Sarah Lane Ritchie

@eschwitz @JessieSunPsych @AndrewChignell will be delighted - scientific evidence that I’m not only a moral antirealist but maybe even evil! 😈

@JessieSunPsych @slaneritchie schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-co…

Today's post: The Conceptual and Methodological Challenges of Developing a Moralometer Plus! A demonstration of a 100% scientifically accurate new moralometer

@ADHDForReal I take a really hot shower, even if it’s only 2-3 minutes. It’s like a force reset button for my brain that tricks my body into thinking it’s a brand new day. (And yes, this does mean I end up taking 3-4 mini-showers a day.)

@masonmennenga I need to know the exact number of days that this has been sitting in your head.

it’s new year’s eve, not new year’s steve

@bfcarlson Been doing that for a month, but now just obsessing over United Healthcare??

Unplug from politics for a while, instantly enhance your life.

@masonmennenga With this, you have officially peaked. It’s been a true pleasure watching your X ascent. It can only go down from here, but rest assured, your legacy is secure.

this is the only time a catholic man has pulled out

@PollyMyers18 Yes?!?!

Eyes on the convention: Anyone else see a different Trump?

@bfcarlson And also somehow constantly find yourself singing nonsensical strings of words? Where was this creativity when I was in grad school?

One under appreciated benefit of having children is it allows you to constantly invent made-up nonsense words.

The internet is awful, except when you’re having that sort of night when you truly *need* the catharsis of a snarky, well-written think piece about the absolute villain who invented the USB-A. If that’s your night, Google has you covered.

@bfcarlson Totally. People assume all biases are terrible, but recency bias can have some awesome effects in a person’s life.

In life as in art, a bad ending spoils everything that came before it. But a good ending can redeem almost anything.

@bfcarlson After years of being fascinated by this story, imagine my delight to be living half a mile from Grover’s Mill, in Plainsboro, where much of the 1938 panic took place. Delightful. Also, how was Welles only 23 when he directed the production…

Forty years after his famous War of the Worlds radio broadcast, which fooled terrified Americans into fleeing their homes to escape Martian invasion, Orson Welles appeared in this NASA documentary on possible alien life. He does not seem particularly repentant.

@ThouArtThat @RepStefanik @IDF Yes! I’ve been baffled that there hasn’t been more commentary on the presidents’ bizarre concession to the “genocide” premise. Literally all they had to say was “obviously a call for mass murder would be against our code of conduct, but these protestors aren’t calling for that.”

The University Presidents failed miserably in their responsibility as representative of intellectual excellence to challenge the disingenuous premises of @RepStefanik's questions. Palestinians have a right to resist @IDF's killing spree in Gaza. Such resistance is not "genocide."

@ThouArtThat @dagelf Ha, this was a very confusing way to wake up on a Sunday…

@dagelf Sounds like something @slaneritchie would write about, but I’m not sure she has yet? Neat hallucinated book topic, though!

The mystic AI #GROK ... seems to have been seeded with more wisdom than most of the other models... based on the potentially ridiculous assumption that the words it generate do line up with some embedding of intent... where is the #Mystic #AI benchmark? Or the #spiritual / #religious concepts #benchmark? ... #MysticAI #SpiritualAI

Ah, my annual flight to AAR from New York along with 200 other religion nerds. If we go down, so does theology and religious studies. (I leave it to the reader to decide whether that would be a net gain or loss).

@bfcarlson So true. My 3 year old is living the Princeton suburbia life, and watching her develop a sustained relationship with her woodsman farmer grandpa in northern Michigan is such a gift (thank you FaceTime and United miles).

The best part of moving home after living away for 18 years—many of those on the other side of the world—is this: Last night, my 4-year-old son announced, out of the blue, that he wanted to "make a picture for Gammy, put it in an envelope, and send it to her." Gammy is his only surviving great-grandparent. She is soon to be 96. The year she was born, television and air travel were new, experimental technologies. She speaks with a variety of local accent that is nearly extinct. Their friendship, which spans nearly a century of life, is so rare—one century touching another—they effectively belong to two foreign countries. That my son feels it is so natural that he'd want to make a present for her out of the blue is such a gift. I wish everyone could experience this.

@masonmennenga Having worked at one called “Sacred Grounds,” I can confirm. (Why is it always something like this or just meeting up in the back room of a Panera?)

i’m at a coffee shop today called messenger and yes, it is owned by christians

@masonmennenga And I am deeply sorry for what I said during my Ayn Rand phase

i’m sorry for what i said during my calvinist phase

Are psychedelic experiences safe? Can they reveal anything to us about reality, God, or ourselves? Check out our latest episode, with the brilliant Dr Sarah Lane Ritchie:spirituallyincorrectpodcast.com/podcast/episod……… @slaneritchie #psychedelics #drugs

Still a few days to pitch your research idea if you’re interested in meaning-making among the spiritual but not religious. templeton.org/philosophy-the…

Truly a fantastic event playing with the form/content distinction: our theme of Growth and Transformation was enacted in real time in an intellectually challenging but intensely human manner.

@emilykmay The only thing that works for my toddler is ritual. All the ritual. “5 minutes of your show”, followed by like 6 micro-steps: sound machine, bunny, closing the curtains, “sweet dreams, sleep tight”, etc. I’m with you - kid needs her nap, I refuse to allow her to stop just yet. 😂

My 2yo has skipped his nap 2 days in a row, but when he does nap it’s 2.5-3 hours. He is an absolute monster, when he does not nap. Need tips that do not under any circumstances include the phrase, “he’s giving up his nap.”