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@ellakwhiteley
Ella Whiteley
1 year
After quite the ride, I'm over the moon that my paper 'A Woman First and a Philosopher Second: Relative Attentional Surplus on the Wrong Property' is out in Ethics: It's been selected for the PeaSoup blog discussion so will soon be made open-access 🥳
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@ellakwhiteley
Ella Whiteley
2 years
Pissed that the paper in my head catfished me by pretending it would be easy to write
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Ella Whiteley
1 year
Hi just a quick PSA that an annual rail pass for trains between London and Manchester (2 hrs) is 17K. Between London and Sheffield (2 hrs), 11-15K. London to Newcastle (3 hrs) is 22K. I think perhaps the time has come to burn it all to the ground and start again folks
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@ellakwhiteley
Ella Whiteley
1 year
I'm waiting in line at a hipster cafe for my coffee, and every time the barista says 'oat flat white' every single customer is walking up trying to claim it. It's chaos
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@ellakwhiteley
Ella Whiteley
2 years
New stock image for 'acute embarrassment' (aka: being recognised in a cafe for being Twitter famous) @lastpositivist
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Ella Whiteley
2 years
Reviewer 1: nice but here's a Dostoyevsky length list of corrections Reviewer 2: nice but add this footnote *Revises* Reviewer 1: stunnah let's get this badboy published Reviewer 2: soz too busy now, love you bye xox *leaves* *Reviewer 3 enters the chat* Reviewer 3: burn it
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Ella Whiteley
1 year
I do enjoy how many philosophy conference CFPs/ blurbs read like someone having a breakdown
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Ella Whiteley
1 year
So with 1 journal still soliciting reviewers after 6 months (thanks, unresponsive initial reviewer), a 2nd yet to desk-check after 2 months, I'm also celebrating 1 year 9 months at a 3rd journal. Perhaps a junior's career could be less determined by publications in such a system?
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Ella Whiteley
1 year
One thing I enjoy about academia is that in professional settings (on campus, at conferences) academics are wearing everything from full suits with a pocket watch, to shorts, a Metallica t shirt and flip flops, one of which is broken
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Ella Whiteley
1 year
In a New Year miracle, I have a paper forthcoming in Ethics 🥳 Should be released in their July issue. It's called 'A Woman First and a Philosopher Second: Relative Attentional Surplus on the Wrong Property'. Abstract below (I'll do an obligatory twitter thread when it comes out)
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@ellakwhiteley
Ella Whiteley
1 year
I am very excited to say I'll be joining @Sheffielduniv this September as a permanent Lecturer in PPE. I'll be part of the incredible interdisciplinary team at @shefmethods , who employ innovative research methods to address major social challenges. Feeling hugely lucky.
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Ella Whiteley
2 years
In this unrelentingly awful job market for junior academics, wondering if there's a way of framing the areas of specialisation on your professional website as "literally whatever your job advert specifies, baby"
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Ella Whiteley
9 months
First proper day on the new job. Word on the street is Sheffield's always 27 degree sun
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Ella Whiteley
7 months
Huge nostalgia watching students' flared trousers slowly but surely soak up the pavement juice
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@ellakwhiteley
Ella Whiteley
8 months
New paper, forthcoming in Ergo 👉 Whenever we communicate, we inevitably have to say one thing before another. This means introducing subtle patterns of salience into our language. I introduce the notion of ‘order-based salience patterns’...🧵
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Ella Whiteley
1 year
The journal: *takes nearly 2 years to go from initial submission to confirmation of acceptance* Also the journal: "please read through these proofs and make corrections within the next 15 seconds before this email self destructs"
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Ella Whiteley
1 year
The crime in Gotham is bad sure but the rain has to be like 15 metres annually
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@ellakwhiteley
Ella Whiteley
1 year
My last password standing after the others all fall one by one to data breaches. I believe in you, pAssword2
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Ella Whiteley
