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The Max Planck #PostdocProgram offers top emerging talents a range of attractive measures and opportunities. The current call for applications is open from March 1st until April 13th, 2026. Please share or consider applying! 🙏
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🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.

This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.

Please spread the word.

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A new paper co-authored by Centre researcher Dale Leorke rethinks the university library beyond the repository.

If the library is still the “heart of the campus”, what does it now embody?

doi.org/10.1080/0307...

Last novel I thoroughly enjoyed reading was Disorientation by @elainehsiehchou.bsky.social

Whatever the context, this is an eternal and undeniable truth:

A reminder of what some of these asylum policies are:

- giving refugees only 2.5 years of leave, meaning the Home Office has to review their status every 30 months
- quadrupling the time to settlement from 5 years to 20 years
- no automatic way to be reunited with close family members

This 'correction' from @lewisgoodall.com regarding accusations from Reform and the Conservatives that the Greens engaged in sectarianism, deserves to be widely read.

#c4news

Wrote up the by-election, the Green victory and the conferences for Labour at the @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...

This is massive, and disgraceful. No organisation called “Tactical Choice” appears to exist.

I'm hiring again!!
Two Postdocs in Philosophy of Mind (one ot two years), Centre for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp

- to work with me!

Deadline: March 20, 2026

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Reading these two stories today has really made me think of Terminator's Skynet.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Ways of World Knowing: Local Knowledge, Coastal Communities, and Equitable Ocean Governance Abstract. This collection of cross-disciplinary chapters by philosophers, legal scholars, and marine scientists explore the epistemic value of varieties of

Our co-edited volume with @abbeaberdeen.bsky.social and Marcel Jaspars is out: academic.oup.com/book/62270#l... (hardback to follow). Our ch 2 is OA academic.oup.com/book/62270/c.... We discuss how to better integrate local knowledge into ocean governance esp #BBNJ implementation.

Applications are now open for 2 PhD scholarships on the “The Diversity and Variability of Grief” at Macquarie University, Sydney. 1/3 www.mq.edu.au/research/phd...

I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me. I'm calm. I'm calm. I promise.

The machine in its quest to sound authoritative ended up sounding like a KCPE graduate who scored an 'A' in English Composition. It accidentally replicated the linguistic ghost of the British Empire.
marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-... HT @timblackwell.bsky.social @greyskiesthinking.bsky.social

I just pre-ordered this. Very much looking to reading it. It sounds fascinating, and very timely.

Registration open 🎉

MEEP – Heidelberg Summer School on Memory and Sleep

www.zi-mannheim.de/forschung/ab...

Congratulations, Nicolás 🎉 This was a particularly competitive round, so it is a massive achievement.

Self by Adrian J. T. Alsmith: https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.efd6ccc3

Stop Palantir taking over our public services! Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.

Nearly 100k people have joined our call to get dangerous US spy tech firm out of our NHS.

Palantir's founder has called for the NHS to be ripped up. Now his company has access to millions of patient records.

Tell the government to end the contract!

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Day 2 of Affective Atmospheres began with a panel on Atmospheres & Decay.

Slides from Ruth Olden’s presentation — Everyday atmospheric encounters with the remnants of the 1938 Empire Exhibition, Bellahouston Park, Glasgow.

How do the traces of past spectacles linger in everyday life?

Now out in Philosophy & Technology!

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Cartoon. Person says to other person „We invented a robot that answers questions.“, adding, „we just have to feed it 10 baby giraffes a day“. The other person asks „But it answers the questions correctly?“ Person responds „Oh my goodness, no. No no no no no.“ By Aram J. French Appropriated due to missing alt text

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

Philosophy in prisons helps people think differently. 💡🔓

Please donate to support our Prisons Programme, or follow us to keep up-to-date with our work. 🙏

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Introducing “Pretend Battleship”: you’re told where all the ships are but then have to play like you never got that information. Could you do it? And what would your performance reveal about your understanding of your own mind? A joy to be part of this creative project led by @matanmazor.bsky.social

If you’ve been vaguely worried but unsure how to talk about the kidnappings happening all around us, this might help.

Something compelled me to make this

AcademicSky:

Does your department have an AI policy or formal AI guidance? If so, would you mind sharing a link?

We are putting something together and it’d be great to get a feel for what others are doing.

If you feel inclined to repost this, please do!

My article on Japanese ethics is out @aeonmag!: The Japanese ethics of ‘ningen’ dethrones the Western self – aeon.co/essays/the-j...
Special thanks to Philosophy Bites for very thoughtful editorial suggestions and intellectual support for Japanese & Africana philosophy!

lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · 49m I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated. Quote lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Jan 25 Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.

INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.