Fadia Dakka
@fadiadk.bsky.social
Rhythm scholar | Associate Professor in Philosophy and Theory of HE | Editorial board Time&Society, Ethics and Education, Philosophy and Theory in Higher Education, Critical Studies in Education | TRC Lab Sunkhronos Birmingham and other places.
Behind South Africa’s chrome riches lies a shadow economy where migrants and unemployed workers face deadly conditions.
South Africa's chrome riches fuel a deadly underground economy
Behind South Africa's chrome riches lies a shadow economy where migrants and unemployed workers face deadly conditions.
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The final article of our EU Horizon 2020 VIRTUALTIMES project with Shiva Khoshnoud and @federicoalvarez.bsky.social at @igpp.bsky.social on Exploring and modifying the sense of time in virtual environments: "How playing video games downregulates self-referential processing".
Federico Alvarez Igarzábal@federicoalvarez.bsky.social · last wk.The latest publication to come out of my time as part of @marcwittmann.bsky.social's team, penned by EEG wizard Shiva Khoshnoud. It was a joy and an education to contribute to this study (as with everything we did). I’m thrilled to finally share the results here :) rdcu.be/jw1WdQ1Tca9a
Nearly 5000 researchers applied for an ERC starting grand in the last round. Just over 400 (less than 9%) were successful. Many people applying are spending up to 12 months working seriously on their application. This is absolutely crazy. erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
ERC Starting Grants: €705 million to back Europe's next generation of researchers
The European Research Council (ERC) has today announced the winners of its latest Starting Grant competition. The funding, worth €705 million in total, will go to 421 early-career researchers across E...
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New online collection: critical scholarship on educational assessment 🚨 This collection brings together 15 earlier TiHE papers taking a socio-political viewpoint on assessment Guest editors: Juuso Henrik Nieminen, Jan McArthur and Tim Fawns www.tandfonline.com/journals/cth...
Critical scholarship on educational assessment
Explore the article collection: Critical scholarship on educational assessment. Published in Teaching in Higher Education.
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Sandra Solli will have her disputation on Thursday, August 27, starting with trial lecture at 12:15 CEST, followed by public defence at 14:15 CEST. Read more about it here:
Public defence: Sandra Solli - RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion
Master of science in engineering Sandra Solli will be defending her dissertation at the Department of Psychology: Rhythm-Based Temporal Expectation: Delineating the Roles of Predictability and Periodi...
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Here is a recording of the talk by Havi Carel that opened our EPIC summer school last month: Is illness ineffable? #philsky #philpsy youtu.be/fqpt_zdaF6g?... #epistemicinjustice
Havi Carel: Is illness ineffable?
YouTube video by The Philosophy Garden
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Hardly ever met a smaller book with more theoretical insight. Love Serres (together with Bion, one of the few thinkers who almost made me entirely change the direction of my PhD) but have not read this one before
I've written a post that has some relevance to the UK academia's recent gossip round. janabacevic.net/2026/08/09/p...
People talking about people
I rarely talk about Buddhism. One part of this has to do with the fact I generally rarely talk about personal stuff, and people rarely ask. Another has to do with a general disinclination towards “…
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Another extraordinary essay by Abdaljawad Omar @hamayel.bsky.social - on moral stupidity (“These people act morally stupidly…because what they know, if inhabited fully, would cost them their world”) & the “tragic reality” of the Palestinian intellectual’s position www.equator.org/articles/mor...
Gaza and the Problem of Moral Stupidity • EQUATOR
Forty years after Edward Said demanded ‘permission to narrate’, the truth from Palestine has never been more widely known. And yet the annihilation continues.
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Vice-Chancellor of University of Bristol (salary £312,251): “I take a really personal view on this. My oldest daughter is the only child in my family who really is making a very significant amount of money.”
Elspeth Van Veeren@evanveeren.bsky.social · 2mo agoAnother excellent example of just how incurious and limited the UK press has been about this crisis. Not one mention of the cuts to humanities that Bristol’s own VC is trying to push through at the moment in this article about her position on the cuts 🤔🙄. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Walking back from glasgow queen street in a daze after multiple hours of #eshs-hss <why is everyone screaming?> boy, about 5 years old, plaintively, confused, holding his mother’s hand <coz England’s getting beat> the voice comes, conveying profound truths from the universe
Beautiful essay by Isabella Hammad on Gaza, grief, mourning, rubble, monuments. And on Arabic poetry and its recasting of some of the foundational readings/uses of Freud and Klein
Equator@equatormag.bsky.social · 2mo ago“Witnessing, or looking and weeping, did not stop the atrocities.” In a brilliant essay for our first print issue, Isabella Hammad traces the motif of “weeping over ruins” in Arabic poetry – and the impossibility of mourning in Gaza, where destruction does not end www.equator.org/articles/sta...
