Friderike Spang
friderikespang.com
Postdoctoral Researcher
@Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences
@Center for Environmental & Technology Ethics Prague
Political philosophy, environmental & animal ethics.
Also interested in everything on emotions.
- Reposted by Friderike SpangPlease spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem. Thank you. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- Neglected my emails today and lo and behold: I got some writing done!
- Reposted by Friderike SpangThe best time to quit X was two years ago, the second best time is now...
- Reposted by Friderike SpangAcross the country, people are taking to the streets to honor—and demand justice for—Renee Nicole Good, the 37-year-old US citizen who a federal immigration agent shot and killed in Minneapolis on Wednesday.
- not much pleasant about broken tooth extraction & implant, except that you can legitimately eat lots of ice-cream..
- Coming up next week at the Center for Environmental and Technology Ethics - Prague: Alasdair Cochrane will give a talk on "The Informal Representation of Animals" 🐾 All welcome! #Animals #PhilSky #PolTheory
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- Reposted by Friderike Spang📣❗New article out now! rdcu.be/eSSNa I explain how to do "nonideal animal research ethics" – it involves spelling out ethical goals first, then mapping ethical pathways to get there. I think we should do this more often because…
- I've finally created a profile with ResearchGate but it's already frustrating - "editing-limit reached"? what the hell so I can't correct/complete my publication info? And yay I really need another success-quantification via "Research Interest Score" 🙄
- Alright, my to-do-list for 2026 is formatted: Font: Georgia, different color for each month, starting January with azure blue-tone (#0F9ED5) - 2026 can begin 🤓
- Wishing everyone peaceful holidays🌹
- Punctual train, nice person gave me their 48h public transport ticket, beautiful bells ringing - hello Vienna 😇
- Reposted by Friderike SpangWhen will this crisis get any attention whatsoever!? A THOUSAND ACADEMIC STAFF AT ONE INSTITUTION SERVED REDUNDANCY RISK NOTICES! And that's not counting what's surely being visited on professional services staff too. This is an economic catastrophe, to say nothing of the intellectual catastrophe!
- Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252: Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email. Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
- Call for Abstracts 📣 I'm organizing a Workshop in Prague next February, "Confronting Oppression with Care: Interspecies Perspectives" 🐾 Please share widely! #Animals #Ethics #AcadamicSky #PhilSky #PolTheory philevents.org/event/show/1...
- With so many ugly things happening, here is a bit of beauty
- Seasons greetings from Prague🎄
- Reposted by Friderike Spang1. The European Parliament’s attempt to ban plant-based foods from being sold as “sausages”, “burgers” etc is a direct response to livestock industry lobbying. This is a short thread on how utterly bleeding ridiculous it is. 🧵1/6
- Reposted by Friderike SpangWednesday 3 December in the evening, live in Utrecht and also online: Isabelle Ferreras will speak about the need to democratize firms. Caleb Althorpe will provide a response. This is an event that is open to the public, everyone is welcome! www.sg.uu.nl/agenda/2025/...
- Excited to have Alasdair Cochrane over for a talk on "The Informal Representation of Animals" 🐾 In Prague, January 15th 2026⏲️ Really cool topic and much under-researched so far! cetep.eu/alasdair-coc... #philsky #animals #academicsky
- Just love that they choose to put this above a toilet, of all places (at the Center for Contemporary Art in Prague)
- Reposted by Friderike Spangour institutions are controlled by real monsters. unless we fight for and win democratic accountability and control, the monsters will continue to rule with impunity.
- just realized that I haven't been running for nearly a year now 😬and the way I realized this is that I've moved to Prague nearly a year ago and haven't done any sports since - which also makes me realize how freaking fast time has been going by, holy sh*t
- Reposted by Friderike SpangGlad to see some campaigns to reform academic publishing. Allowing corporations to stand between research and the people who need it is the worst kind of unproductive, innovation-discouraging activity. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
- Reposted by Friderike SpangWie man in die @zeit.de kommt: einfach anrufen und sagen, man sei unglaublich wütend.
