Graham Mead
@twillierod.bsky.social
Enactive Autistic Synaesthete
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Alice in Wonderland Syndrome
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Path Diversity
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Alice in Wonderland Syndrome
Posts from this account may contain madness
Path Diversity
Biological Theories In The Domain Of Physiology: Stability and Transformation as Two Governing Principles
Nelson Horseman
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Nelson Horseman
philsci-archive.pitt.edu/28044/
Biological theories in the domain of physiology: stability and transformation as two governing principles - PhilSci-Archive
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February 1, 2026 at 9:10 AM
Biological Theories In The Domain Of Physiology: Stability and Transformation as Two Governing Principles
Nelson Horseman
philsci-archive.pitt.edu/28044/
Nelson Horseman
philsci-archive.pitt.edu/28044/
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Whitehawk Food Bank: Our foodbank is at a critical moment. Funding has run out, but the need hasn’t. Help us keep our doors open for our community.
Whitehawk is in the top 10% deprived neighbourhoods in the country. 45% of local children live in poverty. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-keep-...
Whitehawk is in the top 10% deprived neighbourhoods in the country. 45% of local children live in poverty. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-keep-...
January 31, 2026 at 10:57 AM
Whitehawk Food Bank: Our foodbank is at a critical moment. Funding has run out, but the need hasn’t. Help us keep our doors open for our community.
Whitehawk is in the top 10% deprived neighbourhoods in the country. 45% of local children live in poverty. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-keep-...
Whitehawk is in the top 10% deprived neighbourhoods in the country. 45% of local children live in poverty. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-keep-...
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What It’s Like to Live With One of Psychiatry’s Most Misunderstood Diagnoses www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/m...
What It’s Like to Live With One of Psychiatry’s Most Misunderstood Diagnoses
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January 30, 2026 at 11:31 PM
What It’s Like to Live With One of Psychiatry’s Most Misunderstood Diagnoses www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/m...
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I am happy to share this article, entitled "The importance of Biological Theory". It is my inaugural editorial as the new Editor-in-Chief of @biologicaltheory.bsky.social . In these complex and challenging times, theory is more important now than ever. Enjoy!
doi.org/10.1007/s137...
doi.org/10.1007/s137...
The Importance of Biological Theory - Biological Theory
Biological Theory -
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January 30, 2026 at 1:40 PM
I am happy to share this article, entitled "The importance of Biological Theory". It is my inaugural editorial as the new Editor-in-Chief of @biologicaltheory.bsky.social . In these complex and challenging times, theory is more important now than ever. Enjoy!
doi.org/10.1007/s137...
doi.org/10.1007/s137...
Discussing “Ezequiel Di Paolo’s article seeking an enactive ontology”
Matthew David Segall, Timothy Jackson
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Matthew David Segall, Timothy Jackson
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Ontologizing Enactivism
Worldmaking with Ezequiel Di Paolo
footnotes2plato.substack.com
January 30, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Discussing “Ezequiel Di Paolo’s article seeking an enactive ontology”
Matthew David Segall, Timothy Jackson
footnotes2plato.substack.com/p/towards-an...
Matthew David Segall, Timothy Jackson
footnotes2plato.substack.com/p/towards-an...
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This fron Shanice McBean is really good on why both neoliberal identity politics and class reductionism should both be avoided. This is the orientation I've tried to take in my organising and work.
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open.substack.com/pub/onrevolu...
Left Wing Pitfalls: Against Neoliberal Identity Politics & Class Reductionism
Does the left need to abandon radical ideas? Are liberation politics over? Do we need to return to class?
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January 30, 2026 at 12:26 PM
This fron Shanice McBean is really good on why both neoliberal identity politics and class reductionism should both be avoided. This is the orientation I've tried to take in my organising and work.
open.substack.com/pub/onrevolu...
open.substack.com/pub/onrevolu...
Podcast
Disha Karnad Jani interviews Quinn Slobodan about his book Hayek’s Bastards:Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right
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Disha Karnad Jani interviews Quinn Slobodan about his book Hayek’s Bastards:Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right
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Hayek's Bastards: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Quinn Slobodian
In this episode of In Theory, Disha Karnad Jani interviews Quinn Slobodian on his latest book,
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January 29, 2026 at 7:58 AM
Podcast
Disha Karnad Jani interviews Quinn Slobodan about his book Hayek’s Bastards:Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right
soundcloud.com/jhi-blog/hay...
