Nicole Fice
@nicolefice.bsky.social
Assistant prof in philosophy, at Trent University. Research focused on feminist philosophy & public health ethics. Website: nicolefice.com.
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BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY blogger Mich Ciurria on billionaire philanthropy, philosophy, academic freedom, and ableism.
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UnKoch My Philosophy Department: Reject Billionaire Donations for Disability Justice!
This week, my paper on billionaire philanthropy and academic philosophy was published in a special, open access issue of the Journal of Academic Freedom, titled P…
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November 4, 2025 at 1:38 AM
BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY blogger Mich Ciurria on billionaire philanthropy, philosophy, academic freedom, and ableism.
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"In our discipline’s founding act of slapstick, Thales fell into a well because he was too busy staring at the sky, but the rest of us do it less conspicuously every weekday..." Helena de Bres on philosophy and the comic...
On Being Seriously Funny (guest post) - Daily Nous
"I got into philosophy at least partly because it was comic and that’s still much of what I enjoy about it." Helena de Bres is professor of philosophy at Wellesley College. In the following guest post...
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July 22, 2025 at 12:16 PM
"In our discipline’s founding act of slapstick, Thales fell into a well because he was too busy staring at the sky, but the rest of us do it less conspicuously every weekday..." Helena de Bres on philosophy and the comic...
Bioethics friends! Do you have any suggested readings (for myself, mainly, but also ones appropriate for undergraduate readers) on the topic of trauma-informed care? Many thanks!
May 5, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Bioethics friends! Do you have any suggested readings (for myself, mainly, but also ones appropriate for undergraduate readers) on the topic of trauma-informed care? Many thanks!
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There is another theme in this essay that I didn't want to get lost. Immigrant lives were extremely difficult, but they were not impossible. Refugees could have gotten legal status and not-enough welfare.
Over the last decades, borders have hardened almost everywhere in "the West".
Over the last decades, borders have hardened almost everywhere in "the West".
This is a hauntingly beautiful personal essay about how abstract financial instrumentalization can destroy real lives.
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“Sashka and the Subprime Mortgage Crisis”: An Essay by Elvira Basevich (Keywords: Family; Housing Crisis; Poverty; The American Dream; Refugees; Mortality; Memoir)
"My brother, Sashka, ran away from home when he was fifteen. It is not quite right to say he ran away from home; our home deserted us."
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April 2, 2025 at 5:07 PM
There is another theme in this essay that I didn't want to get lost. Immigrant lives were extremely difficult, but they were not impossible. Refugees could have gotten legal status and not-enough welfare.
Over the last decades, borders have hardened almost everywhere in "the West".
Over the last decades, borders have hardened almost everywhere in "the West".
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#Breaking: Ontario supervised consumption sites can remain open as judge grants reprieve, citing ‘significant harm’ of closures
Ontario supervised consumption sites can remain open as judge grants reprieve, citing ‘significant harm’ of closures
Injunction says sites can be open past the April 1 deadline, including the site in Toronto’s Kensington Market that launched the Charter challenge.
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March 31, 2025 at 4:45 PM
#Breaking: Ontario supervised consumption sites can remain open as judge grants reprieve, citing ‘significant harm’ of closures
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February 27, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Larry Diamond, @larrydiamond.bsky.social , a longstanding leader in the political science study of democracy, at @theunpopulist.net
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Trump's America Is in a Free Fall—Not a Slippery Slope—to Tyranny
He is instilling fear not just among lawmakers but every sector of society that dares to criticize him or hold him accountable
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February 20, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Larry Diamond, @larrydiamond.bsky.social , a longstanding leader in the political science study of democracy, at @theunpopulist.net
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Thinking about the philosophy of gender identity today, so thought I’d re-share this accessible paper I wrote about it for MIND.
🚨This is not a drill!🚨 After years in the making, my paper on GI is finally out in MIND, one of the most prestigious philosophy journals in the world, of all places.
⬇️Why this is the most important paper on gender you’ll read this week, a thread:🧵
⬇️Why this is the most important paper on gender you’ll read this week, a thread:🧵
What Is It like to Have a Gender Identity?
Abstract. By attending to how people speak about their gender, we can find diverse answers to the question of what it is like to have a gender identity. To some
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February 20, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Thinking about the philosophy of gender identity today, so thought I’d re-share this accessible paper I wrote about it for MIND.
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Ed Department: DEI Violates Civil Rights Law
In a sweeping and unprecedented letter issued over the weekend, the Office for Civil Rights declared race-based scholarships, cultural centers and even graduation ceremonies illegal. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4hCrabL
In a sweeping and unprecedented letter issued over the weekend, the Office for Civil Rights declared race-based scholarships, cultural centers and even graduation ceremonies illegal. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4hCrabL
Trump administration threatens to rescind federal funds over DEI
In a sweeping and unprecedented letter issued over the weekend, the Office for Civil Rights declared race-based scholarships, cultural centers and even graduation ceremonies illegal.
