@fadiadk.bsky.social
Rhythm scholar | Associate Professor in Philosophy and Theory of Higher Ed | CUS | Editorial board Time&Society, Ethics and Education, Philosophy and Theory in Higher Education | TRC Lab Sunkhronos Somewhere in Birmingham and often in other places.
Wasn't necessarily expecting to get our research covered in Attitude Mag but I'm so glad @attitudemag.bsky.social has:
"We are calling upon researchers across the UK to reject the recommendations of the Sullivan Review," says Dr Jay Todd @jaytoddgla.bsky.social"
www.attitude.co.uk/news/uk-gove...
In selecting Sullivan, the commissioners chose an advisory group member of Sex Matters, which understands sex as binary, ‘real, immutable and important’ (what it calls ‘objective reality’) and claims, in contrast, ‘gender identity’ as a determination of whether ‘someone is male or female (or both or neither)’ is merely a ‘strongly held and erroneous personal feeling’ (Sex Matters 2024). Prior to selection, Sullivan had made clear she disagreed with research not conceptualising sex as binary and immutable (e.g., Sullivan 2020). While SR1 does not use the phrase ‘gender critical’ to describe its framework, it is allied—through its lead author, terminologies and recommendations—with those self-identifying as ‘gender critical’ feminists. It includes, for example, terms such as ‘adult human female’ (SR1, 11, 43) which some scholars have recognised as an ‘anti-transgender dogwhistle’ (Duffy 2025). ‘Gender critical’ feminism has been analysed by other feminist and queer scholars as part of a broader anti-gender movement (Butler 2025), gender conservatism (S. Ahmed 2021) and a manifestation of ‘postfascist feminism’ (Bassi and LaFleur 2022).2 These scholars have demonstrated that this movement's arguments are, as in Bassi and LaFleur's (2022, 317) words, ‘genealogically coherent with multiple conservative moral panics and resilient fascist tropes’. Meanwhile, the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (2025a, n.p.) has stated that ‘the beliefs held by the gender critical movement overlap significantly with those held by various authoritarian governments and fascist political parties the world over’.
Many university researchers (& many social scientists) have no idea that the 'Sullivan Review' (named after its lead author, sociologist Sullivan) exists nor of its potential potency.
@jaytoddgla.bsky.social and I wanted to set the Review in context
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Trans research ‘at risk’ if data collection guidance adopted Response to Sullivan Review argues recommendations could hit quality of findings and impinge on academic freedom Published on February 3, 2026 Last updated February 3, 2026 Patrick Jack Twitter: @paddywjack The recommendations of a review into how sex and gender data is collected could damage the quality of public research and is part of wider efforts to erase trans people from statistics, a new paper has argued.
I never post a link to the THE but the THE has covered Jay Todd's @jaytoddgla.bsky.social and my paper with the headline, 'Trans research "at risk" if data collection guidance adopted'
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Feels a bit weird to promote a review of my own book... but the book is not just mine, and contributors deserve to get their work noticed! Link in first comment.
02.02.2026 12:32 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0We recommend another seminar organised by Franek
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Sunday read:
"On Being and Appearing: Social Reproduction and the Family Form"
Tatiana Llaguno advances a Marxist feminist claim that the family is the capitalist form of appearance of unwaged reproductive labour.
#Philosophy #Marxism
www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/on-bein...
youtube.com/watch?v=y7aK... beautifully written and portrayed. A true gem 💫
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Catherine O’Hara – a life in pictures www.theguardian.com/culture/gall...
31.01.2026 07:51 — 👍 14 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Depressing from Philip Augar in the FT on the massive shift in burden from state to student. Aside from his ultimately economistic reduction of value, it’s surely the very definition of the learning experience that you can’t know what it should be in advance. It saps education of critical challenge.
30.01.2026 08:06 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
For the Palestinian people, psychic life is just as much a site of struggle for liberation as social life. Palestinians are persistently refused psychological amplitude, characteristics easily granted to those who are never worried they might fall out of what is constituted as the category of the human. Abdaljawad Omar’s writings in English published since October 7, 2023 (as well as writings by other Palestinians, other Arabs, and those of Palestinian descent) offer means of understanding material resistance in relation to the terrain of the psyche. Omar offers distinctive accounts of mourning, loss, and ruins, as well as of how settler colonialism reorganizes experiences of time and relations between past, present, and future. The article reads Omar’s writings against other accounts of mourning and of psychic phenomena that are indebted to psychoanalysis. Omar’s analyses of Palestinians’ resistance to unfreedom and annihilation open up other ways of understanding the psychic vicissitudes of those who suffer, grieve, and struggle to exit a colonial condition characterized by the colonizer’s repeated attempts to break psychic worlds as well as erase bodily life. Understandings of psychic life that do justice to how Palestine is redrawing the world are central to the work of ‘cracking history open’.