1 year
Just took the coolest San Fran photo don't worry about it
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Ella Whiteley
1 year
Final seminar teaching Philosophy of Gender and Race at the LSE with the hero that is Dr. Diamond-Hunter ❤️
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Ella Whiteley
1 year
My partner & I have just started watching game of thrones because we like to keep our finger on the pulse of pop culture. So presumably this is the first tweet asking this question: is there any reason every Dothraki is dressed as Shakira's backing dancers from the mid noughties
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@ellakwhiteley
Ella Whiteley
11 months
The conference I'm at's poster is better than yours
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Ella Whiteley
6 months
Applications are open for the 2024 Institute on the Ethics of Attention! Ideal for PhD and early career applicants, but we also warmly welcome senior scholars. I'm super duper excited for this! Application Deadline: Feb 14th. Event: 1st-5th July, Budapest
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@ellakwhiteley
Ella Whiteley
1 year
One of the hardest things to square in life is how seals are the joyous labradors of the sea, whose sneezes are in the top ten things (widely construed) of all time, and yet they torture penguins in the most unimaginably distressing ways
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@ellakwhiteley
Ella Whiteley
9 months
So much to enjoy about this photo, papped by @WFAP_philo during their excellent conference on salience and attention. I refuse to give any context for the photo/ slide
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Ella Whiteley
1 year
Writing a paper is hard, sure, but have you ever had to cut down an abstract to 100 words
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Ella Whiteley
1 year
Little kids at airport security queues are like adults at airport security queues but they do their screaming *externally*
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Ella Whiteley
1 year
Curious: do hotels know they don't need to buy carpets that look like all men's scarves from Burtons circa 2007?
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Ella Whiteley
2 years
When the camera on my phone says "a cleaner lens makes for a better picture" I sometimes wish it would just come out and say it: that it thinks I'm a filthy, contemptible toad
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Ella Whiteley
2 years
Right yes nothing to see here, just a captcha test on shrooms
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Ella Whiteley
2 years
Top-tier trolling from KCL HR. Jokes on them, though: being a junior academic in this unrelenting hellscape of a job market means I'm too dead inside to be affected emotionally
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Liam Bright
2 years
Absolutely diabolical email titling from whoever at Kings College London HR confirms receipts for applications to their job 😂🤣😭
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Ella Whiteley
11 months
The totally wonderful @siegel_susanna will be commenting on my recent paper on the Ethics' Peasoup blog next week, along with some other commentators. The discussion will be live, across 26-27th July. Join along if you'd like to see me make a fool of myself in real time!!
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Ella Whiteley
11 months
Well this is nice to see! More attention being paid to attention 🔍
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Trending in #Philosophy : 1) Attentional Surplus on the Wrong Property ( @EthicsJournal ) 2) Rosa Luxemburg's disappointment 3) AI & Manipulation 4) Sustaining Democracy: Owing to the Other Side ( @EthicsJournal ) 5) Foundation of Kant’s Cosmopolitan Right
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Ella Whiteley
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LSE Philosophy
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🔖New #LSEPhilosophy Blog article online! 'Happy to be a woman. Just don’t need to attend to it so much.' @ellakwhiteley explores the ethics of social identity salience. ➡️ Link to the article:
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Ella Whiteley
10 months
My brain's startup message when I wake up in the morning
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Ella Whiteley
2 years
So enjoyed the chance to discuss 'anger' with these four amazing philosophers. For those who missed it, a podcast version should hopefully be available on The Forum's website soon.
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Jonathan Birch
2 years
Well done @ellakwhiteley on a great public philosophy event - Celine Leboeuf, Emily McRae, Jesse Prinz and Owen Flanagan on anger. Podcast version will appear soon!
