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Jodie Russell @jelliedsours.bsky.social · 13h

In the session, we’ll also talk more generally about the societal obsession with aging women and more!

Birmingham Network for Phenomenology and Mental Health @uobphenomenal.bsky.social · 13h

Don’t forget to sign up to our new reading group! We’ll be meeting in two weeks to discuss the beginning of section 5: “The Discovery and Assumption of Old Age: The Body’s Experience” (pp.314-345 of the 1985 Penguin Modern Classics edition)

Birmingham Network for Phenomenology and Mental Health @uobphenomenal.bsky.social · 18d

Interested in feminist approaches to age and mental health?

Join our new reading group starting October 28th where we will be discussing part 2 of Simone de Beauvoir's "Old Age".

Sign up and and see the schedule here: birminghamphenomenalnetwork.blogspot.com/2025/09/laun...

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Jodie Russell @jelliedsours.bsky.social · 1d

Bloomsbury are now doing a dyslexia friendly version of one of my favourite books of all time: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/piranesi-...

I don't need another copy but at least I have a good reason to get one!

Piranesi

Dyslexia-Friendly Edition using sans serif font printed with blue ink on cream paper.Winner of the 2021 Women's Prize for FictionA SUNDAY TIMES & NEW YORK T…

www.bloomsbury.com

Jodie Russell @jelliedsours.bsky.social · 1d

Some spooktober vibes to bless your timeline 🧙‍♀️ 👻 🎃

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Dr Zara Bain @zaranosaur.bsky.social · 4d

Be bald, live underground, last forever

Roger Highfield @rogerhighfield.bsky.social · 4d

Naked mole rats' DNA could hold key to long life, reports @bbcvic.bsky.social www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Imperfect Cognitions @philosophyblogs.bsky.social · 5d

How can the ambiguity arising from discontinuity of our self and our illness lead to misunderstanding and alienation? Today's post is by Jodie Russell (University of Birmingham) on her recent paper “Prescriptive ‘selves’ and self-illness ambiguity”.

#philsky #philpsy
imperfectcognitions....

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Jodie Russell @jelliedsours.bsky.social · 10d

We've got so many amazing speakers lined up for this seminar! Please attend if you can!

Birmingham Network for Phenomenology and Mental Health @uobphenomenal.bsky.social · 10d

📣Announcing our Psychedelics, Phenomenology, & Mental Health seminar, 5.11.25, Birmingham and Online

Drawing on phenomenological perspectives, the workshop will bring together interdisciplinary scholars to discuss the potential of psychedelic experiences for addressing mental health challenges.

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Laura D'Olimpio @lauradol4.bsky.social · 11d

Exciting news! Our textbook, Philosophy of Education, has been published with Palgrave!!

This is a contemporary, up-to-date, not old, male & stale introduction to our field.

Please spread the word & order the book for your library!
#philsky #academicsky

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Philosophy of Education

This textbook provides an introductory account of the philosophy of education, focussing on the questions raised by educational policy and practice.

link.springer.com

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Lucy Osler @lucyosler.bsky.social · 12d

Philosophers of emotion, the call for abstracts for EPSSE 2026 is now open! Hosted at Eichstätt-Ingolstadt in Southern Germany by our lovely president Imke von Maur on 24-26 June 2026 💕

#philsky

European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotions @epsse.bsky.social · 12d

PSA 🔈Our call for abstracts for EPSSE 2026 is now open! Our 2026 annual conference will be hosted in Germany by Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt on 24-26 June 2026 💫

Deadline for abstracts on all things philosophy of emotions: 1 December 2025

www.epsse.org/call-for-abs...

Call for Abstracts | EPSSE

www.epsse.org

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 12d

#OtD 2 Oct 1766 the Nottingham Great Cheese Riot began. Angry at the excessive price of cheese, a mob formed who seized it and began wheeling or carrying the cheeses away, bowling over the mayor with a cheese. The army put down rioting 2 days later stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9225...

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Christina Wilkins @stinaface.bsky.social · 15d

The next event for the MHHRN is on the 30th Oct at 4pm -ONLINE - Television and Mental Health featuring @veronicaheney.bsky.social and @rob-lawson.bsky.social talking - DM us for the Zoom link! We're looking forward to it.

a man is laughing and says gasps let 's go .

ALT: a man is laughing and says gasps let 's go .

media.tenor.com

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Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · 15d

I wrote about internet men having big feelings about my little philosophy columns

wellreadherring.substack.com/p/on-writing...

