In a fantastic talk this morning on the history of race by @msimang.bsky.social
31.07.2025 07:59 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@furmank.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer, Philosophy, University of Liverpool
In a fantastic talk this morning on the history of race by @msimang.bsky.social
31.07.2025 07:59 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Universities in England at risk of long-term decline, says British Academy - on.ft.com/3U2yymV via @FT
16.07.2025 05:59 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Job Opening at the Chair of Philosophy and History of Science and Technology at TUM! Research Fellow for 3 years (renewable). Preferably philosopher w interest in plant, crop & agricultural research (& their history and social studies)
All details: www.sts.sot.tum.de/en/sts/arbei... #philsci #sts
Ya know it is troubling times in academia when a student writes to say that they loved a module you taught and they "hope it will still happen again next year". Oof.
04.07.2025 13:46 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I just wanna say "friends, you can literally save lives. I can maybe put together a well constructed argument, if I am having a very good day"
27.06.2025 14:56 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This week I was part of an excellent health communication event @britishacademy.bsky.social.
In a previous life, I interviewed doctors in South Africa & developed strong medic envy. The feeling was "nobody needs a philosopher, everyone needs a doctor".
The BA event has reignited the medic envy
"Life expectancy is dropping in poorer communities. This is virtually unheard of". π―
At a health communication event at the British Academy.
Internet friends. I need recommendations for novels set in Dakar. Thanks!
23.06.2025 18:05 β π 2 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0The QS rankings are out, and it's not good news for UK universities (60% of which have dropped in the rankings). Part of this is of course simply due to Asia's investment in its universities. Then there's the bit that reflects the UK's HEI divestment. Link: www.topuniversities.com/world-univer...
19.06.2025 05:31 β π 17 π 10 π¬ 1 π 1I am so glad to see that this has finally come out!
"Towards a Theory of Objectivity for Activist Research"
Nancy Cartwright, Samuel Foglesong, Katherine Furman, Byron Hyde, Gabriel Nyberg, Karina Ortiz Villa, Helena Slanickova
upmonographs.up.ac.za/index.php/ES...
May he rest in power.
His work has been such an enormous influence on me.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
I guess I have to give up my Labour Party membership. I am one of the "strangers" they would prefer not to have around.
14.05.2025 05:53 β π 8 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Book cover with sculpture made out of yellow lego
She lives! My book published by @manchesterup.bsky.social βWomenβs Troubles: Gender and Feminist Politics in Northern Ireland.β Cover image kindly provided by @frecklescorp.bsky.social of her work βThe Slapperβ www.emmacampbell.co.uk/emma-campbell @livunipol.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social
01.05.2025 11:53 β π 59 π 25 π¬ 11 π 1I have said it before. I will say it again. When is government going to step in? Where are the vice chancellors in this?
www.ft.com/content/7514...
We are organising a multidisciplinary workshop on pseudoscience in working life. If the topic interests you, please consider submitting an abstract!
blogs.helsinki.fi/pseudoscienc...
Me, this morning: "what do you think of my teaching outfit for today? I am going for Dolly Parton in the late 80s, early 90s."
Partner: "Sure... That's a choice"
I would love to see this curriculum. It is my dream to make my Business Ethics module into a Philosophy of Work module.
07.03.2025 10:17 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Proof that I am not the only one who can't get over Thabo Mbeki. Especially now.
Thanks @stheobald.bsky.social for sharing this with me.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/o...
Just curious. If I wrote a little blog post about the history of Structural Adjustment Programs in Africa, the defunding of education, & its long-term consequences, would anyone read that?
Obviously it would be just a little history piece π. Not at all relevant to any other time or place π
Southern African colleagues. Do you have a student who might be interested in doing a Master's degree in Durham, England?
If so, applications have opened for the Ruth First Scholarship. Deadline for applications is 31 March
ruthfirsttrust.webspace.durham.ac.uk/how-to-apply/
Fascinating case of scientific misconduct, indigenous communities, and scarce specimens. This brings together philosophical considerations of scientific responsibilities to communities, and issues related to the special status of scarce specimens.
www.science.org/content/arti...
Tell us you want foreign student money but not foreign students without telling us you want foreign student money but not foreign students www.theguardian.com/education/20...
07.02.2025 18:22 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Ebola Sudan outbreak in Uganda grows to 7 cases www.cidrap.umn.edu/ebola/ebola-...
06.02.2025 21:04 β π 14 π 8 π¬ 1 π 0A rare and wonderful sight of a great UK philosophy job. Please spread widely to colleagues worldwide.
Area of Specialization: Ethics and/or Political Philosophy
Would be an advantage to be able to teach Ethics of AI
Tenure-track
Application deadline: 10th March 2025
#philsky
Thank you Cambridge. You really know how to show a girl a good time π
30.01.2025 20:55 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It says a lot about the current funding crisis affecting UK universities when Wales' biggest university proposes to close its Nursing course to save money, at a time when the NHS is desperate for more nurses.
28.01.2025 16:30 β π 78 π 39 π¬ 4 π 2We are going to get a government statement about all of this soon? Right?
www.bbc.com/news/article...
How do we keep going while the sector is in free fall?
www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...
First day of new term. I was teaching my favourite class (Philosophy and Public Policy) and a student told me she is taking this course because a student from 2 yrs ago recommended it to her.
I have died of joy. β€οΈβ€οΈβ€οΈ Please send flowers to my cats who will be facing a difficult time in my absence.
This shooting happened just around the corner from my gran's house (where I spent much of my childhood) & was almost certainly the apartheid govt attacking its own people to solidify racism in the transition to democracy. More than 30 years later the inquest is today.
www.enca.com/news-top-sto...