I'm running the Belfast half marathon on September 21st, with a team of awesome fellow runners from David Hanna Fitness. I'm raising money for Marie Curie by running the half marathon - please consider donating to my fundraiser! www.justgiving.com/page/rebecca...

My fundraiser for Cancer Focus NI is up to £195 so far - it would be amazing if it could get to £500 by next Sunday! Massive thanks to all who generously supported me so far!

I will be running the Moy Park Women's 10k on June 22nd - and I'm hoping to raise some money for Cancer Focus NI as part of this. I would really appreciate your support for a worthwhile charity - please read more about it at my fundraising page! eventmaster.ie/fundraising/...

Without philosophical thought, Einstein claimed he “would have contributed nothing to science.” | iai.tv/articles/wit... Philosopher and biologist Massimo Pigliucci sides with Einstein and argues for the importance of philosophy in making true scientific progress. #philsky #philsci 🧪 ⚛️

Call for Nominations: Hypatia Board of Associate Editors (deadline: Friday 16th May)

The British Philosophical Association launches the first annual Philosophy Fortnight #philofortnight2025 in the Westminster Parliament today. #PhilosophyMatters

This is really sad news. Sandra Harding’s work is amazing.

Philosophers: spread the word, apply, come to St Andrews, have research fun with us! philjobs.org/job/show/28814

Beauty, power, and gravity. My first deadlift.

During #PhiloFortnight2025 we'll host a free webinar entitled Philosophy Everywhere (19 March), showcasing ways to embed philosophical reflection in our everyday lives, from walks in nature to conversations in the pub. Join us and discover why #PhilosophyMatters: www.birmingham.ac.uk...#PhiloFortnight2025#PhilosophyMatters:#philsky

‼️Now Accepting Applications‼️ The Centre for Ethics at the University of Toronto is accepting applications for one Postdoctoral Fellowship for the 2025-2026 academic year. 📅 Application Deadline: April 30, 2025 🔗 More Info & How to Apply: ethics.utoronto.ca/contact/post-doctoral-fellowships/

The BSA's annual conference is accepting submissions. Come along and find out whether we're all still wearing clothes from circa 2004, or whether we've all updated our wardrobes... british-aesthetics.org/portfolio/an...

Think you should eat fewer animal products but aren't convinced everyone must go vegan? You may like our new article in the Journal of Moral Philosophy (w/@victorkumar.bsky.social). Lot of labor and love poured into his one. Pretty sure it's the first philosophical defense of a #reducetarian view.

Essential.

148 signatories call for the government to reconsider it's refugee citizenship ban, including Unison, the Conference of Liberal Rabbis, Islamic Relief UK, the Methodist Conference, the Baptist Union and several lord bishops www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument. (Scroll down.)

Philosophy at Guelph is hiring in Ethics/ Applied Ethics. Please share widely. careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-A...

Inevitable that the incongruity of @QUBelfast opening a new campus in India while cutting jobs in Belfast would be mentioned in this excellent article on the human consequences of redundancies: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The deep cultural cost of British university job cuts | Letters www.theguardian.com/education/20...

ANNOUNCEMENT: EMERGENCY GENERAL MEETING - 6th February 11am Members will have seen this morning that the University is launching a Voluntary Severance Scheme (VSS), hot on the heels of announcing a new Indian campus, while budgets for faculties, schools and directorates have all been slashed. (1/4)

CFP: Caribbean Philosophical Association Summer School | June 1-7, 2025 | Arizona State University | Submission Deadline: March 1, 2025 | More information can be found here: caribbeanphilosophy.org/summer-school

CFA: 30th International Conference of the Simone de Beauvoir Society | Reconnecting with Simone de Beauvoir’s Radical Thought | June 16-19, 2025 | Online | Submission Deadline: January 30, 2025 | For more information, visit here: beauvoir.weebly.com/2025-confere...

Frosty but beautiful first 9k

Deadline for this has been extended to 28 February. Please share widely, thanks!

