The International Association for Philosophy of Time (IAPT) newsletter for August is out, with details of upcoming conferences, and TWO 30month postdoc positions in Turin (deadline at the end of the month!!). mailchi.mp/ff8445887c04... mailchi.mp/d0754aa77aef...

Behind the bewildering transformation of British universities, are management consultants being paid millions Really proud to have this vital piece on our unis are being gutted from the inside by @jheathershaw.bsky.social on Democracy for Sale. Do read democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-bri...

Inside Britain's university crisis

As teaching staff face job loss, their bosses have netted pay rises and bought advice from a “vampiric” management consultancy, writes Prof. John Heathershaw of the University of Exeter

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Today university fees rise again, while thousands of academics across the country face job cuts, crushing workloads and shattered morale. Students deserve better than this broken system of unfair repayment that widens inequality. Abolish fees and fund universities properly!

Glad someone senior from the sector is pushing back. Labour MPs need to understand the serious real anger from graduates and the people who produce them. And the dangerous financial situation they have allowed to fester, or indeed worsened, in one of Britain’s leading sectors.

Labour has harmed universities as much as Trump, London School of Economics head says

LSE vice-chancellor Larry Kramer points to domestic student fees freeze, international student limits and rise in employers’ national insurance

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The Journal of Mathematical Philosophy is now open for submissions! It is fully open access, with no fees for authors or readers. Please help spread the word, and do consider sending us your work. Very happy to be part of the inaugural editorial board. mathematicalphilosophy.org/mathphil

Now is the time for ALL staff in HE (and FE and prison education) to join a union. For those in the U.K. in academic roles, academic-related and many administrative or professional services roles, you will be represented by UCU. You can join at my.ucu.org.uk/app/membersh... . #UCU @ucu.org.uk

Philosophy of Time Society at the Central APA (2027) We request submissions of high-quality abstracts (500 words max.) for our group meeting at the Central APA in Denver, CO, February 24–27, 2027. Deadline: 14th August 2026. www.philtimesociety.com/calls-for-pa...

Sad to learn belatedly of the passing of John Bone @johnbone.bsky.social, who worked at @york.ac.uk for over 40 years, retiring in 2023, and who was instrumental to (and often synonymous with) PPE at York @uoyppe.bsky.social. Condolences to many who knew him well. www.york.ac.uk/economics/ab...

"Humanities are being extinguished by university bosses across the country. We desperately need an emergency rescue package to stop the death-rattle of Britain's great universities." @drjogrady.bsky.social in the Guardian 👇 www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Humanities among degrees being ‘extinguished’ by hard-up universities

Exclusive: Experts fear rise in education ‘cold spots’ and social immobility as 4,000 academic posts lost in one year

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Philosophy of Time Society at the Central APA (2027) We request submissions of high-quality abstracts (500 words max.) for our group meeting at the Central APA in Denver, CO, February 24–27, 2027. Deadline: 14th August 2026. www.philtimesociety.com/calls-for-pa...

Get in touch if you — or someone you know — would be interested in applying for a British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social postdoctoral fellowship to be held at the University of York. @uoyphilosophy.bsky.social @york.ac.uk 👇

The British Academy@britishacademy.bsky.social · last mo.

Applications for the Postdoctoral Fellowships are open. This fellowship is a three-year award made to an annual cohort of outstanding early-career researchers in the humanities or social sciences. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4xWduAS

The entire editorial team at a journal of a for-profit publisher resigned and formed a new open-access journal. It has now published its first article...

The New Open-Access Journal Philosophical Logic Is Now Publishing - Daily Nous

Last December, all of the editors-in-chief and associate editors of Springer Nature’s Journal of Philosophical Logic resigned and formed Philosophical Logic, a new "diamond" open-access journal (detai...

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they’re pushing through approx 25% compulsory redundancy focused on humanities & social science without anything close to a financial justification. The only reasonable interpretation is ideological motivation. I am both heartbroken and embarrassed. Sign please. www.change.org/p/stop-redun...

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Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter

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"The idea that people will be able to hold it together and deliver a term of teaching before they vanish off into the horizon, is bizarre, spiteful and naive as well.” The Times HE's punchy account of Exeter University's #BonfireOfTheHumanities & what one academic describes as "existential terror".

