This one is wild...

Stickers as teaching medium

Howard Zinn: "To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. 1/4

Teaching about the roll of risk and achievement in leisure tomorrow. There is a bit in the lecture where I talk about he friend I lost to the mountains Tom Butlin. Its a hard part to get through but I'm always glad that I include it.

When you can't quite remember which books you are reading for research and teaching and which for fun and/or personal development 🤔

Numbers of managers in Universities are not just increasing, they are accelerating (gradient is increasing) Data for Cambridge University (£53m deficit) below Rampant unchecked growth of management in Unis is much of the deficit, much of the crisis

Asking the important questions

Feeling bad that - though it's a great set of readings - the authors of the set texts for my Play, Games and Recreation module are not very representative of racial or gender diversity.

Twin-volume alert: Hoping two vols – some 6 lb of solid research – on women #philosopers in the #19thCentury will leave a mark on the field. Thanks to @lydiamoland.bsky.social and Alison Stone for their superb editorship. Challenging a male-dominated canon, one page at a time.    #philsky #books

My new year's resolution was to start stretching. So far I have failed to stretch but succeeded to have lots of muscular aches and pains. Anyone have a good app recommendations?

This, from Jessica Fern's book Polysecure, captures some of my worries around psychological categories as identities.

Welcome, teens coming here from tiktok. I think you’ll find that through the magic of the written word I am able to craft sentences that are as vivid and compelling as any short-form video!

Super keen to start more work on my play and games teaching but need to finish marking political philosophy essays. Woe is me indeed.

As a dyslexic I am pretty lax on enforcing grammar rules on students & things like starting sentences with "But" or even "And" seem kinda find. I would like to ban them from using "Moreover" at start of new paragraphs & make them only use "However" when the are introducing genuine contrast though.

Here are my 2025 vibes

Not super hyped about a mere 8 hours of sun light today - but happy that every day from now the days get longer 🌥️⛅🌤️☀️ #solstice

Many just assume that their students take a holiday and are capable of happiness. To be inclusive I always say "wishing you every success in achieving your target mood during the school closure."

Started up an Instagram account that'll focus on exploring outdoors through a philosophical lens (in a wide sense). Come follow my adventures at www.instagram.com/p/DDnjGZAol5...

Burn

TALK! Neil Williams @unisouthampton.bsky.social ""I am the River": Identity-forming Relationships and Relational Value." UoN Humanities A01 3-5pm #philosophy #environment #ecophilosophy #identity #value

My guess is that the students actually have similar instincts it's just the framing that changes how they crystallize into apparently opposite views.

Also because the household income threshold -- beyond which the maintenance loan is reduced, because parents are expected to contribute to their children instead -- is £25,000. Which is about a thousand pounds more than minimum wage for one person.

A collection of #Philosophy starter packs on the following themes: 💫 Aesthetics, 2 AI Ancient Greek Biology, 2 Delusion Epistemology, 2 Feminist Global History, 2 Language Legal Literature Math Perception Photography Political, 2, 3 Pragmatism Psychiatry, 2 Science Social Technology Time Trans

"The task of the revolutionary is not the task of the ally. We are not here to make the dreams of the proletariat come true. The proletariat is produced by capitalism, which we want to destroy" @crimethinc.com (2012) Terror Incognita

Here's a post I wrote arguing against bucket lists (I think they are simply not useful, contribute to harmful mass tourism without enriching people's experience, encouraging people to put off goals for play and recreation until retirement. helendecruz.substack.com/p/against-bu...

Resources for philosophers on Bluesky (updated) 1. Starter packs go.bsky.app/kiKSKZ (individuals) go.bsky.app/RMuQBg3 (orgs) 2. Philosophy feeds bsky.app/profile/did:... – uses #philosophy, #PhilSky & other common hashtags (see profile for others) 3. List of philosophers bsky.app/profile/did:...

Still exhausted from this walk on Tuesday but it was worth it.

Only in analytic political theory can a book about solidarity include passages like this: "Propositional attitudes are mental states whose content is some proposition. This is why they are often (though not always) expressible by using a that-clause to indicate the proposition being related to."

Not a great look

I would simply defeat the bear in the marketplace of ideas

Need to work this the video in to my Philosophy of Leisure module. Soooo much interesting stuff about the contradictory nature of nationalist feeling and the relationship of this to sports fandom is expressed in this wonderful video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=va6n...

Is it important to champion 'abnormality' and, perhaps, even to experiment in 'abnormal' ways of living as part of the construction of new political possibilities? #AskingForAFriend #PoliticalPhilosophy

Trying to think of a name for my future outdoor guiding business (after I slowly leave academia or at least go part-time) that might one day become me running a retreat of some sort. Want name to say adventure but also that'll sprinkle in philosophical reflection and maybe some art practice stuff.

A week of snowy roads, soul searching and trying to convince students that of the many layers of complexity in assessing social contract theory.

I’ve created a new feed for #philosophy job listings. It includes posts with the hashtags #PhilJob, #PhilJobs or #PhilosophyJobs, as well as links to philjobs.org. Save/pin and like the feed if you find it useful! 🙏 #PhilSky #academia bsky.app/profile/did:...

Super delighted that this paper, six years in the making including the field work, is finally out! And the pictures are so pretty! You can also download the paper on the research section of my website (www.quillrkukla.xyz/research)

Every university whenever a student metric wobbles a bit

"The contrast between playing and seriousness is always fluid" Huizinga, Homo Ludens

“The most tragic form of loss isn’t the loss of security; it’s the loss of the capacity to imagine that things could be different.” Ernst Bloch, The Principle of Hope Quoted in James Muldoon, Platform Socialism

Living the dream

How depressing (but not surprising). Obviously here the missing (unmeasurable) measure is what changes in the status quo would do longer term positively for wellbeing

It's really just as well that Marx did not have access to things like Facebook or Twitter.

People in #Dundee PHILOSOPHY PLAYTIME ‘where adults come to play with ideas’ is on Wednesdays 18.30-20.00 at EH9 Espresso, Annfield Rd, DD1 5JH Join the #philosophy fun!

@nikvenkatesh.bsky.social I thought I'd seen you somewhere before, maybe it was just in this online space? Anyway thanks for the great talk at the Nottingham Research Seminar.

A while back Baggrund asked me to reflect on philosophy queens 👑 - these thoughts evolved into an essay in @philosophynow.bsky.social on who and what gets to count as philosopher/-phy, and how this question leads us to issues of diversity and inclusivity #philsky philosophynow.org/issues/164/P...

5 months later: coffee currently still quit but thinking about how I can constructively reintroduce it as it is much missed 🤔

Youtube as therpy. Beau Miles is fantatic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qfri...

After initial enthusiam have fallen back off engagement with this site. Not sure whether to let it slide or get stuck back in. Relatedly (or possibly not) really thinking I should give up coffee, at least for a bit. 💻☕

Reposting for the new arrivals… #philosophy #philsky

Looking forward to running this Wild Play conference - we'll probably be talking about Sex, Drugs & Dangerous Rock Climbing - all stuff I am well into (I mean "into" in a strictly academic sense of course) philevents.org/event/show/1...