Dr Zara Bain
@zaranosaur.bsky.social
Some kind of philosopher | mama of toddlers (yes, plural) | disabled, chronically ill and neurofuntimes | professionally tired | founder and director of disabled-majority transcription and closed captioning social biz @aat-transcribes.bsky.social | goof
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Hyde, Lewis (2019). A Primer for Forgetting: Getting Past. Farrar, Strauss and Giroux
p. 307: "Remembered"/"forgotten": the terms are so binary! What name shall we give these little elephants of mental life, these traces of perception that are present but not present, noticed but not noticed?
p. 307: "Remembered"/"forgotten": the terms are so binary! What name shall we give these little elephants of mental life, these traces of perception that are present but not present, noticed but not noticed?
January 27, 2026 at 10:20 PM
Hyde, Lewis (2019). A Primer for Forgetting: Getting Past. Farrar, Strauss and Giroux
p. 307: "Remembered"/"forgotten": the terms are so binary! What name shall we give these little elephants of mental life, these traces of perception that are present but not present, noticed but not noticed?
p. 307: "Remembered"/"forgotten": the terms are so binary! What name shall we give these little elephants of mental life, these traces of perception that are present but not present, noticed but not noticed?
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This paper by @liao.shen-yi.org and Zoe Brinner is such a helpful, clear primer on the central concepts in 4E cognitive science! Use it as your crib sheet on concepts like affordances, scaffolding, or niche construction + a fantastic list of recent work on hostile environments!
Shen-yi Liao & Zoe Brinner, Critical 4E Cognitive Science - PhilPapers
According to 4E cognitive science, our cognitive capacities depend on, and have been transformed by, the environments we have made. Most early works of 4E cognitive science tend to focus on ...
philpapers.org
January 27, 2026 at 3:09 PM
This paper by @liao.shen-yi.org and Zoe Brinner is such a helpful, clear primer on the central concepts in 4E cognitive science! Use it as your crib sheet on concepts like affordances, scaffolding, or niche construction + a fantastic list of recent work on hostile environments!
calling the ambulance for my partner, wtf
January 27, 2026 at 5:36 PM
calling the ambulance for my partner, wtf
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A group of current and former diversity professionals and researchers founded a journal to preserve perspectives they fear could be lost amid state and federal crackdowns on DEI work.
A Home for Homeless DEI Strategies and Research
A group of current and former diversity professionals and researchers founded a journal to preserve perspectives they fear could be lost amid state and federal crackdowns on DEI work.
www.insidehighered.com
January 27, 2026 at 3:14 PM
A group of current and former diversity professionals and researchers founded a journal to preserve perspectives they fear could be lost amid state and federal crackdowns on DEI work.
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Matt Goodwin is running for Reform in Gorton and Denton?!? 🤯
From University of Kent to Reform via GB News. That’s quite the villains arch…
From University of Kent to Reform via GB News. That’s quite the villains arch…
January 27, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Matt Goodwin is running for Reform in Gorton and Denton?!? 🤯
From University of Kent to Reform via GB News. That’s quite the villains arch…
From University of Kent to Reform via GB News. That’s quite the villains arch…
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So Reform has no problem with a candidate who doesn't think Rishi Sunak is English, and effectively endorsed the neo-Nazis of the AfD in the last German election.
NEW: Former academic Matt Goodwin has been announced as Reform UK's candidate for the Gorton & Denton byelection.
January 27, 2026 at 2:21 PM
So Reform has no problem with a candidate who doesn't think Rishi Sunak is English, and effectively endorsed the neo-Nazis of the AfD in the last German election.
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British far-right protesters detained by French police ‘in first case of its kind’
www.independent.co.uk
January 27, 2026 at 4:34 PM
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Romance is stepping up for Minnesota! Please check out the website, make a donation, enter for one of an incredible list of prizes, and share the link! #romancelandia
Romance for Minnesota
*Because the Romance Community Stands Up We are appalled (though sadly not surprised) by the aggressive, violent, and deadly actions of ICE, at the behest of the Trump administration, in Minnesota …
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January 27, 2026 at 3:17 PM
Romance is stepping up for Minnesota! Please check out the website, make a donation, enter for one of an incredible list of prizes, and share the link! #romancelandia
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One difference between left and right is that there aren’t dozens of podcasts and journalists on the right urging sympathy with the left.
January 27, 2026 at 4:32 PM
One difference between left and right is that there aren’t dozens of podcasts and journalists on the right urging sympathy with the left.
