⌛ Countdown to IAPT XI... 📌 The 11th Annual Conference of the International Association for Philosophy of Time to be held from 25 to 27 July 2026 at Yamaguchi University (Japan). More details to follow soon. See you there!

A statement from Exeter UCU branch @ucu.org.uk - please share far and wide.

As program committee chair, it's my pleasure to announce the program for the Asian Philosophy of Science Association's inaugural conference. We have a great selection of papers, and I'm very excited to see everyone in Singapore come July! Details: www.ntu.edu.sg/soh/news-eve... #philsky #philsci

Open letter about philosophy job losses at Nottingham. Please consider signing docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

How do other animals experience time? It's been a pleasure to work with @singhal.bsky.social and @anilseth.bsky.social on a paper exploring how temporal illusions and other experimental strategies can shed light on this. It's our today! www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

This is an excellent, if bleak, piece. Among other things, it captures perfectly the hollowing out of universities (and university life).

Hello philosophers - I've written an introduction to philosophy of physics (100K words) for Routledge. I'll be finalizing it around end of summer and am keen to take soundings as to how it could be made more useful for students and teachers. Please comment below if you'd like a copy of the MS!

Two permanent positions in HPS, Sydney! #hps #philsci

With hundreds of jobs on the line and dozens of courses at risk, Nottingham staff living through one of the biggest university restructuring projects of recent years fear they are shouldering the blame for wider failures. Juliette Rowsell reports https://ow.ly/OrVG50Z6KJ1

‘The REF has now morphed into a hugely expensive, attention-engrossing status marker. Few things would improve the intellectual culture of universities more quickly than the complete abolition of this flawed and coercive exercise.’ Stefan Collini on universities www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

All solidarity to colleagues at Nottingham as they begin their marking and assessment boycott, fighting devastating course cuts and redundancies. ✊💪

Philosophy of Time Society at the Eastern APA (2027) We request submissions of high-quality abstracts (500 words max.) for our group meeting at the Eastern APA in Boston, MA, January 13–16, 2027. Deadline: 3rd July 2026. www.philtimesociety.com/calls-for-pa...

Congrats to Dave Ingram, the new President of the Philosophy of Time Society! www.philtimesociety.com

We are hiring two postdoctoral researchers, to work on questions about the impact of AI on science! See details here, and direct questions to [email protected]! Please share broadly! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRN637/r...

Please consider this. c.org/vK7pMcmkQk

Difficult times at the University of Nottingham - the whole of the Department of Philosophy is formally at risk of redundancy, with plans to get rid of 7 people in the department. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Thousands of University of Nottingham staff told they are at risk of redundancy

Philosophy of Time Society at the Eastern APA (2027) We request submissions of high-quality abstracts (500 words max.) for our group meeting at the Eastern APA in Boston, MA, January 13–16, 2027. Deadline: 3rd July 2026. www.philtimesociety.com/calls-for-pa...

The symposium on my book, *Thinking of Necessity*, is assembled together in an issue. Thanks again to Sam, Sonia and Naomi! www.tandfonline.com/toc/sinq20/6...

My paper 'Fragmenting the Paradox of Material Constitution', forthcoming in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy. Preprint Link: tinyurl.com/FraggingMate...

Is spacetime real, or does it dissolve under scrutiny? | https://bit.ly/4tqQMOV Philosopher Sam Baron argues that the idea of spacetime "emerging" from quantum reality is circular, leading to the radical conclusion that Einstein's spacetime does not exist.

Free speech is being demanded of universities. I think there’s a misunderstanding of education at the heart of these concerns, and focus on academic freedom would be more helpful. Blog post: #highereducation matthewbarnard.phd/posts/2026-0...

CfA: PGR Conference – Styles of Perception 📅 30 June – 1 July 2026 📍 University of York Financial support provided. 🔗 Full details and submission information: sites.google.com/view/styleso... 🗓 Submit by 1 May!

The winners of the 2026 Sanders Prize in Metaphysics are...

Management consultants are ruining UK universities ft.trib.al/0LelZP9 | opinion

Looking to hire another 2-year Postdoc for the Unity Project! AOS in Metaphysics, Social Ontology, or Formal Ontology. Apply here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRA671/r... (Also please share widely, thanks)

Dr James Miller (Durham University) joins us on 5 March to explore the metaphysics of linguistics. Are words concrete objects or abstract entities? Find out at 15:00 on 5 March in P/L/002. Read more: www.york.ac.uk/langu...

