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Social and political philosophy|bioethics|animal person|views are my own
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#STS job in Sydney, at WSU - Senior Research Fellow, Technology and Society who will contribute to a world-leading inquiry exploring how technologies shape, and are shaped by, social, political and cultural forces. jobs.smartrecruiters.com/WesternSydne...
Senior Research Fellow, Technology and Society
Job Description: Full-time, Ongoing position.Parramatta South campus with flexible working arrangements.Salary: $147,138 – $169,011 per annum, plus 17% Super and Leave Loading.Lead impactful interdisc...
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February 3, 2026 at 8:46 AM
sdoddsphilosopher.bsky.social
Morning all- welcome to February!
View across a body of still water to an island. The island is faded brown , the water is grey the sky is grey and cloudy with a small area (eye shaped) where weak sunlight is breaking through and is reflected in the water. A small mound of grass and rocks is visible in the foreground.
January 31, 2026 at 10:41 PM
sdoddsphilosopher.bsky.social
A beautiful tribute to those who care through the long night.
For the nurses.
omarsakr.bsky.social Omar Sakr @omarsakr.bsky.social · 11d
For the nurses. Thank you to the sleepless guardians who keep watch on my son in the night. These past few months living with my son’s cancer have had a profound impact on me. Now, whether at the hospital or at home, at night, I think of them.
Night Nurse Omar Sakr I listen for the rustle and shuffle of their feet, Scrubbed and gloved, denied the dark and its stars, the night nurse is anything but, steward of the startling hallway bright, discordant dancer moving to the eerie orchestra of beeps, shrieks, and alarms. Every two hours they sweep in with careful hands to measure my son's blood pressure, to gauge the speed of his heart, put a number to the heat, the sacred fire that animates him but must be tempered; they check his fluids, administer drugs— ensure, in short, that he is well, and every two hours, I blink bleary at the blurred figure, who sometimes turns and smiles, whispering what might be a gospel truth or salutation, and vanishes again into the blinding beyond. Back home, miniature planets hang above our bed, a slow meander of cookie-cutter stars, and inside this shrinking universe, the quiet creeps in between us, a third body, deep as the void in space. I guess I must turn back now to the invisible watchers, or else hold to the memory of tender visitations.
January 25, 2026 at 10:39 PM
sdoddsphilosopher.bsky.social
It is a truth universally acknowledged that there is no sorrier place to be than an emergency department in the early hours of a long weekend Sunday.
#RoyalHobart
January 25, 2026 at 11:12 AM
sdoddsphilosopher.bsky.social
How to lay the game #bluesky style
mspraxis.bsky.social MsPraxis @mspraxis.bsky.social · 24d
This is my pinned post. Why? Because lots of people still don't quite know how to play the games! 😂
mspraxis.bsky.social MsPraxis @mspraxis.bsky.social · May 17
How to play the games: see the post, reply by quoting the post, copy/paste the text, add your response/picture/GIF then post. Then the next person does the same. That way, everyone gets context. It's like a game of pass it on.
#BlueSkyTips
January 12, 2026 at 11:41 AM
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mspraxis.bsky.social
@heymum3.bsky.social Thought you might be interested in this?
angrybeanie.com James Purser @angrybeanie.com · 25d
So I've decided to get a bit more serious about the Tech and Disability posts I've been making. To that end I've setup a blog at tad.angrybeanie.com

It's a Ghost blog, so you can follow on

Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/news...

Mastodon: @[email protected]

#Disability #Technology #Blog
Tech and Disability
Poking around the edges where Technology and Disability meet
tad.angrybeanie.com
January 11, 2026 at 6:04 AM
sdoddsphilosopher.bsky.social
‘morning all!
Apologies to those struggling to get to work today! #lutruwita
View across calm water to an island off an island with dappled grey morning sky and two moored sailboats
January 4, 2026 at 8:23 PM
sdoddsphilosopher.bsky.social
Good morning all! (with apologies to those of struggling to get to work this morning)
Early morning view across water of an island off an island with 2 moored sailboats and dappled grey sky
January 4, 2026 at 8:05 PM
sdoddsphilosopher.bsky.social
Happy New Year to all my pocket friends!
now go to bed.
#2026
December 31, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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higherjobz.bsky.social
Digital Humanities Research Scientist – Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute, Italy.
Full-time research position in #DigitalHumanities and AI.

Deadline: 12 Jan 2026.
Apply: 🔗 higherjobz.com/digital-huma...