‘I thought we were safe’: shock at Exeter’s humanities ‘gamble’

Leading department being in the firing line shows how changing student preferences are fundamentally reshaping universities

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Here is an #OpenAccess article in which I describe and explain a syllabus on women thinkers in ancient and medieval philosophy; this is based on a class I teach for King's College London: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... The whole issue is on teaching women philosophers. #philsky #philosophy

Women of the world: teaching women thinkers in pre-modern global philosophy

This paper reflects on experiences teaching courses on women thinkers from antiquity and the medieval period. The discussion is built around a proposed syllabus (similar to one used in teaching at ...

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⌛ Countdown to IAPT XI... 📌 The 11th Annual Conference of the International Association for Philosophy of Time to be held from 25 to 27 July 2026 at Yamaguchi University (Japan). More details to follow soon. See you there!

A statement from Exeter UCU branch @ucu.org.uk - please share far and wide.

As program committee chair, it's my pleasure to announce the program for the Asian Philosophy of Science Association's inaugural conference. We have a great selection of papers, and I'm very excited to see everyone in Singapore come July! Details: www.ntu.edu.sg/soh/news-eve... #philsky #philsci

Open letter about philosophy job losses at Nottingham. Please consider signing docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Open Letter: Opposing Compulsory Redundancies in the Department of Philosophy, University of Nottingham

We, the undersigned, call on the University of Nottingham to reverse its plans to impose compulsory redundancies on its staff in the Department of Philosophy. The University threatens to cut around o...

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How do other animals experience time? It's been a pleasure to work with @singhal.bsky.social and @anilseth.bsky.social on a paper exploring how temporal illusions and other experimental strategies can shed light on this. It's our today! www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

This is an excellent, if bleak, piece. Among other things, it captures perfectly the hollowing out of universities (and university life).

George Eaton@georgeeaton.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Why is the universities crisis being ignored? Essential piece by @gsoh31.bsky.social for Arguably on the “grim dribbling away of one of Britain's great triumphs and economic advantages” – and why so few politicians seem to care. www.arguably.uk/p/the-quiet-...

Hello philosophers - I've written an introduction to philosophy of physics (100K words) for Routledge. I'll be finalizing it around end of summer and am keen to take soundings as to how it could be made more useful for students and teachers. Please comment below if you'd like a copy of the MS!

Two permanent positions in HPS, Sydney! #hps #philsci

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor to the School of History and Philosophy of Science

2 x full time, continuing positions, located on the Camperdown Campus in the Faculty of Science Build your research and apply your expertise by contributing as a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate Pro...

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With hundreds of jobs on the line and dozens of courses at risk, Nottingham staff living through one of the biggest university restructuring projects of recent years fear they are shouldering the blame for wider failures. Juliette Rowsell reports https://ow.ly/OrVG50Z6KJ1

‘The REF has now morphed into a hugely expensive, attention-engrossing status marker. Few things would improve the intellectual culture of universities more quickly than the complete abolition of this flawed and coercive exercise.’ Stefan Collini on universities www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Stefan Collini · Squadrons of Pigs: Bonfire of the Universities

The problems with Britain’s universities are systemic and deep-rooted, not just local or contingent. Yet political and...

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All solidarity to colleagues at Nottingham as they begin their marking and assessment boycott, fighting devastating course cuts and redundancies. ✊💪

University of Nottingham UCU branch@uonucu.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A reminder of what we are fighting against as our marking and assessment boycott begins today. physicsworld.com/a/nottingham... www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...

Congrats to Dave Ingram, the new President of the Philosophy of Time Society! www.philtimesociety.com

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Nottingham faculty protesting proposed bloodbath

A philosopher at the University of Nottingham calls my attention to this: He summarizes the situation as follows: – the removal of just over 600 FTE posts, if necessary through compulsor…

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We are hiring two postdoctoral researchers, to work on questions about the impact of AI on science! See details here, and direct questions to mike.stuart@york.ac.uk! Please share broadly! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRN637/r...

Research Associate x 2 at University of York

Recruiting now: Research Associate x 2 on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board

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Save the Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire

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