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We're are now accepting applications for an exciting DPhil at the @oxprimarycare.bsky.social, *FUNDED* by the THRIVING Food Futures research hub! The project is about divisive policies, supervised by me, Dr Rachel Pechey @petescarbs.bsky.social @ashakaur.bsky.social lnkd.in/eezGaZZ3 Pls share! ✨

The Tractatus:

This was such a great conference. It is always brilliant to meet people working on stuff you're enthusiastic about, but working on animal rights often means we're "the animal person" in our departments. It's so rare to get such a large group together, and it's so affirming when it happens!

the history will continue until morale improves

And here he is! Steve Cooke on why Rousseau may well be the first animal rights theorist (whether Rousseau realized it or not)

Inspiring text about how seeing others with wonder invites us to understand them more deeply and treat them with greater care.

Post lunch, Sara van Goozen is talking to our conference on the ethical and legal stats of animals used as military mascots. We're learning about Wojek the Bear. Fascinating stuff.

We have an amazing line-up of speakers for our Workshop in Political Theory this semester!

Day two of Forgotten Animals: we start with Matthew Wray Perry talking about species hierarchy & the desubjectification of animals. We've been blessed with some really excellent talks, given by excellent people. Plus, there's cake.

The fabulous Saskia Stucki is kicking off Forgotten Animals, our conference on animals in political theory. It's so good to see a year of planning come to fruition.

Exciting to see this ancient law, which baffled scholars for centuries, finally being used.

getting ready for the "forgotten animals" conference in Leicester, very much looking forward!! philevents.org/event/show/1... @stevecooke.org @joshmilburn.bsky.social @drsvg.bsky.social

jokes about the confederacy are always funny, but you gotta think about it in terms of "Supernatural lasted 5x longer than the Confederacy", which is absolutely hysterical

only around a decade to go until another PM thinks "I know, I should hire Peter Mandelson"

Phew, Mandelson's been sacked as UK's ambassador to the US, a wise move from Starm-OH NO OH NO HE'S JUST APPOINTED JEFFREY EPSTEIN'S GHOST AS THE NEW AMBASSADOR, AH FUCK, KEEEEEIIIIIIRRRRRR!!!!!

Have YOU applied yet!?

I'm so excited to share the launch of a new collaboration between @cmmonwealth.bsky.social and @cplusc.bsky.social: The Transition Security Project. TSP will be a home for research, analysis, and new policy thinking at the intersection of climate, economy, & the military industries of the US and UK🧵

Two-year postdoc position at Bristol on the Leverhulme-funded Foundations of Longtermism project. If there’s someone you know working in moral philosophy, decision theory, or formal epistemology more broadly who might be interested, please do encourage them to apply.

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York Centre for Social Justice and Democracy (formerly known as York Centre for Political Theory) 2026 BOOK MANUSCRIPT WORKSHOP (DEADLINE Friday, 19 December 2025) Information can be found here: www.york.ac.uk/politics/cpt... APPLY and, please, circulate widely! @martinoneill.bsky.social

I am advertising two PhD positions in philosophy -- one for a domestic student, one for an international student. Both positions are 1 + 3 years, meaning that the first year is an MRes and the next three years are for the PhD. www.mq.edu.au/research/phd...

I always have to worry: does this new friend see me as a human being or just as a Dungeon Master?

And because of cosplaying at it, they have no idea what to do when they encounter even the slightest pushback. They just got absolutely dogwalked by a judge demanding status updates every 90 minutes (re: Guatemalan kids) and the best thing they could come up with was “her name is Sparkle 😡”

How I’ll be spending the day. Hokusai, Philosopher Looking at Two Butterflies

This is an argument about the content of history. But more importantly it’s an argument about where history should be produced and disseminated. Instead of universities and the academy our knowledge of the past will come from YouTube cranks and management consultants curating ambience for capital.

Department of Warhammer 40,000

Adrian Research Fellowship, a 3-4 year paid Postdoc in any area of philosophy at Darwin College, Cambridge U, invites applications if w/in 3 yrs PhD. Submit app.casc.cam.ac.uk/fas_live/dar... by 3 October 2025. www.darwin.cam.ac.uk/vacancies/ www.darwin.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/u... #PhilSci #PhilJobs

look, it might not have worked with the public, but at least it was the wrong thing to do morally

sam altman is trying to find the guy who did this

Good thing i was never a great mind to begin with

A genuinely wonderful guest post by @birchlse.bsky.social on the tension between liberalism and animal rights, and what sort of social order might be called for if one were to take the suffering of animals with all due moral significance it deserves. sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2025/09/on-t...

The Prime Minister effectively saying "I too would be concerned if my daughter walked past a foreigner" really caps off a truly next level dogshit summer of British political discourse.

You can’t out-fash the fash. Stop trying. It makes us hate you, and the fash will never love you.

The Future of Practical Ethics IDEA The Ethics Centre, University of Leeds 8th - 10th September 2025 Keynote Speakers: • Clare Chambers (Cambridge) • Helen Frowe (Stockholm) • Elselijn Kingma (KCL) REGISTRATION NOW OPEN conferences.leeds.ac.uk/the-future-o...

I think it's interesting how so many people are pretending like UK residents caring this much about our flag is normal. It's not. We used to look at how the US was about its flag and think it was positively unhinged.

Putting these two bits of information next to each other is a real eye-opener. Really shows what an incoherent mess government policy on higher education is, & how badly the government is failing the country by it.

What’s missing from the report is any attempt to explain *why* the public hold such false & negative beliefs about higher education. This is a shame, because the truth is that it’s the result of a massive, sustained, right-wing disinformation campaign. Plus, Labour has been silent or complicit.

Headline findings from the report: “Graduates are far more positive about their experience at university than people think, & feel far less burdened by the debt than many assume” www.kcl.ac.uk/policy-insti...

Is it OK to post jobs here? Hoping so, as we're recruting 7 3-year Research Fellowships as part of a new Leverhulme Centre for the Study of Slavery in War. (More details below). Please share widely, and apply! jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

HAPPY 20TH ANNIVERSARY TO THE ALL-TIME BANGER THEY'RE TAKING THE HOBBITS TO ISENGARD m.youtube.com/watch?v=2X-A...

In relation to the below, I just happened to read this, by Anna Merlan www.motherjones.com/politics/202... It's really good, and reminded me of the leaked Daily Stormer style guide, which is where I originally got the thing about plausible deniability from - it was explicitly their approach.

Yeah, maybe apologising to Jenrick for suggesting he was xenophobic was a bit much, BBC.

The THE has just published its fifth university-bashing article by this guy. Why? His sole qualification for writing about universities is that his kids went to uni. He describes himself as a ’Parent Campaigner against the harms of Mass HE’.

Deadline for this early modern PDRA role coming up at the end of the month. 12 month contract working on our ‘Inclusive Histories’ project. Happy to have an informal chat with those interested in the post.

cults of personality are always bad, but it’s honestly so pathetic and embarrassing that republicans picked a corrupt senile felon of all the people to build a cult of personality around

None of this AI shit would be happening if you all had posted this on Facebook like we told you to

I share this syllabus bc I'm one of a tiny handful of university faculty in the UK who teach trans history at a specialist level, & I'd like there to be more of us! I learned the field from scratch post-PhD, bc at my prev institution it was politically necessary - which means that you can too!