reminder that Miles Macleod, @federicoboem.bsky.social @yjerden.bsky.social & I have a call for papers out for a special issue on scientific "bubbles" with Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. nominal deadline July 15, plus or minus. www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

📰 David Adam reports for Nature News on our Replication Initiative "A European project calls for help to verify whether carbon quantum dots are really able to sense chemicals in cells." 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/d41... @nature.com

📣 Interested in 🫧 and AI? ➡️ AISB 2026 Symposium titled Hype, Promise, and Speculation: AI Bubbles and the Replication Crisis in Computer Science will take place on 1-2 July 2026 in Sussex, UK. 🕐 Deadline for submissions is 6 March 2026 🔗 For more information aisb.org.uk/aisb-2026-sy...

📣 Submit to our track 'Making Science Better?' at the STS NL Conference which will take place in Twente from April 15 to 17, 2026! More details in the link below. 🔗 www.utwente.nl/en/bms/sts-n...

📣 We are happy to announce the special issue “Scientific bubbles: definitions, context, and approaches” in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science with guest editors from Nanobubbles. ⏰ Deadline: 15th of July 2026! 🔗 More information in www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

🎧 Get your headphones ready 👂 We are proud to announce that our podcast "Science in the Gray Zone"’ is out! In this first season we talk about the obstacles to the self-correction of science in academia and industry from Science and Technology Studies standpoint. open.spotify.com/show/2AuVl4w...

📣 Registration for the IACAP-AISB 2025 (Conference on Philosophy of Computing and AI) at the University of Twente is now open! 🗓️ 1-3 July 2025 🔗More information: www.utwente.nl/en/bms/phil/.... 🐦Note: early bird closes 31 May 2025. @yjerden.bsky.social

Today's spam tells me "You are Highly Invited for Servicing as an Editor in Chief". I don't think they really mean "servicing"...

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