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Philosopher of art | Lecturer @cardiffuni | erstwhile Research Fellow @Peterhouse_cam |◾️painter, sound artist◾️| ig:daisylouisedixon | I like sharks🦈💙

Cardiff, Wales

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Joined December 2012

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@daisyldixon

Daisy Dixon

4 years

Heartbroken over the death of Hugh Mellor. A fiercely intelligent philosopher, a devoted friend, and an incredibly warm, funny man. A painful loss to the philosophy community, and to those who loved him. Pictured here on my PhD submission day and my 30th bday, in all his finery.

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3 years

a tragic part of a serious relationship ending is the language you shared together being lost - all those facial expressions, jokes, noises, verbal intimacies that only the 2 of you understood, become a dead language never to be spoken again

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Daisy Dixon

1 year

PhD from Cambridge (first gen), with chronic pain

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one photo that makes you go "i did that"

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2 years

yesterday I said goodbye to my pride and joy - my little Tudor house on Trumpington St. I feel privileged to have lived in a dwelling that saw so much and held so many people for five centuries. It was in every way perfect, and I’ll miss it terribly.

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3 years

I’ve noticed that my having a PhD/being an academic has upset too many men on dating apps.Many don’t ask a single q about my job/work, 1 thought my PhD was fake and I should ‘prove’ it was real. Others get v defensive about their education. Is this just intimidation & insecurity?

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8 months

what I thought what academia academia would is actually be like like

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1 year

I posted my pic next to a pic of Hume and men on the Internet lost their minds

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1 year

academics returning to *that* paper

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1 year

What people What think philosophers we actually look like: look like😎

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1 year

the stupid struggle of dating in the 21st century in one screenshot

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1 year

there comes a point where the morbid curiosity runs empty & the insane misogynistic abuse I got for this fun tweet resulted in dizziness & a refusal to read any more responses. This is a shard of the tip of the iceberg but evidence enough of the unrelenting toxic hatred of women

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Daisy Dixon

3 years

Meanwhile, at the Suez Canal

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Daisy Dixon

2 years

This week I started my job as @cardiffuni permanent lecturer in philosophy. I can’t believe I’ve secured the position I’ve dreamt of ever since I learnt what an academic actually was (only 10yrs ago). I’m extremely lucky & have in my thoughts everyone on this brutal job market🖤

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1 year

philosophy hasn’t made the world clearer to me it’s just made me unable to speak normally to most people

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3 years

I swear philosophy has ruined my social skills. A date says something and I’m like hmm what do u mean by that and they explain and I’m like ur definition is circular and they’re just 😕

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Daisy Dixon

8 months

34 today, still a lone wolf 🐺 . . 📷 @HelixNine 🖤

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2 years

doing philosophy:

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3 years

when you realise waking up earlier makes you feel better

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2 years

so excited to say that I’ll soon be joining the amazing @cardiffphilos @cardiffuni as a permanent lecturer in philosophy. It’s a dream come true and I feel incredibly lucky ✨

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Cardiff Philosophy

2 years

We are very pleased to announce that Dr Daisy Dixon will be joining us in September as a full-time Lecturer on a permanent contract. Dr Dixon works on the ways in which visual art behaves like speech and how curators and interpreters affect that speech.

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1 year

but the Incels Falling Out Of Their Chairs Event has been totally blown out the water by the amazing solidarity and humour and love that I’ve had in response. You’re all incredible and I want you to know you kept my head up high during this onslaught of hate ❤️❤️❤️

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Daisy Dixon

11 months

men keep telling me on here that I should make an only fans because I’m not a real philosopher, or because I’m too ugly, or because I’m desperate for male attention, and I can happily say now that yes, I’ve now made one. Here is my only fans:

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3 months

beginning to think the reason I’m single is because of philosophy and devoting my career to it may have made me low key insufferable

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3 months

a week should be composed of 4 days of work, 2 days of rest, and 1 day of sorting your goddamn life out

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1 year

DEATH TO ALL ACADEMIC PAPERS IN THE 2-COLUMN FORMAT

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1 year

@diffyonhoto1 I don’t think Hume would appreciate being called a student, he was pretty old

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11 months

folks who have written books - is it normal for one day to feel like it’s fantastic and then the next day to feel like it’s literally the worst thing ever penned

