The Arts and Humanities Alliance is proud to sponsor the 2026 @britishacademy.bsky.social SHAPE conference. Our session is Myth busting for the public with @ritagardner.bsky.social @jennyrichards.bsky.social & @sebgordon1.bsky.social Chair @emmacayley.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/shape-conf...

Such an incredible essay by Nazanin Shahrokni on what practising solidarity as relation really entails spectrejournal.com/who-speaks-f...

Research in postdigital pedagogies of space is these days getting a lot of attention! Link in first comment

Last week on Wonkhe: Mark Peace posits that our anxiety about the threats of AI to standards risk blinding us to a deeper need to reassert the value of humanness in knowledge work

We discussed the case in our chapter. We were right.

Editorial for fothcoming special issue on Postdigital Feminism: Platformed-Lives, Labour, Intimacies, and Activism. The issue is in the oven - stay tuned, as we'll publish the whole collection any day now! LInk in first comment

Some projects are long in the making because the questions are complex, the process iterative, and the answers not simple. The first batch of interventions from @britishacademy.bsky.social 'Global Disorders' is here - feat. a paper by yours truly 👇: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/programmes/g...

3000 redundancies at my university in just 3 years

Highlights from the Women in Philosophy lecture series: Elisabetta Lalumera on the definition of pain and conceptual engineering youtu.be/Q9lYgYQDQ4s... #philmed #philsky

I just adore this paper - written by a reknown scholar in immunology, it gives a hugely important angle on our rsearch in postdigitla viral modernity!

They're closing down the best bit of the university (for no reason other than the higher ups apparently thinking this model of collaboration and interdisciplinarity isn't STEMmy enough) www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Wonderful, restorative writing retreat at Chapelgarth.

Sunday read: "A Genealogy for the End of the World" Drawing on de-colonial thought and philosophical genealogy, Travis Holloway asks if rethinking our past might open the possibility of a more just ecological future. #Philosophy #ClimateChange www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/a-genea...

Read Perec’s W or the Memory of Childhood a few mnths ago. Had no idea it signalled end of his analysis with Pontalis (had no idea he was analysed by Pontalis). Paul Keegan’s essay on Perec & Pontalis adds many more layers to what I’d thought perec’s book might be doing granta.com/the-perec-ca...

New publication alert! 🚨 Towards a critical approach to diaspora engagement in teaching and education development in conflict-affected contexts Points of Departure piece by Oudai Tozan and Ahmad Akkad www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #HigherEducation #Diaspora

Writing an introduction is mostly deciding which literatures you're brave enough to annoy

“no one who has witnessed over two years of genocide in Gaza is likely to disagree with either Hammad or Said that the intellectual class has utterly failed to fulfill its social function”

TODAY! Thurs. Feb. 5 ~ I pm ET / 6 pm UK "Ask the Philosopher" Have any burning philosophical questions you'd like discussed?? Share them with us at [email protected], then join Michael Bavidge, Michael Spicher, and Tara Emelye Needham #Philosophy www.tickettailor.com/events/theph...

We've launched our new migration masters @uclgeography.bsky.social – Migration, Politics and Society Full of creative and critical approaches, and taught by really good people. Please pass on to students who might be interested! www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

Wasn't necessarily expecting to get our research covered in Attitude Mag but I'm so glad @attitudemag.bsky.social has: "We are calling upon researchers across the UK to reject the recommendations of the Sullivan Review," says Dr Jay Todd @jaytoddgla.bsky.social" www.attitude.co.uk/news/uk-gove...

Many university researchers (& many social scientists) have no idea that the 'Sullivan Review' (named after its lead author, sociologist Sullivan) exists nor of its potential potency. @jaytoddgla.bsky.social and I wanted to set the Review in context rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I never post a link to the THE but the THE has covered Jay Todd's @jaytoddgla.bsky.social and my paper with the headline, 'Trans research "at risk" if data collection guidance adopted' rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Feels a bit weird to promote a review of my own book... but the book is not just mine, and contributors deserve to get their work noticed! Link in first comment.

We recommend another seminar organised by Franek

Sunday read: "On Being and Appearing: Social Reproduction and the Family Form" Tatiana Llaguno advances a Marxist feminist claim that the family is the capitalist form of appearance of unwaged reproductive labour. #Philosophy #Marxism www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/on-bein...

youtube.com/watch?v=y7aK... beautifully written and portrayed. A true gem 💫

Depressing from Philip Augar in the FT on the massive shift in burden from state to student. Aside from his ultimately economistic reduction of value, it’s surely the very definition of the learning experience that you can’t know what it should be in advance. It saps education of critical challenge.

