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CfA: PGR Conference – Styles of Perception

📅 30 June – 1 July 2026
📍 University of York

Financial support provided.

🔗 Full details and submission information:
sites.google.com/view/styleso...

🗓 Submit by 1 May!

“Riding the thin red line of the branching model has no future, these red-arsed cowboys should hang up their hats and look for a new approach.”

2026 Sanders Prize in Metaphysics Winners Announced - Daily Nous The Marc Sanders Foundation has announced that its 2026 Prize in Metaphysics has been awarded to Ezra Rubenstein and Verónica Gómez-Sánchez (both of UC Berkeley). They won the prize for their paper, "...

The winners of the 2026 Sanders Prize in Metaphysics are...

Management consultants are ruining UK universities Relentless off-the-peg commercial rewiring has undermined British higher education

Management consultants are ruining UK universities ft.trib.al/0LelZP9 | opinion

Managing to fit 48 months into 2 years. Some funky (gunky, junky) spacetime mereology was afoot.

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Formal Ontology, Social Ontology, Metaphysics, for 24 months starting 1 January 2027. Image of wire dodecahedron. Link: cotnoir.org/unity-home

Looking to hire another 2-year Postdoc for the Unity Project! AOS in Metaphysics, Social Ontology, or Formal Ontology. Apply here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRA671/r...
(Also please share widely, thanks)

48 months?

Dr James Miller (Durham University) joins us on 5 March to explore the metaphysics of linguistics. Are words concrete objects or abstract entities? Find out at 15:00 on 5 March in P/L/002.

Read more: www.york.ac.uk/langu...

🌀 The Centre for Philosophy of Time is pleased to announce and invite you to the Workshop entitled "Dynamic and Static Models of Reality", to be held on 20 April at the University of Milan.

📌 Event programme and details: n9.cl/ao11l

There's (literally) no time like the present to read Dave Ingram's newly revised entry for the Spring 2026 edition of The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy on Presentism!

plato.stanford.edu/entries/pres...

King's Bridge Scholarship 2026-27 Arts & Humanities Faculty Master’s Scholarships for Black, Asian, and Minority Home Students

MA Scholarships in Arts and Humanties at King's College London! Please spread the word to your eligible finalist undergraduates! - these scholarships are for home (UK fees) students from some minoritised ethnic groups underrepresented in academia. See link for details.

www.kcl.ac.uk/study-legacy...

@miikeessttuuart.bsky.social Punderful.

The fact that my trade union is facing allegations of trade union victimisation against its own workers is so deeply sickening that I find it difficult to put into words. Please read and share this excellent thread and support Unite-UCU in their battle for the sort of treatment UCU demands for us.

This is a thread about UCU & what it has become over the last few years. But the first thing I want to say is I didn’t join a union to stay silent or turn my back on a single parent of three facing dismissal on the basis of their trade union activities. Marie Monaghan is the Unite UCU 1/12

Scrapping REF should be ‘serious’ option, says Manchester VC - Research Professional News Duncan Ivison questions “usefulness” of “massive, bureaucratic” research assessment exercise

Scrapping REF should be “serious’ option”, says Manchester VC.

Duncan Ivison questions “usefulness” of “massive, bureaucratic” research assessment exercise.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

‘If I think about what this means, I want to cry’: what happens when a city loses its university? When Essex University’s Southend campus opened, it was a message of hope for a ‘left behind’ UK seaside town. Its closure will be felt far beyond its 800 students, some of whom will not get their degr...

Incandescent. One of the best pieces I've read about what university means to people and their communities - and what will happen to a city and people after one closes. The *Labour* government and Jaqui Smith in particular should be ashamed of themselves and shamed into doing something. Deplorable.

📣 CFP Extended Deadline (Feb 15, 2026)

🔷 SMS 2026 will take place May 25–27 at the University of Toronto.

💠Keynote: Heather Demarest

💠Presidential Address: Giuliano Torrengo

➡️Submissions welcome on all areas of metaphysics of science.

More info: socmetsci.org

Pay-off spend up by two-thirds as universities shed 13,000 jobs Analysis of UK sector accounts shows number of job losses well above predictions, with experts warning cuts are not over yet

UK Universities cut 13,300 jobs, paid £300m+ in redundancy.

Economic contribution of the HE sector, £265bn.

Systematically destroyed by govts - foreign students not welcome, cut real-term grants, fees, students burdened with debts, low staff pay/morale.

Govt want skilled labour.
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The International Association for Philosophy of Time (IAPT) is pleased to announce its 11th annual conference to be held at Yamaguchi University, Japan, on 25th–27th July 2026.

Call for abstracts: www.philtimesociety.com/calls-for-pa...

Project to examine how AI is changing the way science is done A new research project is set to investigate how artificial intelligence is extending and transforming the abilities that scientists use to investigate the world.

Mike Stuart has won a 2 million euro ERC Consolidator grant to research how AI is changing science! He'll be recruiting 4 postdocs to help do the research over 5 years. More news on the project when it begins this June! @erc.europa.eu www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

It will be the case that it was the case.

The International Association for Philosophy of Time (IAPT) is pleased to announce its 11th annual conference to be held at Yamaguchi University, Japan, on 25th–27th July 2026.

Call for abstracts: www.philtimesociety.com/calls-for-pa...

Alea iacta est.

📷 Summer School: Mereology and Beyond

Check out the schedule on the link! www.usi.ch/en/mereology

Dates: June 15–19.
Application Deadline: 15 February 2026

I feel this in the marrow of my bones. The future of a university should be shaped by leaders whose own careers depend materially on the future they are shaping.

The worst thing to happen to academia was the emergence of a nomadic administrative class like the one in corporations who just move from institution to institution setting fires and walking away.

Say what you will about the flaws of faculty governance, but at least they believe in the mission.

Asian Philosophy of Science Association (APSA) Conference 2026

There's about a month left to submit something to the Asian Philosophy of Science Association's inaugural conference! Consider submitting an abstract, and encouraging early-career scholars (especially those from or based in Asia) to submit an essay for the APSA Essay Prize.

Major universities facing weeks-long strikes as job cuts deepen Union branches plan walkouts across UK amid increased tensions with senior managers

'Staff at the University of Nottingham are preparing to strike for the second time this term, announcing a further 22 days of action before Christmas, in addition to the 20 days already taken.' Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam, Leicester, and Edinburgh also striking.

Just in case anyone is listening, please note that UK universities cannot operate successfully on the basis of continuous reduction of academic staff and academic staff pay. No amount of staff wellness sessions will change this.

We are in full solidarity with the @pcsunion.bsky.social members at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social who will be on strike for the next two weeks. Let's get out to their pickets and rallies to show our support, @ucu.org.uk members! Details below. @pcspress.bsky.social