Honored to be part of the organising committee for the 14th PBCS Workshop at UNED (Madrid). Mark your calendars: June 18–19, 2026. Abstracts due January 15. Details: sites.google.com/view/xivpbcs... Looking forward to your submissions! #PBCS2026 #philsci #philbio #philcogsci #CFA

📢 Seminario METIS #10: Mañana, Jorge Ramos (@jsramos.bsky.social) hablará sobre “La metafísica de la biología desde la práctica científica biológica’’. 🗓️ Martes, 2 de diciembre | 🕚 11:30–13:30 | 📍 Paseo Senda Rey 7, Edificio de Humanidades, Aula B 💻 Asistencia online: blogs.uned.es/metis/contact/

🟢This Thursday the 27th, our METIS member @ignasigil.bsky.social will talk about “The Epistemic and Zetetic Irrationality of Incessant Checking in OCD” at the SEFA 2025 Postgraduate Congress. More info: www.sefaweb.es/programacps/

The European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (ENPOSS) invites submissions to its 15th Conference at the University of Helsinki, 26-28 August 2026. More info here: enposs.eu

I am happy to be part of the organization of the next Causality in the Sciences conference in Sevilla, focusing on cases from medicine. Mark your calendars for October 8-9th 2026. Deadline for abstract submission: March 8th. More details here: eventos.us.es/142286/secti...

🔥Segunda sesión del Seminario de Doctorandos BioKoinos-METIS 25/26. Alejandro Di Rienzo (@dirienzo.bsky.social)(USC) presenta “Mereología musical”, con comentario a cargo de Ramon Carnota (UNED). Más info 👉 blogs.uned.es/metis/alejan...

I really enjoyed presenting my work today at the PSA AW Conference! Many thanks to the organisers @philsci.bsky.social and to our session chair, Michal Hladky, for making the session so welcoming. I also appreciated the pertinent questions from @jgutierrez.bsky.social & @williams-r-b.bsky.social! 🙂

Today, two of our METIS members and PhD students present at the PSA @philsci.bsky.social Around the World Conference 💠 Losner Briones (@losnerbriones.com): "From Causal Inference to Distributive Outcomes" 💠 Marco Portillo (@raciondeser.bsky.social): "Biology as Evidence for the A-Theory of Time"

My book Playing Possum has been nominated in its German edition for 'Science book of the year' (Wissenschaftsbuch des Jahres)! Please kindly vote for it if you think it deserves to win 😇

The next conference of the Society for the Study of Measurement will take place at Edinburgh on 22-25 June. Call for papers and symposia opens Nov 15 and closes Jan 15. Submissions via app.oxfordabstracts.com/auth?redirec...

Good to see this by @cristianlarph.bsky.social published. The Stevens prohibition against averages from ordinal scales is hereby lifted. Albeit only when you have evidence that your scale is not purely ordinal #philsi #metascience #measurement

The Phil-Sci Archive at Pitt is now pushing papers out on Bluesky. Follow the account below to see them @philsci-archive.bsky.social

Is democracy broken? How can we know if it still works? My paper, “Does this democracy work?”, is now out in Economics & Philosophy: doi.org/10.1017/S026... Thank you to everyone who helped!

🚨Job Alert! 🏛️ One FPI PhD position open in our group. 🎓 Project: «Nuevas aproximaciones a la evidencia: desarrollos teóricos y prácticos». 📅Application period: from October 27 to November 7. 🔗More info at: www.uv.es/uvweb/servic...

Excited to take part in PSA Around the World 2025, where I'll be presenting part of my developing PhD work: "From causal inference to distributive outcomes: Why methodological pluralism matters in policy evaluation". On 14 November at 17:35 (CET). #PSA2025 #PolicyEvaluation

Very promising project by Luis Mireles-Flores (@tint-philosophy.bsky.social)! www.doi.org/10.4324/9781...

📢 ¡Vuelve el Seminario de doctorandos BioKoinos-METIS! 🗣️12 sesiones donde doctorandxs comparten sus investigaciones. 🕓Miércoles, 16h (CEST/CET) | Formato híbrido 👥Coord.: @jsramos.bsky.social (UNED) y Turad Miguel Turad (UCM) 📅Programa completo: blogs.uned.es/metis/semina...

Congrats to all involved in the production of the massive Oxford Handbook of cultural evolution. You can read our paper The Cultural Evolution Of Science here: cailinoconnor.com/wp-content/u...

Many people lack a coherent system of political beliefs (Converse, 1964). Yet, studies in social and political psychology often measure political ideology using a single-item "liberal-conservative" or "left-right" scale that assumes a coherent ideology. doi.org/10.1007/s112...

En 24h un futbolista de la selección ha insinuado que nos fumigan con aviones y otro ha dicho que cualquier protesta es válida contra el genocidio en Gaza. Para muchos el 1º es un valiente que se enfrenta al sistema y el 2º un provocador que mezcla política y deporte. Vivimos un momento jodido.

Hoy hemos celebrado una comida para despedir a Francisco Álvarez, Manuel Sellés y Eduardo Bustos, fundadores del Departamento de LHFC de la UNED, que se jubilan. Gracias por todo vuestro legado. Paco, Manolo y Eduardo, esta siempre será vuestra casa💚

At the XI SEFA Congress in Seville, Losner Briones (@losnerbriones.com) (with Guillermo Marín Penella) presenting: “Two Extensions of Causal Extrapolation within Evidential Pluralism”

The XI SEFA Congress starts! We’re proud to see so many METIS members: Javier González de Prado, Losner Briones, Paloma Atencia Linares, Marco Portillo, Neri Marsili, Umberto Rivieccio, Ignacio Sánchez Moreno, Laura Delgado-Verges, Laura Delgado, Claudia Picazo & Sophie Keeling.

