This morning Irish climate experts wrote to Minister O'Brien @deptcee.bsky.social to express deep concern that urgent #methane reduction risks being undermined if climate targets are set using a ‘temperature neutrality’ approach. 1/13

Experts in their fields 💚 ✨

Languages carry knowledge, relationships and ways of understanding the natural world🌿 Across cultures and generations, Indigenous Peoples and local communities have used words and concepts that reflect stewardship, reciprocity, interconnectedness and living in harmony with nature. #BiodiversityDay

Counterpoint: Yes they are, and that is good

My plea to those who are sceptical, in chapter 2 'Crying for the Moon', for letting analytic philosophy have a shot at making sense of the important, often disturbing, sometimes horrifying examples found in the epistemic injustice literature, despite...*gestures around at analytic philosophy*

Seventy years ago citation practices in British analytic philosophy were like this: “I was assured in the senior common room by Professor Austin that Hume does indeed say this somewhere.”

Romare is back 🎧

Experts in their fields 💚 ✨

Have you ever wondered about how feminists should approach the fact/value distinction? Boy, have I written a paper for you! “Should Feminists be Humeans? Facts, Values, and Barriers to Entailment”, out now, open access in Synthese. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Birdmaxxing.

Today's episode is one of my favorites among recent topics: a look at the formal French garden, and its surprisingly intricate relationship to philosophy under Louis XIV! (Also look out for a fabulous pun about him.) www.historyofphilosophy.net/french-garden #philsky #gardens #philosophy #podcast

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Recently, for *obvious reasons*, I've been thinking about what it means when anxiety and sadness are caused not by individual predispositions, but by the state of the world itself. This led me to early 19th-c. France and the notion of "mal du siècle" (sickness of the century) aeon.co/essays/young...

New publication came out today. It's a short reply to a piece by Jimmy Alfonso Licon from me, @hikemix.bsky.social and James Humphries in Philosophy and Technology. link.springer.com/article/10.1... #PhilTech #LLMs #Bullshit

Reading a paper that attributes to Bertolt Brecht the expression "grub first, then ethics”. Horrible idea. It's ethics all the way down

As usual, an inspiring day from @dcuclimate.bsky.social 🌟 Bookended by #philosophy, starting with quotes from Leopold & Griffin (@lauracostello.bsky.social) & concluding with some wild wisdom (@seanronayne.bsky.social). Thank you to @diarmuidtorney.bsky.social & the team for ‘holding the line’ 🙌

EVENT: Poetry Readings: A Celebration of Philosophy, Poetry and the More-Than-Human World 15th June 6pm to 8pm Join us for an evening of philosophical reflection on the role that poetry can play in connecting us with non-human animals and the environment. www.litandphil.org.uk/event/poetry...

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In the talk, Professor Peters explores how climate law can be made a force for good for animals. Check out a recording of the talk on our YouTube channel at youtu.be/uDEyQQN-4w0 (2/2) #TalkingAnimals #Law #Philosophy #AnimalRightsLaw #AnimalLaw

Still time to register for this morning's webinar! #datacentres #sustainableenergy #climateaction

Is Martha Nussbaum omnipresent? #philsky

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Good Evening, Bluesky. What a joy to see the return of ‘reading outside’ weather 😎 📚 💙

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[disco sounde] Make a litel tea Reade a litel Woolf Staye yn tonighte! Staye yn tonighte!

I hear that the author of The Selfish Gene is anthropomorphising things he shouldn’t.

Reminder: abstracts for the conference 'Social Ties in Animal Politics: Mutuality Beyond Humanity', hosted at the University of Sheffield, are due by 12th June. Last year's conference was really good. philevents.org/event/show/1...

The garden & I, reunited.

Fires devastate wildlife in both Mournes and Sliabh Beagh. A heavy toll for Curlew conservation projects: "We're talking about a 98% population decline over the last 10 or 20 years. It's got to the stage now where we really have to make sure that every nest survives' www.rte.ie/news/ulster/...

These wise guardians of Madeira’s ancient laurel forest are among the oldest living organisms in Europe - some believed to be up to 1,000 years old. The Laurisilva is the world’s largest remaining primeval laurel forest, dating back to the dinosaurs, surviving almost 600 years of human cohabitation.

The wonderful opening paragraph of Katherine's 'How to Be Trustworthy':

Katherine died five years ago. In 2023 PQ put together a special issue on her philosophy. katherinehawley.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk academic.oup.com/pq/issue/73/3

It is, unfathomably, 5 years since Katherine Hawley died today

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Spring joy at Dean’s Park, York Minster.

Pilgrimage to Somerville College. @inparenthesis.bsky.social

Beautiful day to be en route to Oxford to talk ethics and future food systems at this year’s LEAP conference! Looking forward to hearing such a great diversity of presentations: www.futureoffood.ox.ac.uk/sitefiles/le... @oxfutureoffood.bsky.social @thrivingfoodfuture.bsky.social

"Just as we make ourselves more energy-secure by switching from fossil fuels to renewables, we make ourselves more food-secure by switching from animals to plants." - @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

Ireland is playing a dangerous game with food security. 'The policies of successive governments have prioritised an export-led agricultural system leveraging the big beasts of beef and dairy, while ignoring the needs of our indigenous veg and fruit growers.' www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

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Registration for the British Society for the Philosophy of Science is now open! VENUE: University of Leeds KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Robin Hendry (Durham), Tarja Knuutila (Vienna), Eleanor Knox (KCL) DATES: Tuesday 21 July — Thursday 23 July www.thebsps.org/news/bsps-an...

We've got a great series of talks coming up from next Friday! Everything from alternative proteins, cultivated blue foods, to the future of farming, household food insecurity, and maize in South Africa. Sign up to join us! All free, all open to the public. www.futureoffood.ox.ac.uk/events

Where does he find the time?

Wow this looks like a really relevant and urgent project given the latest news: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Back on my floating library 📚

Joyfully hosting this lecture, @tcddublin.bsky.social, in a couple weeks!

Good Evening, Bluesky.

I’m happy to be joining the good people at the Livestock Environment and People conference next week. I’ll be presenting on and discussing ‘The ethics of future food systems: alternative proteins, ‘naturalness’, and relational values.’ Also looking forward to exploring beautiful Worcester College 🤩