More good news from #Phi-Geo Research Group: my PhD student @mattbrewer.bsky.social was awarded 3yr postdoc @ Uni Edinburgh as part of Jo Wolff's very cool ERC project on "Dematerialisation of Science” to conduct research on philosophy of digital archaeology. Congrats Matt! 🎉 #philsci 🏺

A Phi-Geo research group fieldtrip today to see the Holyoke dinosaur footprints in situ & a behind-the-scenes tour of the Beneski museum.

@matildecarrera.bsky.social & @mattbrewer.bsky.social will be there representing the Phi-Geo group!

If you are planning to attend, the registration is open. We @hpscambridge.bsky.social are pouring our hearts into this conference and it will be amazing. Even though my own submission was not accepted! #philsci #philsky #hps #metascience

Congratulations to @matildecarrera.bsky.social on her superb defense today of a fantastic dissertation prospectus! She is now officially ABD! 🎉 #philsci #phigeo

Congrats to Phi-Geo grad Matilde Carrera @matildecarrera.bsky.social for being accepted to the competitive AI & Data Ethics Summer Institute at Northeastern this summer, as well as accepted to the upcoming AAAS Workshop: Catalyzing Advocacy in Science & Engineering, April 6-9 in D.C. 🙌 #philsci

Congratulations to Dr. Castillo Brache @leticiacastillo.bsky.social on successfully defending her PhD dissertation this morning!!! Woo-hoo!!! 🙌🎓🌟 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 Thank you to Profs. Samia Hesni, @rachelankeny.bsky.social, & @miguelohn.bsky.social for serving on her committee 🙏 #philsci #phigeo

A wonderful #HistGeo talk today by global historian Ben Goosen on "Inventing Earth: A New History of the 1957-1958 International Geophysical Year" followed by a lunch with him & our #PhiGeo reaearch group. #histsci

A nice Phi-Geo group trip to @harvardmuseums.bsky.social to see exhibit Measuring Difference & hear a wonderful presentation by @chattyprofessor.bsky.social, artist Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez & #histmed Pablo Gómez, who spoke about roots of medical data about bodies in Atlantic slave trade. #philsci

In these uncertain times, this is something to look forward to. I will present a brand new project, "When Adequacy is Inadequate: a Pragmatist Approach to Accurate Measurement Democratization," with Carlos Santana. »https://www.centerphilsci.pitt.edu/event/pragmatism-and-measurement-2/

Thank you to my co-symposiasts Carlos Santana & Meghan Page for their fantastic talks, Lydia Patton for inviting us to do a session on #phigeo at #APAEastern25, & @mattbrewer.bsky.social for moderating! #philsci #philsky

It was great having some of the Phi-Geo grads give short presentations of some relevant material from their research to my "Gender, Race, & Science" class today (Thank you @mattbrewer.bsky.social @matildecarrera.bsky.social & @leticiacastillo.bsky.social!!!)

1st-ever symposium on philosophy of seismology: @alisabokulich.bsky.social on Peircean abduction & inverse modelling, @terumiyake.bsky.social on 'problem of the missing model' in seismology, optics, and thermal physics; @cristianlarph.bsky.social on quantification in seismology (joint work with me).

A lovely Phi-Geo & friends dinner @ #PSA24: @rachellaudan.bsky.social Aja W, @miguelohn.bsky.social @terumiyake.bsky.social @mattbrewer.bsky.social AndrewZ @leticiacastillo.bsky.social Kailyn S @federicabocchi.bsky.social @matildecarrera.bsky.social Carlos S, Katherine V @cristianlarph.bsky.social

Some of the Boston University #PSA24 group out on Bourbon St.

