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This is happening on Thursday 👇

Pablo Magaña @pmagana94.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Can liberalism work for, and in, the far future? Simon Goldstein (in a recent paper with Peter N. Salib) thinks so. We'll be delighted to have Simon Goldstein (HKU) on October 8 at the Moral Minds and Ethical Futures seminar (12h CET). You are all warmly invited. More info below 👇

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Pablo Magaña @pmagana94.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Why should journalists cover animal issues? In a new paper in the Journal of Media Ethics, Rubén Marciel (U. of Geneva) and I suggest a few arguments.

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Eric Schwitzgebel @eschwitz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

New paper in draft! I've been working on this one since 2018, never satisfied, redrafting over and over. I'm sure it still needs considerable work, but I'm finally ready to circulate it. Walking the Walk Ethicists who advocate moral principles without trying to live by them will generally 1/4

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Pablo Magaña @pmagana94.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwe1... Of course manna from heaven is real. It's called "KEXP videos on Youtube."

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Ride - Leave Them All Behind (Live on KEXP)

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Pablo Magaña @pmagana94.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Every time I go back to Spain and re-experience how badly trains work I remember the relevant minister spends all his time arguing with randos on Twitter and my blood boils a little.

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Nico Müller @nicodmueller.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

‼️ Now OPEN ACCESS 🐭 People often think that, if we keep replacing animal models with NAMs, eventually we'll use fewer animals. It's why many people endorse the 3Rs. But as I argue, we also constantly come up with new animal models. There's kind of a pipeline dynamic. And it can go on indefinitely.

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Lane-Petter’s Pipeline: Why reliably decreasing animal research takes more than replacements - European Journal for Philosophy of Science

Programs for the “three Rs” of “replace, reduce, refine” (Russell & Burch 1959) aim to make science more compatible with animal protection. This article draws attention to a major obstacle to that end...

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Pablo Magaña @pmagana94.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Introduce yourself with ten acts you've seen live. Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band Mogwai Yo La Tengo The Sonics (or whatever it's left) Flamin' Groovies (ditto) Damien Jurado The National Charley Crockett Durand Jones & The Indications Jake Xerxes Fussell

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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 27/08/2026

I‘ve been thinking about Walter‘s essay all afternoon. I‘ve been trying to think of an analytic political or moral philosopher whose arguments wouldn‘t require a radical change to the status quo & I‘m struggling. Almost the entire characterisation of analytic philosophy in the piece is false.

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Pablo Magaña @pmagana94.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

At this point in my life, I just to live long enough to see the fall of Ryanair.

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Ever wonder what "information" really means? Here's our new paper, led by @frosas.bsky.social, that lays out the multiple ways the term is used in natural science. rdcu.be/fCDGv

A chart describing four faces of information: Engineering, Statistical, Thermodynamic, and Ontological.

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Pablo Magaña @pmagana94.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Failed pictures make good Midwest emo album covers.

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Neil Levy @neillevy.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

À propos of the latest AI in philosophy discussion, here's my paper on why I think AI will kill philosophy for those of us who see it as a special source of meaning. philpapers.org/rec/LEVTWO-10

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 14/08/2026

Cambridge University should have known better, Fleet Street should have known better, the people hungrily absorbing every bit of news about it, making newsrooms feel like they had to keep going with it as a story, should have known better, horrible horrible horrible

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Dr Keith 🎃 Wilson @keithwilson.eu · 28/07/2026

My favourite conclusion to a #philosophy paper, by Bill Lycan:

13.10. Conclusions
I can draw hardly any. My main thesis remains, that it is hard to see what could establish a claim as to what vision does or does not represent. Another thing that remains is the possibility that the question is a bad one. All this, I fear, is grist to the mill of the skeptics who deny that vision represents in the first place. I probably should not have written this chapter.

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Pablo Magaña @pmagana94.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Ryanair pilots and crew giving an update after spending 1h sitting inside a plane challenge. Difficulty: Impossible.

