Deactivated my account then reactivated it. My relationship with the news is too complicated.

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10 years ago today and things have only got worse. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_o....

"The Journal of Imaginary Research publishes short works of fiction in the academic genre of the Research Abstract."

Writing with @naomijacobs.bsky.social on the importance of centring Autistic people in autism research. Thanks for hosting us @ndconnection.bsky.social #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs #Autistic #Neurodivergent #Research #AutRes ndconnection.co.uk/blog/empower...

📖🎉Excited to share that the book chapter “It Doesn't Feel Like Myself: A Mindshaping View on Self-Illness Ambiguity” (Virginia Ballesteros, Fernández-Castro & Núñez de Prado-Gordillo) has been accepted for publication with Routledge! 🔗Pre-print: roderic.uv.es/rest/api/cor...

I really don't think we've barely begun to come to terms with how tech companies have actively decided to destroy the basic infrastructure of human information to juice their share price

This looks really interesting - it's a shame the younger child is still home this week. He does not tolerate the use of internet enabled devices, unless it's to watch children's TV.

Just discovered this gem - Singer of the Band by Twat Union. No I'm not a medical doctor, I'm a woman with a PhD and I actually do philosophy and no, it's not feminist philosophy. youtu.be/Qh3PldRcl-I?...

What it's like to be a whale. (Much like you'd expect, tbh. )

My children have reached the "I wonder if you can eat yoghurt with chopsticks" phase of the summer vacation. I will miss them next week when school starts again.

I'm happy to have our paper included in this cluster of papers in Hypatia about birth and inclusion! @matthewjcull.bsky.social @fionawoollard.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #Philsky #philosophy

This is making the rounds on Facebook again and it's the best thing on my internet feeds today.

"Nature writing only wants to admit illness into its pages if it is to show nature performing a miraculous cure."

Enormous success: managed to get off the sofa and put the quesadillas in the oven.

Workmen dug a big hole in the middle of the road in front of my house this morning then disappeared. (The workmen, not the hole, alas.) They didn't ring the doorbell to let us know. Because of the weird road layout,

Just read a review of RF Kuang's new book, Katabasis. The premise of the story is that two PhD students travel through hell to rescue the soul of their supervisor so he can write letters of reference for them. Choose your PhD students wisely or !

Just seen on a coffee machine menu: "hot water: may contain milk". I know it's about potential allergens from the machine, but it's still funny.

It used to be completely the opposite, science as the gateway to morality. Such historical swings between thinking that science or humanities are the foundation of ethical life show that neither is inherently

"[the judge] said it was not "obvious" what the alternative punishment should have been." How about care and meeting children's needs as an alternative instead of punishment? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sometimes I hear men comment on my and other women’s “tone”, and the men do not realise that what they mean (and what we correctly hear) is “you do not talk like us, and we do not like it”.

Can attest to the truth of this. Scroll to the bottom to see more about the supposed GOP post with Trump in front of a rusting yellow Lada.

Real childhood milestones #642: my daughter is playing stardew valley.

A new species of #mantaray has been described. They are calling it Mobula yarae. “It was one of the shocks of my life": third species of manta ray confirmed after decades of suspicion  | Discover Wildlife share.google/c3IyhSE9Xptb...

One thing that’s perhaps worth mentioning about the beach that’s the subject of the 2025 Shark Week show “Florida’s death beach” is that no one has ever been killed by a shark there. Not one person ever. I am so tired.

"The authors outline evidence of systematic attacks designed to destroy the fertility of Tigrayan women and call for international bodies to investigate the crime of genocide. " www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Sitting up in bed with the flu and editing a paper because I have childcare and I want the final draft finished already.

It's time to restart reading "the canon". These are works I return to over and over again, with a different level of understanding & a different aim of what I'd like to get out of reading. This time I'll start with Aristotle's Metaphysics, then Hume, then Kant, then move straight to the 20th c.

