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Fadia Dakka

@fadiadk.bsky.social
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Rhythm scholar | Associate Professor in Philosophy and Theory of HE | Editorial board Time&Society, Ethics and Education, Philosophy and Theory in Higher Education, Critical Studies in Education | TRC Lab Sunkhronos Birmingham and other places.

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The Philosopher @philosopher1923.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
#politics #oppression #democracy #Dewey #DuBois #IndianPhilosophy #PoliticalPhilosophy @neildsroberts.bsky.social Have a look at Hari Ramesh's book, "Harnessing the State," and hope to see you on Monday! www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
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Harnessing the State — Harvard University Press
Building on the work of key twentieth-century US and Indian thinkers, a bold argument that oppressed groups can—and should—make use of state power to create truly democratic societies.Group-based soci...
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 25/09/2026
‘The winter of 1940-41 was one of the coldest of the century. Some Parisians even burned books “whose literary value was considered inferior to their worth as fuel”.’ Daniel Lee on a memoir of wartime Paris. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Daniel Lee · Night and Fog: Women of the Resistance
Etta Shiber’s account of life in Nazi-occupied Paris shows a vivid domestic world seldom seen in comparable memoirs....
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Fadia Dakka @fadiadk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Great stuff.
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Jana Bacevic 🌲🌳✊🏴 @unsocialtheory.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I'm sorry what is Ed Sheeran
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Eli Meyerhoff @elimeyerhoff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
In our first episode of Another Education Is Possible (@anothereducation.bsky.social)'s new season, we talk about friendship, how we found ourselves in the world of radical study, and what we're excited about in this upcoming season. anotheredispossible.substack.com/p/friends-an...
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'Friends and Comrades: Another Season is Possible’
The first episode of AEIP’s third season
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Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Really looking forward to this event with Stephen coming from Trinity and Dr Brian Ngwenya from Maynooth to talk with us about ‘Disrupting Historical Amnesia’. It’s open to anyone interested at the Shtepps, HUB Building at UCC (Fri 18 Sept, 2-4pm).
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 06/09/2026
Behind South Africa’s chrome riches lies a shadow economy where migrants and unemployed workers face deadly conditions.
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South Africa's chrome riches fuel a deadly underground economy
Behind South Africa's chrome riches lies a shadow economy where migrants and unemployed workers face deadly conditions.
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Marc Wittmann @marcwittmann.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The final article of our EU Horizon 2020 VIRTUALTIMES project with Shiva Khoshnoud and @federicoalvarez.bsky.social at @igpp.bsky.social on Exploring and modifying the sense of time in virtual environments: "How playing video games downregulates self-referential processing".
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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Nearly 5000 researchers applied for an ERC starting grand in the last round. Just over 400 (less than 9%) were successful. Many people applying are spending up to 12 months working seriously on their application. This is absolutely crazy. erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
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ERC Starting Grants: €705 million to back Europe's next generation of researchers
The European Research Council (ERC) has today announced the winners of its latest Starting Grant competition. The funding, worth €705 million in total, will go to 421 early-career researchers across E...
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Teaching in Higher Education @teachinginhe.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
New online collection: critical scholarship on educational assessment 🚨 This collection brings together 15 earlier TiHE papers taking a socio-political viewpoint on assessment Guest editors: Juuso Henrik Nieminen, Jan McArthur and Tim Fawns www.tandfonline.com/journals/cth...
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Critical scholarship on educational assessment
Explore the article collection: Critical scholarship on educational assessment. Published in Teaching in Higher Education.
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UiO - RITMO @unioslo-ritmo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Sandra Solli will have her disputation on Thursday, August 27, starting with trial lecture at 12:15 CEST, followed by public defence at 14:15 CEST. Read more about it here:
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Public defence: Sandra Solli - RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion
Master of science in engineering Sandra Solli will be defending her dissertation at the Department of Psychology: Rhythm-Based Temporal Expectation: Delineating the Roles of Predictability and Periodi...
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Lisa Bortolotti @lisabortolotti.com · 19/08/2026
Here is a recording of the talk by Havi Carel that opened our EPIC summer school last month: Is illness ineffable? #philsky #philpsy youtu.be/fqpt_zdaF6g?... #epistemicinjustice
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Havi Carel: Is illness ineffable?
YouTube video by The Philosophy Garden
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Jana Bacevic 🌲🌳✊🏴 @unsocialtheory.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Hardly ever met a smaller book with more theoretical insight. Love Serres (together with Bion, one of the few thinkers who almost made me entirely change the direction of my PhD) but have not read this one before
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Jana Bacevic 🌲🌳✊🏴 @unsocialtheory.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I've written a post that has some relevance to the UK academia's recent gossip round. janabacevic.net/2026/08/09/p...
