I have a new paper out in Synthese! It’s about experimental strategies in the historical sciences, using case studies from origins of life research. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Hello BLue-Sky, are you interested in the study of the social implications of genomics? Our project brings together philosophers, social scientists, and geneticists to address this question. Follow us here and sign-up for our mailing list at Hugera.org/contact/ #philsky #STS #metascience

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

Published online today and available soon at your favorite purveyor of fine reading materials. And it's open access.

Book launch for “Methods in the Philosophy of Science: a user’s guide”. Ftf in Exeter and online on the 29th of Sept feat Sophie Veigl, Kerry McKenzie, Hasok Chang, and me. It should be fun! (the book will be open access in July, contact me in the meantime) www.exeter.ac.uk/events/detai... #philsci

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 did a podcast about the philosophy of paleontology in German. I don’t speak German. The world is weird. open.spotify.com/episode/4jAP...

Just registered for PSA Around the World Eastern Europe. Hope you do too! Organised by @philsci.bsky.social with @eenphilsci.bsky.social this online conference over three afternoons in November covers the past and the present of #philsci in Eastern n Central Europe (where it arguably started!)

Why was Newton so sure that if you just did his optical experiments you’d *have* to believe him about light? Kirsten Walsh, Tom Roberts and I use 4E cognition to suggest an answer. Anachronism? You be the judge… (also i’m real proud of this paper) www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.... #philsci

CFA The Human Diversity Dilemma: Navigating the intersection of microbes, ethics & society ISHPSSB Off-Year Workshop Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa October 1-3, 2025 Abstracts due Aug.18 Organizers @abigailnd.bsky.social & @msimang.bsky.social #philsci #STS 🦠 More info ⤵️

Dan Hutto's Critical Notice of Mind as Metaphor (OUP, 2023) is now out in Analysis. Many thanks to Dan for his constructive and thought-provoking comments! Lots for me to mull over... You can read it here: doi.org/10.1093/anal... @oxfordacademic.bsky.social #philsky #philmind #cogsci

My rap style involves the use of syllables from my very own private language, so it's no surprise you can't understand it. I call it 'beetleboxing'

Save the date - on 30 Sept we're opening The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience with a hybrid (online and in-person) event looking at how AI is already transforming the lives of other animals. Details: www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/...

Forthcoming (early 2026) *The Science of Lost Worlds* (BSPSOpen/UCalgary Press). Featuring illustrations by Jim Robins and philosophy by um me!!!

Thought I’d come across an excellent typo, “criticaster”, only to discover that in fact this is a word and indeed a superb one.

Warm congratulations to Alison Wylie and good pick, Rotterdam! I learned of Alison’s work in the early 2000s when what she did, philosophy of archaeology plus feminist theory, seemed totally out of the norm in our discipline. But she did what she believed in and now it’s (almost) mainstream. Bravo!

Excited to see 1st of the Evoluionary Human Sciences special issue on scientific racism come out! @kevinlala.bsky.social @gillianrbrown1.bsky.social @kztwyman.bsky.social & Marcus Feldman discuss impediments to countering racist pseudoscience & present 5 solutions www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Book reviews assigned to an issue are always free to read for six months at Philosophical Psychology. Here Andra Meneganzin reviews Kim Sterelny's book The Pleistocene Social Contract doi.org/10.1080/0951... #FreeAccess #philsky

Sometimes when we’re trying to explain the evolution of human cognition we rely on intuitive judgements about how our ancestors thought that our current cognition might not be well-suited to make, or so argues Margaret Farrell in this cool new paper… link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#ISHPSSB2025 has been an absolute blast! Here we celebrate the work and mentorship of Marc Ereshefsky, a truly positive model for philosophy of biology! Thank you all for coming along! Cheers to Marc! #philsky #HPbio #philsci

Friends of the Historical Sciences Dinner: Porto edition! #ish

Two permanent Lecturer posts at Birkbeck (equivalent of Assistant Professor). Area of specialisation is open but with teaching needs in ethics & phil of AI, ethics and poli phil, ancient, gender, continental, engaged. Closing date August 28th, start in Jan 2026 'a significant advantage' #philsky

Want to do a master’s in philosophy in Aotearoa (New Zealand)? www.otago.ac.nz/study/schola...

Weighing in at 827 pages and 2 1/4 inches, our Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the 19th Century is HERE! Huge thanks to @oupphilosophy.bsky.social and our 50+ authors. Restoring women to the philosophical canon is a matter of justice, but it is also better scholarship!

