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Proud of my colleagues: We’ve had the best-selling frontlist university press book 4 weeks straight: Inventing the Renaissance by @adapalmer.bsky.social, Unaccountability Machine by @dsquareddigest.bsky.social, & @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social’s Odyssey (2 straight weeks). 4 of the top 5 this week.
May 4, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Proud of my colleagues: We’ve had the best-selling frontlist university press book 4 weeks straight: Inventing the Renaissance by @adapalmer.bsky.social, Unaccountability Machine by @dsquareddigest.bsky.social, & @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social’s Odyssey (2 straight weeks). 4 of the top 5 this week.
Noticing Haseeb Hameed’s score the other day I wondered, as I often do these days, how Dolly was doing and realized when he was my age, my grandfather often wondered exactly the same about his grandfather, using the same words.
April 26, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Noticing Haseeb Hameed’s score the other day I wondered, as I often do these days, how Dolly was doing and realized when he was my age, my grandfather often wondered exactly the same about his grandfather, using the same words.
Yesterday I learned I’ve been elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences alongside 3 other UW colleagues. I’m very proud and very sad that I can’t tell me dad, who would be much prouder.
www.amacad.org/new-members-...
www.amacad.org/new-members-...
New Academy Members
Elected in 2025
www.amacad.org
April 24, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Yesterday I learned I’ve been elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences alongside 3 other UW colleagues. I’m very proud and very sad that I can’t tell me dad, who would be much prouder.
www.amacad.org/new-members-...
www.amacad.org/new-members-...
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Congratulations to political philosopher Harry Brighouse, social psychologist Patricia Devine, political scientist Lisa Martin and cognitive neuroscientist Mark Seidenberg — UW–Madison's newly elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences!
Four UW–Madison professors elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
The UW–Madison inductees are political philosopher Harry Brighouse, social psychologist Patricia Devine, political scientist Lisa Martin and cognitive neuroscientist Mark Seidenberg.
news.wisc.edu
April 23, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Congratulations to political philosopher Harry Brighouse, social psychologist Patricia Devine, political scientist Lisa Martin and cognitive neuroscientist Mark Seidenberg — UW–Madison's newly elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences!
In response to a reference to a “proustian moment” in The Barbie Movie a young friend asked me to explain. When I told her someone devoted his life to writing 7 endless novels about remembering the smell of a cookie she, reasonably enough, didn’t believe me. Till I said he was French.
April 14, 2025 at 2:40 PM
In response to a reference to a “proustian moment” in The Barbie Movie a young friend asked me to explain. When I told her someone devoted his life to writing 7 endless novels about remembering the smell of a cookie she, reasonably enough, didn’t believe me. Till I said he was French.
A conversation in which you learn that there is virtually zero chance that you have a cancer would be enormously more fun if you’d entered the conversation believing there was a more than virtually zero chance that you have same cancer.
April 8, 2025 at 10:33 PM
A conversation in which you learn that there is virtually zero chance that you have a cancer would be enormously more fun if you’d entered the conversation believing there was a more than virtually zero chance that you have same cancer.
Today started the second championship season without dad to talk to about what’s going on at Northants or Somerset, or to reminisce about Hayes and Higgs, Flat Jack and little Harry Pilling. Every season going forth will be the same. I’ll have to come over for a whole season and watch every day.
April 5, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Today started the second championship season without dad to talk to about what’s going on at Northants or Somerset, or to reminisce about Hayes and Higgs, Flat Jack and little Harry Pilling. Every season going forth will be the same. I’ll have to come over for a whole season and watch every day.
Born in 1963 will I still be around when my twin grandchildren play for the winning USA team in the 2048 cricket World Cup? Something to live for, perhaps.
April 1, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Born in 1963 will I still be around when my twin grandchildren play for the winning USA team in the 2048 cricket World Cup? Something to live for, perhaps.
Me: which movie star was in the Belgian resistance?
Student: Lauren Bacall?
Me: no I can see that. The answer is much more unlikely. Really unlikely!
Student….Audrey Hepburn?
Me: YES!
Student (delighted):!she was the most unlikely person I could think of.
I’m so impressed.
Student: Lauren Bacall?
Me: no I can see that. The answer is much more unlikely. Really unlikely!
Student….Audrey Hepburn?
Me: YES!
