Emily Heydon
@emilyheydon.bsky.social
Philosophy PhD student @ Buffalo 🦬 | California transplant | recovering homeschooler | thinking about niche construction theory and Bayesian games | 💜🏳️🌈⛸🌎🌿
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Not now Kate Beckinsale
November 27, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Not now Kate Beckinsale
god bless that person on r/GradSchool who said that if checking your email gives you a panic attack you should take 24-48 hours off from work afterwards…if I managed my anxiety that way I’d never get anything done
November 27, 2025 at 2:29 PM
god bless that person on r/GradSchool who said that if checking your email gives you a panic attack you should take 24-48 hours off from work afterwards…if I managed my anxiety that way I’d never get anything done
trying to understand the psychology of fake friends. I seem to attract too many of these people. Are they consciously remaining in proximity to me because they want to copy me etc.? Do they even understand how much they actually hate me, or is that only on a subconscious level?
November 27, 2025 at 2:18 PM
trying to understand the psychology of fake friends. I seem to attract too many of these people. Are they consciously remaining in proximity to me because they want to copy me etc.? Do they even understand how much they actually hate me, or is that only on a subconscious level?
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Did you know that the French equivalent of Thanksgiving is called Nofucksgiving
November 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Did you know that the French equivalent of Thanksgiving is called Nofucksgiving
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This means NSF dissertation improvement grants in the social sciences are simply...not happening.
NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research.
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Today's biggest science news: Doomed comet explodes | Comet 3I/ATLAS course alteration | Dark matter detected?
Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025: Your daily feed of the biggest discoveries and breakthroughs making headlines.
www.livescience.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:16 PM
This means NSF dissertation improvement grants in the social sciences are simply...not happening.
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University of Helsinki is hiring:
Postdoctoral Researcher in History of Ethics
Postdoctoral Researcher in History of Ethics
November 27, 2025 at 1:40 PM
my favorite pair of pants has developed a hole in the knee and I am very sad
November 26, 2025 at 11:10 PM
my favorite pair of pants has developed a hole in the knee and I am very sad
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Many men feel the stripper really likes them. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something
November 26, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Many men feel the stripper really likes them. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something
sometimes I forget that people who didn’t grow up in conservative circles where most families had 5-7 kids don’t automatically associate large families with religious conservativism
Conservatives have more children nowadays. Seems to be true, descriptively (though Brad's analysis is a mess). This is women's probability of being conservative by number of children, across birth cohorts in the GSS
(note: 3 is >=3 children):
(note: 3 is >=3 children):
November 26, 2025 at 11:05 PM
sometimes I forget that people who didn’t grow up in conservative circles where most families had 5-7 kids don’t automatically associate large families with religious conservativism
I really wish my discipline had fewer shitty people in it because why am I sitting here crying for three hours trying to figure out how to explain to X person why I can’t take a class with their colleague Y
November 26, 2025 at 2:23 AM
I really wish my discipline had fewer shitty people in it because why am I sitting here crying for three hours trying to figure out how to explain to X person why I can’t take a class with their colleague Y
finally deleted threads. Was only on there for a couple of months but it’s roughly three times as toxic as Twitter
November 24, 2025 at 5:09 AM
finally deleted threads. Was only on there for a couple of months but it’s roughly three times as toxic as Twitter
finished writing an essay and now I’m eating chocolate ice cream in bed
November 24, 2025 at 5:07 AM
finished writing an essay and now I’m eating chocolate ice cream in bed
I’m always impressed by the number of students who feel that the role of a course instructor is to dispense As like a vending machine. Imagine being so mad about getting only 99% on an assignment that you think official complaints against the faculty member are warranted
November 23, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I’m always impressed by the number of students who feel that the role of a course instructor is to dispense As like a vending machine. Imagine being so mad about getting only 99% on an assignment that you think official complaints against the faculty member are warranted
gotta push back on that second one. if someone reminds you of your abuser that doesn’t mean anything good
November 22, 2025 at 5:04 PM
gotta push back on that second one. if someone reminds you of your abuser that doesn’t mean anything good
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If someone told me this were AI, I would believe it, because, wut?!
Q: “Are you affirming you think Trump is a fascist?”
TRUMP: “That’s ok, you can just say yes.”
ZOHRAN: “Ok. Yes.”
TRUMP: “That’s ok, you can just say yes.”
ZOHRAN: “Ok. Yes.”
