Grateful to Musk for providing content for a little puzzle for students to mull over in the interval of today's lecture on The Racial Contract What links Pontins, Musk, and Charles Mills?

What those parenting books don't tell you is that making your kids' room nice and dark, perfect ambient temperature etc, won't make them sleepy, but it will work on you Thus increasing their bargaining power

Is cultural appropriation about ownership of cultural styles? Hannah Carnegy-Arbuthnott argues it is, based on the idea that ownership claims support our ability to present ourselves to others on our own terms. Read the paper here! doi.org/10.16995/pp....

Can cultural appropriation claims be grounded in group ownership of cultural styles? I argue they can, in this paper just out in Political Philosophy #Philsky doi.org/10.16995/pp....

PLEASE SHARE York Law School is advertising a funded (home fee rate + stipend) PGR studentship. Open to all areas of law. I am happy to answer questions. The advert is here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMS275/y... @uoy-yorklawschool.bsky.social

Level unlocked: kitchen rave to Call Your Girlfriend with my kid. @carlgibson.bsky.social I reckon she's ready for a masterclass #Robyn

Taking Kirsten Simms energy into this week, working on paper revisions to clutch victory from the jaws of Reviewer 2

Post a warning

Funded Philosophy PhD: deadline in just over a week! Come and work with me and my colleague Stephen Holland on 'consent under non-ideal circumstances'. #philsky

Annual Mary Wollstonecraft Lecture, Hull and online, 18 February The Institute of Applied Ethics and the Royal Institute of Philosophy present the  Annual Mary Wollstonecraft Lecture at the University of Hull: Mary Wollstonecraft: Philosopher and Feminist for our time Professor Kathleen Lennon…

"I wonder how Beyoncé trains for her live shows?" I thought as I cycled the kids to nursery this morning, wheezing 'incy wincy spider' on repeat

Funded Philosophy PhD opportunity! Come and work with me and my colleague Stephen Holland on Consent in Non-Ideal Circumstances. This is a collaborative doctoral award co-supervised with our project partner, AIMS. Click the link for full info:

Things not to say in front of a 3 year old at bedtime tidy-up: "oh, there's your harmonica!"

This festive period has reminded me that my family's love language is aggressively telling each other to rest, and aggressively refusing instructions to rest

Cousin's gift to the kids ensuring preservation of Scots heritage as well as the family sense of humour

Just got asked how much of my Christmas shopping I've done so far, and the answer is zilch. So, #philsky, let's help each other out: top recommendations for philosophy books that would make great gifts for non-philosophers? (self-promo included!)

An MA student told me today I was the best political philosophy professor they'd ever had. Pretty sure I am the only political philosophy prof they've ever had, but a win's a win, right?

Thanks to social media like 🟦☁️, the past is never more than a few clicks away. Does this infringe on a right to have such socially-available information about us fade over time? @hcarnegy.bsky.social is at The Memory Palace today, discussing 'right to be forgotten' legislation. Take a look!

In the latest instalment of 'how low society sets the bar for fathers', my husband just got praised for being hands on. What was he doing at the time? Holding the baby. Literally just having hands on his child.

My nearly 3 year old just told me she saw "a muscle cow with goolies" and now I will never use the word bull again

Does your girl baby hate having a bow tied to her head? Here's a solution: glue it on instead! (I wish this was satire)

All the guidelines on the various ailments one is prone to after childbirth prescribe rest. I hope someone, somewhere, is getting a kick out of this top level trolling

World Rugby citing an 18-year old marketing study and differences in "intellectual function", "innate interest" and "hard-wired" "mental preferences" between men and women in coaching guidance 😵‍💫

The holy grail

'What's the point of starting mat leave before the due date?' I blithely thought as I filled in the HR forms, 'seems a terribly inefficient use of time'. Well, my body is giving me a resounding answer to that question now: Rest. Rest would have been the point, you doofus.

Exciting opportunity for a WRoCAH funded Collaborative Doctoral Award at York on Margaret Cavendish's theory of mind with my excellent colleague Keith Allen and Dr Megan Leyland from English Heritage. Link for more info below

We're delighted to announce the launch of a new journal, Political Philosophy, with the same editorial team & editorial board as the old JPP. Send us your new papers & support the fight against private ownership of the means of (intellectual) production! www.openlibhums.org/news/668/

There wasn't much I did want, but what I really didn't want for Christmas was for our oven door to shatter the day before Christmas eve

JOB: Assistant or Associate Professor in World Philosophy. Please get in touch if you’d like to talk about the role. warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/appcentre...

My MA students are stoked to talk about borders and immigration this morning.

I wrote something for New Work in Philosophy, a very cool substack that publishes short, accessible pitches of recently published articles

Would you like a complimentary code to download the audiobook of For F*ck's Sake? I have 6 codes to give away to people who follow me on Bluesky and who repost this. I'll give away the codes next Friday (1st December).

We are looking to hire an Associate Lecturer to teach a political philosophy module while I'm on maternity leave next semester. If you know of any potential candidates, please encourage them to get in touch!

Chatting to another pregnant parent at drop-off today, about whether they're gonna find out the sex of their baby at their next scan. They said "yeah we need to, to find out if we need to buy all new stuff!" And that is why capitalism will never release its chokehold on gender stereotypes

Don't miss this call for papers for the 2024 Stanford Graduate Conference in Political Theory! This is one of the best events I've been to; the venue is beautiful and the people wonderful. Deadline Nov 20. stanfordpoliticaltheorygraduateconference.wordpress.com/2023/09/27/2...

Some days I do wish my cycle commute wasn't up and over the only hill in York

Still astonished at how a toddler can turn a trip to the library into a cardio session

Spent most of last night being kicked from the inside and out. Parenting a toddler while pregnant is an extreme sport

"In the digital age ... not only is more of our personal information captured and recorded, search engines can serve up previously long-forgotten information at the click of a button" Todays guest post, by Hannah Carnegy-Arbuthnott: justice-everywhere.org/general/what...

Congrats to our former post-doctoral fellow at the Centre de recherche en éthique - CRÉ, Hannah Carnegy-Arbuthnott on her latest article published in JPP, "Privacy, Publicity, and the Right to Be Forgotten". onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....