J.B. Delston

Green by Michaella Thornton

"I am the cool fizz of prosecco sliding down one’s throat during the golden hour. The chartreuse velvet couch we make out on after eating Vietnamese take-out."

@kellathornton.bsky.social's "Green"

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I'm exceedingly grateful to the incredible editorial team @trampset.bsky.social for a Best Microfiction nomination for "Green" 💚 thank you from the bottom of my heart for this incredible kindness 💚

Lingering Inland Book Launch Party - The New Territory Magazine Join us to celebrate Lingering Inland, an expansive anthology edited by Andy Oler. 73 original short essays explore locales in Midwestern literature relevant to the life and work of literary […]

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Wanna party in St. Louis & celebrate the gorgeous, gritty beauty of Midwestern writers?

Join me & a bunch of incredible writers, editors, & publishers who make the writing world a better place on 12/13

"My One, My Only", a Sunday Short Read by Michaella A. Thornton | https://mailchi.mp/creativenonfiction/sunday-short-reads-036?e=52e0ccf2a1 @kellathornton via @cnfonline #cnf

I'll make some exceptions

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The only person I call King

Medical Sexism Doctors routinely deny patients access to hormonal birth control prescription refills, and this issue has broad interest for feminism, biomedical ethics, and ap…

Bloomsbury purchased Lexington Books so my book has a new website. Check it out here: www.bloomsbury.com/us/medical-s...

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"The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter"
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Tell your senators to take a stand against the “No Contempt Clause” Congressional Republicans hid a provision deep in their Medicaid-slashing megabill to shield Trump and his cronies from contempt of court orders. Their “No Contempt Clause” would cause chaos for our c...

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APA On Demand: “Mixed Emotions: Confronting Feelings that Get a Bad Rap” replay now available - American Philosophical Association The panelists for the online event were as follows:

I absolutely loved being in conversation with Samir Chopra, @kkthomason.bsky.social and @jdelston.bsky.social in this panel. I really think it's worth watching if you are interested in so-called "negative emotions"! I learned a ton.
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Policed Minds: The Assault on Neurodivergent Black Boyhood Policed Minds:The Assault on Neurodivergent Black Boyhood

I submitted my piece on a whim to a gender theory contest… and I won!

The work is titled

Policed Minds: The Assault on Neurodivergent Black Boyhood.

You can read it here

American Philosophical Association The panelists for this event are as follows:

I learned so much today from @kkthomason.bsky.social @saraprotasi.bsky.social and Samir Chopra at our APA panel on "bad" emotions. Look for the recording soon on the APA On Demand Video Library! www.apaonline.org/events/Event...

American Philosophical Association The panelists for this event are as follows:

If you are an American Philosophical Association member, come chat about "bad" emotions this Thursday at 10am Pacific! @kkthomason.bsky.social and Samir Chopra are the other panelists, and @jdelston.bsky.social will moderate.
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Congratulations to @UMSL Philosophy student Sarah Boslaugh for her presentation prize at this week's UGS! "STIGMA TOWARD PREP IS HIGHER AMONG MEN & ON SUBSCALES REFERENCING SEXUAL BEHAVIOR AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE" (Sarah E. Boslaugh, Brandon Park, & Dr. Rachel P. Winograd) #philsky #UMSLproud

Authorship Rates in Four Elite Philosophy Journals (Past Two Years): Women 46 authorships; Men 243 authorships; Nonbinary/unclassified 2 authorships. Percent women: 16%

Over the past two years, only 16% of authors in the most elite philosophy journals have been women. Link to full post with details in comments.

Today at 3pm is the final UMSL Philosophy Colloquium: “Explaining Ourselves”, Samuel Dishaw (Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Louvain University in Belgium). Lucas Hall 205.

