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they/them │ political & feminist #philosophy of language | Cardiff Uni, Bristol based│ working on the communicative force of silence and trans linguistic practices │ when I don't do philosophy, I do circus stuff
I have the huge pleasure of being a keynote speaker at this event - please submit something and lets hang out in Munich! :)
CfA: Negative Social Action: Silence, Salience, and the Politics of Absence
CfA: Negative Social Action: Silence, Salience, and the Politics of Absence 8–9 December 2026 | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich) Call for Abstracts (Deadline: 25 October 2026) Lan...
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October 6, 2026 at 12:34 PM
I have the huge pleasure of being a keynote speaker at this event - please submit something and lets hang out in Munich! :)
The semester certainly has started
October 6, 2026 at 7:39 AM
The semester certainly has started
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We are launching the Diverse Grief Blog today! This blog provides a forum for exploring the diversity and complexity of grief.
Our inaugural post is written by Tanya Evans and explores the complex relationship of family stories, grief, and the meaning of life. #philsky #grief
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Our inaugural post is written by Tanya Evans and explores the complex relationship of family stories, grief, and the meaning of life. #philsky #grief
diverse-grief.com
Diverse Grief
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September 17, 2026 at 2:42 AM
We are launching the Diverse Grief Blog today! This blog provides a forum for exploring the diversity and complexity of grief.
Our inaugural post is written by Tanya Evans and explores the complex relationship of family stories, grief, and the meaning of life. #philsky #grief
diverse-grief.com
Our inaugural post is written by Tanya Evans and explores the complex relationship of family stories, grief, and the meaning of life. #philsky #grief
diverse-grief.com
I am very happy for myself that pigeons are my favorite animals. If you live in a city, and pigeons are your favorite animals, you can see them pretty much every time you leave the house. A real jackpot right there.
September 7, 2026 at 2:00 PM
I am very happy for myself that pigeons are my favorite animals. If you live in a city, and pigeons are your favorite animals, you can see them pretty much every time you leave the house. A real jackpot right there.
my just partner asked a guy who was loudly livestreaming, talking and watching videos on a full coach for hours to be a bit quieter, after which he flipped out, filmed her, put it on social media and asked people *again on livestream* to share it everywhere. truly great times we are living in
August 28, 2026 at 7:41 PM
my just partner asked a guy who was loudly livestreaming, talking and watching videos on a full coach for hours to be a bit quieter, after which he flipped out, filmed her, put it on social media and asked people *again on livestream* to share it everywhere. truly great times we are living in
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We are writing to the Prime Minister, and the Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy, calling for an immediate public inquiry into the British press, following the tragic death of Jason Arday.
Sign here 👇
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Jason Arday Letter | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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August 15, 2026 at 3:09 PM
We are writing to the Prime Minister, and the Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy, calling for an immediate public inquiry into the British press, following the tragic death of Jason Arday.
Sign here 👇
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We would encourage all UCU members in London to attend the vigil for Jason Arday which will take place on Monday in Trafalgar Square at 6pm.
Bring your love and solidarity.
Bring your love and solidarity.
August 16, 2026 at 8:40 PM
We would encourage all UCU members in London to attend the vigil for Jason Arday which will take place on Monday in Trafalgar Square at 6pm.
Bring your love and solidarity.
Bring your love and solidarity.
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TransActual is launching the Trans Lives Survey 2026.
It's quick, anonymous and will help us campaign for our community!
Take the survey here: form.typeform.com/to/BRppksJ3
#TransLives #TransSurvey #Trans
It's quick, anonymous and will help us campaign for our community!
Take the survey here: form.typeform.com/to/BRppksJ3
#TransLives #TransSurvey #Trans
August 12, 2026 at 8:00 AM
TransActual is launching the Trans Lives Survey 2026.
It's quick, anonymous and will help us campaign for our community!
Take the survey here: form.typeform.com/to/BRppksJ3
#TransLives #TransSurvey #Trans
It's quick, anonymous and will help us campaign for our community!
Take the survey here: form.typeform.com/to/BRppksJ3
#TransLives #TransSurvey #Trans
Late last night, I met an injured pigeon. It looked like its wing was hurt, and it couldn't fly, but was able to walk. Over the course of a couple of hours or so, my partner and I managed to gently put it in a rescue box and take it to a vet. /1
August 6, 2026 at 9:32 AM
Late last night, I met an injured pigeon. It looked like its wing was hurt, and it couldn't fly, but was able to walk. Over the course of a couple of hours or so, my partner and I managed to gently put it in a rescue box and take it to a vet. /1
I submitted a paper to a journal almost a month ago, and it is *still* with the journal administrator - hasn't even gone to an editor to decide whether to send it to peer review. Should I withdraw or message them? Even for philosophy journal standards, this seems like a very long time..
August 4, 2026 at 8:12 AM
I submitted a paper to a journal almost a month ago, and it is *still* with the journal administrator - hasn't even gone to an editor to decide whether to send it to peer review. Should I withdraw or message them? Even for philosophy journal standards, this seems like a very long time..
