Sara Van Goozen
@drsvg.bsky.social
Lecturer in Political Philosophy (UoYork). Ethics of war, global justice, animals. Posting in personal capacity but mostly about work. She/her, fucking massive nerd. I write for @justiceeverywhere.bsky.social
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Sara Van Goozen
@drsvg.bsky.social
· Nov 11
Bunch of new followers so will say: hello! I'm a philosopher working on just war theory, animal rights, global ethics, and related things. I help run Justice Everywhere @justiceeverywhere.bsky.social, a great public philosophy blog - give us a follow and lmk if you want to write something for us
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I'm trying to make a list of all the PhD programs in philosophy with (TT/tenured) faculty seriously working in AI ethics. (Think about prospective graduate students looking for supervisors in AI ethics.) What's missing?
Oxford, Stanford, Harvard, MIT, Florida, Georgia, Purdue?
(plz share)
Oxford, Stanford, Harvard, MIT, Florida, Georgia, Purdue?
(plz share)
December 9, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I'm trying to make a list of all the PhD programs in philosophy with (TT/tenured) faculty seriously working in AI ethics. (Think about prospective graduate students looking for supervisors in AI ethics.) What's missing?
Oxford, Stanford, Harvard, MIT, Florida, Georgia, Purdue?
(plz share)
Oxford, Stanford, Harvard, MIT, Florida, Georgia, Purdue?
(plz share)
Actual bluesky challenge: post your favourite work of art from 50 years before you were born
Not really a Disney person but there is no contest
Not really a Disney person but there is no contest
December 9, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Actual bluesky challenge: post your favourite work of art from 50 years before you were born
Not really a Disney person but there is no contest
Not really a Disney person but there is no contest
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Home Office Ministers state publicly, on the record, that they are deliberately making life worse for older people and people with disabilities who depend on care services, but it's worth it because it reduces net migration.
December 9, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Home Office Ministers state publicly, on the record, that they are deliberately making life worse for older people and people with disabilities who depend on care services, but it's worth it because it reduces net migration.
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My article on the fraught politics of desire in the history of radical feminism has now been published at Hypatia. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Radical Feminism and the Politics of Desire | Hypatia | Cambridge Core
Radical Feminism and the Politics of Desire
www.cambridge.org
December 9, 2025 at 1:49 PM
My article on the fraught politics of desire in the history of radical feminism has now been published at Hypatia. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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The new journal *Experimental Philosophy* is now open for submissions! Very glad to serve as an AE and looking forward to seeing this take off. #philsky
December 8, 2025 at 6:17 PM
The new journal *Experimental Philosophy* is now open for submissions! Very glad to serve as an AE and looking forward to seeing this take off. #philsky
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PPE GRANT opportunities!!!
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PPE GRANT opportunities!!!
Geoff Sayre-McCord (UNC) asked me to circulate the following.
open.substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:26 PM
PPE GRANT opportunities!!!
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This is obviously disgusting and racist shows utter contempt towards vulnerable people. But as one of the high earners (for now) who is supposedly (still) welcome here: I'm not actually here to "give" to a country that would kick me out if they could. I'm here cause I got a job, a fiance and friends
December 7, 2025 at 11:06 AM
This is obviously disgusting and racist shows utter contempt towards vulnerable people. But as one of the high earners (for now) who is supposedly (still) welcome here: I'm not actually here to "give" to a country that would kick me out if they could. I'm here cause I got a job, a fiance and friends
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I once did a deeply puerile thing and rang the Home Office to ask for comment on the growing campaign to abolish the Home Office, which was basically "one think tank paper and some posts". The note of genuine panic in the flack's voice is something I cherish to this day. See how you fucking like it.
December 7, 2025 at 9:20 AM
I once did a deeply puerile thing and rang the Home Office to ask for comment on the growing campaign to abolish the Home Office, which was basically "one think tank paper and some posts". The note of genuine panic in the flack's voice is something I cherish to this day. See how you fucking like it.
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🚨🚨 We're #hiring! 🚨🚨 Assistant Professor of Political and Social Philosophy @maastrichtu.bsky.social @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social
@hdijkstra.bsky.social @ccmmody.bsky.social @masssimons.bsky.social
www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3566...
@hdijkstra.bsky.social @ccmmody.bsky.social @masssimons.bsky.social
www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3566...
Assistant Professor in Political and Social Philosophy
Welcome to Maastricht University! At Maastricht University, philosophy plays a vital role in understanding a world marked by political tensions, technological upheaval, and societal transformations. H...
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December 2, 2025 at 2:14 PM
🚨🚨 We're #hiring! 🚨🚨 Assistant Professor of Political and Social Philosophy @maastrichtu.bsky.social @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social
@hdijkstra.bsky.social @ccmmody.bsky.social @masssimons.bsky.social
www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3566...
@hdijkstra.bsky.social @ccmmody.bsky.social @masssimons.bsky.social
www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3566...
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All good possible worlds are alike; each bad possible world is bad in its own way
It was the best of all possible worlds, it was the worst of all possible worlds
December 4, 2025 at 12:35 PM
All good possible worlds are alike; each bad possible world is bad in its own way
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ACU is hiring in ethics, too. Speaking just for myself, I'd love it if they'd hire someone who could do a bit of decision theory.
candidate.aurion.cloud/acu/producti...
candidate.aurion.cloud/acu/producti...
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer (Normative Ethics/Political Philosophy) - Vacancy Details
candidate.aurion.cloud
December 4, 2025 at 1:56 PM
ACU is hiring in ethics, too. Speaking just for myself, I'd love it if they'd hire someone who could do a bit of decision theory.
candidate.aurion.cloud/acu/producti...
candidate.aurion.cloud/acu/producti...
