Gen AI consumes #openscience as raw fuel - how do we avoid losing that value to private, closed, corporate benefit only? It's a catch 22. #CMUOpenScience Mohammad Hosseini speaking on #openscience in #GenAI. Really dilemmas we have to address head on.

Can metadata curation count as experimental practice? We answer in this new paper on data reanalysis in #plant #spacebiology, a major outcome of #PHIL_OS & Paola Castaño‘s collaboration w NASA’s open data team! #philsci, #data, #experimentation, #modelling, #ISS. OA version: doi.org/10.1016/j.sh...

📣 This Friday, we will have another seminar: @nathanaelsheehan.bsky.social from TU Munich will give a talk on 'Metascience of Past, Present, & Future'. 🎧 Make sure to join! 📅 Friday, 7.11.2025 | 3:00-4:15 PM (CET) 📌 Online & at CWTS www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

"The protocol taught us that technology can be based on human values like ethics and morality. It showed that voluntary compliance works when all parties benefit." On robots.txt. www.heise.de/en/backgroun...

If you’re interested in practicing the philosophy of science in practice why not come along to an online workshop “the philosophy of science in practice - in practice”? #philsci

a grifter who left a political career (former UK Deputy Prime Minister) to serve as Zucks lapdog, now says the most evil company is indeed 'evil' having actively created a hostile/anti-regulation culture & making millions doing it. cry me a fucking river www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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

These Billionaires need you to believe that they are super smart like their friends from high school, not just rich. Its not enough for them to be richer, they have to be richer because they are smarter.

Likening PhD holders to a (non-functional) algorithm is a form of dehumanisation & anti-intellectualism that is a bellwether for contemporary fascism. Essentially it's a typical — if not the archetypal — first step towards fascism: to dehumanise, deskill, defund, and, ultimately, fire the academics.

Very excited for this to finally be published!! As someone who will soon graduate with a PhD in Environmental Intelligence (EI), it has always been difficult to explain what EI is. Sabina's new paper answers these questions and provides a roadmap for future EI research 🌿🐝👩🏻‍💻 🦠🎋

Just out / 1: “methods in philosophy of science”, #OA heroically assembled by Adrian Currie & Sophie Veigl. Comments welcome on mine & @Rachel Ankeny’s “Research design for philosophy of science in practice”, topic close to our hearts & constant source of questions! mitpress.mit.edu/978026255224...

so I am one of the 12 people (including the “god-fathers of AI”) that will be at the Vatican this September for a two full-day working group on the Future of AI here is my Vatican approved short provocation on 'AI and Fraternity' for the working group

Methods in the Philosophy of Science: A User's Guide is now a real, live book. My chapter offers an appraisal of philosophy of science in its engagement with applied mathematics. With immense gratitude for the vision and execution of @phieveigl.bsky.social and @adrian-currie.bsky.social sky.social.

all microsoft products are shit. my working days would be much more productive if I didn't have to use them

Should we expect AI to be explainable? Read the new Ethical Data Blog post by Laura Gorrieri, EDI Affiliate from the University of Turin. A thought-provoking read for anyone interested in the ethical implications of AI. 👉 ethicaldatainitiative.org/2025/06/04/s...

Just published: my 3rd & final PhD paper! (with @iriszez.bsky.social) 🧪📢 How should we talk about vaccination rates? Assuming rationality, normativity, or reasonableness leads to very different outcomes. Findings from 3 experiments: 🔓 doi.org/10.1177/0033... #PsychSky #AcademicSky #Psychology

I recently wrote a blog post for the @edinitiative.bsky.social summarising the EDI's first town hall! The blog post covers all of the talks and activities from the day! Check it out on the EDI website: ethicaldatainitiative.org/2025/05/02/s...

“is my calculator horny?“ our tech columnist asks. “i entered 5318008 into it and turned it upside down. what i saw surprised me”

He could, for instance, have written about any number of topics. Here are some ideas for free. 1. What cults are the Anthropic crew in, and what is the ideological ancestry of these cults? (We've done the work for him here, hint hint, its eugenics: firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...).

So, covid.gov now redirects to, uh, this... www.whitehouse.gov/lab-leak-tru...

This was interesting! As I understand it the claim is: in the UK the only research at scale is done by big universities. This meant the ATI was immediately captured by a clique thereof, who just wanted to use it to shuffle government money back to themselves... www.chalmermagne.com/p/how-not-to...

➡️ Find our work thus far on www.dair-institute.org/tigray-genoc.... ➡️ More importantly, we have a statement describing the unbridled war mongering currently spreading on ALL social media platforms, setting the stage for all out war between Ethiopia & Eritrea: www.dair-institute.org/blog/tigray-...

