Fadia Dakka
@fadiadk.bsky.social
Rhythm scholar | Associate Professor in Philosophy and Theory of Higher Ed | CUS | Editorial board Time&Society, Ethics and Education, Philosophy and Theory in Higher Education | TRC Lab Sunkhronos
Somewhere in Birmingham and often in other places.
Somewhere in Birmingham and often in other places.
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Fadia Dakka
@fadiadk.bsky.social
· May 28
"All the untidy activity continues, awful but cheerful"
(EB, 1949)
(EB, 1949)
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Read my post for the APA blog, Rules of Engagement: blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/10/r... Arguing that epistemologists can join impactful interdisciplinary projects that contribute to improving social interactions #philsky #philpsy #philosophyforeveryone #epistemicinjustice #philosophymatters
Rules of Engagement | Blog of the APA
We would be wrong in writing off epistemology as an ivory tower pursuit with no implications for our daily practices. Epistemology can help understand and address issues such as the polarization of po...
blog.apaonline.org
November 10, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Read my post for the APA blog, Rules of Engagement: blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/10/r... Arguing that epistemologists can join impactful interdisciplinary projects that contribute to improving social interactions #philsky #philpsy #philosophyforeveryone #epistemicinjustice #philosophymatters
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Your Sunday read:
"Marx's Ethical Vision"
Vanessa Wills explores the moral heart of Marxism to reveal a deep ethical vision gounded in freedom, creativity and collective self-determination. Revolution is an effort to shape a just society.
#Philosophy #Marx
www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/marx-s-...
"Marx's Ethical Vision"
Vanessa Wills explores the moral heart of Marxism to reveal a deep ethical vision gounded in freedom, creativity and collective self-determination. Revolution is an effort to shape a just society.
#Philosophy #Marx
www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/marx-s-...
Marx’s Ethical Vision
In this conversation, Vanessa Wills explores the moral heart of Marxism. Challenging the view of Marx as a cold materialist, Wills reveals his deep ethical vision, one that is grounded in freedom, cre...
www.thephilosopher1923.org
November 9, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Your Sunday read:
"Marx's Ethical Vision"
Vanessa Wills explores the moral heart of Marxism to reveal a deep ethical vision gounded in freedom, creativity and collective self-determination. Revolution is an effort to shape a just society.
#Philosophy #Marx
www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/marx-s-...
"Marx's Ethical Vision"
Vanessa Wills explores the moral heart of Marxism to reveal a deep ethical vision gounded in freedom, creativity and collective self-determination. Revolution is an effort to shape a just society.
#Philosophy #Marx
www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/marx-s-...
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“The problem is that when [AI] is installed in a health sector that prizes efficiency, surveillance and profit extraction, AI becomes not a tool for care and community but simply another instrument for commodifying human life.”
- @eric-reinhart.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
- @eric-reinhart.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
What we lose when we surrender care to algorithms | Eric Reinhart
A dangerous faith in AI is sweeping American healthcare – with consequences for the basis of society itself
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
“The problem is that when [AI] is installed in a health sector that prizes efficiency, surveillance and profit extraction, AI becomes not a tool for care and community but simply another instrument for commodifying human life.”
- @eric-reinhart.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
- @eric-reinhart.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Why do we forget the air that we breathe in common?
What does it mean to breathe when the environment that sustains life now threatens it?
How can life flourish under toxic conditions?
#Philosophy
with Jamison Webster
Mon. Nov. 10 ~ 2pmET / 7pm UK
www.thephilosopher1923.org/events/on-br...
What does it mean to breathe when the environment that sustains life now threatens it?
How can life flourish under toxic conditions?
#Philosophy
with Jamison Webster
Mon. Nov. 10 ~ 2pmET / 7pm UK
www.thephilosopher1923.org/events/on-br...
On Breathing
www.thephilosopher1923.org
November 8, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Why do we forget the air that we breathe in common?
What does it mean to breathe when the environment that sustains life now threatens it?
How can life flourish under toxic conditions?
#Philosophy
with Jamison Webster
Mon. Nov. 10 ~ 2pmET / 7pm UK
www.thephilosopher1923.org/events/on-br...
