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Anneli Jefferson @annelijefferson.bsky.social · 4h

Yes, I think it might be that people are more likely to run with scissors

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Anneli Jefferson @annelijefferson.bsky.social · 14h

Apparently today's #inktober prompt is 'reckless'.

Line drawing of a child running with scissors, downhill

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Anneli Jefferson @annelijefferson.bsky.social · 16h

This week, we did instrumentalist accounts of moral responsibility. First Smart, then chapter 6 of @unfilosofo.bsky.social 's BBB. I felt I kept complicating things for students by introducing further wrinkles. Real selves next week.

A copy of Manuel Vargas' 'Building Better Beings'

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Anneli Jefferson @annelijefferson.bsky.social · 19h

I'll start today. It seems like a nice little thing to do in the term time flurry.

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Anneli Jefferson @annelijefferson.bsky.social · 1d

Ooh, I didn't know this was a thing. Might join.

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Anneli Jefferson @annelijefferson.bsky.social · 2d

'A highly graded apple is bought and a highly graded philosopher is appointed to a lectureship, while a low graded apple is not bought and the low graded philosopher is not appointed' (Smart 1961)

Smart must have been writing in a different job market.

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Pekka Väyrynen @vayrynen.bsky.social · 2d

📣JOB ALERT📣
Lecturer or Associate Professor in Philosophy at University of Leeds. AOS: Social Philosophy + at least one of: Metaphysics, Epistemology, or Philosophy of Language, Logic, Mind, or Action. Details at jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx.... Closing date 5 Nov 2025. #philosophy 1/2

Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Lecturer/Associate Professor in Philosophy

Are you an experienced academic in Philosophy with the ambition to carry out world-leading research and deliver an exceptional student experience in a research-intensive Russell Group University? Woul...

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Anneli Jefferson @annelijefferson.bsky.social · 3d

In what would is having unregulated thugs pull people off the streets a vote winner 😢

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Tories to pledge to create immigration taskforce modelled on Trump’s Ice

Proposed ‘removals force’ will be tasked with deporting 150,000 people a year in bid to tackle illegal immigration

www.theguardian.com

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Anneli Jefferson @annelijefferson.bsky.social · 3d

If I ever feel I'm being too cheerful and optimistic, I just go to the UK Higher Education feed and that sorts me right out.

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Anneli Jefferson @annelijefferson.bsky.social · 5d

Logging out after use. It's a small barrier, but it helps. Especially if one is prone to forgetting passwords

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Anneli Jefferson @annelijefferson.bsky.social · 5d

None of this makes sense.

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Shane Glackin @eltorosolo.bsky.social · 7d

Alex Broadbent's Oxford Handbook of the #Philosophy of Medicine is out now, online at least!

And I'm in it 👇 The rest of it is actually good, though, so don't let that put you off.

academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

Disease Externalism

AbstractWhen you are ill, where is your illness located? The traditional, and commonsensical, answer is that it is somewhere within your body. But a rapidl

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 7d

One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."

A few days after this cartoon was published, my syndicate received a very indignant letter from someone representing the Jane Goodall Institute.
Not only did my syndicate and I both get read the Riot Act, there was a vague implication that litigation over this cartoon might be around the corner.
I was horrified. Not so much from a fear of being sued (I just couldn't see how this cartoon could be construed as anything but silly, but because of my deep respect for Jane Goodall and her well-known contributions to pri-matology. The last thing in the world I would have intentionally done was offend Dr. Goodall in any way.
Before I had a chance to write my apology, another complication arose.
The National Geographic Society contacted my syndicate and expressed a

desire to reprint the cartoon in a special centennial issue of their magazine. My editor, aware of what had just occurred, declined, explaining why.
Apparently, whoever it was that sent the inquiry from National Geographic was shocked. They told my editor that "that doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know." They did some checking themselves, and an interesting fact was eventually discovered: Jane Goodall loved the cartoon. Furthermore, she was totally unaware that any of this "stuff" was going on. Some phone calls were made, and the cartoon was not only reprinted in the centennial issue of National Geographic, but was also used by her Institute on a T-shirt for fund-raising purposes.
I've since had an opportunity to visit Dr. Goodall at her research facility in Gombe. It's a wonderful place (sort of like right out of National Geographic).
"To refer to Dr. Goodall as a tramp is inexcusable even by a self-described 'loony' as Larson. The cartoon was incredibly offensive and in such poor taste that readers might well question the editorial judgment of running such an atrocity in a newspaper that reputes to be supplying news to persons with a better than average intelligence. The cartoon and its message were absolutely stupid." —Excerpt from the above-mentioned letter that started the ruckus