🌀 The Centre for Philosophy of Time is pleased to announce and invite you to the Workshop entitled "Dynamic and Static Models of Reality", to be held on 20 April at the University of Milan. 📌 Event programme and details: n9.cl/ao11l

There's (literally) no time like the present to read Dave Ingram's newly revised entry for the Spring 2026 edition of The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy on Presentism! plato.stanford.edu/entries/pres...

MA Scholarships in Arts and Humanties at King's College London! Please spread the word to your eligible finalist undergraduates! - these scholarships are for home (UK fees) students from some minoritised ethnic groups underrepresented in academia. See link for details. www.kcl.ac.uk/study-legacy...

The fact that my trade union is facing allegations of trade union victimisation against its own workers is so deeply sickening that I find it difficult to put into words. Please read and share this excellent thread and support Unite-UCU in their battle for the sort of treatment UCU demands for us.

This is a thread about UCU & what it has become over the last few years. But the first thing I want to say is I didn’t join a union to stay silent or turn my back on a single parent of three facing dismissal on the basis of their trade union activities. Marie Monaghan is the Unite UCU 1/12

Scrapping REF should be “serious’ option”, says Manchester VC. Duncan Ivison questions “usefulness” of “massive, bureaucratic” research assessment exercise. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

Incandescent. One of the best pieces I've read about what university means to people and their communities - and what will happen to a city and people after one closes. The *Labour* government and Jaqui Smith in particular should be ashamed of themselves and shamed into doing something. Deplorable.

📣 CFP Extended Deadline (Feb 15, 2026) 🔷 SMS 2026 will take place May 25–27 at the University of Toronto. 💠Keynote: Heather Demarest 💠Presidential Address: Giuliano Torrengo ➡️Submissions welcome on all areas of metaphysics of science. More info: socmetsci.org

UK Universities cut 13,300 jobs, paid £300m+ in redundancy. Economic contribution of the HE sector, £265bn. Systematically destroyed by govts - foreign students not welcome, cut real-term grants, fees, students burdened with debts, low staff pay/morale. Govt want skilled labour. archive.ph/favYt

The International Association for Philosophy of Time (IAPT) is pleased to announce its 11th annual conference to be held at Yamaguchi University, Japan, on 25th–27th July 2026. Call for abstracts: www.philtimesociety.com/calls-for-pa...

Mike Stuart has won a 2 million euro ERC Consolidator grant to research how AI is changing science! He'll be recruiting 4 postdocs to help do the research over 5 years. More news on the project when it begins this June! @erc.europa.eu www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

The International Association for Philosophy of Time (IAPT) is pleased to announce its 11th annual conference to be held at Yamaguchi University, Japan, on 25th–27th July 2026. Call for abstracts: www.philtimesociety.com/calls-for-pa...

📷 Summer School: Mereology and Beyond Check out the schedule on the link! www.usi.ch/en/mereology Dates: June 15–19. Application Deadline: 15 February 2026

I feel this in the marrow of my bones. The future of a university should be shaped by leaders whose own careers depend materially on the future they are shaping.

The worst thing to happen to academia was the emergence of a nomadic administrative class like the one in corporations who just move from institution to institution setting fires and walking away. Say what you will about the flaws of faculty governance, but at least they believe in the mission.

There's about a month left to submit something to the Asian Philosophy of Science Association's inaugural conference! Consider submitting an abstract, and encouraging early-career scholars (especially those from or based in Asia) to submit an essay for the APSA Essay Prize.

'Staff at the University of Nottingham are preparing to strike for the second time this term, announcing a further 22 days of action before Christmas, in addition to the 20 days already taken.' Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam, Leicester, and Edinburgh also striking.

Just in case anyone is listening, please note that UK universities cannot operate successfully on the basis of continuous reduction of academic staff and academic staff pay. No amount of staff wellness sessions will change this.

We are in full solidarity with the @pcsunion.bsky.social members at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social who will be on strike for the next two weeks. Let's get out to their pickets and rallies to show our support, @ucu.org.uk members! Details below. @pcspress.bsky.social

Jacob O'Sullivan and Sam Dickson have just been published in Metaphysica! Their paper is titled "The Broad Escape from Narrow Fictionalism." Here is a link to the official version: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... And here's another to the preprint: philpapers.org/rec/DICTBE

JOB: 2-year Postdoctoral Fellowship in Metaphysics and Philosophy of Physics, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Nina Emery’s Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Time has landed. 50 chapters (554pp) covering an immense range of topics. It’s a fantastic volume and I’m delighted to have contributed to it.