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Zsuzsanna Chappell

@zsuzsannachappell.bsky.social
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Social philosophy | ethics | philosophy of #mentalhealth | #autotheory I philosophy of self-harm l philosophy of lived experience Dyspraxia = constant typing mistakes Social media is the perfect place to let lose my love of non-sequiturs #philsky

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Zsuzsanna Chappell @zsuzsannachappell.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Sofia Jeppsson and I have a new publication: "Mad Philosophy" in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Disability Studies academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
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Zsuzsanna Chappell @zsuzsannachappell.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Day before yesterday, my 3 year old said he wanted to be like me when he grew up. Yesterday, he found out how bad I was at mariokart.
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Zsuzsanna Chappell @zsuzsannachappell.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Reminder: abstracts for the Philosophy of Psychiatry and Lived Experience Workshop are due 20 April. Find out more at poplex.squarespace.com
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Zsuzsanna Chappell @zsuzsannachappell.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
CFA: Philosophy of Psychiatry & Lived Experience Workshop June 22 online Deadline 20 April Please share! poplex.squarespace.com/new-page 👇
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2026 CFP — POPLEX
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Zsuzsanna Chappell @zsuzsannachappell.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
I said yesterday evening I'd give bluesky another try? Given the news this morning I'm going to go hide from the internet.
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Zsuzsanna Chappell @zsuzsannachappell.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
I am reading a series of novels that comes highly recommended by various philosophy friends: Dungeon Crawler Carl. I have chosen to listen to a playlist called "club culture" because it seemed appropriate - though I'm not sure Princess Donut would approve.
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Polaris Koi @polariskoi.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
New #openaccess article just out! #selfregulation #philsky www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Value-deflationist self-control
On the standard conception of self-control, self-control entails the resolution of a motivational conflict in favour of the option ranked better, loftier, or otherwise more valuable, and behaving a...
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Zsuzsanna Chappell @zsuzsannachappell.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Currently recovering from a 5 months long illness (physical and isn't it ironic that my mental health has never been better?) trying to reintegrate into society and giving this another try.
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Zsuzsanna Chappell @zsuzsannachappell.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Deactivated my account then reactivated it. My relationship with the news is too complicated.
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Zsuzsanna Chappell @zsuzsannachappell.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Signed
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Zsuzsanna Chappell @zsuzsannachappell.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
10 years ago today and things have only got worse. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_o....
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Death of Alan Kurdi - Wikipedia
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Zsuzsanna Chappell @zsuzsannachappell.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
"The Journal of Imaginary Research publishes short works of fiction in the academic genre of the Research Abstract."
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Katie Munday @kmunday.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Writing with @naomijacobs.bsky.social on the importance of centring Autistic people in autism research. Thanks for hosting us @ndconnection.bsky.social #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs #Autistic #Neurodivergent #Research #AutRes ndconnection.co.uk/blog/empower...
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Empowering Autistic people in research — Neurodiverse Connection
We’re joined on the blog by Guest Contributors, Katie Munday and Naomi Jacobs , sharing their experiences as Autistic researchers and their passion for research conducted with Autistic people, not ...
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Valencia Philosophy Lab @vlc-lab.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
📖🎉Excited to share that the book chapter “It Doesn't Feel Like Myself: A Mindshaping View on Self-Illness Ambiguity” (Virginia Ballesteros, Fernández-Castro & Núñez de Prado-Gordillo) has been accepted for publication with Routledge! 🔗Pre-print: roderic.uv.es/rest/api/cor...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 02/09/2025
I really don't think we've barely begun to come to terms with how tech companies have actively decided to destroy the basic infrastructure of human information to juice their share price
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Zsuzsanna Chappell @zsuzsannachappell.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
This looks really interesting - it's a shame the younger child is still home this week. He does not tolerate the use of internet enabled devices, unless it's to watch children's TV.
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Zsuzsanna Chappell @zsuzsannachappell.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Just discovered this gem - Singer of the Band by Twat Union. No I'm not a medical doctor, I'm a woman with a PhD and I actually do philosophy and no, it's not feminist philosophy. youtu.be/Qh3PldRcl-I?...
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Twat Union - Singer of the Band (Official Video)
YouTube video by Twat Union
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Zsuzsanna Chappell @zsuzsannachappell.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
What it's like to be a whale. (Much like you'd expect, tbh. )
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Zsuzsanna Chappell @zsuzsannachappell.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
My children have reached the "I wonder if you can eat yoghurt with chopsticks" phase of the summer vacation. I will miss them next week when school starts again.
