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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 1d

wake up babe
new generational James Joyce exhibition just dropped

University of Reading Special Collections @uorspeccoll.bsky.social · 1d

🥳 Now open 🎉

Discover rarely-seen letters and artefacts from the personal archive of beloved author James Joyce in James Joyce: Enigmas & Puzzles.

Explore Joyce's social network of friends and artists, his family life, his inspirations, and the adjustments he made to work despite ill-health.

James Joyce: Enigmas and Puzzles. 7 October - 9 February 2026. Uni of Reading Special Collections.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 7d

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

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Victoria Wang @vmywang.bsky.social · 8d

This week the intro to ethics class I’m tutoring on is reading Kant’s groundwork. Edinburgh graffiti has this to say. @guyfletcher.bsky.social

Red graffiti on a black metal handrail that reads “KANT” followed by a sad smiley face.

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Victoria Wang @vmywang.bsky.social · 16d

Hahah probably! That and the sheer audacity of someone writing not one but three books “on what matters”…

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Victoria Wang @vmywang.bsky.social · 16d

Plus quite a few philosophical ones I listened to while pipetting in a lab… 🧪 📻

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Victoria Wang @vmywang.bsky.social · 16d

Oh I remember driving somewhere and introducing my partner to IOT via the Antigone episode; and recently listened to the Hadrian’s Wall episode (was it out of vanity?); and also enjoyed the Garibaldi/risorgimento episode…!

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 17d

The world is a blurred version
of itself—
marred, lovely, and flawed.
It is enough.

-Jane Hirshfield, from ‘Autumn Quince’

Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 17d

I must cleanse my soul with some beauty. Here's:
Madeline Flory - Study of Quince, 19th century

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 21d

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

The new TOC from academia dot edu.

By creating an Account with Academia.edu, you grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent for Academia.edu to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness, city, institutional affiliations, citations, mentions, publications, and areas of interest) in any manner, including for the purpose of advertising, selling, or soliciting the use or purchase of Academia.edu's Services.

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Philosophy of Science Association @philsci.bsky.social · 26d

We're excited to announce the fall 2025 PSA office hours! Come learn, ask questions, and connect with leading voices in philosophy of science! Schedule in the thread 👇

💻 More details + registration: www.philsci.org/psa_...

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Victoria Wang @vmywang.bsky.social · 22d

This is one of the most heart-warming things I've watched/listened to recently: Martha Argerich being interviewed by two young pianists
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtYx...

NOCTURNE WITH A LEGEND (Martha Argerich, Lucas Chiche & David Chen)

YouTube video by Fortissimo

www.youtube.com

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Victoria Wang @vmywang.bsky.social · Aug 26

Arrived in Groningen for the @epsaphilsci.bsky.social conference starting tomorrow! #philsci #philsky

Picture taken facing west over a canal in Groningen, steel-blue clouds and hints of orange sky, an eight-oared tall rowing boat in the centre with a little light swinging just behind the coxswain, trees lining the right side, boats and buildings on the left.

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Victoria Wang @vmywang.bsky.social · Aug 26

See you there!

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Sarah Wieten @sarahwieten.bsky.social · Aug 23

The Philosophy of Medicine online reading group is resuming this fall on October 8!

For more information/to suggest a book (your book?) for the group to read, join @: groups.google.com/g/philmed-rg/

#philsci #philmed #bioethics

Please share widely, especially if the group has been helpful to you.

philmed.pitt.edu

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Victoria Wang @vmywang.bsky.social · Aug 19

Some positive news- and I was one of the 2,147! 🚲

Edward Tissiman @edtiss.bsky.social · Aug 18

The cycle lane on Leith Walk, Edinburgh, set an all time record of 2,147 cyclists on Wednesday, 13th August 2025.

Overall growth in the number of cyclists has slowed this year, likely a result of displacememnt to the new CCWEL cycle lane at York Place.

