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Stella Sandford
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Prof of Philosophy, Manchester Metropolitan Uni. Plant philosophy, history of philosophy x history of botany. No talking trees.

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · Sep 3
Superb stuff. Really taking it to that fake. You never see it here, for lots of reasons, but everything Farage says is just inviting a counterattack that leaves him mute.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 3
Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him

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Stella Sandford @stellasandford.bsky.social · May 31
Same

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Stella Sandford @stellasandford.bsky.social · May 30
Jan told me that you had. I look forward to reading it.

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ROTO Research Group @roto-rub.bsky.social · May 26
Next week, we welcome @stellasandford.bsky.social ‬(Kingston University) in our ROTO Lecture Series. She will reflect on John Dupré's #PhilBio and talk about "promiscuous realism" and plant individuality. Just register here to participate 👉 rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture...
#HPBio #PhilSci
Poster for the talk by Stella Sandford, entitled "'Promiscuous realism' and Plant Individuality: Reflections on John Dupré's Philosophy of Biology". It will take place on Monday, 2 June 2025 at 4 pm (CET) via Zoom.

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Stella Sandford @stellasandford.bsky.social · May 4
Very kind, thank you!

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Stella Sandford @stellasandford.bsky.social · Apr 29
CRMEP research seminar, Rowan Williams (Baron of Oystermouth), ‘Thinking Through Solidarnosc: Josef Tischner and the Philosophy of Solidarity’, Thursday 1 May, 2-4pm. [Simultaneously appropriate and ironic; independent CRMEP launching in the autumn!] www.kingston.ac.uk/about/events...
Rowan Williams - Thinking through Solidarnosc: Jozef Tischner and the Philosophy of Solidarity
Join us for a seminar where we explore Jozef Tischner and the Philosophy of Solidarity.
www.kingston.ac.uk

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Stella Sandford @stellasandford.bsky.social · Apr 21
16 June! Not 6th.
mvbzfuberlin.bsky.social MvBZ Gender Studies FU Berlin @mvbzfuberlin.bsky.social · Apr 21
📆SAVE THE DATE📆

MvBZ Lecture in Feminist Theory

@stellasandford.bsky.social  ( @kingstonuniversity.bsky.social )
🌱Vegetal Reproduction as Reproduction in General: Buffon and the Vegetalisation of Sex🌱

all info: https://www.mvbz.fu-berlin.de/termine/250616_mvbz_lectures.html

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MvBZ Gender Studies FU Berlin @mvbzfuberlin.bsky.social · Apr 21
📆SAVE THE DATE📆

MvBZ Lecture in Feminist Theory

@stellasandford.bsky.social  ( @kingstonuniversity.bsky.social )
🌱Vegetal Reproduction as Reproduction in General: Buffon and the Vegetalisation of Sex🌱

all info: https://www.mvbz.fu-berlin.de/termine/250616_mvbz_lectures.html

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ROTO Research Group @roto-rub.bsky.social · Apr 1
New semester, new lecture series 🎉
Starting next Monday, we welcome amazing scholars to give talks in #HPBio and medicine - always at 4pm CET on zoom. The first talk will be by @msimang.bsky.social and later in the semester we will hear @stellasandford.bsky.social, @elisj.bsky.social and many more 🤩

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Stella Sandford @stellasandford.bsky.social · Mar 26
@gsoh31.bsky.social

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Stella Sandford @stellasandford.bsky.social · Mar 26
I sincerely hope this was written by AI

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · Mar 20
Minutes of last Office for Students board meeting. 'Risks are escalating across the sector... providers under serious financial pressure'; 'sector finances... towards the most pessimistic end of the scenarios we modelled in May 2024... increas[ing]... risk of sudden market exit of a large provider'.

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Stella Sandford @stellasandford.bsky.social · Mar 13
Radboud University strike today, against huge proposed cuts to national education budget, tremendous turn out and a very lively march through town. Respect to the Dutch unions and students and staff. Also, free coffee and buns.

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Stella Sandford @stellasandford.bsky.social · Mar 13
Not in those cases, no.

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Stella Sandford @stellasandford.bsky.social · Mar 13
If that is true it says little about REF but a lot about people’s prejudices.

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · Mar 13
UK universities are in crisis.