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I'm editing a Special Collection for Women's Health on autistic women and girls' health and wellbeing -
particularly interested in submissions from the Global South and with under-researched groups! journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec...
particularly interested in submissions from the Global South and with under-researched groups! journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec...
journals.sagepub.com
January 27, 2026 at 2:46 PM
I'm editing a Special Collection for Women's Health on autistic women and girls' health and wellbeing -
particularly interested in submissions from the Global South and with under-researched groups! journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec...
particularly interested in submissions from the Global South and with under-researched groups! journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec...
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What people need to understand is that the fascist GOP is an extension of the moneyed class. Its policies of repression are an outgrowth of the way this group preys upon society. This is the reason it feels like every institution is “failing” rn, bc in fact they operate at our collective expense.
Amazon Web Services hosts massive surveillance systems for both ICE and DHS.
Citizens Bank provides nearly $1 trillion in credit & bonds to private prison companies.
AT&T has a $147 million contract to provide communications services to DHS.
Know who is profiting from ICE’s cruelty.
Citizens Bank provides nearly $1 trillion in credit & bonds to private prison companies.
AT&T has a $147 million contract to provide communications services to DHS.
Know who is profiting from ICE’s cruelty.
January 26, 2026 at 6:15 PM
What people need to understand is that the fascist GOP is an extension of the moneyed class. Its policies of repression are an outgrowth of the way this group preys upon society. This is the reason it feels like every institution is “failing” rn, bc in fact they operate at our collective expense.
All four of us are sick but it’s panned out that I’m just not sick enough, on one of my few work days in the week, to be the one managing everyone else including the 3yo’s upchucking and partner in so much pain he’s just been immobile for 2/3 hours… any tips when you’re the family sick wrangler?
January 27, 2026 at 2:54 PM
All four of us are sick but it’s panned out that I’m just not sick enough, on one of my few work days in the week, to be the one managing everyone else including the 3yo’s upchucking and partner in so much pain he’s just been immobile for 2/3 hours… any tips when you’re the family sick wrangler?
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Every week we highlight dear Mohamed, his siblings, & their parents. The maps you see aren't a metaphor...their home is within the “yellow line,” leaving them homeless.
Winter supplies & more as they cope with displacement. Give/find their link here. chuffed.org/project/hope...
Winter supplies & more as they cope with displacement. Give/find their link here. chuffed.org/project/hope...
January 27, 2026 at 12:02 PM
Every week we highlight dear Mohamed, his siblings, & their parents. The maps you see aren't a metaphor...their home is within the “yellow line,” leaving them homeless.
Winter supplies & more as they cope with displacement. Give/find their link here. chuffed.org/project/hope...
Winter supplies & more as they cope with displacement. Give/find their link here. chuffed.org/project/hope...
It’s because Britain grandfathered in the white supremacy and settler colonialism the US was built on. Who were those builders? The British, even more than their pals the French and the Spanish.
Genuinely confused how Brits are watching the US destroy itself and thinking, “we should follow their lead!”
The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
January 27, 2026 at 12:12 PM
It’s because Britain grandfathered in the white supremacy and settler colonialism the US was built on. Who were those builders? The British, even more than their pals the French and the Spanish.
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the state edited its own textbook.
Iowa is a short hop away from this, with a bill introduced to mandate all students take a course in American history, but that course must be taught from within the new “Center for Intellectual Freedom.” dailyiowan.com/2026/01/20/i...
Iowa is a short hop away from this, with a bill introduced to mandate all students take a course in American history, but that course must be taught from within the new “Center for Intellectual Freedom.” dailyiowan.com/2026/01/20/i...
January 27, 2026 at 12:03 PM
the state edited its own textbook.
Iowa is a short hop away from this, with a bill introduced to mandate all students take a course in American history, but that course must be taught from within the new “Center for Intellectual Freedom.” dailyiowan.com/2026/01/20/i...
Iowa is a short hop away from this, with a bill introduced to mandate all students take a course in American history, but that course must be taught from within the new “Center for Intellectual Freedom.” dailyiowan.com/2026/01/20/i...
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Call me a luddite but I kind of prefer the old version of the Devil who used to put a murrain on crops and command his demon dogs to terrorise church congregations to the new one who insists on having an app for everything and gets rich by designing clever ways of capitalising on people's fatigue.
