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Dr Zara Bain @zaranosaur.bsky.social · 21h

There is also this very exciting little intro offer we’ve got here if you want to try out outsourced 100% human done transcription support without committing your whole project to it

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Rebecca Buxton @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

To even things out, this week I also got a major revisions and a rejection, so I remain humble.

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Rebecca Buxton @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Got a paper accepted today that I've been touring around since 2021, thank the lord.

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Rebecca Buxton @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In my final meeting of the day, a student gave me a doughnut because I think I look very tired. God bless.

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Jonathan Floyd @jonathanfloyd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hi folks. You now have until November 4th to submit a paper/panel to the 'political philosophy' section at the biennial IPSA conference in Rome (07/27). We're trying to make it the biggest ever pol-phi IPSA conference, and already have lots of fun things planned... wc2027.ipsa.org/wc/submit-pa...

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Submit a Paper

Covered in this section: Key Dates Rules for Participation Guidelines for paper proposals Submit or revise a paper proposal Guidelines for full papers Paper Proposal Key Dates 08 SEP 2026 Call for Pap...

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The BBC has long given up even pretending to be interested in who these people are, why they are coming or how they might feel, in favour of acting as a kind of shop window for the parties to display their wares of violence and cruelty

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Most migrant small boat arrivals in single day of 2026

A total of 781 migrants arrive on Wednesday, but the yearly total is below the same point in 2025.

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Rebecca Buxton @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A drunk man in an airport queue fist bumped me for reading a book, and then talked to me about fiction for then minutes. More of this please.

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Rebecca Buxton @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My flight is delayed, meaning I have to spend more time in my personal hell: the airport.

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Rebecca Buxton @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Bristol Political Philosophers have a manuscript workshop! If you're a UK-based political philosopher, come and talk to us about your book in Bristol next year. The very easy form to fill in is below: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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The Bristol Political Philosophy Manuscript Workshop 2027

The Bristol Political Philosophy group will be hosting its first manuscript workshop in 2027. This will give scholars who are currently preparing a book manuscript a chance to engage in a day-long wor...

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Jonathan Floyd @jonathanfloyd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Do have you a political theory/philosophy book manuscript? Would you like a one-day workshop dedicated to it in Spring 2027? If so, Bristol is here for you, and as promised a while ago, here's the very short form you need to fill in between now and roughly 4 weeks time: forms.gle/uCvi7sMMT7kW...

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The Bristol Political Philosophy Manuscript Workshop 2027

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Rebecca Buxton @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Excited to be heading to Lisbon next week for this workshop on 'The harms of interrogation.' I'll be talking about asylum interviews and how we could make refugee status determination less disrespectful to those going through it.

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Rebecca Buxton @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Managed to destroy all my gym cred by smashing my head full force into a metal pull up bar and crying in front of all the muscle men. That's going to take a lot of time to build back up.

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Rebecca Buxton @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I'm on holiday for one week before the start of term, so here we go!

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Rebecca Buxton @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I absolutely love being a PhD supervisor. I basically don't care if I ever publish/achieve anything in my academic career as long as I can spend my time helping thoughtful people to achieve what they had hoped to

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Rebecca Buxton @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Has anyone written a philosophy paper about getting "the ick" - if not, someone should write it with me...

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Rebecca Buxton @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I appreciate that this puts me in full boomer territory, but why do no university departments have a phone number anymore

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Rebecca Buxton @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Disappointed to discover that yesterday wasn't a trick and today it is still September

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Rebecca Buxton @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

All this AI-generated bilge has at least demonstrated how much of the academic reviewing system is built on reciprocity. If we don't trust eachother, then this is going to fall apart so quickly.

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Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

One of the most horrific stories I’ve ever reported was published this weekend. Please, everyone privileged in this world, read it and really think about what it means not to have freedom of travel. www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

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‘It was day 13 or 14 when people started dying’: More than 200 set sail for Europe. Only 36 survived

A harrowing story of death and survival on the Atlantic migration route from west Africa, ‘the deadliest in the world’

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Rebecca Buxton @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Oh yeah, I thought I'd seen this somewhere before

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Rebecca Buxton @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I told my lovely student that she was using the words "obviously" and "problematic" too much in her writing, and look what she got me

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Rebecca Buxton @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Basically the only tiny silver lining of the Unbound saga was getting all excited when Alice and Chris from @thebugle.bsky.social joined our author support group

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Awkward Seán @ginhaze.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Didnt realise you'd been one of the victims shafted by Unbound. As I'm sure you're aware @alicefraser.bsky.social and @thebugle.bsky.social were another. Alice tells her story here. Really worth a listen/watch. youtu.be/8l73x6t27U4?...

