Dr Han
@drhannahbattersby.bsky.social
Environmental Philosopher 🧠⚖️🐾 (Postdoc at KU Leuven)
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Hannah-Battersby
I mostly prattle about academia, disability, wrestling, video games, and my cat.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Hannah-Battersby
I mostly prattle about academia, disability, wrestling, video games, and my cat.
Great inaugural lecture at the Institute of Philosophy KU Leuven from Anna Wienhues, presenting her work on just nature conservation, sustainability and interspecies justice🌿🪳🐋
October 23, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Great inaugural lecture at the Institute of Philosophy KU Leuven from Anna Wienhues, presenting her work on just nature conservation, sustainability and interspecies justice🌿🪳🐋
A very interesting case for animal & environmental ethics. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
'It was the start of a new movement': The Dutch rewilding project that took a dark turn
In 2018, thousands of dead animals, emaciated from starvation, lay strewn across a famous Dutch rewilding project. Was it animal cruelty or just nature taking its course?
www.bbc.co.uk
October 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
A very interesting case for animal & environmental ethics. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
These intelligent, unique, incredible beings have been failed by humanity so many times. They deserve so much better. My heart breaks for them.
We need justice for animals now.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
We need justice for animals now.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Thirty belugas in Canada face being euthanised. Can they be saved?
After years of controversy and financial struggles, Marineland says it may have to euthanise 30 whales if it cannot find them another home.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 12, 2025 at 11:05 AM
These intelligent, unique, incredible beings have been failed by humanity so many times. They deserve so much better. My heart breaks for them.
We need justice for animals now.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
We need justice for animals now.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Creating accessible PDFs doesn’t have to cost a thing.
Steve Frenzel shares a clear, practical guide to building accessible PDFs with free tools only.
piccalil.li/blog/a-guide...
#DigitalAccessibility #AccessiblePDF #A11y #InclusiveDesign #DocumentAccessibility #UX
Steve Frenzel shares a clear, practical guide to building accessible PDFs with free tools only.
piccalil.li/blog/a-guide...
#DigitalAccessibility #AccessiblePDF #A11y #InclusiveDesign #DocumentAccessibility #UX
A guide to creating accessible PDFs using free tools
If you really do (seriously, really do) need to create a PDF, Steve has your back to help you make sure you make that PDF accessible without having to fork out for Adobe Acrobat Pro.
piccalil.li
October 11, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Creating accessible PDFs doesn’t have to cost a thing.
Steve Frenzel shares a clear, practical guide to building accessible PDFs with free tools only.
piccalil.li/blog/a-guide...
#DigitalAccessibility #AccessiblePDF #A11y #InclusiveDesign #DocumentAccessibility #UX
Steve Frenzel shares a clear, practical guide to building accessible PDFs with free tools only.
piccalil.li/blog/a-guide...
#DigitalAccessibility #AccessiblePDF #A11y #InclusiveDesign #DocumentAccessibility #UX
PLEASE please PLEASE can all digital publishing / reading platforms do better! Compatibility with all widely used screen readers, and Speechify, should be the minimum standard! I am so fed up of the inescapable barriers everywhere when it comes to research and my vision impairment
October 11, 2025 at 2:33 PM
PLEASE please PLEASE can all digital publishing / reading platforms do better! Compatibility with all widely used screen readers, and Speechify, should be the minimum standard! I am so fed up of the inescapable barriers everywhere when it comes to research and my vision impairment
It's great when you face all these extra annoyances and work delays from trying to use accessibility software.
October 7, 2025 at 1:47 PM
It's great when you face all these extra annoyances and work delays from trying to use accessibility software.
"...disabled people become symbols of dependence. Where many able-bodied people can live in a delusion of independence (until of course they fall ill, hurt themselves, grow old, and so forth), disabled people are often stigmatized as dependent and burdensome...
October 7, 2025 at 8:03 AM
"...disabled people become symbols of dependence. Where many able-bodied people can live in a delusion of independence (until of course they fall ill, hurt themselves, grow old, and so forth), disabled people are often stigmatized as dependent and burdensome...
