<thick german accent> The jungle is a place of pure negation... #philosophy #philsky #philosophysky #hegel #herzog #film

CFP: 2026 British Society for Ethical Theory Conference (13-14 July 2026 at University of Leeds). Keynotes: Krister Bykvist (Stockholm), Jennifer Saul (Waterloo). Paper submission deadline: 1 Dec 2025. More info at www.bset.org.uk. This is consistently a very high-quality conference! #philosophy

CFP: The Leeds Analytic Philosophy Graduate Conference, 20-21 April 2026. Abstract submission deadline 15 Nov 2025. Each speaker will present for 30 minutes followed by a 10-minute faculty response and 20-minute general Q&A. More info: philevents.org/event/show/1.... Spread the word! #philosophy

Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America

To be clear, the Conservatives, as His Majesty's Official Opposition, have drafted legislation which they propose to use, and which would allow for the deportation of tens of thousands of people from the United Kingdom. And provide arbitrary power to extend the conditions for such deportation.

Astonishing when you see it like this.

The “health surcharge” is an utterly bogus labelling. It’s not hypothecated for health spending and you can’t choose not to pay it and not use the NHS. You could call it an education surcharge or a defence surcharge or anything. It’s just using the sanctified status of the NHS to rip off immigrants.

"I have a decent fluency in LLMs, and they have utility, but the absurd degree of over-hype, the way they're being forced on everyone, and the insistence on ignoring the many valid critiques about them make it very difficult to focus on legitimate uses where they might add value."

You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month

For anyone working in Cool Philosophy (social philosophy intersected with M&E), this looks like a fantastic opportunity! philjobs.org/job/show/30010

Our philosophy job ad is also up on PhilJobs now: philjobs.org/job/show/30010 #PhilosophyJobs

Great city, great colleagues; if you fit the (quite flexible) profile, you should apply.

📣JOB ALERT📣 Lecturer or Associate Professor in Philosophy at University of Leeds. AOS: Social Philosophy + at least one of: Metaphysics, Epistemology, or Philosophy of Language, Logic, Mind, or Action. Details at jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx.... Closing date 5 Nov 2025. #philosophy 1/2

Miira Tuominen and I edited this new book from Brill with no fewer than 25 chapters on various aspects of ancient and medieval philosophy in Greek, Arabic, and Latin texts. Actually there's a little Persian in there too. brill.com/display/titl...

Trump is building a personalist regime where every university must bend the knee or lose funding and every business must bend the knee or face tariffs, H-1B fees, and regulatory blackmail. You can't cover each domain in isolation; they are all the same story.

Top-level shitposting.🤌

Anyone in Athens soon, visit the "Why Look at Animals?" exhibition at EMST. Of course varied, but a high hit rate. I LOVED the 8 conceptually and visually amazing chronophotographs of bird flight paths by Xavi Bou (xavibou.com). His Ornitographies book at home on a lazy Saturday is a real treat. 1/2

The October 2025 issue of ETHICS is now available on the University of Chicago Press site www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/et/2025/... #philsky #PolTheory #legalphil #moralphil #moralphilosophy #legalphilosophy

Well done Songkick.

I hope more people will come to a long overdue realization that academia dot edu is an utter crap company.

Finding new, more foolish, ways to make the future of the UK's higher education sector more perilous isn't easy, but somehow the head of the OfS has managed it. The decision to create that organisation was a disaster.

This is so well done. Pretty much all killer no filler.

Columbia University has handed over its undergraduate admissions process to Donald Trump and his MAGA allies, who will now decide at their sole discretion whether the university has admitted enough white people. It's no longer an independent institution.

we would be in a much better state in this country if we stopped focusing on anointing a chosen few working class students into Oxbridge, and instead properly funded all the different sorts of universities that attract students from a wide range of backgrounds already

Call for Registration: A two-day conference (Sept 18-19) at University of Leeds in honor of the work of Helen Steward and Scott Shalkowski -- two excellent philosophers and colleagues who are retiring. Details and free registration at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/conference... #philsky 1/2

The July 2025 issue of ETHICS is now available on the University of Chicago Press site www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/et/2025/... #philsky #PolTheory #legalphil #moralphil #moralphilosophy #legalphilosophy

In transit to FrankMeta.7. Very much looking forward to a bunch of interesting talks and good discussions! And then one tentative oddball paper that'll kick it all off... #philsky www.frankfurt-school.de/en/home/rese...

unions: they get the job done

"support diverted from certain subjects including journalism and media studies towards lab-based courses" we ALREADY DO THIS, it is why the tuition fee is the same for humanities subjects as STEM subjects, we cross-subsidize internally across faculties, why do no government ministers understand this

Foundations of Morality workshop at the University of Leeds, June 10-11. Keynotes: Julia Driver (UT Austin) and Michael Smith (Princeton). Programme and registration details are now up at philevents.org/event/show/1.... Registration deadline: June 1st. Join us there! #Philosophy

Here's a link to the survey: bristolexppsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Here's that rare thing: an academic survey I am going to fill in. #ref2029

Now it's nearly 270 university presidents who have signed onto this "unprecedented government overreach" public letter. It was less than 180 this morning. www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c... Universities, and judges, taking the lead in standing up.

Home Office visa fees are an utter racket, which all international academics working in the UK know from firsthand experience.

The core trilma here remains the same - the govt needs to accept one of three things: high student migration, higher domestic student fees (or higher taxes to fund universities) or university bankruptcies. Those are the only options, given where we are. Pick one.

the standards of legal academia are laughable. There’s no peer review; it’s only student editors, whose job is literally just to check whether your cites say what you say they say

Want to know how Trump gets in? Just look at the coverage of Le Pen iandunt.substack.com/p/want-to-kn...

Amazing.

As one step toward fixing UK public services, the government could start with modest raises to NI contribution and income tax rates. The historical and comparative cases seem pretty strong.

An emotional day - I can announce I'll be the first director of The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience at the LSE, supported by a £4m grant from the Jeremy Coller Foundation. Our mission: to develop better policies, laws and ways of caring for animals. (1/2) www.lse.ac.uk/News/Latest-...

I’ve never understood why UK is so obsessed with low tax. If they visited high tax Scandinavia & saw the incredible standard of living for everybody they’d understand that low tax only benefits the rich. When will @teamlabouruk.bsky.social find the bollocks & integrity to be honest about tax?

Again, I don't know how the Onion will survive this headline environment: www.cbsnews.com/news/egg-pro...

The British Philosophical Association launches the first annual Philosophy Fortnight #philofortnight2025 in the Westminster Parliament today. #PhilosophyMatters

There are days in life that shake you. I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University & academic career... 1/🧵

'UK research council leaders are bracing for cuts to quality-related (QR) research funding of up to £100 million a year ahead of next week’s Spring Statement – a move likely to lead to a fresh round of redundancies at UK universities.' 1/3

Still a little over a week to submit abstracts! #philsky

In philosophy, this delivers endlessly. "What We Owe to Each Potato" "Taking Potato Seriously" "The Potato Problem" "Potato and Necessity" "The Critique of Pure Potato" "Potato, Truth, and Logic" "Justice as Potato" "Potato's Empire" ...

Today would be yet another good day for university presidents to loudly, collectively, & publicly start defending our institutions & industry. The silence is deafening & frankly, incomprehensible. What exactly are you waiting for? How many Columbias, Maines, & Johns Hopkins will it take?

Watched Grand Theft Hamlet tonight. Loved it. Bonkers and funny but also moving.