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Super excited and honoured that my very first paper, "Risk, Rationality and (Information) Resistance: De-rationalizing Elite-group Ignorance," has been accepted at Erkenntnis! Here's a link to a preprint, and a thread. 1/19

Xin Hui Yong, Risk, Rationality and (Information) Resistance: De-rationalizing Elite-group Ignora...

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3 years

End of semester energy: we are in class and someone just, on camera, tucked themselves right the fuck into bed

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@badinfinity2 with the pineapple and all,

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I literally *chose* to go to grad school from my swanky ass job with swanky ass money, because said swanky shit was "ruining my life" and I derive joy from doing philosophy. It's one thing to warn applicants that grad school/academia's hard, and another to diminish their agency

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Going to print this out and point to it whenever anyone asks me to "clarify" or "say more"

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“can you explain this gap in your resume?” Yeah it's because y'all only accept .docx format and the formatting got all messed up

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Me, Aristotle fresh in head, reading anyone after Aristotle talk about virtue: boy this sounds like Aristotle

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Dear paywalls, I promise I haven't read up to my limit of free articles -- I just opened the same article 5 times 30 tabs apart

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Am I philosophically creative? no. But do I have good attention to detail that makes me a good scholar? no. But am I good at time management and strategy so it'll help me be viable in the job market? no. But am I socially adjusted? no. But am I mentally sta

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Manifesting this one too

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me, ignorant person who hates reading:

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"philosophy is in the humanities" okay riddle me this

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rip to Smith you'd have loved being seen as a pro-capitalist

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Also -- every career can ruin your life lmao and life is suffering so sue me for wanting to choose how I suffer

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Wondering about the epistemic injustice of being so hot you can't be taken seriously as a nerd

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Virtually no peer or precedent

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@focusfronting Man what did they study again

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Manifesting

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3 years

Fuck this capitalist dystopia I can't believe even my therapist wants me to WORK on processing my trauma

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Yes I'm in academia. Yes I can't play chess to save my life. We exist

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Ok fine, I'll bite. What's "logic"

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Live footage of my recitations

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makes sense that my paper looks like it was written by 7 different people since I do not have an enduring self

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Really envious of all of you who can sleep without blackout eyemasks, earplugs, melatonin gummies, the will of the moon, Satan's approval,

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2 years

Formal epistemology? No thank you. I prefer thinking about learning in my pyjamas

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This "which of stem or humanities is harder" thing is so funny to me, given that my trajectory was math --> philosophy and when people ask me why the change I tell them the questions I was interested in didn't change much at all

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3 years

My ADHD meds work by borrowing brain capacity from future me and using it for my current task

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1 year

taught my first class with the same group of bb philosophers that made me cry from how much I want academia and the world to be better for them, because they deserve everything that is good. also yes turns out i love advising and teaching if i get to be my chaotic gremlin self

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Y'all. I think I'm actually deeply enjoying writing my Aristotle paper

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If I were a professor, I would simply not like or swipe on any of my students on dating apps

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Why does everyone say "toxic" ex without demarcating between "venomous" and "poisonous" exes

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4 years

I aspire to have the confidence of people who put their expected year of completion of their PhD on their CV

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Pleased to announce I passed my PhD defense (topic was on solving German Idealism) with no revisions 😌 2 years is definitely a longer time than I had planned for but good things take time I guess

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Serious question: what does loneliness feel like to you?

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4 years

dont u hate when it turns out your paper is in ETHICS so u have an obligation for it to be GOOD

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3 years

A student told his mum that my class (his only philosophy class) is the one that he’s worked the hardest at, had the most fun with, and had the most rewarding experience with. He also said that it's so clear I love what I'm doing when I'm teaching. Excuse me I'm going 2 bawl

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I was giving Zoom office hours to two students and they realized they were at the same cafe!! They exchanged numbers and are now working on homework together 🥺

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I accidentally tried to read 70 pages of dense single space philosophy in a go and i am still hyperventilating

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Thank you UT Austin Philosophy for giving me a captive audience for my Sophie De Grouchy advertisement/love letter! I had so much fun

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Make a philosopher cry with just 4 words

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Make a data engineer cry with just 4 words

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Obsessed with this pic because it makes me look like I have no body

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So far this week I've had two!! Philosophers!! That I deeply look up to!! Call my papers "lovely"!! They?? Like my work??

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Dialectics this dialectics that let's stop pretending we're posh and call it banter

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2 years

Signed up for training for the philosophy PhD job market* *Barista training

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3 years

rip to hume and smith yall wouldve loved empath discourse

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3 years

Stages of a relationship: 1. Fucking 2. Trauma Bonding 3. Sharing edit links on Overleaf

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1 year

The (e)ink is dry: I will be (re)starting grad school in Philosophy at MIT in the fall. It's really bittersweet, as I've grown so so so much at Pitt, and I'll miss all my mentors and my friends so much. I'm really sorry to leave, even as I am excited about new horizons.

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I work on philosophy full time. I'm ridiculously bad at chess. We exist.

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Was in the middle of class as it hit me that shit, I'm doing this stuff *because* I want to, not just because it's a means to an end I want. How gloriously lucky I am!!!

