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I should introduce you to my fab colleague Heather Flowe

A brilliant book! Hadn’t known you worked on it

Cover of the book "Multiple Persönlichkeit. Zur Geschichte der Seele in der Moderne" by Ian Hacking, Hanser Verlag, 1996.

My copy of the German edition of Ian Hacking's "Rewriting the Soul. Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory". An important book for me when I was writing my thesis.

🎉 New publication 🎉 Why do #youngpeople vote for the #AfD? This question has kept our research project busy for quite some time, so I'm beyond excited that our first article - co-authored with @timonscheuer.bsky.social - is now out in #GermanPolitics! 🤩 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A real President ……….

Sixty-two years ago today, November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. He was shot while riding in an open-top car and died later at Parkland Hospital. The event, which occurred at 12:30 p.m. CST, was a moment of national tragedy.

Epistemic Injustice: An Introduction Epistemic injustice is one of the most important yet complex subjects to have emerged in philosophy in recent years. It refers to the idea that a person can be wronged when they are not properly belie...

You can now preview the book, which means you can look and search inside, and I think read the acknowledgements (the most personal part of it by far) and the preface - there's a 'preview book' button below the cover:

How the Covid Inquiry forgot the children Political point-scoring is obscuring the real lessons

"Experts in education, psychology and disaster response stressed the need not just to confront the crisis in the short term but consider the situation three, five, ten years into the future. The government didn’t want to listen."

Thoughts on the Covid Inquiry

www.newstatesman.com/comment/2025...

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Reform UK’s former Wales leader jailed for taking bribes for pro-Russia speeches Police say Nathan Gill received at least £40,000 while he was an MEP from Oleg Voloshyn, an alleged Russian asset

NEW: Reform UK’s former leader in Wales, Nathan Gill, has been jailed at the Old Bailey for 10 and a half years for taking bribes to make statements in favour of Russia when he was an MEP. Full story 👇

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

An old colour picture postcard showing a stone-fronted building with a clock tower. A sign outside the building reads "East London College"; printed at the top of the card is People's Palace

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @qmul.bsky.social

The East London College, Queen Mary's forerunner institution, was a technical and recreative institute, also known as the People's Palace

If you like this image, please retweet it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

🚨Weekly Wrap-Up🚨
As the Epstein walls close in on Trump, the President pulls a U-turn and says he wants the release of files he tried to suppress. How will they be redacted, and to save whom? @jonnelledge.bsky.social and @nndroid.bsky.social discuss the week's big stories ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod

Child of All Nations by Irmgard Keun (tr. Michael Hofmann) Born in Berlin in 1905, the German writer Irmgard Keun rose to prominence in the early 1930s with her striking novels Gilgi, One of Us (1931) and The Artificial Silk Girl (1932), both of which I lo…

New on the blog today, I've written about CHILD OF ALL NATIONS by Irmgard Keun (tr. Michael Hofmann).

An eye-opening window into the uncertain existence of a family of German refugees, forced to leave their homeland for political reasons. #GermanLitMonth 💙📚

jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/11/18/c...

The house was very quiet, and the fog - we are in November now - pressed against the windows like an excluded ghost.

E. M. Forster, Howards End

This is Cole. He is a deaf service dog at Dr. William Mennies Elementary School. He just turned 9, and all of his students learned sign language to sing him happy birthday at a massive party. 14/10 for all (IG: colethedeafdog)

The Philosophy Garden videos - YouTube Short animated videos promoting reflection and discussion on timely problems affecting our society. Suitable for children and young people.

On #WorldPhilosophyDay binge on all 11 videos at the Philosophy Garden and think about art, political disagreement, conspiracy theories, epistemic injustice and so much more! youtube.com/playlist?lis... #philsky #philosophyforeveryone

Swerve me? The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run.

an unearthly, formless, chance-like apparition of life

Please join us for a IMH hybrid Seminar event on 10 December at 13.00, when Dr Rosa Ritunnano will be joining us [hybrid event: zoom and LT1(G16) 52PR]. Further details and to register please follow the link or scan the QR code bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

How Reform's Nathan Gill became a Russian agent Nigel Farage’s close friend was recruited and paid by Moscow - we should not be surprised if there are others

REFUK traitor Nathan Gill will be sentenced at the Old Bailey today for taking bribes from Russia. But his path to becoming a Russian agent starts in another court altogether: Llangefni County Court in Anglesey. Here's how👇

www.thenewworld.co.uk/arthur-snell...

The frosts mean great damson gin...

Gymnast Johanna Quaas in 2017.

Johanna Quaas smiling on her 100th birthday.

German gymnast Johanna Quaas, who holds the Guinness world record as the oldest competitive gymnast in the world, turned 100 yesterday.

She started gymnastics at the age of 56 and broke the record in 2012, at the age of 86, when she performed a floor and beam routine.

Many people are saying this

Every bit of this.

New books! The latest Proust of the new OUP translation , and by friends @davidbatherwoods.bsky.social and @lukebrunning.bsky.social

Good on them.

Of course you know why a private market in health care is so bad for health.

The best way to make money is to sell a drug that relieves the symptoms of, but does not cure, a very uncomfortable chronic condition.

The worst way to make money is to prevent illness through social change.

Lost the cat

This was such a joy. A bunch of people, bursting with ideas, battling their way into comics.

I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.