Kate Tong

MA Philosophy & Economics Student at Uni Bayreuth | @UofT BSc Physics & Philosophy

[Daily Nous / Justin Weinberg @DailyNousEditor]

Mass editorial resignation at Philosophy & Public Affairs. "We take this step because we believe that scholarly journals—including our own—serve important purposes, and that these purposes are not well-served by commercial publishing." https://t.co/DON2xq9j4Y

[Kate Tong @katetongkk]

This is from the privacy policy of the popular AI yearbook app (Epik). Wonder how many people actually know this is what they’re consenting to when they use the app - an app people use to generate AI photos of themselves can sell identifiable personal information to third parties

[David Almog @davidalmog25]

The best part of my 9 hour flight back from Copenhagen was watching the lady in front of me playing over 200 games of tic tac toe. A thread with some thoughts from a behavioral economist.

[Jim Weatherall @weatherall_jim]

Another volume in the Cambridge Elements in Philosophy of Physics just published!

Philosophy of Particle Physics, by Porter Williams

Link below provides open access for the next week+. Get it free while you can!

https://t.co/iamcKf9aXd

[Kate Tong @katetongkk]

Retweeting this again 3 years later now that the movie is out. Great short biography of Oppenheimer.

[Cantor’s Paradise @Cantor_Paradise]

Following the successful defense of his doctoral dissertation, the professor administering the examination, Nobel Laureate James Franck reportedly left the room saying “I’m glad that’s over. He was at the point of questioning me”

https://t.co/XBWWmssE6f

[cars.destroyed.our.cities @CarsRuinedCity]

A stadium in America’s largest metropolis vs a stadium in Spain’s second largest city.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

A Canadian court decided that a farmer's thumbs-up emoji counted as agreement to a contract texted to him by a grain buyer. The ruling pointed to what a judge called the "new reality in Canadian society" as more people express themselves with emojis. https://t.co/uv6FIWbmEF

[Anthony Farnell @AnthonyFarnell]

Canada just surpassed 4 million hectares burned this year. For comparison, last year only 28 thousand hectares had burned by June 7th. That’s an increase of about 14400%. Wow!

[Kate Tong @katetongkk]

These captchas really are getting wilder each day 🤣

[HUBBLE @HUBBLE_space]

Do you want to enjoy amazing space pictures every time you browse the internet?

Use the free ESA/Hubble Chrome Application available as an extension on the Chrome Web Store.

🔗 https://t.co/MXWwGfUkAb

Credit: @NASA / @esa / @stsci

[Wania Group @WaniaGroup]

Also read the news story at https://t.co/TFRrSGa9w0 about this work done with undergrad @katetongkk, @KnutBreivik and @ModelerLi

[Wania Group @WaniaGroup]

Check out https://t.co/iVmfklxeXO in @IOPenviroment: Consumption of electronics in developed countries results in disproportionate exposure to #FlameRetardants in developing regions. #ewaste #environmentaljustice

[Kate Tong @katetongkk]

@JeffreyASachs @jasonintrator @nhannahjones https://t.co/FRcgu4qC2K

[Kate Tong @katetongkk]

https://t.co/FRcgu4qC2K

[Sharon Yam (任萃言) @sharonyamsy]

Not all African people in Hong Kong are asylum seekers. Some were born and raised in HK but were seen as perpetual foreigners. The voices featured here highlights the everyday racism and alienization Black African HKers face. https://t.co/W3IkmcH3E1

[sanamaru. @sanamaru]

星空

[Chris Hadfield @Cmdr_Hadfield]

A late-July butterfly in the southern sky.
(the NGC 2899 glowing nebula, seen by @ESO in Chile - details here: https://t.co/cowOqTkkiP)