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Upcoming NIHR RSS online session: Qualitative health research involving children - ethical and methodological considerations

🗓12 Jan 26 🕥 10.30 – 11.30

Register to attend: forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Hi Elise, we moved platforms last week. I will dm you the info

Assistant Professor in Philosophy of the Life Sciences Are you seeking a challenging role in a nurturing and collegial setting that supports rigorous philosophical teaching and research as well as opportunities for productive collaborations with social an...

Philosophy group at Wageningen University is hiring an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy of the Life Sciences. Position is in the Philosophy (PHI) group led by @rachelankeny.bsky.social Deadline is 12 January 2026
www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/a...
#philsci #philjobs #philsky #hpbio

Policy impact undervalued by universities, say social scientists Lack of career rewards for impact and institutional focus on publication metrics highlighted in Sage survey

Barely a third of social scientists believe their university would promote them based on the strength of their research impact, a global poll of researchers has found. @jgro-the.bsky.social reports #academicsky
https://ow.ly/yj7V50XGiar

Come work with us! We are looking for a postdoc in #philbio or #philphysics to work on an interdisciplinary project that adopts the lens of self-organization & active matter to explore the boundary between living & nonliving systems www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... #academicsky #philjobs #HPS #evosky

Adversarial peer review - gatekeeping against "junk science" that would "pollute" the precious literature.

Constructive peer review - a more collaborative approach aimed at improving authors' work.

Thread on how the adversarial approach prompts defensive strategies in authors...

PhD defended! My thesis asks why, in 2025, we still explain housing crises, border regimes and climate breakdown through “overpopulation” – even when the evidence points to extraction, speculation and colonial histories instead.

Harry Griffiths (Bangor) on anti-fascism in South Wales and the North West of England My PhD research examines the development of anti-fascist activism within industrial communities in twentieth-century Britain. It explores localised anti-fascist movements and how factors such as cl…

We supported Harry Griffiths with a research bursary. His report is on our website 👇
sslh.org.uk/2025/11/27/h...

Great book launch at the Marx Memorial Library yesterday for Henry Dee’s ‘Militant Migrants: Clements Kadalie, the ICU and the Mass Movement of Black Workers in Southern Africa’. Dee pictured right; beside him is Dr Wayne Dooling of SOAS, who kindly acted as discussant sslh.org.uk/2025/11/04/m...

Yup - scribbles on paper rule.

In Innsbruck for the talk tomorrow. It’s cold - am glad I covered up. The Alps ranges are snow capped in the background. There are Christmas markets.
Come if you around tomorrow.

www.uibk.ac.at/en/peacestud...

Attempts at fixing gender equality at leadership level all tell us to adopt behaviours largely exhibited by men to ‘get there’: be more assertive& ambitious, less humble, sensitive & reflective etc. They don’t tell men to adopt any of our dominant behaviours. This messaging is in itself patriarchal.

Very pleased to be giving keynote: ‘Duties to Posterity and the “Me Generation”’ at the KCL Public Policy Graduate Conference on Nov 26th.

kclppe4pp.github.io

American humanist James Baldwin speaking at the University of Cambridge in 1965. His words on racism still resonate today. An incredible piece of #HumanistHeritage. A true 'pin drop' speech. No one said it quite like Baldwin. #BlackHumanism.

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

Honoured to receive the 2025 Brian Barry Prize in Political Science. My essay reconstructs and evaluates state anxiety about civil disobedience, and reflects on how political philosophy can reflect and align with such anxiety.

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/prizes-medal...

#philsky #polisky #polsci 🗺️

A little positivity posting for once in my life: I am actually having a lot of fun being a postdoc. All this time to just think about research and do research…FINALLY! 🥳

PhD: Diet Stress and Brain Health - DEMENTIA RESEARCHER University of Birmingham PhD on dietary polyphenols, stress and brain health, exploring effects on cognition, mood, vascular and cerebral function.

University of Birmingham PhD on dietary polyphenols, stress and brain health, exploring effects on cognition, mood, vascular and cerebral function. Closing date: 30th November

www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/phd-diet...

Changing The Record How has paperwork served over time as a radical tool for empowerment and change?

How has paperwork served as a tool of empowerment for people who often find power elusive?

In our latest podcast, a group of historians, archivists, and activists met at the Raphael Samuel History Centre (@rshc.bsky.social) to discuss the hidden history of paperwork 🗃️🎙️

Imagining a Future City: Visual Assembly in Vienna The Visual Assemblies are coming to Austria! On Saturday October 4, 10:00 - 12:00, Barış Eser will facilitate a Visual Asesmbly. We will imagine, discuss

This Saturday, we will be doing a Visual Assembly in Vienna, Austria.

We will imagine, discuss and draw cities of the future and it is free to join.

For more info and to register, click here: museum.care/events/imagi...

Resources Review Editor needed for Practice

Resources Review Editor sought for Practice: Social Work in Action journal.

Want to build your own networks, develop and promote the research in your field, and be recognised as a leading figure within the academic community?

Read on: think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...

Very sad to hear of the passing of social worker and activist Angi Naylor, who gave so much of herself, her humour, her unforgettable character, her time and energy to standing up for people and supporting others whenever and wherever she could. Rest well Angi xxx

Very sad indeed. In ever loving solidarity with one of social work's best. Life was richer with Angi in it.

Oxford becomes first UK university to offer ChatGPT Edu to all staff OpenAI’s flagship GPT-5 model will be provided across the University and Oxford Colleges through ChatGPT Edu, a version of ChatGPT built for universities that includes enterprise-level security and

"Oxford becomes first UK university to offer ChatGPT Edu to all staff and students" - imagining a lot of staff there pretty upset about, but also it says much about OpenAI's education strategy that it's targeted Oxford as its first institutional capture in the UK www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-09...

Naming and Classifying cfp final CFP: Naming and Classifying in the Long Eighteenth Century Whereas “the nineteenth century can be seen as the century of counting and measuring,” the eighteenth century can be seen as the century of ...

Hello #academicsky! I'm sharing a cfp for an edited collection on "Naming & Classifying," pulled together by me, Kristin Girten, & @aaronrhanlon.com . We'd love to see your work! Please also circulate to anyone you think might be interested. Deadline 10/31. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

The #Carnival4David will take place tomorrow.

Come along if you are in London. Radical Optimism is all you need to bring along.

Reading is just teleporting, but quietly.

Here’s the page you need if you want to join the class action:

www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

And the Authors Guild statement on who may be eligible for a part of the settlement:

authorsguild.org/news/what-au...

Looking forward to participating in this workshop. I’ll be talking about whether there’s a human right to participate in science.

Including translations of my books I seem to have more than a dozen books here. I hate filling in web forms but maybe I’ll make an exception this time.