Returning the page proofs for my quantitative biology textbook, out in February: www.routledge.com/Quantitative...

📣CALL FOR APPLICATIONS!! 📣 The next deadline for the #GodfreyHewitt mobility award is 31st January 2026. Open to ECRS in support of research trips or lab visits. For more information, eligibility and how to apply: eseb.org/prizes-fundi...

Coming in February!! A monstrous 4-book series covering neural systems in animals, featuring a very long chapter on the origin of NS in metazoans by Volker Hartenstein, @simon-sprecher.bsky.social , and myself. Details very soon—for an incredible bargain price!! 😜😅 shop.elsevier.com/books/evolut...

Thanks @philipcball.bsky.social for the lovely endorsement!

First of a series of "rules" giving advice on academic writing about history of philosophy. I'll be posting this as a series over the coming days. Hope people will find this useful and interesting! Feedback more than welcome. www.historyofphilosophy.net/rules-writin... #philsky #philosophy

Peak academic life, que tu último paper del año se publique el 31 de diciembre ✅️ Escribí una reseña de Philosophy of Open Science, de la gran @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social , para la revista Epistemología e Historia de la Ciencia, de la UNC 💚 #Academicsky #ScholComm #PhilSci #OpenScience

Reading the heck out of this book over break. #academicsky #teamrhetoric #writing #AI

That's a big discount. I just bought your book (mitpress.mit.edu/978026205282...) and @ellenclarke.bsky.social's upcoming _The Units of Life: Kinds of Individual in Biology_ (global.oup.com/academic/pro...), which I'd also been wanting to get. #hpbio

Job market folks: apply for a post-doc at the University of Lisbon! It's a 2-stage process; if interested contact my colleague David Yates (at [email protected]), with a brief description of your intended research and current CV by January 7. #philsky

A while ago, I posted a set of notes about the Bayesian approach to inquiry and how it can help us think about questions raised in the recent literature on zetetic epistemology. I’ve now corralled that material into something like a first draft of a book. I hope it might be of interest to others.

A look ahead at what's coming in 2026 on the History of Philosophy podcast! www.historyofphilosophy.net/whats-coming... #philsky #philosophy #podcast

📢 @barnesandnoble.com is offering 25% off 📙 preorders from today through January 1st. You can get The Organism–Environment Pairing at a discount! Many thanks for supporting @mitpress.bsky.social—we need university presses now more than ever! 👇 www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-organi... #HPS #philsky 📚💙

Now published in Biological Reviews! Continual decision‐making dynamics across biological organisms onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

#philsky #philsci #philtech #HPS #plantsky

Between 1 and 4 September 2026, the #SOCRATESgroup at Leibniz University Hannover will host an interdisciplinary summer school on "Bridging the Gap: Science, Trust, and the Climate Crisis." We would be very grateful if you could share the call: www.socrates.uni-hannover.de/en/news-even...

📢 @barnesandnoble.com is offering 25% off 📙 preorders from today through January 1st. You can get The Organism–Environment Pairing at a discount! Many thanks for supporting @mitpress.bsky.social—we need university presses now more than ever! 👇 www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-organi... #HPS #philsky 📚💙

With its 100th article published this year, the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Sciences (OECS) has rapidly become one of the most contemporary, authoritative, and comprehensive reference works in the field, and it's completely open access!

#philsky Funded postdoctoral positions (FCT) at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Porto – Call for expressions of interest: https://ifilosofia.up.pt/news/funded-postdoctoral-positions-fct-if-ceec-8 https://bsky.app/profile/dfaria.eu/post/3mb5rvkayq22q

A free, open-access library of high-quality organism illustrations for science communication

CFP: Society for the Study of Measurement will be held at the University of Edinburgh June 22-25, 2026. Submit proposals for papers, symposia, & poster on any topics in the theory, history, philosophy, & application of measurement by January 15, 2026 app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/80364... #HPS

Were Julian Huxley’s social views constituted by his biological work and vice versa? This article from 'History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences' examines progress, perfection, and social values in Huxley’s biological worldview. bit.ly/4p1oAPG #PhilSky #ReserachPublishing

We present: The Art of #InverteFest - December 2025 Edition A digital art book showcasing the work of 100 artists from around the world, in celebration of overlooked invertebrate fauna. Thank you to the artists who contributed to our book! Download: drive.google.com/file/d/1JCXz... #Art #SciArt

A blog post obsessing about Phyllodesmium poindimiei, the nudibranch in the previous post. Obsessing also about some photographic ethics – suddenly adding light to the world of these tiny creatures. Is it aversive? How could we tell? A scrap of data is included.. metazoan.net/126-spun-of-...

Connected Teams Postdoctoral Fellowship – CSSSC Kolkata / Universidad de los Andes, India & Colombia 📚 Postdoctoral in #ArtHistory, #Ecology & Digital Humanities. Deadline: 31 Jan 2026 Apply: higherjobz.com/connected-te... #AcademicJobs #LatinAmericaJobs #SouthAsiaJobs #TransculturalArtHistory

@boruttrpin.bsky.social and I have a new paper out in Philosophical Quarterly. We had both written on how inference to the best explanation could work with uncertain evidence. So we teamed up to test some suggestions for how to do that using computer simulations: academic.oup.com/pq/article/d...

