Mark Fabian
@markfabian.bsky.social
Ass-Prof of Public Policy at Warwick. Work mostly on wellbeing from an interdisciplinary perspective. Interested in *everything*. Run ePODstemology: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1763534/episodes
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Mark Fabian
@markfabian.bsky.social
· Feb 26
Beyond Happy: How to rethink happiness and find fulfilment
YouTube video by M. Fabian Education
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Friends, foes, family:
I have a popular booking coming out on April 10 - Beyond Happy: How to rethink happiness and find fulfilment. It's the book I wish existed when I was 18. I couldn't find it in 20 years of searching, so I went and wrote it.
A video brief:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XPZ...
I have a popular booking coming out on April 10 - Beyond Happy: How to rethink happiness and find fulfilment. It's the book I wish existed when I was 18. I couldn't find it in 20 years of searching, so I went and wrote it.
A video brief:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XPZ...
Beyond Happy made Behavioral Grooves best books of 2025. Check out all their other recommendations (the endorsement kicks off around 12:32).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSLg...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSLg...
Best Behavioral Science Books of 2025 (According to us)
YouTube video by Behavioral Grooves
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January 5, 2026 at 9:52 PM
Beyond Happy made Behavioral Grooves best books of 2025. Check out all their other recommendations (the endorsement kicks off around 12:32).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSLg...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSLg...
Does anyone know any "effective" environmental charities? I am especially interested in nature protection charities rather than decarbonisation/tech ones (after reading Waste Wars I'm more convinced than ever that we need values to change not technology). Who do I give money to protect the Amazon?
January 5, 2026 at 9:24 PM
Does anyone know any "effective" environmental charities? I am especially interested in nature protection charities rather than decarbonisation/tech ones (after reading Waste Wars I'm more convinced than ever that we need values to change not technology). Who do I give money to protect the Amazon?
Does anyone have any recommendations for charities that protect nature? I'm not much interested in technology (e-vehicles etc. won't save us if people keep buying a new car every 3 years). I am interested in *nature protection* e.g. halting Amazon deforestation, or removing plastics from the ocean.
January 5, 2026 at 6:00 AM
Does anyone have any recommendations for charities that protect nature? I'm not much interested in technology (e-vehicles etc. won't save us if people keep buying a new car every 3 years). I am interested in *nature protection* e.g. halting Amazon deforestation, or removing plastics from the ocean.
I laughed pretty hard at this meme from Brendan Graham Dempsey here:
open.substack.com/pub/brendang...?
Could also apply to most of critical theory.
Dempsey's blog is one of the few places to read consistently excellent analysis of metamodernism, incidentally.
open.substack.com/pub/brendang...?
Could also apply to most of critical theory.
Dempsey's blog is one of the few places to read consistently excellent analysis of metamodernism, incidentally.
January 4, 2026 at 8:55 PM
I laughed pretty hard at this meme from Brendan Graham Dempsey here:
open.substack.com/pub/brendang...?
Could also apply to most of critical theory.
Dempsey's blog is one of the few places to read consistently excellent analysis of metamodernism, incidentally.
open.substack.com/pub/brendang...?
Could also apply to most of critical theory.
Dempsey's blog is one of the few places to read consistently excellent analysis of metamodernism, incidentally.
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May your year be blessed with accepts subject to minor corrections.
January 1, 2026 at 7:30 AM
May your year be blessed with accepts subject to minor corrections.
Using RIDICULOUS Strategies in Baldur's Gate 3 | The Movie!!!
YouTube video by Fracture
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December 31, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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This is a great paper on scale norming that also presents a really nice discussion of how people come up with their responses to surveys, and how that can change over time. One read of it has me wanting to put it into my assessment syllabus already.
December 29, 2025 at 2:45 PM
This is a great paper on scale norming that also presents a really nice discussion of how people come up with their responses to surveys, and how that can change over time. One read of it has me wanting to put it into my assessment syllabus already.
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Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather
December 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather
Right at the death I've got an academic publication for 2025 - coauthored with one of my undergraduate honours students based on his dissertation (what a talent!):
Bricolage in local government policymaking on cycling infrastructure: a case study from Coventry
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Bricolage in local government policymaking on cycling infrastructure: a case study from Coventry
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Bricolage in local government policymaking on cycling infrastructure: a case study from Coventry, UK
This paper contributes to mobilities scholarship through a qualitative study of perspectives articulated by policy actors affiliated to Coventry City Council towards cycling infrastructure. Mobilit...
www.tandfonline.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Right at the death I've got an academic publication for 2025 - coauthored with one of my undergraduate honours students based on his dissertation (what a talent!):
Bricolage in local government policymaking on cycling infrastructure: a case study from Coventry
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Bricolage in local government policymaking on cycling infrastructure: a case study from Coventry
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
December air travel means Mark writes extremely belated movie reviews of stuff he watched on the plane:
open.substack.com/pub/profmark...?
open.substack.com/pub/profmark...?
