✨CFA✨ I’m hosting a workshop on Social AI at the Uni of Exeter, generously funded by the Society of Applied Philosophy (10&11 Feb). If you fancy joining us to present your work, please submit an abstract! Confirmed speakers: Rob Clowes, Pii Telakivi, Joel Krueger, Tom Roberts, & me. #philsky

🎈Book launch! The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy edited by Jonathan Webber Wednesday 12 November 2025 : 18:00 - 19:30 Oat & Bean, 26 Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3BA Everyone is welcome! No need to register. Just turn up!

Getting packed up for my visit to the Human Abilities Center in Berlin 🤗 among other things, I’ll be running this awesome workshop with Jan Slaby on ‘The Self as a Political Problem’ - check out the amazing speaker list and do sign up if you want to join us (limited spots available) ✨

Check out the latest issue from affiliated journal Passion, the SI 'Emotions—More Like Stars or Constellations?', edited by Heidy Meriste and Bruno Mölder (Tartu). The issue asks how to categorize emotions, and how much weight should we put on the study of folk emotion concepts. Open access! /1

CrAIC Launch Workshop is a success! 🌟 Our two-day event @exeter.ac.uk was packed full of great presentations and conversations. We're really excited to build on the connections made, grow our network, and push forward this research in Critical AI together. Quick wrap up of the sessions in thread 🧵

It's been a great first day at the CrAIC launch workshop! 🌟 Two panels, nine speakers, lots of good discussion You can still sign up for our hybrid roundtable, tomorrow 2pm-3pm BST 👇 www.eventbrite.com/e/the-critic...

Philosophers of emotion, the call for abstracts for EPSSE 2026 is now open! Hosted at Eichstätt-Ingolstadt in Southern Germany by our lovely president Imke von Maur on 24-26 June 2026 💕 #philsky

The British Society of Aesthetics seeks to appoint a paid, part-time Editor for its website, newsletter, and social media. Applicants will be expected to be UK-based postgraduates working in aesthetics. The deadline for applications is 22 October 2025.

Some academic conferences are treasurable spaces to meet new people, get together with old friends and share research with keen students—and this was one of those. Thanks @bexmillar.bsky.social, @lucyosler.bsky.social and staff and students at @cardiffphilosophy.bsky.social! (It was not sad at all)

Absolute peak academia at our sad philosophy workshop! The cosiest and kindest contemplation of exbots & heartbreak, grief & negative relations, and AI psychosis that you could wish for. Thanks @bexmillar.bsky.social, @lopezcantero.bsky.social & our lovely participants 🖤 hope we can do a part 2 👀

This is today! Please do come along if you're in Cardiff.

Announcing New Welsh Voices in English Literature - a new research series at Swansea! I wanted to devote some of my @leverhulme.ac.uk trust fellowship to promoting work by other ECRs in Wales. I'm really looking forward to these two talks this semester, with Bridget Bartlett and Beth Pyner.

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...

Thanks to Cardiff for funding our Sad Philosophy Workshop next week with me, @lopezcantero.bsky.social and @bexmillar.bsky.social We’ll be in the melancholy domains of grief and negative relationships, heartbreak and chatbots, and ai psychosis 🖤 🖤🖤

Kicking off the third AI and Orientation seminar with the wonderful Chris Durt today 😍 really looking forward to having an international and interdisciplinary nerd out each week www.orientation-philosophy.com/seminars/art...

🎉 What a lovely way to celebrate my first day at Exeter! This fun conversation with Jim Baxter @ethicsuntangled.bsky.social about a paper my now-colleague @joelkrueger.com and I wrote on AI Gossip is now up! In the podcast we discuss how AI systems might engage in gossip-like behaviour 🙊

Excited to share "Religious Freedom and Meaning Vertigo: A Social Imaginaries Analysis of ‘The Persecuted Faithful’ in The Australian’s Op-Eds" forthcoming in For, Against, Together: Antagonistic Political Emotions edited by the brilliant @lucyosler.bsky.social & Thomas Szanto tinyurl.com/374skfza

Big move on the horizon and feeling far too emotional to clean my “offloading all my tasks to try and concretise my sense of identity and achievement” whiteboard 🫣

✨Congratulations to our doctoral student Thom Hamer ✨ whose paper ✨ 'A Case for Contingent Absurdity' ✨ has just been published in ✨ European Journal of Philosophy ✨ Llongyfarchiadau, Thom! Gefeliciteerd!

In June, Kathleen Murphy-Hollies hosted a workshop on conspiracy theory and story telling at the University of Birmingham, featuring five exciting academics working on the topic. Today's post presents a brief summary of each of their talks. #philsky #philpsy

new heights of virtuous procrastination today: uncalled for gantt charting

I'm not very good at this social media business, but today feels like a significant enough milestone: As of today I'll be a postdoc working between the University of Copenhagen and the Affective Societies Centre at FU Berlin for a Carlsberg-funded project on the 'Politics and Affects of Doubt'!