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Ella Whiteley
11 months
Cambridge Attenders assemble! @adhamelshazly96 , @frodriguezx2 , Cathy Mason, Alice Roberts (Not pictured: @alabalawhiskey @TomMcClelland1 @PASliwa )
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Ella Whiteley
1 year
Wow ok Oxford station, I guess you're just fine with me tripping up on every second stair? Such an irresponsible lack of warning signs
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Ella Whiteley
9 months
Quite impressed that Christine Lagarde herself has taken the time to write to me about this unexpected 20 million the IMF seems to owe me. Tbh hadn't even realised I'd spent it. Cost of living these days etc
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Ella Whiteley
10 months
The PeaSoup blog has started - Susanna Siegel's précis has kicked things off. It's unsurprisingly hugely insightful and interesting. I'll be adding my response in due course, but anyone can comment until the end of 27th (tomorrow).
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Ella Whiteley
2 years
@lastpositivist You left out the part where you awoke periodically to announce you'd discovered the meaning of life
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Ella Whiteley
1 year
I ordered a lacto vegetarian meal for this flight in the hope of avoiding the vegetarian=health-conscious assumption (I get sad when they give me fruit salad when I want the goddamn cake), and they've taken the lacto part v seriously. Everything has been cheese. Everything
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Ella Whiteley
1 year
Also yes I will respond to your email in due course
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Ella Whiteley
1 year
It's nice when your thinking about a paper comes together - where all of a sudden you find the structure and narrative in what was a jumbled collection of thoughts. It's just a pity when that happens 5 days before the deadline
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Ella Whiteley
1 year
Have been in San Francisco for 5 days and have forgotten what cars that aren't Teslas look like
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Ella Whiteley
11 months
The fairground has set up shop in the park by our house, so the background soundtrack to our life now constant screaming Which is fine
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Ella Whiteley
1 year
Curious where on a CV you put 'didn't smash everything in a 10 metre radius after my phone decided to auto-disconnect as soon as a customer service operator came onto the call, after being forced to listen to hold music for 1.5 hours'?
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Ella Whiteley
2 years
When does junk mail stop being junk mail and start being an excerpt from a Henry James novel
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Ella Whiteley
1 year
@MaxJerneck Yeah I've tried saying it out loud a few times too and can report it still sounds entirely bananas
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Ella Whiteley
4 years
The housing market ain't gonna know what's hit it when all the millennials stroll out of lockdown having not bought any avocado toast in 3 months #millennials #brunch #boomers
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Ella Whiteley
1 year
An exciting graduate conference on attention and salience will be happening in Vienna this July 6-8th. Be there or be unattended to! (abstracts due by April 1st)
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Ella Whiteley
11 months
See also: conference wine. As in wine that has the same name as the conference. @WFAP_philo conferences are hard to beat! And that's even before discussing the *hugely* interesting and sophisticated talks. 10/10
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Ella Whiteley
8 months
The Google image search for Kant gives real profile pic vs. tagged photo energy
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Ella Whiteley
11 months
Local post office comprehensively covering the full range of aesthetic themes
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Ella Whiteley
11 months
I just got told in no uncertain terms that I am not permitted to use cutlery to eat my (vegan) frankfurter / bread because that is not what one does in Austria. Literally the waiter said 'No. No.'. Sort of respect it but also like can you do that
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Ella Whiteley
7 months
This is absolutely a dream postdoc. Not just because of the length, location, and subject matter - you'll have the greatest PI.
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Paulina Sliwa
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Moral philosophers (maximally broadly construed): spread the word about a 6 year postdoc at the University of Vienna to work with me!
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Ella Whiteley
2 years
Hot take: UK trains are really bad and expensive
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Ella Whiteley
9 months
My laptop and I have this cute tradition where at the start of a new job, where the workload is the most hectic, it dies 💞 ✨ Relationships are the rituals you make together (/imposed by one party) ✨
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Ella Whiteley
11 months
In hour 2 of wizz air queues and this feels relevant again
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Ella Whiteley
1 year
Little kids at airport security queues are like adults at airport security queues but they do their screaming *externally*
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Ella Whiteley
2 years
@quiteclare 🙏 @quiteclare @cecilymwhiteley - I'm being mildly hyperbolic - they're major revisions instead of reject, but it's still crushing to think if reviewer 2 was still in the game I'd likely be done by now, instead of still being chained to this goddamn paper 😭
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Ella Whiteley
1 year
@StefanFSchubert 😲 Exactly. It's actually beyond comprehension. A bunch of the prices I quoted *also come with restrictions* too on routes / times. Like, what?
