Reposted by Mary EdwardsJustin Weinberg @dailynous.com · 28/08/2026Some good news...dailynous.comPhilosophy at Dundee Saved—In Part, For Now (guest post) - Daily Nous"A small programme with a large international reach has bucked the trend of closures across the arts and humanities." Over the summer, administration of the University of Dundee announced a plan to cu... 15014
Reposted by Mary EdwardsWomen's Studies, UCC @uccwomenstudies.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Final week to apply to the Ireland Fellows funding program - and our Women's Studies MA is one of the application options! If you are an international student with an interest in women's & gender studies, then check out the IFP website here… 132
Mary Edwards @mary-l-edwards.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Here is a petition to stop redundancies at the University of Exeter c.org/f6L4P4nv8Sc.orgSign the PetitionStop Redundancies at the University of Exeter 000
Reposted by Mary EdwardsAnneli Jefferson @annelijefferson.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Cardiff Uni wants to scrap the 2nd floor of the Arts and Social Studies Library. We're talking 7km of books and vital study space gone to make way for classrooms. Please help us save this crucial campus resource before it's ripped out in June! Add your name here: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...you.38degrees.org.ukStop Cardiff University from scrapping the ASSL's second floor!7km of books and crucial study spaces are at risk. Cardiff Uni wants to repurpose the busiest library on campus into classrooms. Help protect our library and sign the petition today. 011
Reposted by Mary EdwardsDan Tappin @oitappin.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Timid librarian in plea to save my workplace from making a huge mistake. A whole floor of Cardiff University's main library is under threat of being repurposed to teaching facilities with the removal of 7km of shelving holding valuable books. Pls share x you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...you.38degrees.org.ukSave the second floor of Cardiff University's Arts and Social Studies Library (ASSL)Dear current patrons, past patrons, and future patrons of Arts and Social Sciences Library (ASSL) at Cardiff University. On Friday 17th of May, library staff of the ASSL were informed by University Li... 3160155
Reposted by Mary EdwardsNick Clanchy @nickclanchy.bsky.social · 13/05/2026A paper I wrote in 2023, “Against Hermeneutical Gatekeeping: Or, How to Be a Materialist About (Some) Epistemic Injustices”, has finally escaped from reviewing limbo into the world at Synthese! Pre-print available here: philpapers.org/rec/CLAAHG /1philpapers.orgNick Clanchy, Against Hermeneutical Gatekeeping: Or, How to Be a Materialist About (Some) Epistemic Injustices - PhilPapersRecently David Ludwig has argued that spending finite attentional resources on the question of how to achieve epistemic justice can contribute to sidelining the question of how to achieve material jus... 3315
Reposted by Mary EdwardsSharrow 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇮🇪🦄💙📚🎃 @sharrow.eurosky.social · 13/05/2026Please contact your TDs and ask them to support the bill up for voting this evening to end the 72 hour waiting period. It has no basis in medical practice or legal requirements. #spéirgorm #repeal #abortionishealthcare 04532
Mary Edwards @mary-l-edwards.bsky.social · 29/04/2026I was once a SWIP-I Student Rep and learned so much from being involved in the committee! This is a terrific opportunity for ECRs in #philosophy and #Ireland 030
Reposted by Mary EdwardsShannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Was happy to contribute to this BBC piece on the AI industry's usual bullshitbbc.co.ukWhy AI companies want you to be afraid of themThey built it. They're scared of it. They're selling it anyway. 13311
Reposted by Mary EdwardsTim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Three year postdoc going at @qmulsse.bsky.social working with @karlpike.bsky.social on ‘Politics and mythmaking: disentangling myth from ideology’, funded by the Leverhulme Trust. Details here:jobs.ac.ukPostdoctoral Research Associate at Queen Mary University of LondonExplore an exciting academic career as a Postdoctoral Research Associate. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities. 02833