Great paper on the degrees and levels of innovativeness, contributing to the ongoing debate on how to compare innovations & the ability to innovate !! (Nb. to be distinguished from the propensity to invent, which we are studying in chacma baboons @animalinvention.bsky.social ).

Coming *very* soon #philsci

Oooo Charles Pence & Daniel Swaim are putting together a special issue on the philosophy of the historical sciences (and you can publish in French!). pencelab.be/en/events/rp... #philsci

DnD + philosophy + specifically tailored & tested for classroom use? Yes please. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/w...

Robert’s book has arrived! Very proud of him and recommend it to you all enthusiastically. The mud bubbles on the cover are a metaphor for fragility, a central concept organising the argument. #philsci #philsky

For the cog sci folks out there, a special issue of Philosophical Transactions B @royalsocietypublishing.org: ‘Selection shapes diverse animal minds’. Collection of papers focusing on diversity of evolved animal cognition, from nematodes to primates. royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...

New special issue in HPLS! Rethinking the History of Microbiology, edited by Matheus Alves Duarte da Silva & Mathilde Gallay Keller. link.springer.com/collections/... #hps #philsci

The new Society for the Philosophy of Science in Practice Newsletter is out! #philsci sway.cloud.microsoft/JS1vkVhu2qDA...

What challenges emerge when investigating #behavior across the tree of life? We have an open CfA for a workshop on comparative behavioral biology (Sept. 26-27). Scientists & philosophers are welcome! Please help us spread the word! 📢👇 hiw.kuleuven.be/clps/events/... #philsci #evosky #HPbio #Paleosky

Call for papers: Women in Science: historical perspectives Conference 18 Nov. 2025 at Royal Society Submit proposals < 300 words, incl a biographical note of c.50 words) for 20-min papers to [email protected] subject line ‘proposal for conference paper’ Deadline: 30 June 2025 #HPS

3 year postdoc in STS of health (“health” and “STS” construed broadly) here at Egenis! jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

From organiser Georgi Gardiner on FB: "Next week people will gather online to celebrate the philosophical artworks of Helen De Cruz. (@helendecruz.net) Tuesday, June 24th, 2025 11am - 12.20pm Central US Time (i.e. 5pm BST) on Zoom All welcome! No background knowledge required."

Philosophy of Science job at University of Bristol! Lecturer in Philosophy (Fixed term) AOS: Philosophy of Science or Philosophy of Mathematics AOC: Philosophy of Science, Phil Mathematics, & Logic Deadline: June 30, Start: September 2025 #PhilJobs #PhilSky #PhilSci philjobs.org/job/show/29241

How very dare you (shade from link.springer.com/article/10.1...)

Check out our latest issue with some outstanding papers from outstanding authors! As always, we are fully #openaccess, free for both authors and readers. 🌱🐋 🌎 journals.publishing.umich.edu/ptpbio/issue...

New issue out now! Featuring evolutionary transitions and cumulative culture, hole arguments and jury theorems, Galileo’s ship and best laid plans, distinguishing the indistinguishable, and so much more… Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/bjps/202... #philsci #philsky #hps

Me: maybe we should have a podcast or something? HPS grad students:

I am so happy that this paper co-authored with John Duprè is out! Open access journals.publishing.umich.edu/ptpbio/artic... Please share with others who might be interested! #philsci #philbio 🌱

I am currently chairing a network very close to my heart, namely the Eastern European Network for Philosophy of Science. It finally has an account here @eenphilsci.bsky.social. To start here's a moving piece by a Bulgarian philosopher and a founding member Lilia Gurova on how it all began.

Congratulations to Collin Lucken for successfully defending his dissertation, Engineering Progress in Science! Thanks to Adrian Currie @adrian-currie.bsky.social, the large face looming on the wall, for tremendously helpful involvement as external committee member. @ucphilosophy.bsky.social #philsci

Really looking forward to this one 😉 🧪⚱️💀🧬

With August 21, there is now a publication date for the The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Philosophy of the Historical Sciences and Big History, edited by our very own Aviezer Tucker and @david-cernin.bsky.social. For more information and pre-orders, check here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/bloomsbur....

Congrats! 🎉 academic.oup.com/book/60068 #hpbio #philsci

#opabiniagang www.extinctblog.org/extinct/2025...