January 26, 2026 at 1:09 PM
Call me a luddite but I kind of prefer the old version of the Devil who used to put a murrain on crops and command his demon dogs to terrorise church congregations to the new one who insists on having an app for everything and gets rich by designing clever ways of capitalising on people's fatigue.
partner and eldest now also down with this bug, mayday mayday
January 27, 2026 at 12:00 PM
partner and eldest now also down with this bug, mayday mayday
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“May your government be hamstrung by human rights law” is one of those 20th century aspirations we really want to hold on to
Suella Braverman, "There is a very strong case to increase the powers of any immigration enforcement officers that we deploy"
"At the moment they're hamstrung by human rights laws, by health and safety laws, by all sorts of needless and obstructive bureaucracy"
"At the moment they're hamstrung by human rights laws, by health and safety laws, by all sorts of needless and obstructive bureaucracy"
January 27, 2026 at 11:53 AM
“May your government be hamstrung by human rights law” is one of those 20th century aspirations we really want to hold on to
Help, academic and other friends: I was planning a two-day online summit for the end of March, but due to absolutely trash capacity amongst my sales & marketing team at @aat-transcribes.bsky.social across much of January, I think it's best to postpone.
Which is better: April or May?
Which is better: April or May?
January 27, 2026 at 9:55 AM
Help, academic and other friends: I was planning a two-day online summit for the end of March, but due to absolutely trash capacity amongst my sales & marketing team at @aat-transcribes.bsky.social across much of January, I think it's best to postpone.
Which is better: April or May?
Which is better: April or May?
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🔴 BREAKING - ICE agents to help with security at Winter Olympics in Italy
ICE agents to help with security at Winter Olympics in Italy
Get the latest Breaking News Alerts from France 24 in real time on Facebook and Twitter: @BreakingF24
f24.my
January 27, 2026 at 8:33 AM
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With apologies to all who signed up, I’ve caught my kid’s tummy bug so will have to postpone this — any email reminders coming today are automated but I’ll work out how to stop them and email with an update for rescheduling
Have you registered for our workshop on Tuesday night at 7pm GMT ?
Our founder @zaranosaur.bsky.social is hosting a free session dishing the dirt on all the things transcribers with social researchers knew about recording research but never get a chance to share.
Let's transform your transcripts
Our founder @zaranosaur.bsky.social is hosting a free session dishing the dirt on all the things transcribers with social researchers knew about recording research but never get a chance to share.
Let's transform your transcripts
Transform Your Transcripts with Five Simple Tweaks to How You Record Research
Join us for a 50-minute live online workshop on how to optimise your research recordings for transcription, coding and analysis with simple, free tweaks to your qualitative data collection set-up
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January 27, 2026 at 8:18 AM
With apologies to all who signed up, I’ve caught my kid’s tummy bug so will have to postpone this — any email reminders coming today are automated but I’ll work out how to stop them and email with an update for rescheduling
In a ridiculous but predictable twist of fate I seem to have caught my child’s norovirus and must now cancel to of the most professionally busy days of the whole month (in a week where otherwise and for the first time I have ‘full’ childcare)
January 27, 2026 at 8:16 AM
In a ridiculous but predictable twist of fate I seem to have caught my child’s norovirus and must now cancel to of the most professionally busy days of the whole month (in a week where otherwise and for the first time I have ‘full’ childcare)
I have almost made it to the end of the day at home alone on 5 hours interrupted sleep with one vomiting limpet child and one beautiful but very busy preschooler
January 26, 2026 at 5:35 PM
I have almost made it to the end of the day at home alone on 5 hours interrupted sleep with one vomiting limpet child and one beautiful but very busy preschooler
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Want to learn more about our Founder and CEO, @zaranosaur.bsky.social?
Last August she recorded this podcast episode on disabled representation in online spaces with 2/3 of the the @3spoonies.bsky.social crew, where she talks about her journey to founding AAT and more.
Last August she recorded this podcast episode on disabled representation in online spaces with 2/3 of the the @3spoonies.bsky.social crew, where she talks about her journey to founding AAT and more.
How Disabled People Are Really Represented Online (And Why It Matters) | 3Spoonies
3Spoonies 22nd January 2026 Episode Number 47
In this episode of 3Spoonies we are joined by Zara to explore the realities of disabled representation in online media — from social platforms and…
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January 26, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Want to learn more about our Founder and CEO, @zaranosaur.bsky.social?
Last August she recorded this podcast episode on disabled representation in online spaces with 2/3 of the the @3spoonies.bsky.social crew, where she talks about her journey to founding AAT and more.
Last August she recorded this podcast episode on disabled representation in online spaces with 2/3 of the the @3spoonies.bsky.social crew, where she talks about her journey to founding AAT and more.
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The blackshirts have updated their uniform in an unexpected direction.
January 26, 2026 at 1:55 PM
The blackshirts have updated their uniform in an unexpected direction.