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.
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.
Coming up next week at the Center for Environmental and Technology Ethics - Prague:
Alasdair Cochrane will give a talk on
"The Informal Representation of Animals" 🐾
All welcome!
#Animals #PhilSky #PolTheory
Alasdair Cochrane will give a talk on
"The Informal Representation of Animals" 🐾
All welcome!
#Animals #PhilSky #PolTheory
January 5, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Coming up next week at the Center for Environmental and Technology Ethics - Prague:
Alasdair Cochrane will give a talk on
"The Informal Representation of Animals" 🐾
All welcome!
#Animals #PhilSky #PolTheory
Alasdair Cochrane will give a talk on
"The Informal Representation of Animals" 🐾
All welcome!
#Animals #PhilSky #PolTheory
Reposted by Friderike Spang
Reposted by Friderike Spang
📣❗New article out now!
rdcu.be/eSSNa
I explain how to do "nonideal animal research ethics" – it involves spelling out ethical goals first, then mapping ethical pathways to get there. I think we should do this more often because…
rdcu.be/eSSNa
I explain how to do "nonideal animal research ethics" – it involves spelling out ethical goals first, then mapping ethical pathways to get there. I think we should do this more often because…
December 4, 2025 at 3:37 PM
📣❗New article out now!
rdcu.be/eSSNa
I explain how to do "nonideal animal research ethics" – it involves spelling out ethical goals first, then mapping ethical pathways to get there. I think we should do this more often because…
rdcu.be/eSSNa
I explain how to do "nonideal animal research ethics" – it involves spelling out ethical goals first, then mapping ethical pathways to get there. I think we should do this more often because…
I've finally created a profile with ResearchGate but it's already frustrating - "editing-limit reached"? what the hell so I can't correct/complete my publication info?
And yay I really need another success-quantification via "Research Interest Score" 🙄
And yay I really need another success-quantification via "Research Interest Score" 🙄
December 31, 2025 at 10:38 AM
I've finally created a profile with ResearchGate but it's already frustrating - "editing-limit reached"? what the hell so I can't correct/complete my publication info?
And yay I really need another success-quantification via "Research Interest Score" 🙄
And yay I really need another success-quantification via "Research Interest Score" 🙄
Alright, my to-do-list for 2026 is formatted:
Font: Georgia, different color for each month, starting January with azure blue-tone (#0F9ED5) - 2026 can begin 🤓
Font: Georgia, different color for each month, starting January with azure blue-tone (#0F9ED5) - 2026 can begin 🤓
December 29, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Alright, my to-do-list for 2026 is formatted:
Font: Georgia, different color for each month, starting January with azure blue-tone (#0F9ED5) - 2026 can begin 🤓
Font: Georgia, different color for each month, starting January with azure blue-tone (#0F9ED5) - 2026 can begin 🤓
Wishing everyone peaceful holidays🌹
December 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Wishing everyone peaceful holidays🌹
Punctual train, nice person gave me their 48h public transport ticket, beautiful bells ringing - hello Vienna 😇
December 14, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Punctual train, nice person gave me their 48h public transport ticket, beautiful bells ringing - hello Vienna 😇
Reposted by Friderike Spang
When will this crisis get any attention whatsoever!? A THOUSAND ACADEMIC STAFF AT ONE INSTITUTION SERVED REDUNDANCY RISK NOTICES! And that's not counting what's surely being visited on professional services staff too. This is an economic catastrophe, to say nothing of the intellectual catastrophe!
Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252:
Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.
Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.
Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
December 11, 2025 at 8:47 PM
When will this crisis get any attention whatsoever!? A THOUSAND ACADEMIC STAFF AT ONE INSTITUTION SERVED REDUNDANCY RISK NOTICES! And that's not counting what's surely being visited on professional services staff too. This is an economic catastrophe, to say nothing of the intellectual catastrophe!
Call for Abstracts 📣
I'm organizing a Workshop in Prague next February,
"Confronting Oppression with Care: Interspecies Perspectives" 🐾
Please share widely!
#Animals #Ethics #AcadamicSky #PhilSky #PolTheory
philevents.org/event/show/1...
I'm organizing a Workshop in Prague next February,
"Confronting Oppression with Care: Interspecies Perspectives" 🐾
Please share widely!
#Animals #Ethics #AcadamicSky #PhilSky #PolTheory
philevents.org/event/show/1...
