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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.

Source: Wikipedia
Philosophy 36%
Physics 21%
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Clare Moriarty @quiteclare.bsky.social · 1d
This seems completely unhinged to me

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Kirsti Miller @kirstimiller30.bsky.social · 1d
The NHS closed Tavistock over trans care concerns – there were just eight complaints all from cisgender people.

1. JK Rowling
2. Maya Forstater
3. Helen Joyce
4. Graham Linehan
5. Kathleen Stock
6. Posie Parker
7. Wes Streeting
8. Rosie Duffield

www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...
NHS closed Tavistock over care complaints – there were only eight
An eye-opening FOI report has revealed that just eight people complained about the Tavistock gender clinic's care provision in 10 years.
www.thepinknews.com

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Erika Anderson @andersonmineral.bsky.social · 1d
To celebrate this year’s International Day of Women and Girls in Science, here is gaidonnayite, named after Dr Gabrielle Donnay, nestled in with some natrolite.
She has two minerals named after her!! Two of the very few minerals discovered in Canada named after a woman. #WomenInSTEM #IDWGS ⚒️🧪
Crevasse in a whitish rock with yellow crystals of gaidonnayite and milky natrolite on a black background. At the Museum of Nature.

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Danielle Tute @danielletute.bsky.social · 1d
Apparently there's a new TV show of Lord of the Flies on BBC that William Golding's daughter is loving!!

But did you see that a graphic novel adaptation came out already by the incredible Aimee de Jongh?

In stock now at OK Comics, and unforgettable.

okcomics.co.uk/products/lor...

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Bill Tozier @vaguery.bsky.social · 1d
OK, trying this again with a "correct" link?

I'm running a 30% sale on science fiction, fantasy and comics (and comic-adjacent) items in my eBay store through February.

Boosts will help!

The sale items are in my eBay store, remarkably under the "Sale" tab:

ebay.us/m/d8SG7j
Security Measure | eBay
ebay.us

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Tom Sharpe @tomsharperocks.bsky.social · 1d
11 February 1765, London: birth of Elizabeth Knipe, later Mrs Cobbold, poet, writer & pioneer fossil collector from the Plio-Pleistocene Red Crag Formation of Suffolk. From 1813 to 1824 she sent over 40 fossils to James Sowerby for his Mineral Conchology, one of which he named Nucula Cobboldiae.
Top left, portrait of Elizabeth Cobbold, her elbow on a table and her chin resting in her hand; bottom left, Nucula [now Acila] cobboldiae, a fossil bivalve illustrated by Sowerby; right, extracts from Sowerby's description of the species.

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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 1d
For Irish writers, the next application cycle opens in May! www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
Ireland’s basic income for the arts scheme becomes permanent
When piloted, initiative that provided €325 a week to eligible artists recouped more than its net cost, study shows
www.theguardian.com

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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 1d
The news it out - delighted to be in Best of British Science Fiction 2025, edited by @wishusdonna.bsky.social! My Scottish eco-SF tale To Reap, To Sow first published in Analog will be included alongside some fantastic stories and authors! All info/ full ToC: www.newconpress.co.uk/info/book.as... ✨🚀
Cover of Best of British Science Fiction 2025 edited by Donna Scott. Contents: Introduction – Donna Scott Apprehension Sands – Gareth L Powell The Swap – Lavie Tidhar The Flaming Embusen – Tade Thompson Last Gasp – Stark Holborn 100kg of Platinum in London – Stewart Hotson On the Night Shift – Zohar Jacobs The Walled Garden – Fiona Moore Alba and the Great Crystal – Eric Brown and Keith Brooke Coriander – Ana Sun Dark Matter – Caitriana NicNeacail Hand of Fire – E.M. Faulds Four Fabrications of Francine Descartes – Tim Major Going Out on a Limb – David Cleden The Big Outside – Anne Charnock Twin Engines – Lyle Hopwood One by One – Lindz McLeod My Vagus Proxy – Stephen Oram Bone-eater Earth – Emma Burnett To Reap, To Sow – Lyndsey Croal Wheat Futures – Vaughan Stanger

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The HOPOS Journal @hoposjournal.bsky.social · 2d
Suzanne Bachelard "educated more than a generation of French historians and philosophers of science". Ties van Gemert writes on her life and work & translates her lecture “Epistemology and the History of the Sciences”.

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Man in black suit and young woman in white skirt

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I Support People Protesting in Support of Palestinian Action @srdfrench.bsky.social · 2d
Sure - hope you enjoy them!
(I should say: I was turned on to Bombino by a fellow volunteer at a support group who is very much into ‘desert blues’)

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David A Muller @davidamuller.bsky.social · 2d
The offical citation is
"For developing a new generation of electron detectors and reconstruction algorithms leading to the highest resolution electron microscope."

www.nae.edu/345149/NAENe...

or as a friend joked "the academy award goes to David for the best picture"

🧪 ⚛️ #NAE

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 2d
‘Tödlein’, Death as an archer.
Made from pear wood.
Dated to before 1519; artist: Hans Leinberger
www.khm.at/kunstwerke/t...

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Andrew Lokenauth | TheFinanceNewsletter.com @thefinancenewsletter.com · 2d
Microsoft released a study showing the 40 jobs most at risk by AI:

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 2d
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

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Haven Spec Magazine @havenspec.bsky.social · 2d
👀February 2026 Fiction👀

"Fragments of Sky in Quantum Grief" is a story by Lex Chamberlin about how grief tears holes in the world. Read this one for its private suffering and its hard-won hope.