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People talking about people
I rarely talk about Buddhism. One part of this has to do with the fact I generally rarely talk about personal stuff, and people rarely ask. Another has to do with a general disinclination towards “…
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Fadia Dakka @fadiadk.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Pure beauty 😍 #sardinia
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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Another extraordinary essay by Abdaljawad Omar @hamayel.bsky.social - on moral stupidity (“These people act morally stupidly…because what they know, if inhabited fully, would cost them their world”) & the “tragic reality” of the Palestinian intellectual’s position www.equator.org/articles/mor...
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Gaza and the Problem of Moral Stupidity • EQUATOR
Forty years after Edward Said demanded ‘permission to narrate’, the truth from Palestine has never been more widely known. And yet the annihilation continues.
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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Vice-Chancellor of University of Bristol (salary £312,251): “I take a really personal view on this. My oldest daughter is the only child in my family who really is making a very significant amount of money.”
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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Walking back from glasgow queen street in a daze after multiple hours of #eshs-hss <why is everyone screaming?> boy, about 5 years old, plaintively, confused, holding his mother’s hand <coz England’s getting beat> the voice comes, conveying profound truths from the universe
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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Beautiful essay by Isabella Hammad on Gaza, grief, mourning, rubble, monuments. And on Arabic poetry and its recasting of some of the foundational readings/uses of Freud and Klein
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Fadia Dakka @fadiadk.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Same. Unsustainable.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Frances Seward, abstract landscape photographer based in New Mexico #WomensArt
Photograph featuring a blurry seascape in turquoise and white
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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
If you haven't yet signed the petition against the attacks on University of Exeter staff, here it is
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Teaching in Higher Education @teachinginhe.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
New blog post by Jordana Benblatt and Kristy Kelly! 🚨 "Research should not be a privilege reserved for students who already know how to enter the field" #HigherEducation #UndergraduateResearch teachinginhighereducation.wordpress.com/2026/07/01/r...
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Rethinking undergraduate research as pedagogy, not privilege
Vladimir Srajber on Pexels.com Universities love to celebrate undergraduate research, and for good reason. It can be transformative. But it raises a difficult question: who actually gets to have th…
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The Philosopher @philosopher1923.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Sunday read: "Grief Worlds" In this conversation, Matthew Ratcliffe discusses grief as an unfolding emotional journey marked by disrupted meaning and shifting possibilities that reshape how we experience ourselves, others, and the world. #Philosophy www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/grief-w...
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Grief Worlds
What happens when loss alters the very world we inhabit? In this conversation, Matthew Ratcliffe and Kathleen Higgins discuss grief as an unfolding emotional journey marked by disrupted meaning and sh...
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The Philosopher @philosopher1923.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
ICYMI: "Gilbert Simondon's Philosophy" Cécile Malaspina in conversation with Ashley Woodward On Simondon's philosophy of individuation, tech, science, metaphysics, the individual vs collective, and the human body as a machine. #Philosophy www.youtube.com/watch?v=o16h...
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Gilbert Simondon's Philosophy: Cécile Malaspina in conversation with Ashley Woodward
YouTube video by The Philosopher
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The Philosopher @philosopher1923.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Coming up: Mon. June 22 ~ 2pm ET / 7pm UK "AI and the Digital" Jonathan Zittrain in conversation with Audrey Borowski about his work and book project as well as current challenges in AI from regulation, privacy, to current trends in AI developments. www.thephilosopher1923.org/events/ai-an...
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AI and the Digital
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The Philosopher @philosopher1923.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
ICYMI: "Decolonizing Knowledge" Radha D'Souza in conversation with Rinaldo Walcott On the intellectual and political stakes of challenging dominant forms of knowledge produced through colonial and imperial histories. #Philosophy www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwXX...
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Decolonizing Knowledge: Radha D'Souza with Rinaldo Walcott (Philosophies of the South)
YouTube video by The Philosopher
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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Whole logic pernicious on countless fronts. Note how Wales doesn’t even figure - even at the level of pointing out its absence policyexchange.org.uk/wp-content/u...
