Possibly the best public #philosophy I’ve listened to recently - 'Live from the Festival of Dangerous Ideas: Is contempt corroding democracy?' #democracy#moralemotions#contempt Based on their new Quarterly Essay “Uncivil Wars”. https://t.co/HW4LbVD2aK
EXTENDED CHAT | Daisy Pearce voices her support for the AFLW's decision to not hold a minute's silence for the Queen during Indigenous Round.
@WhateleySEN | #AFL
The State of Environment Report assesses the health of Australia’s environment from the tropics to the poles.
The report's three chief authors, @DrEmmaLJohnston (@Sydney_Uni), Ian Cresswell + Terri Janke (@UNSW), provide an overview of its findings. https://t.co/kawOTsnnOT
Australia State of the Environment 2021 is #openaccess with @creativecommons CC-BY licence applied, which enables maximum use & reuse of the report. That's not true of all research that underlies it. Open Access is crucial for protecting our environment.
https://t.co/eeRbFxSyCb
New column!
First-generation academics were always rare. Now they’re vanishing.
You’ve probably seen @annastansbury’s brilliant work on econ’s lack of socioeconomic diversity, but what’s driving it, and what does it mean?
https://t.co/N3tchZK0M2
@petejvickers Ha! Sounds plausible…though I’m not sure I share your faith in sociologists of science as a community! I will have to read your paper though!
It's long been known that climate change worsens inequality. But does the causal arrow go the other way, too? Yes! My new study with @DrNoelHealy, published in @OneEarth_CP shows that inequality fuels climate change. Implication: we need a Green New Deal! https://t.co/Ia9VQpDUXE
“What’s always been particularly galling about socially privileged upper middle-class women who popularise these views is that they are so far removed from the experience that they cannot relate to it even at a conceptual level.” 🔥
‘While it is fashionable for some female academics, journalists and social commentators to declare the validity of prostitution as employment, I note that they resolutely will not practise what they preach.’ https://t.co/YUACv2dy6b