What does it mean to breathe when the environment that sustains life now threatens it?
How can life flourish under toxic conditions?
#Philosophy
with Jamison Webster
Mon. Nov. 10 ~ 2pmET / 7pm UK
www.thephilosopher1923.org/events/on-br...
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Morning, lovelies 😘
November 8, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Morning, lovelies 😘
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What an article. Thank you for writing this and taking on such important and difficult lines of thought
I've got a new article on Valerie Solanas and her place in feminist history, part of the 100th issue of History Workshop Journal. academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...
Feminism, Artistry, Madness, and the Ghost of Valerie Solanas
Abstract. Valerie Solanas holds an unsettled place in feminist history, notorious for both her incendiary 1967 diatribe the SCUM Manifesto and her near-fat
academic.oup.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:29 PM
What an article. Thank you for writing this and taking on such important and difficult lines of thought
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Coming up: Mon. Nov. 10th ~ 2pm ET / 7pm UK
"On Breathing"
Jamieson Webster, in conversation with Nica Siegel, will draw on psychoanalytic theory and reflect on her own experiences to explore breathing and consider our dependence on invisible systems.
www.thephilosopher1923.org/events/on-br...
"On Breathing"
Jamieson Webster, in conversation with Nica Siegel, will draw on psychoanalytic theory and reflect on her own experiences to explore breathing and consider our dependence on invisible systems.
www.thephilosopher1923.org/events/on-br...
On Breathing
www.thephilosopher1923.org
November 5, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Coming up: Mon. Nov. 10th ~ 2pm ET / 7pm UK
"On Breathing"
Jamieson Webster, in conversation with Nica Siegel, will draw on psychoanalytic theory and reflect on her own experiences to explore breathing and consider our dependence on invisible systems.
www.thephilosopher1923.org/events/on-br...
"On Breathing"
Jamieson Webster, in conversation with Nica Siegel, will draw on psychoanalytic theory and reflect on her own experiences to explore breathing and consider our dependence on invisible systems.
www.thephilosopher1923.org/events/on-br...
Hell yes!
Yes Mamdani 😍
November 5, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Hell yes!
I blame ilku-duty.
Nothing more chastening than coming across a to do list from 2023 and realising that some of those things are still on your to do list in 2025
November 4, 2025 at 1:53 PM
I blame ilku-duty.
Ilku-duty root of all evils 🤣
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 4, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Ilku-duty root of all evils 🤣
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How is episodic memory implicated in gaslighting and other forms of #epistemicinjustice? Read the latest post on the #projectEPIC blog by Alison Springle and Seth Goldwasser epistemicinjusticeinhealthcareproject.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-de... #philsky
A Defence of the Epistemic Nature of Episodic Memory
epistemicinjusticeinhealthcareproject.blogspot.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
How is episodic memory implicated in gaslighting and other forms of #epistemicinjustice? Read the latest post on the #projectEPIC blog by Alison Springle and Seth Goldwasser epistemicinjusticeinhealthcareproject.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-de... #philsky
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When you have senior figures at the major UK research funding bodies saying universities should do less research and that cross-subsidy from international fees is required because they’ve doing too much research, you see how anti-intellectualism is setting in at policy levels.
"We’ve made it about individuals, because the academic research system is very focused on the individual level, and that’s something we really need to break,” she said.
Yes, break the focus on individuals. After all, the system is doing its best to break individuals altogether at this time. 1/3
Yes, break the focus on individuals. After all, the system is doing its best to break individuals altogether at this time. 1/3
REF must ditch focus on individuals, says Ottoline Leyser.
Former UKRI head also echoes previous calls for universities to do less research.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
Former UKRI head also echoes previous calls for universities to do less research.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
October 29, 2025 at 6:30 AM
When you have senior figures at the major UK research funding bodies saying universities should do less research and that cross-subsidy from international fees is required because they’ve doing too much research, you see how anti-intellectualism is setting in at policy levels.
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This is a heavy, emotionally charged paper... and so beautiful at the same time... a must-read. Link in the first comment.