#AcademicJobs #ItalyJobs #ResearchOpportunities @bhmpi.bsky.social
Digital Humanities Research Scientist at Max Planck, Italy | HigherJobz
Apply for a fully funded Digital Humanities Research Scientist role at the Max Planck Institute in Rome, Italy. Deadline 12 Jan 2026.
higherjobz.com
December 29, 2025 at 3:00 AM
sdoddsphilosopher.bsky.social
Just took the dog for a walk, clear sky and no moon.
✨ ✨ ✨ ✨
So so many stars visible in the Milky Way!
Awesome
December 16, 2025 at 1:34 PM
sdoddsphilosopher.bsky.social
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/disadva...
Disadvantaged students ‘worst hit’ by humanities fee hike
Former administration’s tuition fee reforms undermining Albanese government mission to promote equitable enrolments
www.timeshighereducation.com
December 14, 2025 at 8:47 PM
sdoddsphilosopher.bsky.social
I saw these peonies and instantly thought of @brontelee.bsky.social
So they *had* to go into this vase
The house is now full of peony power 🌸
Pink, lilac and white peonies in an earthy black and grey ceramic vase on a kitchen bench
December 13, 2025 at 5:12 AM
sdoddsphilosopher.bsky.social
This little one is checking out the world from a cosy pouch position just outside my window
#lutruwita #wallabybaby
A small brown wallaby Bennett’s wallaby) sitting on short patchy grass with an even smaller wallaby joey visible in her pouch. The joey has its forelegs poking out from the pouch and is looking well satisfied with its lot (yes that is an anthropomorphic projection of its emotional state and almost certainly ill-informed)
November 17, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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Congratulations @francoisebaylis.bsky.social and Royal Society of Canada!
November 6, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Call for Papers: Philosophy of Science in Public Policy
Synthese Topical Collection (Guest-Editors: Sabina Leonelli, Richard Williams, TUM)
Deadline: 10 April 2026
Submission: www.editorialmanager.com/synt/default...

Link: link.springer.com/collections/...

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Editorial Manager®
Full-Function Web-Enabled Manuscript Submission and Tracking System for Peer Review
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October 31, 2025 at 11:46 AM
sdoddsphilosopher.bsky.social
What’s Lost When Liberal Arts Schools Close www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/o...
Opinion | What’s Lost When Liberal Arts Schools Close
www.nytimes.com
October 23, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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olgatennisonautism.bsky.social
From our new Olga Tennison Endowed Chair in Autism Research, Professor Dawn Adams.

"...blaming the use of painkillers in pregnancy and promoting an unproven therapy, marks a deeply concerning moment for science and public health."

Read more on LinkedIn
Autistic people aren't looking for treatments or cures. They want a world that accepts and values them for who they are.
The Trump administration’s claim to have found both the cause and a treatment for autism, blaming the use of painkillers in pregnancy and promoting an unproven therapy, marks a deeply concerning momen...
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September 24, 2025 at 1:00 AM
sdoddsphilosopher.bsky.social
Piper enjoyed a cold wet windy dog park this morning! 🐾
A black dog with a blue harness on a muddy path, with her eyes on an orange ball that is about to be thrown A black dog with an orange ball on a muddy path
September 20, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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avick.bsky.social
Not just the US
amandazillo.bsky.social Amanda Lanzillo @amandazillo.bsky.social · Sep 3
In @insidehighered.com I explore how area studies have positively reshaped the humanities & social sciences in the US since the 1950s. Their loss would impoverish knowledge production across our universities, and our universities must step up to defend them.

www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
Why Area Studies Matters (opinion)
If we are to save area studies programs, it will fall to universities to recognize their value, Amanda Lanzillo writes.
www.insidehighered.com
September 4, 2025 at 3:54 AM
sdoddsphilosopher.bsky.social
Friday night dinner with comfort food requires the perfect tableware, care of @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social x @brontelee.bsky.social
Two dinner plates with black glazing next to a cooktop and pan of passata -one plate shows an image of Brenda the civil disobedience penguin saying “not everyone can fly Marjorie”, the other has an image of the peccary of love and many hearts
August 22, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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theconversation.com/studying-phi...
Heartening evidence to support the value of education and ways of understanding, as well as skills
Studying philosophy does make people better thinkers, according to new research on more than 600,000 college grads
Philosophers are fond of saying that their field boosts critical thinking. Two of them decided to put that claim to the test.
theconversation.com
August 21, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Attacks on the humanities at Australian universities are not new – but they are now more lethal | Julianne Schultz
Punishing fees for arts degrees must be ended if the country seriously wants to participate in the information age and give students the opportunities we need them to have
www.theguardian.com
August 3, 2025 at 2:15 AM
sdoddsphilosopher.bsky.social
best cartoon plates you can have in your home, baked here in Tasmania!
brontelee.bsky.social bronte lee @brontelee.bsky.social · Jul 27
yes i’m taking a video of my big computer with my little computer (shut up) but the first batch of @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social plates is on the website!!!! LIVE NOW!! FINALLY!! excuse me while i go sleep for eleventy days (i wish)

firstdogonthemoon.com.au/shop/

#firstdogonthemoon #heysaurus
July 28, 2025 at 9:10 AM
sdoddsphilosopher.bsky.social
kunanyi/ Mt Wellington looking fine with a dusting of snow this morning
View over a bay and low hills to the dolerite (organ pipes) of a majestic mountain against a blue sky
July 20, 2025 at 12:46 AM