Grounded Community, a local charity working to give our community access to locally grown nutritious food, are running a fundraiser. We cover education and skills, using up surpluses and gluts, giving people food when in need, bees and composting. Check out our details. groundedcommunity.co.uk

"Academics who Listen to Free Jazz" starter pack. By popular demand for attunement to challenging music. If you "like" this post I will add you to the list over the next couple days. Share widely!

disabled person complains about something: everyone: HAVE U TRIED... U NEED TO... CAN YOU.... WHAT ABOUT...

🚨 Opposing the EHRC guidance – we need your voice MPs will decide on the guidance in the next 30 days — and we need to show them the reality We need you to tell us why it is unworkable and the real life impact it will have on you in your workplace 📩 Email us: [email protected]

Disability News Service confirms that UK's Labour government enacted 'stealth' cuts to Access to Work scheme, deleteriously affecting tens of thousands of disabled professionals www.disabilitynewsservice.com/labour-minis...

“Dignity and respect” has become Labour’s “thoughts and prayers” for trans people: polite words while the law is reshaped to make our ordinary lives more difficult, vulnerable, conditional and policed. Very civil. Very British. Very cowardly.

Be loud

The cruel politeness of transphobia in the UK is really next level.

Oh fuck off

We’ve been lucky to receive high-profile support since we started our campaign, and we know visibility and vocal allyship matters. It doesn’t come much higher than Sandi Toksvig, who’s done so much for women’s equality and inclusion. Thank you 🙏 notinourname.org.uk

i would like to vehemently reiterate that i do not “identify as” a woman. i do not “identify as” transgender. i am a woman. i am transgender.

What browsers are the cool privacy-conscious AI-skeptical kids using these days?

Maybe it was all just a ruse to get Wes Streeting to resign.

Difficult times at the University of Nottingham - the whole of the Department of Philosophy is formally at risk of redundancy, with plans to get rid of 7 people in the department. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Dear all, is there anyone here in a clinical ethics program as their post doc? I need some advice on how to apply for these positions! :)

This finals season I just want to be clear that posting student work online to make fun of it is evidence that you are a bad teacher

Just finished Unshrinking by @katemanne.bsky.social. Thoroughly recommended. www.penguin.co.uk/books/455249...

Some are suggesting you deliberately write inaccurate or confusing alt text, because they say this confuses AI scrapers that are analyzing images. The purpose of alt text is to help people who cannot see the image. Deliberately misrepresenting the image is a gross misuse of alt text. Don't do it.

This was first published in the @transhistoryweek.com workbook - the ultimate toolkit to shut down lies about Trans+ people 💪 Grab your free copy: 

This is Licky; the name stuck when for a while he used to come and lick the pane of glass in the patio door each night. A fine display of white sharp teeth and a long tongue! He is very relaxed about sharing the garden with us. His sister is Nibbler - you'll see why if you read on. #fox

This is one of the foxes who has lived in our garden since being born about a year ago.

Yeah, hi, I’m a person with “mobility challenges” (excuse me while I hurl). What we want, by and large, are not expensive, heavy devices that will “help us walk again”, but ramps. I know, it’s not sexy, as technology invented before Christ, but it is overlooked in favor of…this. Repeatedly.

The Metaphysically Dynamic Universe How Motion is the Essence of Time and Physical Reality! Forthcoming book by Steve Barker ⌛️ Details: tinyurl.com/337s7evz @routledgebooks.bsky.social #philosophy #time #metaphysics #flow #motion Photo by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash

Rani Lill Anjum - Combining evidence for establishing causality. Online talk, 23 February 2026, 3-4.30pm UK time. All welcome! jonwilliamson.uk/mosep

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Get some excellent sci-fi, fantasy, and horror plugged right into your brain by joining me and some fabulous authors for a free online reading! I'll be reading from Possible Worlds and Other Stories and I am PUMPED. 6th Feb, 5 pm GMT! TIckets: www.eventbrite.com/o/strong-wom... #SWSWQR

I have a few DJ mixes on Mixcloud: www.mixcloud.com/SemaphoreSou....

I have a few DJ mixes on Mixcloud: www.mixcloud.com/SemaphoreSou....

Happening next Tuesday! Come talk to me about free ways to tweak your research recordings so your transcripts are more likely to be done right, the first time!

Upcoming online talks on Evidential Pluralism: Lindley Darden, Rani Lill Anjum, Caterina Marchionni, Isabel Hanson, Nancy Cartwright, Jacob Stegenga. All welcome. jonwilliamson.uk/mosep

I'm not sure how many more times we need to see/hear about violent men calling women "bitch" as they assault & even murder them before we accept that misogynistic slurs aren't neutral.

Call for papers open for a thematic workshop on phil of emotion at @uniofnottingham.bsky.social — deadline is next week! More details: philevents.org/event/show/1...

Radio 4 and BBC and Channel 4 News and all the papers completely skewing the Peggie story so your average person will have no idea what actually happened. Doesn’t this make you furious? Integrity in journalism is dead, not just in the US

Always amused (not amused) at how regularly the idea that there is a 'right' amount of mental ill-health in British society and that we must somehow return there. Declaring the correct amount of mental ill-health based on what you are prepared to pay to mitigate its effects isn't how reduction works

Artists PLEASE I am begging you to use alt text on your art. I want to support you and RT your art but I'm not going to if it does have alt text, and there are so, so many people who feel the same

I am happy to be part of the organization of the next Causality in the Sciences conference in Sevilla, focusing on cases from medicine. Mark your calendars for October 8-9th 2026. Deadline for abstract submission: March 8th. More details here: eventos.us.es/142286/secti...

Heads up 😅 Sex Matters have launched their own MP letter-writing campaign insisting on trans segregation, an exclusionary Code etc etc 📝Let’s make sure our letters outnumber theirs+++ Template here! If you’ve already written, grab a mate & get them to write too 🤗 actionnetwork.org/letters/scra...

List of good reasons to have fireworks:

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home... Hmmmm. "The Home Secretary has said it is unacceptable for a European human rights watchdog to “question the validity” of the Supreme Court ruling". Except the Commissioner didn't question the "validity" of the Supreme Court ruling, he questioned its fairness.

Containerised fox #FoxOfTheDay

Great Yarmouth is set to host the biggest neo-nazi music festival in the UK for over a decade. The Home Office has the power to block entry of overseas bands, which will scupper the promoters plans. The link is a quick way to email the Home Office: hopenothate.org.uk/2025/08/28/g...

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

The BBC has covered our study on medical power and #LongCovid. It’s a shame they didn’t name me and got my university name wrong, but nonetheless, good to see some MSM attention www.bbc.com/news/article...

71% of disabled people want to use more sustainable modes of transport, but face needless barriers such as overcrowding, missing announcements and a lack of lifts. Public transport must be accessible, so we can all make choices about how to travel.

TW. Needs to be widely shared with cisgender people, especially politicians. Utterly horrifying that Britain has come to this- that most of Britain is just looking the other way while a whole community is being eliminated from society because of lies and hatred. transactual.org.uk/wp-content/u...

New arrival: Final installment of my trilogy on the ripple effects of American pragmatism.

Hi #philsky, I'm searching for philosophies of complicatedness,- so not philosophy of complexity, but specifically complicatedness. There might be an overlap, but it seems rather complicated. ; ) I would love to discover philosophies or philosophers who wrote about this matter.

JUST OUT! PhysioEthology: A posthuman perspective on physiotherapy www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... This paper discusses the mounting challenges facing the physiotherapy profession and possibilities that may open up in response #planetarycrisis