Great conversation with Tareeq Jalloh available now!

Should pornography be authentic? Some people think so, and partly because they think this would make it better ethically rather than just, well, better. Rosa Vince disagrees!

oh good. I'm so glad our overlords have invested in this definitely robust and reliable tool. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

Our PhD programme is in the top 10 for overall PhD programme & top 10 for climate in the latest APDA graduate programme survey! Sheffield is the only UK uni to appear in the top 10 for overall PhD programme &one of only two UK unis to appear in the top 10 for climate. apda.ghost.io/2026-data-up...

Call for abstracts for this great looking conference from the European Moral Responsibility Consortium (EMRC). salzburgethics.com/emrc-confere... Deadline for abstracts March 15th! #philsky #philosophy

Went to Cardiff to give a talk on functionalist accounts of praise and the feedback and discussion was absolutely brilliant. I'm happily writing it up now. Lovely to see @nonamename.bsky.social, @jonathanwebber.bsky.social and others! #philsky #philosophy

Last Fri we went to York for an awards event for infant feeding and our work on gender inclusion got recognised alongside a bunch of other amazing stuff folks are doing. @fionawoollard.bsky.social @matthewjcull.bsky.social #philosophy #philsky #philosophymatters

Congrats Tareeq! This is awesome news, and an awesome paper :)

And here's a further reading rec: I reviewed Maitra &McWeeny's edited volume on Feminist Philosophy of Mind, which is awesome. So many provoking and exciting chapters, fruitful exchanges and disagreements! Check it out! academic.oup.com/mind/advance...

If you're looking for guidance on holiday reading... Jess Isserow has written a fab review of my book! As well as giving a good overview of the book itself, it is also a fun read. The critical points are fair and well taken! Thanks Jess! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

Reminding White Rose Philosophy folk (Sheff, Leeds, York): a week til deadline for submitting abstracts for the second network event, to be held in Sheffield, Dec 18! Funds available to support attendance. Details (how to submit, how to register) here: engagedphilosophy.org/2025/09/19/c... #philsky

Today! Giving these thoughts a whirl at Milan Statale, where I've been enjoying being visiting fellow since September #philsky #philosophy

Today! At Uni San Raffaele, I get to discuss the functions of oppressive praise with the fab Milanese philosophers! #philsky #philosophy

Than to the connecting power of #philsky, I'm delighted to be zooming into a reading group session on my book Oppressive Praise tomorrow with @paranoidaquinoid.bsky.social !

This is very exciting! I feel honoured to be alongside such other fantastic authors! #philsky

UK-based academic fed up of our sector's involvement in research and production of weapons that get used to kill innocent civilians? Here's a petition for you: ded1.co/how-we-do-it... #Philosophy #Philsky

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Incredible scenes in Genoa, Italy as 50,000 people join a procession to bid farewell to the boats joining the Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza. Over 50 boats from 44 countries, loaded with 100s of tons of food aid, have set sail to Gaza to attempt to break the Israeli siege. (📸 Hidden Palestine)

I'm happy to have our paper included in this cluster of papers in Hypatia about birth and inclusion! @matthewjcull.bsky.social @fionawoollard.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #Philsky #philosophy

Job opp, tight deadline... #philsky #philosophy

Honoured and excited to have my book, Oppressive Praise, on this longlist! royalinstitutephilosophy.org/news/longlis... #philosophy #philsky

This was a fun thing to do: Marshal Zeringue's page 99 test. Does page 99 give a good sense of my book as a whole? Read here to find out! page99test.blogspot.com/2025/07/jule... #philosophy #philsky

In London for the British Academy conference* on the Ethics of Health Communication, talking about our (Fiona Woollard, Matt Cull) project on inclusion in perinatal & postnatal care! *organised by my fab colleague Ben Davies! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/briti... #philsky #Philosophy

Registration for BSET is now live. And what a line up! sites.google.com/view/british... Thanks to the support of the Analysis Trust, BSET can offer bursaries for graduate and underwaged philosophers seeking to attend. #Philosophy #Philsky

Update: now 6 books in Philosophy from Sheffield Philosophers to hear about (this is the first of two events - another in autumn about other colleagues' new books too!) engagedphilosophy.org/2025/05/16/n...

Philosophy job at Sheffield! 22 months at 0.5FTE. jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Teaching...