Dave Hitchcock (@davehitchcock.bsky.social) on how the sector became 'broken' and why it must be approached as an interdependent system.

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A Decade of Crisis
The UK's universities are in crisis. Dave Hitchcock on how the sector became 'broken' and why it must be understood as an interdependent system.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · Mar 12
Help save lives in Gaza.

Please donate anything you can to support @scotnational.bsky.social fundraiser 👇

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THE NATIONAL CAMPAIGN - DONATE NOW TO HELP SAVE LIVES IN GAZA
Palestinian lives in Gaza continue to be at critical risk from illness, starvation, and a lack of access to healthcare due to the Israeli military's systematic dismantling of Gaza’s health system. Mea...
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · Mar 12
Like a sense of the temperature in UK Higher Education right now? Take a read of this furious open letter from students and researchers at Kingston University, which faces losing its famous (and precious) Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy: www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...
Open Letter from CRMEP Students & Researchers on Kingston University’s
Wednesday, March 5th, 2025   As of Wednesday 25th February 2025, Kingston University management are proposing the closure of the entire Department of Humanities, including the world-renowned Centre fo...
www.versobooks.com

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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · Mar 6
Kingston University’s acclaimed philosophy centre is set to close under plans to shut the institution’s humanities department – a move that would also end English literature and modern languages courses. @jgro-the.bsky.social reports
Kingston axes philosophy centre in humanities department shutdown
Staff and students fight to save famed unit, transferred from Middlesex University in 2010
www.timeshighereducation.com

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A LEVEL PHILOSOPHY @alevelphilosophy.bsky.social · Feb 26
Student Competition: Why Does Philosophy Matter? run by The British Philosophical Association, AQA and OCR. Write just 75 words on why you love philosophy. #PhilosophyMatters
Deadline: Friday 7th March, 12 PM. Find out more in link on this page: bpa.ac.uk/activities/p...
#PhilosophyMatters - British Philosophical Association
British Philosophy Fortnight 17th-30th March 2025 #PhilosophyMatters #PhiloFortnight2025   What? British Philosophy Fortnight is a new annual initiative to celebrate, promote and champion philosophy. ...
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George Parker @georgewparker.bsky.social · Feb 17
Kemi Badenoch this morning: "A country cannot be successful if its people and intellectual elite don’t believe in it. This means dealing with the poisoning of minds through higher education."

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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · Feb 10
3500 scientists, biologists and experts in human sexual development write to the US government saying that sex isn't binary

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Letter to the US President and Congress on the Scientific Understanding of Sex and Gender
President Donald J Trump Washington, DC Members of the US Congress Washington, DC February 5, 2025 RE: Scientific Understanding of Sex and Gender Dear President Trump and Members of the US Congr...
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Jason Wise @jasonjourneyman.bsky.social · Feb 7
Nature is nonbinary 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ your executive orders have no power here 🌿✊🏼

#nonbinary #queerecology #queer #ecology #lgbtq #lgbtqia

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Stella Sandford @stellasandford.bsky.social · Feb 6
Hackney ❤️

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Stella Sandford @stellasandford.bsky.social · Feb 5
Lucky old William Hind Smith

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Stella Sandford @stellasandford.bsky.social · Feb 3
A close encounter on the New River Path

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Stella Sandford @stellasandford.bsky.social · Feb 2
London, 9am

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Stella Sandford @stellasandford.bsky.social · Jan 31
The joy of the Linnean Society library - browsing the shelves. Borrowing rights (20thC+ books) for Fellows too.
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Stella Sandford @stellasandford.bsky.social · Jan 22
Why the many meanings of ‘agency’ is an opportunity, not a problem, in thinking about plants: cswr.hds.harvard.edu/news/2025/01...
What’s at Stake in Debates about Plant Agency? The Promise of Transdisciplinarity and a “New Biology” | Center for the Study of World Religions
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Anna Cornelia Ploug @annacornelia.bsky.social · Jan 21
MERMAID DIALECTICS 💦
Article out now on why Simone de Beauvoir is Hegelian – but not in the way you'd think!
Tracing a movement from abstract to concrete in The Second Sex that culminates in the contradiction of sex, I argue for a dialectical-critical rather than affirmative conceptual politics …