Still some spots available for our upcoming Fanzine Workshop at Chapter Arts Centre run by the wonderful Meena Saverimuttu ✨ Join us on Sunday to learn some history about zines and then have a go at making your own (materials and tea and coffee provided)!

Delighted to have @daisydixon.bsky.social and Durre Shahwar kicking off ‘The ‘art’ of research’ Away Day here in Cardiff today, helping us explore new creative routes into our research through images and autofiction 💕

Excited to be editing this SI on affective injustice with @alfredarcher.bsky.social and @joelkrueger.com for EPSSE’s open access journal Passion. Submissions open until 30 September, so if you need a break from your summer break, do think about sending us something! #philsky

We’ve got an amazing line up of contributors for our Passion SI on Faces of Affective Injustice! If you want to be among them, do send us your work by the 30th September ✨

"People must see themselves as the authors of their own emancipation." Excellent new open-access article on the dangers of externally induced regime change with particular reference to Iran –– –– coauthored by Cardiff philosopher Patrick Hassan.

Handed in our edited volume “For, Against, Together: Antagonistic Political Emotions” to CUP today! Here’s a sneak peek of the introduction by me and Thomas Szano where you can get a glimpse of the amazing work of our contributors❤️ #philsky www.academia.edu/130324082/Re...

Holiday books ready 💕

This Zoom event about the philosophy and philosophical artwork of Helen De Cruz is happening tomorrow (Tuesday, June 24). It wasn't planned as a memorial, but it'll be a space to honor Helen's philosophical impact on all of us. Hope to see some of you there! www.georgigardiner.com/helen

Many of these examples came together in our new chapter on Lonely Objects and Obsolete Affordances (@tomroberts.bsky.social and @joelkrueger.com)! Thanks so much for the inspiration ❤️ www.researchgate.net/publication/...

1/3 Honored and excited to see the new issue of @journalphp.bsky.social feature a symposium on my OUP book on perpetrator disgust w excellent, thought-provoking commentaries by M. Viola, @kimatiwagner.bsky.social, @jtsuth.bsky.social, Loaiza & Rojas-Velásquez, my reply and a 🌟 review by Matisonn

Career goals unlocked 😮😮😮

I made a 10-minute, richly illustrated summary of Margaret Cavendish's Blazing-World (1666), a very early (some say earliest) Science Fiction novel. Please have a look and share if you like it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4zi...

i'm taking part in this philosophy panel on the future of social media next month, with @geneickers.bsky.social, @joe-saunders.bsky.social, and organiser @annabortolan.bsky.social. it's online and open to the public, so sign up if you want to hear some hot takes!

KCL Law is hiring a YTL Early Career Research Fellow! 📚⚖️ It's a 1-year, research-only position at the YTL Centre for Philosophy, Politics, & Law. If you work in legal and/or political philosophy, consider applying! 📅Deadline: March 30 Details here: shorturl.at/fH0Zy.

Just three days left to apply for our 5-year #AdAstraFellowship in #Ethics and #Philosophy of #Technology! Further details and a link to the application system are available on our website at: www.ucd.ie/philosophy/n... #PhilTech #PhilSci #PhilJobs #AIEthics #UCD

PSA 🚨check out this awesome opportunity to submit your work on critical and feminist philosophy of emotions to this Passion SI edited by the super star team of Laura Silva, Federico Lauria, and @arinapismenny.bsky.social ✨❤️✨

People should submit to this! Look at that lineup of invited contributors....🔥

Some stolen morning moments with Simone Weil 💔 “The idea of a person’s being a thing is a logical contradiction. yet what is impossible in logic becomes true in life, and the contradiction lodged within the soul tears it to shreds”

Last chance to apply for this amazing opportunity!

UCD School of #Philosophy is looking to hire an Ad Astra Fellow in #Ethics and Philosophy of Technology, inc. ethics of AI (5-year fixed-term, leading to permanent subject to performance). For details, see my.corehr.com/pls/coreport.... Closing date: 21st Feb. #PhilSky #PhilTech #AIEthics #PhilJobs

A petition in support of the School of English, Communication, and Philosophy at Cardiff, who are being threatened with job cuts that would be devastating for staff, students, and the university

Incredible paid opportunity for film-makers in Wales through the Reimagining Women’s Unfinished Film in Wales project run by the incredible @alixbeeston.bsky.social and Meena Saverimuttu in collab with Image Works! Call for applications open until 14 Feb 🎬📽️🎞️ Details in English and Welsh below!

Really love this new paper by Tom Roberts on Voice, Rhyme, and Aesthetic Injustice! TLDR: presumed accents are a thing!

Just a reminder, the deadline for abstracts for our special collecting in Adaptive Behaviour on "Prospects for the Science of Enaction" is two weeks away! #philsky #cogsci #philmind #philsci journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cm...

Deadline for EPSSE annual conference submissions tomorrow!