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@jamesholroyd.bsky.social

He/him. Was applying philosophy of causation to population health at the University of Nottingham, but now taking a break due to long covid.

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Yeah, hi, I’m a person with “mobility challenges” (excuse me while I hurl). What we want, by and large, are not expensive, heavy devices that will “help us walk again”, but ramps.

I know, it’s not sexy, as technology invented before Christ, but it is overlooked in favor of…this. Repeatedly.

14.02.2026 13:16 — 👍 1710    🔁 436    💬 51    📌 17
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The Metaphysically Dynamic Universe How Motion is the Essence of Time and Physical Reality!

Forthcoming book by Steve Barker ⌛️

Details: tinyurl.com/337s7evz

@routledgebooks.bsky.social

#philosophy #time #metaphysics #flow #motion

Photo by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash

06.02.2026 14:57 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Manchester online seminars on Evidential Pluralism Jon Williamson’s research pages: philosophy of science, medicine, AI and law; epistemology; metaphysics; logic

Rani Lill Anjum - Combining evidence for establishing causality. Online talk, 23 February 2026, 3-4.30pm UK time. All welcome! jonwilliamson.uk/mosep

03.02.2026 09:42 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I run a social enterprise supporting social justice oriented projects, buy our stuff!

01.02.2026 12:03 — 👍 2    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
Strong Women Strange Worlds presents

First Friday QuickReads of Sci Fi, Fantasy, and Horror by

Gita Ralleigh

Lisa Morton

Minerva Cerridwen

Melissa Widmaier

Rachel Handley

Victoria Goddard

February 6, 12 noon EST Free On Zoom

Strong Women Strange Worlds presents First Friday QuickReads of Sci Fi, Fantasy, and Horror by Gita Ralleigh Lisa Morton Minerva Cerridwen Melissa Widmaier Rachel Handley Victoria Goddard February 6, 12 noon EST Free On Zoom

Get some excellent sci-fi, fantasy, and horror plugged right into your brain by joining me and some fabulous authors for a free online reading!

I'll be reading from Possible Worlds and Other Stories and I am PUMPED.

6th Feb, 5 pm GMT!

TIckets: www.eventbrite.com/o/strong-wom...

#SWSWQR

01.02.2026 09:44 — 👍 120    🔁 42    💬 8    📌 3
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Semaphore Sounds Semaphore Sounds is on Mixcloud. Listen for free to their radio shows, DJ mix sets and Podcasts

I have a few DJ mixes on Mixcloud: www.mixcloud.com/SemaphoreSou....

23.01.2026 15:37 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Moonshake Tracklist: Andrew Weatherall - Evidence The Enemy Andrew Weatherall - Spreads a Haze (And a Glory) Die Wilde Jagd - Wah Wah Wallenstein Zombie Zombie - No Cruise Control Four Tet - Evening Side (Oneoh...

This is a mix of electronica, kosmische muzik, and indie dance. It includes tracks from Andrew Weatherall, Zombie Zombie, Four Tet, Automat, and others. www.mixcloud.com/SemaphoreSou...

23.01.2026 15:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Disco Volante Tracklist: Neu! - Hallogallo Stereolab & Nurse With Wound - Simple Headphone Mind Elektro Guzzi - Radiant Mount Kimbie - Audition Harmonia - Watussi (Remixed by Dextro) Múm - Smell Memory (Bix Remix...

This is a mix of kosmische muzik, electronica, and drum & bass. It includes tracks from Neu!, Stereolab, LTJ Bukem, Harmonia, µ-Ziq, and others. www.mixcloud.com/SemaphoreSou...

23.01.2026 15:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Chase The Devil Tracklist: Dubblestandart feat. Ari Up & Lee "Scratch" Perry - Chase The Devil Hollie Cook - Milk & Honey Thievery Corporation feat. Notch - Strike The Root Nightmares on Wax feat. OSHUN - Breathe In...

