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Victoria Wang
@vmywang.bsky.social
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Perpetual student. Constantly confused and/or curious. Currently in Scotland, doing a PhD in philosophy.
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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.
September 30, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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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.
August 26, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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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."
August 5, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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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.
July 30, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Today is a Bach day.
Cover of a Sony album - "Hilary Hahn plays Bach" - Hahn is holding her violin up to her shoulder, looking defiantly into the camera, in front of a blurry background.
July 15, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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The Forth Bridge looking a bit apocalyptic through the tinted bus window this morning - on my way to St Andrews for @ceppa.bsky.social conference! #philsky #cloudsky
Photo of the Forth Rail Bridge from the west, with an overcast sky and a bluish hue due to the tinted glass of the bus window
June 16, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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From Audre Lorde’s “Poetry Is Not a Luxury” - “but there are no new ideas still waiting in the wings to save us as women, as human”
Sometimes we drug ourselves with dreams of new ideas. The head will save us. The brain alone will set us free. But there are no new ideas still waiting in the wings to save us as women, as human. There are only old and forgotten ones, new combinations, extrapolations and recognitions from within ourselves - along with the renewed courage to try them out. And we must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply, and so many of our old ideas disparage.
June 6, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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Great keynote by @sumimadhok.bsky.social on an anti-imperial imperative for feminism
May 30, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Statement from the Society for Women in Philosophy (SWIP) UK regarding the Supreme Court ruling on the interpretation of the Equality Act, also on the website: www.swipuk.org #philsky
Dear members, We write to you with the following statement, which has been published on our website: The Society for Women In Philosophy UK (SWIP UK) condemns the recent Supreme Court ruling on 16 April 2025 determining that the term ‘woman’ in the Equality Act 2010 refers to a binary and biological notion of ‘sex’, and the subsequent interim guidance published by the EHRC on 25 April 2025. This ruling and the guidance undermine the human rights and safety of trans, non-binary, and intersex people and are also detrimental to cis women. Trans women are women, and belong in feminist organisations. There is no fight against sexism and misogyny separate from the fight against cissexism and transmisogyny. SWIP UK membership, in line with our recognitions and aims, has for many years been open to trans women and to other trans and/or non-binary people who feel the category of ‘woman’ is relevant to their experiences, and this will not change under any circumstances. The legal landscape is currently very unclear and rapidly changing. We are in the process of finding out what concrete steps, if any, we need to take to ensure the continuation of our current approach to membership. We will involve members in this in accordance with our bylaws. We plan to respond to the EHRC consultation which closes at the end of May, and anyone who would like to support our efforts on this is invited to get in touch with us via our websites contact form. Finally, we want to recognise what a difficult time this is, especially for those directly targeted by this ruling, and we send a message of solidarity and support to everyone affected. The SWIP UK Executive Committee.
April 30, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Happy resurrection to those who celebrate.
Picture of an LP sleeve - Bruno Walter conducting Mahler’s second “resurrection” symphony
April 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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The two genders
Photo of a wall of a building (probably Victorian?) in Glasgow that used to contain a doorway labelled “GIRLS - INFANTS”
April 10, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Three flights and a thirty degree Celsius temperature difference later and I’m back in Scotland after #PSA24 - lots of food for thought!
View of a street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, with a Christmas-themed sign reading “Heaux Heaux Heaux!”
November 19, 2024 at 10:09 AM
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If you see this post a bridge
Belhaven Bridge at Dunbar, Scotland; only usable at low tide
October 26, 2024 at 8:59 AM
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Thank goodness this paper is #open-access in Cell!
#cheese

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Screenshot from the current issue of the scientific journal Cell - showing the title of one of the articles: "Bronze Age cheese reveals human-Lactobacillus interactions over evolutionary history"
October 17, 2024 at 4:36 PM
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Spotted in Edinburgh - wonder what that book says! #philsky
Picture of a person from behind walking down an Edinburgh street; they’re carrying a small backpack with a little zombie skeleton person reading a book titled “The Scientific Method”
September 15, 2024 at 2:37 PM
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Me: So, what do you do?

Them: Oh, I play the Wagner Tuba for a living.
Picture of the programme listing the members of the London Symphony Orchestra about to play Bruckner’s 7th symphony, featuring four (!) Wagner Tubas
February 8, 2024 at 7:51 PM
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The amazing Allison Russell performing with the Rainbow Coalition at Glasgow’s Òran Mór on Sunday evening! 🌈 🎶 ✊🏼
Allison Russell performing live at Òran Mór in Glasgow on 28 January 2024, accompanied by members of the Rainbow Coalition band.
January 30, 2024 at 4:03 PM
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Ceasefire now!
Picture of protestors marching in front of St Paul’s Cathedral, holding placards reading eg Gaza- stop the massacre, and free Palestine 🇵🇸
January 13, 2024 at 3:24 PM
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Me, waiting for my goodreads wrapped to drop
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GIF of Mr. Bean wearing a jacket and tie, waiting by an open field in various poses
December 30, 2023 at 8:21 AM
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This year’s Christmas trip to Vienna included a visit to the Leopold Museum, to see a retrospective of the expressionist painter Gabriele Münter (1877-1962) www.leopoldmuseum.org/en/exhibitio...
I loved the strong lines, vivid colours, and subjects (mountains, lakes, reading and writing women!)
Interior of the Leopold Museum; white exhibition space with high ceilings and a skylight; a few visitors Landscape sketch with the Wetterstein mountains in the background; house with red roof in foreground (1935) Woman sitting in an armchair writing, vivid red shoes (1929)
December 27, 2023 at 1:57 PM
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And this is the ingenious reporting on the Austrian national broadcasting website (orf.at/stories/3342... they list the number of countries voting in favour, against, and abstaining, without mentioning that Austria voted against a ceasefire…
Screenshot from the ORF website on 12/12/23 explaining how many member states at the UN general assembly voted for (153) or against (10) a ceasefire in Gaza, with 23 countries abstaining. No mention that Austria is one of the countries voting against.
December 12, 2023 at 9:56 PM
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We were at the British Academy last night to promote the books of the six shortlisted authors - excited to see who gets the prize tonight #books
October 31, 2023 at 7:24 AM