Dave Palfrey
@01factory.bsky.social
Ex-historian of social and political thought (Cambridge, Birkbeck). Ex-Amazon (Alexa and AGI). Chief scientist at Mind Mage. LRB reader. 2025 side-mission: fighting global bias on Wikidata & Wikipedia.
"Only that which has no history can be defined"
"Only that which has no history can be defined"
It was only as a result of reading your paper that the thought occured
January 16, 2026 at 3:23 PM
It was only as a result of reading your paper that the thought occured
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And here's a starter pack (likely very partial and incomplete) of anthropologists:
January 15, 2026 at 1:35 AM
And here's a starter pack (likely very partial and incomplete) of anthropologists:
Reposted by Dave Palfrey
I tried to set this up as a 'starter pack' to allow one-click following of the accounts on this list. Unfortunately, I couldn't see how to do so without including myself. Nevertheless, if it's useful:
January 15, 2026 at 1:10 AM
I tried to set this up as a 'starter pack' to allow one-click following of the accounts on this list. Unfortunately, I couldn't see how to do so without including myself. Nevertheless, if it's useful:
A genuine pleasure! You mention en passant funding applications & resource allocation in universities. Whether universities are expanding or contracting seems an important conditioning structural factor. (Reductively: in boom years, expansive differentiation talk; in bust years, huddle together?)
January 16, 2026 at 12:13 PM
A genuine pleasure! You mention en passant funding applications & resource allocation in universities. Whether universities are expanding or contracting seems an important conditioning structural factor. (Reductively: in boom years, expansive differentiation talk; in bust years, huddle together?)
And here's a starter pack (likely very partial and incomplete) of anthropologists:
January 15, 2026 at 1:35 AM
And here's a starter pack (likely very partial and incomplete) of anthropologists:
I tried to set this up as a 'starter pack' to allow one-click following of the accounts on this list. Unfortunately, I couldn't see how to do so without including myself. Nevertheless, if it's useful:
January 15, 2026 at 1:10 AM
I tried to set this up as a 'starter pack' to allow one-click following of the accounts on this list. Unfortunately, I couldn't see how to do so without including myself. Nevertheless, if it's useful:
Here's a list of anthropological institutions on Bluesky:
January 15, 2026 at 1:08 AM
Here's a list of anthropological institutions on Bluesky:
How do you force that language-agnosticism? Without some other non-linguistic training data, how do you stop features of language use (in whatever language happens to be being used) being all that matters once you get to the general thinking?
January 14, 2026 at 5:32 PM
How do you force that language-agnosticism? Without some other non-linguistic training data, how do you stop features of language use (in whatever language happens to be being used) being all that matters once you get to the general thinking?
If your training data is a language corpus, how can language be just a tiny subcomponent? Or are you thinking of finding some other large source of training data?
January 14, 2026 at 5:08 PM
If your training data is a language corpus, how can language be just a tiny subcomponent? Or are you thinking of finding some other large source of training data?
100% agree. But I didn't understand Whittaker to be linking indeterminism to strangeness (with some implicit comparison to non-strange humans), as much as to unreliability (with an implicit comparison to reliable unit-tested software).
January 14, 2026 at 4:51 PM
100% agree. But I didn't understand Whittaker to be linking indeterminism to strangeness (with some implicit comparison to non-strange humans), as much as to unreliability (with an implicit comparison to reliable unit-tested software).
Thank you! This prompted me to read The Network Turn. Several specific references to follow up there, but mostly thank you to you @ruthahnert.bsky.social @sebastianahnert.bsky.social and Catherine Nicole Coleman for such an interestingly collaborative overall exercise
January 14, 2026 at 1:53 PM
Thank you! This prompted me to read The Network Turn. Several specific references to follow up there, but mostly thank you to you @ruthahnert.bsky.social @sebastianahnert.bsky.social and Catherine Nicole Coleman for such an interestingly collaborative overall exercise
Yes, I think so. Thank you both for the rec! Edinburgh Strong Programme FTW.
Teaching staff - Doctorate - EHU
PhD Sociology (University of Edinburgh, 1991). He is member of a research group dedicated to social studies of innovation and education. Recent contributions made by the group include the following:Entorno regional y formación profesional. Tarragona: Publicacions URV, 2013. https://web-argitalpena.adm.ehu.es/pdf/USPDF141893.pdf Perfiles empresariales y participación de los trabajadores con cualificaciones intermedias en actividades de innovación: el caso del País Vasco, Revista Española de Sociología, 2016. DOI: 10.22325/fes/res.25.3.2016.367 Making visible the role of vocational education and training in innovation: Evidence from Spanish SMEs. European Planning Studies, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2017.1281231 Vocational education-industry linkages: Intensity of relationships and firms’ assessment. Studies in Higher Education, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2018.1496411Implementation of dual vocational education and training in Spain: the case of the Basque Country, Journal of Vocational Education & Training, 2023. DOI: 10.1080/13636820.2023.2180422From provider to partner? Main elements of the relationship between schools and small- and medium-sized firms in vocational education work placements in the Basque and Navarre regions (Spain). International Journal of Training and Development, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijtd.12320
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January 13, 2026 at 9:48 PM
Yes, I think so. Thank you both for the rec! Edinburgh Strong Programme FTW.
Ah, @lselibrary.bsky.social! Back in the 90s you could still smoke in the staircases... and I found a Jevons letter in one book. But I recall a horrid bookseller boasting they'd shed their 'irrelevant' stock to him, including e.g. F. Y. Edgeworth's New and Old Methods of Ethics, for tenpence each :(
January 13, 2026 at 9:11 PM
Ah, @lselibrary.bsky.social! Back in the 90s you could still smoke in the staircases... and I found a Jevons letter in one book. But I recall a horrid bookseller boasting they'd shed their 'irrelevant' stock to him, including e.g. F. Y. Edgeworth's New and Old Methods of Ethics, for tenpence each :(
