"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.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

1. The philosophy of science sometimes gets an unearned reputation as a purely academic exercise that offers little by way of concrete tools for advancing research. This is wrong. And today, as we grapple with how AI is changing the nature of scientific activity, it's desperately wrong.

So grateful to Frank Augugliaro for designing the cover of our new book! Available everywhere on Sep 16 but never too early to preorder: somebody-book.com @dryan149.bsky.social @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social #SocialChange

New from 404 Media: more than 130,000 Claude, Grok, ChatGPT, and other LLM chats are readable on Archive.org. It's similar to the Google indexing issue, but shows it impacts many more LLMs than just ChatGPT. Some chats contain API keys. www.404media.co/more-than-13...

9/ Our study challenges a common assumption in German academic and public debate: Rasse is seen as more biological than race in the U.S. We found the reverse — or no difference — for “purportedly racial” categories. And while 80% of U.S. Americans believe human races exist, only 24% of Germans do.

1/ I'm excited to share our new open‑access paper in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy (with Leda Berio, Benedict Kenyah‑Damptey, Steffen Koch & Alex Wiegmann). Part of an ongoing project in comparative philosophy of race, exploring the peculiar & often fraught dynamics of race talk in Europe.

It’s the most perfect summer day (70° & sunny) but my kids can’t go outside because the air is toxic to breathe due to wildfire smoke from Canada. Wednesday-Saturday is a very long time to be trapped inside. Climate change is here.

This week @universitypress.cambridge.org has granted free access to all titles in the collection of Cambridge Elements in the Philosophy of Biology, edited by Grant Ramsey. There are many options to choose from! Happy reading! 📕👇 www.cambridge.org/core/publica... #philsci #HPbio #evosky #ISHPSSB2025

Sorry but personally if a miniature horse woke me up from anesthesia by banging out nonsense on a miniature keyboard it would send me into a liminal space between life and death from which I would never return

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A U.S. surgeon trying to have a “peer to peer” consultation with a doctor at a health insurance company who is hiding his identity as her patient gets denied coverage. And it gets worse from there. You have to see it to believe it. (1/2)

“Academic Philosophy Data and Analysis (philosophydata.org), a long running project that collects and analyzes data on graduate experience and employment outcomes for philosophy PhDs, is seeking to expand its leadership…from 1 to 3 directors” Please share! #philsky apda.ghost.io/call-for-dir...

🚨 Very, very big news. Today, a global coalition - including members of the IPCC, IPBES, and WHO expert advisors, as well as independent virologists, epidemiologists, and lawyers - started the process of creating an "IPCC for Pandemics." 🔓 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... 🧵 Five things to know 👉

Working on a paper on validity and robustness this summer and I was so pleased to find that Donald Campbell’s archive is here at Northwestern. Looking forward to exploring some of the archival correspondence and materials.

did you hear that you could read and print Being Trans in Philosophy today?! seriously, like woahhh!! being.transinphilosophy.org the zine @diversityread.bsky.social 10th anniversary conference (happy bday!!) by @nonamename.bsky.social, SF pride @not.dingherself.com, & SPP @willow-starr.bsky.social

NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya used sickle cell disease research as an example of something he would not call DEI and cut. It's being cut. www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/n...

From our collection: Cuscoe [sic] speculum, size virgin, packaged September 2023. "Virgin" is a size category sometimes given to vaginal speculums in the smallest size. This has understandably drawn controversy and campaigning.

Some more good news: NIH internal memos indicate that some grants will be restored after being illegally cancelled due to their content according to a legal ruling. It should restore funding for work on racial health disparities and transgender health. www.science.org/content/arti...

Here’s some good news: the US American College for Obstetrics and Gynecologists recommends pain management for IUD insertion and procedures like colposcopy biopsies. Previously they didn’t typically involve analgesics or anesthetics. (Currently writing a paper on this) www.acog.org/clinical/cli...

Here’s some good news: the US American College for Obstetrics and Gynecologists recommends pain management for IUD insertion and procedures like colposcopy biopsies. Previously they didn’t typically involve analgesics or anesthetics. (Currently writing a paper on this) www.acog.org/clinical/cli...

🏆 We are pleased to announce the 2025 Lakatos Award winner Mazviita Chirimuuta, who receives the award for her book “The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience” Congratulations! 👏 👉More about the award: www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/b...

NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years. NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."

Oh hi there, this Atlantic Yellow-Nosed Albatross chick wants you to have a wonderful day. #WorldAlbatrossDay

THIS IS HUGE! An HIV PrEP drug in the form of a twice-yearly subcutaneous injection has JUST been APPROVED by the FDA. Lenacapavir was 99.9% EFFECTIVE at PREVENTING HIV in clinical trials. Let’s talk about that! 🧪🧵⬇️

In a swift response to this morning's hearing, District Court Judge William G. Young has just ruled that the directives that led to 100s of grant terminations at the NIH are arbitrary and capricious. The directives + subsequent terminations are illegal, he said. "They are of no force and effect."

This is all so ludicrously dumb. You can't master calculus in two weeks. AI provides students with no useful insight into how to study beyond what deep down they already know: You have to go to class, read, do the work, try to understand.

One Texas doctor said hospitals should worry less about hypothetical legal consequences of the abortion ban and more about the threat to patients’ lives: “I think you're risking legal harm the opposite way for not intervening and putting somebody at risk.”

The Trump administration has announced that it is revoking guidance to the nation’s hospitals that directed them to provide emergency abortions to women when they are necessary to stabilize their medical condition.

something that stands out about this is just how cheap it is for us to have world-leading scientific capacity we spent ~6.75 trillion last year, and the combined budgets for NIH, NSF and NASA are barely more than 1% of that what an incredible waste to lose it all for a drop in the bucket

By @alejandrabee.bsky.social The House and Senate both voted to loosen regulations on air pollutants like dioxin and mercury, which are associated with higher cancer risk.

Immense solidarity to the organizers of this Hamburg vigil for Lorenz A. and the alarmingly many Black people killed in Germany owing to endemic patterns of structural racism, from police violence to medical negligence. Only (!) thanks to this protest I learned about the death of Valérie Iyobor 1/n