Sunday morn - reread. Most recommended for anyone engaged in research ‘on’ other communities. Lays down the critical grammar for ethical research: work with/alongside not ‘on’. The ‘how to’ constitutes ethics such that research isn’t “one of the dirtiest words”.

We think we know the present. The moment of the present provides us with observations of the world -- evidence for science and the content of consciousness. Yet, philosophers and neuroscientists have argued that the present is unattainable and unknowable. iai.tv/video/the-phan…

Historical Materialism Conference in East and Southeast Asia 2025 The Asian Capitalist Conjuncture: Contradictions and Critiques 23rd Jul 2025 12:00 - 25th Jul 2025 12:00 Walailak University, Nakhon Si Thammarat (Thailand) CFP: historicalmaterialism.org/event/historic…

For the next Cognitive Webinar, Gualtiero Piccinini (Gualtiero Piccinini 🇺🇦 ) from University of Missouri, Philosophy Department will be our guest with his talk "Neural Hardware for Language of Thought". We will discuss different construals of Language of Thought and which of them still

Something I've noticed is that linguists that agree with Chomsky theoretically tend to disagree politically, and linguists that agree politically tend to disagree theoretically. There's an odd tension between Chomsky's two spheres of influence

Why are minerals so central to geopolitics? How green are electric cars? Why is anti-mining protest increasing? Can the inequalities of the global economy be transformed? I tackle these topics in my book EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism 👀 September 2025 W. W. Norton & Company

Now that my Princeton University Press book is with the printer, things are getting real! If you have an interest in creative translation, the link between translation & politics, multilingual writing, poetry & world literature, check out Translation Multiples: press.princeton.edu/books/paperbac…

You know you have found your science buddy when you are both saying ‘I like the way you think’

Tom Robbins explains why myths matter

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Can AI Models Show Us How People Learn? Impossible Languages Point a Way Certain grammatical rules never appear in any known language. By constructing artificial languages that have these rules, linguists can use neural networks to explore how ppl learn quantamagazine.org/can-ai-models-…

Some mock research that seems obscure, like studying the wing of a fly. Some claim that science is unreliable because scientists change their minds. Some fault science for not providing immediate answers. But these criticisms all stem from misunderstandings of how science works.

New Cambridge Element Metacognition in Language Teaching by Mark Feng Teng is now free to read for 2 weeks! cup.org/4i9915B #cambridgeelements #languageandlinguistics

this guy is one of the world's best 'competitive programmers' and has a video explaining exactly how to learn hard things

Slavoj Žižek, one of the Western thinkers who is familiar with Marxist terminology, published an article in Philosophy Salon on January 27, 2025, entitled “Why a Communist Must Assume that Life is Hell.” mronline.org/2025/03/14/aga…

One of the most fascinating websites for comparative linguistics: CHIELD (correlation-machine.com/CHIELD/variabl…)

Major academic publishers make billions of dollars: Elsevier: $3.9 billion, Springer Nature: $2 billion, Wiley: $1.8 billion As for peer reviewers, they are paid $0. ReseachHub is a new online platform that pays peer reviewers up to $150 per review:

My column in New Indian Express today on why India needs to embrace creative destruction in its bid to become a global economic power. If one compares the top ten companies by market cap in the US in 2005 and 2025, there is only 1/10 in common - Microsoft. For China, it is 3/10.

.David Deutsch: From the earliest days of thinking onward, children must have been cornucopias of creative ideas and paragons of critical thought—otherwise, as I said, they could not have learned language or other complex culture. Yet, as Jacob Bronowski stressed in The

As our community shifts toward embracing the complexity of the brain, this new book by Xiao-Jing Wang will be an essential go-to. He is among a small, prescient group that embraced important ideas before the rest of us. Here he unpacks them. 1/2 taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.…