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Daisy Dixon

2 years

I get that space travel is important but people’s obsession with Mars and indifference to earth’s climate crisis annoys the hell out of me, our planet is literally a green paradise of waterfalls flowers and cool creatures and you’re more excited about sitting on a red barren rock

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1 year

I want to be rocket-launched the hell off this planet

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2 years

just got told by a random man in the street that I have ‘bad manners’ for not saying hello back to him, and I am just so tired of these supposed obligations placed on women when we’re just walking home

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Daisy Dixon

4 years

#JosephEpstein kept awake at night by Jill Biden having a doctorate

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7 months

that painful feeling when the nicest photos of you were taken by your ex

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Daisy Dixon

3 years

spoiler: having a PhD doesn’t mean you know lots of things it means you know lots about a thing

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Daisy Dixon

3 years

being in your 30s means having a romantic break/work holiday for 1 in a medieval cottage

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Daisy Dixon

3 years

Philosophers - back me up here

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7 months

whenever I express online any sense of pride about my work or any sense of liking or just not hating my own face I get called ‘narcissistic’ - those people need to know that this is a classic sexist and misogynist move, and all I can say is:

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Daisy Dixon

3 years

A while ago a Cambridge college obtained peregrine falcons to deal with the ‘pigeon problem’ but now there are pigeon corpses and bits all down the street which seems to just be a different type of pigeon problem

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3 years

I always get ID’d, and while I’m told this is a compliment, it makes me wonder whether part of it is that society generally doesn’t know what a woman aged 30-45 actually looks like

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2 years

why can’t Harvard business school get it together omg

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10 months

fighting tonsillitis surrounded by green velvet like an ailed medieval king

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8 months

I'm in the Telegraph today lamenting the reality of the sky-high costs of egg freezing. As I turn 34, I'm desperate to have a family, but still being single and getting closer to 40, I feel like my future of having biological children is slipping away

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‘Misleading’ adverts, hidden fees and a 30pc success rate: the real cost of egg freezing

Procedure is increasingly popular but prospective patients are urged to do their research

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3 months

i’ve just finished dinner alone in a dimly lit tiny restaurant in Barcelona and another redheaded woman eating alone just smiled at me and she’s completely and overwhelmingly beautiful, do i tell her?

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1 year

me being sad again 😅

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what is y’all most liked tweet?

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2 years

@rhysjamesy @DobbyClub06

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3 years

Me, an academic philosopher: *tweets something about philosophy* Some men in the replies: “Descartes was a philosopher, and he believed that...”

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3 years

paper paper introduction conclusion

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the angry men in the replies

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the academic urge to write and say ‘indeed’

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@MikeTruesdale5 The only similarity is that we’re both philosophers……… that’s the tweet

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1 year

literally my dream house has come on sale and I think it’s actually immoral and a travesty that I cannot buy it right away 😭😭

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2 months

single people in their 30s downloading the dating apps again

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5 months

NASA’s recent Juno photographs of Jupiter prove that Vincent van Gogh was on to something

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3 years

buying tons of books with my research allowance to fill the void in my heart

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3 years

there is a precious, small window between buying new books and actually reading them - if you miss this window, the new book will be destined to sit on your bookshelf forever, in its pristine cover in the dark, weeping

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3 years

People who say ‘never give up on your dreams’ clearly don’t know about the reality of the academic job market

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Daisy Dixon

3 months

tories will go to work and cut arts funding and then go home to their designer furniture and William Morris wallpaper and put a BBC drama on and then discuss the Renaissance masters over dinner

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3 months

Creative arts courses at English universities face funding cut | University funding | The Guardian what the FUCK is WRONG with these people???

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1 year

Just to say I’m now getting r*pe threats, so this tweet now serves as a trigger warning to the replies, and I’d urge against reading them

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3 years

the sexual tension between me and cleaning my entire house top to bottom when I have to finish writing a philosophy paper

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3 years

I was recently asked what I did for a living & said I’m an ‘academic, a philosopher’, & before realising my error, the man then told me that everyone was a philosopher. I agreed, but noted that in the academic sense of the word, not everyone is. He then said this was elitist..?