The Philosophy of Geosciences Research Group at BU, Φ-Geo, is dedicated to exploring topics in the philosophy of the geosciences (historical & current Earth sciences), broadly understood. We have a big group heading to #PSA24 ⚒️ next week--check out our upcoming talks bokulich.org/%cf%86-geo-g... 🧵 ⬇️

Some months ago @mattbrewer.bsky.social and I wrote a review for Suárez’s latest book “Inference and Representation. A Study in Modelling Science” and now it’s finally out on BJHS! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Ever wonder why the Cambrian explosion is called "the Cambrian explosion"? Or how it survived declining enthusiasm for the concept of "explosive evolution" to become the last explosion standing? Get the scoop on Extinct: www.extinctblog.org/extinct/2024...

💥New paper by @matildecarrera.bsky.social @miguelohn.bsky.social & me💥"Rising Tides & Method of Residues: Anomaly-Driven Research in #Geosciences" traces roots J. Herschel & Whewell's method in their paleoclimate & tidology, & MoR in discovery solid-body tide #HPS #19thC bokulich.org/wp-content/u...

Congratulations to Phi-Geo grad @leticiacastillo.bsky.social who has been awarded the BU Institute for Global Sustainability 2024 Peter Fox-Penner Graduate Student Award (given for significant contributions to research or practice in sustainability & climate change &/or equity & justice)! 🎉 #philsci

This week, a first: an Extinct double feature! You read Matt Brewer's fascinating post on negative evidence in debates about the origin of plate tectonics. Now chase that high with a new Problematica on "arguments from absence" in the historical sciences... www.extinctblog.org/extinct/2024...

New post! Matt Brewer (PhD candidate at BU) writes about the (geological) origin of the phrase "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence," and defends arguments from absence in the context of debates about the origin of plate tectonics. Check it out! www.extinctblog.org/extinct/anci...

New Extinct Blog post from our Phi-Geo Research Group grad student @mattbrewer.bsky.social ⚒️ 🧪 #HPS #philsci #geoscience

Conference program for "Pragmatism & The Philosophy of Science" Sept 27-29 @ Western (Ontario) University is up! Speakers incl @hkandersen.bsky.social, Ken Waters, @huwprice.bsky.social, Ari Duwell, @rovelli.bsky.social, Jim Woodward, Laura Ruetsche, & me. #philsci www.rotman.uwo.ca/event/pragma...

Congratulations to @mattbrewer.bsky.social on successfully defending his PhD dissertation prospectus "Evidence, Classification, & Explanation: Towards a Philosophy of Plate Tectonics" today--he's now ABD! 🎉(& thanks to @miguelohn.bsky.social & Rachell Powell for serving on the committee) #philsci

Tune in for the penultimate PhilPalaeo "Roadshow" talk tomorrow, with Matt Brewer of BU. (Apologies to Matilde Carrera, also at BU, whose talk I forgot to advertise last week!) The talk will take place at 11 AM EDT. Link w/i www.extinctblog.org/palaeonews/2...

⚒️ The debate over when plate tectonics started is so philosophically interesting. How do you assess the relative reliability of very different evidence; how uniformitarianism itself is stressed when faced with the drastic changes of a planet over Deep Time.

Good news keeps rolling in: Phi-Geo faculty member @miguelohn.bsky.social also had his #PSA24 paper on how seismologists quantified earthquake size precisely by excluding stakeholder values from measure design & testing accepted! Shaping up to be great meeting for philosophy of geosciences! 🎉

Congrats to Phi-Geo grad @leticiacastillo.bsky.social on also having her contributed paper "Parachute Science in Paleontology as Distributive Epistemic Injustice" accepted for #PSA24! 🎉 Excited the entire Phi-Geo group will be presenting at the upcoming @philsci.bsky.social mtg! 🎉 #philsci #philsky

Congrats to Phi-Geo grad @mattbrewer.bsky.social on having his paper "When Should Absence of Evidence Be Evidence of Absence? A Case Study from Paleogeology" accepted for presentation at upcoming #PSA24 meeting in New Orleans 🎉 (Only a 36% acceptance rate for PSA mtg this year!)

