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Philosopher of science in a previous life, short story writer in this one and comics and music lover in both.

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Steven Richard Douglas French is an emeritus professor of philosophy at University of Leeds.

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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 4h
The original 1969 version of Monkey Man by Toots & the Maytals, perhaps most famously covered by The Specials.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=94fG...
The Maytals 'Monkey Man' (official audio)
YouTube video by Trojan Records Official
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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 7h
Labour was all about "controls on immigration" to tackle "very real concerns" even under Ed Miliband in 2015. The "very real concerns" at the time were about Eastern Europeans. An extreme step was taken to tackle the supposed "problem" and the hatemongers instantaneously pivoted to new "problems".

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Uljana Feest @ufeest.bsky.social · 8h
My friend and mentor, the wonderful philosopher Jim Bogen, has died. #HPS #Philsci
dailynous.com/2025/12/04/j...
James Bogen (1935-2025) - Daily Nous
James "Jim" Bogen, a longtime professor of philosophy at Pitzer College as well as an adjunct professor in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, has died. Professor Bogen ...
dailynous.com

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 8h
1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Over a pint in Oxford, we may have stumbled upon the holy grail of agriculture | George Monbiot
I knew that a revolution in our understanding of soil could change the world. Then came a eureka moment – and the birth of the Earth Rover Program, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com

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Michael Morris @michaelmorrisphil.bsky.social · 1d
Birling Gap, yesterday

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Dr Kathrine Cuccuru @aphilosopher.bsky.social · 1d
Good morning from the Tay
View across Tay Firth on a dull day there’s a touch of pastel pink and blue in the clouds

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 1d
The WI has been trans inclusive since the 70s, before I was born. Do you see who in this scenario was innocently minding their own business, coming to their own arrangements locally? Do you see who is forcefully imposing themselves and their demands upon others, via threats.
Sex Matters • @SexMattersOrg •14h @HJoyceGender: "What is distinctive about single sex groups is obviously lost if people of the opposite sex are admitted." @BBCNews

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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 1d
A reminder, if one were needed, that for all their talk of “vile criminal gangs”, our states would punish the Good Samaritan himself if he were to help a migrant
Trial of aid workers accused of facilitating illegal entry of migrants into Greece set to begin
The accused, including Syrian refugee Sarah Mardini and Irishman Sean Binder, were among those providing humanitarian assistance in Europe’s migration crisis
www.theguardian.com

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Patrickworld 👋🏾 🌎 @patrickworld.bsky.social · 1d
RIP Steve Cropper 🎸
Booker T. & The MG's - Time Is Tight (Live, 1970)
YouTube video by 60s70sVintageRock
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Nebullama @nebullama.bsky.social · 1d
I started writing a book on lions.

It turned out to be quite tricky and, frankly, damn dangerous, so I went back to regular paper.

#WritingCommunity #BookSky #WriteSky

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Nina 🎄☃️🕊️✨ @ninawils.bsky.social · 1d
Relatable Corvid

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Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer📷🚀 🚀 📸 @princejvstin.com · 1d
Coming March 10, 2026!
@aliettedebodard.com
re-releases the DOMINION OF THE FALLEN trilogy.

Alternate History! Fallen Angels! A fantastically imagined wrecked and ruined Paris!
HOSW cover

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Wizard's Tower Press @wtpress.bsky.social · 2d
Submissions are open for our Welsh folklore anthology, They Are Still Here: wizardstowerpress.co...
The cover of They Are Still Here (Mae Nhw Yma O Hyd). The image is of the sorceror, Gwydion, surrounded by wild animals (wolf, boar, deer) in a Celtic knotwork frame. Gwydion's hat is crowned with antlers. He carries an axe in his right hand and an oak twig in his left. Art by Josh Arklin.

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I Support People Protesting in Support of Palestinian Action @srdfrench.bsky.social · 2d
Some excellent stories in here:

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I Support People Protesting in Support of Palestinian Action @srdfrench.bsky.social · 2d
Malaysia is banning LGBT+ books and calling such stories a threat to public morality. This is censorship that erases lives. Add your name to demand an immediate end to these bans. a.allout.org/s/WZXVQ/
Stop Malaysia’s LGBT+ book bans
Malaysia is banning books with LGBT+ themes, calling our stories a threat to public morality. This erases identities and violates basic freedoms. Add your name to demand an end to this dangerous censo...
a.allout.org

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Joanne Hall @hierath77.bsky.social · 2d
Also if you want to give JKR a black eye Fight Like A Girl 2 is relentlessly trans positive, has a bunch of trans authors in it and is published by a trans-owned company, and we ain't going anywhere....

www.amazon.co.uk/Fight-Like-G...
Fight Like A Girl: Volume 2: Amazon.co.uk: McKenna, Juliet E, Smith Spark, Anna, Ware, Danie, Sebold, Gaie, Morgan, Lou, Garland, Dolly, Davies, K T, Morgan, Cheryl, Clarke, Roz, Hall, Joanne, Bond, C...
Buy Fight Like A Girl: Volume 2 by McKenna, Juliet E, Smith Spark, Anna, Ware, Danie, Sebold, Gaie, Morgan, Lou, Garland, Dolly, Davies, K T, Morgan, Cheryl, Clarke, Roz, Hall, Joanne, Bond, Charlotte...
www.amazon.co.uk