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Julien Lie-Panis @jliep.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Why do societies rely on rigid moral rules? Don't lie. Keep your promises. Don't steal. We all recognize there are good reasons to make exceptions. So why are moral rules so often categorical? Our new paper proposes an answer. 🧵

Screenshot of article title page, "Why human societies adopt rigid moral rules"

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Pablo Magaña @pmagana94.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

NEW PUBLICATION 🎉 In this paper, just out in Moral Philosophy and Politics, I've tried to articulate my current thoughts on why/whether we should represent animals politically (although I already disagree with some of the things I say!). Link below:

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Pablo Magaña @pmagana94.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Isn't he saying this like, every few months?

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Pablo Magaña @pmagana94.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

No, thanks. I think I will pass.

Picture of a menu displaying a dish called "Minucrap".

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Pablo Magaña @pmagana94.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

As a hardcore Simpsons fan, I was very happy to have Johnny Tightlips as my taxi driver today. Not a single word between the airport and my hotel lol

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Alexandru Volacu @volacu.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

My new piece for Justice Everywhere (justice-everywhere.org/general/ince...), where I argue that paying people for democratic service could help with alleviating both the current democratic crisis and the possible AI-driven unemployment crisis.

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Pablo Magaña @pmagana94.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Psl... Nice to see this guys making it to KEXP. So much young musical talent in Ireland, it's just mindblowing.

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Gurriers - Top Of The Bill (Live on KEXP)

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Matt Perry @mattwperry.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

🚨 New publication! 🐱🐶 Should pet-keeping require a license? Millions of pets are kept in human homes worldwide but there too few regulations on who can obtain a pet, under what conditions, and what standards of care are needed. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Licensing Pet-keeping

Pet-keeping is one of the most widespread human-animal relationships in the world. Despite its prevalence, this practice frequently results in animal welfare violations, including neglect, abuse, a...

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Pablo Magaña @pmagana94.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Because I'm terrible at self-regulation when I enter into a bookstore, I'm grateful to Penguin for their habit of printing books with unreadable font sizes which immediately obliterate any potential intention I had to buy said book.

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Dr Keith 🎃 Wilson @keithwilson.eu · 13/06/2026

There are now over 2,300 people on my Philosophers list, plus over 250 philosophy groups and organisations in the orgs list! The #PhilosophySky (formerly PhilSky＋) feed is still the best place to catch up with all the latest #philosophy posts on Bluesky. Pin and ❤️ the feed if you find it useful! 🙏

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Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I always appreciate artists who leave the top right-hand corner clear, in case people want to use their work as an OUP handbook cover and have the names be nicely legible

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Pablo Magaña @pmagana94.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Dear reviewers, If you say it's fine that a paper is about X, please don't suggest that it could be about Y. Yes, of course, it could be about Y, Z, etc. but it's about X (and you've said it's fine!). Just say "write about Y" if it shouldn't be about X in the first place.

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Pablo Magaña @pmagana94.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

philevents.org/event/show/1... Next Thursday, June 18 at 1pm CET, Sven Neth (U. Pittsburgh) will present on longtermist myopia at the Moral Minds and Ethical Futures seminar series co-organized by @hugoviciana.bsky.social and me. Join us!!

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Upcoming Events in Philosophy - PhilEventsUpcoming Events in Philosophy

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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 08/06/2026

The world has become much more resilient to disaster events over the last century. In the chart here, you can see estimates of average death rates — measured as the number of deaths per 100,000 people — by decade since the early 20th century.

Stacked bar chart of global annual death rates from natural disasters (decadal averages of deaths per 100,000 people) where the 1920s and 1940s show major peaks largely driven by droughts and floods and rates are much lower from about 1960 onward. Data source: EM-DAT, CRED / UCLouvain (2026); population data based on various sources (2024). License: CC BY. Coverage is more limited before the year 2000, so longer historical trends may partly reflect reporting improvements.

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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

If insects are sentient and sentience implies rights, what follows for food security and public health? I call this the "insect challenge" for animal ethics. The Journal of Practical Ethics has a new symposium on it, with an article by me and 3 replies: journals.publishing.umich.edu/jpe/news/ 1/5

A photograph of a bumblebee on a flower (by Jonathan Birch)

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 01/06/2026

Remember that recent paper claiming to show that "ideological bias" determined the results obtained by immigration policy research teams? A careful, open-code reanalysis by @kauspurg.bsky.social & Josef Brüderl finds that the result arises from a coding error. —> doi.org/10.31222/osf...