Excited to be speaking at SWIP Ireland’s 2024 conference, happening 6-7 December at Maynooth University! www.swip-ireland.com/9th-annual-c...

I mean, I wish this were hyperbole, but it isn't.

Dear #philsky I think we need a starter pack for people who work on epistemic injustice. Can be philosophers, psychologists, lived experience researchers, the sky is the limit! Suggest yourselves or others for inclusion in the replies. Thanks 🤩 go.bsky.app/RMAoxiW

special issue, which was supposed to appear over two years ago but got delayed for obvious reasons, finally dropped

Made a starter pack, woefully incomplete, with academics who do a lot of public outreach. LMK if you warn to be added go.bsky.app/9oQCxQ9

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:...

I'm looking forward to presenting new research at a wonderful upcoming conference organised by the Centre de recherche en philosophie (PHI, ULB) and the Centre d'études phénoménologiques (CEP, UCLouvain), November 20-22 2024. phi.phisoc.ulb.be/une-chose-es...

A number of artists and creators have made their home on Bluesky, and we hear their concerns with other platforms training on their data. We do not use any of your content to train generative AI, and have no intention of doing so.

For my first post here I'm delighted to share, on publication day, The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Delusion! 🧵 www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

My paper "Friendship with the ancients" is out in Journal of the APA. I look at the philosophical practice to "make friends" with long-dead authors, and what you get out of it: a specific kind of understanding, relational understanding, and intellectual humility www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🚨 Cambridge HPS is partnering with CRASSH for funded Visiting Fellowships for Scholars from the Global South in 2026. The theme for applications is Science, Politics and Justice. The deadline for applications is 24 February 2025. More info here: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/research/fel...

New followers, nice to meet you virtually! If we haven’t met before, I work mainly on 19th century European philosophy, especially Nietzsche, and on applied ethics (especially issues in health, medicine, technology, & environment), and more recently philosophy of disability, & African philosophy.

You can now read a little bit about Allie Merrick's & my co-edited book, Nietzsche and Politicized Identities (SUNY Press, 2024), in our co-authored blog post, available here: sunypress.edu/Blog/2024/Ni...

We are offering International Fellowships to enable early career researchers from around the world to come to the UK for two years to undertake original research in the humanities or social sciences. Please spread the word! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/inte...

We've brought out a new @britishacademy.bsky.social / ACSS report showing the impact of humanities & social sciences across a range of domains. Thanks to @oxforddemsci.bsky.social @melindacmills.bsky.social for the analysis of REF case studies www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/new-rep...

We are hosting the 2024 conference of the Society for European Philosophy. One week until the deadline for abstracts! Keynote speakers: – Sara Heinämaa (Jyväskylä) – Irene McMullin (Essex) – Sianne Ngai (Chicago) – Monique Roelofs (Amsterdam) Details: bit.ly/SEP2024

20 years ago today, I graduated with my PhD from Durham, in the Cathedral.

This is a really good and engaging seminar, which is on an area of Nietzsche’s thought that I don’t know much about - I have been learning a lot from it. Highly recommend! ifilnova.pt/en/events/ni...

If you know a sixth former (in fulltime education 18 or younger) who enjoys philosophical writing, encourage them to submit to this essay competition. Themes: Could a machine think? Is it morally wrong to eat meat? Can I know that the world I experience is real? #philsky

The Royal Institute of Philosophy 2023 Essay Prize Topic: Methodology Prize £2,500 and publication in Philosophy. Deadline 31st January 2024. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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A lingering remnant of summer.

Somerville College and the Oxford Faculty of Philosophy are recruiting an Associate Professor or Professor of Philosophy, with an area of specialisation in metaethics, to start from 1 September 2024 or as soon as possible thereafter. isw.changeworknow.co.uk/somerville_c...

The Northern landscape listens (with apologies to Dickinson).

Reminder about this great talk by @axdouglas.bsky.social happening on Tuesday 1:30 PM central time (this is apparently 6:30 PM British time because the clocks go back sooner in the UK) Free but preregister here slu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...