After quite the ride, I'm over the moon that my paper 'A Woman First and a Philosopher Second: Relative Attentional Surplus on the Wrong Property' is out in Ethics:
It's been selected for the PeaSoup blog discussion so will soon be made open-access 🥳
Hi just a quick PSA that an annual rail pass for trains between London and Manchester (2 hrs) is 17K. Between London and Sheffield (2 hrs), 11-15K. London to Newcastle (3 hrs) is 22K. I think perhaps the time has come to burn it all to the ground and start again folks
I'm waiting in line at a hipster cafe for my coffee, and every time the barista says 'oat flat white' every single customer is walking up trying to claim it. It's chaos
Reviewer 1: nice but here's a Dostoyevsky length list of corrections
Reviewer 2: nice but add this footnote
*Revises*
Reviewer 1: stunnah let's get this badboy published
Reviewer 2: soz too busy now, love you bye xox *leaves*
*Reviewer 3 enters the chat*
Reviewer 3: burn it
So with 1 journal still soliciting reviewers after 6 months (thanks, unresponsive initial reviewer), a 2nd yet to desk-check after 2 months, I'm also celebrating 1 year 9 months at a 3rd journal. Perhaps a junior's career could be less determined by publications in such a system?
One thing I enjoy about academia is that in professional settings (on campus, at conferences) academics are wearing everything from full suits with a pocket watch, to shorts, a Metallica t shirt and flip flops, one of which is broken
In a New Year miracle, I have a paper forthcoming in Ethics 🥳 Should be released in their July issue. It's called 'A Woman First and a Philosopher Second: Relative Attentional Surplus on the Wrong Property'. Abstract below (I'll do an obligatory twitter thread when it comes out)
I am very excited to say I'll be joining
@Sheffielduniv
this September as a permanent Lecturer in PPE. I'll be part of the incredible interdisciplinary team at
@shefmethods
, who employ innovative research methods to address major social challenges. Feeling hugely lucky.
In this unrelentingly awful job market for junior academics, wondering if there's a way of framing the areas of specialisation on your professional website as "literally whatever your job advert specifies, baby"
New paper, forthcoming in Ergo 👉
Whenever we communicate, we inevitably have to say one thing before another. This means introducing subtle patterns of salience into our language. I introduce the notion of ‘order-based salience patterns’...🧵
The journal: *takes nearly 2 years to go from initial submission to confirmation of acceptance*
Also the journal: "please read through these proofs and make corrections within the next 15 seconds before this email self destructs"
My partner & I have just started watching game of thrones because we like to keep our finger on the pulse of pop culture. So presumably this is the first tweet asking this question: is there any reason every Dothraki is dressed as Shakira's backing dancers from the mid noughties
Applications are open for the 2024 Institute on the Ethics of Attention! Ideal for PhD and early career applicants, but we also warmly welcome senior scholars. I'm super duper excited for this! Application Deadline: Feb 14th. Event: 1st-5th July, Budapest
One of the hardest things to square in life is how seals are the joyous labradors of the sea, whose sneezes are in the top ten things (widely construed) of all time, and yet they torture penguins in the most unimaginably distressing ways
So much to enjoy about this photo, papped by
@WFAP_philo
during their excellent conference on salience and attention. I refuse to give any context for the photo/ slide
When the camera on my phone says "a cleaner lens makes for a better picture" I sometimes wish it would just come out and say it: that it thinks I'm a filthy, contemptible toad
Top-tier trolling from KCL HR. Jokes on them, though: being a junior academic in this unrelenting hellscape of a job market means I'm too dead inside to be affected emotionally
The totally wonderful
@siegel_susanna
will be commenting on my recent paper on the Ethics' Peasoup blog next week, along with some other commentators. The discussion will be live, across 26-27th July. Join along if you'd like to see me make a fool of myself in real time!!
Trending in
#Philosophy
:
1) Attentional Surplus on the Wrong Property (
@EthicsJournal
)
2) Rosa Luxemburg's disappointment
3) AI & Manipulation
4) Sustaining Democracy: Owing to the Other Side (
@EthicsJournal
)
5) Foundation of Kant’s Cosmopolitan Right
🔖New
#LSEPhilosophy
Blog article online!
'Happy to be a woman. Just don’t need to attend to it so much.'
@ellakwhiteley
explores the ethics of social identity salience.
➡️ Link to the article:
So enjoyed the chance to discuss 'anger' with these four amazing philosophers. For those who missed it, a podcast version should hopefully be available on The Forum's website soon.
Well done
@ellakwhiteley
on a great public philosophy event - Celine Leboeuf, Emily McRae, Jesse Prinz and Owen Flanagan on anger. Podcast version will appear soon!
Quite impressed that Christine Lagarde herself has taken the time to write to me about this unexpected 20 million the IMF seems to owe me. Tbh hadn't even realised I'd spent it. Cost of living these days etc
The PeaSoup blog has started - Susanna Siegel's précis has kicked things off. It's unsurprisingly hugely insightful and interesting. I'll be adding my response in due course, but anyone can comment until the end of 27th (tomorrow).
I ordered a lacto vegetarian meal for this flight in the hope of avoiding the vegetarian=health-conscious assumption (I get sad when they give me fruit salad when I want the goddamn cake), and they've taken the lacto part v seriously. Everything has been cheese. Everything
It's nice when your thinking about a paper comes together - where all of a sudden you find the structure and narrative in what was a jumbled collection of thoughts. It's just a pity when that happens 5 days before the deadline
Curious where on a CV you put 'didn't smash everything in a 10 metre radius after my phone decided to auto-disconnect as soon as a customer service operator came onto the call, after being forced to listen to hold music for 1.5 hours'?