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The best philosophy journal is the one you actually use consistently. For example, I like to put my philosophy journal right by my phone charger so I always know where it is and can write my philosophy thoughts in it. Follow me for more tips about philosophy journals

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Face of a kid on 2.5h sleep after they finished the presentation part of their presentation (hair and photo by the lovely @Angry_Cassie )

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Good morning today I want to share that someone once tried to flirt with me on the cells of a Google Sheets doc

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wish i could do continental phil like the rest of you hot beautiful artists but instead here i am crunching numbers and being the engineer my parents always wanted me to be

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If we allow humans to judge by vibes, why do we demand that machines have explainable (ie non-vibe) inference processes

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4 years

reject embodiment, embrace returning to the Intellect

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Does one ever get over the fear that what they're teaching is just fundamentally incorrect and that they're grading their students wrong? Asking for a friend

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3 years

my students in office hours: yes we will finally get Guidance on how to do proofs me in office hours: so this method I call the `fuck around and find out' method,

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Guy reading WSJ in philosophy lecture...I can fix him

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The genders

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6 months

Business casual yet again at the Michigan-MIT Social Philosophy Workshop!

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i approach the word count like i fall in love: slowly, then all at once

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I was accepted to this program because I ask lots of really easy clarificatory questions and I therefore contribute to the mental health of the professors

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2 years

Clumsy little clean but it's the first time I've done a full clean since my injury 1.5 years ago!!

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4 years

Tbt to when someone back @ the bank was like 'your ADHD is in your head,' like yeah my dude it's in my prefrontal cortex

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2 years

I'm really excited to present a thought experiment meant to elicit a certain intuition and then instead have the audience realize that I only have this intuition because of mental illness

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They made me a poster oh my god

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4 years

one excellent thing about no longer online dating is that men don't see 'philosophy' in my bio and write a paragraph about edmund burke as their first message

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Too obsessed with normativity to be an epistemologist, too obsessed with learning to be an ethicist

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Excited to be spending the next academic year as a visiting student at MIT's Philosophy department! Soliciting recommendations, friends, etc.

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I did it!! I saw a citation of a book, recognized it from my bookshelf, and pulled it out to find what they referred to

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3 years

Sheepish confession: I don't actually recognize what journals people publish in. I just go on Google scholar and then click the first link to the text I can find

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My professor said she really enjoyed my writing and really wanted to know what I thought about the topics she cares about and I 🥺🥺🥺🥺

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Some academics really make me want to ask them about why they flipped a tortoise over in the desert and are not flipping it back even though it's dying

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4 years

starting a thread of things i write on my drafts

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Teachers of logic, when your students that are taking it for a gen-ed earnestly ask what the point of all this natural deduction is, esp wrt philosophical stuff, what do you tell them?

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To the cuties applying to grad school while at work: feel free to use the monitors :) and printers :) and paper :) use your corporation as a means to an end as they have used u :)

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Did I read? No. But did I grade? No. But did I do the laundry? No. But did I spend 60 bucks on biking stuff? Yes

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the only part of my handout i've done so far and the only part i think i will do

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(pc: @sabrina_p_leeds ) Man, it's so weird that just 4 years ago I was convinced I was a straight woman, despite All Evidence To The Contrary. Internalized biphobia and queerphobia and transphobia is so insidious, and I'm so lucky to have had the space to come out to myself.

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Friends, serious question. How do y'all find things to do to rest and not turn them into obligations?

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I read Kant and then after I read him I learned to identify as neither straight nor woman. Therefore he radicalised me

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Love when a prof replies to my 'sorry i messed up i am a mess' with 'same i'm also overwhelmed'

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She catches your eye, and your dad has never taught you how to use a can opener. How do you open?

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1 year

Talked about adaptive preferences, ableism and rationality in the clownest of cores

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2 years

My name is xh and I put QR codes in my slides in case u want a copy of the paper or the slides

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3 years

Sometimes when I'm lonely I go into my DM requests to see the "hi"s and "ur beautiful"s

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Pretty privilege but for writing: when the writing is so tasty that you never know if you can evaluate the ideas within objectively

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Tis the szn

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luv 2 work on a paper and then realize it's just deeply confused

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This is the best my (untreated, natural) hair has looked in... ever?

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6 years ago I was the pinnacle of non-threatening femininity and now I am all threat

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This is a six year difference lmao

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Working on my paper!* *Having it on my screen as I tippy tap on my phone, only looking up to wave my mouse when the monitor goes to sleep

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My symposium session had a door that accidentally locked from the inside so people couldn't get in but hey I rocked a full Windsor

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Health insurance, the ability to wake up at 11am to do 3-7h intense work a day (outside teaching) without getting fired, having a good amount of that work be *enriching* and put me in a flow state, a captive audience of board game people

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Has anyone yet put forward a compelling argument as to why getting a PhD in arts and humanities is worthwhile even if the end result is not academic employment? Personal enrichment aside—and I think that can be valid—is there literally anything out there?

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Y'all after lots of convincing by my therapist and loved ones I am...asking for accommodations....for my surgery and recovery???? Please give me head pats for not trying to teach the day after surgery while hopped up on opioids

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Public menace at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens launching face into flowers

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Y'all I said no to a conference acceptance because I had a high risk of being overwhelmed at that time. I am doing it!! I am saying no!! I will now lie facedown on the floor!!

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i love capitalism

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