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This post has various advice about publishing as a graduate student. Some might consider this common knowledge but I suspect it is worth reading anyway. For example, it can't hurt to be reminded that "Rejections are a natural part of the process. Anybody who submits nontrivial work to philosophy journals gets rejections."

A list of RSS feeds of philosophy journals

Leiter links to the 10 best papers in philosophy as decided by Philosopher's Annual. Hopefully people will follow this link to the papers, read them, and then post those papers of interest to sympoze!

A first preview of the new PGR results, listing some departments that have made big jumps.

John Basl has put together a list of philosophers using the micro-blogging service Twitter.

This post has links to two guides to publishing aimed at graduate students. Much of this overlaps with a previous scoop but there is some new stuff and in any case said differently...

Which philosophical terms do you think do more to obscure than clarify?Some terms are ambiguous in ways that invite (unintentional) equivocation, e.g. 'autonomy' and 'intrinsic value'. While safely usable in some contexts, I think it's often preferable to replace these vague terms with whatever more precise understanding you have in mind.

Adam Elga (Princeton) and Augustin Rayo (MIT) competed to see who could inscribe the largest finite number on a chalkboard at MIT.

Douglas Portmore asks: What effect does pedigree have on hiring decisions? He proposes a way to eliminate that, and his hypothesis is that it does have an impact. He then suggests this is a bad thing. There's no discussion yet, but I think this could get interesting.