Kate Kirkpatrick

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“David Durman, an administrator at the University of Kentucky, said using AI would cause him to offload his thinking and decision making, which would violate his humanist views.”

Clearly Serbia and Brazil are the S/B duo of the day but (für deutsche Leser) here’s a little something I wrote on Sartre and Beauvoir:

Light falling on fallish leaves

“For every 1C rise in heat exposure, the odds of preterm birth increase by around 4 per cent, separate research has found, while exposure to heatwaves is associated with a 25 per cent higher risk of obstetric complications.” giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Die neue Sonderausgabe ist da: Beauvoir – Erobere deine Freiheit Hier geht's zur Heftvorschau: shorturl.at/YAU3Q Mit Manon Garcia, Wolfram Eilenberger, Alois Prinz, Kate Kirkpatrick, Judith Butler, Marine Rouch, Silvia Federici, Alice Schwarzer u. v. m.

The fallacy that University leaders pushing AI are falling into is thinking that the point of undergraduate research is to find things out. It isn't. What students find out is typically already generally known. The point of undergraduate research is to learn how to find things out.

This, as one would expect perhaps, is by far the best thing to read if you haven't watched the footage itself.

Well, this is a marmalade dropper

Great analysis by @jburnmurdoch.ft.com on the discourse around young men’s place in the world. ⤵️

“Why would you go to all this trouble, when you could do something that looks even better in five minutes using AI?” “Because.”

Pops of colour in a parched English field

Record heat. Bone-dry landscapes. Strong winds. Then the wildfires arrive. None of this should be surprising anymore. As heatwaves become more intense, the impacts cascade through ecosystems, infrastructure, public health, and emergency services. www.bbc.com/news/article...

More than 2,700 deaths linked to UK heatwaves ft.trib.al/V3NBVoR

“The companies selling us new technology often assume that people most familiar with it will like it most. Our findings [about AI] show that this isn’t true." ⬇️

Montesquieu on #writing: “Often have I begun, and as often have I laid aside this undertaking. I have a thousand times given the leaves I have written to the winds […].”

British Academy President's statement on the UK's higher education crisis, July 2026.

Glad London has cooled down a little.

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Keynote Addresses for this year's conference: Negritude and Ecology in Sartre, Fanon, and Césaire – Jane Hiddleston (Oxford) Will We Make It? Beauvoir and Jeunes Mères – Marguerite La Caze (Queensland) Ontological Pluralism in Sartre and Heidegger – Mark Wrathall (Oxford) 1–2 July in Oxford ...

UK Sartre Society 2026: Keynote Address titles and full information 1–2 July, Maison Française d'Oxford. Keynote Addresses from Jane Hiddleston, Marguerite La Caze, & Mark Wrathall - plus 28 selected papers. www.thebsp.org.uk/2026/06/07/u...

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Difficult times at the University of Nottingham - the whole of the Department of Philosophy is formally at risk of redundancy, with plans to get rid of 7 people in the department. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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I enjoyed two years in the Philosophy department at UH and had stellar students there from Herts and the north London commuter belt. This closure of Philosophy and local opportunities for young people like them is heartbreaking.💔

59th Street Bridge

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Time to bring up that old post on what to call your favourite dead French philosopher. @philosofemme.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social www.sandrineberges.com/liberty-in-thy-name/what-to-call-your-favorite-dead-french-philosopher It has mistakes, but, as Kate says, it’s complicated.

There are indeed lots of exceptions. - when the particle is d' (d'Alembert) or du (du Bellay) - when the name is monosyllabic (de Lattre) But even then, exceptions have exceptions (Broglie is monosyllabic – it's pronounced "Breuille" – but nobody says "de Broglie did this"). Welcome to France 🤪