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Anneli Jefferson @annelijefferson.bsky.social · 8d

I think this is a great part of the secret of its success (and I say this as someone who's been significantly influenced by the paper, though I am appalled by the way he talks about mental illness now). It is gappy and vague enough so people can project their own thoughts and ideas into it

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Philosophical Psychology @journalphp.bsky.social · 8d

Two free access book reviews in #vol38issue7! Athea reviews Philosophy of Psychedelics and Cadenas reviews Psychedelic Experience #philsky #philpsy #booksky Check them out here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/cphp20/3...

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Anneli Jefferson @annelijefferson.bsky.social · 8d

I'm re-reading freedom and resentment - again - for teaching. It doesn't really say much about why we take the objective stance when we do. It gives a list of people who we do this with, but there's not really an explanation in terms of agential characteristics.

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Anneli Jefferson @annelijefferson.bsky.social · 9d

As someone who migrated to the UK, I resent this.

BBC news headline: migrants must earn right to live in UK, Mahmood says as she outlines tougher policy.

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Anneli Jefferson @annelijefferson.bsky.social · 9d

That would seem like a pretty major oversight.

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Aristotelian Society @aristotsoc.bsky.social · 9d

This is happening tonight! Join us for the Inaugural Address 2026-5 by Lucy O'Brien (UCL) #philosophy #philsky

Aristotelian Society @aristotsoc.bsky.social · 20d

Join us for the first Proceedings of the 2025-6 year! Lucy O’Brien (UCL) Inaugural Address: Duddington and Our Awareness of Others’ Minds

📍Chancellors Hall, Senate House
⏰ Monday 29 September. 18.15-19.45, followed by drinks reception
🔗 www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk/the-proceedi...

#philosophy

Lucy O’Brien – The Aristotelian Society

www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk

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Philosophical Psychology @journalphp.bsky.social · 12d

Call for papers: Ian Hacking and the Philosophy of Psychiatry. Deadline: 1st February 2026. Guest editors: Şerife Tekin and Jonathan Y. Tsou. Submit your work! think.taylorandfranc... #philsky #philpsy #philsci

Ian Hacking and the Philosophy of Psychiatry

Submit work that examines how Hacking’s historical and pragmatic approach to philosophy has reshaped inquiries into psychiatry.

think.taylorandfrancis.com

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Anneli Jefferson @annelijefferson.bsky.social · 11d

I'm calling it, last apple crumble with the garden apples.

Bowl with sliced apples on a counter with more apples.

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Anneli Jefferson @annelijefferson.bsky.social · 12d

This resonated deeply

www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/food/ev...

Every f**ker with a garden trying to offload their crap apples

EVERY bastard with an apple tree in their garden is pressing whole shopping bags full of inedible fruit on their friends, family and colleagues.

www.thedailymash.co.uk

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Sascha Benjamin Fink @sfink.bsky.social · 12d

@philpsy.bsky.social Adrian Kind just won the Open Access Prize by the OLH.

What a great achievement! Congratulations, Adrian! And all of you: Check out his other work.

dailynous.com/2025/09/25/p...

Philosopher Wins Open Access Award - Daily Nous

Adrian Kind, a postdoctoral researcher in philosophy and psychology at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, is one of the winners of the 2025 Open Access Award. The award is given by Open Library of ...

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Camilla Nord @camillanord.bsky.social · 13d

What drives the bidirectional relationship between metabolic and mental ill-health?

Read our new metabolic psychiatry paper, “An interoceptive model of energy allostasis linking metabolic and mental health” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... led by @saramehrhof.bsky.social @hugofleming.bsky.social

An interoceptive model of energy allostasis linking metabolic and mental health

Interactions between metabolic interoception and regulation may drive comorbidity between mental and metabolic ill-health.

www.science.org

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Konrad Banicki @castalia1981.bsky.social · 14d

I am very excited about the upcoming seventh edition of the Institute of Applied Psychology Interdisciplinary Series (IAPIS, ips.uj.edu.pl/nauka/iapis/... & @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social)

To register for the first talk use: forms.gle/GcnHuj3rhamH...

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