Reposted by Mary Edwardshannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Very excited for what I'm calling 'Rosa Campbell Week' in Edinburgh in May, where @rosavcampbell.bsky.social will be in town for a number of events to launch her new book on Shere Hite - including a talk at @lighthousebks.bsky.social chaired by me! lighthousebookshop.com/events/the-b...lighthousebookshop.comLighthouse | The Book That Taught the World to Orgasm and then Disappeared: Rosa Campbell on Shere Hite and the Hite Report 3134
Mary Edwards @mary-l-edwards.bsky.social · 18/04/2026I've just discovered that the paper I wrote with Luna Dolezal on fetal ultrasound has been subjected to some (conservative, male) misinterpretation and nastiness on X. doi.org/10.1017/hyp.... 332
Reposted by Mary EdwardsDr Zara Bain @zaranosaur.bsky.social · 18/04/2026If you missed this week's Bring Your Own Project workshop on epistemic injustice, oppression and ignorance, you might like to know that I'm running a second overflow session next Tuesday at 1.30pm over Zoom. Sign up here: funnels.academicaudiotranscription.com/byop-epistem...funnels.academicaudiotranscription.comFree online Epistemic Injustice Workshop for Social ResearchersJoin us on 21 April for a free workshop to troubleshoot and hone your theoretical lens while connecting with other researchers working on similar topics 033
Reposted by Mary EdwardsPhilosophical Moral Psychology Lab @philmoralpsych.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Hi Bluesky! 👋 We’re the Philosophical Moral Psychology Lab, based at the Uehiro Oxford Institute. We use experimental philosophy and moral psychology methods to study morality, with the aim of contributing to normative and philosophical debates in ethics. Follow us to keep up with our work! 03419
Reposted by Mary EdwardsAristotelian Society @aristotsoc.bsky.social · 23/02/2026Our next PAS talk will take place next Monday: We've got Anneli Jefferson from Cardiff coming to talk to us: "Working out how blame works" ⏰ 18.15, 2 March 2026. 📍 Swedenborg Hall (20-21 Bloomsbury Way) 🔗https://www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk/the-proceedings/the-2025-26-programme/anneli-jefferson/ 0127
Reposted by Mary EdwardsRosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 25/02/2026⏱️the countdown begins…we are 1 year in to the Multispecies Mutualisms project & next week we will advertise four 3-year post doc positions. The posts will start in Sept 2026. Keep a look out for the adverts & get in touch if you have fully completed your PhD & are interested in working with us ⬇️ 1205
Mary Edwards @mary-l-edwards.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Why don’t we think of fetal ultrasound—the production of images of the inside of our reproductive organs—as an intrusion? Luna Dolezal and I argue that we should doi.org/10.1017/hyp.... #OpenAccessdoi.orgFetal Ultrasound as Intrusion | Hypatia | Cambridge CoreFetal Ultrasound as Intrusion 010
Reposted by Mary EdwardsAlix Beeston @alixbeeston.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Hot on the heels of the @parisreview.bsky.social piece featuring an excerpt from Kathleen Colllins's unfinished novel "Blue Obstacles," ASAP/Journal has published a longer version of the draft materials with scholarly notes and a contextualizing essay. It's open access! 🎉🎉🎉 doi.org/10.1353/asa.... 12110
Reposted by Mary EdwardsCardiff Philosophy @cardiffphilosophy.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Dr Daisy Dixon's new book –– DEPRAVED: The Story of Dangerous Art –– an analysis of the varieties of immoral art and the ways that we should respond to it –– is now available to preorder! Waterstones are offering a 25% discount until 20 February – used code FEB26: bit.ly/Dixon-DSDA #philsky 0146
Reposted by Mary EdwardsHetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Please help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research. We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche... 1173250
Reposted by Mary EdwardsWomen's Studies, UCC @uccwomenstudies.bsky.social · 16/01/2026Important project happening at @ucc.ie right now: www.ucc.ie/en/deepfake-...ucc.ieDeepfake Real Harms Toolkit | University College CorkLearn, Study and Research in UCC, Ireland's first 5 star university. Our tradition of independent thinking will prepare you for the world and the workplace in a vibrant, modern, green campus. 011
