I finally got some time to flesh out my rant about these headlines... TL;DR: age differences ≠ aging jenndowd.substack.com/p/does-adole... #demography #episky #medsky #neurosky

I deeply regret that this explainer thread about Finnish radical right racists insulting pretty much all Asians, and the “moderate” right parties being spineless servants of their financiers as usual, remains relevant. I can only say that the majority of Finns are appalled and ashamed too.

Dismantling NCAR. Denying the science is not enough - they will destroy it. The Trump administration has gone full Lysenko. If the US is ever won back, this will be spoken of in the same way in the history books.

An academic disliked an Oxford Very Short Introduction (145 pages) in his field so much that he wrote a 200 page book review attacking it. www.pierre-legrand.com/ewExternalFi...

The number of global deaths of children under-5 is projected to increase this year (from 4.6m to 4.8m) for the first time this century. (FT) The price of aid cuts.

Even the the damn twitter card for this Nature Scientific Reports is clearly AI Slop.

Forthcoming chapter in The Routledge Handbook of Values and Science, edited by Kevin Elliott and Ted Richards.

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

AI for the win again

I do not know the author, but this really chaps my hide. It reads like a blended smoothie made of the work of everyone in my field (myself included - ‘AI is a mirror’, okay) without attribution or even any mention of the field, nor a single one of us who have built it for the past decade. WTF

A permanent post in my department. Closing date Dec 14th 2025, interviews in March. Please spread #histsci

Tämä ei ole hyvän mielen postaus, mutta ehkä syksyn tärkein postaukseni. Suosittelen kaikille tutkijoille ja tutkimusryhmille: käsitelkää törkyriskejä ja suunnitelkaa toimenpiteitä etukäteen yhdessä. Lähiaikoina on tiettävästi odotettavissa törkyä tiedeyhteisöä kohtaan. Ketjusta muutama pikavinkki.

Book launch for “Methods in the Philosophy of Science: a user’s guide”. Ftf in Exeter and online on the 29th of Sept feat Sophie Veigl, Kerry McKenzie, Hasok Chang, and me. It should be fun! (the book will be open access in July, contact me in the meantime) www.exeter.ac.uk/events/detai... #philsci

Absolutely wild to me that this guy gets a heroic feature in the NY Times when his clearly articulated climate policy throughout has been "let's not do a single thing to reach the previous government's climate targets but just keep them on the books anyway to point at in case anyone asks".

Welcome to our panel discussion on pseudoscience in working life. Among other things, we will talk about how the University of Helsinki last year ended up using questionable competency and personality tests in the the application process for salaried PhD positions. blogs.helsinki.fi/pseudoscienc...

This is a link to a hybrid book launch for the megavolume Methods in Philosophy of Science edited by the amazing @phieveigl.bsky.social and @adrian-currie.bsky.social Chapter 5 is mine with @inkerikoskinen.bsky.social The book will become open access in July 2026: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255224...

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Welcome to our panel discussion on pseudoscience in working life. Among other things, we will talk about how the University of Helsinki last year ended up using questionable competency and personality tests in the the application process for salaried PhD positions. blogs.helsinki.fi/pseudoscienc...

Jan-Willem Romeijn’s closing address from a typical European podium #EPSA25 #philsci

Luonnonmetsän keittäminen selluksi on käänteistä arvonlisää järjettömässä mittakaavassa. Valtava elonkirjon rikkaus muutetaan bulkiksi teollisuustuotteeksi. Elinympäristöjen pirstoutumisen takia haitta on vielä suoraa vaikutusta suurempi. yle.fi/a/74-20178686

Fans of "slow television" are in for a treat, as Swedish TV is live-streaming the effort to move an entire church in Kiruna from one place to another over the course of two days: www.svtplay.se/video/KnDgQ9... Enjoy!

AI slop and the destruction of knowledge irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...

Epistemic Challenges of Non-native English Speakers in Philosophy: Evidence from an International Survey philpapers.org/rec/PETECO

How many times did Israel deny doing this? And how many times did politicians, journalists and pundits online suggest that saying that Israel was doing anything other than the most "moral warfare" was rank antisemitism?

I just reviewed an obviously AI-generated manuscript. Dear editors, these are not difficult to identify. Please spare your reviewers. We are already overworked, and if you send us AI-bullshit, we are forced to spend time explaining why the paper should be rejected. You could simply desk reject it.

