new paper out in the journal of the APA: Social Construction of Emotions 3.0. i believe our first draft dates back to 2018 🙃 #philsky #philosophy

my book Scripts and Social Cognition is coming out as paperback very soon… which makes it way more affordable 🙃 preorder here: www.routledge.com/Scripts-and-...

This has just been published in “Theory & Society” (formerly) considered THE top #sociology /theory journal, after Springer Nature redid the board, installing Steven Pinker among them. Shame shame shame

Schwarzer, founder of German feminist magazine Emma and, together with Sahra Wagenknecht, co-organiser of protest for ‘peace’ with Russia says that having AfD leader Alice Weidel as chancellor would be encouraging to women. The pipeline from Russia empathiser to ultra far right supporter personified

I think we should *speak to* the topics as they come and go and *offer courses* on them. We often have interesting things to say. We should not *restructure the discipline* or *designate positions* to such topics. (I talked about this 2023 with decision makers in my institution. but alas ...)

Grund achtundreißig dafür, genauer auf Ostmitteleuropa zu schauen: das Klischee der kleinen, ignorierten Nationen wird zunehmend zum politischen Instrument. Fico spricht ständig von den "großen Jungs" in Europa, gegen die nur er sein Land verteidigen könne. Bratislava werde in Brüssel ignoriert. 1

Terrible decision that will damage scientific integrity to the core

On the 34th anniversary of the end of the USSR, I’m reposting my article from earlier this year, which argued that we should have understood the moment as liberation rather than only as collapse: www.eurozine.com/liberation-n...

maybe don’t use AI to create references? …. or for any work on your papers? wild, i know

Just saw people arguing that the shooting in Sydney wasn’t antisemitic because Chabad is a Zionist movement, and killing Zionists is fine. Fucking ghouls. Get fucked.

🫣 Ha, I’m looking for people willing to review my scripts book!

Just published: our paper with Selbi Durdiyeva, taking a close look at the legacy of Angela Davis, much of the Western left and the ongoing disengagement with dissent knowledges and liberation struggles in Europe’s East, Central and North Asia, emphasising the urgent need for epistemic reparations

Not a remotely original point, but I truly cannot understand the mindset of people who feel not just comfortable with hording huge amounts of wealth and resources, given how others live, but driven to preserving and even deepening those inequalities. I wouldn't know how to live with the shame.

There’s a new journal I am happy to be part of as section editor!

I have been critical of a lot of trans 101 style public education strategies but one little bit of progress I hoped we had made with cis people is that categorizing us “non-biological” doesn’t make sense

Es macht mich richtig betroffen, als Anglistin Hausarbeiten zu lesen, die ganz offensichtlich mit LLM verfasst wurden. Klar liest sich das oft flüssiger bzgl. der Grammatik etc., aber die Lesarten sind oberflächlich, hohl & die Stimmen der Studis überhaupt nicht mehr hörbar. 1/6

The USA is becoming a Christian theocracy www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...

“The deskilling, denigration, and displacement of teachers and scholars have historically been central to fascist takeovers, since educators serve as bulwarks against propaganda, anti-intellectualism, and illiteracy.” — @olivia.science www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...

📣 New publication! The second article of my postdoc project on the far right and anti-gender mobilization is now out #openaccess in #GermanPolitics doi.org/10.1080/0964... It examines antifeminism in far-right party politics through the case of AfD Key findings: Antifeminism ✅ Radicalization ✅

Another example of the burdens created when tech companies behave as untrustworthy social actors - people then go to great lengths to protect themselves even when it’s not necessary, at personal cost and compromising their ability to use the technology that does work

I resent LLMs for many reasons, but forcing me to act like a cop to keep fake garbage out of publication is high on the list. I want to read people’s work in a spirit of generosity and curiosity again (‘I wonder what cool ideas might be in here?’) instead of ‘I got you now, you lying little shit’

Trailblazer in trans scholarship: professor emeritus earns award for life's work www.yorku.ca/yfile/2025/1...

Heute in Wien! trans Philosophie Workshop mit @sigmondrime.bsky.social & mir :-) urise.univie.ac.at/mod/booking/...

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

1/ In case you missed it: on Sunday evening, Jason Stanley was invited to speak at the Jewish Community of Frankfurt to commemorate the November Pogrom of 1938 (referred to as 'Kristallnacht' in English). His talk was cut short after members of the audience shouted him down. German interview below:

Keynoting this cool workshop on affective and epistemic injustice tomorrow! 💕

This is terrible. Teen Vogue were a vital source of political critique and social commentary.