November 21, 2025 at 10:39 PM
If someone told me this were AI, I would believe it, because, wut?!
really tired of academics who continue to pretend that “climate doomerism” results from irrational risk attitudes and not, like, being more informed than average about about the actual climate risks we are facing
November 21, 2025 at 6:01 PM
really tired of academics who continue to pretend that “climate doomerism” results from irrational risk attitudes and not, like, being more informed than average about about the actual climate risks we are facing
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The part where they threatened to break a judge’s car windows should be a bigger story … they feel comfortable treating judges this way, which means they are being told that they can do literally anything to nearly everyone
#BREAKING: A student intern at Rhode Island Superior Court was briefly taken into custody by ICE this afternoon before a judge intervened, 12 News has learned. Story by @jusolyn.bsky.social and @timwhiteri.bsky.social: ⤵️
RI judge intervenes after ICE mistakenly detains Superior Court intern
A teenager was nearly taken into federal immigration custody in Providence Thursday afternoon before a Superior Court judge intervened, according to the Rhode Island Judiciary.
www.wpri.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The part where they threatened to break a judge’s car windows should be a bigger story … they feel comfortable treating judges this way, which means they are being told that they can do literally anything to nearly everyone
this is wild
the webpage for my fellowship words everything so carefully. Yes, it’s a merit fellowship for people who have overcome barriers to higher ed, but they have to formally state that it’s open to all genders and races and complies with all national anti-discrimination laws
the webpage for my fellowship words everything so carefully. Yes, it’s a merit fellowship for people who have overcome barriers to higher ed, but they have to formally state that it’s open to all genders and races and complies with all national anti-discrimination laws
“DNH is seeking a declaratory judgment that the scholarship violates the Equal Protection Clause and Title VI, as well as a permanent injunction "barring Defendants from seeing or considering applicants’ race when selecting the recipients" for the scholarship.”
www.foxnews.com/politics/sch...
www.foxnews.com/politics/sch...
Scholarship programs slapped with lawsuits for alleged discrimination against White men
FIRST ON FOX: Nonprofit organization Do No Harm is challenging two separate scholarship programs over their use of race in candidate qualifications.
www.foxnews.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:02 PM
this is wild
the webpage for my fellowship words everything so carefully. Yes, it’s a merit fellowship for people who have overcome barriers to higher ed, but they have to formally state that it’s open to all genders and races and complies with all national anti-discrimination laws
the webpage for my fellowship words everything so carefully. Yes, it’s a merit fellowship for people who have overcome barriers to higher ed, but they have to formally state that it’s open to all genders and races and complies with all national anti-discrimination laws
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I am by no means a prominent public intellectual, but my inbox is increasingly filled with messages from people who have been convinced by sycophantic chatbots that they have discovered revolutionary theories that entirely upend our scientific understanding of the universe.
November 21, 2025 at 2:49 AM
I am by no means a prominent public intellectual, but my inbox is increasingly filled with messages from people who have been convinced by sycophantic chatbots that they have discovered revolutionary theories that entirely upend our scientific understanding of the universe.
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Me with a blocked nose thinking about all the good times I had without a blocked nose.
November 21, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Me with a blocked nose thinking about all the good times I had without a blocked nose.
so apparently we almost had a campus shooter situation… absolutely unreal
November 20, 2025 at 10:02 PM
so apparently we almost had a campus shooter situation… absolutely unreal
staring at the APDA data and wondering why I ever let the PGR convince me that I needed to try to “stick it out” at a toxic program on the assumption that prestige translates into eventual job security
current dept doing better than old one…first column is permanent acad jobs, second is temporary
current dept doing better than old one…first column is permanent acad jobs, second is temporary
November 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
staring at the APDA data and wondering why I ever let the PGR convince me that I needed to try to “stick it out” at a toxic program on the assumption that prestige translates into eventual job security
current dept doing better than old one…first column is permanent acad jobs, second is temporary
current dept doing better than old one…first column is permanent acad jobs, second is temporary
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Deer grazing on side of mountain near Cape Disappointment Lighthouse.
November 19, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Deer grazing on side of mountain near Cape Disappointment Lighthouse.
I am just…convinced that the masses do not understand how academia works. Some folks over on threads pointed out that most of those “online, 100% acceptance rate” management and leadership PhDs that you pay to do are predatory and scammy and can actually blacklist you from many jobs.
November 19, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I am just…convinced that the masses do not understand how academia works. Some folks over on threads pointed out that most of those “online, 100% acceptance rate” management and leadership PhDs that you pay to do are predatory and scammy and can actually blacklist you from many jobs.