@drsvg
Lecturer in Political Philosophy (UoYork). Ethics of war, global justice, animals. Posting in personal capacity but mostly about work. She/her, fucking massive nerd. I write for @justiceeverywhere.bsky.social
When I said 'Kemi Badenoch is so partisan, under her the Tories would oppose puppies and kittens if Labour said something nice about them', I didn't mean it literally.
We are extending our CfP for the Spring Symposium by one week to 17th March. This is a great opportunity to discuss your work with a senior discussant and there is no need to write a full paper. Submit here: forms.gle/EYoenyfo9KAY...
Call for abstracts! MANCEPT panel on 'Speciesism, Power and Prejudice' co-organised by me, @drhannahbattersby.bsky.social, and ValΓ©rie Topf. Dates: 2nd-4th September 2026. Will feature great talks by @francoisjaquet.bsky.social and @ccfaria.bsky.social. Details here: philevents.org/event/show/1...
CFA: Philosophy of Psychiatry & Lived Experience Workshop June 22 online
Deadline 20 April
Please share!
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POST-DOC!
3-year job in history of political thought / visual culture / art history
Department of Politics & International Studies
University of Cambridge
@thecambridgeschool.bsky.social
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/54724/
Well meaning cishet ally trying to understand queer culture: So what exactly is a βdisaster bi chaos gremlin?β
Me:
channeling my inner Mary Caprioli and coining the "gender shock" explanation for international conflict when a state experiences a sudden and dramatic change in Gender
I haven't had time to do any writing I actually enjoy in a while (no blog! no new research! no new 40k fics!) so it's good to know people are at least still reading my backlog.
Philosophy has this journal and the papers in it are so good that they have to lock them up in a place called the βphilosophy documentation centerβ so that no one can read them.
Also, those evangelicals who have the most access to power disproportionately have their grape soda in stadiums and TV studios which 100% backs this up this theory tbh
We have just launched our first-ever ASPIRE Awards season!
Nominations are now open for ASPIRE Awards in five categories, all seeking to recognise the great work that colleagues on the teaching track in our discipline are undertaking.
Please share and nominate!
www.aspirenetwork.uk/aspire-awards
A rare thing: *four* three-year hums/soc-sci posts in animal studies, on the Multispecies Mutualisms project at UoSheffield - with @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social, me, Robert McKay and Alasdair Cochrane; see here for a video explainer: digitalmedia.sheffield.ac.uk/media/Multis...
AI: *bombs a hospital*
AI ETHICS: It's also more likely to assume a doctor must be a man and a nurse must be a woman :((
Philosophers! I am now eligible to act as a supervisor for Marie Curie fellowships at the University of Vienna. If youβre interested in applying for one, you can find the details here: careers.univie.ac.at/en/research-...
A Christmas Carol but instead it's the ghosts of Aquinas, Butler and the actual grim reaper and the target is a Times journalist who "well, ackshually"s a manifestly illegal war
I sometimes day dream about the ghost of Smedley Butler doing a mild haunting of some of these people
The little free library model of the economy (take a couch, but you're not really a couch maker so you leave a muffin, it will totally work)
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I can't take credit for these words, by the way. They were first uttered by the sitting Home Secretary.
Chotiner: You've made the claim that no one has ever fed you in your life.
My Cat: Maow.
Chotiner: Yet there's food in your dish right now.
My Cat: Maow.
Chotiner: Let's change the subject to the ripped-open bag of sandwich bread on the floor.
My Cat: Maow.
Chotiner: I have read different things.
Your regular reminder than a large majority of voters - and overwhelming majority of Labour voters - favour giving settled migrants access to the welfare state after five years or less. The Home Secretary is not reforming rules in line with public opinion. She is doing the opposite.
"I'm not racist, some of my best friends are black (wokely)"
MAYBE I can use this great conference to pitch my idea?
philevents.org/event/show/1...
It's just so neat!
I really don't need more projects to work on, but I really can't shake the urge to write something about how the fish doorbell is a great case study for thinking about animal-human relationships. Maybe use the solidarity literature a bit. Throw in the term "conviviality" (not entirely uncritically).
Realising I haven't advertised this hereβI'm hiring! Walter Dean and I have a project on measuring the strength of mathematical theorems used in philosophy, and we're looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join our team.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQO344/r...
FULLY FUNDED PHDs IN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
I'm looking for *two* PhD students to join my ERC project on refugee-led approaches to displacement justice. The positions are funded for four years, and you get to join our lovely community in Bristol. Please share widely!
philjobs.org/job/show/30997
Super excited to announce our big annual conference! π₯³
"Caring for Non-Humans: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Care among Animals, the Environment, and AI"
πPrague, October 12-14
Organized by @johndorsch.bsky.social & yours truly π
Please share widely! π
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I'll be honest, while I think all of this stuff going mainstream is very bad, "mogged" is probably one of my favourite bits of manosphere slang. Unlike a lot of their bullshit it feels actually useful as a term. Sometimes you really do just get mogged