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Amy Taggart 🍎

@amytaggart.eurosky.social
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PhD Researcher, #Ethics of #Food Production in the Context of the #Climate & #Biodiversity Crises, Trinity College Dublin www.tcd.ie/environmental-ethics/peo… @aicbrn.bsky.social Exec Committee Member 👩‍🌾🎹🪈📸 She/Her Views and values mine

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Jamie Rohu @jamierohu.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“In response, Galway [University] said its overseas collaborations were established in accordance with legal, ethical and governance requirements” Nothing ‘ethical’ when the animal being experimented on can’t give consent. Truly outstanding work by The Journal. jrnl.ie/7183554
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Irish universities paid hundreds of thousands for invasive animal experiments abroad
The overseas experiments are completely uninspected and uncounted by Ireland’s regulator as they take place outside its jurisdiction.
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Amy Taggart 🍎 @amytaggart.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026
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Ólafur Arnalds, Talos - A Dawning (Official Music Video)
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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This morning we're discussing what it means to be ethnically English. Coming up later we tackle the climate change debate and for today's phone-in we're asking "How much arsenic should you give a child?" Let us know what you think. But first, what happens if I put my entire head into this dark hole?
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The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience @lseanimalsentience.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Today is #WorldOctopusDay! A great time to refresh our understanding of their inner lives, the protections already in place, and the ongoing work across science, policy and advocacy. 🐙 www.lse.ac.uk/research/res...
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Advancing animal welfare legislation | LSE Research
Calling for the UK to become a global leader in animal welfare, Jonathan Birch aims to further shape animal rights policy with new research at the Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience at LSE.
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Dr Keith 🎃 Wilson @keithwilson.eu · 08/10/2026
Fun fact: when I first created my philosophy starter pack (which many of you followed!) and list of philosophers, the very first person I added was @helendecruz.net because, out of all of us, they seemed to most embody the spirit of philosophy as a collective and creative endeavour.
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Amy Taggart 🍎 @amytaggart.eurosky.social · 22h
I’m not sure that I agree with Nigella’s philosophy of food, but I do admire it. #TasteThingsProperly 🧁 🍪 🍰
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Nigella Lawson Takes Big Bites. Stop Being Weird About It.
Critics have misunderstood the newest judge's enthusiastic noshing on "The Great British Baking Show" since her on camera career began.
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Amy Taggart 🍎 @amytaggart.eurosky.social · 23h
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Ludovico Einaudi - Wind Song (Official Visualiser)
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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 08/10/2026
“I am presently in Iceland, listening to the wind” is my new email auto-response.
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Brian Caulfield @briancaulfield.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
What a beautiful autumn morning in Dublin @tcddublin.bsky.social
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Pádraic Fogarty @whittledaway.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Yesterday was a bad day for nature as virtually no new funding was announced. The guessing and uncertainty as how Ireland's Nature Restoration Plan is to be funded goes on. www.irishtimes.com/your-money/2...
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‘Government clearly not listening’: Nature groups criticise lack of budget funding
Budget allocates just €6m extra to NPWS despite experts saying €700m needed annually for nature restoration
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Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Quoted in the Guardian today on the technical hopium that, in my experience, has become widespread among many, usually senior, climate experts. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Scientists who put faith in technology less likely to take climate action
‘Techno-optimism’ may lead to reliance on unproven solutions at expense of societal changes needed
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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Academics be like:
"Omg l'm soo excited to announce that my new article is out!!!
And the article in question will be something like:
"Unending Violence, Inescapable Exploitation and The Immense Pain of Existence: Should we all just give up?"
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tom slists @tomslists.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This podcast is really interesting. It turns out that philology isn’t dry pedantry in dead languages (as I had assumed) but explores all sorts of issues concerning knowledge and understanding
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James Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · 06/10/2026
If we continue on this trajectory Ireland will be a 100% racing-animals-based economy by 2040
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Amy Taggart 🍎 @amytaggart.eurosky.social · 17/08/2024
‘Why can’t Ireland provide first-world transport infrastructure for a first-rate workforce?’ The Irish Times - Subscriber Only
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Received an email about ‘how to get Britain growing’. Is that growth in wisdom? Imagination? Equality? Creativity? Consideration for others? Inclusion?