- Reposted by Friderike Spang🚨#History #envhist Job Alert: My Department is hiring an Assistant Professor in Environmental History. 🗃️ Come work with us at Warwick. You'll get both excellent colleagues and great students! See details below... And do not hesitate to spread the word... 👇👇👇 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK289/a...
- Reposted by Friderike Spangi'm giving myself an (ambitious) goal of 100 paid supporters by end of year can you chip in for any amount to help me get there? www.patreon.com/c/PoliticalP...
- the kindness of strangers: recent train travel got super chaotic, trains were cancelled, bus transfers organized; and I didn't understand a word as it was all in Czech. But there was this kind person translating everything for me, making this a fun adventure instead 🙏 #kindness
- Getting ready for the Workshop "Animals as Strangers" in Usti nad Labem! With amazing keynotes @elisaaaltola.bsky.social @martindrenthen.bsky.social among others! I'll also give a talk: "From Strangers to Political Subjects: Including Animals through AI-Enhanced Democratic Innovations" #philsky
- Working in bathrobe today to keep warm - feels strangely classy somehow 👒
- Reposted by Friderike SpangI have a paper out in Philosophy and Social Criticism: "Deep Disagreement as a Challenge for Democratic Education: Learning to Compromise" 🥳 - and it's open access 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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- Reposted by Friderike Spang“Which products in Germany 🇩🇪 get 19% tax: - oat milk - baby diapers - soy schnitzel Which get 7%: - cow milk - meat - frogs legs Which get no taxes at all: - Jet fuel - shipping diesel - international flight tickets [Germany’s] tax system is totally absurd and should be reformed!”
- Today is one of those days where it feels that time is going by slowly. Very nice for a Sunday 😌
- Reposted by Friderike SpangOur seminar on animal agency, between biology and philosophy, is back ! Check out the programme for the next sessions here ! We meet on the second Wednesday of each month, on Zoom, from 4 to 5 PM (UK time). You’re very welcome to join ! :) www.animalinventiveness.com/post/seminar...
- On a scale from 1 to 5, how fast do people scroll through bsky? I'd put myself on a 3 I think
- Just saw that Jo Wolff is coming to Prague this month 🥳 Looking forward to his talk on Marx! #PhilSky @jowolff.bsky.social
- In the spirit of sharing rejections (& thus normalizing them as part of academic life): Just learned I didn't get a Junior Star grant 😞 Had been working very hard on the application, so this is really disappointing #rejections #academic #grants #funding
- Digging into some unexpected influences on climate policy support - coming up soon 😎 #climate #policy #environment #philsky #polsky #poltheory
- Reposted by Friderike SpangAn immediate ban is not popular. Five losing initiatives since the 80s should teach us that lesson. Meanwhile, we fail to discuss the non-prohibitive measures and strategies that could help to decrease overall harm to animals in science. I wrote about those here.
- Reposted by Friderike SpangFee waivers are available for UK applicants interested in reading for a PhD in my department. I'd be happy to support potential applicants in my research areas, especially (but not exclusively) research around animals in moral and political philosophy. Short deadline!
- Are you interested in reading for a PhD in international relations, politics, history, or philosophy at Loughborough University? Fee waivers are available for competitive UK applicants starting their studies in 2026. The application deadline is 11 November. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPC380/s...
- Reposted by Friderike SpangDelighted that my article is out at @ejprjournal.bsky.social! 🎉🎉 Thanks to @lalamur.bsky.social for posting about it! 💜
- "When facilitation is not enough: the role of games in small-group discussions." @ejprjournal.bsky.social by @afsounafsahi.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- Reposted by Friderike SpangRejection is one of the toughest parts about academia and this post provides some great guidance on how to deal with it (that I will start trying to follow myself). Here's a couple of thoughts that the post triggered, if those happen to be of interest:
- Every academic career is built on rejection, but we don’t show it. CVs list publications, grants & awards, not rejected manuscripts, unfunded proposals, or failures. But those invisible rejections shape us more than our successes ever do. 👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette... 🧵
- fellow academics: how much time do you usually plan for writing a book review? I feel like I'm spending far too much time on it... #academicsky #review #philsky
- Always nice to see your work taken up in non-academic spaces - just found this about my research on compromise (and in French at that! very cool 😎)