Confronting Oppression with Care: Interspecies Perspectives
This workshop examines how practices of care might help address the persistent oppression of animals in contemporary societies. Care is often proposed as a way to illuminate vulnerability and shape re...
philevents.org
December 11, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Call for Abstracts 📣
I'm organizing a Workshop in Prague next February,
"Confronting Oppression with Care: Interspecies Perspectives" 🐾
Please share widely!
#Animals #Ethics #AcadamicSky #PhilSky #PolTheory
philevents.org/event/show/1...
I'm organizing a Workshop in Prague next February,
"Confronting Oppression with Care: Interspecies Perspectives" 🐾
Please share widely!
#Animals #Ethics #AcadamicSky #PhilSky #PolTheory
philevents.org/event/show/1...
With so many ugly things happening, here is a bit of beauty
December 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM
With so many ugly things happening, here is a bit of beauty
Seasons greetings from Prague🎄
December 9, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Seasons greetings from Prague🎄
Reposted by Friderike Spang
1. The European Parliament’s attempt to ban plant-based foods from being sold as “sausages”, “burgers” etc is a direct response to livestock industry lobbying. This is a short thread on how utterly bleeding ridiculous it is. 🧵1/6
December 3, 2025 at 10:26 AM
1. The European Parliament’s attempt to ban plant-based foods from being sold as “sausages”, “burgers” etc is a direct response to livestock industry lobbying. This is a short thread on how utterly bleeding ridiculous it is. 🧵1/6
Reposted by Friderike Spang
Wednesday 3 December in the evening, live in Utrecht and also online: Isabelle Ferreras will speak about the need to democratize firms. Caleb Althorpe will provide a response.
This is an event that is open to the public, everyone is welcome!
www.sg.uu.nl/agenda/2025/...
This is an event that is open to the public, everyone is welcome!
www.sg.uu.nl/agenda/2025/...
From shareholder capitalism to democratic economy
What if workers take back control?
www.sg.uu.nl
November 28, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Wednesday 3 December in the evening, live in Utrecht and also online: Isabelle Ferreras will speak about the need to democratize firms. Caleb Althorpe will provide a response.
This is an event that is open to the public, everyone is welcome!
www.sg.uu.nl/agenda/2025/...
This is an event that is open to the public, everyone is welcome!
www.sg.uu.nl/agenda/2025/...
Reposted by Friderike Spang
Excited to have Alasdair Cochrane over for a talk on "The Informal Representation of Animals" 🐾
In Prague, January 15th 2026⏲️
Really cool topic and much under-researched so far!
cetep.eu/alasdair-coc...
#philsky #animals #academicsky
In Prague, January 15th 2026⏲️
Really cool topic and much under-researched so far!
cetep.eu/alasdair-coc...
#philsky #animals #academicsky
Center for Environmental and Technology Ethics - Prague | Centrum pro environmentální a technologickou etiku - Praha
Center for Environmental and Technology Ethics - Prague | Centrum pro environmentální a technologickou etiku - Praha
cetep.eu
November 24, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Excited to have Alasdair Cochrane over for a talk on "The Informal Representation of Animals" 🐾
In Prague, January 15th 2026⏲️
Really cool topic and much under-researched so far!
cetep.eu/alasdair-coc...
#philsky #animals #academicsky
In Prague, January 15th 2026⏲️
Really cool topic and much under-researched so far!
cetep.eu/alasdair-coc...
#philsky #animals #academicsky
Excited to have Alasdair Cochrane over for a talk on "The Informal Representation of Animals" 🐾
In Prague, January 15th 2026⏲️
Really cool topic and much under-researched so far!
cetep.eu/alasdair-coc...
#philsky #animals #academicsky
In Prague, January 15th 2026⏲️
Really cool topic and much under-researched so far!
cetep.eu/alasdair-coc...
#philsky #animals #academicsky
Center for Environmental and Technology Ethics - Prague | Centrum pro environmentální a technologickou etiku - Praha
Center for Environmental and Technology Ethics - Prague | Centrum pro environmentální a technologickou etiku - Praha
cetep.eu
November 24, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Excited to have Alasdair Cochrane over for a talk on "The Informal Representation of Animals" 🐾
In Prague, January 15th 2026⏲️
Really cool topic and much under-researched so far!
cetep.eu/alasdair-coc...
#philsky #animals #academicsky
In Prague, January 15th 2026⏲️
Really cool topic and much under-researched so far!
cetep.eu/alasdair-coc...