Reposted by Mary EdwardsShannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 07/11/2025Another. Once upon a time there would have been consequences for a company that knowingly enabled this, including a consumer revolt.cnn.comChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNNA 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit. 04213
Reposted by Mary EdwardsDr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 07/11/2025🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 More feminist rage! A President, a head of state, a woman, cannot walk on the street without being sexuslly harassed! #killthepatriarchy www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comMexico president to seek charges after being groped on streetClaudia Sheinbaum says she is pressing charges because "a line must be drawn" against the harassment of Mexican women. 1377
Mary Edwards @mary-l-edwards.bsky.social · 06/11/2025“Women do not need full rights but rather the freeing privilege of serving men, their community, and their nation through dutiful reproduction” — Great analysis of some very troubling trends on the Right by @aselrod.bsky.social 052
Reposted by Mary EdwardsLucy Osler @lucyosler.bsky.social · 28/10/2025✨CFA✨ I’m hosting a workshop on Social AI at the Uni of Exeter, generously funded by the Society of Applied Philosophy (10&11 Feb). If you fancy joining us to present your work, please submit an abstract! Confirmed speakers: Rob Clowes, Pii Telakivi, Joel Krueger, Tom Roberts, & me. #philsky 23220
Reposted by Mary EdwardsCardiff Philosophy @cardiffphilosophy.bsky.social · 26/10/2025🎈Book launch! The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy edited by Jonathan Webber Wednesday 12 November 2025 : 18:00 - 19:30 Oat & Bean, 26 Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3BA Everyone is welcome! No need to register. Just turn up! 0146
Reposted by Mary EdwardsRethinking Existentialism @rethinkexistent.bsky.social · 01/10/20251 October 1945: The first issue of Les Temps Modernes is published –– a monthly cultural and political journal led by Sartre and Beauvoir, with a host of other major figures on the editorial board. The journal is named after a Charlie Chaplin film. Pablo Picasso designed the cover. 1208
Mary Edwards @mary-l-edwards.bsky.social · 30/09/2025Here, I review the final instalment of the English translation of Simone de Beauvoir’s student diary as well as Margaret A. Simons’s treatment of the sexual assault it alludes to. 052
Reposted by Mary EdwardsBerghahn Books @berghahnbooks.bsky.social · 24/09/2025The latest issue of Sartre Studies International has been published! View the TOC and more for Volume 31, Issue 1 here: bit.ly/4pC8gX1 Featuring a Review Essay by @mary-l-edwards.bsky.social @uksartresociety.bsky.social 031
Reposted by Mary EdwardsDr Louise Richardson-Self @lvself.bsky.social · 28/08/2025Excited to share "Religious Freedom and Meaning Vertigo: A Social Imaginaries Analysis of ‘The Persecuted Faithful’ in The Australian’s Op-Eds" forthcoming in For, Against, Together: Antagonistic Political Emotions edited by the brilliant @lucyosler.bsky.social & Thomas Szanto tinyurl.com/374skfzatinyurl.comReligious Freedom and Meaning Vertigo: A Social Imaginaries Analysis of ‘The Persecuted Faithful’ in The Australian’s Op-EdsIn Australia, divisive debate on the matter of religious freedom has come to the fore following the introduction of marriage equality in 2017 and increasing protections against trans and gender divers... 162
Reposted by Mary EdwardsSociety for Women in Philosophy Ireland @swip-i.bsky.social · 28/08/2025Only 4️⃣ days left to submit to the 10th SWIP Ireland Conference on Ways of Knowing: Epistemologies & Pedagogies 📅 5–6 Dec 2025 📍Maynooth University 📝 Abstracts (max 300 words) due 1 Sept. 👉 www.swip-ireland.com/events #CFP #Philosophyswip-ireland.comEvents — SWIP Ireland 062
Reposted by Mary EdwardsNigel Warburton @nigelwarburton.bsky.social · 25/04/2025Don’t miss @philosofemme.bsky.social on Simone de Beauvoir and French Existentialism @ Blackwells Oxford 11am Saturday 3rd May - free event #philosophyinthebookshop www.eventbrite.com/e/philosophy...eventbrite.comPHILOSOPHY IN THE BOOKSHOP with Kate Kirkpatrick and Nigel WarburtonOur regular Philosophy in the Bookshop series this month features Kate Kirkpatrick on Simone De Beauvoir and French existentialism. 13713
Reposted by Mary EdwardsBritish Society for Phenomenology @thebsp.org.uk · 03/03/2025“Phenomenologies of Mental Health, Well-Being, and Flourishing” Call for abstracts and proposals - Interdisciplinary Conference September 19-20, 2025, Lehigh University, College of Health www.britishphenomenology.org.uk/phenomenolog... #Phenomenology 063
