What starts after Valentine‘s Day? Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week! Find out below what we can learn about love from aromanticism 👇

Why Aristotle would hate Valentine's Day❤️🕯️🥀 Janset Özün Çetinkaya and Ian James Kidd explain why and lay out the Greek philosopher's five steps to true love. Read: tinyurl.com/k7wvusyh @uk.theconversation.com #philosophy #love #romance #ValentinesDay #ValentinesDay2026

Let‘s see if handing in conference abstracts on Friday the 13th was a good idea or not 🤞

Only a few tickets left, for what should be a very fun #AroWeek event @thebookishtype.bsky.social with my talk on My Fair Lady, then conversation about aro/ace representation with @kristin-kaeuper.bsky.social, founder of @aroaceresearch.bsky.social

Recently Available Online: Third-person Encounters: Beauvoir, Walther, and the ‘We’ of Social Identities -- Tris Hedges Article Link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Abstract in Alt #philsky

Find the CFP here: british-aesthetics.org/portfolio/an... #philsky #philosophy #aesthetics #conference #cfp

The 2026 NWSA Aro/Ace sponsored CFP is now up! Please complete the Google Form by February 20, 2026, 11:59pm PST to be considered for the panel! Please share widely! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Excited to see you in Atlanta, Maya

Call for Papers, please circulate! Ethics of queer in/visibility Heidelberg, September 30 - October 2, 2026 queer-in-visibility.de Keynote speakers: J Calder (Linguistics, University of Colorado Boulder) Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social (History, University of Warwick)

Two fully funded studentships at Manchester to support research in queer and trans healthcare and creativity www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/study/postgr...

We are pleased to announce the winner of The Charles Mills Prize "Who Counts in Official Statistics? Ethical-Epistemic Issues in German Migration & the Collection of Racial or Ethnic Data” Daniel James, Morgan Thompson & Tereza Hendl #philsky Read it here 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Philosophy and film Valentine’s special: Dr Ruby Hornsby will be talking about the film ‘Her’ at the Hyde Park Picture House in Leeds: hpph.co.uk/strands/phil...

📣 Today @felicitycallard.bsky.social and I have published the first peer-reviewed response to the 'Sullivan Review' of research and data on sex and gender. doi.org/10.1111/tran... The Review could threaten trans rights and inclusion, erode academic freedom, and undermine research quality.

Some interesting thoughts on labelling sexuality and medicalising asexuality in here! (around 34min)

Reminder: New Horizons Award The BSA awards up to two New Horizons Awards for the best papers submitted to the Annual Conference by a member of a group traditionally underrepresented in Aesthetics. Deadline: 2 March 2026 Find out how to apply here:

🚨 The British Journal of Aesthetics is calling for proposals for guest-edited special issues to be published in the BJA in 2028. We welcome applications either for individual or for joint guest editors. 🚨 Deadline: 1st March 2026 Details here: british-aesthetics.org/british-jour...

PhilPapers categorisation update! The 'Feminist Philosophy of Science' leaf has been moved up from the miscellaneous sub-category into the main category of 'General Philosophy of Science' on PhilPapers. 🧡

The article I didn’t know I needed!

I might be biased but I think that is the coolest research area so far 👀

Finally someone who shares my coffee philosophy.

📢 Are you a #Philosophy PhD student looking for opportunities to speak about your research? We're inviting current doctoral students to showcase their work to an online audience of TRIP members. Find out more: royalinstitutephilosophy.org/news/call-fo... #phdstudent #callforpapers #seminar

Question of the day: why did I chose the UK for a PhD when there are apparently countries that are not depressingly dark and rainy approximately 364 days of the year? 🤨

As a philosopher, I often get asked: what is your fourth favourite colour? And yes, it is mustard yellow 💁🏻

The Love Tank is co-producing the Queer Health Survey, the UK's first inclusive health survey of queer communities. Ace and Aro people are urged to take part, and you must be 18 or over and in the UK. forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

Join us to celebrate #Aromanticism Awareness Week and #QueerHistoryMonth in Leeds! Date: Thursday 19th February 2026 Time: 7-9pm Venue: The Bookish Type, Leeds thebookishtype.co.uk/products/sho...

“How can images that everyone knows aren’t real cause harm?" Our visiting fellow @alex-fisher.bsky.social explores the wrong of nudification and virtual harms in this article for @theconversation.com theconversation.com/how-ai-gener...

nothing more uplifting than a group of girls complimenting each other‘s philosophy debating skills in the bathroom 🙌

I would like to add solidly constructed houses to the list

Things that are worse than getting back from the airport at 3am, a non-exhaustive list: - getting back from the airport at 3am to find that your wall is covered in mould - …

Things I will miss about Germany: - cheap (though unreliable) public transport - the selection of bread and vegan meat products - not being afraid to die every time I cross the street

When I said I wanted more adventures in 2026, I did *not* mean starting the day by having to climb through the car boot to get the keys that my dad had left inside. Anyway, I‘m on the way to the airport now ✈️

Spoiler: my answer is no, because I love them way too much to stop watching 👀 But I do think we should question what they tell us about love and romance, so check out some of my thoughts on this here:

@kristin-kaeuper.bsky.social launched the @aroaceresearch.bsky.social research network; a truly interdisciplinary project that is already making an impact.

What a great workshop and very happy to meet so many network members in person!

Super excited for BEING ARO!

My take on why philosophers should care about aro/ace topics!

Not many philosophical texts engage with asexuality & aromanticism, but here are some philosophical publications by @lukebrunning.bsky.social and @nmckeever3.bsky.social:

The Diversity Reading List in Philosophy also has great general philosophy resources - go check them out! @diversityread.bsky.social is an amazing project dedicated to diversifying and decolonising the philosophical canon.

I discovered Obsidian for organising literature notes and I am absolutely obsessed 👩🏻‍💻😍 it links with Zotero and is like building your own wikipedia of everything you‘ve ever read and organising it by ideas and everything is linked 🤯 not to be dramatic or anything but this is life-changing

Babe are you ok? You've hardly ruined your workplace today

A reminder to other lochs to abandon the pressure to be perfect maps.nls.uk/view/218516888

What do you mean, none of the classic Jane Austen adaptions are on British Netflix?? Disgraceful, how am I supposed to recover from my little trifling cold?

To mark two weeks since the launch of the @aroaceresearch.bsky.social based at CLSR, @isobellogan.bsky.social sat down with the organiser @kristin-kaeuper.bsky.social to hear more about the network, plans for the future, and how you can get involved! 🧡💛💙 ⬇️Give it a listen⬇️

Hooked on the new Lily Allen album and crave more vicarious heartbreak in your life? Charlotte Curran, one of our a PhD students, has written a fantastic @uk.theconversation.com guide to the best breakup albums: theconversation.com/seven-albums...

It feels like shaving my own undercut for the first time with no idea what I‘m doing is some strangely fitting metaphor for the start of my PhD, but at least the hair cut turned out fine🧑🏻‍🎓💇🏻 [insert inspirational LinkedIn quote here]

Our PHd student and organiser of @aroaceresearch.bsky.social wrote this blog post on what it means to be asexual or aromantic: www.brook.org.uk/blog/what-do...

The German urge to knock on the table after a lecture is still going strong 🤜

Check out @nmckeever3.bsky.social and @lukebrunning.bsky.social‘s paper on the philosophy of asexuality here:

my love language is forwarding calls for papers - the academic version of sending memes and saying „this reminded me of you“

Thanks for the shout out!

Why do we need an asexuality and aromanticism research network like @aroaceresearch.bsky.social? Here are some reasons 👇🏻