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💫 The Local Bereavement Development Grants 2025 are now open! These grants support local collaboration in bereavement care. 🌿

Apply here 👉 https://hospicefoundation.ie/our-supports-services/bereavement-loss-hub/i-work-in-bereavement/local-bereavement-development-grants/

Reminder: The APA is accepting submissions for the 2026 David Baumgardt Memorial Fellowship. The fellowship, in the amount of $10,000, is for the support and dissemination of research in the field of ethics. Deadline: October 30. Learn more: www.apaonline.org/baumgardt

🧠 NEW Hastings Special Report is out now!

Living with Dementia: Learning from Cultural Narratives of Aging Societies

Explore how diverse cultures understand and respond to dementia in aging populations — and what we can learn from them.

📖: https://bit.ly/46JUFW2

Agree, frustrating!!

Cobblestone pathway leading to the red-brick Institute of Philosophy building at KU Leuven in Belgium (home of the Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science), framed by ivy-covered walls, arched windows, and lush greenery with purple wisteria flowers in the foreground.

Hello, #AcademicSky! We are the Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) at KU Leuven. Our senior and junior researchers focus on #logic, #epistemology & #philsci. We’re here to share our work and connect with logicians and philosophers of science worldwide—help us spread the word! #philsky

YouTube video by Society for the Study of Pregnancy and Birth Annu Dahiya - "Feminist Philosophy and the Origins of Life"

The Society for the Study of #Pregnancy and #Birth (SSPRB) is pleased to present its 2025 Virtual Symposium talk delivered by Dr. Annu Dahiya, a feminist theorist and doctoral lecturer of philosophy and interdisciplinary studies at the City University of New York. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jrva...

Come join me @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social new BRES Program (hiring 2 senior profs) - cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...
#ASA2025

Informational graphic for the CUNY Immigration Assistance Project. It includes the CUNY and Citizenship Now! logos at the top. The flyer announces a rapid response legal resource for CUNY students and employees, offering attorney assistance with international or domestic travel issues, loss or change of immigration status, detention by law enforcement, and F-1 visa reinstatement. A "Learn More" call to action appears at the bottom with a link to cuny.edu/CIAP.

CUNY's new rapid response legal resource is now available for current students and employees who have been impacted by immigration policy changes, are facing issues traveling in and out of the country or have been detained by law enforcement. For more information, visit cuny.edu/CIAP.

Nothing beats it!🐶

Image of pregnant woman with a midwife. Text reads 'Midwifery models of care mean midwives are the main healthcare providers for women and babies in pregnancy, childbirth and the postnatal period. Invest in midwifery care.'

Today, WHO & partners launched new guidance to help expand access to trusted midwives for women & babies around the world.

Midwifery care is critical for saving lives, improving health, empowering women & families, and building #HopefulFutures for all. 🌟

Know more: bit.ly/4kShgEQ

🎨 FOUR DAYS TO GO 🎨
Creative #Dementia: Arts for Health and Wellbeing Conference
🗓️ June 3 • 📍 M Shed, Bristol

For anyone in care, research, or the arts—join us for:

✔️ Practical tools
✔️ Real examples
✔️ Focused, creative sessions

🎟️ Tickets: buff.ly/SEJEIp2
#CDAN2025

YouTube video by Hotel Bar Sessions podcast S13E181: What is Philosophy?

Episode 181 "What is Philosophy?" is now live on our YouTube channel!

(Be sure to hit "Like" and "Subscribe" while you're there!)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq4O...

Plan, Safeguard, Care: An Ethical Framework for Health Care Institutions Responding to Immigrant Enforcement Actions The framework below outlines three foundational ethical duties of health care institutions that can be enacted by leaders through policies, processes, and communication with their workforce: (1) the d...

You can read the Bioethics Forum essay "Plan, Safeguard, Care: An Ethical Framework for Health Care Institutions Responding to Immigrant Enforcement Actions" here:
www.thehastingscenter.org/plan-safegua...

Tips from a Librarian on Using JSTOR for Research - JSTOR Daily Follow these first steps toward success with your new research project.

Sure, anyone can run a keyword search on JSTOR—but do you know how to search smartly? This new @jstordaily.bsky.social article is here to make your research easier, sharper, and more focused: bit.ly/42SAfbs

Former college and university presidents: Higher education must do better, but politically driven government intervention is not the solution The Trump administration should halt its destructive attack on higher education—and establish a constructive dialogue.

“We call on the Trump administration to end the destructive attacks on colleges and universities” fortune.com/2025/04/08/c...

Looking for legal representation (employment discrimination/higher ed):

I’m a tenured professor who was terminated by Christian Brothers University in May 2024. I’ve received a Right to Sue letter (dated March 24, 2025).

My case is unusually well-documented. I have:

Again, today would be an excellent day for Ivy League, Big Ten, & all the other chancellors & university presidents to start speaking loudly & collectively against the all-out existential crisis that this assault on US higher ed represents. The silence is deafening.

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Pets and the City | The New York Historical Explore the visual history of New Yorkers and their animal companions over the last two and a half centuries.

A fun and fascinating exhibit of New Yorkers and their pets!

www.nyhistory.org/exhibitions/...

A chromolithograph by Ravi Varma depicting Sakuntalā reclining on a grassy field, daydreaming as she writes a letter on a leaf. Two other women sit nearby, one weaving a garland and the other engaged in conversation. A deer stands in the background amid lush greenery, with a serene landscape and traditional huts in the distance.

The humanities help us think critically, understand history, and ask better questions. Our blog series explores what’s at stake.

Read more: bit.ly/4hdT24V

Image: Ravi Varma. Sakuntalā Writing a Letter on a Leaf in a Daydream with Two Others. @wellcomecollection.bsky.social.

Episode 171: Trust - Hotel Bar Podcast Can anyone be trusted anymore?

New episode just dropped today. Trust us, this is one you're going to want to hear.

hotelbarpodcast.com/podcast/epis...

Thinking of you and your family, Thad. 🐈

Any results of that natural observational experiment 2016-2020?

While President Trump illegally pauses federal funding from Congress, the Senate must not be business as usual.

We do not consent to this lawless power grab.

Opinion: Building safer cities means protecting animals too, not just humans Humans in Los Angeles, California and beyond have to rethink infrastructure to consider our wild and pet neighbors.

"Individual rescue is not enough. By building an animal-friendly infrastructure, we can embed compassion for animals into the basic structures of our shared society."

My latest, on how cities can build a better infrastructure for humans, animals, and the environment, today at @latimes.com.

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If you ask ‘Why?’, you’re a philosopher, and you’re awesome | Aeon Essays Diving into the ring of darkness beyond things easily answerable, asking ‘Why?’ questions is what make humans awesome

My piece yesterday in Aeon: a 3000-word "love song for philosophy", arguing that the our species' capacity to wonder philosophically, even when we make no progress toward answers, is the most intrinsically awesome thing about planet Earth. Philosophy needs no other excuse.
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Hastings Center Relaunches its Visiting Scholars Program 👏
 
During Covid the program was halted, but applications for stays are now open. ✅

thehastingscenter.org/news/hastings-…

#HastingsCenter #ScholarsProgram #Bioethics #VisitingScholars #Scholars

Thank you to all of my #hospice colleagues working this #Christmas day to care for patients and their families.