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r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I have a lot of moral and ethical issues with the fact that I have to exist in this world
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Fenner Tanswell @fennert.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Next week Wednesday and Thursday (7th and 8th October) we will be running the event "Mathematical Proof in the age of AI" at the University of Bergen. www4.uib.no/en/research/...
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Mathematical Proof in the Age of AI
This conference will be about the various implications of AI-based proving and autoformalisation for mathematics. Examples include the recently (claimed) major breakthrough in solving the Navier-Stoke...
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Amy Taggart 🍎 @amytaggart.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026
Good Evening, Bluesky.
Seascape with moody blue sea and sky, dark rocky patterns to the left, with a slither of warmth on the horizon.
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Dr Keith 🎃 Wilson @keithwilson.eu · 05/10/2026
Participating in a 1-hour walkout by #IFUT members over the Irish government’s refusal to enter into pay negotiations for public sector workers, including in #HigherEducation. ✊ #UCD
Irish Federation of University Teachers
Did you know there is a trade union for academic staff?

Join IFUT
UCD Branch
Open to all teaching and research staff
https://www.ifut.ie/
Email: ucd@ifut.ie

Why join a union?
• Strength in numbers! Collective bargaining results in better pay & conditions for workers
• Get support with contract issues and workplace disputes
• Defend academic freedom
• Offer solidarity to colleagues in less secure roles
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Amy Taggart 🍎 @amytaggart.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026
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Ólafur Arnalds, Talos - A Dawning (Official Music Video)
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Philip Boucher-Hayes @philipb-h.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ireland imports 80% of its wheat. Not great food security. Concentration on livestock farming elbowed Irish wheat out. Imported wheat and flour add considerably to the cost of living crisis. But new crop science opens the door to Irish grown wheat. Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/listen/clip/...
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Food Security: Bread
Only the tiniest fraction of the flour needed to bake the 50kg of bread we eat a year is grown and milled in Ireland, and the cost of what we import is sky rocketing. We take a look at what needs to b...
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations @fao.org · 01/10/2026
💚Our future depends on how we treat our forests today. Here are 6⃣ reasons to treasure our forests👇 #COFO28
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
As I’ve just heard about #forestfriday here are some Redwoods I photographed in 2024 in Muir Woods National Park. My last visit to the US … maybe for some time.
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Amy Taggart 🍎 @amytaggart.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026
Beyond excited for this ✨ 🎹 💙
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Amy Taggart 🍎 @amytaggart.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026
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Eydís Evensen, Ólafur Arnalds - Loom (Eydís Evensen Piano Rework)
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Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
BIG NEWS! I am launching a new podcast together with colleagues from the Cluster of Excellence on Cross-Cultural Philology here at the LMU in Munich. It's called Pages of History and will appear once a month, following today's initial launch with three episodes. pagesofhistorypodcast.net
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Amy Taggart 🍎 @amytaggart.eurosky.social · 28/03/2025
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Ólafur Arnalds - Woven Song
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Amy Taggart 🍎 @amytaggart.eurosky.social · 15/09/2026
Having intrusive thoughts about kicking off spooky season with ‘Tender is the Flesh’ by Agustina Bazterrica 📚 💙 😰 #booksky
‘Tender is the Flesh’ by Agustina Bazterrica
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Peter Thorne @peterthorne.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I realise just reposting this lacked context. This is my (long suffering) post-doc Simon Noone AKA ze data kollector. If you have done anything utilising sub-daily global meteorological holdings or their aggregation to daily / monthly over the past decade you've likely benefitted from his work.
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Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · 01/10/2026
I am cancelling a class for my BSc Sustainability students next week to take part in a strike action. What readings should I assign them on the theme of collective action?