If you haven't yet signed the petition against the attacks on University of Exeter staff, here it is
Francesca Stavrakopoulou@proffrancesca.bsky.social · 3mo agoI’d love it if you’d sign this. It might not prevent me and my colleagues losing our jobs, but it will draw attention to the ideological vandalism being perpetrated by the wealthy execs running our university. Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter - sign the petition below! c.org/NpvY4sR9gH
New blog post by Jordana Benblatt and Kristy Kelly! 🚨 "Research should not be a privilege reserved for students who already know how to enter the field" #HigherEducation #UndergraduateResearch teachinginhighereducation.wordpress.com/2026/07/01/r...
Rethinking undergraduate research as pedagogy, not privilege
Vladimir Srajber on Pexels.com Universities love to celebrate undergraduate research, and for good reason. It can be transformative. But it raises a difficult question: who actually gets to have th…
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Sunday read: "Grief Worlds" In this conversation, Matthew Ratcliffe discusses grief as an unfolding emotional journey marked by disrupted meaning and shifting possibilities that reshape how we experience ourselves, others, and the world. #Philosophy www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/grief-w...
Grief Worlds
What happens when loss alters the very world we inhabit? In this conversation, Matthew Ratcliffe and Kathleen Higgins discuss grief as an unfolding emotional journey marked by disrupted meaning and sh...
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ICYMI: "Gilbert Simondon's Philosophy" Cécile Malaspina in conversation with Ashley Woodward On Simondon's philosophy of individuation, tech, science, metaphysics, the individual vs collective, and the human body as a machine. #Philosophy www.youtube.com/watch?v=o16h...
Gilbert Simondon's Philosophy: Cécile Malaspina in conversation with Ashley Woodward
YouTube video by The Philosopher
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Coming up: Mon. June 22 ~ 2pm ET / 7pm UK "AI and the Digital" Jonathan Zittrain in conversation with Audrey Borowski about his work and book project as well as current challenges in AI from regulation, privacy, to current trends in AI developments. www.thephilosopher1923.org/events/ai-an...
AI and the Digital
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ICYMI: "Decolonizing Knowledge" Radha D'Souza in conversation with Rinaldo Walcott On the intellectual and political stakes of challenging dominant forms of knowledge produced through colonial and imperial histories. #Philosophy www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwXX...
Decolonizing Knowledge: Radha D'Souza with Rinaldo Walcott (Philosophies of the South)
YouTube video by The Philosopher
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Whole logic pernicious on countless fronts. Note how Wales doesn’t even figure - even at the level of pointing out its absence policyexchange.org.uk/wp-content/u...
Research Professional News@resprofnews.bsky.social · 3mo ago‘Only 22 UK universities should be allowed in REF’, says think tank. Policy Exchange report arguing most universities should refocus away from research garners right-wing support. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...
Online @srhe.bsky.social event with #UoNSoE's Professor Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan and Dr Charlie Davis. Creative Methods for Newer Researchers: Exploring Researcher Identity through Poetry and Visual Narrative Approaches Wed 1 July, 10-11.30am srhe.ac.uk/civicrm/?civ...
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TODAY: Mon Jun 8~ 2pm ET /7pm UK "On Inidgenous Inhumanities" Mark Minch-de Leon & Krushil Watene On #Māori and #Indigenous traditions of #knowledge, #ethics, and relationality that confront #colonial frameworks. #Philosophy Register FREE or by donation www.tickettailor.com/events/theph...
Select tickets – "On Indigenous Inhumanities": Mark Minch-de Leon in conversation with Krushil Watene – Zoom
"On Indigenous Inhumanities": Mark Minch-de Leon in conversation with Krushil Watene – Zoom, Mon 8 Jun 2026 - This event is a part of our "Philosophies of the South" series. Indigenous philosophies gu...
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One of the best takes on "AI", including AI in higher education, compared to the majority of writing almost guaranteed to rehash all the tired and useless tropes from writing on the crisis in higher ed (what is wrong? everything. what shall we do about it? nothing) open.substack.com/pub/theconvi...
Do Not Resign From Life
The Convivial Society: Vol. 6, No.
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Breaking: Government set to cut strategic priorities grant. The government is on the cusp of cutting public funding for higher education teaching, the head of Universities UK has told MPs, placing institutions under even more financial pressure. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
Government ‘to cut strategic priorities grant’, says UUK leader - Research Professional News
Vivienne Stern says letter confirming cut to teaching funds will be sent out “in days”
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Wonderful to read about this work at the University of Southampton to design a supervisor development programme - drawing on best-practice literature by us and colleagues in the sector.
www.timeshighereducation.com
‘The first step is to understand what supervisors and students need’
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“[E]ven at its most trenchant, Collini’s argumentation has remained…somehow politically abstract, indicting a system & its culture, that of capitalism, but at a familiar, contemplative distance” Alongside Collini @lrb.co.uk read Mulhern @newleftreview.bsky.social newleftreview.org/issues/ii123...
Francis Mulhern, In the Academic Counting-House, NLR 123, May–June 2020
Leading opponent of the British university’s subordination to metrics, bureaucracy and capital; heir to the English moralists and foe of declinism. What kind of critic is Stefan Collini?
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