@neilmcdonnell.bsky.social - this could be interesting to you, if you haven’t seen already.
07.10.2025 08:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This is fascinating research - recreating environments destroyed by disasters in VR to allow community healing and memory.
But also there are emotional risks of VR here too. Presenting post-disaster ruins was sometimes distressing, as I’ve explained how VR often can be: doi.org/10.1080/0004...
07.10.2025 08:41 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Scholarships for dyslexic postgraduate students working in #Classics, #Philosophy, and #ArtHistory. Please share widely!
#dyslexiaawareness #researchgrants
06.10.2025 08:20 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime'
Video appears to show two people in balaclavas at the mosque before a large blaze spreads.
Two people in balaclavas torched a mosque in Peacehaven, East Sussex. This is not far from where I live.
Fascists are in an open war with Muslims and people of colour in the UK.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
05.10.2025 08:57 — 👍 426 🔁 238 💬 2 📌 18
And there we have it. The Tories and #REFUK competing over who can be the most Trump-like. A pathetic and self-defeating race to the bottom. #BrexitReality #BrexitBrokeBritain
04.10.2025 22:01 — 👍 16 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
This is becoming a worrying trend as relationship advice is now marketised and monetised by big tech.
And difficult to foresee the longer term social impact of increased AI use in dating/relationships on how we trust, talk to, and relate to others.
@clsrleeds.bsky.social
@ethicaldating.bsky.social
04.10.2025 16:07 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
So much to mourn here. ICE shot and killed a single father just after he has dropped his two kids off at daycare. Their justification for stopping him was traffic violations form 12 years ago. Their justification for shooting him was that he was driving away.
A completely needless tragedy.
04.10.2025 02:22 — 👍 1241 🔁 583 💬 14 📌 21
Spent the afternoon reading this fantastic article!
Would highly recommend, especially to anyone interested in how we view the colonial past, social narratives, the ethics of attention, and epistemic injustice.
02.10.2025 14:14 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Gandhi statue in Parliament Square, London. (Prioryman CC-BY-SA 4.0.)
For years I got Gandhi (who is 156 today, the International Day of Non-Violence) backwards. I thought he developed nonviolent methods to end British rule, but this gets the ends and means the wrong way round. It's rather that he had to end British rule to make space for nonviolence. (1/8)
02.10.2025 08:24 — 👍 56 🔁 15 💬 2 📌 3
OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this
30.09.2025 23:24 — 👍 10806 🔁 3297 💬 220 📌 596
Some rare good news!
30.09.2025 09:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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29.09.2025 13:50 — 👍 94 🔁 58 💬 5 📌 3
Meat is a leading emissions source – but few outlets report on it, analysis finds
Sentient Media reveals less than 4% of climate news stories mention animal agriculture as source of carbon emissions
"Today, we clear a soccer field’s worth of tropical forest every six seconds, a loss dramatically worsened by humanity’s growing hunger for meat"
Wean ourselves off meat now, or the switch to a Pliocene climate that's locked in will do it for us
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
27.09.2025 11:53 — 👍 319 🔁 164 💬 18 📌 16
New paper accepted!🎉
Is Taylor Swift responsible for how she makes her fans feel?
Yes; the notion of affective power (the ability to influence how others feel) can help identify the responsibilities celebrities have towards their fans.
w/ G.Mills & @alfredarcher.bsky.social
Preprint ⬇️
26.09.2025 13:42 — 👍 23 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0
How the government's new digital ID will work
And why I've changed my mind on ID cards
How the government's new digital ID will work… and why I’ve changed my mind on ID cards (FREE TO READ!)
takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/how-the-uk...
26.09.2025 05:35 — 👍 120 🔁 54 💬 31 📌 29
The same old lie that the Billionaires tell us. A picture with two panels: in the top one, a brown man in a grey t-shirt, a white man with a construction helmet and reflective vest, and an older man in a suit are sitting around a table. The brown man has nothing; the white man who looks like a construction worker has a plate with one cookie on it; the old man in a suit has a large plate with a pile of cookies. The man in the suit points to the brown man and says to the white man, "Careful buddy, that foreigner wants your cookie." A caption states the year is 1982.
In the bottom panel is the same picture, except it is now the year 2025 and the man in the suit is now behind a humongous pile of cookies. He is still saying to the worker, "Careful buddy, that foreigner wants your cookie."