Pragmatism and Scientific Inquiry Res Philosophica Conference at Saint Louis University April 25-26, 2025 Pere Marquette Gallery, Saint Louis University Friday, April 25 9:00 – 9:15 Opening remarks 9:15 – 10:00 Holly Andersen, Simon Fraser University “Pragmatist Measurement and Positive Possibility” 10:00 – 10:45 Commentator: Marina DiMarco, Washington University and Q&A Chair: Aja Watkins, University of Wisconsin, Madison 10:45 – 11:00 Break 11:00 – 11:45 David Stump, University of San Francisco “Lessons from Pragmatism for Philosophers of Science: Nine Teachings and a Cautionary Tale” 11:45 – 12:30 Commentator: Tom Kaspers, University of Chicago and Q&A Chair: William Rehg, SJ, Saint Louis University 12:30 – 2:15 Lunch 2:15 – 3:00 Sharyn Clough, Oregon State University “Peace and Pragmatism: Responding to Polarized Science Policy.” 3:00 – 3:45 Commentator Ge Fang, Washington University and Q&A Chair: Sahar Joakim Resch, St. Louis Community College, Meramec 3:45 – 4:00 Break 4:00 – 4:10 Introduction to Wade Memorial Lecture by Scott Ragland, Chair, Saint Louis University Department of Philosophy 4:10 – 5:00 Joseph Rouse, Wesleyan University “Scientific Practice and Radical Naturalism” (Wade Memorial Lecture) 5:00 – 5:30 Q&A Chair: Kent Staley, Saint Louis University 5:30 – 6:30 Reception 6:45 Conference Dinner: Salsa Rosada/Mayo Ketchup, 3135 Olive Street, St. Louis, MO 63103 Pragmatism and Scientific Inquiry Saturday, April 26 9:30 – 10:15 Sabina Leonelli, Technical University of Munich “Contrasting Visions of Inquiry in an Open Society” (via Zoom) 10:15 – 11:00 Commentator: Anya Plutynski, Washington University and Q&A Chair: Jill Delston, University of Missouri St. Louis 11:00 – 11:15 Break 11:15 – 12:00 Matthew Brown, Southern Illinois University Carbondale “What is Pragmatist about the New ‘Pragmatist’ Philosophy of Science?” 12:00 – 12:45 Commentator: Zachary Mayne, University of Pittsburgh and Q&A Chair: Anna Marmadoro, SLU 12:45 – 2:30 Lunch

Friday and Saturday!

Looking forward to chopping it up with folks at the Critical Humor Studies Association conference this week. criticalhumorstudies.org/conferences/

Coming up! #philsky #medicalsexism #bioethics

Looking forward to giving two talks today and to the student presentations tomorrow! #medicalsexism #philsky #bioethics

Book Reviewers Needed | IJFAB Blog

If you want to review one of these books, or another that may be of interest to an IJFAB audience, or you have a book coming out, get in touch!

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Pacific University’s 27th Annual Philosophy Conference Pacific University’s annual undergraduate philosophy conference begins on April 18    Annually, Pacific University holds a two day philosophy conference. Since 1997, this conference …

Looking forward to being the keynote for this philosophy conference--thanks for the writeup addressing my research, Pacific! pacindex.com/2025/04/03/p... #philsky

I have a bad feeling about this...wait, what is a "bad feeling"? Find out more with @kkthomason.bsky.social , @saraprotasi.bsky.social, Samir Chopra and me in my capacity as a member at large with the Virtual Programming Committee of the APA. This panel has been in the works forever! #philsky

Come chat about negative emotions with me, @kkthomason.bsky.social, and Samir Chopra. Thanks, @jdelston.bsky.social, for organizing!

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Hey #philsky come to my panel on negative emotions! Organized by the great @jdelston.bsky.social and featuring @saraprotasi.bsky.social and Samir Chopra. It's for APA members only, so pay your dues and join us!
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What is “Justice”? For Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence, It’s Complicated He shattered my cell phone…I just kind of knew the situation was going to escalate, I didn’t know if the police were coming, so I went to my car to look for a weapon to defend myself and at that time ...

Here is last month's: blog.apaonline.org/2025/03/11/w... #philsky

Medical Bias as Hierarchy Just ten hours after giving birth to her second child via C-section, Kira Johnson died of haemorrhagic shock at Cedars-Sinai hospital, surrounded by some of the best medical care providers in the worl...

My second blog of the APA @apaphilosophy.bsky.social post in as many months is out today. It concerns inequity in medicine and health care with a precision health lens blog.apaonline.org/2025/04/10/m...

It was an honor to have you serve as judge! Thank you for your hard work! #UMSLproud!

Really amazing pieces with neat ideas. It was an honor to judge the prize of someone who I respect so much. ❤️