New research shows private firms made £1.6bn in profit from the NHS over the last two years. That money could have paid for over 19,000 nurses.
Private companies shouldn’t be profiting from the terrible state of the NHS.
Read: www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
I am surprised that no philosopher or bioethicist has done a piece of public philosophy since the doctrine of double effect was mentioned on The Pitt!
I think 4E cognition people are using it right? But now I'm made unsure!!
Since I forgot to post it, here's a paper I wrote on predictive processing, structure-function mappings in the brain, and why their relationship is more complicated than you might have thought #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Hackney council wants proof that a disabled & autistic child melts down on public transport - so they're going to force him onto public transport and watch. And they're STILL trying to evict this boy & his family from their council home. Is this abuse...? www.katebelgrave.com/2026/03/prov...
Academic freedom is under threat not only from direct political pressure but from subtler forces that discourage researchers from pursuing risky and creative ideas, the president of the European Research Council has warned #AcademicSky
https://ow.ly/JM5J50Yq7ao
Just published in Psychological Inquiry!
I offer a sustained philosophical and empirical critique of the theory-of-mind-deficit explanation of autism.
The ultimate conclusion is that the research programme has become degenerative—and therefore pseudoscientific.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I enjoyed putting together this article for @iai.tv
#philosophy #philsci
Do you have online courses/events? I am interested but live on the north coast of scotland.
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“She compares her work to the efforts of a parent raising a child. She’s training Claude to detect the difference between right and wrong while imbuing it with unique personality traits.”
The NHS is under pressure to adopt Palantir software.
Palantir’s founder openly despises the NHS.
You can push back – use our tool to see if your local trust is using the software, then send an email to say no to Palantir
https://goodlaw.social/658abc
😀 This might be useful for Scottish poets:
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/publishers/
#scottishpoet #scottishpoets #scottishpublishers ##scottishpoetrypublishers
University leaders must decide whether to meet minimum #accessibility standards or make accessibility a hallmark of excellence across #teaching, #research and civic mission, say Ayala Gordon and Sarah Lewthwaite: https://ow.ly/seBw50Y8iXN #Academia #HigherEd #AcademicSky #EduSky