See hundreds of titles borrowed and read by Darwin in the 1840s from The London Library. In addition to many already known from his reading notebooks, we find many titles and authors that we did not know Darwin had read. darwin-online.org.uk/content/fram... Courtesy of The London Library

Thrilled about this new grant we are offering for under-represented early career scholars. The first cycle is for scholars in history and area studies. Please spread the word widely. @universitypress.cambridge.org ********************************* Read more here: 🔗 cup.org/4pF5xvr

New analysis of the major qualitative differences between natural and artificial intelligence (via LLMs). LLMs and humans form judgments differently across seven epistemological stages 🧵 osf.io/preprints/ps...

The Deadline for Commentary Proposals for our target article, "Metabolic considerations for cognitive modeling," is Tuesday, February 3, 2026. For details, follow the reposted link below: @phaueis.bsky.social #philsci #cogsky #CognitiveNeuroscience

Want to study the history of science and technology? We're inviting applications for "1+3" year (MA+PHD) or 3-year PhD scholarships to study at CHoSTM and @kingshistory.bsky.social ! Click here for more information about how to apply and what we offer: tinyurl.com/mw84w7py

Causation, correlation, and attempts to explain ALS (aka Lou Gehrig’s disease). Great article on a devastating disease. #philsci #philsky

Lovely to receive books as a Christmas gift, even more so when they are so beautiful and super interesting (and necessary)! ✨🌱🐾 #philsky #booksky @kristinandrews.bsky.social @martahalina.bsky.social @christinewebb.bsky.social @jsanbonmatsu.bsky.social

Call for papers: Philosophy through Art, Games, and Fiction think.taylorandfranc... Guest editor: Lisa Bortolotti. Deadline: 31 July 2026. Submit your work! #philsky #philpsy

The ROTO group wishes all of you a very happy Christmas break, some relaxed days and a good start into 2026! 🎄

🚨Two TT posts in Social and Political Philosophy🚨 @maastrichtu.bsky.social | #PhilosophyJobs #Hiring #academicjobs @apaphilosophy.bsky.social @philjobs.org vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric... www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3566...

Join us for interesting discussions at the Computational Approaches to Early Evolution workshop next year in April at OIST in Onna, Okinawa! 🦠💻🧬 Registrations open until January 2nd '26, do not miss it! More info & registration details in the link below! 🔽 www.oist.jp/conference/c...

Happy holidays! Today my paper "Turning Biodiversity Data into Evidence" is officially out on BioSocieties. This is the first paper of a special issue on Data Communities co-edited with Paola Castaño & Emma Cavazzoni. link.springer.com/article/10.1... Stay tuned for the other contributions!

Finally got round to reading this excellent book. Definitely recommend it to - well, anyone! #philsky #philosophy

Your holiday readings are here! That is, issue 4 of this year's volume of @jgps.bsky.social has just come out. We have a book symposium on John Norton's book on inductive inference, a review of @philippehune.bsky.social's book on death, papers on archaeology, the chemical bond, and much more.

📢Job ad! Join us at Politecnico di Milano in an interdisciplinary collaboration between philosophy of science and biomedical engineering on transitions from animal research, with a 3-years postdoc (submission deadline: 12 January 2026) www.meta.polimi.it/3-years-post.... #philsci #philsky #sts

A blog post by Manchester's Jon Williamson for Leeds' Centre for Theoretical Philosophy. Enjoy!

I am very happy to have been awarded the 4th place in the prize for young researchers of the SPS (Societé de philosophie des sciences) with my paper on Agnes Arber and her understanding of teleology (link.springer.com/article/10.1...)! 🥳 Congrats to Dejan Makovec who won the competition! 👏 #PhDSky

The full SHPS book forum on Inference and Representation is now out, with contributions by Chiara Ambrosio, Alexander Bird and Oscar Westerblad: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... I respond here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #philsci #philsky #hps #histsci #philtech #sts #metascience

⚠️ Conference! Knowledge, Agency & Responsibility 9-10th Jan Vienna A conference organised by Fabio Lampert @flampert.bsky.social, on issues concerning human agency, abilities, and capacities, with a focus on problems about free will and moral responsibility. More info: buff.ly/gXKBzmp #philsky

Out now: the e-book version of *Contemporary Debates in the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence*, co-edited by me, Atoosa Kasirzadeh @atoosakz.bsky.social & John Zerilli. Print version out on Jan 21: www.amazon.com/Contemporary... #aiethics #philosophy

Call for papers: Experimental argument analysis: Interdisciplinary perspectives on verbal reasoning. Deadline: 30 April 2026. Guest editors: Eugen Fischer and Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga. Submit your work! think.taylorandfranc... #philsoc #philpsy

El libro "La zarigüeya de Schrödinger. Cómo viven y entienden la muerte los animales", de Susana Monsó, ha sido nominado, en su edición alemana, al premio “Libro de ciencia del año” (Wissenschaftsbuch des Jahres). ¡Por favor, vota por él si crees que merece ganar! www.wissenschaftsbuch.at

Happy to share my new paper w/ @cgershen.bsky.social, just published at @royalsocietypublishing.org Interface! Open Access🔓: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsif/article... Instead of proposing a new theory, we offer a synthesis in theoretical biology. Want to know more? Read the full thread./1 👇🧵

For the finale of season 7, we have a new audio essay out @manymindspod.bsky.social by @kensycoop.bsky.social! It's an exploration of names in the animal kingdom - what they are, who uses them, and why. In case you get hooked, we've put together a separate playlist of all our essays so far. Enjoy!

From trees that love getting struck by lightning to one of the most insane acrobatic feats in nature, here are our favorite science news stories of the year! @science.org