoedrayson.bsky.social · 15/06/2026If any slot-machine makers would like to be endowed with an air of respectability, I’m available. 0110
Zoe Drayson @zoedrayson.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Plane wifi can’t cope with live-streaming the Kennedy Center, alas 020
Zoe Drayson @zoedrayson.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Paid for in-flight wifi so I could hear James Corden being called a full-kit wanker 040
Zoe Drayson @zoedrayson.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Prepping my talk slides by adding gifs from the traumafest 1985 movie Return to Ozstatic.klipy.comWheelers Attack in Return To OzAlt: Wheelers Attack in Return To Oz 0110
Zoe Drayson @zoedrayson.bsky.social · 08/06/2026That time I took my bike in for repairs and found a philosophical reflection on the essence of bicyclehood. 180
Zoe Drayson @zoedrayson.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Give me the most 80s song you can think of youtu.be/_r0n9Dv6XnYyoutu.beBaltimora - Tarzan BoyYouTube video by Nail Of Gilead 261
Reposted by Zoe DraysonFelipe De Brigard @felipedebrigard.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Last day of SSNAP! #Duke #Philosophy #Neuroscience #AI 061