Student (delighted):!she was the most unlikely person I could think of.
I’m so impressed.
March 20, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Me: which movie star was in the Belgian resistance?
Student: Lauren Bacall?
Me: no I can see that. The answer is much more unlikely. Really unlikely!
Student….Audrey Hepburn?
Me: YES!
Student (delighted):!she was the most unlikely person I could think of.
I’m so impressed.
Student: Lauren Bacall?
Me: no I can see that. The answer is much more unlikely. Really unlikely!
Student….Audrey Hepburn?
Me: YES!
Student (delighted):!she was the most unlikely person I could think of.
I’m so impressed.
Simon Kuper is almost certainly right that anyone like my dad in the Federal government will be gone by the end of the year. I don’t think musk views this as an unwelcome side effect: it’s one of the main goals.
March 15, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Simon Kuper is almost certainly right that anyone like my dad in the Federal government will be gone by the end of the year. I don’t think musk views this as an unwelcome side effect: it’s one of the main goals.
I’m too old for this to matter to me but as someone who shares the president’s birthday this seems like a punishment. It guarantees that he won’t receive any birthday cards by mail on his actual birthday. Horrible idea! No federal holidays should honor the living!!
tenney.house.gov/media/press-...
tenney.house.gov/media/press-...
Congresswoman Tenney Moves to Make President Trump’s Birthday a Federal Holiday
Washington, DC – Congresswoman Claudia Tenney (NY-24) today introduced the Trump’s Birthday and Flag Day Holiday Establishment Act to officially designate June 14 as a federal holiday to commemorate P...
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February 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I’m too old for this to matter to me but as someone who shares the president’s birthday this seems like a punishment. It guarantees that he won’t receive any birthday cards by mail on his actual birthday. Horrible idea! No federal holidays should honor the living!!
tenney.house.gov/media/press-...
tenney.house.gov/media/press-...
I conjecture that even a room full of moral philosophers, who are renowned to be entirely lacking in empathy, many if not most would get up and help.
Well. A few would, anyway.
Well. A few would, anyway.
I like fiction and don't always trust people, but am confident that if an old man was stabbed in a room where no one reads fiction at all, a FTSE100 company, say, or a university, people would still get up and help ffs
February 16, 2025 at 4:05 AM
I conjecture that even a room full of moral philosophers, who are renowned to be entirely lacking in empathy, many if not most would get up and help.
Well. A few would, anyway.
Well. A few would, anyway.
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Very much looking forward to this conversation with Ingrid Robeyns @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social which David Lay Williams @laywilliams.bsky.social will moderate.
Should billionaires be outlawed? Join philosopher @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social and economist @durlauf.bsky.social for a thought-provoking conversation on the merits of limitarianism moderated by political scientist David @laywilliams.bsky.social.
Register: bit.ly/3PJkjkx
Register: bit.ly/3PJkjkx
February 4, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Very much looking forward to this conversation with Ingrid Robeyns @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social which David Lay Williams @laywilliams.bsky.social will moderate.
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Position opening: The APA Central Division solicits applications for divisional secretary-treasurer. Applications must be received by March 5 to be given full consideration. Learn more at https://www.apaonline.org/news/691767/Position-Opening-Central-Division-Secretary-Treasurer.htm
January 24, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Position opening: The APA Central Division solicits applications for divisional secretary-treasurer. Applications must be received by March 5 to be given full consideration. Learn more at https://www.apaonline.org/news/691767/Position-Opening-Central-Division-Secretary-Treasurer.htm
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Very excited to be joining @durlauf.bsky.social for a discussion of @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social's remarkable new book, Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth.
Our next book talk will explore the ethical and political case for limiting extreme wealth, examining its impact on equality, democracy, and sustainability. Panelists: @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social and @durlauf.bsky.social. Moderator: @laywilliams.bsky.social
🔗Register here: bit.ly/3PJkjkx
🔗Register here: bit.ly/3PJkjkx
January 21, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Very excited to be joining @durlauf.bsky.social for a discussion of @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social's remarkable new book, Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth.
If anything, this is an understatement.
Back to the now: @dsquareddigest.bsky.social's The Unaccountability Machine is wonderful. Insightful, thoughtful, erudite, funny, caustic, inquisitive.
January 1, 2025 at 1:10 PM
If anything, this is an understatement.
