Mel Andrews
@bayesianboy.bsky.social
I’m not like the other Bayesians. I’m different.
Thinks about philosophy of science, AI ethics, machine learning, models, & metascience. postdoc @ Princeton.
Thinks about philosophy of science, AI ethics, machine learning, models, & metascience. postdoc @ Princeton.
The academic world can be so cruel for a soft, soft, soul! If only there was a job in...
January 12, 2026 at 2:40 AM
The academic world can be so cruel for a soft, soft, soul! If only there was a job in...
This is not a first-world problem. This is not a second or third-world problem.
December 15, 2025 at 9:50 PM
This is not a first-world problem. This is not a second or third-world problem.
If you have to read anything about the prospect of “automating scientific discovery,” “agents for science,” or integrating LLMs into scientific pipelines, please let it be this essay by Kevin T. Baker: artificialbureaucracy.substack.com/p/context-wi...
December 14, 2025 at 11:16 PM
If you have to read anything about the prospect of “automating scientific discovery,” “agents for science,” or integrating LLMs into scientific pipelines, please let it be this essay by Kevin T. Baker: artificialbureaucracy.substack.com/p/context-wi...
This whole being an AI expert thing is exhausting, and for what payoff? Until now, none. I’m glad that I can finally say it’s all been worth it: finally, I can rub the AI into my eyeballs.
December 14, 2025 at 12:32 AM
This whole being an AI expert thing is exhausting, and for what payoff? Until now, none. I’m glad that I can finally say it’s all been worth it: finally, I can rub the AI into my eyeballs.
I created these Charles Darwin Greeting Cards for All Occasions (or for 4 very specific occasions) 9 years ago today
December 13, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I created these Charles Darwin Greeting Cards for All Occasions (or for 4 very specific occasions) 9 years ago today
To anyone who may have been present at my talk today in which I intimated that you can just, you know, do this: you can just, you know, do this.
December 11, 2025 at 11:58 PM
To anyone who may have been present at my talk today in which I intimated that you can just, you know, do this: you can just, you know, do this.
I see your “Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness” and raise you my “Journal of Earth and Flatness”
December 10, 2025 at 8:56 PM
I see your “Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness” and raise you my “Journal of Earth and Flatness”
I had the privilege of delivering my first talk at @princetoncitp.bsky.social today.
December 2, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I had the privilege of delivering my first talk at @princetoncitp.bsky.social today.
Some percentage of the population consistently reports that they are reincarnations of Jesus, that the CIA are monitoring us with subcutaneously injected spy drones, and that the moon landing is a hoax. Is it time to consider whether they’re onto something?
November 30, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Some percentage of the population consistently reports that they are reincarnations of Jesus, that the CIA are monitoring us with subcutaneously injected spy drones, and that the moon landing is a hoax. Is it time to consider whether they’re onto something?
So glad the internet could share in my special moment.
November 21, 2025 at 1:20 AM
So glad the internet could share in my special moment.
I love it when boys come together online to celebrate the accomplishments of women. What an honor to have earned a PhD in 2025 and to receive such positive support from the online community.
November 21, 2025 at 1:10 AM
I love it when boys come together online to celebrate the accomplishments of women. What an honor to have earned a PhD in 2025 and to receive such positive support from the online community.
Alternatively, according to this account, women’s norms of epistemic deference are innate, while men are essentially… poultry.
November 19, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Alternatively, according to this account, women’s norms of epistemic deference are innate, while men are essentially… poultry.
I also received this wonderful moleskine notebook and a bag to keep it in from the conference.
November 4, 2025 at 3:19 AM
I also received this wonderful moleskine notebook and a bag to keep it in from the conference.
This is a lie, actually, I got some cool earrings too.
November 4, 2025 at 3:18 AM
This is a lie, actually, I got some cool earrings too.
I went all the way to Mexico to give a keynote and all I got was this lousy t-shirt
November 4, 2025 at 3:09 AM
I went all the way to Mexico to give a keynote and all I got was this lousy t-shirt
This market is a soap bubble and we all know it. Claims of the capacity to obviate or automate human labor are absurd. We know this. But that won’t stop them from disrupting labor markets and, with them, human lives. pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...
November 3, 2025 at 4:20 AM
This market is a soap bubble and we all know it. Claims of the capacity to obviate or automate human labor are absurd. We know this. But that won’t stop them from disrupting labor markets and, with them, human lives. pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...
More frightening yet is the pervasive belief that a generation of American citizens was born lacking all intellectual curiosity, as though by some fluke, while our educational establishments continued to serve us well.
November 3, 2025 at 12:25 AM
More frightening yet is the pervasive belief that a generation of American citizens was born lacking all intellectual curiosity, as though by some fluke, while our educational establishments continued to serve us well.
the law is not ontologically independent. it is not a force or entity existing out there in the aether. it is supervenient on human beings; the decisions we make and what we deem to be just.
October 30, 2025 at 12:56 AM
the law is not ontologically independent. it is not a force or entity existing out there in the aether. it is supervenient on human beings; the decisions we make and what we deem to be just.
Thrilled also to have seen this cool bug which in its adult form is a good example of Batesian mimicry
October 28, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Thrilled also to have seen this cool bug which in its adult form is a good example of Batesian mimicry
Thrilled to be at UNAM this week and to be keynoting a truly fantastic conference on the Philosophy of Computing.
October 28, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Thrilled to be at UNAM this week and to be keynoting a truly fantastic conference on the Philosophy of Computing.
Mexican starbucks almost gets my name right:
October 26, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Mexican starbucks almost gets my name right:
it’s a competition.
October 23, 2025 at 8:46 PM
it’s a competition.
here I am during my dissertation defense. swordless. defenseless.
October 16, 2025 at 12:47 AM
here I am during my dissertation defense. swordless. defenseless.
There’s nothing wrong with inventing your own little thought experiment where a cat licks poison or dances to mambo no.5 when no one is watching if you don’t actually care about the Copenhagen interpretation
October 14, 2025 at 1:56 AM
There’s nothing wrong with inventing your own little thought experiment where a cat licks poison or dances to mambo no.5 when no one is watching if you don’t actually care about the Copenhagen interpretation