I wrote on psychic life and Palestinian resistance – to ensure more people read Abdaljawad Omar @hamayel.bsky.social. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Jonathan Kramnick continues his long critique of interdisciplinarity, now arguing that while its jargon remains, it is with changed “affect & ambition”: “Today the jargon lingers on in a kind of zombie state: animated, repetitive, & oddly untethered from belief” www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

With this brief editorial, I present our special issue on Dennett's Powerful Ideas, due out very soon in @journalphp.bsky.social. I'm very pleased with the quality and variety of contributions we received! doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy

Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social & I are convening open panels at EASST (Sept) on 'STS & biology revisited: biosociality, interdisciplinarity & the biosociences, in an age of increasingly biological fascism'. Please consider submitting, &/or circulate to colleagues easst.net/conference/e...

Se siete a Milano il 5 feb potete partecipare a un evento storico: gli Stati Generali del Museo della Filosofia museodellafilosofia.unimi.it/gli-stati-ge... Progetti su diritti per gli animali, guerra e pace, intelligenza artificiale, fake news e molto altro… #philsky #filosofiapertutti

📣 My new article on Iran’s latest unrest for @phenomenalworld.bsky.social www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ira... Iran has witnessed another wave of unrest beginning on 28 December—the fourth major uprising since 2017. (1/5)

We sometimes change in different directions from those we love, but how can braving the unknown together endear us to our lovers? How do we cope with love being an endeavour fraught with uncertainty? Join us Mon. Jan. 25 for ~ 2pm ET / 7pm UK #Philosophy #Love www.tickettailor.com/events/theph...

ICYMI: "Has Trump Proved Realists Right?" Linda Kinstler talks with Alexis Papazoglou about the origins of realism, the Monroe Doctrine, applied realism and international law, legal legitimacy, and if Trump's strategy is realist or Machtpolitik. #Philosophy #Politics www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAIP...

The team at The Philosopher picked our favourite books that we read in 2025! We'd love to hear your favourites of the year as well! See the full write-up at our substack or scroll down for an in-brief version. 1/12 🧵 #Philosophy #Booksky thephilosopher1923.substack.com/p/editors-pi...

Highly recommend — and it takes up many of the analytical frameworks and conjunctural analyses elaborated by @eskandarsadeghi.bsky.social in @thedigradio.bsky.social’s 5 part history of modern Iran from 2022 thedigradio.com/History%20of...

Coming up Mon. Jan. 26 ~ 2pm ET / 7pm UK "Love in Time" Fannie Bialek with Isabelle Laurenzi will explore a view of love that embraces the vagaries of life with a fresh ethics of love grounded by our humility before time. #Philosophy www.tickettailor.com/events/theph...

New publication alert! 🚨 From debate to dialogue: teaching contested canons through dialogic literary argumentation Points of Departure paper by Farid Mohammadi www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #HigherEducation #DialogicEducation

❗ PESGB Annual Conference 2026. ❗ The conference will take place from Friday 27 March to Sunday 29 March 2026 at New College, University of Oxford, bringing together scholars, researchers, and practitioners in the field of philosophy of education. 👉 Register here: lnkd.in/eQvvZ8gJ

another dawn, another morning waking up to check if America has annexed a European territory, another day trying to remember that politics is not everything in life but also that everyone that condones and normalizes this will belong to a black list for a very, very long time.

Oh. This.

New article - long in the making, but so worth waiting! Link in first comment.

Ok, one participant is Michael Clune and I couldn’t help myself clicking. I found it a deeply depressing exchange but was fascinated by how the Johns Hopkins English department (3 participants have been/are in that dept) gets circulated/invoked across conversation www.chronicle.com/article/four...

Please circulate. Our deadline for our ECR Prize at @histhum.bsky.social is approaching (30 January 2026)

In Birmingham? Interested in human-robot relations? Join us for a film screening and philosophical discussion this March! www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/ex-ma... #philsky #philosophymatters #philosophyforeveryone

Nouri Gana on melancholia, mourning & Gaza — via his reading of Crimp’s turn to *melancholia* (not mourning): “the fight to retain the right to mourn is bound with a more profound refusal to mourn the demise of pre-AIDS gay culture” @criticalinquiry.bsky.social critinq.wordpress.com/2026/01/09/m...

“Besides being a ball of intellectual fire, Kirstie’s arrival was marked by something else unknown to Princeton or most of academia in the late 70s, namely her out lesbianism & easy warmth in inducting others into accepting queerness as a simple matter of desire”. Beautiful words on Kirstie McClure