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ACU is hiring in philosophy part 3: candidate.aurion.cloud/acu/producti...
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer (History of Ethics) - Vacancy Details
candidate.aurion.cloud
December 4, 2025 at 1:52 PM
ACU is hiring in philosophy part 3: candidate.aurion.cloud/acu/producti...
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Lecturer / Senior Lecturer (History of Philosophy) - Vacancy Details
candidate.aurion.cloud
December 4, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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ACU is hiring in philosophy. This is one of the four ads they've just posted. I'm hoping they'll appear in better places.
candidate.aurion.cloud/acu/producti...
candidate.aurion.cloud/acu/producti...
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer (Epistemology/Language/Mind) - Vacancy Details
candidate.aurion.cloud
December 4, 2025 at 1:50 PM
ACU is hiring in philosophy. This is one of the four ads they've just posted. I'm hoping they'll appear in better places.
candidate.aurion.cloud/acu/producti...
candidate.aurion.cloud/acu/producti...
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Cool new paper on using idea and non-ideal political theory to think about progress away from animal research: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
How to Give Ethical Input on Animal Research Transitions: Ideal and Nonideal Theory - Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics
Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - Research that harms animals raises the question of whether and how science should be transformed over time. To helpfully address this issue,...
link.springer.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Cool new paper on using idea and non-ideal political theory to think about progress away from animal research: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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If conservatives were for real, if they actually believed in the stuff their intelligentsia quote from Burke and Oakshotte, I actually think they'd specifically hate this. But alas far too often it's just a thin veneer of intellectualism over instinctive hates and bigotries, so here we are.
December 4, 2025 at 8:39 AM
If conservatives were for real, if they actually believed in the stuff their intelligentsia quote from Burke and Oakshotte, I actually think they'd specifically hate this. But alas far too often it's just a thin veneer of intellectualism over instinctive hates and bigotries, so here we are.
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This looks like a great opportunity for someone interested in doing a PhD related to autonomy. Essex has an excellent group of political and moral philosophers.
www.essex.ac.uk/postgraduate...
www.essex.ac.uk/postgraduate...
Fulfilling the Broken Promise of Support for Mental Capacity in an Era of Assisted Dying: A Comparative, Applied-Philosophy Approach | University of Essex
www.essex.ac.uk
December 4, 2025 at 7:26 AM
This looks like a great opportunity for someone interested in doing a PhD related to autonomy. Essex has an excellent group of political and moral philosophers.
www.essex.ac.uk/postgraduate...
www.essex.ac.uk/postgraduate...
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It's official: 400 redundancies and a campus closure. At-risk staff will get a letter next week. Absolutely no serious consideration of any of the union's counterproposals.
Please share widely.
Please share widely.
December 2, 2025 at 4:52 PM
It's official: 400 redundancies and a campus closure. At-risk staff will get a letter next week. Absolutely no serious consideration of any of the union's counterproposals.
Please share widely.
Please share widely.
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wife got a timer for all of our christmas lights so obviously thinking of this
December 2, 2025 at 1:29 AM
wife got a timer for all of our christmas lights so obviously thinking of this
FYI: EU citizens who don't live in the EU can also take part in this!
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EU citizens: you still have 12 days to have your say on the modernisation of the EU’s animal welfare legislation.
Here @humaneworldeurope.bsky.social explains why participation in the @ec.europa.eu’s consultation is so important. www.humaneworld.org/europe/en/ca...
Here @humaneworldeurope.bsky.social explains why participation in the @ec.europa.eu’s consultation is so important. www.humaneworld.org/europe/en/ca...
Have your say: Why your voice matters for farmed animals in the EU
Now's our chance to help animals raised for food
www.humaneworld.org
December 1, 2025 at 11:46 AM
FYI: EU citizens who don't live in the EU can also take part in this!
(Reposting this one minus the three typos in a 15 word sentence)
(Reposting this one minus the three typos in a 15 word sentence)
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This year we're doing Whamutopia. Every time you hear Last Christmas you have to have a mulled wine at your earliest convenience and toast George Michael, because he was a lad
December 1, 2025 at 8:32 AM
This year we're doing Whamutopia. Every time you hear Last Christmas you have to have a mulled wine at your earliest convenience and toast George Michael, because he was a lad
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For context the 'Middle England' referred to here is the 0.5% of households living in homes worth more than £2 million
November 30, 2025 at 10:27 PM
For context the 'Middle England' referred to here is the 0.5% of households living in homes worth more than £2 million
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breaking: reviewer that doesn't share your approach thinks your article manuscript is not ready for publication
December 1, 2025 at 8:39 AM
breaking: reviewer that doesn't share your approach thinks your article manuscript is not ready for publication
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Are you interested in doing a PhD about what humans infer about animal minds?
Check out this opportunity @northumbriapsy.bsky.social with me, @mdconstable.bsky.social and Lee Shepherd!
Deadline 23 Jan 2026
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Check out this opportunity @northumbriapsy.bsky.social with me, @mdconstable.bsky.social and Lee Shepherd!
Deadline 23 Jan 2026
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Bridging the Species Divide: Animal minds and the human-animal relationship (Ref: RDF26/HW/PSY/RENNER) at Northumbria University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Bridging the Species Divide: Animal minds and the human-animal relationship (Ref: RDF26/HW/PSY/RENNER) at Northumbria University, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Are you interested in doing a PhD about what humans infer about animal minds?
Check out this opportunity @northumbriapsy.bsky.social with me, @mdconstable.bsky.social and Lee Shepherd!
Deadline 23 Jan 2026
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Check out this opportunity @northumbriapsy.bsky.social with me, @mdconstable.bsky.social and Lee Shepherd!
Deadline 23 Jan 2026
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...