Available in our next issue!
An excerpt of the short story "Fragments of Sky in Quantum Grief" by Lex Chamberlin, in Issue 22 of Haven Spec Magazine (February 2026). The text reads: The pieces did not trickle down at the start—they fell in sheets that peeled off like expired wallpaper, leaving a starless abyss gaping wide overhead. It’s been months now. The deluge has slowed some: a chip here, a sliver there, carving a dark and crooked chunk from the otherwise perfect summer sky. But it’s always at its worst where I’m currently biding my time, on a gritty towel in the shadow of some oversized driftwood—she loved the beach more than anywhere else. Someone too much like her runs past, and my heart clenches... The background is the issue's cover art, titled Harmonies of the Harvest, by Matthew Spencer. It shows a figure with a human body and a deer head.

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IOP Publishing @ioppublishing.bsky.social · 2d
Where does the #quantum world stop and the classical world begin? A team of researchers have just pushed the line further towards the macroscopic by showing that nanoparticles continue to obey the rules of #quantummechanics in a double-slit experiment ⚛️. Find out more here: https://ow.ly/TcyC50Yaukn

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 2d
"Juan" sent this from where he is pruning grapevines in Gonzales, CA. "It's a difficult job. It takes a lot of skill and dexterity to cut the branches of the vines correctly so the grapes will grow well. I prune an average of 60 plants per hour." #WeFeedYou
A grape vineyard where workers are pruning

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PhilSci-Archive @philsci-archive.bsky.social · 2d
New on the Archive:

Barandes, Jacob A. (2026) Historical Debates over the Physical Reality of the Wave Function. [Preprint]

https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/28174/

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I Support People Protesting in Support of Palestinian Action @srdfrench.bsky.social · 2d
Over 100 people were detained for hours in freezing weather after a police raid on a queer venue in Baku. This is a violation of human dignity. Demand an independent investigation and accountability in Azerbaijan. a.allout.org/s/vbMAX/
Azerbaijan: Stop police abuse
Police detained over 100 people at a queer venue in Baku and left them in the cold. Demand accountability, dignity, and protection from abuse in Azerbaijan.
a.allout.org

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Ann-Sophie Barwich @smellosopher.bsky.social · 2d
Highlighting the work of Maxine Sheets-Johnstone on kinesthetic consciousness here. Her work, including the phenomenology of dance, has been phenomenal but overlooked in the dudebro consciousness club. (She's also not in the Epstein files.)
benjamins.com/catalog/aicr...

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I Support People Protesting in Support of Palestinian Action @srdfrench.bsky.social · 3d
😂😂😂

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 3d
Melville: I hope you enjoyed that bloody action-packed chapter! But now, a moment to consider obscure technicalities about where everyone sits in the boat, how the boat is constructed, and my personal critique of current assigned seating practices.

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Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com · 3d
I am elated & humbled that my upcoming monograph (mitpress.mit.edu/978026205282...) was chosen as one of the #openaccess titles for Spring 2026. Thanks to @mitpress.bsky.social's Direct to Open (D2O) model & the hundreds of participating libraries that make it possible! #philsky #HPS #evosky #HPbio

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I Support People Protesting in Support of Palestinian Action @srdfrench.bsky.social · 3d
Sure!
Bombino:
bombino.bandcamp.com/album/sahel

Mdou Moktar:
mdoumoctar.bandcamp.com/album/funera...

Tinariwen:
tinariwen.bandcamp.com/album/hoggar

Enjoy!!!
Sahel, by Bombino
10 track album
bombino.bandcamp.com

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Danielle Tute @danielletute.bsky.social · 3d
“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” - George Orwell, 1984

Shop the @okcomics.bsky.social non-fiction range:
okcomics.co.uk/collections/...

(I know 1984 is fiction...)

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Danielle Tute @danielletute.bsky.social · 3d
What’s happening in the USA doesn’t stay there. Culture wars, disinformation, & hard-right organising travel fast, and the UK is already feeling it. The rise of Reform isn’t happening in a vacuum; it’s part of the same global shift, borrowing language, tactics, and outrage from across the Atlantic.

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Emma Newman @emmanewman.bsky.social · 3d
Lovelies, here's a shiny new episode of Starship Alexandria, in which we discuss a recommendation from @aptshadow.bsky.social : A Sword of Bronze and Ashes by Anna Smith-Spark.

There will be spoilers as we discuss the book in some depth!
starshipalexandria.com/episode-10-a...
Starship Alexandria: Episode 10 - A Sword of Bronze and Ashes
For our February 2026 episode of Starship Alexandria, Adrian puts forward the novel A Sword of Bronze and Ashes by Anna Smith Spark for Emma to consider.    Other talking points:  ...
starshipalexandria.com

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Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) @clpskuleuven.bsky.social · 3d
We are delighted to announce the 15th edition of the Graduate Student Conference, hosted by the Institute of Philosophy (@kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social). This year’s keynote speaker is Sibo Kanobana. Submit an abstract by March 6, 2026, and join us! hiw.kuleuven.be/cmprpc/event... #philsky #HPS
Poster announcing the 15th Leuven Graduate Student Conference in Philosophy, featuring a large QR code over a tinted architectural background, bold text reading “Call for Abstracts,” conference date (24 April 2026), submission deadline (6 March 2026), and a link for more information, with KU Leuven branding in the corner.

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I Support People Protesting in Support of Palestinian Action @srdfrench.bsky.social · 3d
I saw them live a couple of years ago - wonderful!!

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Republic @republiccampaign.bsky.social · 3d
🚨🚨 BREAKING NEWS: Charles has been heckled AGAIN over Andrew and Epstein, this time in Clitheroe. Expressing 'concern' isn't enough. Charles and William are complicit in a cover-up. Police investigation NOW. Royal Epstein Inquiry NOW. #NotMyKing #AbolishTheMonarchy #Epstein