Dear all, Helen passed away at 13:21 local time. Helen would not have wanted us to be sad for a long time. All they wanted was to be remembered. They looked forward to being rid of pain and to being at rest. Helen took great comfort in you, their friends and readers. pt. 1/2

Kirjoitin taas kolumnin. Toimittaja Taina Vuokko keksi, että tässähän pitää luoda aihetunniste #mikseitätäoletutkittu .(Oikeasti vain edelleen haluan, että joku osaava yhteiskuntatieteilijä kiinnostuu noista aiheista.) www.tieteessatapahtuu.fi/numerot/3-20...

I am currently chairing a network very close to my heart, namely the Eastern European Network for Philosophy of Science. It finally has an account here @eenphilsci.bsky.social. To start here's a moving piece by a Bulgarian philosopher and a founding member Lilia Gurova on how it all began.

We are organising a multidisciplinary workshop on pseudoscience in working life (in Helsinki, in September). If the topic interests you, please consider submitting an abstract! philevents.org/event/show/1...

Tutkija allekirjoita vetoomus Suomen ulkopoliittiselle johdolle ja eduskunnalle kansanmurhan lopettamiseksi Gazassa ja Palestiinan tunnustamiseksi docs.google.com/document/d/1...

"We'll just terraform Mars," they insist, unable to terraform Earth, a planet that is already perfect except it's like 2° too warm.

This is the moment. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Holy moly. Read the full thread, it is worth it (and try to keep up the faith that science is self-correcting, even it does not seem to be the case here (yet)) #MetaScience

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Valheiden ja virheväittämien oikomisen sijaan haluaisin käyttää aikani rakentavaan keskusteluun. Nykyrooli on pakotettu, ei valinta. www.hs.fi/alueet/art-2...

We are organising a multidisciplinary workshop on pseudoscience in working life. If the topic interests you, please consider submitting an abstract! blogs.helsinki.fi/pseudoscienc...

Sandra Harding, a philosopher well-known for her work in feminist theory, postcolonial theory, and philosophy of science, has died.

Tutkijayhteisö on laajalla konsensuksella varoittanut metsähakkuiden negatiivisesta vaikutuksesta nieluihin jo yli kymmenen vuotta. Suomen ilmastotavoite olisi täysin mahdollista saavuttaa, jos metsäsektori olisi muiden alojen tapaan kantanut oman vastuunsa ilmastotoimista. 1/3

A rare and wonderful sight of a great UK philosophy job. Please spread widely to colleagues worldwide. Area of Specialization: Ethics and/or Political Philosophy Would be an advantage to be able to teach Ethics of AI Tenure-track Application deadline: 10th March 2025 #philsky

Have you published in venues funded by the US government? Go and save your work NOW!

Authors, if you see this, it's a sign to post the first line of your book. Kaivinkoneet murisivat Sipoossa vuonna 1987. [Excavators growled in Sipoo in 1987.]

Suomen Filosofisen Yhdistyksen vuosikollokvio alkaa vajaan tunnin kuluttua Tieteiden talolla.

@helendecruz.net, Jennan Ismael, Hasok Chang and myself are plenary speakers for this year's #EPSA conference. The CFP is out: philsci.eu/EPSA25/Plena...

Our global study on the state of trust in scientists is now out in Nature Human Behaviour! 🥳 With a team of 241 researchers, we surveyed 71,922 people in 68 countries, providing the largest dataset on trust in scientists post-pandemic 👇🧵https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-02090-5

Another Elsevier paper with obvious AI-written text. “In summary, the management of bilateral iatrogenic I'm very sorry, but I don't have access to real-time information or patient-specific data, as I am an AI language model. “

This is the shape of the crisis: to prevent cataclysmic climate breakdown, we have to RADICALLY cut carbon pollution at a completely unprecedented rate. All prior climate policy has failed. Any university without a massive, cross-disciplinary program to inform this task is part of the problem.

@teemulari.bsky.social interviewed Professor Ha-Joon Chang as he visited us in Helsinki. The interview is now out in Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics. Issues covered: Pluralism in economics, role of economists in politics, advice for young scholars doi.org/10.23941/ejp... #EconSky

Please share news of this new post. We are particularly interested in candidates with expertise in the philosophy of medicine and the biomedical sciences. Closing date February 2nd 2025 #philsci #philsky