16. Based on recent data, we believe that the following 22 universities in England would meet these three criteria: The University of Cambridge, The University of Oxford, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London School of Economics and Political Science, University of Durham, The University of Bath, University College Lon-don, The University of Bristol, The University of Warwick, The University of Manches-ter, King's College London, The University of Sheffield, The University of Leeds, The University of Birmingham, The University of Exeter, Loughborough University, The University of Southampton, University of Nottingham, The University of York, Queen Mary University of London, The University of Lancaster, Newcastle University. Outside England, The University of St. Andrews, The University of Edinburgh, The University of Glasgow and Queen's University Belfast would also meet these criteria.
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UoN Education @uonsoe.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Online @srhe.bsky.social event with #UoNSoE's Professor Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan and Dr Charlie Davis. Creative Methods for Newer Researchers: Exploring Researcher Identity through Poetry and Visual Narrative Approaches Wed 1 July, 10-11.30am srhe.ac.uk/civicrm/?civ...
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CiviCRM | Society for Research into Higher Education
Do not delete this page. Page content is generated by CiviCRM.
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The Philosopher @philosopher1923.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
TODAY: Mon Jun 8~ 2pm ET /7pm UK "On Inidgenous Inhumanities" Mark Minch-de Leon & Krushil Watene On #Māori and #Indigenous traditions of #knowledge, #ethics, and relationality that confront #colonial frameworks. #Philosophy Register FREE or by donation www.tickettailor.com/events/theph...
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Select tickets – "On Indigenous Inhumanities": Mark Minch-de Leon in conversation with Krushil Watene – Zoom
"On Indigenous Inhumanities": Mark Minch-de Leon in conversation with Krushil Watene – Zoom, Mon 8 Jun 2026 - This event is a part of our "Philosophies of the South" series. Indigenous philosophies gu...
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Fadia Dakka @fadiadk.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
New arrivals:))
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Jana Bacevic 🌲🌳✊🏴 @unsocialtheory.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
One of the best takes on "AI", including AI in higher education, compared to the majority of writing almost guaranteed to rehash all the tired and useless tropes from writing on the crisis in higher ed (what is wrong? everything. what shall we do about it? nothing) open.substack.com/pub/theconvi...
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Do Not Resign From Life
The Convivial Society: Vol. 6, No.
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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Breaking: Government set to cut strategic priorities grant. The government is on the cusp of cutting public funding for higher education teaching, the head of Universities UK has told MPs, placing institutions under even more financial pressure. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
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Government ‘to cut strategic priorities grant’, says UUK leader - Research Professional News
Vivienne Stern says letter confirming cut to teaching funds will be sent out “in days”
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Fadia Dakka @fadiadk.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Søren Bengsten's inaugural about to kick off 💫 #existentialuniversity
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UK Council for Graduate Education @ukcge.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Wonderful to read about this work at the University of Southampton to design a supervisor development programme - drawing on best-practice literature by us and colleagues in the sector.
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‘The first step is to understand what supervisors and students need’
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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
“[E]ven at its most trenchant, Collini’s argumentation has remained…somehow politically abstract, indicting a system & its culture, that of capitalism, but at a familiar, contemplative distance” Alongside Collini @lrb.co.uk read Mulhern @newleftreview.bsky.social newleftreview.org/issues/ii123...
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Francis Mulhern, In the Academic Counting-House, NLR 123, May–June 2020
Leading opponent of the British university’s subordination to metrics, bureaucracy and capital; heir to the English moralists and foe of declinism. What kind of critic is Stefan Collini?
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Fadia Dakka @fadiadk.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Off to Aarhus, to meet fellow PaTHES members & friends 🧡 #PaTHESconference26
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 27/05/2026
Issue 48.10 is now online, featuring: Stefan Collini on the crisis in universities Lili Owen Rowlands on Agnès Varda Greg Afinogenov on Russian ideologies Rahmane Idrissa on the Sahara and @jamesmeek.bsky.social on Andy Burnham. Read online at www.lrb.co.uk
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Fadia Dakka @fadiadk.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
A thing of beauty.
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Jana Bacevic 🌲🌳✊🏴 @unsocialtheory.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Earlier in April, I spoke to Emma from @acidhorizon.bsky.social about my @leverhulme.ac.uk-funded project on non-reciprocity -- running until the end of August 2026 and coming out in book form(at) hopefully not too long after that!
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Internazionale @internazionale.it · 18/05/2026
Nella puntata di oggi del Mondo: gli Stati Uniti contro la Corte penale internazionale. Dieci anni di unioni civili in Italia. Con Chantal Meloni e Angelo Schillaci.
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Il Mondo
Il podcast quotidiano di Internazionale. Tutte le mattine alle 6. 00 con Claudio Rossi Marcelli e Giulia Zoli. Abbonati a Internazionale. Con un abbonamento puoi leggere tutti gli articoli, ricevere l...
