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Glaswegian philosopher based at the University of Edinburgh, mostly working on issues in epistemology and feminist philosophy. Co-editor of Hypatia, research associate at ACEPS, University of Johannesburg. He/him. https://sites.google.com/site/aidanmcglynn
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The young vote in Germany, by gender. 😳

submitted 13 hours ago • 234 comments

Dear Manager, 1. I drank a whiskey drink. 2. I drank a vodka drink. 3. I drank a lager drink. 4. I drank a cider drink. 5. I sang the songs that remind me of the good times; I sang the songs that remind me of the better times.

submitted 19 hours ago • 413 comments

#ThrowbackThursday This has aged as well lyrically as it has musically "Cyber warlords are aggravating abominations Arm a nation with hatred? We ain't with that We high-tech archaeologists searching for knick-knacks Composing musical stimpacks that impact the soul"

submitted 45 days ago • 2 comments

Lyrically simple but still quietly devastating in the way that nobody does better than Cat Power

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

If you need something wholesome, I suggest following Garden State Tortoise Sanctuary on youtube - they post a video once a week where they check in on various tortoises and turtles, including Rockalina, a tiny box turtle that has been rescued after literally decades of mistreatment

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

Applications are now open for 2025-26 Fellowships at IASH, with 60 places available! Apply here: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/application-... Senior/mid-career programmes close 28 Feb. Postdoctoral/early-career programmes close 25 April. See our Fellowship pages for details: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/fellowship-p...

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

I love the sense of perspective in this

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

Back to lecturing tomorrow. The next 5 weeks are going to be very difficult. I'm hoping that being forced to leave the house and move around will speed up, rather than interrupt, recovery, but it's going to be tough. I've rejigged my topics to cover, to give me a more relaxed schedule.

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

Went for a walk with Malcolm. We made it to our local bus-stop, which is both the furthest I’ve done, and hopefully a step towards having the use of the bus system, which would open up the city again.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Henry Wuga was born 101 years ago today, in Nuremberg - he would live until not long after his 100th birthday, having been rescued, but also separated from his family, by the Kindertransport. His story is told in Chitra Ramaswamy's beautiful book 'Homelands', which I highly recommend.

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

Free download until 25 February! Only 2 days left! Don’t miss your chance!! www.cambridge.org/core/element...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I hope my final thought as I die is something beautiful but have a hunch it’s going to something inane like “maybe I should have gone to see Shen Yun”

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

A seriously lovely track - I had plans to open a mix with this, but I didn't get a chance to record it.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Vote to see which three new lines of poetry will be carved on the Parliament building to mark its 20th anniversary

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Charlotte Newey and Stephanie Rennick on the epistemic harms involved in gender data gaps, available open-access:

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A neat trick I've discovered recently is if you start consciously thinking about where to position your hands as you're trying to fall asleep, it's a complete and utter disaster

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

As someone who's also expensive and doesn't work very well I'm getting tired of you all picking on AI

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

Went for a walk with Malcolm. We made it to our local bus-stop, which is both the furthest I’ve done, and hopefully a step towards having the use of the bus system, which would open up the city again.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

I still regard this as one of the greatest records ever made. I love Shara Nelson's lyrics and delivery, but if I'm honest, my favourite part of the track is the final instrumental minute when the piano chimes in. Completely timeless.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

If almost anyone else had made this, it would be the best song they'd ever recorded, but for Bjork it's not top-5 - maybe not even top-10

submitted 98 days ago • 1 comment

Same as last year, the new season finishes the same day I give my final lecture of the year. Cosmic coincidence.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Join us on MONDAY for Claire Field's talk "Is Incoherence Always Incoherent?" You can read Claire's paper on our website: 🔗 www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk/the-proceedi... ⏰ 17:30-19.15 📍Feb 24th Woburn Suite Free and welcome to all! #philosophy #philsky

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Extremely stoked to be organizing this conference highlighting philosophy done from queer perspectives at UC Santa Cruz this April! Especially glad to still have this happen given, you know... everything. Registration here, with a remote option: forms.gle/bhPt4xQ2jR5q...

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Beinn a' Ghlò and Strathtay from Aberfeldy #Scotland #Aberfeldy #Grampians www.damianshields.com

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Here's the shot in context (the youtube clip cuts just before the film gets mildly NSFW). I love the waterfall-effect of the canal lock gates, the pass over Amelie's head, then down into the path of the stones she's skimming, all while Yann Tiersen's score does its thing. It's just perfect.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Movies you’ve watched more than 6 times. Gifs only

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Two Weeks In The Death Spiral Of Cardiff University, by an anonymous academic. This is truly shocking read. The Cardiff executive board should hang their heads in shame. voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...

submitted 2 days ago • 30 comments