R. D. Kent 🍉

My PhD thesis is now openly available to read online :) www.repository.cam.ac.uk/items/4aedae...

my paper got accepted to The Opportunistic Journal of Contrived Research!

Excited to be guest editing the 2028 special issue of the Journal for the History of Knowledge with @gianamar97.bsky.social journalhistoryknowledge.org/announcement...

Basic contention is academia used to be about inquiry, and not just a finishing school for elites as it is nowadays. But my impression is academia has always been to a large extent a finishing school for elites and by historical standards there's an unusually high emphasis on intellectual merit now?

Kudos to LinkedIn for including this function

We are writing to the Prime Minister, and the Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy, calling for an immediate public inquiry into the British press, following the tragic death of Jason Arday. Sign here 👇

"Dundee University staff to stage five-week strike over job cuts" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I mean, I begin with analysis of the commodity, but to each their own.

Wrote another sonnet; this one's a bit more personal than I usually do

Jesus. 35 UK universities quietly- without debate - joined the Ministry of Defence’s “Battlefield Alliance” which seeks to “reorientate academia towards Defence and National Security” They’re destroying the social sciences and humanities while militarising the institutions

Big moment for me 🙂‍↕️

I'm one week into my postdoc at the Arché Research Centre in St Andrews 😊 a very comfortable venue for thinking about the aesthetic ideology of science

We should redirect funds from the LHC to this

I have the complete and consistent list of Good and Bad historical personages.

Excited to share that I'll be joining the University of St Andrews as a Research Fellow from July 🥳 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 I'll be contributing my work on ideological scientism to @alicemurphs.bsky.social's excellent aesthetics of science project, which you can read more about here:

Students who say “Mills” finally vindicated!

I'm genuinely super excited to announce that I'm moving to Gent as a postdoctoral researcher in April, working on the philosophy of sustainable chemistry

"I have a squad of graduate students eager to risk their lives for a letter of recommendation."

Genuinely just bonkers to watch the USA do this to one of the most successful and innovative hubs of scientific research the world has ever seen. All those years of Free Speech On Campus debates and it turns out they actually wanted less cancer research. Absurd.

LinkedIn is full to the brim with pedagogyslop

Encountering the dialectic of recognition on my central line commute

A nice micro case study in scientistic ideology!

I want to thank Richard Dawkins for making my arguments about popular science writing as a vector for ideological scientism incredibly easy to develop

did you know Robert De Niro's father was the spitting image of Wittgenstein?

For anyone attending MANCEPT 2025 this week, I'll be delivering my talk on ideological scientism at 16:30 today, as part of the "Integrating Politics and Philosophy of Science from Below" workshop. You can also hear grumble at length about the "Science & Values" paradigm :)

helen de cruz was fully who she was. her genuineness & humaneness was abundant in everything she did, including in dying, something we will all do, but few of us as honestly. in that she exemplified what you would hope a philosopher could be. i’m glad to have known her a little.