I wrote on psychic life and Palestinian resistance
– to ensure more people read Abdaljawad Omar @hamayel.bsky.social.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Lo ascoltero se il tardo capitalismo non mi asfalta prima.
27.01.2026 10:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0😍 mi hai sbloccato un lacrimevole ricordo. Well done
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Jonathan Kramnick continues his long critique of interdisciplinarity, now arguing that while its jargon remains, it is with changed “affect & ambition”: “Today the jargon lingers on in a kind of zombie state: animated, repetitive, & oddly untethered from belief” www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
27.01.2026 08:37 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
With this brief editorial, I present our special issue on Dennett's Powerful Ideas, due out very soon in @journalphp.bsky.social. I'm very pleased with the quality and variety of contributions we received! doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy
26.01.2026 10:32 — 👍 37 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 1
Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social & I are convening open panels at EASST (Sept) on 'STS & biology revisited: biosociality, interdisciplinarity & the biosociences, in an age of increasingly biological fascism'. Please consider submitting, &/or circulate to colleagues easst.net/conference/e...
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Programme of the day
History of the museum
Se siete a Milano il 5 feb potete partecipare a un evento storico: gli Stati Generali del Museo della Filosofia museodellafilosofia.unimi.it/gli-stati-ge... Progetti su diritti per gli animali, guerra e pace, intelligenza artificiale, fake news e molto altro… #philsky #filosofiapertutti
25.01.2026 20:37 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
📣 My new article on Iran’s latest unrest for @phenomenalworld.bsky.social
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ira...
Iran has witnessed another wave of unrest beginning on 28 December—the fourth major uprising since 2017. (1/5)
We sometimes change in different directions from those we love, but how can braving the unknown together endear us to our lovers?
How do we cope with love being an endeavour fraught with uncertainty?
Join us Mon. Jan. 25 for ~ 2pm ET / 7pm UK
#Philosophy #Love
www.tickettailor.com/events/theph...
ICYMI: "Has Trump Proved Realists Right?"
Linda Kinstler talks with Alexis Papazoglou about the origins of realism, the Monroe Doctrine, applied realism and international law, legal legitimacy, and if Trump's strategy is realist or Machtpolitik.
#Philosophy #Politics
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAIP...
The team at The Philosopher picked our favourite books that we read in 2025! We'd love to hear your favourites of the year as well!
See the full write-up at our substack or scroll down for an in-brief version. 1/12 🧵
#Philosophy #Booksky
thephilosopher1923.substack.com/p/editors-pi...
Highly recommend — and it takes up many of the analytical frameworks and conjunctural analyses elaborated by @eskandarsadeghi.bsky.social in @thedigradio.bsky.social’s 5 part history of modern Iran from 2022 thedigradio.com/History%20of...
23.01.2026 07:31 — 👍 19 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0Coming up Mon. Jan. 26 ~ 2pm ET / 7pm UK
"Love in Time"
Fannie Bialek with Isabelle Laurenzi will explore a view of love that embraces the vagaries of life with a fresh ethics of love grounded by our humility before time.
#Philosophy
www.tickettailor.com/events/theph...
A screenshot of the first page of the article from the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives titled: From debate to dialogue: teaching contested canons through dialogic literary argumentation by Farid Mohammadi. The screenshot includes the abstract of the article (available via the link).
A screenshot of the cover of the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives. The cover is red with a black band on the edge.
New publication alert! 🚨
From debate to dialogue: teaching contested canons through dialogic literary argumentation
Points of Departure paper by Farid Mohammadi
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#HigherEducation #DialogicEducation
❗ PESGB Annual Conference 2026. ❗
The conference will take place from Friday 27 March to Sunday 29 March 2026 at New College, University of Oxford, bringing together scholars, researchers, and practitioners in the field of philosophy of education.
👉 Register here:
lnkd.in/eQvvZ8gJ
another dawn, another morning waking up to check if America has annexed a European territory, another day trying to remember that politics is not everything in life but also that everyone that condones and normalizes this will belong to a black list for a very, very long time.
20.01.2026 07:38 — 👍 43 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0Oh. This.
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New article - long in the making, but so worth waiting! Link in first comment.
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Ok, one participant is Michael Clune and I couldn’t help myself clicking. I found it a deeply depressing exchange but was fascinated by how the Johns Hopkins English department (3 participants have been/are in that dept) gets circulated/invoked across conversation www.chronicle.com/article/four...
17.01.2026 09:48 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 1Please circulate. Our deadline for our ECR Prize at @histhum.bsky.social is approaching (30 January 2026)
13.01.2026 17:15 — 👍 10 🔁 18 💬 1 📌 0In Birmingham? Interested in human-robot relations? Join us for a film screening and philosophical discussion this March! www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/ex-ma... #philsky #philosophymatters #philosophyforeveryone
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