Academic freedom doesn't mean you HAVE to hire race scientists, especially not one who says "In a meritocracy… Black people would disappear from virtually all high-ranking positions, with the exception of sports and entertainment"

What is a 'private' Israeli intelligence firm staffed by Mossad and Unit 8200 veterans? +972 Magazine's investigation explains: the Israeli military deliberately blurs the line between service and private sector — creating a conveyor belt from state intelligence to commercial firms.

“For Orbán in Hungary, it took about four years, …for Erdoğan in Turkey and Modi in India, it took about 10 years to accomplish the suppression of democratic institutions that Trump has achieved in only one year” Based on new @vdeminstitute.bsky.social data www.theguardian.com/world/commen...

📢 Out Now! V-Dem Dataset v16 & the V-Dem Institute Democracy Report 2026 💾 The V-Dem Dataset: v-dem.net/data/the-v-d... 📰 The Report "Unraveling The Democratic Era?”: v-dem.net/publications... 📈 Explore the new data with the V-Dem Graphing tools: v-dem.net/graphing/gra... #PoliSky #PoliSciSky 1/3

📰 Zakenlui van rechtse signatuur leggen ook in België steeds nadrukkelijker hun klauw op mediabedrijven, toont de opkomst van 21News. Samen echoën ze de stem van Trump in Europa. En dat alles met de steun van de uiterst rechtse Franse mediamagnaat Vincent Bolloré. apache.be/2026/03/16/b...

Ik vat even samen. De Wever - noemde Israël de kant van het licht - noemt Saoedi-Arabië een bondgenoot - roept op tot een normalisering van de betrekkingen met Rusland - vindt het internationaal recht passé Echt een premier die onze "normen en waarden" verdedigt 💪🏻🙏🏻

Habermas and the American Public Sphere seemed to have died on the same day?

RIP Habermas, whose death follows that of his beloved Public Sphere

In honor of Habermas, a meme I made

Un grand monsieur!

Er is geen plaats voor racisme aan de universiteit www.demorgen.be/meningen/er-...

This might be the greatest split-screen ever broadcast. They’ll play this in museums in future. (🎥 LCI 🇫🇷)

Trump isn't creating the new economic order so much as accelerating the existing transition to a new one in which US power and strength is diminished by a rising Asia. EU actions may well come to do the same.

German cultural repression here again, hello darkness my old friend … www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is absolutely INSANE! Israel has attacked Israel and Lebanon, unprovoked, but for the EU Hezbollah is the problem. 🤷‍♂️

Civilians in Tehran are reporting toxic oily rain following US and Israeli airstrikes on oil storage facilities. An estimated 10 million people face exposure to hazardous chemicals, with risks including skin burns and lung damage.

New Position: Associate or Full Professor in Cultural Studies at Maastricht University. We are looking for a senior colleague who is capable and enthusiastic to take on management roles. Please share widely. www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3589...

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

FULLY FUNDED PHDs IN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY I'm looking for *two* PhD students to join my ERC project on refugee-led approaches to displacement justice. The positions are funded for four years, and you get to join our lovely community in Bristol. Please share widely! philjobs.org/job/show/30997

My department is hiring a professor in the history of science! www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

🚨 Job alert! 🚨 We are looking for a PhD candidate for my Vidi project on factual belief polarization and its attitudinal consequences. The position will be at the Department of Political Science of Radboud University (Netherlands). Check out the full job profile below! www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work. This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public. Please spread the word. 🧵 1/4

“Rising atmospheric carbon dioxide levels now detected in human blood.” #climatecrisis phys.org/news/2026-02...

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

I too think more networks should run "pro-America content" like handy explainers on the constitutional limitations on the president's powers and the independence of Congress

Criminally funny, but also I'm crying inside Norway comes for the #TechBros www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree vimeo.com/1168468796?f...

Our PopGov project is live! 📣 We’re recruiting 3 Postdocs at @UCLouvain! 🌍 Help us to disseminate the call! 🙏

An important warning by @gabrielagreilinger.com

Further destroying democracy: “The investigation becomes the punishment, forcing media companies to spend millions on legal defenses and deterring them from publishing material that the Trump administration does not like.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/o...

Kareem Khalifa is assembling a list of journals that either specialise or regularly publish work in philosophy of social science. A great service but I need this list to be longer! Please add to it #philsci #philsky

Your 'moment of doom' for Feb. 21, 2026 ~ Global f&%kery is accelerating. "This is Europe’s new reality: under water in winter, withered in summer. Yet even as the weather extremes worsen, the voices of denial have grown louder and more influential." www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

"Edge -Epstein's favorite intellectual salon- was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds ... The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-long project that cloaked eugenics, race science and sexual misconduct in Ivy League respectability." www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

Reminder: OEconomia has launched a new permanent call journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/19... We’re looking for contributions about - New databases for history/philosophy of economics (prosopographic datasets, digitized corpora...) - New methods & applications (e.g. how LLMs can advance the field)

I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point. I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it

En Suisse, le conseiller fédéral Guy Parmelin [UDC, extrême droite] exclut les sciences humaines des fonds de recherche nationaux. Les sciences sociales & humaines absentes des six nouveaux pôles de recherche: près de 1000 universitaires dénoncent une décision politique. www.tdg.ch/parmelin-les...

New drone footage from @floodlightnews.org - the fossil methane power plant Musk built specifically to create abusive and racist material on his social media website is still wildly breaching EPA regulations even after a ruling against using them -->>> floodlightnews.org/thermal-dron...

"This is not only about "data privatization." It is a struggle over who gets to know, in detail, how climate risks are distributed and changing—and therefore who gets to prepare, to profit, and to decide" #philsci 🧪

This picture (credits to the creator I don't know) represents the the feelings of living in this world.

Good to see Rethinking Economics getting some attention! ... its aim is to make economics education “plural, critical, decolonised and historically grounded” rather than “dominated by a single framework presented as ‘neutral’ or ‘objective’” ... #philsci #philsky www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?” There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

Friends, can I ask you to spread the word that we have a THREE-YEAR postdoc in American history at Cambridge up for grabs - ANY field, but applications are due March 1 so don't delay - apply, apply, apply! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69790/u...

The University of Vienna is advertising a number of fully funded PhD positions in the Humanities (4 years), including in Philosophy. If you are interested or know any philosophy MA student who would be interested, please tell them to get in touch! careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/p...

Remember the controversy when Obama was accused of intervening in UK politics? This is the current US government openly seeking to undermine liberal democracy in Europe.

There have been increasingly shrill accusations against the EU over its digital legislation, based on accusations of "censorship" by defenders of "free speech" -- including, so it appears, the right to peddle an AI app that seemingly produces child sexual abuse material (CSAM). 1/9

If you are looking for some philosophy of social science with a historical perspective, look no further, check out this new volume edited by Yafeng Shan: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #philsci #philsky

Critica, the Latin American journal of philosophy, is seeking submissions to a special issue on social epistemology! For anyone interested in contributing, check out the details here: