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Huw Price
@huwprice.bsky.social
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Australian philosopher. Emeritus Bertrand Russell Professor & Emeritus Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge. Early roles in @cser.bsky.social and
@cfi-cambridge.bsky.social. More: prce.hu/w

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Huw Price is an Australian philosopher, formerly the Bertrand Russell Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy, Cambridge, and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.

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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · Jul 22
Latest piece with @kenwharton.bsky.social

ABSTRACT: In statistics and causal modeling it is common for a selection process to induce correlations in a subset of an uncorrelated ensemble. We propose that EPR and Bell correlations are selection artefacts of this kind. …1/

#philsky #philsci #quantum
Taming Entanglement
In statistics and causal modeling it is common for a selection process to induce correlations in a subset of an uncorrelated ensemble. We propose that EPR and Bell correlations are selection artefacts...
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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 20h
Grim thought, but otherwise they’d be on X.

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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 20h
Can you see the photo? I forgot to provide ALT text.

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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 21h
The two you can see. They don’t seem worthy to you?

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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 21h
Honoured to discover that Academic Philosophy has such worthy neighbours.

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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 1d
For me, nothing will top this Bad Bunny.
A sign at the border of Queensland, Australia, warning of a $44,000 penalty for keeping rabbits.

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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 3d
HMS Ark Andrew
navalairhistory.com Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 3d
Make a warship mid:

HMS Park Royal
dreadships.bsky.social Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 3d
Make a warship mid:

HMS Strategic Victory

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 3d
Make a warship mid:

HMS Park Royal
dreadships.bsky.social Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 3d
Make a warship mid:

HMS Strategic Victory

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Max P III @blackballer.bsky.social · 3d
Man i love liberalism. So utterly incoherent

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John Quiggin @johnquiggin.bsky.social · 4d
As Israel’s President visits Australia, genocide continues in Gaza and serious legal concerns remain unanswered. We’re calling on the government to uphold Australian and international law: Detain and investigate Isaac Herzog. ✍️ Add your name getup.to/YmaMqWFlCKVEC4
✍️SIGN: Detain and investigate Herzog
As Israel’s President visits Australia, genocide continues in Gaza and serious legal concerns remain unanswered. We’re calling on the government to uphold Australian and international law: Detain and ...
getup.to

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 4d
I refuse to believe that is a real person: "Dr. Chase Spears (U.S. Army, Retired)"

That *has* to be a pen-name, right?

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · 4d
BREAKING: Over 680 members of the National Academy of Sciences, Medicine, and Engineering have endorsed articles of impeachment against RFK Jr.
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Top of the photo in white text reads: "BREAKING OVER 680 NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES MEMBERS, INCLUDING 10 NOBEL PRIZE LAUREATES, ENDORSE IMPEACHING RFK JR." Below that in black text is a statement reading: "We, the undersigned Members of the National Academy of Medicine, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Engineering, writing in our private capacities, endorse the Articles of Impeachment introduced in the House of Representatives on Dec 10, 2025 by Representative Haley Stevens." Below that is the red "STAND UP FOR SCIENCE " logo. Below that is a link in white text reading: "standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr".

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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 7d
Jonah Messinger just gave a great talk on these issues at HPS Cambridge. There’s a video here. #philtech #sts #philsci #HPS

www.youtube.com/watch?v=o43x...

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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 7d
Reposting this recent piece on gatekeeping in cold fusion, written with the physicists Jonah Messinger and Florian Metzler – they are involved in some of the most interesting current work, including an ARPA-E funded project based at MIT. #sts #philtech #philsci #HPS
Gatekeeping: a Partial History of Cold Fusion
One of the most public episodes of gatekeeping in modern science was the case of so-called 'cold fusion'. At a news conference in 1989 the electrochemists Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons announced...
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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 8d
That’s how we did Intelligence Alignment in the old days.

Reposted by Diane Coyle, Robert W. Wallace, Huw Price , and 3 more

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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 10d
My Centre is a unique place to do a PhD in Philosophy, because you can be in constant contact with experts in veterinary medicine, psychology, zoology and policy and be part of a team united by a shared interest in animal minds. We now have our 1st ever PhD scholarship: www.lse.ac.uk/sentience/phd
PhD Scholarship
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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 12d
Wrecked in New Jersey – one for you @roberttalisse.bsky.social?

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 12d
Winter storms uncover 19th-century shipwreck on New Jersey beach www.popsci.com/science/ship...
Winter storms uncover 19th-century shipwreck on New Jersey beach
The ‘Lawrence N. McKenzie’ sank in 1890 loaded with oranges from Puerto Rico.
www.popsci.com

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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 13d
Thank you, I had forgotten about that excellent collection!

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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 13d
@edouardmachery.bsky.social Thanks for the link above to TW’s attack piece on your work. Does anyone have a link to Tim Maudlin’s response to “must do better”?

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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 13d
There was a lot of discussion in FB earlier, in a post by Bernard Kobes. It included some excellent comments in reply by @amiethomasson.bsky.social herself. I suggested there that she ask OUP to use this in the publicity: “A degenerating research programme” – Timothy Williamson.

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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 14d
✅🙂

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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 14d
Another one for @martinkusch.bsky.social – the lower flower is more than a week old, hanging on despite heat and heavy rainfall!
A red rose

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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 17d
Hence the old joke, in Greenland they have seventeen words for fuck off, but no word for penguin.
euthyphro.bsky.social Euthyphro @euthyphro.bsky.social · 17d
It’s like the 8th thing that matters but there are no penguins in the northern hemisphere.

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Euthyphro @euthyphro.bsky.social · 17d
It’s like the 8th thing that matters but there are no penguins in the northern hemisphere.

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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 18d
Board of Peace makes me think of Seat of Ease.
A multi hole ‘seat of ease’, from an eighteenth century warship.

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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 19d
Critter on one of our roses.
Large green grasshopper on a faded yellow rose

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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 19d
Just like time’s arrow – complete mystery.

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Cambridge Philosophy @cambridgephilos.bsky.social · 21d
📣 British Academy International Fellowships 2026 at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge:
www.phil.cam.ac.uk/jobs/british...
British Academy International Fellowships 2026 | Faculty of Philosophy
Call for Expressions of Interest for British Academy International Fellowship applications: Faculty deadline Thursday, 12 February 2026 The
www.phil.cam.ac.uk

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Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy @lmu-mcmp.bsky.social · 21d
Postdoc opportunities: The MCMP's Chair of Logic and Philosophy of Language (Prof. Hannes Leitgeb) at @lmumuenchen.bsky.social advertises two Postdoc positions (deadline 31 Jan 2026). See job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/7...
Postdoctoral Fellow (m/f/x)
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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 24d
When the shit hits the fan, as it were.
phillipspobrien.bsky.social Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 25d
This is a sign of ethical collapse. Trump has forced this brave person to debase herself--with gold trimming.