Congratulations to @matildecarrera.bsky.social on having her great paper accepted for the upcoming #PSA24 meeting! 🎉

Sorry to be missing the Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (#SPSP2024) conference this year, but happy to get a few highlights about the great presentations from grad members of our Phi-Geo group: 🙌 @matildecarrera.bsky.social @mattbrewer.bsky.social & @leticiacastillo.bsky.social

This week - an exciting new area of HPS! Philosophy of the Geosciences, with Aja Watkins & @miguelohn.bsky.social (with dues to @alisabokulich.bsky.social). Consider the challenges of quantifying earthquakes, comparing past & present climate conditions & measuring Earth! #hps #philsci #histsci ⚒️

Keynotes by Lydia Patton & Elena Castellani ⚛️

Excited to be hooding two of my fabulous PhD students this evening 🌟👩🏻‍🎓👩🏻‍🎓🎓🎉

UPSS grads or recent (w/in 3 yrs) PhDs participating in Mentoring Program are eligible to submit an abstract for UPSS Session at upcoming PSA Meeting. Deadline: August 1st. UPSS scholars work w/ their mentors to refine project. No mentor? Request asap! #philsci philsci.org/upss_biennia...

A wonderful online Philosophy of Paleosciences summer talk series organized by Adrian Currie incl talks by @marilynnjohnson.bsky.social 2 members of my Phi-Geo group @matildecarrera.bsky.social & @mattbrewer.bsky.social Email [email protected] to get on mailinglist #philsci ⚒️ #PaleoSky #histsci

My paper "Metrics in biodiversity conservation and the value-free ideal" is now available OA in Synthese. Here's the link: rdcu.be/dF0sC

A nice BCPS talk today by Anthea Coster (MIT) about Lise Meitner's role in discovery & naming of fission, & a personal story about her (AC's) grandfather Dirk Coster's role in smuggling Meitner safely out of Germany given rise of Nazi's & her Jewish ancestry.

We will also host a roundtable on diversity and inclusion in science, focusing specifically on the role of ethical considerations in the research conducted within universities! #metasci #philsky #philbio #Philsci #sts

Looking forward to our upcoming conference on science and values, featuring a really interesting lineup of speakers! March 29-30, Boston University!

Deadline for poster abstracts to be presented at SPSP, U. South Carolina May 16-18, 2024 extended: Submit by February 26. Include title, 500 word abstract, affiliation details, & contact. Specify [Poster] in title of your poster abstract Best poster will be awarded a prize of €200! #philsci #sts

Aja Watkins and I wrote an introduction to the philosophy of the geosciences, which is now available in open access: compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #philsci #histsci

⏳ Just 3 days left to submit to grad conference on science & values at Boston University! Travel funding available. ⤵️ January 31st philevents.org/event/show/1... #philsky #philsci 🧪#PhDSky

⏰ Deadline Jan 31st CFP: Boston University Graduate Student Philosophy Conference 2024: Valuing Research and Researching Values: How to Bridge the Gaps Between Ethics & Science ⤵️ philevents.org/event/show/1...

We have further extended the deadline to submit a paper to our graduate conference, now Jan. 30th! Submission info here: philevents.org/event/show/1... 📆 March 29-30, 2024 Keynote: Kevin Elliott (MSU) At least partial travel reimbursement provided to the accepted speakers! #Philsci #metasci #sts

New deadline to submit a paper to our upcoming BU graduate conference on science and values! Submit your paper by Jan. 15, 2024 at this link: forms.gle/UgzDDXQcZTxm... We plan to provide at least partial travel reimbursement to our speakers! Conference dates: March 29-30, 2024.

⏳One week left to submit to conference “Valuing Research & Researching Values: How to Bridge the Gaps Between Ethics & Science" a graduate student conference at BU. Fantastic conferences & great way for next gen to network. 📌Deadline: December 31st! ⤵️ #philsci #philsky philevents.org/event/show/1...

A new PSA @philsci.bsky.social newsletter just dropped: Contains a book review by grad @matildecarrera.bsky.social on Science Transformed? by Alfred Nordmann, Hans Radder & Gregor Schiemann & call for PSA'24 (in New Orleans) Contributed Papers now open & due by March 15, 2024. #philsci #metasci