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ProfSDodds
@sdoddsphilosopher.bsky.social
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Social and political philosophy|bioethics|animal person|views are my own
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This little one is checking out the world from a cosy pouch position just outside my window
#lutruwita #wallabybaby
A small brown wallaby Bennett’s wallaby) sitting on short patchy grass with an even smaller wallaby joey visible in her pouch. The joey has its forelegs poking out from the pouch and is looking well satisfied with its lot (yes that is an anthropomorphic projection of its emotional state and almost certainly ill-informed)
November 17, 2025 at 7:51 AM
sdoddsphilosopher.bsky.social
Congratulations @francoisebaylis.bsky.social and Royal Society of Canada!
November 6, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Call for Papers: Philosophy of Science in Public Policy
Synthese Topical Collection (Guest-Editors: Sabina Leonelli, Richard Williams, TUM)
Deadline: 10 April 2026
Submission: www.editorialmanager.com/synt/default...

Link: link.springer.com/collections/...

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October 31, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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What’s Lost When Liberal Arts Schools Close www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/o...
Opinion | What’s Lost When Liberal Arts Schools Close
www.nytimes.com
October 23, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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olgatennisonautism.bsky.social
From our new Olga Tennison Endowed Chair in Autism Research, Professor Dawn Adams.

"...blaming the use of painkillers in pregnancy and promoting an unproven therapy, marks a deeply concerning moment for science and public health."

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Autistic people aren't looking for treatments or cures. They want a world that accepts and values them for who they are.
The Trump administration’s claim to have found both the cause and a treatment for autism, blaming the use of painkillers in pregnancy and promoting an unproven therapy, marks a deeply concerning momen...
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September 24, 2025 at 1:00 AM
sdoddsphilosopher.bsky.social
Piper enjoyed a cold wet windy dog park this morning! 🐾
A black dog with a blue harness on a muddy path, with her eyes on an orange ball that is about to be thrown A black dog with an orange ball on a muddy path
September 20, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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avick.bsky.social
Not just the US
amandazillo.bsky.social Amanda Lanzillo @amandazillo.bsky.social · Sep 3
In @insidehighered.com I explore how area studies have positively reshaped the humanities & social sciences in the US since the 1950s. Their loss would impoverish knowledge production across our universities, and our universities must step up to defend them.

www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
Why Area Studies Matters (opinion)
If we are to save area studies programs, it will fall to universities to recognize their value, Amanda Lanzillo writes.
www.insidehighered.com
September 4, 2025 at 3:54 AM
sdoddsphilosopher.bsky.social
Friday night dinner with comfort food requires the perfect tableware, care of @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social x @brontelee.bsky.social
Two dinner plates with black glazing next to a cooktop and pan of passata -one plate shows an image of Brenda the civil disobedience penguin saying “not everyone can fly Marjorie”, the other has an image of the peccary of love and many hearts
August 22, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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theconversation.com/studying-phi...
Heartening evidence to support the value of education and ways of understanding, as well as skills
Studying philosophy does make people better thinkers, according to new research on more than 600,000 college grads
Philosophers are fond of saying that their field boosts critical thinking. Two of them decided to put that claim to the test.
theconversation.com
August 21, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Attacks on the humanities at Australian universities are not new – but they are now more lethal | Julianne Schultz
Punishing fees for arts degrees must be ended if the country seriously wants to participate in the information age and give students the opportunities we need them to have
www.theguardian.com
August 3, 2025 at 2:15 AM
sdoddsphilosopher.bsky.social
best cartoon plates you can have in your home, baked here in Tasmania!
brontelee.bsky.social bronte lee @brontelee.bsky.social · Jul 27
yes i’m taking a video of my big computer with my little computer (shut up) but the first batch of @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social plates is on the website!!!! LIVE NOW!! FINALLY!! excuse me while i go sleep for eleventy days (i wish)