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Our publisher went bust owing us thousands - the full story, and what we did next

YouTube video by The Bugle

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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Feeling sympathy for a male offender over a female target is such a deep reflex under patriarchy. Even, or sometimes especially, when you are that target. katemanne.substack.com/p/all-of-the...

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All the Things I Didn’t Say

Telling my story of crossed lines involved editing out all the himpathy

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Rebecca Buxton @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I don't think there are any real surprises on this list. Two things are interesting to me: (1) there are almost no political philosophers on there, even though Cofnas apparently works on a "liberalism" project, and (2) the list is mostly men.

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Rebecca Buxton @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Just grumbling on behalf of my PhD students: it's very stupid to ask people to have a PhD in hand when they *apply* for a post doctoral job/fellowship that doesn't start until September 2027.

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Rebecca Buxton @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

On defending edited collections, The Philosopher Queens remains the most significant piece of work I've done - I've been stopped on the street, in bookshops, and after talks by girls who say that it made them want to study philosophy. It's cited by very few people, but citations can't measure that!

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Rebecca Buxton @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I'm quite proud of this chapter. It's about why we only apply the concept of an "internally displaced person" in the Global South and why that's a mistake. I wrote it while staying to Boston one summer and ended up writing mostly about Hurricane Katrina. academic.oup.com/book/56150/c...

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Internal Displacement in the Global North

Abstract. Most internal displacement occurs in the Global South, at least according to our usual ways of measuring and conceptualizing forced movement. How

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Rebecca Buxton @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Does this mean that we'll be able to deduce which of us are EDI hires? Because sometimes (personally) I think I would just like to know either way.

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Rebecca Buxton @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

A paper I submitted five months ago has moved from "With Editor" to "Under Review." I am so lucky to be in a fast-paced and exciting job.

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

a decent chunk of the uk's politics academics signed an open letter last year warning labour's appeasement would lead to this

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Rebecca Buxton @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I've been messing around with having a personal website again, in part because that seems to be how I engage with lots of other people's work. It is *here* and will be updated with more pictures of my dog in due course. rebeccasbuxton.wixsite.com/mysite

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Home

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Rebecca Buxton @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

My dog has reached the age where I get up for the day and she continues to have a long lie in, just to mock me

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Rebecca Buxton @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I think loads of us should get t-shirts printed that say "I am Alex Rails" and see what happens.

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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Maybe we should look into sexual harassment and assault in academia more than we do into plagiarism, but what do I know

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Sara Hobolt @sarahobolt.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

📢 LSE Political Theory job opening We’re looking for a political theorist to join us at @lsegovernment.bsky.social - it is an open rank search, so we welcome applications at Assistant, Associate or Full Professor level Reach out with questions & please share widely! jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...

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Assistant/Associate/Professor in Political Theory

Assistant/Associate/Professor in Political Theory, , <p> </p> <p style="text-align: center;">LSE is committed to building a diverse, equitable and truly inclusive university</p> <p style="margin:...

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Rebecca Buxton @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I think I remember @jowolff.bsky.social saying something like this, but one reason why I like Anarchy, State, and Utopia is that it is *by far* the easiest book for me to find on my shelf when I need it.

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Mollie Gerver @mgerver.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Everyone faces pressure. Pressure comes from employers to work more hours, from societal expectations to lose weight, from the government to leave the country, and from family to have children. My new book considers when pressure invalidates consent, and how we can make consent more voluntary. 1/3

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Josh Habgood-Coote @impractknow.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

On my hands and knees begging every philosophy journal to adopt the Ergo workflow

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Dr Zara Bain @zaranosaur.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Does anyone happen to have a copy of Charles W. Mills, 'Kant and Race, Redux' (2014) in Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journalv35 n1 (2014): 125-157 please? I think it's on PDCnet which is my nemesis #ICanHazPDF

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Rebecca Buxton @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

This week is really making me want to go off and live in the woods

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Rebecca Buxton @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I'm not going to repeat it here, but I recommend people look up the vile comments that Stock made about Arday just days before he died. The BBC should be ashamed.

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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 16/08/2026

According to 2024/25 HESA figures, where ethnicity is known there are 270 black professors *in the whole of the UK*. That amounts to 1.1% of professors. Why are the journalists commenting on this issue so determined to do no research whatsoever?

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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

But it will not send shockwaves through the British media or its online echo-chambers, where things will continue as before.

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Jason Arday's death will send shockwaves through a divided academia

The academic's Cambridge appointment in 2023 drew worldwide attention

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