Save the Date: JUNE 8–12, 2026. Fourth Lake Como Summer School in Philosophy of Economics. Villa del Grumello, Como, Italy. Sponsored by INEM, the University of Insubria, and the University of Milan. More information forthcoming. @catemar.bsky.social @rseri.me

👋📢 METIS Seminars 2025-2026! Hi 😊 As every year, we’re back with our weekly philosophy seminars. They are one of METIS’s main activities, and everyone is more than welcome to join. Here’s a thread on who we are, what we do, and how you can take part 👇🧵

I am quite excited to share a new preprint on the prospects for a 'metaphilosophy of science'—a second-order inquiry into the concepts, assumptions, aims, and methods that underpin philosophy of science itself. 👇📃 philsci-archive.pitt.edu/26661/ 1/3 #philsci #philsky #HPS #HPbio #metaphilosophy

This academic year, I'll be co-teaching with @mjbuedo.bsky.social Philosophy of Science I and Philosophy of the Social Sciences for undergrads at UNED ✨📚

📢 Reminder! Susana Monsó from METIS will participate in the "Festival de las Ideas" with the talk “Las otras inteligencias”. 📍 Círculo de Bellas Artes C/ Alcalá, 42, Madrid 📅 19 Sept. 2025 | 18h A fantastic chance to meet @susanamonso.com and explore her work. Don’t miss it! Info: goo.su/bNVDiT

🧑🏼‍🏫 Vamos con el primer punto del #PactoXLaCiencia 📄 Estatuto del Personal de Investigación (EPI) @cienciagob.bsky.social @dianamorantr.bsky.social 👇🏼🧵

A privilege to co-author with the brilliant @alessandrabasso.bsky.social whose mastery of economics of inequality and its philosophy is unparalleled. Our general point: indicators always have more than one ideal to serve, so will have to prioritise and hence sacrifice #philsci #econsky #measurement

Now on the Oxford University Press website, complete with cover: Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka's Animals and the Right to Politics, the long-awaited sequel to 2011's Zoopolis. An expected release date of 11 December. Just in time for Christmas! global.oup.com/academic/pro...

September 📚 🏫 In August we took a little vacation 🌞🏖 from the department’s social media, but some members of METIS kept moving. A very brief thread with some of their activities 👇 🧵

🔷 METIS has a new social media team! 🚀 From now on, we will be behind the keyboard: Ignasi @ignasigil.bsky.social & Marco @raciondeser.bsky.social We will continue to share the work, ideas, activity and good humour that make METIS what it is. Stay tuned! 📚

Today I'm discussing randomised controlled trials and pilot studies. How do these designs assess redistributive policies, such as basic income? We'll find out!

My first paper on urban justice is out. It draws an analogy between gentrification and mass incoming migration, and shows that neighbourhoods receiving large numbers of needy migrants are treated unfairly, even if hosting needy migrants IS a requirement of justice/1

With great joy—and a touch of nervousness—I’m thrilled to share that my first academic monograph will be published by @mitpress.bsky.social in May 2026! It examines the organism–environment relationship in biology from an integrated #HPS perspective: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205282... #evosky #philsky

I chat with Thomas Spiteri on measurement in the human sciences. I think the interview came along very well 😊 bsky.app/profile/hpsp... Thanks to Thomas for all the work put into the podcast. #philsci #measurement #philsky

It's publication week for the Oxford Handbook of Social Epistemology, edited by Jennifer Lackey and myself, in the UK and in the rest of the world aside from North and South America (where it was available in May)

The first volume of my anthology of early modern texts about slavery should come out later this year (paperback, hardcover, and e-book)! The cover image is by the amazing NYC artist Ivan Forde. Here's the table of contents: global.oup.com/academic/pro... #philsky #academicsky #slavery

Our paper on 🌱🦧ANIMAL MEDICINE🐜🍄 has been accepted for publication in Philosophy of Science! You can find the accepted version here, open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📢New Working Paper! "Cash Transfers, Mental Health and Agency: Evidence from an RCT in Germany" ✍️ Sandra Bohmann, Susann Fiedler @maxkasy.bsky.social @jpschupp.bsky.social Frederik Schwerte For further information, read the full paper: www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/pu...

📝Why has a Bukele-style far-right party emerged in Spain—even though VOX already exists? In our new paper, @javierpadilla.bsky.social, @canalejoalvaro.bsky.social and I explain the unexpected rise of SALF ("Let the Party Be Over") in the 2024 EP elections: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.... 1/3

Thrilled to continue working alongside a fantastic team on questions about evidence, including evidential pluralism, computer simulations, external validity, and causal extrapolation! 🥳

Our paper “Mapping the Communication of Science” (with V. Crupi) is already available in THEORIA We aim to illuminate and (partly) systematise the diversity of science communication doi.org/10.1387/theo... #PhilSci #SciComm

Many thanks to Jie Gao, Rosa Runhardt, Erik Weber and Michael Wilde for a very nice symposium on the book Evidential Pluralism in the Social Sciences. Both the book and most of the papers are available open access. link.springer.com/collections/... #philsky #philsci

Read all Elements in The Philosophy of Biology series for FREE during the ISHPSSB conference 20 - 25 July. You can find all of these Elements free to download and read here: cup.org/4kEgivL

“Traits” are central units of biological analysis—but how should they be individuated, and relative to which ontogenetic frame of reference? In my new paper, I argue that answering this isn’t easy—and matters more than it seems. 📃👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsci #HPBio #evosky #evodevo