Stella Sandford
@stellasandford.bsky.social
Prof of Philosophy, Manchester Metropolitan Uni. Plant philosophy, history of philosophy x history of botany. No talking trees.
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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.
Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him
September 3, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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.
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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
#HPBio #PhilSci
May 26, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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
#HPBio #PhilSci
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
April 29, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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...
16 June! Not 6th.
📆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
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
April 21, 2025 at 10:06 AM
16 June! Not 6th.
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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 🤩
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 🤩
April 1, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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 🤩
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 🤩
What’s great about a Kingston uni graduate, according to the new website? They will work for lower wages. WTF.
March 26, 2025 at 10:47 AM
What’s great about a Kingston uni graduate, according to the new website? They will work for lower wages. WTF.
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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'.
March 20, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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'.
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.
March 13, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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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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.
www.historyworkshop....
Dave Hitchcock (@davehitchcock.bsky.social) on how the sector became 'broken' and why it must be approached as an interdependent system.
www.historyworkshop....
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
March 13, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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.
www.historyworkshop....
Dave Hitchcock (@davehitchcock.bsky.social) on how the sector became 'broken' and why it must be approached as an interdependent system.
www.historyworkshop....
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Help save lives in Gaza.
Please donate anything you can to support @scotnational.bsky.social fundraiser 👇
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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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March 12, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Help save lives in Gaza.
Please donate anything you can to support @scotnational.bsky.social fundraiser 👇
medpal.donorsupport.co/page/TheNati...
Please donate anything you can to support @scotnational.bsky.social fundraiser 👇
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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
March 12, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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/...
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It seems grimly appropriate that so much of higher ed is leaning into “The future is STEM; the humanities are dead” at a time when the most significant recent advancement in STEM, AI, is raising fundamental questions that are as much philosophical and humanistic as scientific.
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
March 6, 2025 at 9:05 AM
It seems grimly appropriate that so much of higher ed is leaning into “The future is STEM; the humanities are dead” at a time when the most significant recent advancement in STEM, AI, is raising fundamental questions that are as much philosophical and humanistic as scientific.
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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...
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. ...
bpa.ac.uk
February 26, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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...
Deadline: Friday 7th March, 12 PM. Find out more in link on this page: bpa.ac.uk/activities/p...
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Every time I hear this nonsense, I think:
1. This person's never taught in HE;
2. They have no faith in young people's own ability to think;
3. They haven't been near uni since graduation;
4. They think they live in the US;
5. They don't get that v little HE is in Arts and Hums;
6. Hahaha, 🤡
1. This person's never taught in HE;
2. They have no faith in young people's own ability to think;
3. They haven't been near uni since graduation;
4. They think they live in the US;
5. They don't get that v little HE is in Arts and Hums;
6. Hahaha, 🤡
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."
February 17, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Every time I hear this nonsense, I think:
1. This person's never taught in HE;
2. They have no faith in young people's own ability to think;
3. They haven't been near uni since graduation;
4. They think they live in the US;
5. They don't get that v little HE is in Arts and Hums;
6. Hahaha, 🤡
1. This person's never taught in HE;
2. They have no faith in young people's own ability to think;
3. They haven't been near uni since graduation;
4. They think they live in the US;
5. They don't get that v little HE is in Arts and Hums;
6. Hahaha, 🤡
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3500 scientists, biologists and experts in human sexual development write to the US government saying that sex isn't binary
www.evolutionsociety.org/news/display...
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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...
www.evolutionsociety.org
February 10, 2025 at 3:22 PM
3500 scientists, biologists and experts in human sexual development write to the US government saying that sex isn't binary
www.evolutionsociety.org/news/display...
www.evolutionsociety.org/news/display...
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Nature is nonbinary 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ your executive orders have no power here 🌿✊🏼
#nonbinary #queerecology #queer #ecology #lgbtq #lgbtqia
#nonbinary #queerecology #queer #ecology #lgbtq #lgbtqia
February 7, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Nature is nonbinary 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ your executive orders have no power here 🌿✊🏼
#nonbinary #queerecology #queer #ecology #lgbtq #lgbtqia
#nonbinary #queerecology #queer #ecology #lgbtq #lgbtqia
Lucky old William Hind Smith
February 5, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Lucky old William Hind Smith
A close encounter on the New River Path
February 3, 2025 at 10:07 AM
A close encounter on the New River Path
The joy of the Linnean Society library - browsing the shelves. Borrowing rights (20thC+ books) for Fellows too.
@linneansociety.bsky.social
@linneansociety.bsky.social
January 31, 2025 at 11:41 AM
The joy of the Linnean Society library - browsing the shelves. Borrowing rights (20thC+ books) for Fellows too.
@linneansociety.bsky.social
@linneansociety.bsky.social
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
cswr.hds.harvard.edu
January 22, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Why the many meanings of ‘agency’ is an opportunity, not a problem, in thinking about plants: cswr.hds.harvard.edu/news/2025/01...
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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 …
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 …
January 21, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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 …
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 …
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The Royal Institute of Philosophy essay competition 2025 for students aged 15-18. Closing date 22nd April. The winner will be published in an upcoming issue of Think. More information here: royalinstitutephilosophy.org/news/think-e...
Think Essay Prize - Royal Institute of Philosophy
The Royal Institute of Philosophy is pleased to announce the inaugural essay competition for Think.The winner will be published in an issue of Think, the shortlisted candidates will win a year’s free ...
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January 14, 2025 at 9:55 AM
The Royal Institute of Philosophy essay competition 2025 for students aged 15-18. Closing date 22nd April. The winner will be published in an upcoming issue of Think. More information here: royalinstitutephilosophy.org/news/think-e...