Disha Karnad Jani interviews Quinn Slobodan about his book Hayek’s Bastards:Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right
soundcloud.com/jhi-blog/hay...
Lifetime Trajectories and Drivers of Socioeconomic Health Disparities
Evidence from Longitudinal Biomarkers in the Netherlands
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Evidence from Longitudinal Biomarkers in the Netherlands
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Lifetime Trajectories and Drivers of Socioeconomic Health Disparities
We investigate lifetime socioeconomic health disparities through longitudinal biomarkers from the Dutch Lifelines cohort study and biobank. By constructing an allostatic load index from 12 biomarkers,...
jhr.uwpress.org
January 28, 2026 at 6:06 PM
Lifetime Trajectories and Drivers of Socioeconomic Health Disparities
Evidence from Longitudinal Biomarkers in the Netherlands
jhr.uwpress.org/content/earl...
Evidence from Longitudinal Biomarkers in the Netherlands
jhr.uwpress.org/content/earl...
Crip Flexibility and Painful Analysis: Critical Disability Methodologies of Swedish Welfare State Austerity
Christine Bylund
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Christine Bylund
sjdr.se/articles/125...
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January 28, 2026 at 5:45 PM
Crip Flexibility and Painful Analysis: Critical Disability Methodologies of Swedish Welfare State Austerity
Christine Bylund
sjdr.se/articles/125...
Christine Bylund
sjdr.se/articles/125...
“One in four deaths of people with severe or profound and multiple learning disabilities between 2021-2023 were treatable, meaning they would have lived if they had received better care.”
Daniel Hewitt
www.itv.com/news/2026-01...
Daniel Hewitt
www.itv.com/news/2026-01...
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January 28, 2026 at 5:35 PM
“One in four deaths of people with severe or profound and multiple learning disabilities between 2021-2023 were treatable, meaning they would have lived if they had received better care.”
Daniel Hewitt
www.itv.com/news/2026-01...
Daniel Hewitt
www.itv.com/news/2026-01...
“an excerpt from our 2005 pamphlet Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture, an extended set of interviews with Dr. Davis, conducted by the late philosophy professor and noted scholar Dr. Eduardo Mendieta.”
Celebrating 82 Years of Angela Davis
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Celebrating 82 Years of Angela Davis
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Happy Birthday, Angela Davis
Today is the 82nd birthday of Dr. Angela Y. Davis.
To celebrate her life and work, we’re proud to share an excerpt from our 2005 pamphlet Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, a...
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January 28, 2026 at 5:16 PM
“an excerpt from our 2005 pamphlet Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture, an extended set of interviews with Dr. Davis, conducted by the late philosophy professor and noted scholar Dr. Eduardo Mendieta.”
Celebrating 82 Years of Angela Davis
www.sevenstories.com/blogs/201-ha...
Celebrating 82 Years of Angela Davis
www.sevenstories.com/blogs/201-ha...
Patterns of Resistance: An Excerpt from Movements that Win, Aric McBay
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www.sevenstories.com/blogs/402-pa...
Patterns of Resistance: An Excerpt from Movements that Win
To celebrate the launch of Movements that Win, a new book by noted activist and radical writer-agitator Aric McBay, we’re proud to share McBay's afterword to the book, in which McBay explore...
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January 28, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Patterns of Resistance: An Excerpt from Movements that Win, Aric McBay
www.sevenstories.com/blogs/402-pa...
www.sevenstories.com/blogs/402-pa...
Gattaca and the Impossibility of Eliminating Disability
Mich Ciurria
biopoliticalphilosophy.com/2026/01/27/g...
Mich Ciurria
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Gattaca and the Impossibility of Eliminating Disability
Pictured above is the Gattaca movie poster, featuring three characters in a triangular arrangement. In the foreground is Ethan Hawke (playing Vincent), a white man with short, dark brown hair. To t…
biopoliticalphilosophy.com
January 28, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Gattaca and the Impossibility of Eliminating Disability
Mich Ciurria
biopoliticalphilosophy.com/2026/01/27/g...
