It used to be hilariously easy - back when we were all being warned off Wikipedia as a big scary threat to academic standards.

Beautiful day to be en route to Oxford to talk ethics and future food systems at this year’s LEAP conference! Looking forward to hearing such a great diversity of presentations: www.futureoffood.ox.ac.uk/sitefiles/le...
@oxfutureoffood.bsky.social @thrivingfoodfuture.bsky.social

Now I am wondering how Great Tit family law differs across jurisdictions.

We’re letting big corporations gamble with our lives. Act now, or the food could run out | George Monbiot The fragility of the global food system fills me with dread – and the war with Iran has exposed just how close to collapse it is, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

"Just as we make ourselves more energy-secure by switching from fossil fuels to renewables, we make ourselves more food-secure by switching from animals to plants." - @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

Mick Kelly: We’re only ever nine meals away from anarchy. That risk is no longer just theoretical Ireland is sleepwalking into a food security crisis. We have just 74 field-scale vegetable growers left, down from around 600

Ireland is playing a dangerous game with food security.

'The policies of successive governments have prioritised an export-led agricultural system leveraging the big beasts of beef and dairy, while ignoring the needs of our indigenous veg and fruit growers.'

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

Preludium Es-dur YouTube video by Hania Rani - Topic

Current obsession 🎧

Annual Conference | 2026 | BSPS The BSPS Annual Conference takes place on 21–23 July 2026 at the University of Leeds

Registration for the British Society for the Philosophy of Science is now open!

VENUE: University of Leeds
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Robin Hendry (Durham), Tarja Knuutila (Vienna), Eleanor Knox (KCL)
DATES: Tuesday 21 July — Thursday 23 July

www.thebsps.org/news/bsps-an...

Events

We've got a great series of talks coming up from next Friday! Everything from alternative proteins, cultivated blue foods, to the future of farming, household food insecurity, and maize in South Africa.

Sign up to join us! All free, all open to the public.

www.futureoffood.ox.ac.uk/events

New album coming soon. Frederic Chopin started the countdown on Spotify. Pre-save now.

Where does he find the time?

A painting by Joe Lycett of a pink swordfish swimming, with the caption 'See it, Say it, Swordfish'.

Wow this looks like a really relevant and urgent project given the latest news: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Living the dream.

Back on my floating library 📚

Mary Midgley would have sorted us all out.

Not at all! I think he is only accidentally right, in the sense that ‘continental philosophy’ does seem to be a nonsensical geographical categorisation. But I think you’re right that he hasn’t thought about it in any nuanced way & he’s being unfairly dismissive, probably of philosophy in general.

I suppose my point was that he is right, despite himself. The ‘continental’ category is more about style or methodology than origin or subject of study. The distinction seemed to emerge as a way of siphoning off any non-analytic approaches - ironically with the same derisive spirit of Dawkins here.

Phoria - Current (Official Audio) YouTube video by Phoria

Do you know Phoria?

Joyfully hosting this lecture, @tcddublin.bsky.social, in a couple weeks!

Good Evening, Bluesky.

Nice 👍

Even the analytic category of continental philosophy is not region specific, though.

He’s right though, isn’t he?

I’m happy to be joining the good people at the Livestock Environment and People conference next week. I’ll be presenting on and discussing ‘The ethics of future food systems: alternative proteins, ‘naturalness’, and relational values.’ Also looking forward to exploring beautiful Worcester College 🤩

The Pope is weak on crime. The Dalai Lama has no ideas for growing GDP. The Archbishop of Canterbury has failed on municipal parking reform. The Patriarch of Constantinople must act to address the biodiversity crisis

"Pope Leo is WEAK on Crime" is objectively a funny thing to write.

Fuel protests reveal flawed relationship between farms, fertilisers and food Farmers have warned of food shortages but Ireland imports most of what it eats

No ports - No food.

Ireland is neither food or fodder secure. Most of what we eat is imported & the food we produce is dependant on imports of fodder & fertilizers.

Irish farmers aren't to blame for this but simplistic narratives won't help untangle this mess.
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

Listen to me talk about the importance of doing nothing with the lovely people of the TLS podcast. Or don't, I'm not a cop

shows.acast.com/af0e16de-9e4...

I've created a list for Bluesky users who were part of philosophy Twitter back in the day. Help me populate it! Also happy to add people who wish they had been part of the old community. I've added a few names already. (Ask if you'd like to be removed.) bsky.app/profile/did:...

The Finnish word for an auction, huutokauppa, means “shout market” (or “shouting shop”)

* read on for more of my favourite Finnish words (a thread in honour of today being Day of the Finnish Language)…