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 2d
Seems there has been some co-ordination.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Women’s Institute will no longer accept trans women as members from April
Exclusive: CEO says decision taken with ‘utmost regret and sadness’ after supreme court ruling on definition of a woman
www.theguardian.com

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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 2d
If you‘re in London on the 11th December, there’s a great event exploring the role of photography in building empathy towards nonhuman animals. I can really recommend events at this venue, it’s a wonderful space: www.kairos.london/event/why-lo...
Why Look at Animals? with Jo-Anne McArthur and Zed Nelson - Kairos
Thursday December 11th, 6.30 for 7pm How can contemporary photography, by focussing on our broken bonds with animals and the rest of the natural world, help drive a paradigm shift in our priorities an...
www.kairos.london

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Kate Nave @kathrynnave.bsky.social · 2d
A Drive to Survive has now had a few reviews & I'm so grateful that they've been exceptionally generous and incisive. Thread here:

1st: Matteo Colombo in BJPS (particularly nice to read - given how pivotal his papers on the FEP were in helping me understand it)

www.thebsps.org/reviewofbook...
Kathryn Nave, A Drive to Survive | BJPS Review of Books
Matteo Colombo reviews A Drive to Survive, by Kathryn Nave
www.thebsps.org

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.bsky.social · 2d
As someone whose children were at Girl Guides Scotland, it impressed me that they were so open and welcoming.

To see this change now, because of *one* parent (presumably backed by a bitter GC terf billionaire) is genuinely upsetting.

www.change.org/p/allow-tran...
Sign the Petition
Allow transgender women and girls back into GirlGuiding UK
www.change.org

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Marshall Abrams @marshall0i.bsky.social · 2d
The Society for the Metaphysics of Science (SMS) will be hosting its 11th Annual Conference, in person at University of Toronto, 25th-27th May, 2026. socmetsci.org/2026 #philsci Papers can be on any aspect of the metaphysics of science, broadly construed.

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Philosophy of Science Association @philsci.bsky.social · 2d
Submissions for PSA 2026 in San Diego are now open! ☀️ Link and deadlines below

Symposia ✨ 15 January 2026
Papers ✨ 15 March 2026
Posters ✨ 1 June 2026

psa26.oa-event.com/c...

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 3d
It's #GivingTuesday & PSA @philsci.bsky.social is running a fundraiser! I just made a donation to support PSA's initiatives, such as UPSS @psa-upss.bsky.social & other grad & early career support.
See where they stand with their fundraising “thermometer” on the donation page
philsci.org/donate.php
Donate - Philosophy of Science Association
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British Journal for the Philosophy of Science @thebjps.bsky.social · 3d
New from the BJPS Review of Books:

Sex, Gender, Ethics, and the Darwinian Evolution of Mankind
– Michel Veuille

Reviewed by Azita Chellappoo

www.thebsps.org/reviewofbook...

#philsci #philsky
Michel Veuille, Sex, Gender, Ethics, and the Darwinian Evolution of Mankind | BJPS Review of Books
Azita Chellappoo reviews Sex, Gender, Ethics, and the Darwinian Evolution of Mankind, edited by Michel Veuille
www.thebsps.org

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I Support People Protesting in Support of Palestinian Action @srdfrench.bsky.social · 3d
My ’alternative history of quantum mechanics with a theological twist‘ short story ‘In Defence of Orthodoxy’ is now up at Spank the Carp:
www.spankthecarp.com/issue90_fren...
Spank the Carp
Spank the Carp
www.spankthecarp.com

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Bence Nanay @bencenanay.bsky.social · 3d
This is the King of Belgium, presenting me with the 2025 Ernest-John Solvay Prize, somewhat loftily also referred to by the press here as the Flemish Nobel Prize.
Awarded every 5 years, the first winner in 1965 was Ilya Prigogine. The latest in 2020 was Johan Wagemans. Quite a company to be in...

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Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social · 3d
Sad news about Daniel Woodrell, writer of the excellent Winter's Bone, The Maid's Version and Tomato Red. I chaired him in Dublin in 2012 and he said his first four books "just disappeared" but he was determined to keep at it (and we got those brilliant later books). RIP variety.com/2025/film/ne...

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Harry Wallop @harrywallop.co.uk · 3d
Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

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eenphilsci.bsky.social @eenphilsci.bsky.social · 3d
The EENPS 2026 call for papers & symposia is now open! 🔥🔥🔥

🗓 Submission deadline: 15 Feb 2026
Conference: 18–19 Sept 2026, Bucharest 😉

See the conference website for full details!
eenps2026.sciencesconf.org
The Sixth Biennial Conference of the East European Network for Philosophy of Science - Sciencesconf.org
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