December 20, 2025 at 12:54 AM
December air travel means Mark writes extremely belated movie reviews of stuff he watched on the plane:
open.substack.com/pub/profmark...?
open.substack.com/pub/profmark...?
I am on holiday so of course I am blogging:
open.substack.com/pub/profmark...?
My quick analysis of the really genuinely very good new mythology in the Star Wars sequel trilogy.
open.substack.com/pub/profmark...?
My quick analysis of the really genuinely very good new mythology in the Star Wars sequel trilogy.
The Final Star Wars Trilogy Was Good, Actually
It's mythology for the 21st century, kids
open.substack.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I am on holiday so of course I am blogging:
open.substack.com/pub/profmark...?
My quick analysis of the really genuinely very good new mythology in the Star Wars sequel trilogy.
open.substack.com/pub/profmark...?
My quick analysis of the really genuinely very good new mythology in the Star Wars sequel trilogy.
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A beautiful, grounding thread.
I want these things too, for all of us
🙏🌏💚
I want these things too, for all of us
🙏🌏💚
My friends, I don't want to rush to Mars or the moon to theoretically have the energy and materials to prop up extractive capitalism for another century or so.
December 19, 2025 at 6:50 PM
A beautiful, grounding thread.
I want these things too, for all of us
🙏🌏💚
I want these things too, for all of us
🙏🌏💚
Good clear example of how AI drivel is ruining academic publishing and not just in MPDI-like journals
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
December 19, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Good clear example of how AI drivel is ruining academic publishing and not just in MPDI-like journals
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Canada lynx
December 19, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Canada lynx
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It’s what dark persistent predatory personalities (aka malignant narcissists & psychopaths, etc.) do – and not just today, not just in the 20th century, but throughout history.
(A bit more in ALT)
(A bit more in ALT)
December 17, 2025 at 10:00 PM
It’s what dark persistent predatory personalities (aka malignant narcissists & psychopaths, etc.) do – and not just today, not just in the 20th century, but throughout history.
(A bit more in ALT)
(A bit more in ALT)
Obligatory Japan trip photo booth fun times. I was genuinely too large for the machine.
December 14, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Obligatory Japan trip photo booth fun times. I was genuinely too large for the machine.
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“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
December 13, 2025 at 2:16 PM
“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
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As UKRI explores using LLMs to review grants, it's a good time to revisit Bryan Wilder's excellent blog post.
There are a lot of naive reasons to oppose AI review ("you'll never automate human intuition!"). But there are also good reasons, including the *load-bearing role of human disagreement.*
There are a lot of naive reasons to oppose AI review ("you'll never automate human intuition!"). But there are also good reasons, including the *load-bearing role of human disagreement.*
Should LLMs be used to review papers? AAAI is piloting LLM-generated reviews this year. I wrote a blog post arguing that using LLMs as reviewers can have bad downstream consequences for science by centralizing judgments about what constitutes good research.
bryanwilder.github.io/files/llmrev...
bryanwilder.github.io/files/llmrev...
Equilibrium effects of LLM reviewing
Equilibrium effects of LLM reviewing
bryanwilder.github.io
December 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
As UKRI explores using LLMs to review grants, it's a good time to revisit Bryan Wilder's excellent blog post.
There are a lot of naive reasons to oppose AI review ("you'll never automate human intuition!"). But there are also good reasons, including the *load-bearing role of human disagreement.*
There are a lot of naive reasons to oppose AI review ("you'll never automate human intuition!"). But there are also good reasons, including the *load-bearing role of human disagreement.*
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The philosophers were so preoccupied with whether they should that they didn't stop to think if they could.
December 3, 2025 at 9:35 PM
The philosophers were so preoccupied with whether they should that they didn't stop to think if they could.
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November 30, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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Students applying for grad school, or reaching out to professors. I have an important piece of advice for you: STOP DOING THIS 👇 (a thread) #STEM #PhD #gradschool #academictips
November 21, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Students applying for grad school, or reaching out to professors. I have an important piece of advice for you: STOP DOING THIS 👇 (a thread) #STEM #PhD #gradschool #academictips