On writing philosophy columns

Or "why are the internet men yelling at me again?"

wellreadherring.substack.com

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Jodie Russell @jelliedsours.bsky.social · 15d

This inevitably means that Wednesday, Thursday and Friday will feel like a slow crawl to the weekend

No work on Tuesday because it’s my birthday 😉

Jodie Russell @jelliedsours.bsky.social · 15d

I’m bossing Monday so far. Work in progress seminar has been organised, emails answered, chapter in Heidegger submitted

And I still have time to chill before the EPIC seminar at 1pm 😎

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Jodie Russell @jelliedsours.bsky.social · 15d

I’m bossing Monday so far. Work in progress seminar has been organised, emails answered, chapter in Heidegger submitted

And I still have time to chill before the EPIC seminar at 1pm 😎

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Philosophical Psychology @journalphp.bsky.social · 18d

Call for papers: Ian Hacking and the Philosophy of Psychiatry. Deadline: 1st February 2026. Guest editors: Şerife Tekin and Jonathan Y. Tsou. Submit your work! think.taylorandfranc... #philsky #philpsy #philsci

Ian Hacking and the Philosophy of Psychiatry

Submit work that examines how Hacking’s historical and pragmatic approach to philosophy has reshaped inquiries into psychiatry.

think.taylorandfrancis.com

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Jodie Russell @jelliedsours.bsky.social · 18d

I will be running this reading group along with my wonderful colleagues Valeria Motta and Andrew Maile in the build up to our network seminar on "Phenomenology Across the Lifespan" next Spring.

Please do join us if you are interested!

Birmingham Network for Phenomenology and Mental Health @uobphenomenal.bsky.social · 18d

Interested in feminist approaches to age and mental health?

Join our new reading group starting October 28th where we will be discussing part 2 of Simone de Beauvoir's "Old Age".

Sign up and and see the schedule here: birminghamphenomenalnetwork.blogspot.com/2025/09/laun...

Launching: de Beauvoir Reading Group on "Old Age"

Network members Valeria Motta, Andrew Maile and Jodie Russell are excited to announce that start of a new reading group starting October 28t...

birminghamphenomenalnetwork.blogspot.com

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Lisa Bortolotti @lisabortolotti.com · 20d

Our #projectEPIC on #EpistemicInjustice in healthcare is 2 years old, our blog reached 103k views and our open access book had 15k downloads… curious? Here’s our website! epistemicinjusticeinhealthcare.org @jelliedsours.bsky.social @histloneliness.bsky.social @kmurphyhollies.bsky.social #philsky

Epistemic Injustice in Healthcare

The Universities of Bristol, Nottingham and Birmingham have been awarded a major £2.6 million Wellcome Discovery Award.

epistemicinjusticeinhealthcare.org

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Birmingham Network for Phenomenology and Mental Health @uobphenomenal.bsky.social · 20d

On September 3rd, we launched our network with an exciting and inspiring event designed for and led by ECRS across the Midlands.

If you missed it, you can read our report here: birminghamphenomenalnetwork.blogspot.com/2025/09/birm...

Birmingham Network for Phenomenology and Mental Health Launches Successfully with Inaugural Workshop

From left to right: network leads Francesca Brencio and Matthew Broome, and research fellow Jodie Russell at the launch event The Birmingham...

birminghamphenomenalnetwork.blogspot.com

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Paulina Sliwa @pasliwa.bsky.social · 21d

New paper with @tom-mcclelland.bsky.social! What is it to see someone as an object – to perceptually objectify them? We argue that seeing is not just a metaphor. We see others afford doing things with and to.
doi.org/10.1111/ejop...

Seeing Others as Objects: Perceptual Objectification & Affordances

In discussions of objectification, the use of visual language is ubiquitous. It is striking that the literature often talks about treating and seeing someone as an object in the same breath. Yet acc...

doi.org

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Jodie Russell @jelliedsours.bsky.social · 25d

My partner likes to leave me romantic notes on the books on my desk 🥰

The cover of Kevin Aho’s “Contexts of Suffering: a Heideggerian approach to psychopathology” with the post-it “*my job”.

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Jodie Russell @jelliedsours.bsky.social · 28d

Thank god! I would be truly heartbroken if that place went.

The strawberry place sounds like the same issue as the hot chocolate gaff that opened up in the summer once. Why is it always fancy, seasonal stuff?

Having said that, I know Joelato is still going strong (as it should!)

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Jodie Russell @jelliedsours.bsky.social · 28d

Really hoping this isn’t referring to the coffee place in front of 7 George Square. That place was my rock!

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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 28d

i was *just* thinking about this too! here it is

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Lucy Osler @lucyosler.bsky.social · 29d

Thanks to Cardiff for funding our Sad Philosophy Workshop next week with me, @lopezcantero.bsky.social and @bexmillar.bsky.social

We’ll be in the melancholy domains of grief and negative relationships, heartbreak and chatbots, and ai psychosis 🖤 🖤🖤

Cardiff Philosophy @cardiffphilosophy.bsky.social · 29d

#philsky

A Sad Philosophy Workshop

GRIEF, HEARTBREAK, & HALLUCINATIONS

Pilar Lopez-Cantero (Antwerp)
Becky Millar (Cardiff)
Lucy Osler (Exeter)

13:30-17:30, Friday 26 September

1.57 John Percival Building
Cardiff University

Free! All welcome!

Register here: bit.ly/CdfGHH#philsky

Poster has image of a tearful cyborg woman and the same text as in this post.

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Jodie Russell @jelliedsours.bsky.social · Sep 14

Omg you are so right 😂

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Jodie Russell @jelliedsours.bsky.social · Sep 13

I got this cool uterus plushy from the gift shop at the Wellcome collection and have been trying to hide it in plain sight around the flat…

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