Science coverage of this open letter with quotes from @bayesianboy.bsky.social @cailinmeister.bsky.social Craig Callender, Matthew Liao @naomioreskes.bsky.social and me. Journals, the ball is in your court now.

As philosophy rushes to claim expertise on AI, AI companies rush to control the philosophical narrative. Unlike other disciplines, philosophy has no standards for reporting conflicts of interest. This petition endeavors to change that: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

➡️ 🔓 [OPEN ACCESS] "Critically Engaged Pragmatism: Scientific Norm and Social, Pragmatist Epistemology for AI Science Evaluation Tools" by Carole J. Lee www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"Knowledge and Politics: Reflections on Challenges to Open Science" by Helen E. Longino www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Yippie! My first solo author paper has been published in Social Epistemology! The paper explores the philosophy of data formats and how they shape participation in open research data infrastructures.

I am heartbroken by University of Exeter’s decision to endanger the majority of staff in philosophy and qualitative social science, including #Egenis @exeterspspa.bsky.social No warning, no consultations, just an email dropped into inboxes announcing redundancy. c.org/zKbPJFDwBq #philsci #sts #hps

🚨 New 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐝𝐨𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫 opportunity at CWTS on Evaluating Open Science Impact and Research Culture Change, working closely with Alex Rushforth and Louise Bezuidenhout. Apply until 18 June 👇 careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/Postdoct... @leidensocial.bsky.social @opensciencenl.bsky.social

Still processing FOR2026 in Munich. We presented our poster on open & equitable research- great conversations, so much energy. The people stayed with us most. Scholars, activists, practitioners-passionate about Open Science & actively working towards it. So glad to be part of it.

updated to link to all I know of; please sign: openletter.earth/open-letter-... > Colleagues and I have written and published: Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia. Also there are versions in Dutch, French, German, Italian, and Spanish olivia.science/ai/#activism

Some incredibly rich discussions were held at #FOR2026, organized by the PHIL_OS team at @tum.de 👏🏼 So grateful for the opportunity to share this collage of ideas about open research infrastructures, and for the lovely meetings with old and new friends and colleagues. Until next time!

Great to see open education represented at #FOR2026 today! @rfarrow.bsky.social presented the GO-GN, a network of PhD candidates around the world whose research projects include a focus on #OpenEducation (i.e. OER, OEP, MOOC). go-gn.net #OpenScience

kudos to @alelazic.bsky.social for bringing up this wonderful piece at #FOR2026 - always worth resharing and rereading 👏 Equity in science is a beautiful lie — and I’m done pretending www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Pleasure to share our research on public desire to learn about preliminary science at #FOR2026 Check out the slides: www.canva.com/design/DAHH2... #openscience #scicomm #scholcomm

At #FOR2026 yesterday, I learned from Carole Goble that Trust (in another person or organization) can be defined as their: (Credibility + Reliability + Intimacy) / Self-Orientation which is from Cathrin Stöver - Chief Communications Officer GÉANT

„People aren’t FAIR, data might be“ but people failed to recognize data practices and efforts of others. We have a digital #TragedyOfTheCommons in research and open science. @carolegoble.bsky.social at #FOR2026 #OpenScience #ResearchData #RDA #FAIRData #TrustedResearchEnvironments

Amazing to hear from Vaska Leshoska today at #FOR2026 about RISE-Open, a grassroots effort opening up psychological instruments & resources for Macedonian students & researchers. Nice to see the vibes of our Serbian #REPOPSI (2020-) spreading across the region. 😍 #OpenScience

During #FOR2026, I learned that I should read "Thinking like a business: Reconfiguring relationships to sustain open data infrastructures" by Kathleen Gregory and Dorothea Strecker (arxiv.org/abs/2604.27580), which takes a political economy-based look at Dryad

At the Future of Open Research conference, sponging up ideas for concrete action. ResearchEquals creates spaces for experimental forms of research, which informs new policies. Since our inception, this has popularised the notion of more diverse outputs. #FOR2026

"AI is often pitched as a climate solution, optimizing energy and accelerating decarbonization. In reality, claims of sustainability obscure the deep ties between tech, fossil fuels, and the state." #Critical_AI_Literacy www.themaybe.org/reframing-im...

We (@sabinaleonelli.bsky.social, @elisj.bsky.social, Emma Cavazzoni & I) are collecting stories (voice notes/text) and images (drawings/photos) of Cicadas and Fireflies for an upcoming Pianeta Lab event. If you have any, we welcome you to share them via our website-> pianeta-lab-storia.vercel.app

we did this work about 5yrs ago. disheartening to see things have gotten worse, generally speaking

We need to start asking major websites not to provide Share links to X.

It's fascinating to see the changes in one company's logo over the years.

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...