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Helen McCabe @drhmccabe.bsky.social · Aug 15

Is it OK to post jobs here? Hoping so, as we're recruting 7 3-year Research Fellowships as part of a new Leverhulme Centre for the Study of Slavery in War. (More details below). Please share widely, and apply! jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Job Vacancy at the University of Nottingham: Research Fellow in Slavery and War (Comparative Contexts) (Fixed term)

In 2025, the University of Nottingham and King’s College London will launch the new Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War, funded by the Leverhulme Trust for up to £10 million over ten year...

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CARE Project - Coastal Adaptation for Restorative Justice @careproject.bsky.social · Jun 22

Excited to share our new research project funded by @britishacademy.bsky.social Knowledge Frontiers 2025! Our interdisciplinary project (environmental geography, environmental humanities, political science, philosophy) will examine restorative justice in coastal adaptation.

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UoN_Institute @uoninstitute.bsky.social · Mar 14

We're thrilled to announce the finalists for the Best Policy Initiative category of the 2025 #InstituteAwards! Congratulations to @drhmccabe.bsky.social, and Right Lab's Scale of Harm project for their efforts in shaping policies at different levels.

Read more: www.nottingham.ac.uk/policy-and-e...

A picture of Helen McCabe and the Scale of Harm team who have both emerged as finalists for the Best Policy Impact initiative category of the 2025 Institute Awards

A banner consisting of a picture of the Scale of Harm team and their project summary.

An Institute Award banner for the Best Policy Impact category. The banner has a picture of Helen McCabe and her project summary.

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Dr Lynton Lees @lyntonlees.bsky.social · Feb 20

Our new maps launch today - now, crucially, with subject data from individual UK universities. This adds a new dimension to our cold spots mapping what students can study and where. The maps show a complex regional picture - let's get into it ⤵️ (1)
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/policy-and-r...

Generic image of map showing cold spots in SHAPE subject provision in UK higher education.

Indicative map showing example of provider-level data on SHAPE student numbers in UK HE, zoomed in on Midlands/South East of England.

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · Jan 30

"Mill had canaries & a Persian cat . . . Marx drank a lot of beer, he played party games . . . I'm just not sure they they would have gelled. Different vibes."

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www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/mill-socialism

Mill & Socialism with Helen McCabe

A deep dive into J S Mill's relationship with socialism with Helen McCabe. We cover Mill's moral foundations, pre-Marxian Socialism, the nature and history of liberalism and socialism, their interpret...

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Helen McCabe @drhmccabe.bsky.social · Feb 14

Lovely to see this article published today: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... Very happy memories of a lovely trip to Canada for the workshop of which this is one output. (Others here: economicpluralism.com?page_id=29).

Workshop - Economic Pluralism

Workshop Information (Wenzel Hablik, 1921. Große bunte utopische Bauten) Economic Pluralism: Past and Present Date: September 2-3, 2022 Place: McMaster University (Hamilton, ON), The Great Hall (The ...

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Helen McCabe @drhmccabe.bsky.social · Aug 29

Breaks my heart that such an awesome writer/thinker/researcher as you has imposter syndrome!

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Helen McCabe @drhmccabe.bsky.social · Oct 28

It's bad enough when it's anonymous, but "I know McCabe is a very junior scholar ... But for Christ's sake, she's not even read Packe" remains a "favourite" of mine from reviewers.

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Jeff Clements 🦪 @biolumijeffence.bsky.social · Oct 25

I saw yet another post on Twitter today from a grad student who received a peer review rife with ad hominem attacks on the authors' competencies rather than constructively critiquing the work.

I've written about this kind of nonsense bullshit in peer review before: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Don’t be a prig in peer review

Jeff C. Clements reckons with a recent set of reviewer comments that used ‘being critical’ as a justification to be mean. Jeff C. Clements reckons with a recent set of reviewer comments that used ...

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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · Oct 2

Now in pre-print: Stanisław Knapowski (Adam Mickiewicz University) explores the phalanstère of Charles Fourier (1772-1837) as a tool for transferring ideas & the operation of buildings, their blueprints & illustrations, as non-verbal speech acts in early socialism www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A perspective view of Fourier's Phalanstère

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Helen McCabe @drhmccabe.bsky.social · Sep 23

No cat to post photos of, but here are some courgettes from my garden. Hi, Bluesky!

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Duncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social · Sep 21

JOB: Junior Research Fellowship (4 years) in the History of Political Thought at Christ's College, Cambridge - the deadline is the 19th of October

www.christs.cam.ac.uk/vacancies-ch...

Vacancies | Christs College Cambridge

www.christs.cam.ac.uk

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