In Wageningen this week for Rachel Ankeny’s inaugural lecture @w-u-r.bsky.social and celebrate her seminal work for philosophy of science in practice and beyond. #philsky #philsci

JOB AD: If you research philosophy, history or social studies of biology, with interest in agroecology, crop science or environmental intelligence, consider applying for 3-year postdoctoral fellowship in Munich! Deadline for applications: 31/10, details www.sts.sot.tum.de/en/sts/arbei... #philsci

It was amazing to hear from scholars I’ve long admired, all of whom engaged deeply with the project’s themes and with each other’s presentations 💙 Extremely grateful for the many insightful contributions and for the personal exchanges that made these days so valuable #NormativeKinds #Unimi

Philosophical treats in Milan this week, thanks to the conference organised by @davideserpico.bsky.social and Francesco Guala for the end of their Normative kinds project. #philsci #philsky

Soon... Registration still open! #ImmunoSky #philbio #philsci Link: pmpos.flu.cas.cz/host-microbe...

Great session on precision medicine with @simonlohse.bsky.social and great conference @ishpssb2025.bsky.social – so many notes and papers to go through, enough for the rest of the summer and more. #HPS #philmed #philsci #STS

We had a fantastic session at #ishpssb2025 , including this talk by Alessandro Demichelis and @stefanocanali.bsky.social I hope the airport strikes in Portugal don't make the return journey of ISH folks too difficult!

Out now (print and open access!): Jan Baedke’s Element on “The Organism” at @cambridgeup.bsky.social . It discusses philosophical, historical and social dimensions of the organism concept. www.cambridge.org/core/element... #philsci #philsky #HPS #hpbio #histsci

At STS Italia and immensely excited to hear the first keynote from Ruha Benjamin!

Almost all ready to go (almost…) for the 10th STS Italia conference, from tomorrow to Friday at Politecnico. stsitalia.org/conference-2...

Look at that! You can find me together with other wonderful colleagues on the for the Council of ISHPSSB, my favourite philosophy society. drexel.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #philsky @ishpssb2025.bsky.social

What makes a particular #experiment 'pursuitworthy'? Do criteria differ across scientific fields? @ennofischer.bsky.social & I have extended the deadline for submissions to our topical collection on these issues. Please help us spread the word! 👇 tu-dresden.de/gsw/phil/iph... #philsci #philsky #HPS

Apply to join a team of wonderful colleagues at Philosophy at TU Dresden. I am advertising a 3-year PhD position in philosophy of science/philosophy of physics as part of the DFG project 'Progress through Principles', deadline 28.06.2024. For details: tinyurl.com/3eb2f667 #philsci #philsky

A minority of researchers - under 30% - have used AI to edit or write their papers, according to a Nature survey published today. Those that have used AI, more often than not didn't disclose it. www.nature.com/articles/d41... @nature.com

Ending the week with a treat, @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social in Milano, giving a talk at Bocconi University! And look, from the room you could see Torre Velasca (the best building in Milan) and the Duomo (if you squint).

Registrations for #ISHPSSB2025 are open! Check here ➡️ ishpssb2025.icbas.up.pt/registration... #hpbio #philsci #histstm #histsci #philbio #hbio #sts

Nice crowd at my talk today at the Centre for gender studies @unisr.bsky.social, where I presented my and Chris Hesselbein’s work on digital health tech for women’s health (#femtech) and its epistemic and political limitations – more here: doi.org/10.1007/978-... #philsci #philsky

I’ve spent part of the afternoon attending Phyllis Illari's inaugural lecture ad professor at @stsucl.bsky.social. Phyllis is one of my first mentors, supervised my masters' dissertation – someone to look up to, an example of the philosophers/philosophy we need. www.eventbrite.com/e/live-strea...

Can't quite get myself to listen to this, but here's the interview that Carrie Figdor did with me on my recent book newbooksnetwork.com/operationism... @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social #philsci, #philosophy, #psychology, #HPS, #HOPOS, #metascience

Hey BlueSky, it’s been a while, sorry, but today I am back at the University of Milan Statale to present at the Normative Kinds Seminar (sites.unimi.it/guala/normat...), kindly invited by Francesco Guala and @davideserpico.bsky.social.

Our special issue co-edited with @chrish6699.bsky.social and @stefanocanali.bsky.social is finally out! "Metaverse Datafication: Technologies, Definitions, and Futures" www.tandfonline.com/toc/rics20/2...

Really scary and troubling, see more details and great reporting by @nature.com here: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

📩 Submissions for ENPOSS 2025 (Venice, 10-12 Sept) are now open! Submit your abstract by March 15 at the following link: easychair.org/conferences/... Help spread the word—share this post widely!

Last day to submit an abstract for the next STS Italia conference! #sts #histtech #histsci #philsci

I am beyond excited to announce the imminent arrival of my book. Operationism in Psychology. An Epistemology of Exploration: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... Brief chapter summaries below (1/10)

One more month to submit an abstract at the STS Italia Conference. Check out our panel on artefacts and practices in the science and technology museum! 📺🔧🔭 #histsci #histtech #sts #philsky #philsci

Back to the office today at Politecnico, and I had a nice parcel waiting for me – the new Routledge Handbook of Causality and Causal Methods, with my and @emratti.bsky.social chapter on big data for causal inference and competing views on quantity and quality of data. dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781...