Mich Ciurria
biopoliticalphilosophy.com/2026/01/27/g...
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Goodwin is, at least partially, the product of an academic field whose main focus was the analysis of white supremacist politics but which avoided, and largely still avoids, talking in terms of whiteness or engage with the woke of those who study it from Du Bois onwards.
January 27, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Goodwin is, at least partially, the product of an academic field whose main focus was the analysis of white supremacist politics but which avoided, and largely still avoids, talking in terms of whiteness or engage with the woke of those who study it from Du Bois onwards.
Shostakovich had intended to write 24 string quartets - one in each key. Unfortunately increasing disablement meant he was only able to complete 15. Unlike any of his other quartets, Shostakovich’s reported instructions during rehearsals to the musicians was to play the 1st movement,
January 27, 2026 at 1:33 PM
Shostakovich had intended to write 24 string quartets - one in each key. Unfortunately increasing disablement meant he was only able to complete 15. Unlike any of his other quartets, Shostakovich’s reported instructions during rehearsals to the musicians was to play the 1st movement,
Autism and the Pseudoscience of Mind - PhilSci-Archive
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January 27, 2026 at 11:04 AM
Researching Body Perception: Toward an Integration of Quantitative and Qualitative Interdisciplinary Approaches to Address the Multiplicity of Bodily Experiences
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<em>Psychophysiology</em> | SPR Journal | Wiley Online Library
This study contributes to advancing body perception research by complementing existing psychophysiological and behavioral quantitative approaches with qualitative methods from design research. Given ....
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January 26, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Researching Body Perception: Toward an Integration of Quantitative and Qualitative Interdisciplinary Approaches to Address the Multiplicity of Bodily Experiences
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
“No one knows how many children in temporary accommodation are neurodivergent and have additional needs, but it is likely to be tens of thousands.”
Katharine Swindells
www.insidehousing.co.uk/insight/temp...
Katharine Swindells
www.insidehousing.co.uk/insight/temp...
Temporary accommodation is even worse for neurodivergent children, but councils can do better
There may be tens of thousands of neurodivergent children in temporary accommodation. Katharine Swindells talks to families who are struggling to cope.
www.insidehousing.co.uk
January 26, 2026 at 7:50 PM
“No one knows how many children in temporary accommodation are neurodivergent and have additional needs, but it is likely to be tens of thousands.”
Katharine Swindells
www.insidehousing.co.uk/insight/temp...
Katharine Swindells
www.insidehousing.co.uk/insight/temp...
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𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘅𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀-𝗹𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀
Excellent paper discussing how to understand complex systems (eg biology) where levels not only interact but intersect.
Strong critique of Simon's notion of near-decomposable systems.
griesemer.net/wp-content/u...
Excellent paper discussing how to understand complex systems (eg biology) where levels not only interact but intersect.
Strong critique of Simon's notion of near-decomposable systems.
griesemer.net/wp-content/u...
January 26, 2026 at 5:45 PM
𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘅𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀-𝗹𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀
Excellent paper discussing how to understand complex systems (eg biology) where levels not only interact but intersect.
Strong critique of Simon's notion of near-decomposable systems.
griesemer.net/wp-content/u...
Excellent paper discussing how to understand complex systems (eg biology) where levels not only interact but intersect.
Strong critique of Simon's notion of near-decomposable systems.
griesemer.net/wp-content/u...
Watched the TV news last night - a rare event for me. There was an American guy, named Bovino, in a designer military uniform, talking about choices in the way of a 13 year old who has read a little of Sartre’s existentialism.
Sometimes the most absurd of people are also the most hideous.
Sometimes the most absurd of people are also the most hideous.
January 26, 2026 at 9:18 AM
Watched the TV news last night - a rare event for me. There was an American guy, named Bovino, in a designer military uniform, talking about choices in the way of a 13 year old who has read a little of Sartre’s existentialism.
Sometimes the most absurd of people are also the most hideous.
Sometimes the most absurd of people are also the most hideous.
