Doctor Logic
@saraluckelman.bsky.social
#Logician, #Onomast, #Medievalist, #AcademicMama, #Author, #Immigrant, founder of SFFReviews.com and @EllipsisImprint. Co-president of @ducu. Own views. Robot.
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If you're looking for illustrations for "AI", don't use robots, glowing disembodied brains, or computer code in empty space. Here are a some alternative suggestions:
November 17, 2025 at 10:45 AM
If you're looking for illustrations for "AI", don't use robots, glowing disembodied brains, or computer code in empty space. Here are a some alternative suggestions:
November 15, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Who knew that Melville was, fundamentally, an optimist.
then all this desolate vacuity of life went away
November 14, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Who knew that Melville was, fundamentally, an optimist.
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We are launching a new Winter Coat Swap at Orkney Library & Archive. If you have any winter coats you no longer need we'd be delighted to have them.
We're looking for coats to fit any age and size, adult or child, as long as they are in good, clean condition ready for wearing. 🧥 #GreenLibraries
We're looking for coats to fit any age and size, adult or child, as long as they are in good, clean condition ready for wearing. 🧥 #GreenLibraries
November 14, 2025 at 11:14 AM
We are launching a new Winter Coat Swap at Orkney Library & Archive. If you have any winter coats you no longer need we'd be delighted to have them.
We're looking for coats to fit any age and size, adult or child, as long as they are in good, clean condition ready for wearing. 🧥 #GreenLibraries
We're looking for coats to fit any age and size, adult or child, as long as they are in good, clean condition ready for wearing. 🧥 #GreenLibraries
My jaw dropped, I googled and found www.bbc.com/news/article..., shared it with my husband, and his response was: I don't think that's legal. Doesn't this require an act of Congress?!
November 12, 2025 at 7:23 PM
My jaw dropped, I googled and found www.bbc.com/news/article..., shared it with my husband, and his response was: I don't think that's legal. Doesn't this require an act of Congress?!
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any translation publishers out there willing to share how many pitches they receive a year on average?
November 5, 2025 at 1:25 PM
any translation publishers out there willing to share how many pitches they receive a year on average?
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Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
Early Career Rescue Fellowship
www.uni-konstanz.de
November 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
Today I tried to offer two of my students the mnemonic for distinguishing φ from psi by remembering that ψ looks like a trident, like Poseidon has, and Poseidon sounds (sort of) like ψ, and utterly failed when I realized that, having grown up in China, they weren't familiar w/ Greek myth details!
November 11, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Today I tried to offer two of my students the mnemonic for distinguishing φ from psi by remembering that ψ looks like a trident, like Poseidon has, and Poseidon sounds (sort of) like ψ, and utterly failed when I realized that, having grown up in China, they weren't familiar w/ Greek myth details!
I've managed to get SO many of these done this week (especially if you count the non-work ones I did while hunkered down at a bowling alley for two hours Sunday afternoon while G had her birthday party. Nearly caught up on reviewing the books I've read this year!). Like, 13 of them!
It feels good.
It feels good.
What I'd really love to be able to do this week is accomplish some of the things on my todo list that *don't* have deadlines.
They're the things I keep putting onto my "this week" list which keep getting pushed to my "next week" list by the end of the week.
They're the things I keep putting onto my "this week" list which keep getting pushed to my "next week" list by the end of the week.
November 11, 2025 at 1:02 PM
I've managed to get SO many of these done this week (especially if you count the non-work ones I did while hunkered down at a bowling alley for two hours Sunday afternoon while G had her birthday party. Nearly caught up on reviewing the books I've read this year!). Like, 13 of them!
It feels good.
It feels good.
G and I are watching Typhoon Family (because one of the OST songs is by Han from Stray Kids...). It's set in 1997/1998, and she's finding the "olden times" setting fascinating. The idea of pagers somewhat baffles her.
