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University of Glasgow @glasgow.ac.uk · 21/09/2026

Bright Club is back! Join us at The Stand Glasgow for a night of laughs as our researchers and academics turn into stand-up comedians. 📅 Mon 28 September 📍 The Stand, Glasgow Get your tickets for £4 using discount code "BRIGHTCLUB": gla.ac/4duDDyd

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Michael L. Frazer @michaelfrazer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Bright Club Glasgow is back, bringing you live stand-up comedy from real academics - join us at The Stand on Mon 28th Sep to find out the wonderfully funny side of research! Use code BRIGHTCLUB for tickets for just £5! www.thestand.co.uk/performance/...

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Bright Club Glasgow - Glasgow, 28 Sep 2026 | The Stand

Bright Club is the thinking person variety night. Bright Club’s unique blend of comedy, academia and music has won support from New Scientist, The Guardian, ...

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Michael L. Frazer @michaelfrazer.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Don't be the sea peoples that you don't want to see in the world. #odyssey #bronzeagecollapse

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Michael L. Frazer @michaelfrazer.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Still more edutaining stand-up comedy with Bright Club Glasgow, this time on the concept of active learning. youtu.be/EemsiYbBT6A?...

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Bright Club Glasgow - Michael Frazer

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Michael L. Frazer @michaelfrazer.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Yet another edutaining stand-up comedy routine, this one on how America is still stuck in the eighteenth century. youtu.be/RoQ8aPnpeNo?...

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Bright Club Glagow - Michael Frazer

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Michael L. Frazer @michaelfrazer.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

A stand-up routine on mercantilism and Adam Smith, for edutainment purposes only. youtu.be/XPtw1SUZXP0

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Bright Club Glasgow - Michael Frazer

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Michael L. Frazer @michaelfrazer.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Bright Club Glasgow is back! We have a Glasgow Science Festival show on Monday 8th June at The Stand Comedy Club, Glasgow. Tickets only £5 with the promocode BRIGHTCLUB. www.thestand.co.uk/performance/...

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Glasgow Science Festival: Bright Club - The Stand Comedy Club

Glasgow Science Festival presents Bright Club, the thinking person's comedy night blending comedy and academia. Laugh and learn as researchers from Scotland'...

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 06/04/2026

#OpenAccess from The Review of Politics - Syllabi and Social Justice - cup.org/4sl2pFE "I conclude that Interdependence incorporates the most important insights of the other four models while avoiding their individual limitations" - @michaelfrazer.bsky.social #FirstView

The image features a two-toned background, with the top half in dark blue and the bottom half in yellow. The text reads "The Review of Politics" in large letters and "#OpenAccess" below.

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Michael L. Frazer @michaelfrazer.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

New article alert! An attempt to bring some order to the chaos of one of the most heated debates in academia today. Syllabi and Social Justice | The Review of Politics | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Syllabi and Social Justice | The Review of Politics | Cambridge Core

Syllabi and Social Justice

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Michael L. Frazer @michaelfrazer.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Glaswegians: Bright Club is an academic comedy night that turns researchers and university staff into stand-up comedians. Our next show is on Monday 2 February at The Stand Glasgow and tickets are available via The Stand for £4 with the code BRIGHTCLUB. www.thestand.co.uk/performance/...

thestand.co.uk

Bright Club Glasgow - The Stand Comedy Club

Bright Club is the thinking person variety night. Bright Club’s unique blend of comedy, academia and music has won support from New Scientist, The Guardian, ...

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Michael L. Frazer @michaelfrazer.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Perhaps you'd enjoy seeing academics making fun of their own teaching and research, including the continued hijinks of a New Yorker teaching the Scottish Enlightenment in Scotland. If so, you can get discounted £4 tickets by using the code BRIGHTCLUB at this link: www.thestand.co.uk/performance/...

thestand.co.uk

Bright Club Glasgow - The Stand Comedy Club

Bright Club is the thinking person variety night. Bright Club’s unique blend of comedy, academia and music has won support from New Scientist, The Guardian, ...

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Michael L. Frazer @michaelfrazer.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Still can't quite believe that an old university classmate is now the biographer of an old high school classmate, let alone that I'm quoted in said biography. Can't wait to read the whole thing. www.americantheatre.org/2025/09/09/a...

