Will it ever stop raining?

“‘To Serve Man’: a 1950 sci fi short story telling the tale of alien emissaries who come to Earth claiming to offer peace and prosperity, but the twist reveals that their true intention is much darker, as the title is a double entendre for a cookbook.” “Not exactly reassuring” - @stevecooke.org

Conference announcement/CFP: Social Ties in Animal Politics: Mutuality Beyond Humanity University of Sheffield 8-9 September 2026 This is the latest installment in the long-running Animal Politics series. Abstracts due 12 June. Spread the word!

4 stories in the @irishtimes.com highlight the crazy approach to climate action by the government. 3 articles detailing the heavy financial & social cost of climate breakdown, and 1 where the govt celebrates increasing climate emissions for the airport by lifting the passenger cap. 🤯 #SpeirGorm

Amsterdam will ban fossil fuel and meat advertisements in public spaces and on public transport starting May 1st. 🥳

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'Contemplation.' (1911) Frederick Cayley Robinson’s pictures are almost always of people, occupiers of a silent, timeless, mysterious world, there are symbolic allusions but no clear cut narrative; his work brings to mind the early work of the Pre-Raphaelites.

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My 'The virtues of cultivated meat' is now available OPEN ACCESS in the Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics. I make a case for cultivated meat using virtue ethics, complementing existing cases drawing upon consequentialism or deontology.

Come along to our next online seminar, in just under 2 weeks! "Intention in Film after Anscombe" / Dominic Lash (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge University). 🗓️ 18th February 2026, Wednesday, 3pm - 4.30pm GMT 📍Online via: 🔗 www.womeninparenthesis.co.uk/news/ #philosophy #philsky

Our new issue is out with not one, not two, but FIVE open access articles 🔓. academic.oup.com/bjaesthetics... #philsky

In March @royalacademyarts.bsky.social will host the first UK exhibition of the Baroque painter Michaelina Wautier, a remarkable artist of the period, her work has been relatively forgotten, and much about her life and oeuvre remains to be uncovered. 'The Five Senses: Taste.' (1650)

No, and we should!

Next time anyone asks me what the Tractatus is about, I'll just show them this

Out now 🦑✨ "Clearly-written and provocative. [The Metaethics of Virtue Ethics] makes an important contribution to the development and defence of neo-Aristotelian naturalism in meta-ethics." (Micah Lott, Boston College) Learn more: https://bit.ly/3NNsxdF Preview: https://bit.ly/3NIQCCq #ethics

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Check out our brand new Virtual Special Issue: "Ten Women Presidents of The Aristotelian Society" The first ten Inaugural Addresses delivered by the first ten women Presidents of the Aristotelian Society, from 1930-2001. academic.oup.com/aristotelian... #philosophy

New discussion paper just dropped that’s taken shall we say a little work to get this far … essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es... please be kind. Not on an at all sensitive topic in the slightest.

Join us for this online book launch on Tuesday 27th January at 5.00pm (UK time) on Zoom Register for free and find out more at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1980469801... 🎟️ (3/3) #BookLaunch #AnimalRightsBook #AnimalRightsLaw #AnimalLaw #NewBook #Law #Rights #FreeEvent

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Globally, the way food is produced and consumed is intimately tied to biodiversity loss, soil degradation, river pollution, antibiotic overuse and poor public health. Read about Scotland's plan in @philip-ciwf.bsky.social latest article ⤵️ www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...

Today’s journey: 10:30-22:30. Smooth sailing, sunny sea views, good books, friendly dogs, buses that materialise, and regular trains that don’t mysteriously vanish into thin air. What sorcery is this? Take note, Ireland. ⛴️ 🌊 📚 🐶 🚌 🚆 💕 #slowtravel #sailrail #LetMuskBuyRyanair

Good Afternoon, Isle of Man.

Good Morning, Belfast.

what a weird thing to try to test to see if someone else is into

I'm looking for suggestions of what to cover in a special series of interviews when I reach my 500th podcast episode: things I should have covered in past series, but missed out! More explanation here: www.historyofphilosophy.net/suggestions-... Thanks in advance! #philsky #philosophy

Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out. As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class. Here's what happened:

In an ideal world I’d put readings about non-ideal theory on my reading list, but given the constraints of the real world I have mostly to concentrate on ideal theory.

you can tell when someone is saying something they really believe, versus something their team assured them a series of focus groups reacted positively to

Scotland is moving inexorably towards reintroducing native lynx, but in Ireland we're not even having that conversation. WHY? www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Hi @epaireland.bsky.social why are you still asking if research projects have a twitter account as part of the annual reporting? That place is full of fascists, bots and produces CSAM, you shouldn't encourage people to use it

Postdoc opportunity: ERC Research Associate in History of Philosophy (48 months) University College Dublin Project BMoral (18th-century British moral philosophy & women philosophers) Start: Sept 1, 2026 Deadline: Feb 10, 2026 Details & apply: my.corehr.com/pls/coreport... #philsky #philjobs

I can’t get an old interview out of my head, in which Bill Gates suggests that Greta Thunberg and others taking part in the Fridays for Future school strikes would be much better off staying in school. Presumably so they could eventually go on to emulate his successful example.

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On today's new episode we look at some of the most memorable passages from the Zhuangzi, the so-called "skill stories," in which butchers, wheelmakers, etc are shown to have a special kind of knowledge. www.historyofphilosophy.net/zhuangzi-ski... #HoPWaG #philosophy #philsky #podcast #daoism

Good Evening, Bluesky.

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Thanks Guy - people probably think that the different figures talking on the cover are meant to represent a diverse range of speakers, but they're all just me in different hoodies

Big shoes to fill *cough @amytaggart.bsky.social ... buuut we are a great bunch of researchers to work with, promise! #naturejobs #biodiversity #climate #IrishJobs #JobFairy

In this week's Science & Climate page in @irishtimes.com, @whittledaway.bsky.social looks at Denmark's radical plans for farming, including an agricultural carbon tax, and asks if Ireland could follow suit www.irishtimes.com/science/2026...

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Good Evening, Bluesky.

And you may saye to yourselfe These are not my lone and level sandes And you may saye to yourselfe These are not my vast and trunklesse legges of stone

Telling the government my new home is going to be a data centre so they'll build it for me

You're mad because you expect a "software update" to make things work better. You will only be free when you understand this to be an illusion and accept the fact that software is suffering

It's taken a few years, but I've finally framed and hung the painting I did of Mary Midgley shortly after her death. Now, she can stare over my shoulder when I'm in an online meeting or seminar, judging people who start on any bullshit.

Good Evening, Bluesky.

Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

2 year Postdoctoral Research Fellow opportunity at the University of St Andrews on my project "Aesthetic Values and the Social Dimensions of Science" www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... #philosophy #philsci

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