Reposted by Mary EdwardsThe International Simone de Beauvoir Society @beauvoirsociety.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Given the current political environment, essays devoted to the theme of complicity and resistance are especially encouraged. 🔥 0109
Reposted by Mary EdwardsCardiff Philosophy @cardiffphilosophy.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Book launch! Meaning: A Very Short Introduction by Emma Borg and Sarah Fisher Wednesday, 26 February 2025 18:00-19:00 Cathays, Cardiff Full details ––cardiff.ac.ukBook launch! Meaning: A Very Short IntroductionJoin us to celebrate the publication of a new book co-authored by Cardiff University philosopher Dr Sarah Fisher. 1169
Reposted by Mary EdwardsBritish Society for Phenomenology @thebsp.org.uk · 25/02/2025Lifeworlds in Crisis: Applying Phenomenology (Dublin, Ireland | 27 – 29 August 2025) Call for abstracts – papers, panels, posters, books Joint international conference: British Society for Phenomenology & University College Dublin sites.google.com/view/licdubl... #phenomenology 075
Reposted by Mary EdwardsDr Keith 🎃 Wilson @keithwilson.eu · 24/01/2025Do you have a stellar track record in #Ethics and #Philosophy of Technology (inc. AI)? Want to be my colleague at University College Dublin? Good news: we’re hiring! Full details below, with further information about the Ad Astra programme at www.ucd.ie/adastrafello.... #PhilJobs #PhilTech #AIEthics 32913
Mary Edwards @mary-l-edwards.bsky.social · 25/01/2025And it includes @nonamename.bsky.social’s brilliant paper on silencing conversational silences! 🙌 120
Reposted by Mary EdwardsKate Kirkpatrick @philosofemme.bsky.social · 17/01/2025Opening next week: the first solo exhibition of paintings by Hélène de Beauvoir in London. Her work was first exhibited in Paris in 1936 in the Galerie Jacques Bonjean—a gallery cofounded by Christian Dior in his first career as an art dealer. artplugged.co.uk/helene-de-be...artplugged.co.ukHélène de Beauvoir: The Woman DestroyedHélène de Beauvoir: The Woman Destroyed marks the artist’s first solo show in London, revealing decades of overlooked work and a legacy intertwined with feminism 1266
Reposted by Mary EdwardsJonathan Mitchell @mitchellphilosophy.bsky.social · 09/12/2024amzn.eu/d/8kTB7Oh Ever wondered what Emotions are? #philosophy - look no further!amzn.euEmotion as Feeling Towards Value: A Theory of Emotional ExperienceBuy Emotion as Feeling Towards Value: A Theory of Emotional Experience by Mitchell, Jonathan (ISBN: 9780192846013) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. 093
Reposted by Mary EdwardsImage Works @imageworkscardiff.bsky.social · 12/12/2024Looking forward to our evening discussionof tradwives, Barbiecore, TikTok fandom, trans affect, and more at Tramshed tonight! Tickets free and a few still available (eventbrite link below)💫 #cardiff 143
Reposted by Mary EdwardsDr Louise Richardson-Self @lvself.bsky.social · 12/12/2024TOMORROW! Heads up; if you're attending online you need to register -- otherwise the Zoom link won't work. www.eventbrite.com.au/e/online-dig... @cardiffphilosophy.bsky.social @uconn.bsky.social @utas.edu.au 095
Reposted by Mary EdwardsDr Louise Richardson-Self @lvself.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Register here: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/online-dig...eventbrite.com.au(ONLINE) Digital Transformations: Identity, Gender, and AffectivityAn exploration of the digital aspects of human lives, and the ways in which identities, communities, and collectives form in online spaces. 042
Reposted by Mary EdwardsDr Keith 🎃 Wilson @keithwilson.eu · 12/11/2024Resources for Bluesky philosophers 1. Some recommendations to get you started bsky.app/profile/did:... 2. Philosophy and subject-specific feeds bsky.app/profile/did:... (uses #philosophy, #PhilSky & other hashtags) 3. A list of philosophers on Bluesky (under construction) bsky.app/profile/did:... 711340
Reposted by Mary EdwardsA. @nonamename.bsky.social · 14/11/2024For years now we've seen increasing criminalisation of drill music & artists in the UK and the US. Tareeq Jalloh, Ethan Nowak & I are organising a hybrid, interdiciplinary event surrounding these issues, focussing on social justice, freeom and rap. Register here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/folks-need... 2156