Zoe Stapleton-Deno
@zstapletondeno.bsky.social
Philosophy PhD student @ washu (st louis)
Reposted by Zoe Stapleton-Deno
This is so good it's not even a satire of US universities.
My Name Is Gregor Samsa, and This Time I Woke Up as a Grad Student at Cal State San Bernardino
You’ve probably heard about the first time this happened to me. You know: guy goes to sleep, wakes up as a giant bug, freaks out his family, worrie...
www.mcsweeneys.net
December 15, 2025 at 6:37 PM
This is so good it's not even a satire of US universities.
Reposted by Zoe Stapleton-Deno
🧠 New paper alert! Can people infer others’ values not from what they choose, but simply from what comes to mind? Across four studies, we show they can—drawing on an intuitive theory of how options are generated.
doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2025.106238
👇
doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2025.106238
👇
Redirecting
doi.org
November 5, 2025 at 7:31 PM
🧠 New paper alert! Can people infer others’ values not from what they choose, but simply from what comes to mind? Across four studies, we show they can—drawing on an intuitive theory of how options are generated.
doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2025.106238
👇
doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2025.106238
👇
Reposted by Zoe Stapleton-Deno
Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.
After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
October 5, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.
After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
Reposted by Zoe Stapleton-Deno
I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions.
Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...
Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...
September 12, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions.
Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...
Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...
Reposted by Zoe Stapleton-Deno
"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
www.bostonreview.net
September 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
Reposted by Zoe Stapleton-Deno
Pretty bizarre to use a religious exemption to deny workers the right to a union when your actual religion teaches unequivocally that workers have the right to a union.
Loyola Marymount just declared its faculty union doesn’t exist anymore.
Non-tenure track professors say the Catholic university walked away from bargaining talks using a religious exemption to avoid federal labor laws—something labor advocates say has never happened before.
Non-tenure track professors say the Catholic university walked away from bargaining talks using a religious exemption to avoid federal labor laws—something labor advocates say has never happened before.
Loyola Marymount just declared its faculty union doesn’t exist anymore
Non-tenure track professors say the Catholic university walked away from bargaining talks using a religious exemption to avoid federal labor laws—something labor advocates say has never happened befor...
lapublicpress.org
September 19, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Pretty bizarre to use a religious exemption to deny workers the right to a union when your actual religion teaches unequivocally that workers have the right to a union.
Reposted by Zoe Stapleton-Deno
Are we living through an attention crisis? And what does that mean in the first place?
Just designed a seminar on the philosophy (and psychology) of the attention crisis - excited to explore all these pieces! 1/2
Just designed a seminar on the philosophy (and psychology) of the attention crisis - excited to explore all these pieces! 1/2
September 17, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Are we living through an attention crisis? And what does that mean in the first place?
Just designed a seminar on the philosophy (and psychology) of the attention crisis - excited to explore all these pieces! 1/2
Just designed a seminar on the philosophy (and psychology) of the attention crisis - excited to explore all these pieces! 1/2
Reposted by Zoe Stapleton-Deno
We're excited to announce the fall 2025 PSA office hours! Come learn, ask questions, and connect with leading voices in philosophy of science! Schedule in the thread 👇
💻 More details + registration: www.philsci.org/psa_...
💻 More details + registration: www.philsci.org/psa_...
September 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM
We're excited to announce the fall 2025 PSA office hours! Come learn, ask questions, and connect with leading voices in philosophy of science! Schedule in the thread 👇
💻 More details + registration: www.philsci.org/psa_...
💻 More details + registration: www.philsci.org/psa_...
Reposted by Zoe Stapleton-Deno
#BBCNews - Five Al Jazeera journalists killed in Israeli strike in Gaza
www.bbc.com/news/article...
According to the CPJ, 186 journalists have been confirmed killed in the Gaza war
www.bbc.com/news/article...
According to the CPJ, 186 journalists have been confirmed killed in the Gaza war
Five Al Jazeera journalists killed in Israeli strike near Al-Shifa hospital
The broadcaster condemns the "blatant attack on press freedom", while the IDF alleges one of the journalists was part of Hamas.
www.bbc.com
August 11, 2025 at 6:08 AM
#BBCNews - Five Al Jazeera journalists killed in Israeli strike in Gaza
www.bbc.com/news/article...
According to the CPJ, 186 journalists have been confirmed killed in the Gaza war
www.bbc.com/news/article...
According to the CPJ, 186 journalists have been confirmed killed in the Gaza war
Reposted by Zoe Stapleton-Deno
My friend and colleague Remco Heesen once told me study of social epistemology of science made him "less trusting of any particular scientific paper but more impressed by science as a whole." I honestly think that's the right lesson to draw. But I think holding both attitudes doesn't come naturally.
