BPA Prizes 2026 - British Philosophical Association The British Philosophical Association is delighted to celebrate the inaugural recipients of our new BPA Prizes. These awards were established to recognise and promote the outstanding breadth, depth, a...

Delighted that Sheffield won department of the year in the annual BPA prizes!! And fab to see colleagues @chongminglim.bsky.social and Jim Chamberlain getting recognition too.
bpa.ac.uk/prizes2026/
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‘They singled out non-white, foreign-born workers’: the restaurants raided by Britain’s version of ICE They’re not armed and they keep a relatively low profile. But the Home Office’s immigration compliance and enforcement officers have searched thousands of business in pursuit of illegal workers. Are t...

We already have ICE here on rainy fascist island. They are thugs out to terrorise communities. They 10000% operate racial profiling. FOI data for Sheffield shows the most common nationality of ICE arrestees is British, and only 9% of raids result in a removal.

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

Sheffield Hallam restricts TPS access to REF academics only Teaching staff at post-92 institution to be employed by subsidiary firm and lose right to access expensive pensions scheme

'Teaching-only staff at Sheffield Hallam University are set to be moved into a subsidiary firm, leaving research intensive scholars the only academics still being employed directly by the institution.'

Utterly inequitable & betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of the teaching/research nexus. 1/3

Christopher Bertram | ‘Core Protection’ Refugeehood is not supposed to be like this. The ideal envisaged by the Refugee Convention is that refugee status should...

Me at the LRB blog on the atrocious refugee policy of Mahmood and Starmer

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Who today is influencing science a la Big Tobacco or Oil and Gas?
In our new preprint we show how tech companies like Meta are capturing research on their product, using mechanisms that subtly (or not so subtly) shape what science gets produced

Nobody Knows What UK Law on Toilet Access is The lawlessness of the government's response to For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers.

inviting bigots to bully you isn't a workable way of running a country (as the UK's last month shows)

my latest with @liberalcurrents.com

www.liberalcurrents.com/nobody-knows...

UK-based academic fed up of our sector's involvement in research and production of weapons that get used to kill innocent civilians? Here's a petition for you:
ded1.co/how-we-do-it...

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The University of Sheffield is looking to recruit a Teaching Associate in Philosophy. The role is 0.5FTE for 22 months, starting Sept 1st 2025. Please share with anyone who might be interested and feel free to get in touch with questions. jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Teaching...

OPEN LETTER: 100+ UK Academics & Writers to Keir Starmer New anti-immigrant rules are bad policy & will only validate the far-right

I recently co-authored & circulated (with @polphilpod.bsky.social ) an open letter against Starmer’s anti-immigrant rules & rhetoric.

Over 100 of my UK-based colleagues signed it. Read the whole thing here:

www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/starmer

OPEN LETTER: 100+ UK Academics & Writers to Keir Starmer New anti-immigrant rules are bad policy & will only validate the far-right

I recently co-authored & circulated (with @alasianuti.bsky.social ) an open letter against Starmer’s anti-immigrant rules & rhetoric.

Over 100 of my UK-based political academics & writers signed it. Read the whole thing here:

www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/starmer

3 year post in Philosophy at Sheffield!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMH928/l...

(post with added # for greater visibility...)
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Leif Wenar's criticisms of effective altruism Last week, Leif Wenar, a professor of philosophy at Stanford University, wrote a critique of effective altruism in Wired magazine. One of his complaints is that the charity evaluator websites, such as...

New blogpost: Leif Wenar's criticisms of effective altruism

Wenar published a piece in Wired last week criticizing effective altruism and proposing an alternative model. I think there are problems with his alternative.

Support the Ethics Lab in Yaoundé! Ethics-lab is celebrating its fifth anniversary!  By organizing a conference bringing practical philosophers together in Yaoundé, Cameroon! But in order to celebrate this milestone and to make sure...

The fundraising for the Ethics Lab is nearing 20% of the goal. Please consider making a contribution, and share our appeal widely!

www.steunleiden.nl/project/ethi...

And another job being advertised here at Sheffield! This time for a Professor in History of Philosophy or Political Philosophy. As always, please share with all who might be interested - I'm happy to chat with anyone who'd like to find out more. philjobs.org/job/show/25557 #philsky

Sheffield is a great city and this is a great department. Quite the opportunity for someone!

And we're also advertising a post in History of Philosophy and/or Non-Western Philosophy:
philjobs.org/job/show/25090 #philsky

Permanent lectureship in Political Philosophy being advertised here at Sheffield. Please share with anyone who might be interested! Happy to chat with those who would like to find out more: philjobs.org/job/show/25086 #philsky

thanks Chris!