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Daisy Dixon

2 months

this scene in the Simpsons totally catches me off guard every time 😭

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1 year

@ShalnevaE Sorry I couldn’t hear your little tantrum over my ‘dabbling’ 😂

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3 years

32 today 🤢😬😓

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2 years

me when I’m trying to write my philosophy paper

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deciding to find finally reading an online recipe said recipe after the writer’s life story

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2 years

philosophy from the 50s

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this year I learnt to be happy with my own company 🌟 turns out I’m a hoot!

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3 years

But I also think we shouldn’t overlook the gendered aspect here. Clearly this happens to men too, but when it happens to women it has a different significance i.e. it enacts and perpetuates sexism

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3 years

there should be a railcard for early career academics - yes I'm over 30 but I still don't have stable employment and I've trained for a decade on loans/low salaries/no salaries oh GOD trains are expensive

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1 year

omg 👏printing👏this👏out and putting it on my office door 😂

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when a woman claims to be a philosopher on Twitter

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Sherwood Forest taking absolutely no shit

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I’ve now been told I need to lose weight, that my face and knees are ugly, and that I’m riddled with STIs 😂

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5 months

philosophers when people use the phrase ‘begging the question’ the ‘wrong way’

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9 months

academia in the life of a woman: it’s only week 1 of term and I’ve been called ‘Mrs Dixon’ and told that I look ‘too young’ to be a lecturer

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7 months

part of the addiction to being single is the perpetual what ifs, the excitement of potential, the hoping that the love of your life is right around the corner - just constant enticing hypotheticals

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2 years

academics once again sitting down to their unpublished paper they started a decade ago

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1 year

sorry but dating is just so, so exhausting - it’s not carefree and glamorous, it’s expensive, sometimes risky, often boring, full of rejection, confusion, and done under enormous pressure

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1 year

480 @YorkshireTea bags, I’m set for the week ☕️

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2 years

overeducated millennial cat lady with no bumble matches

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2 years

even tho I got a postdoc & studied at Cambridge uni I still see myself as failing at life because I’ve not hit more socially acceptable milestones by early 30s like relationship/marriage, children, houseowner etc, this is ridiculous & silly and yet it still has a hold over me🤦‍♀️

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6 months

after a 5 hour journey from Cardiff I’ve finally arrived in Manchester for the AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker workshop - can’t wait to meet other shortlisted candidates!!

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2 years

still one of my fave joke responses on this site

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3 years

why did I choose philosophy it is too hard

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8 months

I'm getting really fed up of people not citing my PhD thesis on how artworks perform speech-acts😨 Lots of work on art & speech-acts is coming out now which is super cool, but my work on this is not getting cited. It was published in 2019 open access,here:

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2 years

if I were ruler of the world I would, among other things, make it illegal to publish academic articles in the 2-column format

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3 years

do i really need children or do i just need a stable rewarding job with excellent red wine in the evenings

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Daisy Dixon

11 days

there’s a risk the orange cornflour used here may harm the rare lichen on the stones, but even if it’s not physically harmful, I’m concerned this kind of protest is backfiring. There are more ethical ways to engage our beloved cultural heritage in protesting the climate emergency

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Just stop oil protestors damage Stonehenge 😭

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Daisy Dixon

10 months

wishing this pleasant man all the best

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2 years

philosophers: what novels might you recommend (apart from Crime & Punishment) to weave in while teaching some introductory moral philosophy and metaethics? 🙏

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2 years

⚜️Thirty Three in 2022⚜️ . 🥳🎈 . 📷eyes.of.worlds

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1 year

several years later I’m still raging about the philosophy masters student at Cambridge who told me we should seriously consider the possibility that the reason there are barely any women on the syllabus is because ‘men are just naturally better at philosophy than women’

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Saturday night goals when you’re in your mid-30s

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3 years

I, a woman with a PhD, trying to date:

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3 years

Ladies, have you, as a philosophy PhD candidate, tried dating in the 21st C, because I have, and the results are in:

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1 year

to all incels, I simply say:

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3 years

I do get that someone’s having a PhD might be intimidating - I would have been nervous of talking to an academic 10 years ago, but I wouldn’t *reject* or *resist* or even *dismiss* it, I’d get over myself and express interest and respect to that person

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8 months

can u tell I have an art degree…

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3 years

why do people accept and respect an academic when they say they’re an engineer or scientist or mathematician or historian but CRINGE when they say they’re a philosopher

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