Andrew Lopez
@andrulus.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Colorado State. Views my own, etc.
Animal Philosophy, Social & Political Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy, Latin American Philosophy, Philosophy of Biology
Animal Philosophy, Social & Political Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy, Latin American Philosophy, Philosophy of Biology
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Andrew Lopez
@andrulus.bsky.social
· Nov 3
Gaia: the Earth is an organism (not a Darwinian individual) - Biology & Philosophy
The Gaia hypothesis has been roundly criticized by a number of evolutionary biologists, who maintain that no plausible evolutionary account is compatible with the idea that the Earth is an organism. T...
doi.org
Letitia Meynell and I have a new paper out! We revisit the Gaia hypothesis and try to defend the idea and reality of Gaia from some of the main criticisms that led to its dismissal. Thread 1/9 doi.org/10.1007/s105...
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in the movies this is the screensaver on the computers at the world’s most evil company
December 5, 2025 at 7:03 PM
in the movies this is the screensaver on the computers at the world’s most evil company
removing 1 and 2. IME these allowed approaches for responding to prompts can lead to completely undefended or reasoned answers. Without several courses in the field in question for students to serve as calibration for what types of responses are acceptable, you tend to get these types of answers.
I am sincerely interested in a discussion of how the rubric/prompt could be improved. But I posted this because I can't shake the impression of foul play. Feels very similar to trying to clamp down on LLM use. How can we avoid foul play without punishing students who are there to learn?
December 1, 2025 at 8:41 PM
removing 1 and 2. IME these allowed approaches for responding to prompts can lead to completely undefended or reasoned answers. Without several courses in the field in question for students to serve as calibration for what types of responses are acceptable, you tend to get these types of answers.
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Are you interested in doing a PhD about what humans infer about animal minds?
Check out this opportunity @northumbriapsy.bsky.social with me, @mdconstable.bsky.social and Lee Shepherd!
Deadline 23 Jan 2026
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Check out this opportunity @northumbriapsy.bsky.social with me, @mdconstable.bsky.social and Lee Shepherd!
Deadline 23 Jan 2026
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Bridging the Species Divide: Animal minds and the human-animal relationship (Ref: RDF26/HW/PSY/RENNER) at Northumbria University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Bridging the Species Divide: Animal minds and the human-animal relationship (Ref: RDF26/HW/PSY/RENNER) at Northumbria University, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Are you interested in doing a PhD about what humans infer about animal minds?
Check out this opportunity @northumbriapsy.bsky.social with me, @mdconstable.bsky.social and Lee Shepherd!
Deadline 23 Jan 2026
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Check out this opportunity @northumbriapsy.bsky.social with me, @mdconstable.bsky.social and Lee Shepherd!
Deadline 23 Jan 2026
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
People get so mad on the internet they trick themselves or lie about silly shit. Melodrama over the quality of the writing of that OU student assignment. It is a bad assignment. It is not unreadable. It is not the worst student writing you've ever read, not by a longshot, come on now.
December 1, 2025 at 1:33 AM
People get so mad on the internet they trick themselves or lie about silly shit. Melodrama over the quality of the writing of that OU student assignment. It is a bad assignment. It is not unreadable. It is not the worst student writing you've ever read, not by a longshot, come on now.
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I have news. Wonderful news.
New paper on #disinformation. The title is the thesis. Think of disinformation as content that functions to optimise the decisions of the audience for the disinformant. This doesn't require deception or content that induces false belief.
philpapers.org/rec/LITDIF
New paper on #disinformation. The title is the thesis. Think of disinformation as content that functions to optimise the decisions of the audience for the disinformant. This doesn't require deception or content that induces false belief.
philpapers.org/rec/LITDIF
Clayton Littlejohn, Disinformation is for Degrading the Value of Information, not Confirming Falsehoods - PhilPapers
According to a recent account of disinformation, disinformation is content that “generates ignorance” (Simion 2024a; 2024b). The view improves upon previous accounts that focused upon the potential fo...
philpapers.org
November 29, 2025 at 12:40 AM
I have news. Wonderful news.
New paper on #disinformation. The title is the thesis. Think of disinformation as content that functions to optimise the decisions of the audience for the disinformant. This doesn't require deception or content that induces false belief.
philpapers.org/rec/LITDIF
New paper on #disinformation. The title is the thesis. Think of disinformation as content that functions to optimise the decisions of the audience for the disinformant. This doesn't require deception or content that induces false belief.
philpapers.org/rec/LITDIF
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#OnThisDay in 1859, Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species was first published.
Much of the original manuscript was used as scrap paper by Darwin's children. On the back of this painting of a house is an original manuscript page from Origin!
#CambridgeUniversityLibrary (DAR 185)
Much of the original manuscript was used as scrap paper by Darwin's children. On the back of this painting of a house is an original manuscript page from Origin!
#CambridgeUniversityLibrary (DAR 185)
November 24, 2025 at 11:26 AM
#OnThisDay in 1859, Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species was first published.
Much of the original manuscript was used as scrap paper by Darwin's children. On the back of this painting of a house is an original manuscript page from Origin!
#CambridgeUniversityLibrary (DAR 185)
Much of the original manuscript was used as scrap paper by Darwin's children. On the back of this painting of a house is an original manuscript page from Origin!
