Helen McCabe

A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council

The Norwegian Consumer Council with an amazing video on enshittification and how to resist it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...

POST-DOC!

3-year job in history of political thought / visual culture / art history
Department of Politics & International Studies
University of Cambridge
@thecambridgeschool.bsky.social

www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/54724/

A terrific opportunity for political theorist

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FULLY FUNDED PHDs IN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

I'm looking for *two* PhD students to join my ERC project on refugee-led approaches to displacement justice. The positions are funded for four years, and you get to join our lovely community in Bristol. Please share widely!

philjobs.org/job/show/30997

On Liberty

‘On Liberty’, w/ Misha Glenny, @drhmccabe.bsky.social, Mark Philp & Piers Norris Turner, on ‘In Our Time’.

Everything can be a bet now – the rise and risks of prediction markets Yes or no might seem like a simple question – but predicting the future for money comes with serious risks.

"Everything can be a bet now – the rise and risks of prediction markets" - my piece in @theconversation.com today: theconversation.com/everything-c...

Excellent news!

Job Vacancy at the University of Nottingham: Research Fellow in Slavery and War (Comparative Contexts) (Fixed term) In 2025, the University of Nottingham and King’s College London will launch the new Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War, funded by the Leverhulme Trust for up to £10 million over ten year...

Is it OK to post jobs here? Hoping so, as we're recruting 7 3-year Research Fellowships as part of a new Leverhulme Centre for the Study of Slavery in War. (More details below). Please share widely, and apply! jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Excited to share our new research project funded by @britishacademy.bsky.social Knowledge Frontiers 2025! Our interdisciplinary project (environmental geography, environmental humanities, political science, philosophy) will examine restorative justice in coastal adaptation.

A picture of Helen McCabe and the Scale of Harm team who have both emerged as finalists for the Best Policy Impact initiative category of the 2025 Institute Awards

A banner consisting of a picture of the Scale of Harm team and their project summary.

An Institute Award banner for the Best Policy Impact category. The banner has a picture of Helen McCabe and her project summary.

We're thrilled to announce the finalists for the Best Policy Initiative category of the 2025 #InstituteAwards! Congratulations to @drhmccabe.bsky.social, and Right Lab's Scale of Harm project for their efforts in shaping policies at different levels.

Read more: www.nottingham.ac.uk/policy-and-e...

Generic image of map showing cold spots in SHAPE subject provision in UK higher education.

Indicative map showing example of provider-level data on SHAPE student numbers in UK HE, zoomed in on Midlands/South East of England.

Our new maps launch today - now, crucially, with subject data from individual UK universities. This adds a new dimension to our cold spots mapping what students can study and where. The maps show a complex regional picture - let's get into it ⤵️ (1)
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/policy-and-r...

Mill & Socialism with Helen McCabe A deep dive into J S Mill's relationship with socialism with Helen McCabe. We cover Mill's moral foundations, pre-Marxian Socialism, the nature and history of liberalism and socialism, their interpret...

"Mill had canaries & a Persian cat . . . Marx drank a lot of beer, he played party games . . . I'm just not sure they they would have gelled. Different vibes."

@drhmccabe.bsky.social

www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/mill-socialism

Workshop - Economic Pluralism Workshop Information (Wenzel Hablik, 1921. Große bunte utopische Bauten) Economic Pluralism: Past and Present Date: September 2-3, 2022  Place: McMaster University (Hamilton, ON), The Great Hall (The ...

Lovely to see this article published today: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... Very happy memories of a lovely trip to Canada for the workshop of which this is one output. (Others here: economicpluralism.com?page_id=29).

Breaks my heart that such an awesome writer/thinker/researcher as you has imposter syndrome!

It's bad enough when it's anonymous, but "I know McCabe is a very junior scholar ... But for Christ's sake, she's not even read Packe" remains a "favourite" of mine from reviewers.

Don’t be a prig in peer review Jeff C. Clements reckons with a recent set of reviewer comments that used ‘being critical’ as a justification to be mean. Jeff C. Clements reckons with a recent set of reviewer comments that used ...

I saw yet another post on Twitter today from a grad student who received a peer review rife with ad hominem attacks on the authors' competencies rather than constructively critiquing the work.

I've written about this kind of nonsense bullshit in peer review before: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A perspective view of Fourier's Phalanstère

Now in pre-print: Stanisław Knapowski (Adam Mickiewicz University) explores the phalanstère of Charles Fourier (1772-1837) as a tool for transferring ideas & the operation of buildings, their blueprints & illustrations, as non-verbal speech acts in early socialism www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

No cat to post photos of, but here are some courgettes from my garden. Hi, Bluesky!

JOB: Junior Research Fellowship (4 years) in the History of Political Thought at Christ's College, Cambridge - the deadline is the 19th of October

www.christs.cam.ac.uk/vacancies-ch...