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Simone Picenni
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Postdoc @ ILLC/UvA

Logic | Formal semantics | Theories of Truth & Truthmaking | HOL Light user

Support the Human Right To Science!
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jaythechou.bsky.social
I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1367
Paddington in Dune Part 2
December 6, 2024 at 7:34 AM
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jaythechou.bsky.social
I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1347
November 16, 2024 at 6:54 AM
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mjcrockett.bsky.social
Is it Bad to leave Twitter? No. Here are 7+ years of insights from my lab’s research that explain why.

Featuring work w/ @williambrady.bsky.social @killianmcloughlin.bsky.social

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December 1, 2024 at 10:48 PM
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frabellazzi.bsky.social
Had a fantastic time recording this episode for the #DissenterYT and talking about all my favourite things from functions to kinds and biochemical molecules - wrapping it up with education as empowerment! 💪
#philsky

Spotify: bit.ly/495Ia6L
Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-No...
#1023 Francesca Bellazzi: Biochemical Kinds and Functions, Genes, and Virtue Ethics
YouTube video by The Dissenter
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November 25, 2024 at 10:12 AM
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tobymeadows.bsky.social
If you're interested in contemporary set theory and large cardinals, then this paper is a must-see!

www.math.uni-hamburg.de/home/luecke/...
www.math.uni-hamburg.de
November 25, 2024 at 3:46 PM
spicenni.bsky.social
See you in Den Haag tomorrow!
claesdevreese.bsky.social Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · Nov 24
On Monday a large demonstration to stop higher education and research cuts will take place 🇳🇱

On Monday the Dutch government will revisit its shortsighted plans.

A failure to do this creates a real setback that neither this nor next generations deserve.
@woinactie.bsky.social #highered #academicsky
November 24, 2024 at 11:15 PM
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cercerilla.bsky.social
I really try not to do too much self promotion. I think it's annoying, and I generally believe that the best way to get interest in your work is to give people something they value.

That said, new platform so I'll do this once:

I wrote a book about Haskell:
www.pragprog.com/titles/rshas...
Effective Haskell
Build efficient applications that exploit the unique benefits of a pure functional language, learning from an engineer who uses Haskell to do practical work.
www.pragprog.com
November 17, 2024 at 6:18 PM
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climate.skyfleet.blue
UN warns of ‘economic carnage’ if G20 leaders cannot agree on climate finance for poor countries #Climate
UN warns of ‘economic carnage’ if G20 leaders cannot agree on climate finance for poor countries
Wealthy nations are yet to offer the hundreds of billions of dollars that economists say are needed to help the developing world cut emissions
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2024 at 6:33 PM
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alisabokulich.bsky.social
• See M. Massimi (2024) "From the right to science as an. epistemic-cultural human right to the right to expertise", in M.
Farina, A. Lavazza and D. Pritchard eds.) Expertise.
Philosophical Perspe
as, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Talk slide text "REBSP as an epistemic-cultural right GING SOPHY EXPERTISE Philosophical Perspaticos EDITED aY Mirko Farina. Andrea Lavazza, and Duncan Pritchard • REBSP as a "right concerning scientific knowledge (episteme in ancient Greek as opposed to doxa qua opinion or bogus knowledge) qua part of wider cultural practices' (Massimi 2024). 8 From the Right to Science as an Epistemic-Cultural Human Right to the Right to Expertise Michela Massimi University of Edinburgh There is no human activity from which every form of intellectua participation can be excluded: homo faber cannot be separated fron homo sapiens. Antonio Gramsci • See M. Massimi (2024) "From the right to science as an. epistemic-cultural human right to the right to expertise", in M. Farina, A. Lavazza and D. Pritchard eds.) Expertise. Philosophical Perspe as, Oxford: Oxford University Press. C 1. The Right to Science Among the rights listed in the United Nations (UN) Declaration of Human UNDHR) in 1948, there is the so-called 'Right to Science': Art. 27 (1) Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life o community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement an benefits (emphasis added). OXFORD"
November 17, 2024 at 1:26 AM