This is a mix of reggae and hip hop. It includes tracks from Congo Natty, Greentea Peng, Hollie Cook, Jesse Royal, Thievery Corporation, and others. www.mixcloud.com/SemaphoreSou...

23.01.2026 15:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Second Thoughts A mix of post-rock. Tracklist: Ganger - Canopy Tarwater - V-At To Rococo Rot - Prado Electric Birds - Parallelogram The Album Leaf - Last Time Here Accelera Deck - Drifting Out Fridge - Of Fridge - ...

This is a mix of post-rock. It includes tracks from Fridge, Ganger, Mogwai, Múm, To Rococo Rot, and others. www.mixcloud.com/SemaphoreSou...

23.01.2026 15:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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One Blood A mix of dancehall and roots reggae from the 1980s. Tracklist: Barrington Levy - Under Mi Sensi Ini Kamoze - World-A-Music Tenor Saw - Lots Of Sign Michael Palmer - I'm Still Dancing Anthony Johnson - Gun Shot Michael Prophet - Gunman Michael Palmer - Ghetto Dance Johnny Osbourne - Budy Bye Tenor Saw - Ring The Alarm Dennis Brown - Revolution Barrington Levy - Here I Come Junior Reid - One Blood Gregory Isaacs - Rumours Black Uhuru - Youth Of Eglington The Tamlins - Baltimore

This is a mix of dancehall and roots reggae from the 1980s. It includes tracks from Barrington Levy, Black Uhuru, Johnny Osbourne, Junior Reid, Tenor Saw, and others. www.mixcloud.com/SemaphoreSou...

23.01.2026 15:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Rock Bristol Rock

This is a mix of music from Bristol. It includes tracks from Black Roots, Laid Blak, Portishead, Smith & Mighty, Tricky and others. There are tracks from the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s and 2020s. www.mixcloud.com/SemaphoreSou...

23.01.2026 15:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Semaphore Sounds Semaphore Sounds is on Mixcloud. Listen for free to their radio shows, DJ mix sets and Podcasts

I have a few DJ mixes on Mixcloud: www.mixcloud.com/SemaphoreSou....

23.01.2026 15:37 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Happening next Tuesday! Come talk to me about free ways to tweak your research recordings so your transcripts are more likely to be done right, the first time!

21.01.2026 11:20 — 👍 0    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
Manchester online seminars on Evidential Pluralism Jon Williamson’s research pages: philosophy of science, medicine, AI and law; epistemology; metaphysics; logic

Upcoming online talks on Evidential Pluralism: Lindley Darden, Rani Lill Anjum, Caterina Marchionni, Isabel Hanson, Nancy Cartwright, Jacob Stegenga. All welcome. jonwilliamson.uk/mosep

12.01.2026 22:26 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I'm not sure how many more times we need to see/hear about violent men calling women "bitch" as they assault & even murder them before we accept that misogynistic slurs aren't neutral.

09.01.2026 21:12 — 👍 201    🔁 59    💬 5    📌 1
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Call for papers open for a thematic workshop on phil of emotion at @uniofnottingham.bsky.social — deadline is next week! More details:
philevents.org/event/show/1...

09.01.2026 17:54 — 👍 11    🔁 5    💬 3    📌 0

Radio 4 and BBC and Channel 4 News and all the papers completely skewing the Peggie story so your average person will have no idea what actually happened. Doesn’t this make you furious? Integrity in journalism is dead, not just in the US

09.12.2025 09:11 — 👍 613    🔁 163    💬 17    📌 18

Always amused (not amused) at how regularly the idea that there is a 'right' amount of mental ill-health in British society and that we must somehow return there. Declaring the correct amount of mental ill-health based on what you are prepared to pay to mitigate its effects isn't how reduction works

04.12.2025 14:48 — 👍 91    🔁 39    💬 1    📌 2

Artists PLEASE I am begging you to use alt text on your art. I want to support you and RT your art but I'm not going to if it does have alt text, and there are so, so many people who feel the same

06.10.2025 17:11 — 👍 177    🔁 75    💬 8    📌 9
Causality and Causal Inference in Medicine (CauseMed) This conference aims to bring together current research dealing with causality and inferential practices in the health sciences, broadly construed, welcoming philosophical, methodological, and scienti...