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2024 Headline of the Year nominee (September)
December 22, 2024 at 7:02 PM
2024 Headline of the Year nominee (September)
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Today we are pleased to announce the winners of 16 APA prizes. Congratulations to all! https://www.apaonline.org/news/689851/APA-announces-Fall-2024-prize-winners.htm
December 20, 2024 at 7:00 PM
Today we are pleased to announce the winners of 16 APA prizes. Congratulations to all! https://www.apaonline.org/news/689851/APA-announces-Fall-2024-prize-winners.htm
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Letter to Santa, 1944
December 12, 2024 at 2:41 AM
Letter to Santa, 1944
Listen to I Got A Name by Jim Croce, then listen to Forbidden Road by Robbie Williams. They seem more alike than He’s so Fine and My Sweet Lord.
Here’s Croce: www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_BE...
Here’s Croce: www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_BE...
I Got a Name (Stereo Version)
YouTube video by Jim Croce - Topic
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November 27, 2024 at 3:12 PM
Listen to I Got A Name by Jim Croce, then listen to Forbidden Road by Robbie Williams. They seem more alike than He’s so Fine and My Sweet Lord.
Here’s Croce: www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_BE...
Here’s Croce: www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_BE...
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Interested in inequality research? Here is a starter pack containing research centers / institutes / organizations dedicated to the study of socioeconomic inequality.
Time seemed ripe as, finally, organizations are moving to Bluesky. Let me know if others should be added.
go.bsky.app/5daYr6v
Time seemed ripe as, finally, organizations are moving to Bluesky. Let me know if others should be added.
go.bsky.app/5daYr6v
November 26, 2024 at 1:08 PM
Interested in inequality research? Here is a starter pack containing research centers / institutes / organizations dedicated to the study of socioeconomic inequality.
Time seemed ripe as, finally, organizations are moving to Bluesky. Let me know if others should be added.
go.bsky.app/5daYr6v
Time seemed ripe as, finally, organizations are moving to Bluesky. Let me know if others should be added.
go.bsky.app/5daYr6v
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As being an MP becomes more unappealing (I simply don't believe this government is going to want to take action to fix that) this going to become more marked, that "having a sense of religious mission" becomes ever more important to "actually wanting to do this horrible job".
November 19, 2024 at 4:03 PM
As being an MP becomes more unappealing (I simply don't believe this government is going to want to take action to fix that) this going to become more marked, that "having a sense of religious mission" becomes ever more important to "actually wanting to do this horrible job".
Hard to imagine anyone better.
Good news: Ben Wikler is seriously considering a run for DNC chair, a source familiar with his thinking tells me.
(confirming Natasha Korecki tweet)
Ben would be a great DNC chair: Fully committed to deep organizing and avoids the pitfalls of factional squabbles and finger-pointing.
(confirming Natasha Korecki tweet)
Ben would be a great DNC chair: Fully committed to deep organizing and avoids the pitfalls of factional squabbles and finger-pointing.
November 19, 2024 at 3:37 AM
Hard to imagine anyone better.
The best, and most entertaining, book I’ve read this year.
(Excluding books that contain a murder, some detectives, and in which the killer either gets caught or dies.)
(Excluding books that contain a murder, some detectives, and in which the killer either gets caught or dies.)
if anyone was in two minds about "The Unaccountability Machine", it is on the Kindle daily deal today, for the v low price of £3.69!!
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www.amazon.co.uk/Unaccountabi...
The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions - and How The World Lost its Mind eBook : Davies, Dan: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions - and How The World Lost its Mind eBook : Davies, Dan: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
www.amazon.co.uk
November 3, 2024 at 4:06 PM
The best, and most entertaining, book I’ve read this year.
(Excluding books that contain a murder, some detectives, and in which the killer either gets caught or dies.)
(Excluding books that contain a murder, some detectives, and in which the killer either gets caught or dies.)
@dsquareddigest.bsky.social I’m sure you’ve heard this from hundreds of people but Rory Stewart is apparently loving reading The Unaccountability Machine and Lying for Money simultaneously but can’t quite get your name right.
September 26, 2024 at 3:46 PM
@dsquareddigest.bsky.social I’m sure you’ve heard this from hundreds of people but Rory Stewart is apparently loving reading The Unaccountability Machine and Lying for Money simultaneously but can’t quite get your name right.