October 29, 2025 at 11:06 AM
This is a heavy, emotionally charged paper... and so beautiful at the same time... a must-read. Link in the first comment.
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This is why “listening” isn’t reducible to something like “resonance” or even “sympathy.” The necessary conditions for feeling heard go include doing something with what is heard beyond echoing to responding and acting on it.
Maybe they could try giving people some hope that their lives could improve instead of just promising misery and cruelty
October 27, 2025 at 8:55 AM
This is why “listening” isn’t reducible to something like “resonance” or even “sympathy.” The necessary conditions for feeling heard go include doing something with what is heard beyond echoing to responding and acting on it.
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This pararaph from Kropotkin's "The conquest of bread" never seemed more relevant - in fact, the whole fascinaton with Trump's, Farage's, Starmer's, Putin's, Órban's etc. antics is inversely proportionate to the attention to dying civilians in Gaza and elsewhere
October 26, 2025 at 1:23 PM
This pararaph from Kropotkin's "The conquest of bread" never seemed more relevant - in fact, the whole fascinaton with Trump's, Farage's, Starmer's, Putin's, Órban's etc. antics is inversely proportionate to the attention to dying civilians in Gaza and elsewhere
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October 26, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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As the White Paper makes the rounds, a short reminder that British higher education remains as incapable of solving its problems as in May (when I wrote this) or the past 80 years (which is roughly how long the problems have been brewing for) janabacevic.net/2025/05/23/t...
Three ghosts of British higher education
[These are the more-or-less unedited notes for my speech at the event Multiple Crises of Higher Education, held on 20 May 2025 at Queen Mary’s Mile End Institute, and organised by the fantast…
janabacevic.net
October 26, 2025 at 11:12 AM
As the White Paper makes the rounds, a short reminder that British higher education remains as incapable of solving its problems as in May (when I wrote this) or the past 80 years (which is roughly how long the problems have been brewing for) janabacevic.net/2025/05/23/t...
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This week on Wonkhe: This week on the podcast we get across the Westminster government’s post-16 white paper
Podcast: Skills white paper special
This week on the podcast we get across the Westminster government’s post-16 white paper
buff.ly
October 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
This week on Wonkhe: This week on the podcast we get across the Westminster government’s post-16 white paper
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this is important - as much as I am against using competitive/punitive approach to funding (i.e. REF) to foster research quality, the concept of 'research culture' has drawn wider attention to the (for most researchers well-known) fact that some institutions are absolutely crap at supporting them
👀 ICYMI: "Although the PCE won’t solve all the sector challenges, without it we are destined to support a sub-standard research culture and environment that will end up costing good research and researchers."
#REF2029 #PCE #ResearchCulture
#REF2029 #PCE #ResearchCulture
The People Culture and Environment element of REF2029 is already changing the sector — we shouldn’t give up on it now - Impact of Social Sciences
The future of the People Culture and Environment element of REF 2029 is currently under scrutiny. Drawing on interviews with institutional decisionmakers as part of the COMET study, Gemma Derrick,…
blogs.lse.ac.uk
October 24, 2025 at 5:10 PM
this is important - as much as I am against using competitive/punitive approach to funding (i.e. REF) to foster research quality, the concept of 'research culture' has drawn wider attention to the (for most researchers well-known) fact that some institutions are absolutely crap at supporting them
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‘In the end, generative AI might be a blip in tech history, over-promising and under-delivering until finally the cash runs out. But it seems it’s arrived just in time to shove universities over a cliff edge they’d already walked themselves up to’: @jraden.bsky.social
Higher ed's rush to adopt AI is about so much more than AI: defector.com/higher-eds-r...
Higher Ed’s Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI | Defector
If you don’t work at a university or have college-age kids, you may have missed the flurry of news stories and social media banter about AI adoption in higher ed, stories which have snowballed into…
defector.com
October 23, 2025 at 6:36 PM
‘In the end, generative AI might be a blip in tech history, over-promising and under-delivering until finally the cash runs out. But it seems it’s arrived just in time to shove universities over a cliff edge they’d already walked themselves up to’: @jraden.bsky.social