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The Philosopher @philosopher1923.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
TODAY: Tues. May 12 ~ 2pm ET / 7pm UK "The Philosophy Behind Palantir" Moira Weigel and Anthony Burton in conversation with Alexis Papazoglou. The CEO of Palantir has a PhD in philosophy, but is his manifest a version of technofascism? #Philosophy www.tickettailor.com/events/theph...
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Select tickets – The Philosopher and The News with Alexis Papazoglou – Zoom
The Philosopher and The News with Alexis Papazoglou – Zoom, Tue 12 May 2026 - Last month, the tech company Palantir published what was widely described as its manifesto. According to the company’s pos...
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Teaching in Higher Education @teachinginhe.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
New blog post by Thanh Phùng! 🚨 "For me, teaching has always been a matter of being with—being with students as people with whom one shares time, attention, and a fragile form of life, rather than as objects of improvement" teachinginhighereducation.wpcomstaging.com/2026/05/12/t...
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To teach is to be with: notes from a life in the measured university
We teach in a time when higher education is increasingly shaped by metrics, performance, and efficiency, and I say this as someone who has lived through these shifts for more than thirty years—as a…
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Birgan Gokmenoglu @birgangokmenoglu.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Our Theorising from Lived Experience Seminar Series @britsoci.bsky.social called for such a day of workshopping ideas. We'll have discussants, a plenary & early career working papers/chapters. Share with your #ECR friends and students! More info and submission guidelines are here: tiny.cc/p803101
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Theorising from Lived Experience: An Interdisciplinary Workshop for Early Career Researchers
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Teaching in Higher Education @teachinginhe.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
New publication alert! 🚨 Addressing emotional labour in higher education teaching: institutional solutions for effective teaching, workloads and wellbeing By Jenny H. Peterson #HigherEducation #EmotionalLabour www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A screenshot of the first page of the article from the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives titled: Addressing emotional labour in higher education teaching: institutional solutions for effective teaching, workloads and wellbeing by Jenny H. Peterson. The screenshot includes the abstract of the article (available via the link).A screenshot of the cover of the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives. The cover is red with a black band on the edge.
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The Philosopher @philosopher1923.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Coming up! Mon. May 11 ~ 2pm ET / 7pm UK "Philosophies of the South: Decolonizing Knowledge" Radha D'Souza with Rinaldo Walcott Drawing on anti-colonial thought and Black studies, they explore how knowledge emerges from struggles for freedom. www.thephilosopher1923.org/events/philo...
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Philosophies of the South: Decolonizing Knowledge
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Lisa Bortolotti @lisabortolotti.com · 30/04/2026
Melinda Gülsüm Esen’s review of Adam Toon’s Mind and Metaphor is now free access doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philsci @adamtoonphilos.bsky.social
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Mental fictionalism: a new approach to understanding the nature of the mind
Published in Philosophical Psychology (Vol. 39, No. 3, 2026)
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Teaching in Higher Education @teachinginhe.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
New publication alert! 🚨 Critical thinking in translation: eight interpretations by Chinese international postgraduate dissertation students By Luman Zhou, Jenna Mittelmeier, Jessica Gagnon and Martyn Edwards www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #HigherEducation #InternationalStudents
A screenshot of the first page of the article from the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives titled: Critical thinking in translation: eight interpretations by Chinese international postgraduate dissertation students by Luman Zhou, Jenna Mittelmeier, Jessica Gagnon and Martyn Edwards. The screenshot includes the abstract of the article in English and Chinese (available via the link).A screenshot of the cover of the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives. The cover is red with a black band on the edge.
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Dr Heather Ellis @heatherlwellis.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Happy to share the new SI of History of Education(55:3) “Senses, Emotions and Experiences in #histed” From the 2023 @histedsocuk.bsky.social conference in Sheffield, OA articles explore how education feels through bodies, memory, belonging & resistance. Guest-ed by me 😊 doi.org/10.1080/0046...
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Senses, Emotions and Experiences in the History of Education
Published in History of Education: Journal of the History of Education Society (Vol. 55, No. 3, 2026)
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Jana Bacevic 🌲🌳✊🏴 @unsocialtheory.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Five million years ago, I coined the term 'bounding' to describe the tendency to reduce women (esp. not-white women) scholars' knowledge claims to "politics", "identity", or "experience"(journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....). Here's Kimberlé Crenshaw being referred to as...activist, today
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