I have long complained about gemini overview being embedded, non-optionally, in web search. However, I wish to revise my opinion. I think it can, in fact, serve a function, namely, as evidence of the extent to which folk knowledge of a given subject is confused or contradictory.

we made a critical error allowing reactionaries to make-up concepts like “biological sex” and frame them as non-ideological when it’s the exact opposite: people who undergo HRT *are literally changing their biological sex.* this is not some philosophical distinction, it is actual biological reality.

If you're not aware of forum.safeguar.de and other efforts to save data/tools from government destruction, now is the time to learn about them. You can even help!

Open science isn't just for the rich. I wrote about building #REPOPSI – a repository of psychological instruments in Serbian – and what it taught me about doing #OpenScience with limited resources and lots of persistence. #PhDSky doi.org/10.1038/d415...

Today in the reading group I run with @nathanaelsheehan.bsky.social, we discussed how undersea internet cables track and replicate colonialism, based on this paper: Mwema & Birhane, A. (2024). First Monday, 29(4). doi.org/10.5210/fm.v...

#Radical #OpenAccess III conference at Cambridge. Super excited to be here. Will try to post about some of the talks. "To be truly radical is to make hope possible, rather than despair in convincing."

Out this week @cogscisociety.bsky.social! @samhforbes.bsky.social & I ”urge extreme caution in the use of LLMs in classrooms lest we further normalize: pupils losing their privacy, reducing contact between learner and educator, deskilling teachers & polluting the environment” doi.org/10.1111/cogs...

Calling all RDA newcomers! Join our Newcomers Sessions during #VP24 to learn more about what the RDA can do for you. Sessions will be structured around your questions - so let us know what you would like to hear through our Whova poll: (registered attendees only): rdavp24.events.whova...

Ethics of AI post-doc opportunity with an experimental angle, w/ my colleague Ophelia Deroy & her team (@opheliaderoy.bsky.social). Please share w/ anybody who might be interested: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/d... #aiethics #postdoc #xphi (Ping @xphilosopher.bsky.social perhaps you know someone?)

🚨JOB ALERT 🚨 Are you a philosopher of AI and Data looking for a permanent position in a vibrant place? Apply until April 17! #philsky #philsci #AI

Nice to see this paper published from a great collection of authors who I was able to work/think with during the 2021 Intelligent Machines, Emotions, and Our Planet conference!

Want to consider “When Open Publishing Is Not Fair”? Join the PCI webinar on Thursday 20/03 at 16 CET where I discuss this issue on the basis of Open Science studies (PHIL_OS www.opensciencestudies.eu). Registration here: univ-cotedazur.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Just under a week left to apply for this position on the MORPHSS project.

Tired of calls for unlocking AI's full potential. Time to unlock the full potential of investing in public health and public education so nurses and teachers are no longer underpaid and overworked.

New #PHIL_OS paper out! From @rosetrappes.bsky.social and me, an analysis of what insights biological niche concepts (and philosophy thereof) can inspire towards understanding research environments doi.org/10.1007/s131... #philsci

I wrote this piece for @thebaffler.com on RFK Jr and the politicization of science (drawing on some ideas I’m developing for my new book…)

Turns out a bunch of philosophers have independently used the #niche concept to think about science. @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social and I looked into these and built a framework for research niches. Paper coming out in #EJPS soon, preprint up at philsci-archive.pitt.edu/24675/

Myself and Rose Trappes are restarting our bi-monthly reading group on Epistemic Diversity & Epistemic Injustice this coming February. Link to the reading list below! If you are interested in participating shoot me a message! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Open invitation to EDI‘s townhall meeting on 31 March at TUM in Munich

anyone else having issues accessing: www.re3data.org ?

"...you have this landscape that we've seen now: very very strong trust in the data, a constant quest for ways of automating judgement so that less is on our shoulders..."

Sabina Leonelli: "If you take this [capitalist] way of thinking about the accumulation of wealth and you put it together with this strong emphasis on induction, on accumulation facts and to more or less automatically derive decisions from facts,..."

The Philosophy of Data with @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social, @vlastasikimic.bsky.social, and Rhaul Sam #PhilSci #PhilSky

Wrote an R script to automatically* download multiple components on the Open Science Framework. I manage an OSF project with 100+ components that I regularly back up, so it's a life-saver. 😌 Would anyone be interested in this? It's a bit of a niche way to use OSF (see below). #OpenScience #RStats

AGI benchmarks are decoys

A month earlier humanity had found itself collectively looking up from a giant pair of rats testicles and oversized penis that dwarfed the animal itself. The authors had used Midjourney to generate an image, complete with gibberish labels; it had passed peer review. www.frontiersin.org/... 24/31

After working on this paper for three years, delighted to see it out - we propose a way to defuse the tension between data openness and responsible dat management, by pushing the FINDABILITY of data and the opportunities for connections among data users #philsci #openscience

New paper by me and @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social : Reconciling data actionability and accountability in global health research: The case of SARS-CoV-2 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #openscience #data #ethics