The screen free phone ban parents groups all organise on WhatsApp, If you needed an example of how they aren’t what they seem. Using a meta app while sitting on your phone, not exactly how you get kids off screens is it

Not a bad article, but decreased critical thinking skills is really not the same as worsening #mentalhealth "Many of those refusing to embrace AI actually fit the traditional archetype of an early adopter." theconversation.com/ai-veganism-...

NEW PAPER (ish - I'm also just delayed) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Using Q Methodology, a Group of Neurodivergent Neurodiversity Researchers Ask: What is the Neurodiversity Movement and what should it do?

I've uploaded a free preprint for a forthcoming article, Mad Pride in Revolutionary England: The Ranters as Mad Actvism. It will be published in History Workshop Journal next year. I'm proud of this and see it as the start of a new, much bigger project. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Even better if there's a 6 digit security code texted to your phone

New book by @drgriff.bsky.social now available for pre-order. Looking forward to this! Reimagining Philosophy of Religion: Understanding, Commitment, and Making-Believe, Amber L. Griffioen www.bloomsbury.com/us/reimagini...

We are delighted to reveal the #BookerPrize2025 longlist – 13 books ‘all alive with great characters and narrative surprises’. Huge congratulations to the authors who make up this year's Booker Dozen. ➡️ Discover the full list: thebookerprizes.com/bp2025

I googled "Alex Rails" because I was wondering if I was missing a pop culture reference about the Daily Nous pen name. One of the top results is a reddit post about the Alex drawers from IKEA not aligning with the drawer rails. Someone else is looking for a replacement for them. #philosophy

Sky News reporter: “You can see the outline of communities and villages that are now flattened. Mile after mile of grey rubble.” “We were told the Israeli side had warned that any shots of Gaza filmed from the air could result in these aid flights being cancelled.” news.sky.com/story/mile-a...

Look what came in the post! Just in time to cite one of the chapters. The philosophy book is for me, the jigsaw puzzle is for my daughter.

My friend Tim Thorton has written this interesting philosophy blog post about re-enchantment in the face of the disenchantment of scientism - using the fiction of Alan Garner to respond to the concerns of people like Fodor and McDowell. inthespaceofreasons.blogspot.com/2025/07/reen...

Our colleague and longtime +972 Magazine contributor Awdah Hathaleen was shot dead in a settler attack on his village, Umm al-Khair, in Masafer Yatta. Read Awdah's contributions to +972 Magazine through the link: www.972mag.com/writer/awdah...

I am enjoying Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell. Of course it's once again about the time leading up to WWII. Wonder why I can't get enough of that period in fiction right now? 🤔 Anyway, Widmerpool is a wonderful character.

“Comparing ICE to the Gestapo is less a historical judgment than a reflection of modern anxiety – a fear that the U.S. is veering toward authoritarianism reminiscent of 1930s Germany.” theconversation.com/comparing-ic... By Holocaust Historian Daniel H. Magilow @utknoxville.bsky.social

I seem to have let the salad go to seed. I'm now expecting a tremendous crop of mixed lettuce in the lawn.

Today my dogs and I were teaching my 7-year olds how to walk canines. Everyone did very well.

Got some lovely feedback on a paper, but I also got suggestions that should have been so obvious that I'm thinking: "how did I not notice this? why does someone else have to tell me this obvious thing?" Maybe there is no such thing as good feedback: either I'll be upset with them or with myself.

I need to write a book proposal, take the bags of compost out of the car and take the dogs for a walk. Not necessarily in this order.

I haven't been posting here because there is just so much going on and I still have my philosophy friends and colleagues on Facebook. It's also school holidays! So much to do, so little time!

How wonderful to discover that a leading expert on dark tourism (eg North Korea, Chernobyl, etc) is called Light? And he writes about Dracula tourism! (Went down a citation rabbit hole.)

It is Saturday lunchtime and I am working.