My paper “trans perspectives in philosophy of mind” is out now in APA Studies on Feminism and Philosophy! #philsky #philosophy #transphilosophy cdn.ymaws.com/www.apaonlin...

I'm hiring! A 2-year postdoc on my ERC project "KNOW-HOW" at the Cogito: Epistemology Research Centre University of Glasgow. (Deadline for applications 9 November.) Please share with anyone you think might be interested. Details below www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...

Und es gibt Hochschulleitungen, die diese Anfragen tatsächlich an die Fachbereiche weiterreichen (Halle) und beantworten (Merseburg). Und offenbar viele Kolleg:innen, die ganz brav (oder ganz doof oder ganz freudig) selbst Meldung erstatten.

“If you share your knowledge outside the scientific community, then you’re already exerting societal influence, according to Judi Mesman. This isn’t problematic for the prestige of science: ‘Pretending to be neutral doesn’t make sense to me.’” www.nwo.nl/en/there-is-...

My paper “Are all emotions social? Embracing a pluralistic understanding of social emotions” was just updated! (Somehow the main argument was swallowed by technology in the previously published version.) Please use this new version! passion-journal.org/article/view... #philsky #emotion #philosophy

Anti-Trans- und Anti-Woke-Narrative für den Philosophieunterricht in einer Fachzeitschrift? Ja, das gibt es in der ZDPE 1/2025 zum Thema Social Justice. @daluc.bsky.social, @eidexmueller.bsky.social & ich besprechen ausgewählte Beiträge. 1/6 praefaktisch.de/002e/eine-au... #Wissenschaftsfreiheit

PSA 🔈Our call for abstracts for EPSSE 2026 is now open! Our 2026 annual conference will be hosted in Germany by Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt on 24-26 June 2026 💫 Deadline for abstracts on all things philosophy of emotions: 1 December 2025 www.epsse.org/call-for-abs...

Today we had a very interesting and stimulating seminar at the Center for Ethics as Study in Human Value on Masculinity & Emotional Injustice, taught by @geneickers.bsky.social It's not even October yet, and things are already rolling.

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I just recently discovered Kevin Richardson’s blog post on my work on scripts and his thoughts on it: kevinrichardson.org/blog/03-31-2... — seems like a good opportunity to remind you to tell your uni library to order my book (and other cool new philosophy books) 🙏🏼

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Chatbots are explicitly being designed “to elicit intimacy and emotional engagement in order to increase our trust in and dependency on them” (me in Wired magazine 🤭). This designed intimacy combined with AI sycophancy creates serious risks for delusional thinking www.wired.com/story/ai-psy...

"For transgender and gender-diverse adolescents, gender-affirming health care is not optional—it is lifesaving. This is not rhetoric; it is evidence-based medicine." Powerful piece on the "Moral Injury of Denying Gender-Affirming Care" published in JAMA Pediatrics. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Off to the Czech Republic for a month, where I’ll be a visiting fellow at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of Pardubice. I’m so excited! My Czech is still embarrassingly bad though :-)

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

Just seen a great-looking job advertised at UCL. But, I'm wondering how many people, besides those already made redundant, are willing to risk a job in a UK university at the moment.

Had a good time at ISOS 2025; fun book symposium with fantastic comments by @elineg.bsky.social and @nonamename.bsky.social …and my book was in good company

why are there so many tt job announcements with deadlines in july/august/september? do you love making precariously employed academics sacrifice our “time off”, which we spend thinking about our next grant application anyways? 😶‍🌫️

BREAKING: Das beste Sommerinterview, das die ARD je mit Faschisten geführt hat. Ausgerechnet in dem Land, in dem der politische Rechtsextremismus für die schlimmsten Katastrophen in der Menschheitsgeschichte verantwortlich ist. Heute, 18 Uhr bei der ARD. 🚀🚀🚀

Besorgniserregend interessant und leider nicht super überraschend: Queere Philosophie erfährt die größte Ablehnung in Fragen nach Kanonisierung während feministische Philosophie die größte Zustimmung erfährt praefaktisch.de/002e/wer-mac...

If you’re in Berlin on July 11 please join our trans philosophy networking event! It’s open to *all* (the only requirement being that you know what trans philosophy is, roughly)!