I get driven absolutely mad by environmental values and theories of them, and yet, I always get drawn back to them

Looking through my Google Drive to try and find something and I stumble across this video of me casually graduating with my doctorate in Philosophy 🥹

Please please please can we make it a thing to have PDF versions of journal articles without header/footer information on every page - i.e., website URL, date downloaded, etc - because it is BEYOND ANNOYING when your screen reader reads all of that out. Completely takes you out of the argument flow.

Accessibility pet peeve: journal articles formatted into two columns. WHY? This is MOST CONFUSING for my screen reader! #disabledinacademia #disabledacademicproblems

Learned some interesting details about my vision impairment at an appointment last week.

Philosophers On The Science & Ethics of Resurrecting Extinct Species dailynous.com/2025/06/02/p...

"We’re close to translating animal languages – what happens then?" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Feels weird to say it, as it doesn't yet feel real, but, I am a postdoc scholar at KU Leuven.

Must resist the urge to try and write a paper about the metaphysics of Expedition 33

Yesterday I completely week 5 out of 7 of an intensive physiotherapy rehabilitation programme... safe to say I'm absolutely exhausted, but hopefully this will mean I'm strong enough for my big move in 2(!) weeks.

I've had to take a break from my own academic projects due to flare-ups of health problems, so it's nice to hear about other projects in the wider field. Hopefully I'll come away with some new ideas for reading/thinking that I can put to use when I return to my own research.

Grateful that I'm able to remotely attend this conference today and tomorrow. The first few talks have been very stimulating and I'm excited for the rest. hiw.kuleuven.be/cmprpc/event...

There is an academic book that I need in order to work on some of the reviewer comments on a paper. I no longer have institutional library access as I'm inbetween PhD and postdoc at the moment. I managed to find one website where I could purchase it as an ePub...

We see similar in academic philosophy - arguments that are deployed for no reason than as an intellectual exercise, losing sight of the fact that the matters at hand have urgent moral importance.

I am once again begging academic publishers to make books available in PDF. While some provide eBooks, these tend to be accessible only on proprietary e-readers, which are incompatible with screen-readers and other accessibility software 🫤 Sincerely, a very eye-strained vision impaired researcher.

Revising a paper without institutional access is going to be really difficult. There's many resources I need that I simply cannot access. I will be aligned with an institution again soon when I start my postdoc (in a few months), but the journal editor wants the revised version before that. Advice?

Can I interest you in a Trolley Parton?

the editing is SLOW, but it is finally HAPPENING

I don't suppose anybody has access to this article and could share a PDF with me? I've lost my UoM library access now, and I'm a few months off the postdoc starting... Ezedike (2018) "Ratiocentrism, Intrinsic Value, and the Moral Status of the Nonhuman Natural World" www.pdcnet.org/enviroethics...

"Individual rescue is not enough. By building an animal-friendly infrastructure, we can embed compassion for animals into the basic structures of our shared society." My latest, on how cities can build a better infrastructure for humans, animals, and the environment, today at @latimes.com.

step 1. make more tea step 2. acquire chocolate step 3. open the work and stare blankly at it step 4. climb into bed with cat and hide from the world under many fluffy blankets

the deadlines are a'comin', and the motivation is a'lackin'

📣Conference alert📣 Rethinking Wild Europe, University of Vienna With keynote speakers @monicavasile.bsky.social and @martindrenthen.bsky.social! I'll also give a talk on wildlife representation 🤓 Come join if you're around! cetep.eu/rethinking-w... #PhilSky #Environment #Biodiversity #Animals

More info about my book, _The Land Is Our Community: Aldo Leopold’s Environmental Ethic for the New Millennium_, is in the link below, with links to download for free (open access) or purchase physical copies.

Us prepping for the soon-to-exist Ethics for the Everyday podcast. It's more work than we thought, but we promise we will exist soon!!!

I spoke to tech magazine IEEE Spectrum about why we should fear the creation of ambiguously sentient AI. spectrum.ieee.org/sentient-ai

Sorry to break it to you, but the number of tabs you have open is not a reliable indicator of the depth and significance of your research.

A new substantive revision of my Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry "Thick Ethical Concepts" is now live. #philsky plato.stanford.edu/entries/thic...

Welcome to the Society for the Psychology of Human Animal Intergroup Relations (PHAIR) BlueSky page! 💙 Here we aim to advance and promote scientific research on moral and social psychology, diet and health, human-animal relationships, sustainability and environmental psychology. 🌱 phairsociety.org

This is an aspect of The Iliad that I had never picked up on in my former life as a Classicist. Really enjoyable read. theconversation.com/the-heroes-o...

When it comes to climate change, why can’t the answer always be ‘no’? Surely, the problems we have are because the answer has been ‘yes’ far, far too often? Surprising that they have the courage to say no to pensioners & Waspi women but not to an airport company.

Sure, a bribe is a kind of transaction, but it’s not a morally neutral one. The kinds of transactions Trump does are tainted - they’re forms of corruption & extortion. It's disappointing that public figures are too frightened to describe the reality & stick to neutral terms.

I keep reading and hearing that political leaders and analysts should understand Trump’s behaviour as transactional. The word you’re looking for is ‘corrupt’.

Judith Renner is convening a panel on animals in international relations at this year's @europeanisa.bsky.social conference in August. This is a important and sadly overlooked topic; I won't be able to make it, but I encourage people to submit! eisa-net.org/section-list/

Having a sort of "stress-comedown" where I just feel mentally exhausted and can't focus on anything at all. So, that's unhelpful.

Two stages of writing: 1) This shouldn't take too long 2) Oh no

When it comes to animals, the term "invasive species" and its corresponding narrative seems ethically uninformed and inconsistent, and in the hands of some, aggressive, emotional and hypocritical. Am I wrong? Is there anything to be said for its ethical basis?

I must belatedly express my gratitude to the organisers of last week's "Political Theory, Applied Ethics, and Animals Conference" at Sheffield - that was without a doubt the most enjoyable and interesting philosophy conference I have ever attended. I was genuinely gutted to leave!

I wish I was less verbose. Every time I write, it is a huge word salad.

How many cups of tea is too many cups of tea within a 1 hour time period? Asking for a friend...

New article academic.oup.com/oocc/article... transformations in global food systems needs #education, public information campaigns, removal of #subsidies, #taxation to account for externalized costs of #animal #agriculture #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #ClimateActionNow @climateoxford.bsky.social

Super excited to be attending, and speaking, at the Political Theory, Applied Ethics, and Animals Conference at Sheffield University later this week! 🤓⚖️🐋 (philevents.org/event/show/1...)

All animal farming carries welfare risks, but you amplify the risks when you start farming dozens of species without attending to their diversity. A nice summary of recent work by my colleagues Becca Franks and Chiawen Chiang on aquaculture at Faunalytics.

Still feeling very poorly with this latest, seemingly never-ending, biliary attack, but trying to persevere and write my talk for a conference next week.