ah too bad, had they gotten it correct I'd have been intrigued 😏
Friderike Spang
@friderikespang.bsky.social
https://friderikespang.com/ Postdoctoral Researcher @Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences @Center for Environmental & Technology Ethics Prague Political philosophy, environmental & animal ethics. Also interested in everything on emotions.
How should vegan advocacy go about talking to others? 🐾 I explore this question in my new blog entry for @apaphilosophy.bsky.social blog.apaonline.org/2026/07/23/s... #veganism #animals #advocacy
Should Vegan Advocacy Meet People Where They Are? | Blog of the APA
When we aim to justify veganism, a crucial question is how to frame the arguments. A widespread and intuitively compelling strategy is to adjust the message so that it fits with the preexisting values...
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My heart is heavy that we are making a collective miscalculation in undervaluing the humanities - from my FT piece www.ft.com/content/fbde...
Congrats to Spain for such a well deserved win!!! ⚽🥳
My review of Eva Meijer's "Multispecies Dialogues: Doing Philosophy with Animals, Children, the Sea and Others" has just been published in Environmental Ethics 🤓 www.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf... AAM available here: zenodo.org/records/1790...
Something deeply troubling & shocking is happening at Exeter University*, where a mass cull of staff is planned, even though it's in surplus. No good justifications given. @jamesgdyke.info provides the details: www.technosphere.earth/the-bonfire-... *Disclosure: I have a Visiting Fellowship here. +🧵
The bonfire of the humanities
150 academic posts at the University of Exeter are to be cut, most in the humanities but also in social sciences, engineering and environmental sciences
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It feels increasingly surreal to be walking around in this heat with so many cars driving by, seemingly not caring that they're the ones contributing to this mess 🥵
Mit ein paar Beiträgen von yours truly 😇 #compromise #kompromisse
Kompromisse – Goldener Mittelweg oder faules Zugeständnis?
Wir treffen jeden Tag Entscheidungen – und gehen dabei Kompromisse ein. In der Politik, im sozialen Miteinander, aber auch bei persönlichen Entscheidungen. Doch nicht immer ist der Mittelweg der besse...
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In der Politischen Theorie an der Uni Hamburg ist zum 1.10. eine postdoc-Stelle zu besetzen, hier auf Deutsch und im Kommentar auf Englisch: www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...
Ausschreibung
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check out this podcast interview with my fabulous colleague Iwona Janicka on ecofeminism and climate change! youtu.be/LzOzoxBfTwU?...
We are not the masters of nature: ecofeminism and climate change | Iwona Janicka (Zelený drát)
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"A habitable, equal and prosperous 21st century is materially possible...Technical impossibility is not what is standing in the way, but rather the absence of a shared vision of social progress, at once concrete and radical. What it will take instead is political choice..."
Guardian Environment@environment.theguardian.com · 2mo agoA good life for the 99% isn’t a pipe dream: it can be done. Here’s how
📢 Open positions! I’m recruiting 2 postdocs + 3 PhD positions at C³S, @goetheuni.bsky.social in #ClimateJustice, environmental inequality, #Demography & #ComputationalSocialScience 🌍📊💻 3–4 years + strong support for training🎒 Deadline: 23 June 2026 More: www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794987/Zen...
"Mutloser Minimalkompromiss" – "Vereinbarter Rahmen ausgeschöpft" – "Arbeitsverweigerung" Was sagen Regierungsfraktionen und Opposition zum WissZEITVG-Entwurf, was Wissenschaftsrat, HRK und Wissenschaftsinitiativen? Ein Überblick zu den Reaktionen. Im Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2026/05...
English painter Emma Haworth known for her parks and semi urban landscapes with a hint of magic #womensart #ParkLife
btw how is it that sharing options on youtube still don't include bluesky (but X)??
The Center for Environmental and Technology Ethics Prague (CETE-P) now has a promotional video 😇 youtu.be/IQ9MIejnP30?... @flu-cas.bsky.social
About Center for Environmental and Technology Ethics – Prague (CETE-P)
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I'm duly impressed with the delivery service here which apparently can see in the future! I received a notification today around 4pm that a delivery attempt at 7:03 pm was unfortunately not successful.
An amazing postdoc opportunity at Cambridge, working on pandemic risk www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/postdoc...
Postdoctoral Research Associate (Fixed Term)
Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Associate (PDRA) in the Centre for Pandemic Risk Management. The Centre brings together an interdisciplinary team of scientists, social scientists
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gentle reminder that the deadline to submit an abstract is end of April! Caring for Non-Humans: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Care among Animals, the Environment, and AI 🗓️ Conference in Prague, October 12-14 2026 philevents.org/event/show/1... please share with interested colleagues!
EU Twinning funding application submitted!!!🥳 After some intense months of working on this application, together with our amazing colleagues Alasdair Cochrane & Leonie Bossert, it's finally out. Fingers crossed! 🍀
of course, when working on a grant application deadline, the computer must crash, how else would it be 😭
📆 are you interested in working with a team on understanding animal-human interactions and health? There is just under one week left to apply for these post doc roles. 🐦⬛🐄🐴🐕🦺
Rosaleen Duffy@rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 5mo ago1/ Calling all ECRs - we have 4x3 year post docs on Multispecies Mutualisms working with us at Sheffield. Don't want to read through all the stuff to work out if its right for you? Here is a short video explainer 🎥 digitalmedia.sheffield.ac.uk/media/Multis...
Next talk in our new European Environmental Philosophy Series (EEPS)! "Framing animals" by Dr. Silvia Caprioglio Panizza 15 May 2026, 1pm-2:30pm CET Register here for receiving the zoom-link: forms.gle/cbyrSAKLdaXi... Further info here: cetep.eu/european-env...
EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHY SERIES (EEPS)
Event Timing: May 15th, 2026
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Next talk in our new European Environmental Philosophy Series (EEPS)! "Framing animals" by Dr. Silvia Caprioglio Panizza 15 May 2026, 1pm-2:30pm CET Register here for receiving the zoom-link: forms.gle/cbyrSAKLdaXi... Further info here: cetep.eu/european-env...
EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHY SERIES (EEPS)
Event Timing: May 15th, 2026
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My first podcast interview is out!🎙️ youtu.be/I8aVjZqAw2o?... We talk about animal rights, political representation of animal interests, how to deal with disagreement about animals political status, what emotions have to do with it all, and more :) @flu-cas.bsky.social
Animal ethics: Should animals have political rights? | Friderike Spang (Zelený drát)
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My first podcast interview is out!🎙️ youtu.be/I8aVjZqAw2o?... We talk about animal rights, political representation of animal interests, how to deal with disagreement about animals political status, what emotions have to do with it all, and more :) @flu-cas.bsky.social
Animal ethics: Should animals have political rights? | Friderike Spang (Zelený drát)
YouTube video by Filosofický ústav AV ČR
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The last thing you see before the universe explodes
Last month, Alfonso Donoso gave a wonderful talk here in Prague: "The Grammar of Animal Oppression: Rethinking Disability and Migration" You can watch it now on Youtube! youtu.be/eVAXHPXQV7c?... #animals #oppression #disability #migration @flu-cas.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social
#lecture | Alfonso Donoso: The Grammar of Animal Oppression: Rethinking Disability and Migration
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