#CambridgeUniversityLibrary (DAR 185)
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Hell yeah this post got blueskied
November 15, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Hell yeah this post got blueskied
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It is not just up to you what you signal though! :(
November 8, 2025 at 12:42 AM
It is not just up to you what you signal though! :(
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had an idea for a powerful new subway ad campaign
August 12, 2025 at 12:02 AM
had an idea for a powerful new subway ad campaign
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We *know* shockingly little about prehistory—we *speculate* about it, in ways that tend to reaffirm our own assumptions and biases, and then these speculations become sage wisdom about human nature, but only to the exact extent that they assert that women evolved to make sandwiches.
THIS IS WHY WE ALL HATE EVOPSYCH. Can we please fucking discredit this pseudo-naturalist bullshit at last?
November 6, 2025 at 3:57 PM
We *know* shockingly little about prehistory—we *speculate* about it, in ways that tend to reaffirm our own assumptions and biases, and then these speculations become sage wisdom about human nature, but only to the exact extent that they assert that women evolved to make sandwiches.
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I have to say, in the long history of “Marx failed to consider” takes by internet reply-guys, “Marx failed to consider the use-value of warm coats” should win its own category of award
November 4, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I have to say, in the long history of “Marx failed to consider” takes by internet reply-guys, “Marx failed to consider the use-value of warm coats” should win its own category of award
She's right
Talking to the 5-year-old about the election tomorrow has backfired spectacularly because she asked if she gets to vote, and I explained to her that she needed to be 18, and she is now crying and vigorously arguing that you should be allowed to vote “whatever age you are”
November 4, 2025 at 5:43 AM
She's right
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Letitia Meynell and I have a new paper out! We revisit the Gaia hypothesis and try to defend the idea and reality of Gaia from some of the main criticisms that led to its dismissal. Thread 1/9 doi.org/10.1007/s105...
Gaia: the Earth is an organism (not a Darwinian individual) - Biology & Philosophy
The Gaia hypothesis has been roundly criticized by a number of evolutionary biologists, who maintain that no plausible evolutionary account is compatible with the idea that the Earth is an organism. T...
doi.org
November 3, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Letitia Meynell and I have a new paper out! We revisit the Gaia hypothesis and try to defend the idea and reality of Gaia from some of the main criticisms that led to its dismissal. Thread 1/9 doi.org/10.1007/s105...
Letitia Meynell and I have a new paper out! We revisit the Gaia hypothesis and try to defend the idea and reality of Gaia from some of the main criticisms that led to its dismissal. Thread 1/9 doi.org/10.1007/s105...
Gaia: the Earth is an organism (not a Darwinian individual) - Biology & Philosophy
The Gaia hypothesis has been roundly criticized by a number of evolutionary biologists, who maintain that no plausible evolutionary account is compatible with the idea that the Earth is an organism. T...
doi.org
November 3, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Letitia Meynell and I have a new paper out! We revisit the Gaia hypothesis and try to defend the idea and reality of Gaia from some of the main criticisms that led to its dismissal. Thread 1/9 doi.org/10.1007/s105...
Reposted by Andrew Lopez
Take heart, Canadians. More of us live in LA than Winnipeg, so LA is basically a Canadian city!
November 2, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Take heart, Canadians. More of us live in LA than Winnipeg, so LA is basically a Canadian city!
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Married her yesterday.
I asked my girlfriend if there was anything she wanted from the store and the first thing she asked was, “how is our cheese situation.” I’m going to marry this woman.
November 1, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Married her yesterday.
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i'm a deleuzean in the very specific sense that i spiritually align with the freaks but i really like hanging out at home
October 31, 2025 at 3:46 PM
i'm a deleuzean in the very specific sense that i spiritually align with the freaks but i really like hanging out at home
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The funny thing about the invention of the wheel is the guy who invented it died penniless. It wasn't until much much later that pennies were invented
October 29, 2025 at 9:10 PM
The funny thing about the invention of the wheel is the guy who invented it died penniless. It wasn't until much much later that pennies were invented
Mamdani's brazen lie has infected many of our nation's children. Reports from all over the country of kids calling people who are not their parents' siblings "unc"
October 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Mamdani's brazen lie has infected many of our nation's children. Reports from all over the country of kids calling people who are not their parents' siblings "unc"
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Sorry I can't get over this but it's just so funny to say "The test starts off with giraffes and elephants but the questions get way harder than that"
October 28, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Sorry I can't get over this but it's just so funny to say "The test starts off with giraffes and elephants but the questions get way harder than that"
Briefly went on the other site and lol
October 27, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Briefly went on the other site and lol
It becomes a bit more understandable when you note that the "young researcher" in question is 11 years post-PhD and has been a professor for that same amount of time and has tenure. Personally I think it's near-certain they have heard of the second shift, given their research profile.
Like if your reaction to a young researcher who is clearly trying her best going uphill in a famously male-dominated insulated field, is to say "wow go fuck yourself you dumb idiot" idk man. Seems like your field needs a culture rethink
October 26, 2025 at 8:41 PM
It becomes a bit more understandable when you note that the "young researcher" in question is 11 years post-PhD and has been a professor for that same amount of time and has tenure. Personally I think it's near-certain they have heard of the second shift, given their research profile.