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A High School Ham’s First Take on ‘Hamilton’

Lessons from Lin-Manuel Miranda’s last 2 years at Hunter: collaboration, delegation, and digging deeper.

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UofG Centre for Public Policy @uofgpolicy.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Our #UofGSpotlight episode Trump 2.0: What’s Next? hit 41,000+ listens!🎙️🌎 Revisit what was predicted and compare it to what’s unfolding now by listening to the episode with our guests @michaelfrazer.bsky.social & @jkaarbo.bsky.social. Listen here 🔗 open.spotify.com/episode/71pi...

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Trump 2.0: What's next?

UofG Spotlight · Episode

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Michael L. Frazer @michaelfrazer.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

If you like jokes about the Scottish Enlightenment, you'll love my local stand-up debut. youtu.be/sIFBvz9KekM

Michael Frazer performing stand-up comedy at The Stand, Glasgow. There is a sign for Bright Club Glasgow.

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Michael L. Frazer @michaelfrazer.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Time to drop the really big bomb: Reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions. Have a nice day!

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Michael L. Frazer @michaelfrazer.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Any ideas where a teenager should send a short story for consideration for publication or prizes or something like that?

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Pete Hegseth yesterday: "Nobody was texting war plans." Well sure if you don't consider minute-by-minute details including what kind of planes and when missiles are launched "war plans" then we're cool

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Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal

The administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to The Atlantic’s editor in chief.

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Michael L. Frazer @michaelfrazer.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

I've gotten giggles when lecturing on the categorical imperative with my New York accent. Apparently the Maltese accent creates similar issues. Either that, or the EBU are all hardcore empiricists and consequentialists. #Kant #Eurovision eurovoix.com/2025/03/04/k...

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🇲🇹 Malta: "Kant" Must Be Removed From Miriana's Eurovision Entry - Eurovoix

The European Broadcasting Union has stated that "Kant" has to be removed from its entry for Eurovision 2025.

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Michael L. Frazer @michaelfrazer.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Stuck in the middle with you... and John Swinney and Thomas Reid. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2496609...

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Michael L. Frazer @michaelfrazer.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

The Jewish community in Norwich is tiny, so this strange group was unavoidable when we lived there. Disturbed to learn that it's probably a dangerous cult and not just a weird example of cultural appropriation. www.thejc.com/news/uk/syna...

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Synagogue of shame: The converts being coerced and exploited by the British ‘rabbi’ who follows Jesus - The Jewish Chronicle

Andrew Sheldrake – known to his followers as Rabbi Binyamin – has attracted scores of disciples

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Michael L. Frazer @michaelfrazer.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Not to spoil anything, but we here in #Glasgow were very pleased with our shout-out in the latest #Severance.

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UofG Centre for Public Policy @uofgpolicy.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

💥4000 downloads over the weekend! 💥 Have you already listened to our latest episode of #UofGSpotlight on the return of Trump? 🎧 Tune in: www.uofgspotlight.com Featuring hosts @profnicolamcewen.bsky.social & @kezdugdale.bsky.social with guests @michaelfrazer.bsky.social & @jkaarbo.bsky.social.

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Nicola McEwen @profnicolamcewen.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Stopped hiding in West Wing boxset to confront reality for our new @uofgpolicy.bsky.social #UofGSpotlight podcast. Fascinating political philosophy insights from @michaelfrazer.bsky.social & I discuss leadership style with the always brilliant Prof @jkaarbo.bsky.social. Well worth a listen!

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UofG Centre for Public Policy @uofgpolicy.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

NEW #UofGSpotlight podcast🚨 Hosts @profnicolamcewen.bsky.social and @kezdugdale.bsky.social are joined by expert guests @michaelfrazer.bsky.social and @jkaarbo.bsky.social to discuss the return of President Donald Trump and what's next for US and global politics. 🎧 www.uofgspotlight.com

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UofG Centre for Public Policy @uofgpolicy.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

...fascinating insights from our guests @michaelfrazer.bsky.social, Lecturer in Politics at @uofgsps.bsky.social, and @jkaarbo.bsky.social Professor of Foreign Policy at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social and founding co-director of @scga.bsky.social. Tune in to the episode! 🎧 www.uofgspotlight.com

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Michael L. Frazer @michaelfrazer.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Social/Political Philosophers/Theorists, The Association for Social and Political Philosophy will be meeting in Glasgow this July. Please see the call for papers below. And please share widely!