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It’s always odd to me when I get asked if I am wearing a mask because I am sick. In my experience, these days most people wearing a mask are doing so to prevent themselves getting sick, and most people who are sick don’t wear a mask at all.
August 1, 2026 at 5:43 PM
It’s always odd to me when I get asked if I am wearing a mask because I am sick. In my experience, these days most people wearing a mask are doing so to prevent themselves getting sick, and most people who are sick don’t wear a mask at all.
Sorting through old unneeded text notes from years ago is bearing interesting insights
August 1, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Sorting through old unneeded text notes from years ago is bearing interesting insights
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youve heard of failing upwards. well academic careers in 2026 encapsulate the reverse: succeeding downwards. so many talented, highly qualified people, being punished for their achievements
July 31, 2026 at 9:53 AM
youve heard of failing upwards. well academic careers in 2026 encapsulate the reverse: succeeding downwards. so many talented, highly qualified people, being punished for their achievements
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This is why the Philosophy Tube episode on conversion therapy in Britain was so carefully worded and went through lawyers first! It’s difficult to educate the public on topics that rich and powerful groups do not want people to know about
Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights.
Anyways, here it is.
Anyways, here it is.
July 13, 2026 at 5:03 AM
This is why the Philosophy Tube episode on conversion therapy in Britain was so carefully worded and went through lawyers first! It’s difficult to educate the public on topics that rich and powerful groups do not want people to know about
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Clarence Thomas citing MIT philosopher Alex Byrne to support his ultra-transphobic opinion. I hope all the analytic philosophers who defended Byrne as a serious, apolitical scholar see this and learn something, but I'm not hopeful.
Clarence Thomas's concurring opinion in the trans sports ban case in West Virginia contains some of the ugliest transphobic stuff I have ever seen in a legal opinion. Straight-up gleeful. Vile man. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
![2 WEST VIRGINIA v. B. P. J.
THOMAS, J., concurring
judgment). Because “gender dysphoria” is a mutable men-
tal state that is the object of psychiatric treatment, it does
not resemble the immutable characteristics on the basis of
which our precedents have applied heightened scrutiny—
race, sex, or national origin. Instead, gender dysphoria re-
sembles other characteristics on the basis of which legisla-
tures may classify with a merely rational basis. See, e.g.,
Heller v. Doe, 509 U. S. 312, 321 (1993) (mental illness);
Plyler v. Doe, 457 U. S. 202, 220 (1982) (immigration sta-
tus). Legislatures have many obvious rational bases to
keep men who believe that they are women out of teams
and private spaces reserved for women.
Second, as the Court recognizes, this case concerns “bio-
logical men” and “boys who identify as girls.” Ante, at 10,
27. Men and boys with gender dysphoria are not women or
girls, even if they believe that they are. Sex is an immuta-
ble “biological” characteristic, see ante, at 10; it is binary;
and “man” and “woman,” “boy” and “girl,” are the terms that
correspond to adults and children of each sex. See A. Byrne,
Are Women Adult Human Females? 177 Philosophical
Studies 3783, 3786–3787 (2020). To use language to ob-
scure reality—to show “indifference regarding the truth”—
is to lie to the public and cease to treat our fellow citizens
“as equal[s].” J. Pieper, Abuse of Language—Abuse of
Power 17, 21 (1992).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bpna2qi2e44fafbhhtqjak3x/bafkreibwsxtosqddkiskx5oxonnai4ha7ygixfcqmnbsxb27z3q43jh4iu)
June 30, 2026 at 2:28 PM
Clarence Thomas citing MIT philosopher Alex Byrne to support his ultra-transphobic opinion. I hope all the analytic philosophers who defended Byrne as a serious, apolitical scholar see this and learn something, but I'm not hopeful.
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This headline is a bit unfair on Exeter colleagues, and a tad rage/ clickbaity. But remember: no-one who works in a non-Oxbridge university is safe or even secure in their employment. The way policy is set up a large % will *inevitably and inexorably* lose their jobs.
"The idea that people will be able to hold it together and deliver a term of teaching before they vanish off into the horizon, is bizarre, spiteful and naive as well.”
The Times HE's punchy account of Exeter University's #BonfireOfTheHumanities & what one academic describes as "existential terror".
The Times HE's punchy account of Exeter University's #BonfireOfTheHumanities & what one academic describes as "existential terror".
‘I thought we were safe’: shock at Exeter’s humanities ‘gamble’
Leading department being in the firing line shows how changing student preferences are fundamentally reshaping universities
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June 30, 2026 at 7:52 AM
This headline is a bit unfair on Exeter colleagues, and a tad rage/ clickbaity. But remember: no-one who works in a non-Oxbridge university is safe or even secure in their employment. The way policy is set up a large % will *inevitably and inexorably* lose their jobs.
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Older lady peeped the rainbow flag on my bike, asked in a thick Russian accent “It’s your Pride?” She told me her youngest grandchild is “not she berry or he berry but no berry.” I said “Nonbinary?” She got so excited. Yes! Yes! And “Is a secret, but they are my“ *looks around, whispers* “favorite.”
