More press about our BBS paper on metabolism and cognition: aktuell.uni-bielefeld.de/2025/11/24/t... #neuroskyence #cogsky #philsci

🚨We're hiring! A tenure track position at McGill University in the area of #bioethics and / or philosophy of science, with a special focus on the ethics of medical technologies. Please share widely. #philsky #ethics #philsci philjobs.org/job/show/30402

You think LLM-based chatbots can help students learn? Think again. Take a few minutes to listen to Dr. @drtanksley.bsky.social clear explanation why this is very bad, harmful idea, especially for Black students. #Critical_AI_Literacy www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mtc...

EXCLUSIVE: CDC to end all monkey studies. Decision handed down by recent college grad and former DOGE employee who is now deputy chief of staff at the agency. Animals were being used in studies of HIV prevention. Some may be euthanized. My latest for @science.org

The extremely rad editors of @being.transinphilosophy.org have put out a call for pitches for the next edition of their zine! They are also hosting cool events at the Eastern and Pacific meetings of the APA (details on the website). being.transinphilosophy.org/cfp/

This is a frustrating misconception of what doing science is like. All that's needed to break through is someone else to tell you to just "run THIS experiment". Oh that's so easy, thanks, why didn't I think of that?

Folks who work on measurement: this society and conference is a lovely interdisciplinary space. It includes philosophers, education researchers, historians, psychologists, psychometricians, etc. Consider submitting and taking a trip to Edinburgh!

Folks who work on measurement: this society and conference is a lovely interdisciplinary space. It includes philosophers, education researchers, historians, psychologists, psychometricians, etc. Consider submitting and taking a trip to Edinburgh!

When you are using the "AI" framing, does the way you talk about "AI" carry water for the Sam Altmans of the world? That is, are you helping to paint a picture of their tech as inevitable, all powerful, and/or anything other than commercial products? >>

Once again, @yaelrice.bsky.social and I published this article in 2020 so that no one ever has to debunk this vile nonsense point-by-point ever again. As we write (see the next post in this thread)... hyperallergic.com/604897/how-s...

Here comes the PSA! With @schlawinerkreis.bsky.social we'll talk about the invisibility of East-European migrants in German health data. We've published on how the lack of data on racialisation maintains white ignorance about racism and next we'll look at the Western dimensions of white ignorance

PSA from 404 Media: you can opt-out of a data broker selling your flight travel data to the government to be searched without a warrant. Here's how I did it. This is ARC, the data broker owned by major U.S. airlines like United, Delta, American, etc www.404media.co/how-to-opt-o...

Nature suggests you use their "Manuscript Adviser" bot to get advice before submitting I uploaded the classic Watson & Crick paper about DNA structure, and the Adviser had this to say about one of the greatest paper endings of the century:

so @matteowong.bsky.social & I wrote on data centers: arguably the most important buildings in the world & are, in a way, holding the economy hostage. Byzantine financial instruments, private equity, depreciating tech, hype, $trillion valuations. it’s all there. an ai crash prob starts here.

I completely agree with @lastpositivist.bsky.social that this paper is a banger! The narrative Ferry-Danini presents about the history of Spasfon and the current lack of action by French medical institutions is fascinating and horrifying. Well researched too!

More than five years in the making, my paper about the metaphysics of pregnancy is out today, open-access in PPR 🧵1/7 doi.org/10.1111/phpr...

I have a number of colleagues who think that LLMs will be very useful as individualized tutors. One of their arguments is that unlike previous generations of AI tutors, LLMs have the full context window of the conversation and that’s better understand what a student knows and doesn’t know.

I completely agree with @lastpositivist.bsky.social that this paper is a banger! The narrative Ferry-Danini presents about the history of Spasfon and the current lack of action by French medical institutions is fascinating and horrifying. Well researched too!

It's up www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

In the quest for "biological truth," the Trump admin discounts the very real biological truth that some men do get breast cancer Now it'll be harder for male veterans diagnosed w/the rare but deadly cancer to get VA coverage always read @ericumansky.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/vete...

Via @rachelankeny.bsky.social: Next Society for #PhilSci in Practice conference #SPSP2026 will be in Cambridge UK hosted by HPS Dept @ Cambridge University & SPSP co-founder Hasok Chang. Keep eye out for call next year ⬇️ philosophy-science-practice.org

US census data is carefully anonymized for good reason. Now Republicans want to change that -- and their plan could put the data of every person living in the US at risk. Important reporting from @telliotter.bsky.social

This person is one hundred percent correct and it’s scary af. We will never “media literacy” our way out of this as a society. We are about to reap the whirlwind when it comes to misinformation, disinformation, and informational warfare.

