Snooker! What a semi-final! #snooker

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...

Another win for football

Looking forward to giving this paper (alongside also being nervous af 🫠)

Fantastic! What a dominant win! Semeyno and Cherki brilliant. LFC defense could just not cope with Haaland.

What great news! Snooker will stay at The Crucible in Sheffield. 🥳🥳

LEAGUE CUP CHAMPIONS 🏆

2026 LEAGUE CUP WINNERS ✨

Yessssssssss! Banger of a win and performance. Citeh! Citeh! Citeh! 🩵🩵🩵 🤩🎉🎉 🩵🩵🩵 #carabao

Pep's Spanglish is up there with Cervantes tbf.

In retrospect, underrated comeback.

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Very sad news - RIP John Virgo. Snooker won't be the same without his voice. Was lucky enough to have met him a couple of months ago in Bolton. What a lovely man.

Indeed, there was one posted above and inside the front door of every single Irish house. Seemingly ornamental, like old hunting rifles, in truth, ready for smiting at any moment.

We're being sued for libel by a London businessman who thinks he can bully us into taking down a @londonermag.bsky.social story about him. He's wrong! Please read and share. www.the-londoner.co.uk/the-londoner...

Saddened to hear this. RIP Gladys West. Has to be one of the least well-known and most influential people ever. Someone who affects our lives every single day.

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

Reality vs Linkedin

Rayan Cherki - That was absolute filth! 💙💙😍💙💙 #mcfc

What a bonkers game. City hang on for a 5-4 win! 🙄🫣🫠😍 Wish they played for the first 30m of second half like they did for last 15m.

Aaaaaaaaaaghhhhh! What a win for Ireland! In the 96'. 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪 #coybig

What a fascinating game! It's like a Pep-Klopp fusion got the better of a Slot-Klopp fusion. Reilly, Doku were outstsnding . Nunes, Dias, Phil, Haaland and Nico G were belting too.

Lá mór don tír – comhghairdeas le Catherine Connolly, ár nUachtarán nua. Go n-éirí go geal léi. ☘️ 🇮🇪 /Big day for the country –congratulations to Catherine Connolly, our new President. Wishing her every success.☘️ 🇮🇪

Tomorrow, a week on from Thursday's attack on the Manchester synagogue, this will be marked as a day of solidarity and mourning by civic groups from across all faiths and none. You are also invited to join online sharing #britainstandstogether More information together.org.uk/articles/bri...

On Yom Kippur many Jewish people in Britain have their phones off to mark the holy day. As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time. At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.

Sad news from Manchester, the city will come together as it always does to show there's no place for hate.

Terrible news that two people were killed in Manchester attending their place of worship at the synagogue in Manchester, with others seriously injured. Community Security Trust @cstuk.bsky.social who do so much to keep Jewish people safe at faith and community spaces have issued this advice.

HOPE not hate condemn the appalling, violent attack at a synagogue in Manchester which has taken place on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. Our thoughts are with the Jewish community and all affected.

Appalled by this vile attack. Standing in solidarity with Manchester’s Jewish community and my Jewish neighbours.

New podcast audio essay from Posthumanism and Technology. Death on Pause - Ray Kurzweil says tech could end aging -even death by 2045. I talk AI, future of humanity, the singularlity and more Available below and in the usual podcast places. #Singularity #Kurzweil #AI #Transhumanism #Futurism

RIP Tony Harrisson Saddened to to hear about this great loss. Harrisson was immense. He could do satire, lament, dramatic verse, TV, spoken word poetry, elegy, poetic journalism, translation, dialect - no finer exemplar of the classical vernacular will you find.

The French philosopher Jacques Rancière challenges how we think about politics, art, and education. Here is my podcast interview with philosopher Dr Stuart Blaney where we discuss his ideas.

Awful news. RIP Ricky Hatton. #mcfc #mancity

We are extremely saddened to learn of news regarding the passing of boxing legend and lifelong #ManCity fan, Ricky Hatton. We send our heartfelt condolences to all of his family and friends at this difficult time. Rest in peace, Hitman. 🩵

Welcome to Manchester City Football Club, Gigi! 🇮🇹🩵

Yeah, that's a bit decent.

I’m standing for a seat on the #ucu NEC/HEC. The HEC carries a lot of power and responsibility. If you’re a member in an HE institution, please take the time to read the @ucucommons.bsky.social#ucupost about the national seat I’m standing for and the North East seat Adam Hansen is standing for. 1/4

I've written a short post on the specific way academics experience alienation at work. I also argue we must champion the inherent worth of what we do as well as its profitability. blog.matthewbarnard.phd/a-world-with... #ucu #academia

I couldn't let this thought go and now I've written a blog post on it: The LLM of the Gaps: AI, God and Death Angst, where I consider the similarities between the design argument and arguments that LLMs are intelligent blog.matthewbarnard.phd/the-llm-of-t... #ai #llm #philosophy

A sensational tribute from Wolves supporters at Molineux today for their former player, Diogo Jota. 🇵🇹💛 📸 Simon Bajkowski

Station Approach, 1962, by L.S. Lowry (1887-1976). Exchange Station, Manchester, built 1884, closed 1969, subsequently demolished. #NorthernArt

Still places available to study in September at University of Staffordshire's MA Philosophy of Nature, Information and Technology.👇

Still places available to study in September at University of Staffordshire's MA Continental Philosophy.👇

Kyren!!!

Finally got around to reading this. Andy West's unique memoir of teaching Philosophy in UK prisons. Highly recommended.

Day 1! 100 squats complete - started out in the gym with Jacqui my PT and made it fun with different types of squats. She also showed me how to stretch out my hamstrings and hips which I’ll need since there are no rest days. fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/catheri...

Well...never thought of them like that before.

An Ríocht Abú! 💚💛💚💛💚💛💚 #allirelandfinal #kerrygaa www.radiokerry.ie/news/kerry-w...

New podcast on Thales' Well: Matt Barnard [@matthewbarnard.phd ] joins me to talk about freedom and what it means to exist without falling into the usual free will vs determinism trap. Lots of Kant and Heidegger talk. Listen in below or Spotify, Pockets Casts etc.