Sofia Jeppsson and I have a new publication: "Mad Philosophy" in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Disability Studies academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

Day before yesterday, my 3 year old said he wanted to be like me when he grew up. Yesterday, he found out how bad I was at mariokart.

Reminder: abstracts for the Philosophy of Psychiatry and Lived Experience Workshop are due 20 April. Find out more at poplex.squarespace.com

CFA: Philosophy of Psychiatry & Lived Experience Workshop June 22 online Deadline 20 April Please share! poplex.squarespace.com/new-page 👇

I said yesterday evening I'd give bluesky another try? Given the news this morning I'm going to go hide from the internet.

I am reading a series of novels that comes highly recommended by various philosophy friends: Dungeon Crawler Carl. I have chosen to listen to a playlist called "club culture" because it seemed appropriate - though I'm not sure Princess Donut would approve.

New #openaccess article just out! #selfregulation #philsky www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Value-deflationist self-control

On the standard conception of self-control, self-control entails the resolution of a motivational conflict in favour of the option ranked better, loftier, or otherwise more valuable, and behaving a...

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Currently recovering from a 5 months long illness (physical and isn't it ironic that my mental health has never been better?) trying to reintegrate into society and giving this another try.

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

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Dawn Butler MP@dawnbutlerbrent.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Right now, councils are forced to approve most betting shop applications because of outdated ‘Aim to Permit’ rules. It’s unfair and it damages our high streets. I want this to change, but I need your help. Please show your support and sign the petition. www.dawnbutler.org.uk/gambling_ref...

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

Death of Alan Kurdi - Wikipedia

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Marco Schreuder@marcoschreuder.at · 11mo ago

Alan Kurdi wäre heute 13 Jahre alt.

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

iko huuhtanen@ikowho.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Scientia ex Fabula — Are you interested in multidisciplinary poppycock? Here's an edifying extrascholastic publication for your perusal: Journal of Imaginary Research journalofimaginaryresearch.home.blog #AcademicSky #science #research #SciWri

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...

Empowering Autistic people in research — Neurodiverse Connection

We’re joined on the blog by Guest Contributors, Katie Munday and Naomi Jacobs , sharing their experiences as Autistic researchers and their passion for research conducted with Autistic people, not ...

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📖🎉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

genna@genna.bsky.social · 12mo ago

case study of how a non-meaningful tweak to a prompt can result in dangerously wrong output. Search A: prompt has typos in “association” & “blood clots.” AI output has medical misinfo (Yaz&Yasmin ARE NOT drospirenone-only). Search B: same words, same order, correct spelling. Output factually correct

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.

Gen Eickers@geneickers.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Also, there’s a conference on Vice Epistemology X Situated Affectivity with a fantastic line-up happening Sep 3-5 (and it’s hybrid), see poster or link: centreforethics.upce.cz/en/not-carin...

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?...

Twat Union - Singer of the Band (Official Video)

YouTube video by Twat Union

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

David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈@whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 11mo ago

When researchers put a camera tag on a whale, they never expected to see this | Discover Wildlife

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.

❤️OccupyOneLove❤️@occupyonelove.bsky.social · 3y ago

Did you know if you hold an ermine up to your ear🦻 you can hear what it’s like... to be attacked by an ermine?🎶 True for most things in nature🎉 The northern portions of North America is home for Mustela erminea, who has a reputation as being fierce and territorial. ~@NatlParkService🌳 #NPS

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

Polly Atkin@pollyrowena.bsky.social · 11mo ago

I keep getting asked for my salty thoughts about the Salt Path as my position on nature cure narratives is v clear! A mere fraction of those thoughts published here @literaryhub.bsky.social, with thanks to @bookwormvaught.bsky.social and @nicwilson.bsky.social for their earlier pieces linked below.

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 Virtue of Scientific Thinking - Boston Review

Scientists have discarded the moral authority that previously accrued to their vocation.

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Julia M. Rohrer@dingdingpeng.the100.ci · last yr.

Among all the weird takes that seem to be popular online, the one that always gets me is that studying STEM somehow morally corrupts people and the solution is to make people additionally go through a humanities and/or social science curriculum at the university level.

"[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...

Parents lose isolation legal claim against Leeds academy chain - BBC News

The families of three pupils had claimed the use of the punishment had been "disproportionate".

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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.

Tapani Hopkins@tapani-hopkins.bsky.social · last yr.

Ladas were perfectly okay cars. Our family had them in Ye Olden Days; something broke, you hit it with a hammer until it worked again. The idea of Making America Rather Clunky Soviet Russian Again, on the other hand, is hilarious. 😀