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Jules @julesholroyd.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
I'm happy to have our paper included in this cluster of papers in Hypatia about birth and inclusion! @matthewjcull.bsky.social @fionawoollard.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #Philsky #philosophy
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Hypatia: Volume 40 - Issue 3 | Cambridge Core
Cambridge Core - Hypatia - Volume 40 - Issue 3
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Zsuzsanna Chappell @zsuzsannachappell.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
This is making the rounds on Facebook again and it's the best thing on my internet feeds today.
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Zsuzsanna Chappell @zsuzsannachappell.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
"Nature writing only wants to admit illness into its pages if it is to show nature performing a miraculous cure."
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Zsuzsanna Chappell @zsuzsannachappell.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Enormous success: managed to get off the sofa and put the quesadillas in the oven.
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Zsuzsanna Chappell @zsuzsannachappell.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Workmen dug a big hole in the middle of the road in front of my house this morning then disappeared. (The workmen, not the hole, alas.) They didn't ring the doorbell to let us know. Because of the weird road layout,
Road closedBig hole in middle of roadBig hole in middle of road
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Zsuzsanna Chappell @zsuzsannachappell.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Just read a review of RF Kuang's new book, Katabasis. The premise of the story is that two PhD students travel through hell to rescue the soul of their supervisor so he can write letters of reference for them. Choose your PhD students wisely or !
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Zsuzsanna Chappell @zsuzsannachappell.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Just seen on a coffee machine menu: "hot water: may contain milk". I know it's about potential allergens from the machine, but it's still funny.
coffee machine options. mocha etc says "allergen: may contain milk". image of a cup with text underneath "hot water: may contain milk". you can see me taking a photo in the reflective surface of the coffee machine screen
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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
It used to be completely the opposite, science as the gateway to morality. Such historical swings between thinking that science or humanities are the foundation of ethical life show that neither is inherently
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The Virtue of Scientific Thinking - Boston Review
Scientists have discarded the moral authority that previously accrued to their vocation.
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Zsuzsanna Chappell @zsuzsannachappell.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
"[the judge] said it was not "obvious" what the alternative punishment should have been." How about care and meeting children's needs as an alternative instead of punishment? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Parents lose isolation legal claim against Leeds academy chain - BBC News
The families of three pupils had claimed the use of the punishment had been "disproportionate".
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Sometimes I hear men comment on my and other women’s “tone”, and the men do not realise that what they mean (and what we correctly hear) is “you do not talk like us, and we do not like it”.
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Zsuzsanna Chappell @zsuzsannachappell.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Can attest to the truth of this. Scroll to the bottom to see more about the supposed GOP post with Trump in front of a rusting yellow Lada.
Screenshot from twitter? GOP: the one big beautiful bill will drive the return of the great American car. Image text: make automobiles great again, the daily signal. Picture of Trump with fist half raised in front of a rusting yellow Lada car.
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Zsuzsanna Chappell @zsuzsannachappell.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Real childhood milestones #642: my daughter is playing stardew valley.
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joeymaier 🌊 @joeymaier.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
A new species of #mantaray has been described. They are calling it Mobula yarae. “It was one of the shocks of my life": third species of manta ray confirmed after decades of suspicion  | Discover Wildlife share.google/c3IyhSE9Xptb...
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“It was one of the shocks of my life": third species of manta ray confirmed after decades of suspicion  | Discover Wildlife
Scientists say that recognising the newly named Atlantic manta ray as a distinct species is crucial for conservation efforts.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
One thing that’s perhaps worth mentioning about the beach that’s the subject of the 2025 Shark Week show “Florida’s death beach” is that no one has ever been killed by a shark there. Not one person ever. I am so tired.
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Zsuzsanna Chappell @zsuzsannachappell.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Picture of two crows on a low wooden balance beam in a park. Text: attempted murder.
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Zsuzsanna Chappell @zsuzsannachappell.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
"The authors outline evidence of systematic attacks designed to destroy the fertility of Tigrayan women and call for international bodies to investigate the crime of genocide. " www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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Mass rape, forced pregnancy and sexual torture in Tigray amount to crimes against humanity – report
Research documents ‘horrific and extreme’ attacks by Ethiopian and Eritrean forces and warns that impunity has meant such atrocities are expanding to new regions
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Zsuzsanna Chappell @zsuzsannachappell.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Sitting up in bed with the flu and editing a paper because I have childcare and I want the final draft finished already.
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Zsuzsanna Chappell @zsuzsannachappell.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
It's time to restart reading "the canon". These are works I return to over and over again, with a different level of understanding & a different aim of what I'd like to get out of reading. This time I'll start with Aristotle's Metaphysics, then Hume, then Kant, then move straight to the 20th c.
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Shell @risu.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
The screen free phone ban parents groups all organise on WhatsApp, If you needed an example of how they aren’t what they seem. Using a meta app while sitting on your phone, not exactly how you get kids off screens is it
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Zsuzsanna Chappell @zsuzsannachappell.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Not a bad article, but decreased critical thinking skills is really not the same as worsening #mentalhealth "Many of those refusing to embrace AI actually fit the traditional archetype of an early adopter." theconversation.com/ai-veganism-...
