link.springer.com/article/10.1... In 2023, over a few beers in Lisbon, Devon Cass and I teamed up to explore whether animals can be subjected to the kinds of wrongs relational egalitarians are concerned with. The result was this paper just published in Philosophical Studies:

📢Interested in applying for #Leverhulme Early Career #Fellowships 2025 (3yrs full time) with @irph.bsky.social @lborouniversity.bsky.social? Note our internal demand-management deadline of 4pm on 1 Dec (!), & pls contact potential supervisors asap: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/early-career...

🚨 My article, with Jessica Wolfendale and Chris Elliott, is now available (open access) with @risjnl.bsky.social. We systematically detail and critique war crime apologism - efforts to excuse, downplay, or even celebrate battlefield atrocity. Give it a read! cup.org/49gmlUi

I am extremely excited to be able to support this collaborative PhD call alongside Durham University. Please share with your networks. #geography #politicalecology #conservation #socialscience #wildlifetrade

JOB College Lectureship and Fellowship in Modern History and Politics (c20), Trinity College, Cambridge [This includes a teaching requirement for International Relations] www.trin.cam.ac.uk/vacancies/co...

I’m so sorry

LMU Munich is looking to fill a W2 Professorship in Philosophy Education. The role involves research, teaching, and the design of a new study program in philosophy/ethics. Deadline: 15 Nov 2025. Apply here: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/b...

Pure distilled essence of 1979-2025, here. I’m loaded and loving it but somehow I can never shake this mortal terror that somewhere, some poor wanker might be eating a free cheese sandwich.

I rob myself of so many bangers by my poorly copy editing

The Hound is one of Lovecraft's funniest stories because it's about how terrifying it would be if the undead abomination hunting you spoke Dutch

"We did it, Patrick! We defeated cringe liberal norms on the limits of political discourse."

Glad to finally see other people cottoning onto the fact that Adam Smith is one of the funniest philosophers.

lol

Hard to think that anybody with experience of UK university senior managements would have confidence that, left to themselves, they'd back academic freedom over an income stream.

Next year there will be a conference on the phil/o breakups! When I started my PhD there was *nothing* written on break-ups, but since then there has been amazing work on the end of relationships by ppl like Monika Betzler, Chris Crowley, Joe Saunders, or Richard Healy. Already can’t wait for this!

📣 I am hiring a postdoc! aial.ie/hiring/postd... applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome pls share with your networks

How might philosophical thinking shape research, policy, and public debate? “The point is to change it”: Essays on Philosophy in Public Life, explores this question by bringing together perspectives from 21 leading philosophers across the UK, US, and Europe. 🧵 Read essays: bit.ly/philosophyesays

Sorry this has really got under my skin. When threatening mobs turn up in villages they are most often in uniform representing a demented state, such as the Nazi murderers systematically eliminating Jews hundreds at a time in Polish villages and small towns.

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

One way to cut immigration is to simply make your country so miserable that no one wants to come

Birds but they get spookier each time. 🎃👻 Enter if you dare...🚪

Kladblaadje, circa 1630.

You haven’t been able to turn on the telly without seeing this fucknut’s puss mugging at cameras at any point for about fifteen years

why did this make me wheeze out loud

New episode out for everyone! I'm joined by @lastpositivist.bsky.social to discuss the philosophy of Warhammer 40k, why it's a fun universe to write in, and why it feels like our politics is increasingly 40k these days. Enjoy! www.voidpod.com/podcasts/2025/10/29/40k-philosophy-with-liam-kofi-bright

Once again, I am convinced Elon has never read the books he likes to talk about. Or even seen the movie.

isn't it great how twitter wasn't the real world when people there said left wing things, but it's the soul of the people now they're all nazis

CFP: 2026 British Society for Ethical Theory Conference (13-14 July 2026 at University of Leeds). Keynotes: Krister Bykvist (Stockholm), Jennifer Saul (Waterloo). Paper submission deadline: 1 Dec 2025. More info at www.bset.org.uk. This is consistently a very high-quality conference! #philosophy

Fascinated by the philosophical and theological implications of this

Never forget that time Sam Neill gave a quote about murder that was so beautifully kabonkers, we all assumed it was a Clickhole bit initially

Average Tory leadership hopeful: we should re-establish the Raj. Let's have a fifth Anglo-Asante war. I do not think that Romanians count as people on a legal or metaphysical level. Labour response: after 14 years of Tory mismanagement only Labour can be trusted to strip Romanians of their souls.

Fee waivers are available for UK applicants interested in reading for a PhD in my department. I'd be happy to support potential applicants in my research areas, especially (but not exclusively) research around animals in moral and political philosophy. Short deadline!

It is so fucking bleak that they’re still calling transphobes in the UK ‘brave’.

📆 deadline is this week for this fantastic panel from @ebonyyoung.bsky.social ⬇️

> bans fundamentally harmless charities > gives the police wide and undefined powers to arrest protesters > forces citizens to provide passports or driving licenses in order to use the internet "Why are people afraid to say what they think???"

The journal Environmental Humanities is still looking for midcareer/senior #envhum scholars interested in becoming a co-editor-in-chief from January 2026. You can apply as an individual and we'll find an appropriate co-editor match for you. See environmentalhumanities.org

I'm hiring! A 2-year postdoc on my ERC project "KNOW-HOW" at the Cogito: Epistemology Research Centre University of Glasgow. (Deadline for applications 9 November.) Please share with anyone you think might be interested. Details below www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...

Reposting one of these chains purely because I spent all morning trying to work whether I had hallucinated this video or not. Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfrc...

You aren’t truly British unless you’re wilfully ignorant about the Empire

At open days etc., I've met plenty of students who seemed genuinely interested in studying business- even in the face of parents who were like "are you sure you don't want to something more academic??" But far more common are those that think like this.

I think an alternative take on this is that students are being pushed towards business courses by government and societal rhetoric on employability, when they'd rather be doing other things they're more interested in...

Happy anniversary to this absolute banger from @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social !!!

A short piece of mine has just been published in the @justiceeverywhere.bsky.social blog. If you're interested, check it out! I think I get more nerd points for (only slightly gratuitous) Star Trek references. justice-everywhere.org/education/ll... #PhilTech #NerdPoints #PhilSky #StarTrek

Allegory of the Cave would simultaneously be very different and exactly the same if Plato wrote about Lootcrates instead of Socrates.

Here's a great opportunity for early-career researchers working across political theory & IR and with a particular interest in the methods and methodological challenges involved. @duncanbell.bsky.social @ecpr-nptmethods.bsky.social @adrianblau.bsky.social @ipsa-rc31.bsky.social

Psst Job in social and theoretical philosophy jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Groyper Occupied Government www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Leiden University is hiring: Assistant Professor in African and Comparative Philosophy