Some things never change.
25.09.2025 07:41 — 👍 114 🔁 20 💬 4 📌 1
Inside the Tony Blair Institute
A former PM, Trump's 'CEO of everything' and NHS data - what could go wrong?
🔴 NEW: Larry Ellison’s £257m bet on Tony Blair
Our investigation with @lighthousereports.com reveals how the Tony Blair Institute has been accused of pushing the interests of tech tycoon Ellison — Trump’s “CEO of everything” — and his company Oracle
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-the...
24.09.2025 11:12 — 👍 129 🔁 111 💬 9 📌 17
Sad but true - tried it last night. Enshittification of video games in action…
23.09.2025 12:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This is *stunningly* disingenuous, and the fact that Singal continues to enjoy a career writing at the highest levels about a topic that he either unwilling or incapable of discussing honestly is such an indictment of the Anglo-American prestige media.
23.09.2025 00:44 — 👍 2070 🔁 617 💬 19 📌 20
The Ethics of Cultural Heritage (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
My revised and expanded entry on the Ethics of Cultural Heritage is now live in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy! Appropriation, repatriation, monuments, and more, as well as a new section on the nascent aesthetic injustice literature. #philsky
plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethi...
23.09.2025 00:05 — 👍 25 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
Thank god (and Dave Chalmers and David Bourget) for philpapers!! Long may its funding model be sustainable.
20.09.2025 04:34 — 👍 13 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Folks, get off of Academia[.]edu. Delete your accounts. Put your work on a faculty webpage, on hcommons, on your own webpage. But not on Academia[.]edu.
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19.09.2025 16:23 — 👍 19 🔁 19 💬 2 📌 3
Demilitarise Education | dED
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
18.09.2025 19:33 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
News – Debates in Aesthetics
📣 CFP – DEBATES IN AESTHETICS GENERAL ISSUE 📣 We are currently accepting articles (3,000-3,500 words) on any topic in philosophical aesthetics, proposals for interviews with people working in aesthetics (500 words), and book reviews (1,000-1,500) words. debatesinaesthetics.org/news/ #philsky
10.09.2025 16:36 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Philosophy professor at University of Leeds. Metaethics | academic life | "a satisficer with really high standards" (said by a colleague, fairly) | servant to a cat | vegan (non-preachy) | runs a fair bit | listens to a lot of music. https://vayrynen.org
Everyday ethics with the experts, from IDEA, The Ethics Centre at the University of Leeds (@idea-leeds.bsky.social).
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PhD candidate in Sociology @University of Cambridge | researching intimacy, culture, and inequality | https://simone-schneider.github.io
Professor, LSE. Philosophy of science, animal consciousness, animal ethics. Director of The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience.
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Representing Professional Philosophers in the UK - www.bpa.ac.uk.
Happily confused.
Studying philosophy (action and ethics via emotion & reflex--having reasons without being able to give reasons) at FSU.
PhD student in philosophy at the University of Staffordshire. Heidegger, analytic ethics (trust and mistrust), philosophy of tech/AI. Marylander. MA Staffs, MBA Duke. Wittgenstein and Cantor handshake numbers = 3 (via John Conway).
When the Stranger says: "what is the meaning of this city? Do you huddle close together because you love each other?" How will you answer? "We all dwell together to make money from each other"? Or "This is a community"?
Philosopher at The American College of Greece | Epistemology; Virtue Ethics; Philosophy of Education.
https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=kDFGLJoAAAAJ&hl=en
Practical Philosophy,
Tottenham Hotspur, silly nonsense (with overlap).
https://philpeople.org/profiles/guy-fletcher
Philosopher at University of Aberdeen
Website: https://stephantorre.com/
"Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes." -Cher
School of Philosophy, Religion, and History of Science at The University of Leeds.
Info for current and prospective students and researchers.
An avid reader and sometime writer. Schmitt and the Middle East book due out in 2025.
Link to my substack :) https://theorymatters.substack.com/
Kentuckian | Adventurist | Learning Addict | Communicologist | Amateur zoologist |Professor at Ohio State
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The BJA is a quarterly journal and among the world's leading venues for philosophical aesthetics. It is run by the British Society of Aesthetics and published by OUP.