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Ella Whiteley
2 years
@lastpositivist Job market applications are life, I don't have time for jokes
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Ella Whiteley
10 months
Got potential? No worries pal we're here to fuck that up for you
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Ella Whiteley
11 months
@EliseWoodard20 Print that sucker. And get your best red pen
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Ella Whiteley
1 year
It's Maaaaat!! Nice that Lisbon's Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology feels the same way about @matsimpson1 as I do.
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Ella Whiteley
5 years
Someone just shared this non-ironically on FB and oh my god. Why don't you just abandon all your responsibilities, focus on your TLC and HAVE A GLASS OF WATER. Perhaps for a "special indulgence" you could MOISTURISE YOUR HANDS. #killme #feminism #youtime CC: @manwhohasitall
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Ella Whiteley
1 year
What an effective junk mail tactic to use on a philosopher of attention
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Ella Whiteley
9 months
I'm making powerpoints for the new semester and irrelevant of the content I'm adding microsoft is INSISTENT the slides all incoroporate a gif of a koala. Just a heads up to my new students
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Ella Whiteley
7 months
Studies show that if you put together film/ TV clips showing a wife saying "you look handsome, but you gotta learn to tie a tie" before then fixing it for their husband, that clip reel would last for infinity
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Ella Whiteley
1 year
My phone is spamming me with memories of moving out of my family home. It took ages because we had so much *stuff*. My late dad collected almost everything (inadequately justified by his being a design historian)--something I feel this photo of vegetable pens helps to illustrate.
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Ella Whiteley
1 year
@lastpositivist This is Clarke's first response to Byrne's short article (itself an attack of Fausto-Sterling's popular piece): Then Byrne responds (Okasha's got a comment at the bottom): Not very persuasively imo
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Ella Whiteley
2 years
I accidentally hit the ceiling of the fridge when returning a huge wad of stilton to it, and the light that's been broken for 3 years suddenly sprang into life. Lesson: don't do basic DIY jobs, because maybe they'll fix themselves in an indeterminate number of years
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Ella Whiteley
1 year
New 2 year philosophy fellowship at the LSE going, if economics+politics is your thing. Can recommend! Also note it says no extra docs required but that's a lie: you need 2 writing samples.
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Ella Whiteley
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Actually I prefer *Lady* Doctor
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Ella Whiteley
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@AdamR_UBC Yep! Tbh it works out ok if you just avoid spending any money on anything else including tax
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Ella Whiteley
2 years
Getting savagely ridiculed on my way in this morning. Don't need the NHS getting up in my grill out of nowhere 😥
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Ella Whiteley
2 years
Time for a cute lil work break where I browse through tens of dog rescue websites, become emotionally attached to every dog, send an unreasonable number of links to my partner, and scream into a pillow for my employment being too precarious to actually adopt any. #selfcaretips 🙏
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@ellakwhiteley
Ella Whiteley
2 years
@lastpositivist @cecilymwhiteley @quiteclare @lastpositivist pretty sure you were all like "chill for a couple months, there'll be no hitches in this famously efficient and benevolent peer review system" and I'm only now realising what bad advice that was, Liam
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@ellakwhiteley
Ella Whiteley
1 year
My one* request to students was to spare me from having to suffer through endnotes in their essays. Why would some choose war?? *This is a huge lie, I make thousands of writing-related requests of students
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@ellakwhiteley
Ella Whiteley
2 years
New LSE blog post: tried to write a short / accessible intro into how we (should) frame information about sex and gender. Got sidetracked talking about undergrad foam parties.