November 11, 2025 at 11:29 AM
G and I are watching Typhoon Family (because one of the OST songs is by Han from Stray Kids...). It's set in 1997/1998, and she's finding the "olden times" setting fascinating. The idea of pagers somewhat baffles her.
Ooooh, I want to read this!
(This is one of the things I LOVE about bsky/twitter-like ecosystems. Random fascinating research papers on topics I don't really know anything about -- but I will know *something* more by the time I'm done reading them!)
(This is one of the things I LOVE about bsky/twitter-like ecosystems. Random fascinating research papers on topics I don't really know anything about -- but I will know *something* more by the time I'm done reading them!)
This reminds me of a paper this year on how congenitally blind people can talk about colour in detail (wonder if relevant to Molyneaux problem too):
Liu, Van Paridon, and Lupyan. 2025. ‘Learning about Color from Language’. Communications Psychology 3 (1): 60. doi.org/10.1038/s442...
Liu, Van Paridon, and Lupyan. 2025. ‘Learning about Color from Language’. Communications Psychology 3 (1): 60. doi.org/10.1038/s442...
Learning about color from language - Communications Psychology
Blind people show similar associations between adjectives (e.g. cold) and colours (e.g. blue) as sighted people; word embedding models trained on corpora of written and spoken language learn these ass...
doi.org
November 10, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Ooooh, I want to read this!
(This is one of the things I LOVE about bsky/twitter-like ecosystems. Random fascinating research papers on topics I don't really know anything about -- but I will know *something* more by the time I'm done reading them!)
(This is one of the things I LOVE about bsky/twitter-like ecosystems. Random fascinating research papers on topics I don't really know anything about -- but I will know *something* more by the time I'm done reading them!)
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We are excited to announce the next talk in the seminar series "Women in Logic Online" by @elainepimentel.bsky.social!
TITLE: Classical Versus Constructive: An Ecumenical Approach
Date: Wed, November 26, 2025, 17:00 CEST
Venue: Zoom
You can register for free at tuwien.zoom.us/webinar/regi....
TITLE: Classical Versus Constructive: An Ecumenical Approach
Date: Wed, November 26, 2025, 17:00 CEST
Venue: Zoom
You can register for free at tuwien.zoom.us/webinar/regi....
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Women in Logic Online with Elaine Pimentel. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Classical versus Constructive: An Ecumenical Approach
tuwien.zoom.us
November 10, 2025 at 10:45 AM
We are excited to announce the next talk in the seminar series "Women in Logic Online" by @elainepimentel.bsky.social!
TITLE: Classical Versus Constructive: An Ecumenical Approach
Date: Wed, November 26, 2025, 17:00 CEST
Venue: Zoom
You can register for free at tuwien.zoom.us/webinar/regi....
TITLE: Classical Versus Constructive: An Ecumenical Approach
Date: Wed, November 26, 2025, 17:00 CEST
Venue: Zoom
You can register for free at tuwien.zoom.us/webinar/regi....
We're a bit behind on holidays here in the Uckelhaus, but time is conventional anyway so we're not going to let "dates" or "calendars" stop us. G carved her pumpkin tonight.
I was NOT expecting her to be able to do this SO well!
I was NOT expecting her to be able to do this SO well!
November 9, 2025 at 7:18 PM
We're a bit behind on holidays here in the Uckelhaus, but time is conventional anyway so we're not going to let "dates" or "calendars" stop us. G carved her pumpkin tonight.
I was NOT expecting her to be able to do this SO well!
I was NOT expecting her to be able to do this SO well!
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Cool. Client is happy with tattoo design. This will be a wraparound neck piece. I bet the finished tattoo will look even better.
November 9, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Cool. Client is happy with tattoo design. This will be a wraparound neck piece. I bet the finished tattoo will look even better.
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Had an amazing weekend -- went to a film festival (in York, England) where a documentary I took part in was being premiered. (Voice Shift -- about various trans femmes journeys with their voice.) it's a weird experience seeing yourself on a large cinema screen.