The housing market ain't gonna know what's hit it when all the millennials stroll out of lockdown having not bought any avocado toast in 3 months
#millennials
#brunch
#boomers
An exciting graduate conference on attention and salience will be happening in Vienna this July 6-8th. Be there or be unattended to! (abstracts due by April 1st)
See also: conference wine. As in wine that has the same name as the conference.
@WFAP_philo
conferences are hard to beat! And that's even before discussing the *hugely* interesting and sophisticated talks. 10/10
I just got told in no uncertain terms that I am not permitted to use cutlery to eat my (vegan) frankfurter / bread because that is not what one does in Austria. Literally the waiter said 'No. No.'. Sort of respect it but also like can you do that
My laptop and I have this cute tradition where at the start of a new job, where the workload is the most hectic, it dies 💞
✨ Relationships are the rituals you make together (/imposed by one party) ✨
@quiteclare
🙏
@quiteclare
@cecilymwhiteley
- I'm being mildly hyperbolic - they're major revisions instead of reject, but it's still crushing to think if reviewer 2 was still in the game I'd likely be done by now, instead of still being chained to this goddamn paper 😭
@StefanFSchubert
😲 Exactly. It's actually beyond comprehension. A bunch of the prices I quoted *also come with restrictions* too on routes / times. Like, what?
Someone just shared this non-ironically on FB and oh my god. Why don't you just abandon all your responsibilities, focus on your TLC and HAVE A GLASS OF WATER. Perhaps for a "special indulgence" you could MOISTURISE YOUR HANDS.
#killme
#feminism
#youtime
CC:
@manwhohasitall
I'm making powerpoints for the new semester and irrelevant of the content I'm adding microsoft is INSISTENT the slides all incoroporate a gif of a koala. Just a heads up to my new students
Studies show that if you put together film/ TV clips showing a wife saying "you look handsome, but you gotta learn to tie a tie" before then fixing it for their husband, that clip reel would last for infinity
My phone is spamming me with memories of moving out of my family home. It took ages because we had so much *stuff*. My late dad collected almost everything (inadequately justified by his being a design historian)--something I feel this photo of vegetable pens helps to illustrate.
@lastpositivist
This is Clarke's first response to Byrne's short article (itself an attack of Fausto-Sterling's popular piece):
Then Byrne responds (Okasha's got a comment at the bottom):
Not very persuasively imo
I accidentally hit the ceiling of the fridge when returning a huge wad of stilton to it, and the light that's been broken for 3 years suddenly sprang into life. Lesson: don't do basic DIY jobs, because maybe they'll fix themselves in an indeterminate number of years
New 2 year philosophy fellowship at the LSE going, if economics+politics is your thing. Can recommend! Also note it says no extra docs required but that's a lie: you need 2 writing samples.
Time for a cute lil work break where I browse through tens of dog rescue websites, become emotionally attached to every dog, send an unreasonable number of links to my partner, and scream into a pillow for my employment being too precarious to actually adopt any.
#selfcaretips
🙏
@lastpositivist
@cecilymwhiteley
@quiteclare
@lastpositivist
pretty sure you were all like "chill for a couple months, there'll be no hitches in this famously efficient and benevolent peer review system" and I'm only now realising what bad advice that was, Liam
My one* request to students was to spare me from having to suffer through endnotes in their essays. Why would some choose war??
*This is a huge lie, I make thousands of writing-related requests of students
New LSE blog post: tried to write a short / accessible intro into how we (should) frame information about sex and gender. Got sidetracked talking about undergrad foam parties.
@newberryfruits1
"The word 'white' and then l-e-y." This collection of words has a 0% success record in terms of getting people to spell my surname correctly (everyone continues to miss out one 'e'). But for some reason I feel obliged to repeat it till the day I die.
In case it's helpful, my general approach to this was: cut two words, knowing you cut only two words. Check the word count, hoping that you instead cut 15 words. Swear at the computer when you find the abstract is only 2 words shorter. Repeat.
The electronic gates in one of the LSE buildings is the opposite to the tube (tap card on left, enter on right) and I'm proud to announce that I have gotten it the wrong way round literally *every* time I have entered the building this term which is maybe 40 times
Anyone know the origin of the phrase 'ladies and gentlemen'? It's a bit of an anomaly in an otherwise q consistent pattern of positioning men before women in binomials (men and women, boys and girls...). Exceptions usually concern contexts where women are culturally...1/
Congratulations to
#LSEPhilosophy
PhD student
@lore_sarto
- Winner of The John Watkins Memorial Prize 2023! 🎉
Lorenzo has been awarded the prize for his outstanding paper ‘Putting the “Experiment” back into the “Thought Experiment”’:
I've been learning more about the myths and damaging social pressures around breastfeeding recently, thanks to some excellent work by
@quiteclare
and
@bendavies_
This twitter thread is particularly illuminating too, for questioning recent claims re: the benefits of the practice.
Lots of coverage today of the UK study that says breastfed kids are more likely to get good exam results.
This is the study:
I can't possibly write another article about this because you'll think I'm obsessed, so here's a Twitter thread about it instead:
@NickCartw
@aliboyle6
@ucu
Also, as the literature on invisible labour points out, something that would benefit the employer (allowing them to continue working instead of taking time off with stress).