Really sad to hear that Jonathan Lear has died. His work was an influence and inspiration when I was a PhD. dailynous.com/2025/09/22/j...

New paper with @tom-mcclelland.bsky.social! What is it to see someone as an object – to perceptually objectify them? We argue that seeing is not just a metaphor. We see others afford doing things with and to. doi.org/10.1111/ejop...

Breaking: horses to lead press conference on stable door bolting. More as we have it.

Grim.

For Sexual Health Week I wrote a blog for Brook encouraging more people think about online dating www.brook.org.uk/blog/dating-...

I was quoted in this @mashable.com article about use of AI in personal conversations mashable.com/article/chat...

This implies the existence of non-sad philosophy workshops

Hi Bluesky, The English translation of my book on the Pelicot trial is coming out in a month! You know (or maybe you don't) how it is: preorders are crucial for the life of a book, so don't hesitate to preorder right now. a.co/d/a0qeZeh I hope the fantastic blurbs will convince you if you're not:

Erinne Paisley discussed women’s shared hermenutic labour around online dating. @lukebrunning.bsky.social asked why dating apps failed in their promise to make our lives easier.

It's the final day of our MANCEPT workshop on Intimate Utopias. My talk will present (very) rough material from an ongoing book project, and will ask why dating apps suck despite their promise to improve our lives.

It's always @teenvogue.com that steps up, while the rest of the media is still in the "is it authoritarianism? Some experts warn of rightward shift in Trump administration" mode. www.teenvogue.com/story/ice-wa...

What is omnisexuality? I was asked for my take by @pinknews.bsky.social www.thepinknews.com/2025/08/19/d...

We’re hiring—one year post in Ethics—urgent—deadline this time next week www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/122985-...

What is omnisexuality? I was asked for my take by @pinknews.bsky.social www.thepinknews.com/2025/08/19/d...

I shared some thoughts about a new academic study of dating apps in the @newscientist.com www.newscientist.com/article/2492...

I am so thrilled @alex-fisher.bsky.social will be joining us for a year. More plans are afoot too! Check out his project 👇🏻

I’m pleased Bloomsbury are supporting this project, it will be a fantastic volume!

One of the students in Gaza with a funded university place in the UK has written about her story for @aljazeera.com: www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

I am just so tired of constant generative AI bullshit: the upstream exploitation, the flawed output, the downstream harms. All of it about money and power. Day in, day out. Maybe one good use case for every 10 bad ones. (I’m on annual leave for three weeks from Friday; it cannot come fast enough.)

This study really throws light on the dating experiences of LQBTQ+ people on dating apps 👇🏻

@nmckeever3.bsky.social and @lukebrunning.bsky.social feature in this Vogue piece on modern dating. www.vogue.co.uk/article/sing...

It's literally this easy!! Organise behind the *extant project*. He's been doing this for over twenty years! You can just bung a quid per month to support a leftist project about sex and relationships!!!!!!

My research leave starts today. The goal is to make progress with my dating app project. 🤞🏼

Can’t help but reflect on the *5 years of strikes* we did to defend our pensions, on this, the day USS announce their £10 billion surplus.

UK to recognise Palestinian state unless Palestinian state recognised as Palestinian state.

University bureaucracy: almost beautiful in how obtuse it can be.

I’m sympathetic to the sentiment of posts like these, as emotion management is an ongoing practical demand and shame is a barrier to productive conversations, but emotions can be scrutinised for fittingness in all kinds of ways.

Great to see the Turkish edition of Romantic Agency in the flesh!

All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.

Great to see the Turkish edition of Romantic Agency in the flesh!

What lovely blurbs on my forthcoming textbook with @nmckeever3.bsky.social!

Self-inflicted embarrassment for the University of Warwick — first it rebrands hyper-generically, then someone totally unhinged decides the *front page of the uni website* should say ‘Learn more about our Brand’.

My latest article about AI in online dating with @nmckeever3.bsky.social in @theconversation.com theconversation.com/ai-can-be-yo...

I wouldn’t have predicted that pursuing a career in philosophy would lead here…

Good jobs for ethicists 👇🏻

Is there a philosopher of emotion I can invite for a digital coffee to discuss a draft of a paper I am currently writing? #philsky #emotion

Great news.

Featuring the letter from @ethicaldating.bsky.social www.ellecanada.com/life-and-lov...

My latest article about AI in online dating with @nmckeever3.bsky.social in @theconversation.com theconversation.com/ai-can-be-yo...

Are you working on sexualisation or objectification? Come share your research at our December workshop!

This is so so depressing to read, as someone with kids in school. You see how cautious the schools already are, there's no way this won't massively increase the chilling effect

In Nottingham to examine a really interesting PhD today!

‘England’s higher education system risks long-term decline unless ministers overhaul their “confused, if not incoherent” approach to universities’ FT interview with outgoing @britishacademy.bsky.social President Julia Black where she pulls no punches! www.ft.com/content/3162...

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

Does anyone have experience with a non-fiction literary agent they would be willing to recommend?

Does anyone have experience with a non-fiction literary agent they would be willing to recommend?

I hate this

I gotta say I find a lot of AI discourse around higher ed very confusing. "if ChatGPT can write your essays is college even worth it?" did people think math teachers were assigning problem sets because *they* couldn't figure out the answers?

I was mentioned in this article about job cuts at Bumble. www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

Andrea Dworkin pointed out the irony of being told men are women's natural protectors, when they are the biggest danger. Whether women are put on a pedestal or a pyre, it's the same old patriarchy. Men & women are not different species, men are not naturally superior to women.