Up to 111 academic jobs to be cut, despite the current forecast of a £4 million surplus for this financial year. The same restructuring process will create new Executive Dean roles on 6-figure salaries. Just yesterday SMT announced the hiring of a new Vice Principal. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Looking forward to presenting in this workshop at the University of Reading next month! To register, contact the organiser: Rufaida Al Hashmi ([email protected]) philevents.org/event/show/1...

Wrote a thing on why buying into the “generative AI is inevitable so we need to stuff it into all crevices of higher ed” narrative is not only bad pedagogy, but bad Political Science. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

'The key findings were said to be “surprisingly simple”: “a good student academic experience ultimately comes down to quality teaching, access to in person interaction with teachers and a strong sense of belonging”.' 2/3

'Policy analysts looked at 20 years’ worth of data collected for the annual Student Academic Experience Survey, currently run by the Higher Education Policy Institute and Advance HE, to establish key trends in a tumultuous period for higher education.' 1/3

Sign the petition to save humanities, including philosophy, at the University of Hertfordshire. (Also highly recommend reading Daniel Hutto's comment in the Daily Nous piece below, which wonderfully captures the dismal state of UK Higher Ed at the moment.) c.org/GXTLwHcLB2

Brilliant news to share! Just heard from OUP that our proposal has been accepted to co-edit an "Oxford Handbook of Animal Politics" featuring over 40 commissioned chapters surveying the field. Co-editors @drsvg.bsky.social, @stevecooke.org, @joshmilburn.bsky.social, Alasdair Cochrane & Angie Pepper

Absolutely jazzed for these Green wins.

Sad almost 4000 of my neighbours voted for the racists.

My review of @alanmanning4.bsky.social’s Why Immigration Policy is Hard, an extremely comprehensive book, covering reasons for migration, the effects of migration on high-income receiving countries, what we know about the effects of various policies, and much more.

A brief (longer-than-an-abstract, shorter-than-a-paper) summary of my Methodological Nationalism paper is now out in New Work in Philosophy! newworkinphilosophy.substack.com/p/methodolog...

In the Summer of 2022, the Rutte IV government deliberately broke the law, by imposing a housing requirement on family reunification for refugees. In a newly published essay, I explore how politicians justified taking this illegal measure. >> www.jstor.org/stable/jj.37...

I do not believe for a sec that mandatory retirement will lead to more stable jobs for jrs. But I agree that academic gerontocracy leads to more work for jrs, less push back on anti-higher-ed reforms b/c those with power have less skin in the game, & less knowledge being passed on to the next gen.

Under the weather today, so having to send solidarity from home - but the tl;dr is that senior management have refused to put a pause on compulsory redundancies for 6 months. So we're back on the pickets. For 8 more days 😓 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Final thought - if this is how they treat the best-performing REF unit of assessment at the university, nobody is safe.

I’m looking for an assistant/PhD student to work with me at the University of Vienna If you’re interested please apply online (no email) jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

Very pleased to share that this piece is now officially published in Philosophy! Tl;dr: efforts to call for the outright rejection of methodological nationalism - i.e. nation-state-centric ways of seeing - are unlikely to succeed. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

If you know a public engagement with science'y academic looking for a postdoc next year (August 2026 start), @ucpews.bsky.social Center for Public Engagement with Science is hiring! #philsky #SciComm #STS #SocSky #HPS #SciEd jobs.uc.edu/job/Postdoct...

I wrote a brief review of Shuk Ying Chan's excellent book Postcolonial Global Justice. Check it out (gift link): www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JFJWZ...

Day 2 on the post-Spring Break pickets. Fingers crossed negotiations will be as in our favour as the weather has this week🤞

Back on the pickets today, fighting (we think) 100+ jobs at risk as part of an ongoing (ambiguous) restructuring process. news.stv.tv/north/aberde...

We're gearing up for 10 more strike days here at Aberdeen & I'm in need of some therapeutic reading. Please share your favourite papers on industrial action, strikes and/or solidarity.

JOB! I'm hiring a Senior Research Associate in Social and Political Philosophy as part of the ERC LEAD Project. Deadline is May 3rd, and candidates would ideally begin in September 2026 or asap after. Feel free to contact me with any questions - Share widely! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

We welcome expressions of interest in the 2026 British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship scheme. Our internal triage deadline is 8th June 2026. Interested candidates should reach out to their prospective mentor & [email protected] ahead of this deadline. Info ➡️ www.abdn.ac.uk/dhpa/fellows...