After yet another bad travelling experience yesterday, and some other events today, I feel more alienated and excluded as a disabled person than I ever have before. It's crushing.
October 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
After yet another bad travelling experience yesterday, and some other events today, I feel more alienated and excluded as a disabled person than I ever have before. It's crushing.
Timely article, as I've been reading Durrant's (2018)'Invertebrate Justice' link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
October 1, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Timely article, as I've been reading Durrant's (2018)'Invertebrate Justice' link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Treating myself to a new book - one I've been intending to read for a while! 📚
October 1, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Treating myself to a new book - one I've been intending to read for a while! 📚
It amuses me that these days, we propose philosophical projects that are like 'I will contribute/problematise this Very Specific Thing in a Niche of a Sub-Category', and back in the day it was like: 'Husserl's ultimate aim was to give an overall philosophical explanation of the totality of Being.'
September 30, 2025 at 5:46 PM
It amuses me that these days, we propose philosophical projects that are like 'I will contribute/problematise this Very Specific Thing in a Niche of a Sub-Category', and back in the day it was like: 'Husserl's ultimate aim was to give an overall philosophical explanation of the totality of Being.'
Does anyone know where I can get an eBook/PDF version of Rolston's 'Environmental Ethics: Duties to and Values in the Natural World' (2012)? ProjectMuse appears to have chapters for download, but my institution hasn't got access. The only purchase option there is the book version - no good for me🫠
September 26, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Does anyone know where I can get an eBook/PDF version of Rolston's 'Environmental Ethics: Duties to and Values in the Natural World' (2012)? ProjectMuse appears to have chapters for download, but my institution hasn't got access. The only purchase option there is the book version - no good for me🫠
I was today years old when I learned that Sartre had the same vision impairment as me. (I have esotrophia rather than extotrophia but, the symptoms are the same).
strabismusworld.com/2016/03/20/s...
strabismusworld.com/2016/03/20/s...
Sartre’s Strabismus: Exotropic Existentialism – Strabismus World
strabismusworld.com
September 26, 2025 at 11:22 AM
I was today years old when I learned that Sartre had the same vision impairment as me. (I have esotrophia rather than extotrophia but, the symptoms are the same).
strabismusworld.com/2016/03/20/s...
strabismusworld.com/2016/03/20/s...
I get driven absolutely mad by environmental values and theories of them, and yet, I always get drawn back to them
September 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I get driven absolutely mad by environmental values and theories of them, and yet, I always get drawn back to them
Looking through my Google Drive to try and find something and I stumble across this video of me casually graduating with my doctorate in Philosophy 🥹
September 22, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Looking through my Google Drive to try and find something and I stumble across this video of me casually graduating with my doctorate in Philosophy 🥹
Please please please can we make it a thing to have PDF versions of journal articles without header/footer information on every page - i.e., website URL, date downloaded, etc - because it is BEYOND ANNOYING when your screen reader reads all of that out. Completely takes you out of the argument flow.
September 22, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Please please please can we make it a thing to have PDF versions of journal articles without header/footer information on every page - i.e., website URL, date downloaded, etc - because it is BEYOND ANNOYING when your screen reader reads all of that out. Completely takes you out of the argument flow.
Accessibility pet peeve: journal articles formatted into two columns. WHY? This is MOST CONFUSING for my screen reader! #disabledinacademia #disabledacademicproblems
September 17, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Accessibility pet peeve: journal articles formatted into two columns. WHY? This is MOST CONFUSING for my screen reader! #disabledinacademia #disabledacademicproblems
Learned some interesting details about my vision impairment at an appointment last week.
September 14, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Learned some interesting details about my vision impairment at an appointment last week.
"We’re close to translating animal languages – what happens then?"
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
We’re close to translating animal languages – what happens then?
AI may soon be able to decode whalespeak, among other forms of communication – but what nature has to say may not be a surprise
www.theguardian.com
June 2, 2025 at 9:51 AM
"We’re close to translating animal languages – what happens then?"
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Feels weird to say it, as it doesn't yet feel real, but, I am a postdoc scholar at KU Leuven.
May 26, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Feels weird to say it, as it doesn't yet feel real, but, I am a postdoc scholar at KU Leuven.