June 24, 2026 at 6:27 PM
Older lady peeped the rainbow flag on my bike, asked in a thick Russian accent “It’s your Pride?” She told me her youngest grandchild is “not she berry or he berry but no berry.” I said “Nonbinary?” She got so excited. Yes! Yes! And “Is a secret, but they are my“ *looks around, whispers* “favorite.”
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Open letter about philosophy job losses at Nottingham. Please consider signing
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Open Letter: Opposing Compulsory Redundancies in the Department of Philosophy, University of Nottingham
We, the undersigned, call on the University of Nottingham to reverse its plans to impose compulsory redundancies on its staff in the Department of Philosophy.
The University threatens to cut around o...
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June 18, 2026 at 11:15 AM
Open letter about philosophy job losses at Nottingham. Please consider signing
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By happenstance, I googled a philosophy colleague’s distinctive terminology today to find her papers on it. The first dozen search results were ALL her papers, or citations of them.
The AI Overview didn’t mention her once. It falsely attributed her (non-tech) concept to some tech bros at Stanford.
The AI Overview didn’t mention her once. It falsely attributed her (non-tech) concept to some tech bros at Stanford.
When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.
June 18, 2026 at 5:34 AM
By happenstance, I googled a philosophy colleague’s distinctive terminology today to find her papers on it. The first dozen search results were ALL her papers, or citations of them.
The AI Overview didn’t mention her once. It falsely attributed her (non-tech) concept to some tech bros at Stanford.
The AI Overview didn’t mention her once. It falsely attributed her (non-tech) concept to some tech bros at Stanford.
As part of our conference "Speech and Society", we are holding a public round table on Language Politics & Revitalization in Wales - in Welsh, with live translation! If you're around, please drop by!!
**June 23rd, Room 1.62 Glamorgan Building, Cardiff Uni**
@cardiffphilosophy.bsky.social
**June 23rd, Room 1.62 Glamorgan Building, Cardiff Uni**
@cardiffphilosophy.bsky.social
June 17, 2026 at 6:58 AM
As part of our conference "Speech and Society", we are holding a public round table on Language Politics & Revitalization in Wales - in Welsh, with live translation! If you're around, please drop by!!
**June 23rd, Room 1.62 Glamorgan Building, Cardiff Uni**
@cardiffphilosophy.bsky.social
**June 23rd, Room 1.62 Glamorgan Building, Cardiff Uni**
@cardiffphilosophy.bsky.social
I think any institution hiring people should be required to have an "annoyance score" that indicates how annoying it is going to be working for that institution based on how annoying current staff find it, and it should be publicly available information.
June 11, 2026 at 12:38 PM
I think any institution hiring people should be required to have an "annoyance score" that indicates how annoying it is going to be working for that institution based on how annoying current staff find it, and it should be publicly available information.
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Green and Black Cross are offering trans-specific know your rights protest training this Friday. The link to sign up is here, and I’d appreciate it if you could share this widely.
Trans-Specific Know Your Rights Training – 12th June, 6.30pm-8.30pm (ONLINE) | Green and Black Cross
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June 9, 2026 at 11:26 AM
Green and Black Cross are offering trans-specific know your rights protest training this Friday. The link to sign up is here, and I’d appreciate it if you could share this widely.
A bit ago I talked to ORFScience about my research on gender & names. This resulted in an article and a radio interview. I enjoyed my first experience doing this a lot more than I thought I would. So, if you read or understand German, you can listen/read here science.orf.at/stories/3235...
Wie wir uns einen Namen machen
Namen sind Ausdruck von Individualität, geben aber auch Hinweis auf sozialen Hintergrund. Zumeist bestimmen Eltern den Vornamen ihrer Kinder, die Nachnamen werden vererbt. Doch manche Menschen bestimm...
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June 2, 2026 at 3:47 PM
A bit ago I talked to ORFScience about my research on gender & names. This resulted in an article and a radio interview. I enjoyed my first experience doing this a lot more than I thought I would. So, if you read or understand German, you can listen/read here science.orf.at/stories/3235...
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Every person who emails is vital, and every MP who formally objects makes a difference.
equalrecognition.eaction.org.uk/rejectthecode
equalrecognition.eaction.org.uk/rejectthecode
June 2, 2026 at 12:17 PM
Every person who emails is vital, and every MP who formally objects makes a difference.
equalrecognition.eaction.org.uk/rejectthecode
equalrecognition.eaction.org.uk/rejectthecode
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“Experimenting with unproven technology to determine whether or not a child should be granted protections they desperately need and are legally entitled to is cruel and unconscionable.”
The rise of “artificial intelligence” tools in border policing is just so disturbing. We should reject such uses.
The rise of “artificial intelligence” tools in border policing is just so disturbing. We should reject such uses.
AI will be used to estimate age of asylum seekers from next year
The Home Office says the tool will make it easier to identify adult migrants "attempting to game the system".
www.bbc.com
May 29, 2026 at 4:25 PM
“Experimenting with unproven technology to determine whether or not a child should be granted protections they desperately need and are legally entitled to is cruel and unconscionable.”
The rise of “artificial intelligence” tools in border policing is just so disturbing. We should reject such uses.
The rise of “artificial intelligence” tools in border policing is just so disturbing. We should reject such uses.