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February 15, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Ed Department: DEI Violates Civil Rights Law
In a sweeping and unprecedented letter issued over the weekend, the Office for Civil Rights declared race-based scholarships, cultural centers and even graduation ceremonies illegal. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4hCrabL
In a sweeping and unprecedented letter issued over the weekend, the Office for Civil Rights declared race-based scholarships, cultural centers and even graduation ceremonies illegal. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4hCrabL
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“The most powerful message may be the simplest one— routine vaccinations are just that: routine. Nearly all children receive them, & millions have benefited by being spared painful diseases & death. Leaders who undermine this basic tool may find themselves on the wrong side of both science & voters”
I have a NYT essay out this morning. There is very little that Americans can agree on these days. Not religion, not sports, and certainly not politics. But there is one thing nearly everyone agrees on: Vaccines are good. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/o...
Opinion | Kennedy’s Anti-Vaccine Views Don’t Represent America (Gift Article)
Threatening vaccine access is not only bad science, it’s bad politics.
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February 16, 2025 at 3:49 PM
“The most powerful message may be the simplest one— routine vaccinations are just that: routine. Nearly all children receive them, & millions have benefited by being spared painful diseases & death. Leaders who undermine this basic tool may find themselves on the wrong side of both science & voters”
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"It is a common assumption in philosophy that absolutely everything is up for grabs... there is something right about that. What I am now inclined to doubt, however, is that... any one philosopher can [ethically] open a critical challenge to absolutely anything..."
While Tables Burn: On the (Non) Existence of Trans People and the Failure of Philosophy (guest post) - Daily Nous
“There are indeed consequences when we punch down or pretend that what is, in fact, a hostile attack, is merely ‘inquiry for inquiry’s sake.’ Aside from the emotional wounds we inflict on actual peopl...
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February 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
"It is a common assumption in philosophy that absolutely everything is up for grabs... there is something right about that. What I am now inclined to doubt, however, is that... any one philosopher can [ethically] open a critical challenge to absolutely anything..."
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"A pedagogical future of thousands of hours analysing the semantic output of uneducable robots sounds like a particularly sadistic existentialist hell."
The Teaching of Writing in the AI Era - Daily Nous
“Every professor I know wasted countless hours of 2024 in the prevention or detection of AI-powered cheating. It is a miserable war of attrition that seems doomed to defeat. Perhaps the time has come,...
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January 9, 2025 at 1:45 PM
"A pedagogical future of thousands of hours analysing the semantic output of uneducable robots sounds like a particularly sadistic existentialist hell."
"PHO (Public Health Ontario) said the child was not vaccinated against the highly infectious respiratory virus". Measles cases have continued to rise globally post-COVID and poses a threat to #publichealth
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Ontario child's death from measles is 1st in province since 1989, public health says | CBC News
In a report published Thursday, Public Health Ontario said the child was not vaccinated against the highly infectious respiratory virus. It's the first recorded death from measles in the province since 1989, as far back as Ontario's data goes.
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May 18, 2024 at 10:37 PM
"PHO (Public Health Ontario) said the child was not vaccinated against the highly infectious respiratory virus". Measles cases have continued to rise globally post-COVID and poses a threat to #publichealth
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Are modular homes a step in the right direction, in terms of addressing the housing crisis and homelessness? Certainly, they seem better for people than tents. But city council says this is a "temporary measure"...
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'Anything we ask for — they (staff) go above and beyond': 47 people are living in modular cabins in Peterborough's Rehill lot
Three months after the 50 modular cabins for people without homes opened in the city’s Rehill parking lot, one resident says, “It’s beautiful here — we get treated very well.”
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March 5, 2024 at 2:50 PM
Are modular homes a step in the right direction, in terms of addressing the housing crisis and homelessness? Certainly, they seem better for people than tents. But city council says this is a "temporary measure"...
www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/news/anythin...
www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/news/anythin...
Hello Bluesky folks! I thought I would try this out, since I miss the philosophy community that was on Twitter. I was on Twitter some time ago under the same handle and mostly (re-)post about things related to feminist philosophy, bioethics, politics, etc. 🙂
February 15, 2024 at 1:59 PM
Hello Bluesky folks! I thought I would try this out, since I miss the philosophy community that was on Twitter. I was on Twitter some time ago under the same handle and mostly (re-)post about things related to feminist philosophy, bioethics, politics, etc. 🙂