The most important thing about science the public needs to remember is that the set of experimental and theoretical methods we refer to as "science" is the best, most reliable way of knowing we currently have.
It's rough around the edges but it works way better than anything else.
It's rough around the edges but it works way better than anything else.
Watching people not realize this about his work, and then seeing it weaponized against climate policy, sent poor old Bruno Latour into a full-blown case of abyss gaze.
June 24, 2025 at 5:38 AM
My friend and colleague Remco Heesen once told me study of social epistemology of science made him "less trusting of any particular scientific paper but more impressed by science as a whole." I honestly think that's the right lesson to draw. But I think holding both attitudes doesn't come naturally.
Reposted by Zoe Stapleton-Deno
Reggie Miller greeting the Pacers after the game as well
June 23, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Reggie Miller greeting the Pacers after the game as well
Reposted by Zoe Stapleton-Deno
The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.
June 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.
Reposted by Zoe Stapleton-Deno
🧪 The personal testimony of a scientist at Harvard Med School now incarcerated by ICE in Louisiana:
“I haven’t been in my lab or worked with my microscope since February, when I was detained by ICE as I was returning to Boston from a vacation in France”
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...
“I haven’t been in my lab or worked with my microscope since February, when I was detained by ICE as I was returning to Boston from a vacation in France”
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...
Opinion | The Science I Would Be Doing if I Weren’t in ICE Detention
www.nytimes.com
May 13, 2025 at 11:10 AM
🧪 The personal testimony of a scientist at Harvard Med School now incarcerated by ICE in Louisiana:
“I haven’t been in my lab or worked with my microscope since February, when I was detained by ICE as I was returning to Boston from a vacation in France”
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...
“I haven’t been in my lab or worked with my microscope since February, when I was detained by ICE as I was returning to Boston from a vacation in France”
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...
Reposted by Zoe Stapleton-Deno
one of the most baffling parts of this. I spent the last decade or so prepping to make the "first they came for ethnic studies" version of the Niemoller point to libs. while they did (see the CRT offensive and book bans) I absolutely did not think children's cancer researchers would be next in line
Someone really needs to point out to Bret Stephens types that burning down the entire university to get to the ethnic studies department is unlikely to work, because lots of people who would otherwise throw them to the wolves now see themselves as de facto on the same side as them.
March 15, 2025 at 7:56 PM
one of the most baffling parts of this. I spent the last decade or so prepping to make the "first they came for ethnic studies" version of the Niemoller point to libs. while they did (see the CRT offensive and book bans) I absolutely did not think children's cancer researchers would be next in line
Reposted by Zoe Stapleton-Deno
A visual analysis shows the U.S. likely bombed a migrant detention center in Yemen on April 28. At least three U.S.-made GBU-39 bombs at the site of the attack, which killed 68 African migrants, according to the Houthis, a militant group that controls northern Yemen.
Video: Visual Analysis Shows U.S. Likely Bombed Yemen Migrant Detention Center
Videos and photos reveal remnants of at least three U.S.-made GBU-39 bombs at the site of an April 28 attack. The strike killed 68 African migrants, according to the Houthis, a militant group that con...
www.nytimes.com
May 3, 2025 at 8:09 PM
A visual analysis shows the U.S. likely bombed a migrant detention center in Yemen on April 28. At least three U.S.-made GBU-39 bombs at the site of the attack, which killed 68 African migrants, according to the Houthis, a militant group that controls northern Yemen.
Reposted by Zoe Stapleton-Deno
In an executive order, President Trump directs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to stop funding NPR and PBS, the nation's primary public broadcasters.
Trump orders end to federal funding for NPR and PBS
In an executive order, President Trump directs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to stop funding NPR and PBS, the nation's primary public broadcasters.
www.npr.org
May 2, 2025 at 10:26 AM
In an executive order, President Trump directs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to stop funding NPR and PBS, the nation's primary public broadcasters.
Reposted by Zoe Stapleton-Deno
America *very much* does have a rich tradition of principled universalism worth celebrating and claiming but the cottage industry of using the existence of Harriet Tubman and John Brown to valorize *the guys they were shooting at* will never stop breaking my brain
it is one thing to say "we should embrace the better part of America's contradictory, conflictual legacy over the questions of equality and justice" and quite another to confuse which part was which
April 30, 2025 at 12:37 AM
America *very much* does have a rich tradition of principled universalism worth celebrating and claiming but the cottage industry of using the existence of Harriet Tubman and John Brown to valorize *the guys they were shooting at* will never stop breaking my brain