May I politely suggest to non-UCU members who benefit from the pending USS changes, to the tune of tens of £000s (and to those members who for whatever reason did not strike), please consider supporting those who took action and lost salary for your gain: ucu.org.uk/fightingfund

NEWS: Imprisoned Human Rights Defender, Narges Mohammadi, has been awarded the #NobelPeacePrize The award sends a clear message to the Iranian authorities that the crackdown on peaceful human rights defenders will not go unchallenged 📣 Narges must be freed immediately

POV you’re a philosopher of science at a history of science conference 😢

Breaking! A new vaccine to fight malaria has just been recommended for use by the World Health Organisation. Tell world leaders to fully fund programs to make #malaria vaccines available everywhere. act.one.org/sign/malaria-v…

“Only God thinks of the dying sparrow / in the middle of a war.” Patrick Kavanagh, Lough Derg

My statement on the continuing violence in Israel and Gaza.

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If you want safety for Israeli and Palestinian civilians alike, you have to end the illegal occupation. You have to end the siege of Gaza. And you have to end the conditions of de facto apartheid for Palestinians. Me on BBC Radio 2 earlier today.

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We are horrified by the brutal mass killing of civilians perpetrated by Hamas, and by the massive attacks on #Gaza now being pursued by Israel.

From the new issue: Grasping in Understanding —Miloud Belkoniene Read it here: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/71… #philsci

My favourite paper officially out now open access in Erkenntnis link.springer.com/article/10.100…

🚨 Urgent! Russia's new law severely impacts trans lives, banning gender marker changes, affirming surgery, and hormones. Let's #StandWithTransRights! Sign Russian activists' petition urging the EU to offer asylum to trans Russians: a.allout.org/s/Wxqln/

Armenia: Help save Salman Mukaev! He escaped Chechnya after torture under the suspicion of "being gay." Now facing extradition to Russia, a potential death sentence. #SaveSalman #LGBT+ Sign the petition to grant him asylum and protect his life: a.allout.org/s/WgVZR/

Despite their huge success, the natural sciences have a problem: they don’t seem to leave much room for the human subject. But Steven Strike! Strike!! Strike!!! French reassures us that this is no cause for concern: quantum mechanics brings subjectivity back in. iai.tv/articles/auid-…

Husserlian phenomenology and quantum mechanics! Steven Strike! Strike!! Strike!!! French shows how post-Kantian philosophy informs the philosophy of physics - and vice versa!

Right now, India is closer than it has ever been to recognising civil partnerships for LGBT+. Sign now, to help raise the international pressure on the Indian government. a.allout.org/s/vLpwV/

I’ve been posting less and less on here, more and more on Mastodon and now Bluesky: @[email protected] @srdfrench.bsky.social respectively. Cheers now!

One month to go: will your MP ask Jeremy Hunt to save vital suicide prevention funding on 22nd November? I just asked my MP to take action, and you can too with this easy action from @Samaritans. #SavingLivesCantWait campaign.samaritans.org/page/137275/ac…