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Victoria Wang @vmywang.bsky.social · Aug 7

Also Vrinda Dalmiya (again, not a philosopher of language but a feminist epistemologist) has a book in which she analyses stories/passages from the Mahābhārata!
global.oup.com/academic/pro...

global.oup.com

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Victoria Wang @vmywang.bsky.social · Aug 6

Philip Kitcher has a book on Finnegans Wake and an edited volume on Ulysses (although he isn’t a philosopher of language and I haven’t read any of this work…)

global.oup.com/academic/pro...

global.oup.com

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Victoria Wang @vmywang.bsky.social · Aug 5

There's a wonderful bit about sublime the adjective and the sublime the noun in Ali Smith's novel Gliff, which she reads in this interview (from about 7:35): www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/podcasts-vid...

Ali Smith & Sarah Wood: Gliff | London Review Bookshop

Gliff forms the first part of a duology; its title, the Scots word for a glimpse or shock, will be echoed but not replicated in the forthcoming Glyph. In a dystopian,…

www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk

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Victoria Wang @vmywang.bsky.social · Aug 5

It is somehow reassuring that even Sally Haslanger (in her 2016 paper on social structural explanations) "remains confused"... #philsky

Screenshot of a footnote from Sally Haslanger's 2016 paper "What is a (social) structural explanation?". The note reads, "There is much more that needs to be elucidated about the phenomenon of structural explanation. I remain confused and have not yet taken advantage of the many suggestions offered to me at the Oberlin Colloquium. For that I apologize."

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Victoria Wang @vmywang.bsky.social · Jul 30

The publishers even sent me a copy, which I was not expecting!

Picture of a dark blue hardback book called Values, Pluralism, and Pragmatism: Themes from the Work of Matthew J. Brown. The book is lying face-up on wooden table with a light blue place mat.

The same book opened at chapter six on Ludwik Fleck and science communication.

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Victoria Wang @vmywang.bsky.social · Jul 24

This is unbearable.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus @drtedros.who.int · Jul 24

The 2.1 million people trapped in the war zone that is #Gaza are facing yet another killer on top of bombs and bullets: starvation.

We demand full access to deliver aid.
We demand the release of all hostages.
We demand a ceasefire.
We demand a political solution.

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Victoria Wang @vmywang.bsky.social · Jul 23

Very cool! Here in Scotland, the University of Glasgow (where he got his medical degree) has named one of its teaching buildings after him: www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/ja...

University of Glasgow - MyGlasgow - James McCune Smith Learning Hub

www.gla.ac.uk

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Jul 21

'The number of student-initiated PhD scholarships funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) is set to fall by 60 per cent when new doctoral training arrangements come into effect next year, new figures show.' 1/3

‘Student-led’ AHRC PhD places ‘to fall by at least 60 per cent’

Internal modelling released under Freedom of Information enquiry reveals extent of PhD scholarship cuts, with academics fearing impact could be greater still

www.timeshighereducation.com

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The Royal Institute of Philosophy @triphilosophy.bsky.social · Jul 14

The topic for this year's Philosophy Essay Prize is 'Bodies'.

This annual competition is run by The Royal Institute of Philosophy in conjunction with our journal, Philosophy.

To find out more and enter, see more details on our website: royalinstitutephilosophy.org/news/bodies-...

'Bodies': our 2025 Philosophy Essay Prize topic - Royal Institute of Philosophy

The topic for this year’s Royal Institute of Philosophy essay prize competition is ‘Bodies’.

royalinstitutephilosophy.org

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Victoria Wang @vmywang.bsky.social · Jul 20

Also very interesting that the coder uses he/him pronouns for the AI… 🧐 (despite not having a male name like Claude)

Victoria Wang @vmywang.bsky.social · Jul 17

The chapter in which I discuss the persistent problem of deficit thinking in science communication has been published! Let me know if you'd like to take a look but can't access it. Thanks to Jon Tsou, Jamie Shaw and Carla Fehr for editing the book.
doi.org/10.1007/978-... #philsci #philsky #scicomms

Dismantling the Deficit Model of Science Communication Using Ludwik Fleck’s Theory of Thinking Collectives

Numerous societal issues, from climate change to pandemics, require public engagement with scientific research. Such engagement reveals challenges that can arise when expertsExperts communicate with l...

doi.org

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