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Michael L. Frazer @michaelfrazer.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

This should be of interest to any social scientist who ever had trouble with ethics review, and any ethicist who ever wondered why ethics review has so little to do with ethics. It was a great workshop which I was proud to attend. www.gla.ac.uk/schools/soci...

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What is Institutional Ethics Review, and Why is it (Still) so Unsatisfactory for the Social Sciences?

In this blog, Dr Rebecca Tapscott reflects on a two-day international workshop held at the University

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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

🎄🎅 From tomorrow until Christmas we'll post a sovereignty-themed advent calendar. After all Levia-clause is sovereign! He makes law determining who is naughty or nice and dispenses justice, giving gifts to some and punishing the others (taking away bad kids to the forest, in some traditions).

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Last few days of university redundancy news: *Essex *Leeds Trinity *Leicester *Loughborough *Sheffield *Sussex *UEA www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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University of Essex to cut 200 jobs amid £29m shortfall

The University of Essex says it faces a

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British Society for the History of Philosophy @thebshp.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

We're now on Bluesky! Spread the word 📣

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Rob Reich @robreich.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Hard to believe that it was 20 years ago that feminist political philosopher Susan Moller Okin died at only 57 years old. It was a bracing professional and personal loss. New newspaper article about her just published, including reflections from her family. newsroom.co.nz/2024/11/25/d...

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Death of a feminist legend

A scholarship student from Epsom Girls became one of the most acclaimed feminist thinkers in America but died tragically young

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Paul Kelleher @paulkelleher.net · 25/11/2024

November 12, 1973 --- The day Philosophy & Public Affairs started treating Rawls like Jesus.

A letter on Philosophy & Public Affairs letterhead that reads:

November 12, 1973

Professor Robert Nozick
Department of Philosophy
Emerson Hall
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

Dear Professor Nozick,

I have been meaning to send you a note ever since you did not telephone the second time last week just to say that I decided after all to drop the offending post-apostrophes from the possessive of Rawls. This is, as I told you, according to the Chicago Manual of Style an honor due only to Moses and Jesus, but with us aesthetic considerations won out. The decision puts us somewhat in a class by ourselves -- I note that in Brian Barry's new book he and Oxford Press write Rawls's -- but I don't mind being different. I trust that you will not.

sincerely，
Margot Cutter

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

modern German-Jewish thought alignment chart, come at me. (bonus points if you can figure out which of their perspectives the chart is true from)

D&D alignment chart for modern German-Jewish thinkers. Top row: Hermann Cohen, Franz Kafka, Martin Buber as lawful, neutral, and chaotic good. Middle row: Franz Rosenzweig, Hannah Arendt, and Walter Benjamin as lawful, neutral, and chaotic neutral. Bottom row: Theodor Adorno, Leo Strauss, and Gershom Scholem as lawful, neutral, and chaotic evil.

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Andreas Vrahimis @avrahimis.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I made a #history of #philosophy starter pack. Have I missed anyone? Do you object to being on the list? Let me know. #WorldPhilosophyDay #philsky #academicsky

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Tom Ashbyトムアシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Intellectual History & Friends Part 3 is here! Do let me know if there is anyone I should add or if you would like to be added go.bsky.app/MX1ZBPL

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Samuel Bagg @samuel-bagg.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Since it seems like these classics from the bad place are re-circulating here, I humbly present my most (only?) viral post to date: types of political theory paper…

A comic depicting 12 different types of political theory paper, with titles poking fun at different types of paper.

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

You, boy! Which UK university has declared itself in financial crisis today?

Alistair Sim as Scrooge leans out of a window

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Michael L. Frazer @michaelfrazer.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Centuries from now, an annoyingly pedantic historian of political thought will point out that one cannot POSSIBLY understand any political philosophy from 2024 unless one remembers that, as we all know full well, The Cambridge School officially switched to BlueSky from X on 18 November of that year.

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Michael L. Frazer @michaelfrazer.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Hi, new academic followers! Let's give the collective practical wisdom of this thing a test drive: What's the best and/or cheapest platform for collecting conference fees? The events team at Glasgow wants us to use Eventbrite, which charges 7% and may not even get us the funds before the conference.

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