firstdogonthemoon.com.au/shop/

#firstdogonthemoon #heysaurus
July 28, 2025 at 9:10 AM
sdoddsphilosopher.bsky.social
kunanyi/ Mt Wellington looking fine with a dusting of snow this morning
View over a bay and low hills to the dolerite (organ pipes) of a majestic mountain against a blue sky
July 20, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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lisagiven.bsky.social
I’m honoured to give the keynote at CAVAL’s AI-driven Metadata Futures conference on “Preparing Ourselves for Ethical AI Futures: Strategies for Investigation, Experimentation, and Development” today at RMIT University
July 16, 2025 at 11:58 PM
sdoddsphilosopher.bsky.social
We had to pass under this magnificent Wedge-tailed eagle 🦅 sitting 5 meters above our driveway at the end of our dog walk this morning #naturenotes #putalina
Large eagle sitting on a eucalyptus branch Grainy photo of a large brown/gold wedge-tailed eagle from below in 3/4 profile with light hitting its large curved beak and blue sky above Another image of the same eagle with light hitting its back and folded wing feathers
July 15, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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wombatscholar.bsky.social
An appealing senior job in medical humanities at Lund. Perhaps especially attractive to some of our US friends? If I were better at empathy and compassion I might even consider it myself!

lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Birgit Rausing Professor of Medical Humanities, with focus on empathy and compassion in a clinical context
Position We are announcing a position as full professor, to focus primarily on research, but also on education in the field of medical humanities. The professor will be employed by the Department of E
lu.varbi.com
July 10, 2025 at 7:30 AM
sdoddsphilosopher.bsky.social
Such a beautiful, dangerous mountain
sandyhorne.bsky.social Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · Jul 3
Another view of Mount Rainier - framed by a couple of trees.
A sleeping volcano.
July 3, 2025 at 5:21 AM
sdoddsphilosopher.bsky.social
Blue sky while waiting for the tram this afternoon
#BlueSky #Melbourne
July 3, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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karilancaster.bsky.social
New paper! What does it mean to be epistemically prepared for the next disease outbreak?
gh.bmj.com/content/10/6...

Led by @wombatscholar.bsky.social with @sonjavw.bsky.social @seyeabimbola.bsky.social @rachelankeny.bsky.social @engelmal.bsky.social @mstoove.bsky.social @cwaldby.bsky.social et al
June 23, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social
Nuclear war. It's nobody's fault sadly these things just happen. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Nuclear armageddon is back baby! So how does one survive a nuclear explosion? | First Dog on the Moon
It’s easy! I have done it hundreds of times
www.theguardian.com
June 18, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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unamcilvenna.bsky.social
This sounds totally fascinating. A fully funded PhD in the Netherlands, working on DH and early modern trade: trifecta.dhlab.nl/2025/05/
May 2025 – TRIFECTA
trifecta.dhlab.nl
June 7, 2025 at 4:13 AM
sdoddsphilosopher.bsky.social
Does @bsky.app make everyone seem grammatically challenged by inserting and deleting punctuation and “autoincorrecting” skeet’s [like that]. Or is it just me?
You’re your yore’s
It’s its its’ [!!]
Their they’re there’s
Maddening 🤯
June 4, 2025 at 11:16 PM
sdoddsphilosopher.bsky.social
Googly eyes
Fishing boat in a marina viewed from the front, with two round frames on its windows that look like googly eyes and a prow that looks like a gap toothed smile
June 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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pixelatedboat.bsky.social
I can’t think of anything more Orwellian than waking up to find out you’d transformed into a giant bug
May 27, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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kudelka.bsky.social
Found an old piece of lino under a great deal of mess and art materials. Decided to finish the edition. First one off the press.
Bad moon rising is re-risen
May 27, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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humanitiesau.bsky.social
Great to be in the room at National Press Club of Australia address by colleagues at @science.org.au & Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia — Distinguished Prof Brian Schmidt & Prof Richard Holden FASSA backing Australian ideas and research as drivers of inclusive social and economic growth.
May 28, 2025 at 4:25 AM