I’ve just uploaded to philpapers my (preprint) chapter titled “Values and Measurement” forthcoming in the Routledge Handbook of Values in Science. It’s an overview of arguments for values playing significant roles in measurement practices. Comments welcome! philpapers.org/rec/LARVAM-2

Award-winning pain researcher here. This is not something that can be done. Hope this helps.

Save the date:The next biennial Society for the Study of Measurement (SSM) conference will be held at the University of Edinburgh June 22-25, 2026. Calls for conference papers, posters, & workshops will be posted soon ⤵️ measurementsociety.org #HPS #STS #metrology #statistics #data #science #philsci

“Google has filed a patent for a face-detection activation system that would eliminate the need for ‘Hey Google’ hotwords by automatically triggering its Gemini AI assistant when a user's phone detects their face nearby.” 😩

google wants to introduce errors into my spreadsheets and attribute them to me

Hey authors, the official list of Anthropic works is available for searching. secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup

Finally officially published! "Race science in mainstream psychology, 1960–2010" with @rhacodactylus.bsky.social (who needs a job btw) direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... 🧵 #histsci #sts #philsci #metascience

"Every single one of you has that indomitable spirit. But so many people don’t let it out. They don’t realize the power they have to influence and change the world. And so I’m saying to you, let your indomitable spirit make a difference." — Jane Goodall, March 30, 2024, grist.org/looking-forw...

NOT A DRILLLLLLL IT WORKS!

Upshot: NNES report to need twice as long to read English-language papers and to prepare English presentations. Even among highly proficient NNES (C1–C2 level), ~60% report having avoided asking questions at events due to concerns about their English (compared to 16% of NES). #philsky

36 mo postdoc / research fellow position in Philosophy, History, and/or Social Studies of the Life Sciences in the STS dept. at Technical Universtiy of Munich, apps due Oct 31: #histphil #histsci #histSTM www.sts.sot.tum.de/en/sts/arbei...

When we posted this a couple of weeks ago, we had some AI enthusiasts insist that this diagram was the result of poor prompting, or that the prompt that the original poster made was to generate a funny, bad diagram. So we decided to test ChatGPT's capability...

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

In tenure letters the last few years I've been forcibly struck by how much service the women I'm reviewing are doing compared to the men. (Actual evidence backs this anecdote up - see below.) link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Very happy to announce that the CFP is now open for APSA26: The Inaugural Biennial Conference of the Asian Philosophy of Science Association! It will be held at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. The keynote will be Craig Callender. Submission deadline: 31 Dec 2025. URL: tinyurl.com/APSA26

🚨 Breaking News 🚨 The Admin just destroyed $10M of birth control purchased by USAID for women in low-income countries. That birth control would have prevented 362,000 more unintended pregnancies, 110,000 more unsafe abortions, and 718 preventable maternal deaths. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

In late June, Google quietly scrubbed its pledge to hit net zero by 2030 from its sustainability website as it goes full steam ahead on hyperscale data centers and generative AI.

The researchers profiled in this Science piece are doing amazing work improving understanding of the causes of endometriosis and possible diagnostic tests that are less invasive than surgery. An excellent example of how feminist science can produce work that is more open to various explanations,

The researchers profiled in this Science piece are doing amazing work improving understanding of the causes of endometriosis and possible diagnostic tests that are less invasive than surgery. An excellent example of how feminist science can produce work that is more open to various explanations,

We’re excited to launch the official BlueSky profile of ISHPSSB! Founded in 1998, we connect researchers in philosophy, history, and social studies of biology and medicine worldwide. Follow us for updates and events! #PhilosophyOfBiology, #HistoryOfScience, #STS, #Biology, #Medicine

I’m seeing a lot of inaccurate info about the Anthropic settlement being passed around as fact, so here’s a good basic explainer from the Author’s Guild that I highly recommend reading so you understand it better if you’re potentially part of the class: authorsguild.org/news/what-au...

For context that's a third the price the RIAA expected a single human to pay for just downloading 24 songs a decade ago (after cutting the ruling down from $1.5m, or $62,000 per song), and that's not adjusting for inflation:

Did you just read about how traditional Medicare is about to require prior approval - and they’re going to hire **AI companies** to dole out those approvals? Then you need to learn about Dr. Gary Bent.

But by far and away, the biggest priority for a Heritage Foundation-captured CDC is going to be using the agency's legal frameworks for access to medical data, and weaponizing them to control women. *Most* of the Project 2025 plan for CDC is a witch hunt against abortion on an unprecedented scale.