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H.K. Andersen @hkandersen.bsky.social · 5d

Happy Mid-autumn harvest festival weekend! I made fusion mooncakes, cookie outside with a paste of dates and four kinds of nuts inside.

Metro Vancouver style energy snacks, because I absolutely have to finish this draft today.

View looking down into a tin lined with paper, holding four stacks of mooncakes. Two stacks are round with a flower pattern on top, two stacks have square cookies with a different flower pattern on top. This picture was taken earlier today and already those stacks are half gone.

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H.K. Andersen @hkandersen.bsky.social · 9d

Preprint: specific subtypes of epistemic injustice where academic science interfaces with Indigenous knowledge in the BC area, targeted by epistemic transformative justice in 3 "the future looks better than the past" case studies. Great coauthors here
#philsci #philsky #sfu
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Holly K. Andersen, Grace A. Shaw, Erica Olson & Rudy Reimer, Identifying Epistemic Injustices to Inform Epistemic Transformative Justice - PhilPapers

In this chapter, we identify four specific subtypes of epistemic injustice that target Indigenous knowledge systems, practices, products, and methods of transmission. These four subtypes of epistemic ...

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H.K. Andersen @hkandersen.bsky.social · 11d

We're coming up on philosophy PhD application season. In case it is helpful for you or your students, I have a guide to this process, developed over the years of working with SFU MA students. Let me know if you have questions or suggestions
#philsky #philsci

www.hkandersen.com/applying-for...

Applying for Ph.d. programs

These notes were developed over the years for the annual "Applying to a PhD program" session for Simon Fraser University Philosophy MA students. This offers a perspective on how to prioritize your...

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H.K. Andersen @hkandersen.bsky.social · 12d

Hard to book Mill for a talk these days, but you might be able to get Bentham

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H.K. Andersen @hkandersen.bsky.social · 13d

Time lapse cloud drama looking northward. Fresh breeze through the window makes this stage of writing less sloggish.
#sfu

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H.K. Andersen @hkandersen.bsky.social · 14d

Working on a paper where I swear every day I am making progress but am coming to suspect it is more like Pachelbel's Canon progress because damn it is no closer to being done

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H.K. Andersen @hkandersen.bsky.social · 15d

A lovely moment shared with Ebeneezer Murderbeak on the walk in. They played with that mallard decoy! Pushing it around like a toy duck. And they coo'd at me! You can hear them make little cozy sounds if you listen closely. Definitely improved my day to be counted as birdfriend.
#sfu #heron

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H.K. Andersen @hkandersen.bsky.social · 17d

that would be great! I have a draft I am wrangling into a final form and this sounds relevant

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H.K. Andersen @hkandersen.bsky.social · 17d

sounds interesting, looking forward to reading it!

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Eugene Y. S. Chua @eugenechua.bsky.social · 23d

Very happy to announce that the CFP is now open for APSA26: The Inaugural Biennial Conference of the Asian Philosophy of Science Association! It will be held at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. The keynote will be Craig Callender. Submission deadline: 31 Dec 2025. URL: tinyurl.com/APSA26

Asian Philosophy of Science Association (APSA) Conference 2026

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H.K. Andersen @hkandersen.bsky.social · 27d

I have genuinely considered how much easier it would be if I changed my last name to Anderson

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H.K. Andersen @hkandersen.bsky.social · 28d

my kid and I have been texting about this and he was actually bummed to learn I am not personally on The Professor Watchlist

in a complimentary way? like, telling Yes you are Radical

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H.K. Andersen @hkandersen.bsky.social · 28d

Feels like I am doing something right enough in life that when I die, no one will think, thank god the trolley got em, whoever redirected that trolley thereby spared so many other people.

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H.K. Andersen @hkandersen.bsky.social · 28d

Youngest Child just wrapped up a long think about the best ever books for kids younger than him. Results: When the Robbers Came to Cardamom Town, and The Monster Under the Hill.

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H.K. Andersen @hkandersen.bsky.social · Sep 4

Ebeneezer Murderbeak is back! Just in time for the start of Fall term.

Here he is atop the AQ, admiring some brutalist Arthur Erickson architecture in the morning light filtered through wildfire smoke.

Waiting for his moment to lecture some students and snack on some koi.

#sfu

A grey heron sits atop a concrete brutalist building. The building has regular lines but they are somewhat distorted because of the angle at which the photo was taken. The light is weirdly sepia coloured, a result of all the smoke.

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H.K. Andersen @hkandersen.bsky.social · Aug 30

we didn't have to use area codes growing up, unless you were calling a different area code. still works in some places out west. In Bozeman the first 3 digits of phone numbers used to have the same first 2 digits so you would write a digit, dash, then last 4

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H.K. Andersen @hkandersen.bsky.social · Aug 29

Oh summer garden drama. Stolen rhubarb-weird? but whatever. Then stolen tomatoes, which is pure sacrilege.

After 8 years w/out a single apple, our little tree did so well! Kids were proud. Till a bear sat on it and squashed the whole thing, trellis and tree.

Still a great garden year, though

The wreckage of an espaliered apple tree trellis, broken into pieces and pushed over, with trees branches through it. There are a lot of apples on the tree, still rather small and green but also delicious.

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H.K. Andersen @hkandersen.bsky.social · Aug 19

Great triple header topic! I wish I could join in person, and am also very glad for all the discussions that Zoom enables instead. Looking forward to meeting participants

Daian Bica @daianbica.bsky.social · Apr 4

Great news!
This year, together with my colleagues Paul Hasselkuß and Alexander Christian, I am organising a summer school on
P3: Pluralism, Pragmatism, Perspectivism
HHU Summer School, 15th ‑ 19th September 2025
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
p3-summerschool.netlify.app

Pluralism, Pragmatism, Perspectivism

Summerschool exploring three recent approaches for engaging with the post-positivist legacy in philosophy of science. 15th -- 19th September 2025, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany.

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Eran Tal @erantal.bsky.social · Aug 18

University teachers, we may very well be next. No one will pay us for sabbaticals and prep time if our right to strike lasts 12 hours. If your flight is delayed, please remember it's because someone else is doing your civil disobedience for you. #cdnpoli #canadasky

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Air Canada flight attendants to stay on the picket lines after strike deemed illegal | CBC News

The union representing thousands of striking Air Canada flight attendants says it will risk jail time and fees but will not order its members back to work, despite the federal labour relations board c...

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H.K. Andersen @hkandersen.bsky.social · Aug 17

Head canoning: if you crack open an Infinite Improbability Drive from the Hitchhiker's Guide, what you will find powering it is a Lucky Day plot hole

#LuckyDay by Chuck Tingle is a great read, especially if you are a "cuddling with numbers to reassure myself" type of queerdo

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