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Megan Blomfield

@meganblom.bsky.social
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Philosopher | climate justice | natural resources | land rights | (she/her)

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Britain and Ireland Association for Political Thought @biapt.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
We have released a joint statement (below) with @psapolthought.bsky.social to express our alarm about the compulsory redundancies @universityofessex.bsky.social Business School. Please share widely if you share our concerns.
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Santiago Truccone @santiagotruccone.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
📌Call for Papers With @meganblom.bsky.social and @lgarciaportela.bsky.social, we are inviting submissions for a workshop on Justice in Climate Litigation, which will be hosted at the University of Manchester in the first week of September. Deadline: 11 May research.manchester.ac.uk/en/activitie...
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· Justice in Climate Litigation
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Jules @julesholroyd.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
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/ #Philosophymatters #philsky
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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...
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Barry Bannan's Right Foot 🇵🇸 @hopethathelps.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
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...
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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...
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
'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
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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
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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Me at the LRB blog on the atrocious refugee policy of Mahmood and Starmer
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Christopher Bertram | ‘Core Protection’
Refugeehood is not supposed to be like this. The ideal envisaged by the Refugee Convention is that refugee status should...
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Cailin O’Connor @cailinmeister.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
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
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
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...
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Nobody Knows What UK Law on Toilet Access is
The lawlessness of the government's response to For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers.
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Jules @julesholroyd.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
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... #Philosophy #Philsky
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Demilitarise Education | dED
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Megan Blomfield @meganblom.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
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...
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Teaching Associate
Teaching Associate
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Alasia Nuti @alasianuti.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
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
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OPEN LETTER: 100+ UK Academics & Writers to Keir Starmer
New anti-immigrant rules are bad policy & will only validate the far-right
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
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
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OPEN LETTER: 100+ UK Academics & Writers to Keir Starmer
New anti-immigrant rules are bad policy & will only validate the far-right
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Jules @julesholroyd.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
3 year post in Philosophy at Sheffield! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMH928/l... (post with added # for greater visibility...) #academicsky #philsky
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Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 03/04/2024
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.
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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...
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Tim Meijers @timmeijers.bsky.social · 06/02/2024
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...
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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...
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Megan Blomfield @meganblom.bsky.social · 04/01/2024
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
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Professor in History of Philosophy or Political Philosophy, The University of Sheffield - PhilJob...
An international database of jobs for philosophers
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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 20/12/2023
Sheffield is a great city and this is a great department. Quite the opportunity for someone!
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Professor in History of Philosophy or Political Philosophy, The University of Sheffield - PhilJob...
An international database of jobs for philosophers
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Megan Blomfield @meganblom.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
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
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