# \\"Email Luca — ask about apparently empty week in calendar Look at which students are taking the e... ## Retrieval Notes - Session id: `fd8a0dec-9d5f-4388-8038-f53496401f6c` - Last activity: `2026-02-04T10:51:28.694Z` - Files touched: `2` ## Artifacts **Created:** - `/Users/nickyoung/.local/bin/philos-l-scan.py` **Modified:** - `/Users/nickyoung/.claude/commands/morning-review.md` ## My Notes <!-- Add your notes here. This section is preserved across syncs. --> ## Conversation ### Assistant I'll prepare your morning briefing. Let me gather all the necessary data. ### Assistant Let me try those commands without the redirects, and fix the daily notes search: ### Assistant ## Morning Brief — Wednesday, February 4, 2026 **Weather:** *(unavailable — network issue)* **Day:** Wednesday, February 4, 2026 --- ### Schedule & Tasks **Today's Calendar:** No events scheduled. **Coming Up (Next 2 Days):** No events scheduled. **Tasks:** *Due today:* - [ ] take pills - [ ] send chatgpt invoice *Overdue:* - [ ] Plan fun stuff for the weekend *(due Feb 3)* - [ ] That bloody non attending student *(due Feb 2)* *Due tomorrow:* - [ ] Message Max - [ ] Email Marcello *Other pending:* - [ ] Email Luca — ask about apparently empty week in calendar - [ ] Look at which students are taking the exam - [ ] Book a blood test - [ ] Get a new permesso di soggiorno card - [ ] Return to argumentation schemes conversation --- ### Recent Emails **Last 24 hours:** - **From:** You — *Re: essay* (09:14) — Confirming exam arrangements, third floor Balbi 4 - **From:** Vapor Talks (Substack) — *#8: desert sand feels warm at night* (08:09) - **From:** Cartoon Gravity — *Wednesday Wonders 21* (07:55) *(No urgent replies needed — you've already handled the exam email.)* --- ### Philosophy Jobs (philos-L) **Highlights from last 14 days (28 total, most relevant for your areas):** - **2-year Postdoc: Aesthetic Values and the Social Dimensions of Science** — St Andrews *(fits your aesthetics work)* - **2-year Postdoc: AI, LLM, Ontologies and KGs** — Jönköping University, Sweden *(directly relevant)* - **PhD in Epistemology of Machine Learning** — *(supervision-side interest?)* - **3-year positions: Ethics & Philosophy of Technology (IT & AI)** — Toronto Scarborough - **Two Postdocs in Philosophy of Mind** — Antwerp *(your old stomping ground)* - **Lecturer in Digital Ethics** — Ulm *Run `philos-l-jobs.py --all` for full list or browse [PhilJobs](https://philjobs.org)* --- ### Yesterday (Feb 3) **What happened:** - Multiple sessions working on distilling the "Generating Philosophy" paper plan - Sent an EPUB to Readwise - Processed Timothy Williamson's "Philosophy and Theory Comparison" video (Methods of Philosophy Lecture 5) **Sessions:** Heavy focus on the Generating Philosophy paper structure — you updated the note with a different version of the plan and worked through iterations. **The arc:** A day of refinement on the paper structure, with some media processing in the evening. --- ### Vault Activity (Last 7 Days) **Recently modified notes:** - [[Notes/Generating Philosophy Paper Possible Structure.md]] — Feb 3 - [[Notes/Why Maintain Precision When AI Interprets Generously.md]] — Jan 31 - [[Notes/Generating Philosophy - Paper Structure.md]] — Jan 31 - [[Notes/The appearance-reality gap collapses for competent readers.md]] — Jan 30 - [[Notes/Provenance is not the right kind of variable in philosophical evaluation.md]] — Jan 30 **Writing progress:** Active manuscript: `Writing/research/generating philosophy with ai (paper)/` - All section files (0. Introduction through 5. Conclusion) touched this week - Index.md and manuscript.md in place --- ### Suggested for Scratch Pad No calendar events today that suggest content to surface. Your schedule is clear. --- ### Questions for Today 1. **You've been deep in the Generating Philosophy paper structure.** What's the current blocking question or uncertainty — is it about the argument, the section ordering, or something else? 2. **The St Andrews postdoc on Aesthetic Values and Social Dimensions of Science** looks relevant. Worth a closer look, or are you steering clear of applications right now? *(Answer these, or tell me what you'd like questions about tomorrow.)* --- *Il posto a St Andrews sembra interessante, ma capisco se le candidature non sono una priorità in questo momento.* ### User "Email Luca — ask about apparently empty week in calendar Look at which students are taking the exam" mark these as done ### Assistant Done — both marked complete. *Due compiti in meno da gestire.