New Books in Philosophy from Sheffield Philosophers! Books in epistemology, metaethics, philosophy of religion, moral and social philosophy! Date: 16th June, 4.30-5.30pm John Carr Library, Frederick Mappin Building. #philsky #philosophy

‪Registration is open for this super BA conference on the Ethics of Health Communication, organised by my brilliant colleague Ben Davies. www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/briti... I'll be there speaking about our project on trans inclusive perinatal care. #philsky #philosophy

This is the first of two adverts for postdocs on a project I'm involved in with Laura Gow and Thomas Raleigh. This one will be based in Luxembourg; the other will be based in Liverpool and will be advertised soon. Please share with anyone who might be interested. recruitment.uni.lu/en/details.h...

Looking forward to this conference on Positive Moral Philosophy at the end of May. I will be zooming in, and others can too! sites.google.com/georgetown.e...

Dismal (and confused) news from the supreme court in the UK, so a good time to emphasise the trans-inclusive philosophy and learning environments we try to cultivate at Sheffield. engagedphilosophy.org/2025/04/17/t... #philsky #academicsky #philosophymatters

A fundraiser has been launched to help pay for the legal expenses of the philosophy major taken by ICE earlier this week, and the Columbia Department of Philosophy has issued a statement about the situation and calling for the university to help him.

It exists in physical form! #philsky #academicsky

Lucky to be at this great workshop on standing (to blame, to praise, to...?), and learning a lot. Today I'll be discussing my recent work on receiving praise, and also commenting on Hannah Tierney's work on meddlesome blame. ps.au.dk/cepdisc/arra... #philsky, #philofortnight2025, #philosophymatters

Komarine Romdenh-Romluc, who I have the great fortune to be colleagues with at Sheffield, on In Our Time this morning, on Maurice Merleau-Ponty. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... #philsky #philofortnight #philosophymatters

The annual Women in the History of Philosophy lecture at Sheffield is this week! Julia Borcherding on ‘Towards a New History of Philosophy? Early Modern Women Philosophers and the Canon: A Case Study'. 28/03/2025, 2:30-4:30pm, Diamond LT2. #philsky #philofortnight2025 #philosophymatters

Brilliant to see ex-Sheffield PhD (now Manchester-based post-doc!) Tareeq Jalloh at this BPA/IP event talking about his work on philosophy and drill! #philosophymatters #philoforthnight2025 www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

I was having such an interesting time, I forgot to post about my fun time discussing using things to express praise with the QUB political theory group on friday! #philoFortnight2025, #philosophymatters, #philsky

Understanding Value XIII The annual Sheffield postgraduate conference has a live CFA here, including call for contributions to a MAP panel on healthcare injustices. More details here! understandingvalue.weebly.com/cfa.html #academicsky #philsky

Yesterday, we read @julesholroyd.bsky.social 'Oppressive Praise' and today @jeppsson.bsky.social and Daphne Brandenburg's 'Patronising Praise', and praise will never be the same again #philsky

3 year post in Philosophy at Sheffield! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMH928/l... (post with added # for greater visibility...) #academicsky #philsky

3 year post in Philosophy at Sheffield! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMH928/l...

Woah, my book is published! Available online! Please read it! Or at least get your library to order it, or maybe download some PDF chapters with good intentions... :) academic.oup.com/book/59557 #academicsky #philsky

A Centre for Engaged Philosophy Workshop on Praise & Commemoration, 19th May, Sheffield. Details & registration here: engagedphilosophy.org/2025/03/10/w... Support with costs of attendance available thanks to support from Society for Applied Philosophy. Please share widely! #academicsky #philsky

On way to Glasgow to the Philosophy senior research seminar, where I'll be presenting recent work on norms of receiving praise. Looking forward to discussion! www.gla.ac.uk/schools/huma...

Upcoming workshop w. @fionawoollard.bsky.social and @matthewjcull.bsky.social on our 'toolbox' approach to inclusive language (focus on peri/postnatal care). 10th March. please share with your networks! Details on this basic flyer! docs.google.com/presentation... #academicsky #philsky

Submit a paper for the LSExSWIP 2025 Conference in Feminist and Gender Theory: ‘What’s Next for Feminism?’. Deadline for abstracts March 1, conference May 29-30. Organized by our great PhDs Julia Costet and Nadia Ma @lsegovernment.bsky.social @lsepoltheory.bsky.social philevents.org/event/show/1...

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Here's the research paper with @matthewjcull.bsky.social and @fionawoollard.bsky.social that takes applied philosophy of language to gender inclusion in pregnancy and birth and shows how it CAN be done well. You just need a toolbox of linguistic strategies! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...