CfA: "Simondon and AI: A Collective Individuation in the Year of His Birth Centenary". Join @susanaaires.bsky.social, @ludovico-rella.bsky.social and me at #STSItalia2025 in Milan next June! Abstracts due 3 February 2025. For submission guidelines and panel details (Panel No. 3): bit.ly/49xJP5m

On Jan 16 join us for the Munich launch of the art film Data Shadows - born of a collaboration with Jacob van der Beugel & Oliver Page, it explores the lives of data in ways that I find magical ✨ info & trailers: opensciencestudies.eu/datashadowsf... To register: tumthinktank.de/event/data-s...

📢 We’re hiring! We are currently looking for a Lecturer in Medicine, Health and Society to join our Department from Sept 25. For more info and to apply, please visit: https://bit.ly/41CTiXk Closing Date: 2nd March 2025 #medicine #health #society #science #technology #WeAreSTS

New paper out with @pbory.bsky.social and Chris Hesselbein! We discuss new forms of data and datafication in the metaverse and, echoing seminal work by @zephoria.bsky.social and @katecrawford.bsky.social, we present six provocations for metaverse datafication. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

Today at Politecnico: guest talk by Roberto Fumagalli @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social on his work on precautionary arguments in cases of severe uncertainty in science and policy www.meta.polimi.it/roberto-fuma...

Whence the heuristic power of physical guiding principles such as correspondence and naturalness? In this article I argue that it arises from the way guiding principles integrate principles of nature and action principles. #philsci #philsky #Physics link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Looking forward to the ISiS colloquium tomorrow, I'll present work-in progress on experiments in digital health and pursuitworthiness – let’s see how many times I’ll fail to pronunce ‘pursuitworthiness’, ah!

In Turin today to speak about the new world of big data AI – or is it an old world still/already? www.didattica-est.unito.it/do/avvisi.pl... #philsci #philsky

We are happy to announce that next colloquium @stefanocanali.bsky.social will present and discuss his work on 'Scientific experiments and pursuits in the digital age: evaluating the pursuitworthiness of digital digital technologies, big data and AI's in digital health and clinical trials.

Very much looking forward to this workshop on animal sentience research next week: www.ru.nl/en/about-us/...

The new SPSP newsletter is out! With Patrick Ferree we've interviewed Lara Keuck on her @mpiwg.bsky.social project on validation in the biomedical sciences. sway.cloud.microsoft/tvRXL53AU0du... #philsci #philmed

Check out the new SPSP Newsletter #22, covering biomedical validation, philosophy of science for and with astrophysics, "evolving evolution", Uni of Valpareiso highlights, ... #philsci #philbio #philmed sway.cloud.microsoft/tvRXL53AU0du...

I’m thrilled to co-chair, with Marie I. Kaiser, the PC of the 10th biennial meeting of the European Philosophy of Science Association, to be held in Groningen on August 27-30, 2025. The conference CFP is out: philsci.eu/EPSA25/CfP Deadline for submissions is January 31. Hope to see you there!

Get ready for Trump-era AI, now even more dangerous and untrustworthy! arstechnica.com/ai/2024/11/t...

Wow! The MN Center for Philosophy of Science has posted the complete conference recordings from ‘Philosophy of Science: Past, Present and Future’ on YouTube A LOT of interesting stuff: Pt. I: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjxi... #philsci #HOPOS

On my way to this in gorgeous Venice – how exciting to attend Sabina’s lecture and be part of TIPS as junior researcher. www.unive.it/web/en/7380/...

📢 2nd CFP for a Special Issue of the *Journal for General Philosophy of Science* "Towards Comparative Philosophy of Science" philevents.org/event/show/1... #philsci #philsky #HPS @jgps.bsky.social @philsci.bsky.social

In Naples this week to attend the "Environment(s). Trajectories of a Concept" workshop www.resviva.it/2024/09/02/2....

Some news about the incremental progress of my forthcoming book, which can be preordered now and will be out in March. Still no cover (which is just as well since the press chose a cover I don't like), but you can see the jacket blurb, table of contents, and endorsements here #philsci #hps

ISHPSSB 2025 (with iced coffee) | deadline for submitting proposals: 1 Nov, 2024 | ishpssb2025.icbas.up.pt/submission #hpbio #philsci #sts

Extended deadline! Submit a panel proposal until 28 October for the upcoming STS Italia Conference "Technoscience for Good: Designing, Caring and Reconfiguring" (Milan, 11-13 June 2025), with keynotes by @ruha9.bsky.social and @shannonvallor.bsky.social. stsitalia.org/conference-2... #philsky

Please circulate: we're hiring a postdoctoral research associate with expertise in philosophy of scientific method and philosophy of causality. Apply here: jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai.... A 2nd postdoc job, for someone with expertise in evidence review and research methods, coming soon.

Looking forward to the German Congress of Philosophy in Münster. I will present joint work with Philippe v. Basshuysen (@mapsproject.bsky.social) on predictive policy advice #philsci #philsky