* ### User The St Andrews postdoc on Aesthetic Values and Social Dimensions of Science looks relevant. Worth a closer look, or are you steering clear of applications right now? ### Assistant Let me pull up the details on that one: ### Assistant The listserv archive is being awkward. Let me try the direct message link: ### Assistant The listserv archive isn't yielding the content. Let me search for it directly: ### Assistant **Bad news on timing:** The deadline was **January 30, 2026** — four days ago. But here's what it was, for reference: --- **Research Fellow (AR3233) — University of St Andrews** - **Duration:** 24 months, starting May 1, 2026 - **Salary:** £38,784–£42,254 (Grade 6) - **PI:** Dr. Alice Murphy - **Centre:** Arché Research Centre, Department of Philosophy - **Funder:** DFG **Project:** "Aesthetic Values and the Social Dimensions of Science" — developing a novel perspective on aesthetics in science that centres its social dimensions. The pitch is that discussions of aesthetic values in science have proceeded independently of work on the collective/social aspects of scientific inquiry. **Fit assessment:** Moderate. Your aesthetics work is relevant, and the "values in science" angle connects loosely to your AI aesthetics interests. But it's philosophy of science core — not environmental aesthetics or AI aesthetics directly. You'd be positioning your expertise somewhat sideways. **They wanted:** PhD in philosophy with expertise in (i) values in science, or (ii) aesthetics + social epistemology (collective aesthetic judgment, aesthetic practices). --- Since the deadline passed, the question is moot for this one. But it's a useful data point: aesthetics positions that aren't purely art-focused do come up. Worth keeping an eye on Arché postings generally — they're a good shop. Want me to add a task to check Arché/St Andrews postings periodically? Sources: - [St Andrews vacancies page](https://www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/1819/0/462449/889/research-fellow-ar3233) - [Arché project page](https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/projects/av-and-sds/) --- *Peccato per la scadenza — ma almeno sappiamo che esistono posizioni simili.* ### User basically, I would like you to be searching that mailing list once a day for stuff relevant to me, not just jobs, but alkso conferences and other things... would that be possible to do? ### Assistant Yes, definitely possible. A few options for how to set this up: **Option A: Expand into /morning-review** Modify the existing `philos-l-jobs.py` script (or create a new `philos-l-scan.py`) to capture: - Jobs (already done) - CFPs (calls for papers) - Conferences - Workshops - Other relevant announcements Then integrate it into /morning-review so you see relevant philos-L activity each morning alongside calendar/tasks/email. **Option B: Standalone daily digest** Create a script that runs separately and writes a note to the vault (e.g., `Notes/philos-L Digest - YYYY-MM-DD.md`) with categorized findings. You'd check it when you want to. **Option C: Both** Quick summary in morning review, detailed note for reference. --- **Filtering approach:** The script would filter for your areas: - aesthetics, environmental aesthetics, AI aesthetics - AI, LLM, machine learning, generative - perception, philosophy of mind - philosophy of technology And categorize by type (JOB, CFP, CONFERENCE, WORKSHOP, etc. — philos-L uses fairly consistent subject prefixes). --- My recommendation: **Option A** — fold it into morning review. You already check that daily, so it's zero extra friction. If something looks interesting, you can ask me to pull details. Want me to build this? I'd modify the existing script to handle all announcement types, then update the /morning-review skill to include a "philos-L Today" section. *Così non ti perdi più le scadenze come quella di St Andrews.* ### User yep please. ### Assistant Working well. Let me also verify it handles longer periods: ### Assistant Done. Here's what I built: **New script:** `~/.local/bin/philos-l-scan.py` - Scans philos-L for **all announcement types**: Jobs, CFPs, Conferences, Workshops, Talks - Filters by your research areas (aesthetics, AI, perception, philosophy of mind/technology, etc.) - Also catches BSA/ASA/ESA mentions specifically - Groups output by category **Updated:** `/morning-review` command now calls `philos-l-scan.py 1` (last 24 hours) instead of the jobs-only script. **Usage:** - `philos-l-scan.py` — last 1 day, filtered (morning review default) - `philos-l-scan.py 7` — last week, filtered - `philos-l-scan.py 14 --all` — last 2 weeks, everything - `philos-l-scan.py --jobs-only` — just jobs (if you want the old behavior) --- **Immediate flag:** Today's scan caught **CFP: BSA Annual Conference, 11-13 September 2026, Oxford**. That's directly relevant — want me to pull the deadline and details? *Da domani, ogni mattina vedrai cosa c'è di nuovo su philos-L.* ### User "Also catches BSA/ASA/ESA mentions specifically" remove this. this is a stupid idea ### Assistant Done. The BSA CFP still gets caught because it says "aesthetics" — which is how it should work. *Meglio filtrare per contenuto che per acronimi.* ### User and the asa and esa right? ### Assistant Yes — I removed all four (BSA, ASA, ESA, BJA) in that edit. They're gone. *Tutto pulito.* ### User but they will be picked up by aesthetics is what i was wasking ### Assistant Yes — anything from those societies will mention "aesthetics" in the title or body, so it gets caught by the content filter. The BSA CFP that showed up today is proof: it matched on "aesthetics" in the announcement text, not on the acronym. *Il filtro funziona sul contenuto, non sulle sigle.*