I am happy to be part of the organization of the next Causality in the Sciences conference in Sevilla, focusing on cases from medicine. Mark your calendars for October 8-9th 2026. Deadline for abstract submission: March 8th. More details here: eventos.us.es/142286/secti...

12.11.2025 20:55 — 👍 28    🔁 13    💬 1    📌 0
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Scrap the Bathroom Ban 🚨This is urgent🚨 Bridget Phillipson, the Minister for Women and Equalities, has a decision to make. The EHRC, a regulator mired in controversy over anti-trans views, has sent a new draft Code of Prac...

Heads up 😅

Sex Matters have launched their own MP letter-writing campaign insisting on trans segregation, an exclusionary Code etc etc

📝Let’s make sure our letters outnumber theirs+++

Template here!
If you’ve already written, grab a mate & get them to write too 🤗
actionnetwork.org/letters/scra...

09.11.2025 14:19 — 👍 230    🔁 160    💬 19    📌 2

List of good reasons to have fireworks:

08.11.2025 18:18 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Mahmood hits back at European watchdog over trans and protest rights concerns The Supreme Court ruled in April that the words ‘woman’ and ‘sex’ in the Equality Act 2010 refer to a biological woman and biological sex.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Hmmmm. "The Home Secretary has said it is unacceptable for a European human rights watchdog to “question the validity” of the Supreme Court ruling".

Except the Commissioner didn't question the "validity" of the Supreme Court ruling, he questioned its fairness.

21.10.2025 14:17 — 👍 128    🔁 26    💬 9    📌 25
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Containerised fox #FoxOfTheDay

13.10.2025 10:10 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Great Yarmouth to Host Britain’s Biggest White Power Concert in Years – HOPE not hate Great Yarmouth is set to host the largest white power music gig held in the UK for at least 10 years, HOPE not hate can...

Great Yarmouth is set to host the biggest neo-nazi music festival in the UK for over a decade. The Home Office has the power to block entry of overseas bands, which will scupper the promoters plans. The link is a quick way to email the Home Office: hopenothate.org.uk/2025/08/28/g...

31.08.2025 16:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset.
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

29.08.2025 11:56 — 👍 5642    🔁 3348    💬 65    📌 490
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Long Covid patients gaslit by GPs, Surrey study finds The University of Surrey study says patients faced "gatekeeping" of medical treatment from doctors.

The BBC has covered our study on medical power and #LongCovid. It’s a shame they didn’t name me and got my university name wrong, but nonetheless, good to see some MSM attention

www.bbc.com/news/article...

22.08.2025 22:51 — 👍 152    🔁 51    💬 8    📌 1
71% of disabled people want to use more sustainable modes of transport but face barriers to this. The numbers 71% are written in thick black tape on a bright orange banner, with orange arrows pointing to the figures.

71% of disabled people want to use more sustainable modes of transport but face barriers to this. The numbers 71% are written in thick black tape on a bright orange banner, with orange arrows pointing to the figures.

71% of disabled people want to use more sustainable modes of transport, but face needless barriers such as overcrowding, missing announcements and a lack of lifts. Public transport must be accessible, so we can all make choices about how to travel.

20.08.2025 13:14 — 👍 21    🔁 12    💬 1    📌 1
Trans Actual's report entitled 'Trans Segregation in Practice. Experiences of trans segragation following the Supreme Court Ruling'.

Trans Actual's report entitled 'Trans Segregation in Practice. Experiences of trans segragation following the Supreme Court Ruling'.

TW.
Needs to be widely shared with cisgender people, especially politicians. Utterly horrifying that Britain has come to this- that most of Britain is just looking the other way while a whole community is being eliminated from society because of lies and hatred. transactual.org.uk/wp-content/u...

20.08.2025 08:01 — 👍 740    🔁 479    💬 6    📌 44

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