🚨 Only 9 hours left - UK Gov consultation on school meals closes at midnight Schools in England are currently required to serve meat, fish and dairy for most meals. There's an opportunity to weigh in on this as the Government is seeking to make school meals healthier.

School Food Standards Consultation

🚨 ONLY HOURS LEFT 🚨 Did you know that schools in England are still required to serve meat, dairy, and fish? Tonight is the deadline for the Government's consultation on school food. It's the first t...

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An amusing aside: I welcome the proposed change of "requiring at least one portion of pulses" and as a Mum and a Brit, love that they have to immediately follow this with "not including baked beans".

Christina Easton@chreaston.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Government consultation on their proposed changes to the School Food Standards. Deadline 12 June. Do respond with your opinions. But please consider including that they could think more about sustainability and avoiding the exploitation of animals. consult.education.gov.uk/school-food-...

Government consultation on their proposed changes to the School Food Standards. Deadline 12 June. Do respond with your opinions. But please consider including that they could think more about sustainability and avoiding the exploitation of animals. consult.education.gov.uk/school-food-...

If scientists keep changing their minds, how can their advice be trusted? 📚 In the latest edition of THINK #journal, @chreaston.bsky.social argues for the importance of public understanding of #science, & how to promote it. 🔗 Open-access article: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #philosophy

"My proposal is that the 'worship of science' and science denialism are two sides of the same coin, in that both result from seeing science as all-encompassing, infallible and unchanging." www.cambridge.org/core/service...

I am reminded of Elmer the elephant by the Birmingham political map of 2026 though the quite positive patchwork of harmony message of that storybook may be challenging to emulate in city local politics

*Published today* I must admit, this little piece was initially fueled by irritation! It's open access and short! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Last call for MANCEPT workshop on tolerance - deadline tomorrow. philevents.org/event/show/1...

Tolerance and Education: Concepts, Justifications, and Limits (MANCEPT Panel 2026)

Tolerance and Education: Concepts, Justifications, and Limits  Panel at the 2026 MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory, 2-4 September 2026 “Toleration” has long been a central concept...

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What should schools be teaching children to tolerate and what should schools be teaching them not to tolerate? Can tolerance be taught? Deadline is Tuesday for submission of abstracts to the MANCEPT workshop on this topic: philevents.org/event/show/1...

Tolerance and Education: Concepts, Justifications, and Limits (MANCEPT Panel 2026)

Tolerance and Education: Concepts, Justifications, and Limits  Panel at the 2026 MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory, 2-4 September 2026 “Toleration” has long been a central concept...

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I'm sad to learn of the death of Lord Harries of Pentregarth. Been watching closely for over a year whether his bill, asking for 'individual worth' and 'respect for the environment' to be added to the 'values of British citizenship', ever got read in the Commons.

20 years ago, Gordon Brown argued that the Union flag needed to be recaptured from the far-right and instead associated with progressive values of tolerance, liberty, inclusion, fairness and responsibility. How's that going? 🫣

Applications close Friday 24th April. Funding is available for travelers within the UK. www.multispeciescollective.com/event-detail...

*Workshop on tolerance and education* 2-4 September, Manchester, UK Call for papers is here: philevents.org/event/show/1...

🎺 Call for papers 🎺 Workshop on tolerance and education 2-4 Sep 2026, University of Manchester philevents.org/event/show/1...

Tolerance and Education: Concepts, Justifications, and Limits (MANCEPT Panel 2026)

Tolerance and Education: Concepts, Justifications, and Limits  Panel at the 2026 MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory, 2-4 September 2026 “Toleration” has long been a central concept...

philevents.org

This time next week I am giving the Royal Institute of Philosophy lecture at the University of Keele. If you're in the area, do please come along. It's on the uneven, gendered distribution of mental load in parenting, a subject close to my heart! www.keele.ac.uk/research/our...

Royal Institute of Philosophy lectures

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Philosophy writing prize for 15-18 year olds royalinstitutephilosophy.org/think-essay-...

Think Essay Prize - Royal Institute of Philosophy

The Think Essay Prize is an annual philosophy essay competition for 15-18 year olds, supported by Think journal. Find out more and enter.

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This evening I was a judge for the Philosothon hosted at King Edward VI High School for Girls in Birmingham. Honestly, that young people from diverse backgrounds could talk and listen together so intelligently, compassionately and responsively fills me with hope for the future.

Talk tomorrow in London www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...

From lunch to lessons: The case for promoting plant-based diets in schools

Join this event to hear Christina Easton and Andrew Walton defend the view that schools ought to guide student behaviour and beliefs towards plant-based diets.

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*London talk, this Wednesday evening* "From Lunch to Lessons: The Case for Promoting Plant-Based Diets in Schools" With thanks to @ioe.bsky.social and @pesgb.bsky.social for hosting.

PhD scholarships at the University of Birmingham. Application deadline: 27 February 2026. ⬇️

"complex writing with longer sentences" and "more jargon" were linked to higher scoring applications for the ERC’s Starting Grant! www.timeshighereducation.com/news/how-wri...

How to write a grant application? Tell a story, but analyse too

Close reading of ERC Starting Grant proposals finds secrets to success and raises concerns about smoke and mirrors from narrative CVs

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*Published today*, in the Journal of Philosophy of Education, my article "Teaching evolution in schools: A thin comprehensive liberal approach". It gives a taster of the view I defend in my forthcoming book. doi.org/10.1093/jope...

Meanwhile, the government published this report today. Among its conclusions is that "Ecosystem degradation is occurring across all regions. Every critical ecosystem is on a pathway to collapse." www.gov.uk/government/p...

Nature security assessment on global biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and national security

This strategic assessment explores how global biodiversity loss and the collapse of critical ecosystems could affect the UK’s resilience, security and prosperity.

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This is in my daughter's school newsletter. I really hope she doesn't take it too literally as I feel like the requirement to be "inspiring" each time you speak sets expectations a little high. Also now pondering what constitutes "necessary" speech.

It exists in physical form! 🎉

""individual freedom will always be as much a social matter as an individual matter ... it is on the bedrock of social toleration that free speech stands tall as an individual privilege." psyche.co/ideas/tolera...

What a job title!

"Morally as well as physically, there is only one world, and we all have to live in it." Mary Midgley