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Fenner Tanswell @fennert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My short viewpoint article "The Enshittification of Mathematics" is out now in the Mathematical Intelligencer! link.springer.com/article/10.1... Gift link here: rdcu.be/5uYGc2uo454a Check it out and share it with anyone who might be interested! 💩🥳
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The Enshittification of Mathematics - The Mathematical Intelligencer
The Mathematical Intelligencer -
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Reading about Socrates, apparently he was horrific to look at and was still having kids in his 60s. Unbelievable game. Imagine you're at the bar and a man who looks like a beluga whale hits you with "The only thing I know is I know nothing" and you're just powerless to resist
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Amy Taggart 🍎 @amytaggart.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026
For the rest of 2026, I think I will mostly be eating multiple variations of apple cake 🧡
Apple, cinnamon and date crumble cake.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Innovation ys not just tech. For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye. We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART: H umanityes E thiques A rtes R hetorique & the crafte of T eaching
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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The library here is double-glazed.
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Amy Taggart 🍎 @amytaggart.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026
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Ólafur Arnalds - Only The Winds (Official Music Video)
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Sander Verhaegh @sanderverhaegh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Is US analytic philosophy a product of McCarthyism?
 In this blog ⬇️, I return to the archival material I studied for my book (departmental records, correspondence, newspapers, personnel files) and argue that the answer is ‘no’. Blog dailynous.com/2026/09/29/a... Book academic.oup.com/book/63149
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Analytic Philosophy and McCarthyism: A New Look (guest post) - Daily Nous
To what extent is the “the story about the analytic turn” in philosophy a story about politics? There’s been an increased discussion in recent years […]
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Amy Taggart 🍎 @amytaggart.eurosky.social · 02/06/2025
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Arvo Pärt - Für Alina(audio + sheet music)
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 28/09/2026
I give about 90% of my talks virtually and only travel when I can bundle enough events to make the time and the carbon worthwhile (25 events in 3 days at NY Climate Week last week 😅). It is exhausting, no lie. But sadly we live in a world where doing things right is harder than not. More here ...
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'Climate scientists should cut back on air travel'
Researchers and their institutions should set a good low-carbon example to their communities, says Katharine Hayhoe, director of climate science at Texas Tech University.
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Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
As of today the original #HoPWAG series has reached 500 episodes! Thanks to all who have listened and the many who have supported the series over the years, not least all the interview guests. #philsky #podcast #philosophy
Special logo to celebrate 500 episodes
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Os Keyes @okeyes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
We tracked the space financially, intellectually, and individually. Financially, 70% of the literature that disclosed funding was directly supported by EA orgs; 71% of the literature that didn’t disclose funding featured authors from funded orgs. We're talking hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Cllr Brian Smyth @briansmyth99.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I wish the urgency and fight on both sides of the Garvaghy Rd row was the same around the demise of Lough Neagh. Sure, it's only our drinking water. Stormont couldn't care less.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Combination of cuts to teaching grants, phasing out of maintenance grants and increases in student loan repayments mean that undergraduates in England will now pay 50% more for a university degree than students in 2012, and will carry 80% of the cost of their education.
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UK graduates paying 50% more of university costs since 2012
New analysis raises questions over fairest way to split bill for higher education
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 26/09/2026
Visits to public libraries around Ireland have increased by two million in the last two years. New figures show that almost 16 million visits were made to Ireland's libraries in 2025, compared with nearly 14 million in 2023
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Public library visits increased by two million nationwide
Visits to public libraries around Ireland have increased by two million in the last two years, new figures show as National Public Libraries Open Day takes place nationwide.
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Evan Washington @eewash.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
the joker has a more comprehensible worldview than peter thiel
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Amy Taggart 🍎 @amytaggart.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026
Good Evening, Bluesky 🖤
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Greg Priest @gregpriest.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was published OTD in 1962. “[W]e have now acquired a fateful power to alter and destroy nature. But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.” 🌱🐋 # HistSTM 🧪🌎 #philsci #philsky #WomeninSTEM
Caricature of Rachel Carson by David Levine for the New York Review of Books.
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Amy Taggart 🍎 @amytaggart.eurosky.social · 06/05/2025
Genuinely, I do wonder how much FTX Future Fund is still floating around philosophy departments. Between that and Musk's generosity, I'm not surprised we are where we are with public discourse on AI.
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