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@ellakwhiteley
Ella Whiteley
2 years
@newberryfruits1 "The word 'white' and then l-e-y." This collection of words has a 0% success record in terms of getting people to spell my surname correctly (everyone continues to miss out one 'e'). But for some reason I feel obliged to repeat it till the day I die.
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Ella Whiteley
11 months
Another enjoyable set of gendered salutation options
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Ella Whiteley
1 year
In case it's helpful, my general approach to this was: cut two words, knowing you cut only two words. Check the word count, hoping that you instead cut 15 words. Swear at the computer when you find the abstract is only 2 words shorter. Repeat.
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@ellakwhiteley
Ella Whiteley
2 years
In case you missed it, @LSEImpactBlog have also posted my wee article on framing effects and gender.
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Ella Whiteley
2 years
@cecilymwhiteley Justin has long been insistent about setting up a philosophy partner survivors group - sounds like Saad is on board??
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Ella Whiteley
1 year
The electronic gates in one of the LSE buildings is the opposite to the tube (tap card on left, enter on right) and I'm proud to announce that I have gotten it the wrong way round literally *every* time I have entered the building this term which is maybe 40 times
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Ella Whiteley
1 year
Anyone know the origin of the phrase 'ladies and gentlemen'? It's a bit of an anomaly in an otherwise q consistent pattern of positioning men before women in binomials (men and women, boys and girls...). Exceptions usually concern contexts where women are culturally...1/
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Ella Whiteley
9 months
Find it baffling that this still requires repeating: magnolia is not, under any circumstances, an acceptable wall paint choice
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Ella Whiteley
11 months
So well deserved, congratulations @lore_sarto 🎉✨
@LSEPhilosophy
LSE Philosophy
11 months
Congratulations to #LSEPhilosophy PhD student @lore_sarto - Winner of The John Watkins Memorial Prize 2023! 🎉 Lorenzo has been awarded the prize for his outstanding paper ‘Putting the “Experiment” back into the “Thought Experiment”’:
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Ella Whiteley
1 year
My wonderful distant-cousin-if-we-did-the-resreach-maybe officially graduated! Glad to have another Dr. Whiteley 👩🏽‍🎓🎉🧡
@cecilymwhiteley
Cecily Whiteley
1 year
Happy day celebrating my doctorate @LSEPhilosophy ft. @SoulPhysics @ellakwhiteley 💖✨👩🏻‍🎓
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Ella Whiteley
6 months
@lastpositivist Interesting observation. Any clue if there's any existing work on this? Could be something to look into maybe
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Ella Whiteley
8 months
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Ella Whiteley
1 year
I've been learning more about the myths and damaging social pressures around breastfeeding recently, thanks to some excellent work by @quiteclare and @bendavies_ This twitter thread is particularly illuminating too, for questioning recent claims re: the benefits of the practice.
@StuartJRitchie
Stuart Ritchie 🇺🇦
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Lots of coverage today of the UK study that says breastfed kids are more likely to get good exam results. This is the study: I can't possibly write another article about this because you'll think I'm obsessed, so here's a Twitter thread about it instead:
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Ella Whiteley
2 years
@NickCartw @aliboyle6 @ucu Also, as the literature on invisible labour points out, something that would benefit the employer (allowing them to continue working instead of taking time off with stress).
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Ella Whiteley
2 years
@lastpositivist I will NEVER apologise for my apartment smelling like rich mahogany
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@ellakwhiteley
Ella Whiteley
2 years
Happy sunny Friday! Want to hear about new ways you can unintentionally harm people? Preprint available on my PhilPapers
@LSEPhilosophy
LSE Philosophy
2 years
NEW from @Routledge_Phil : Salience: A Philosophical Inquiry, featuring a chapter on "Harmful Salience Perspectives" by our very own @ellakwhiteley
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Ella Whiteley
8 years
Reading the back of 70's novels be like 🙄 @IrisMurdoch
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