#philsky #animals #academicsky
Just love that they choose to put this above a toilet, of all places
(at the Center for Contemporary Art in Prague)
(at the Center for Contemporary Art in Prague)
November 22, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Just love that they choose to put this above a toilet, of all places
(at the Center for Contemporary Art in Prague)
(at the Center for Contemporary Art in Prague)
Reposted by Friderike Spang
November 17, 2025 at 3:25 PM
November 17, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Reposted by Friderike Spang
our institutions are controlled by real monsters.
unless we fight for and win democratic accountability and control, the monsters will continue to rule with impunity.
unless we fight for and win democratic accountability and control, the monsters will continue to rule with impunity.
When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: Jeffrey E. Epstein.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
As Summers Sought Clandestine Relationship With Woman He Called a Mentee, Epstein Was His ‘Wing Man’ | News | The Harvard Crimson
When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: convicted sex offender…
www.thecrimson.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:17 PM
our institutions are controlled by real monsters.
unless we fight for and win democratic accountability and control, the monsters will continue to rule with impunity.
unless we fight for and win democratic accountability and control, the monsters will continue to rule with impunity.
just realized that I haven't been running for nearly a year now 😬and the way I realized this is that I've moved to Prague nearly a year ago and haven't done any sports since - which also makes me realize how freaking fast time has been going by, holy sh*t
November 14, 2025 at 5:08 PM
just realized that I haven't been running for nearly a year now 😬and the way I realized this is that I've moved to Prague nearly a year ago and haven't done any sports since - which also makes me realize how freaking fast time has been going by, holy sh*t
Reposted by Friderike Spang
Glad to see some campaigns to reform academic publishing.
Allowing corporations to stand between research and the people who need it is the worst kind of unproductive, innovation-discouraging activity.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Allowing corporations to stand between research and the people who need it is the worst kind of unproductive, innovation-discouraging activity.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Universities in 'battle of the century' with journal publisher Elsevier
One New Zealand university told its staff all universities in New Zealand and Australia would "lose some degree of access" to the publisher's 1600 titles from the start of next year.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 14, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Glad to see some campaigns to reform academic publishing.
Allowing corporations to stand between research and the people who need it is the worst kind of unproductive, innovation-discouraging activity.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Allowing corporations to stand between research and the people who need it is the worst kind of unproductive, innovation-discouraging activity.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Reposted by Friderike Spang
🚨#History #envhist Job Alert: My Department is hiring an Assistant Professor in Environmental History.
🗃️
Come work with us at Warwick. You'll get both excellent colleagues and great students!
See details below... And do not hesitate to spread the word...
👇👇👇
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK289/a...
🗃️
Come work with us at Warwick. You'll get both excellent colleagues and great students!
See details below... And do not hesitate to spread the word...
👇👇👇
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK289/a...
Assistant Professor in Environmental History (111009-1125) at University of Warwick
Explore an exciting academic career as a Assistant Professor in Environmental History (111009-1125). Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.
www.jobs.ac.uk
November 12, 2025 at 12:15 PM
🚨#History #envhist Job Alert: My Department is hiring an Assistant Professor in Environmental History.
🗃️
Come work with us at Warwick. You'll get both excellent colleagues and great students!
See details below... And do not hesitate to spread the word...
👇👇👇
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK289/a...
🗃️
Come work with us at Warwick. You'll get both excellent colleagues and great students!
See details below... And do not hesitate to spread the word...
👇👇👇
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK289/a...
Reposted by Friderike Spang
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can you chip in for any amount to help me get there?
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November 12, 2025 at 6:49 PM
i'm giving myself an (ambitious) goal of 100 paid supporters by end of year
can you chip in for any amount to help me get there?
www.patreon.com/c/PoliticalP...
can you chip in for any amount to help me get there?
www.patreon.com/c/PoliticalP...
the kindness of strangers: recent train travel got super chaotic, trains were cancelled, bus transfers organized; and I didn't understand a word as it was all in Czech. But there was this kind person translating everything for me, making this a fun adventure instead 🙏
#kindness
#kindness
November 9, 2025 at 5:15 PM
the kindness of strangers: recent train travel got super chaotic, trains were cancelled, bus transfers organized; and I didn't understand a word as it was all in Czech. But there was this kind person translating everything for me, making this a fun adventure instead 🙏
#kindness
#kindness