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‘AI veganism’: Some people’s issues with AI parallel vegans’ concerns about diet
Vegans have multiple reasons for spurning animal products: ethical, environmental and health concerns. The same issues are keeping some people from using AI.
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Monique Botha @drmbothapsych.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
NEW PAPER (ish - I'm also just delayed) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Using Q Methodology, a Group of Neurodivergent Neurodiversity Researchers Ask: What is the Neurodiversity Movement and what should it do?
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Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
I've uploaded a free preprint for a forthcoming article, Mad Pride in Revolutionary England: The Ranters as Mad Actvism. It will be published in History Workshop Journal next year. I'm proud of this and see it as the start of a new, much bigger project. www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) Mad Pride in Revolutionary England: The Ranters as Mad Activism
PDF | Collective mental health patient organising in England is usually dated to the nineteenth century and seen as arising in response to the mass... | Find, read and cite all the research you need o...
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Zsuzsanna Chappell @zsuzsannachappell.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Even better if there's a 6 digit security code texted to your phone
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Zsuzsanna Chappell @zsuzsannachappell.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
New book by @drgriff.bsky.social now available for pre-order. Looking forward to this! Reimagining Philosophy of Religion: Understanding, Commitment, and Making-Believe, Amber L. Griffioen www.bloomsbury.com/us/reimagini...
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Reimagining Philosophy of Religion
By exploring how analytic philosophy of religion can expand its horizons to combat old biases, Amber L. Griffioen's new book argues for reorientations in the di…
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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 29/07/2025
We are delighted to reveal the #BookerPrize2025 longlist – 13 books ‘all alive with great characters and narrative surprises’. Huge congratulations to the authors who make up this year's Booker Dozen. ➡️ Discover the full list: thebookerprizes.com/bp2025
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Zsuzsanna Chappell @zsuzsannachappell.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
I googled "Alex Rails" because I was wondering if I was missing a pop culture reference about the Daily Nous pen name. One of the top results is a reddit post about the Alex drawers from IKEA not aligning with the drawer rails. Someone else is looking for a replacement for them. #philosophy
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Alex drawers not aligning with the rails : r/IKEA

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I just bought an alex drawer but it is not aligning with the rails. The rails on their own work just fine but the drawer is not going in when I am trying to ...
Alex Rails - replacement? : r/ikeahacks - Reddit
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Alex Drawer unit/drop file storage file rail : r/IKEA - Reddit
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More results from www.reddit.com
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Sky News reporter: “You can see the outline of communities and villages that are now flattened. Mile after mile of grey rubble.” “We were told the Israeli side had warned that any shots of Gaza filmed from the air could result in these aid flights being cancelled.” news.sky.com/story/mile-a...
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Mile after mile of grey rubble - the view from a plane dropping aid to Gaza
Sky News goes on board a Royal Jordanian Air Force plane for one of the first aid drop flights since Israel announced they could resume.
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Zsuzsanna Chappell @zsuzsannachappell.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Look what came in the post! Just in time to cite one of the chapters. The philosophy book is for me, the jigsaw puzzle is for my daughter.
two objects photographed on the lawn: a paperback book with a floral cover, the art of flourishing, conversations on disability, edited by Liz Bowen, Joel Michael Reynolds, Rosemarie gatland-thomson and Erik parens. a green box with a picture of two pink unicorns against a purple background with flowers, stars, a rainbow and hummingbirds. text: jigsaw puzzles kribin 100 pieces
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Zsuzsanna Chappell @zsuzsannachappell.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
My friend Tim Thorton has written this interesting philosophy blog post about re-enchantment in the face of the disenchantment of scientism - using the fiction of Alan Garner to respond to the concerns of people like Fodor and McDowell. inthespaceofreasons.blogspot.com/2025/07/reen...
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Reenchanting nature: Alan Garner’s children’s fiction
I recently had a conversation with someone who shares my enthusiasm for, though in fact far exceeds my knowledge of, the fiction of Alan ...
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+972 Magazine @972mag.com · 28/07/2025
Our colleague and longtime +972 Magazine contributor Awdah Hathaleen was shot dead in a settler attack on his village, Umm al-Khair, in Masafer Yatta. Read Awdah's contributions to +972 Magazine through the link: www.972mag.com/writer/awdah...
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Zsuzsanna Chappell @zsuzsannachappell.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
I am enjoying Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell. Of course it's once again about the time leading up to WWII. Wonder why I can't get enough of that period in fiction right now? 🤔 Anyway, Widmerpool is a wonderful character.
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