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Pablo Magaña @pmagana94.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I don't know who put the fake eyes in there, but you made my day.

Road work sign featuring a man with a spade. Someone put fake plastic eyes on the man's face.

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Pablo Magaña @pmagana94.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

After spending an hour trying to remove em dashes from an accepted paper so people don't think I wrote it with AI, I've decided to keep (most of) them. This is absurd. I like em dashes. I think they add rhythm and a sense of flow, and AIs only use them because people frequently use them (!).

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Eddie Yang @eddieyang.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

New paper in Nature. The more a government controls its domestic media, the more it dominates AI training data, the more pro-regime outputs we get from AI. By scraping the open web, LLMs are unwittingly laundering state-coordinated narratives into seemingly objective answers.

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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 23/05/2026

Feeling some sympathy for this author as I read the abstract for their paper. The fact/fart distinction does seem important though.

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This paper argues that, while there is a difference between personal and sub‐personal explanation, claims of autonomy should be treated with scepticism. It distinguishes between horizontal and vertical explanatory relations that might hold between facts at the personal and farts at the sub‐personal level. Noting that many philosophers are prepared to accept vertical explanatory relations between the two levels, I argue for the stronger claim that, in the case of at least three central personal level phenomena, the demands of explanatory adequacy require postulating horizontal explanatory relations.

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Youth Political Representation Research Network @youthpolrep.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

🚨OUT NOW🚨 Youth Political Representation - A Global Perspective on Young Adults Presence in Political Institutions Edited by @kirareneekurz.bsky.social & @britanlar.bsky.social link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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Pablo Magaña @pmagana94.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

The Southern European living in Dublin cannot comprehend the notion of a cold spell *in May*.

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Camila Vergara @camilavergara.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Financial crisis is being used to bypass tenure protections. University of Essex fired me & 11 others from the Business School in a clear targeting based on our philosophical orientation & social justice commitments. Please sign the public statement: sites.google.com/view/mmpubli...

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Sara Van Goozen @drsvg.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

It's not often that you can say a publication is a "first of its kind", but this may very well be the first handbook of its kind. We'll be exploring animal politics from all its angles, and provide a genuinely broad overview of this exciting and urgent field. Well keen to get going.

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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 13/05/2026

We have all committed ourselves to a tremendous amount of work, but I'm excited to share this news.

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Josh Milburn @joshmilburn.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

I'm very excited to share that I'm part of the editorial team for the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Animal Politics, along with Matt Perry (@mattwperry.bsky.social), Sara Van Goozen (@drsvg.bsky.social), Steve Cooke (@stevecooke.org), Alasdair Cochrane, and Angie Pepper. Watch this space!

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Matt Perry @mattwperry.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Brilliant news to share! Just heard from OUP that our proposal has been accepted to co-edit an "Oxford Handbook of Animal Politics" featuring over 40 commissioned chapters surveying the field. Co-editors @drsvg.bsky.social, @stevecooke.org, @joshmilburn.bsky.social, Alasdair Cochrane & Angie Pepper

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Pablo Magaña @pmagana94.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

link.springer.com/article/10.1... Andre Santos Campos, Iñigo González-Ricoy and myself have co-edited a special issue on Axel Gosseries's book What Is Intergenerational Justice? Here's our Introduction to the SI, summarizing Axel's book and the contributors' excellent responses.

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Introduction: Gosseries on What Is Intergenerational Justice? - Res Publica

This short article provides an introduction to the special issue “Gosseries on Intergenerational Justice,” so as to guide interested readers. In the first half of the article, we provide a short intro...

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 09/05/2026

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Despite what the Trump administration says, the president’s most lethal policy will almost surely be his 71% cut in humanitarian aid from 2024 to 2025, our columnist Nicholas Kristof writes of U.S.A.I.D. “The world’s richest men are crushing the world’s poorest children.”

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Opinion | This Is What Happened After We Gutted U.S.A.I.D.

Trump’s most lethal policy will almost surely be his 71 percent cut in humanitarian aid from 2024 to 2025.

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