November 9, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Had an amazing weekend -- went to a film festival (in York, England) where a documentary I took part in was being premiered. (Voice Shift -- about various trans femmes journeys with their voice.) it's a weird experience seeing yourself on a large cinema screen.
REVIEW: “Daisies for Going Out, Pansies to Return Home” by Amy Power Jansen
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REVIEW: “Daisies for Going Out, Pansies to Return Home” by Amy Power Jansen
Review of Amy Power Jansen, “Dasies for Going Out, Pansies to Return Home,” Luna Station Quarterly 63 (September 2025): 15-34 — Purchase here. Reviewed by Sara L. Uckelman. There …
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November 9, 2025 at 3:19 PM
REVIEW: “Daisies for Going Out, Pansies to Return Home” by Amy Power Jansen
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The bargain I make with myself when I watch historical Thai costume dramas is that I have to promise to just NOT LOOK AT THE COLLARS (which are all manifestly machine sewn on), and then I won't spoil my enjoyment.
Pippa Durham, 38, was looking forward to a new six-part series billed as a bodice-ripping retelling of the Dissolution of the Monasteries. However, she spotted a 20th-century doorknob in the background of one of the shots and has been livid ever since.
Autistic woman watching period drama driven to madness by inauthentic doorknobs
An autistic woman watching a period drama has been driven to distraction after catching several glimpses of a modern doorknob, it has been reported. Pippa Durham, 38, was looking forward to a new…
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November 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The bargain I make with myself when I watch historical Thai costume dramas is that I have to promise to just NOT LOOK AT THE COLLARS (which are all manifestly machine sewn on), and then I won't spoil my enjoyment.
I'm "at" my kid's birthday party today, in the sense that I am in the same venue as the party, but as far away from the partyers as I can be. This is a first for me. This is ALSO the first time boys have been invited since we stopped doing all-class invitations. I guess this is what 14 will be like!
November 9, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I'm "at" my kid's birthday party today, in the sense that I am in the same venue as the party, but as far away from the partyers as I can be. This is a first for me. This is ALSO the first time boys have been invited since we stopped doing all-class invitations. I guess this is what 14 will be like!
I received an employment reference request the other day that asked me to comment on the applicant's _appearance_. I'm surprised this is even legal.
I put "n/a".
I put "n/a".
November 9, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I received an employment reference request the other day that asked me to comment on the applicant's _appearance_. I'm surprised this is even legal.
I put "n/a".
I put "n/a".
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I talked to the @unibonn.bsky.social magazine forsch about perfectionism, the Middle Ages, and why we could do with more creativity in scholarship. This is the English translation.
www.uni-bonn.de/en/universit...
www.uni-bonn.de/en/universit...
Effortlessly flawless?
www.uni-bonn.de
November 7, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I talked to the @unibonn.bsky.social magazine forsch about perfectionism, the Middle Ages, and why we could do with more creativity in scholarship. This is the English translation.
www.uni-bonn.de/en/universit...
www.uni-bonn.de/en/universit...
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Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.
HEAD'S UP FELLOW #CREATIVES!
If you haven't heard, #Grammarly is changing...and one change that doesn't pass the smell test is the incorporation of the ocean-boiling plagiarism machine that is #AI. 😒
I'm ditching Grammarly TONIGHT. #Writing #Writers #NoAI
www.grammarly.com/blog/company...
If you haven't heard, #Grammarly is changing...and one change that doesn't pass the smell test is the incorporation of the ocean-boiling plagiarism machine that is #AI. 😒
I'm ditching Grammarly TONIGHT. #Writing #Writers #NoAI
www.grammarly.com/blog/company...
Grammarly Rebrands Company as Superhuman, Introduces Superhuman Suite and Superhuman Go
Superhuman Platform delivers proactive, context-aware AI agents that work in the flow of work, wherever people work Grammarly today announced it is changing its company…
www.grammarly.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.