I got this one last year for our conference on affective atmospheres. The application form was reasonable, the funding generous, and the team @triphilosophy.bsky.social wonderful to work with. And the conference was a blast. I highly recommend applying.

𝗣𝘂𝗿𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆
Excellent paper about purposiveness in biology. Important critique of the dynamical systems approach as a "simple" solution to the computationalism approach.
Highly relevant to the enactive approach too.
doi.org/10.1177/1059...

@wiley.com

Place, Climate Change and the Experience of Loss When places deteriorate due to climate change, people's connections to them (attachment) are also affected. The loss of the life possibilities sustained by places as a result of climate change is at ....

Paper alert: wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Our researcher, Pablo Fernandez Velasco, together with Virginia De Biasio, connects the experience of ecological grief to place attachment and incommensurable losses.

@virginiadebiasio.bsky.social

We are proud to announce our new talk series on "Inferences & Capacities" co-organized by me, Mariela Aguilera, and Matías Osta-Vélez!

Find below the 2026 lineup and info on how to register.

#philosophy #philosophySky

The significant year on year fall on boat arrivals is broadly unreported by BBC or other media. It has less to do with imminent government changes currently going through than a fall in "push factors" that is Europe-wide

Sri Lankan student could be deported from UK after one-day student fee delay Coventry University reported Navodya De Silva, 25, to Home Office after £8,000 arrived late, causing termination of visa

The zeal with which universities enforce these rules stems from their fear of losing their sponsor licence, but seems incompatible with a duty of care to their students. But then international students are treated as cash cows not as people deserving care and respect.

decorative slide that reads: postgraduate philosophy conference: Styles of perception: From historical perspectives to the digital age. Place: University of York (UK), Philosophy Department. Dates: June 30-July 1 2026

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!

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

UCL Anthropology is looking for an Associate Lecturer in Evolutionary Anthropology (fixed term) covering Evolutionary Medicine and Statistics teaching. Please circulate with colleagues & ECRs who may be interested. Deadline 30th April. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

It’s a great moment to remember that in the leadup to this popular uprising, the first major gut-punch was delivered by Budapest Pride. Poetic justice. 🇭🇺🏳️‍🌈

Today at 4:30pm: Centre researcher Kialy Tihngang on Icyyy Grip at 198 Contemporary Arts & Learning, part of the public programme for TOOLs.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tools-arti...

I have come across the term a couple of times, but I hadn’t given it much thought. I imagine that using mind/brain as a term implicitly endorses the identity between the two (as in the SEP article). I personally lean towards a more embodied, extended view of the mind, which would be a lot of slashes

So excited to see this out, connecting the phenomenology of ecological grief with place attachment. Great working with @virginiadebiasio.bsky.social on this!

"Under a 10-20 year system, a worker would spend a decade or more in which their entire immigration status — and [thus] their family’s home, their children’s schooling, their right to remain — depends on maintaining the goodwill of a single employer. That is a structurally coercive relationship."

Temporal Disorientation in Episodic Memory: Navigating the Construction Process - Review of Philosophy and Psychology Review of Philosophy and Psychology - Temporal disorientation in episodic memory includes recalling episodes we struggle to posit in time. In this paper, we theorize how this disorientation arises...

My paper with @bastienperroy.bsky.social on temporal disorientation is now out! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Sharif University in Tehran was just bombed

Founded in 1965, it is one the most elite science and engineering institutions in the world. Alumni include the mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani, first woman to win the Fields Medal

Here is the list of other alumni

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

Research Fellow - AR3263 at University of St Andrews Discover Research Fellow - AR3263 jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.

Apparently we're hiring another two-year postdoc, for Aaron Cotnoir's Unity Project. AOS in Metaphysics, Social Ontology, or Formal Ontology. Apply here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRA671/r...

#philsky

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

It's me in the Financial Times, detailing the deep and pernicious influence of one-size-fits-all management consultancy in our universities... Take a look! 👇
www.ft.com/content/5032...

I used AI. It worked. I hated it. I used Claude Code to build a tool I needed. It worked great, but I was miserable. I need to reckon with what it means.

I appreciated this article by Michael Taggart, on the temptation to use some of these coding tools and the pitfalls, from the POV of an experienced software engineer.

This is why it's important to fight these issues collectively rather than at the individual level.

taggart-tech.com/reckoning/

£1.2M UKRI grant supports groundbreaking study into the psychology of belief

www.gla.ac.uk/.../news/hea...

Congratulations! It sounds like such a cool project. The photo is also great, it looks as if they took it just when you received the news. The link led me to a "page not found" error, but this one seems to work: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/art...

Being Where? Putting Memory, Technology, and Wayfinding Together Again - Review of Philosophy and Psychology Review of Philosophy and Psychology - Although wayfinding is a central domain for 4E research, much work on spatial cognition and navigation still operates within an internalist framework. This is...

‘Being Where? Putting memory, technology, and wayfinding together again’: new open-access paper, led by Mac Mingon with @ajgillett.bsky.social We set ‘techno-gloom’ about GPS degrading basic human navigation skills against historical shifts in ‘wayfinding ecologies’ link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Glad to see this statement about the awful new death penalty bill passed in Israel.

Made worse by the ongoing killing of palestinians in the West Bank by Israeli settlers with no legal consequences.

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library Through the accounts of workers furloughed through the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, the paper details how the loss of a worker's agency through the suspension of their work life led them to feel...

What does it feel like to be paid not to work?

In a new paper I discuss the experiences of furloughed workers I interviewed from across the UK. My study revealed that, for some, furlough became a disorientating experience.
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
@rgsibg.bsky.social

Ministers explore triggering break clause in Palantirs NHS contract.

Ministers are reportedly exploring how to cancel dangerous spy-tech firm Palantir's contract to handle NHS data after over 150k people joined me in calling on them to break the contract.

Join us - together we can kick out Palantir out of our NHS:

you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Can games become a way of remembering?

Dr Aramiha Harwood (Ngāpuhi) explores how tabletop game design grounded in Māori values can transmit knowledge, identity and storytelling.

📅 Wed 22 Apr · 16:00–17:30
📍 University of Stirling + online

Register here forms.gle/vKYdq9kGEmLJ...

‘The tide is turning’, Green party leader tells crowd at march against far right – as it happened Organisers claim half a million people are marching through central London, protesting against the rise of the far right

How can the BBC justify how much coverage they give other marches which are significantly smaller in size?

The bias is so obviously blatant.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...

This is the situation we find ourselves in

Protéger le caribou, du Labrador à la Baie-James Cris, Innus, Naskapis et Inuit veulent protéger le caribou, malgré leurs divergences sur la chasse de cet animal alors que les populations diminuent.

Les caribous ont soutenu les humains par leur sacrifice durant des millénaires. En quelques décennies, nous les avons presque exterminés par la destruction de leur environnement et la chasse sportive (non-autochtone).
Nous devons maintenant soutenir les nations autochtones qui les protègent.