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this is the best day of my life

Feels important. Because #philosophy is actually not another way of doing science. Nor is it simply “an important part of a university’s ‘science offering.’” #philsky #booksky

British Academy President's statement on the UK's higher education crisis, July 2026.

Physical books. You own them. They don't require updates. They don't surveil you or collect and sell your data. They are a genuinely safe hallucinogen that leaves you smarter and more empathetic and with a longer attention span the more you use them. Free from the library. What's not to like?

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Last year I did some consulting for a pair of card game designers working on a game about fallacies. Going to start putting this as a conflict of interest on all my papers, and make all the examples about how great card games are.

As philosophy rushes to claim expertise on AI, AI companies rush to control the philosophical narrative. Unlike other disciplines, philosophy has no standards for reporting conflicts of interest. This petition endeavors to change that: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Feels important. Because #philosophy is actually not another way of doing science. Nor is it simply “an important part of a university’s ‘science offering.’” #philsky #booksky

📣 People are understandably up in the arms about this (it is horrible). But just want to wave a hand out there 👋 as we're going through the same thing in Humanities at Northumbria (1 out of 5 staff need to go by end of July). 1/?

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The richest university in Scotland, hoarder of hundreds of millions of HE money, an institution at no risk at all has now joined the sector's race to self immolation.

Issue 41.2 has just been published: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

'The Herald reported in April that PA Consulting had been contracted to manage an "academic size and shape" exercise at the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CAHSS).' 1/2

‘Yes this is climate change, yes it’s us, yes we have the solutions, no we’re not implementing them fast enough. It’s really now a question of what kind of future we want for ourselves, and whether we’re willing to do what it takes to secure it.’

I’ve spent more than a year reporting on how the fossil fuel industry has infiltrated academia over the last 30 years, shaping fundamental paradigms on how to address climate change. My first story in the new @propublica.org and @drilledmedia.bsky.social series, “Carbon Captured”, is out today.

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Being a monk seems an underrated career option: mostly reading & contemplation in dark, quiet, cold places.

Those of us with long memories will remember that Exeter closed philosophy down once before only to have to rebuild it again.

Yet another philosophy department under threat in the UK. Sign the petition to save philosophy at Dundee: c.org/9hQv8N8fhJ

This is one of the dumbest and saddest things I've ever seen. We should not think of universities in this way, and if we do that'll destroy everything that is both useful and good about them. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

No true innovation wythout HEART For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of language, bold dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye. Fund higher educacioun yn the HEART disciplines: H umanityes E thiques A rtes R hetorique & the crafte of T eachinge

Please can I live in the Waitrose ice cream aisle.

Wow, hot isn't it. Animal agriculture contributes somewhere in the region of 15-20% of greenhouse gases and is one of the biggest contributors to climate change. We cannot save our planet without drastically reducing consumption of animal products.

is this heat stroke or shock ask hundreds of University of Exeter employees this evening

Irony is dead.

Some good news: church grounds and graveyards across Ireland are becoming havens for birds, bees and bats as part of a biodiversity project inspired by Pope Francis. www.rte.ie/news/regiona...

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Another #DiversityReadingList book cover! 📚 Read what our Metaphysics Editor had to say about Katherine Hawley's How Things Persist here: diversityreadinglist.org/how-things-p... #philsky #philosophy

A newe and scandalous theorye about how to address the "crisis" yn the humanityes yn higher educacion: adequate funding and robust institutional support

Let climbing hydrangeas replace our current leaders and dominate the world! It will make all our lives better and more beautiful.

For the political philosophers and ethicists out there: have you heard of, or experienced, "ethics washing"? With some fabulous co-conspirers, we've written about it: dailynous.com/2026/06/16/w.... And if you want to share experiences anonymously, use this link: cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/for...

Live in two hours - "Food Futures" at the LSE Festival www.youtube.com/live/6j4wpgg...

In the Poetry Pharmacy.

“This work has been compared to Augustine’s ‘City of God’, Plato’s ‘Timaeus’, and Spinoza’s ‘Tractatus Theologico-Politicus’ — and should be read with no less openness and generosity.” — @philosofemme.bsky.social #philsky

I like to visit Selfridge's every now and then just to stay up to date with the most ridiculous products currently available.

Great minds, Simone and I 💅

Reading The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch for the first time and I can't stop thinking about this:

👀 A new forthcoming paper with @mjinglis.bsky.social is up on the Philsci Archive. "Interesting and Important Mathematics" A corpus linguistics study of the uses of the words "interesting" and "important" in maths preprints. philsci-archive.pitt.edu/29996/1/Tans...

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Wittgenstein seemed more cheerful: he has spent weeks preparing the skeleton of a cat for his children, which he seemed to enjoy.

Someone check what the Temple Run people have to say about Open Access, so we can update our policies accordingly.

One-third of the world's rice is grown in China, on less than a fifth of the world's rice-growing area, by farmers whose average age is over 55, in a countryside that is slowly emptying. The latest episode of #Feeding1in6 asks how that's possible, and how much longer it can last: buff.ly/8hcecWL

Today, I'll brief the Joint Committee on Artificial Intelligence on a new working paper which quantifies the potential energy and emissions from data centres into the future under the new Large Energy User Connection Policy, should 5.8 GW of new capacity (estimated through a market survey) emerge.

Do you have the urge to recede from society, take up some gardening work at a monastery and live in a shed?

“Your lettuce stays fresh because we put rat genes in it. Enjoy your meal!” — Greenpeace (2000)

If insects are sentient and sentience implies rights, what follows for food security and public health? I call this the "insect challenge" for animal ethics. The Journal of Practical Ethics has a new symposium on it, with an article by me and 3 replies: journals.publishing.umich.edu/jpe/news/ 1/5

Thinking of Helen De Cruz suddenly today, and their guiding words for doing philosophy: "We should write philosophy with a sense of urgency, a sense of survival, a sense of horror and wonder at the world." ❤️‍🩹

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