Glaswegians: Bright Club is an academic comedy night that turns researchers and university staff into stand-up comedians. Our next show is on Monday 2 February at The Stand Glasgow and tickets are available via The Stand for £4 with the code BRIGHTCLUB. www.thestand.co.uk/performance/...
Perhaps you'd enjoy seeing academics making fun of their own teaching and research, including the continued hijinks of a New Yorker teaching the Scottish Enlightenment in Scotland. If so, you can get discounted £4 tickets by using the code BRIGHTCLUB at this link: www.thestand.co.uk/performance/...
Still can't quite believe that an old university classmate is now the biographer of an old high school classmate, let alone that I'm quoted in said biography. Can't wait to read the whole thing. www.americantheatre.org/2025/09/09/a...
Our #UofGSpotlight episode Trump 2.0: What’s Next? hit 41,000+ listens!🎙️🌎
Revisit what was predicted and compare it to what’s unfolding now by listening to the episode with our guests @michaelfrazer.bsky.social & @jkaarbo.bsky.social.
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Michael Frazer performing stand-up comedy at The Stand, Glasgow. There is a sign for Bright Club Glasgow.
If you like jokes about the Scottish Enlightenment, you'll love my local stand-up debut.
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Time to drop the really big bomb:
Reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions.
Have a nice day!
Any ideas where a teenager should send a short story for consideration for publication or prizes or something like that?
Pete Hegseth yesterday: "Nobody was texting war plans."
Well sure if you don't consider minute-by-minute details including what kind of planes and when missiles are launched "war plans" then we're cool
Any ideas who Waltz intended to include in the chat when he accidentally added Jeff Goldberg? I have my theories...
Reminder: The deadline for paper and panel proposals is TODAY. Hope to see lots of you at this great conference in Glasgow on July 15!
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There's still time to submit your proposals before the Monday deadline!
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I've gotten giggles when lecturing on the categorical imperative with my New York accent. Apparently the Maltese accent creates similar issues. Either that, or the EBU are all hardcore empiricists and consequentialists. #Kant #Eurovision
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Stuck in the middle with you... and John Swinney and Thomas Reid.
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My favourite detail: The spiritual experience that brought "Rabbi Binyamin" to what he considers Judaism was a high school production of "Fiddler on the Roof." Oy.
The Jewish community in Norwich is tiny, so this strange group was unavoidable when we lived there. Disturbed to learn that it's probably a dangerous cult and not just a weird example of cultural appropriation.
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Not to spoil anything, but we here in #Glasgow were very pleased with our shout-out in the latest #Severance.
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💥4000 downloads over the weekend! 💥
Have you already listened to our latest episode of #UofGSpotlight on the return of Trump?
🎧 Tune in: www.uofgspotlight.com
Featuring hosts @profnicolamcewen.bsky.social & @kezdugdale.bsky.social with guests @michaelfrazer.bsky.social & @jkaarbo.bsky.social.
Stopped hiding in West Wing boxset to confront reality for our new @uofgpolicy.bsky.social #UofGSpotlight podcast. Fascinating political philosophy insights from @michaelfrazer.bsky.social & I discuss leadership style with the always brilliant Prof @jkaarbo.bsky.social. Well worth a listen!
Promotional graphic with the University of Glasgow and Centre for Public Policy logo. Text reads Season 5 Episode 1: Spotlight, Trump 2.0: What's next? With Michael Frazer and Juliet Kaarbo. The graphic features photos of the two speakers and hosts Kezia Dugdale and Nicola McEwen.
NEW #UofGSpotlight podcast🚨
Hosts @profnicolamcewen.bsky.social and @kezdugdale.bsky.social are joined by expert guests @michaelfrazer.bsky.social and @jkaarbo.bsky.social to discuss the return of President Donald Trump and what's next for US and global politics.
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...fascinating insights from our guests @michaelfrazer.bsky.social, Lecturer in Politics at @uofgsps.bsky.social, and @jkaarbo.bsky.social Professor of Foreign Policy at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social and founding co-director of @scga.bsky.social.
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Call for Papers: The Association for Social and Political Conference Annual Meeting, University of Glasgow, 15-16 July 2025... Now PhilEvents Official!
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Social/Political Philosophers/Theorists,
The Association for Social and Political Philosophy will be meeting in Glasgow this July. Please see the call for papers below. And please share widely!
This should be of interest to any social scientist who ever had trouble with ethics review, and any ethicist who ever wondered why ethics review has so little to do with ethics. It was a great workshop which I was proud to attend. www.gla.ac.uk/schools/soci...
🎄🎅 From tomorrow until Christmas we'll post a sovereignty-themed advent calendar. After all Levia-clause is sovereign! He makes law determining who is naughty or nice and dispenses justice, giving gifts to some and punishing the others (taking away bad kids to the forest, in some traditions).
Yes, I think they meant terms like "river," "sea," "Palestine" and (most interesting for me as a political theorist) "free," but that chant also contains the contested terms "from," "to," and (most interesting to philosophers) "will be."
Looks like the University of Sydney will need a philosopher to co-teach every course, interrupting the main lecture to “make the meaning of contested words and phrases clear." amp.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Last few days of university redundancy news:
*Essex
*Leeds Trinity
*Leicester
*Loughborough
*Sheffield
*Sussex
*UEA
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