I’ve made a podcast!! State of Asylum is now available on Spotify, and will shortly be available on Apple Podcasts. Huge thanks to @scga.bsky.social for making the podcast possible!!! Listen in to learn about Sanctuary, Detention, Housing, and Right to Work, guided by experts by experience.

Reminder! CFA deadline this Friday.

Solid picket at the main gate for the first day of Aberdeen UCU branch's four days of strikes to save jobs and stop compulsory redundancies #SaveHE #StopTheCuts

Morning 1 on the picket lines with @ucuaberdeen.bsky.social over job cut dispute. Sad to be here again, but thankful for the excellent turnout and student support. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Are you an early-career philosopher hoping to reach beyond academia with your writing? We’re thrilled to be introducing the Aeon Philosophy Prize – a unique opportunity to receive editorial mentorship and see your ideas reach global audiences. Open for applications today buff.ly/p47BrKe

Philosophers! I am now eligible to act as a supervisor for Marie Curie fellowships at the University of Vienna. If you’re interested in applying for one, you can find the details here: careers.univie.ac.at/en/research-...

Had the most wonderful time in Oslo giving a talk on methodological nationalism in Alejandra Mancilla's Dynamic Territory project. Managed to squeeze in a ferry trip to Hovedøya (s/o to Andrea Foss for the rec!), a trip to the Munch gallery, and a wander round Grünerløkka too.

FULLY FUNDED PHDs IN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY I'm looking for *two* PhD students to join my ERC project on refugee-led approaches to displacement justice. The positions are funded for four years, and you get to join our lovely community in Bristol. Please share widely! philjobs.org/job/show/30997

How do institutions communicate about #migration? With @jamesrdennison.bsky.social & @mcduarte.bsky.social, we built a database of migration communication campaigns in Europe. We’re expanding it now. Do you know a campaign? Please take this 1-min survey. eui.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

For the Autumn 2026 issue of Theology in Scotland on #migration and #belonging we'd love to hear from people in Scotland working in migrant services + policy. Can you help us spread the word? Full details/submission info: ojs.st-andrews.ac.uk/index.php/TI... Follow us: @theoscot.bsky.social

Went to the Museum of Scottish Lighthouses, it was pretty rad

Just putting it out there: I'm at a career stage where I'm keen to get some journal editorial experience. Tell your pals.

📣 Call for abstracts! We're seeking one more speaker to complete the lineup for our upcoming workshop "Migration and Asylum in Scotland: A Philosophical Perspective". Further details available on the PhilEvents page below. Submission deadline: Friday 20th March Contact: [email protected]

📣 CFA - please share! Seeking one more speaker to join this upcoming workshop on Migration & Asylum in Scotland on 29th April. Funding available for reasonable travel costs & one night's hotel in Aberdeen. Early-career scholars are particularly encouraged to apply. philevents.org/event/show/1...

Looking forward to presenting in the Dynamic Territory Project's DynamiTE seminar series at the University of Oslo later this term! www.hf.uio.no/ifikk/englis...

It's officially publication day for our book, The Way Out. Sam and I have worked on this since we first put our heads together in 2019, and it's fair to say that the context shifted under our feet as we were writing and thinking. www.ucpress.edu/books/the-wa...

En route to BIAPT through the snow ❄️

✍️ Please sign and share my latest petition! In November, the government announced plans to amend the British Nationality Act to make citizenship harder to obtain. So after migrants meet new ILR requirements, they'll wait longer, pay more, jump through MORE hoops. 🧵 Here's why this is unfair… /1

Out today: MPS Attitudes to Immigration in Scotland survey 2025 migrationpolicyscotland.org.uk/publications...

Interesting (perhaps not so surprising) results.

📣 PhDs & postdocs: Our Call for Papers is now open! If you work on (de)polarization including migration, media or radical right parties — come to Dresden in June 2026. We’re eager to see what ideas, cases and theories are out there!. Please share! @tudresden.bsky.social @gsw-tudresden.bsky.social

📣 The University of Aberdeen is offering 3 AHRC Doctoral Landscape funding awards for doctoral studentships across the arts and humanities. Prospective Philosophy applicants can contact [email protected]. Further info:

📣 The chapter Matt Lister and I co-authored on refugee family reunion is now out in the Handbook of Migration Ethics. Our paper surveys several important questions & issues worthy of further consideration in this under-explored topic. link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Beautiful autumn day for the first day of teaching.

New report 🚨 Our 2025 analysis shows the mounting impacts of the UK immigration system: over £870,000 cost, challenges to recruit and delays to life-saving cancer research. Read more: bit.ly/CRUK2025visasblog