Come to Glasgow for ICOM-7, the 7th International Conference on Memory, July 2027! Details below. It'll be my 5th ICOM and my 2nd on organizing committee, and we're fixing a brilliant event, keen to expand the range beyond our core psych/ neuro/ cognitive topics so do sign up and please circulate!

Wonderful exhibit by Joan Eardley at the Modern Two in Edinburgh www.nationalgalleries.org/visit/scotti...

My article "What does it mean to understand AI?" is out now in Harvard Data Science Review! I discuss mechanistic interpretability, representation engineering, world models, and Potemkin understanding from philosophical perspectives. hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/w1tfg5lx...

The next instalment of the reading group organised by the Centre for Philosophy of Epidemiology, Medicine, and Public Health #CPEMPH will focus on the philosophy of public health. Schedule here: cpemph.org/2026/04/30/p... - please join us! #philsci #philsky

Metropolitan Science: London Sites & Cultures of Knowledge & Practice, c.1600-1800, by me, @jasminekt.bsky.social and Noah Moxham, is available as a paperback from Thursday! A relative snip at £26 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/metropoli... #earlymodern #histSTM

Forthcoming in @hoposjournal.bsky.social! I discuss the systemic injustice that saw women banned from scientific education in Victorian Britain through the lenses of how artisanal knowledges like weaving and knitting were severed from mathematical knowledge. #philsci philsci-archive.pitt.edu/29274/

The UC Center for Public Engagement with Science @ucpews.bsky.social is hiring a postdoc! Anyone who will earn a PhD in a related discipline with interest in public engagement is encouraged to apply. Please share widely! More details and apply here: jobs.uc.edu/job/Postdoct... #SciComm #philsci 🧪

Some images of the geology/natural history/scientific instrument inspired installation - in place for the rest of the Edinburgh Science Festival, along with a range of activities linked to scientific instruments and #histsci

Starting soon! Sea Level Rise: Measurement, Understanding, Adaptation Hybrid lectures free to register below www.conncoll.edu/academics/ma...

Stay to the very end AND the day after for opportunities to visit @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social stores and other trips #ESHS-HSS

Hey gang! Exeter’s looking for a 4-year postdoc in philsci & AI. Sweet gig at a great place - share around :D #philsci #philjobs www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRD641/p...

Submit your nominations for the 2026 Hempel Award, a biennial award recognizing lifetime scholars achievement in the philosophy of science! The award will be presented prior to the PSA Presidential Address at PSA 2026 in San Diego. (1/2)

Huge congrats 🎉 to the brilliant @vmywang.bsky.social who one year into the PhD programme has already published a paper on the fair share principle in health research and the challenges it faces. #HPS #philsci

Exeter’s got a two-year teaching stint for someone into philosophy of data and related - the job’s pretty plush as far as non-permanent ones go - and Exeter is an amazing place to do this kind of philosophy - please pass around! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQZ094/l... #philsci

3 more PSA Office Hours this semester! All at 12pm EDT. April: Scientific Epistemology:KareemKhalifa, Pitt/UCLA: 8 April; May: Philos of Ecology:KarenKovaka (UC SanDiego)&CarlosSantana (UPenn): 7 May; May: Philos of Linguistics:GabrielDupre (UC Davis)&Ryan Nefdt (U CapeTown): 20 May

Reminder that you can submit an abstract to give a talk at our upcoming 'Rewilding the Web' workshop at the University of Edinburgh up until the 31st March. Details in image and alt text. Supported by @schoolofppls.bsky.social @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social + Scotsphil

The workshop will be held in person from 11/06/2026 to 12/06/2026, at Sorbonne University. Current undergraduate,graduate students (MA and PhD), and established scholars are welcome to participate. The application deadline is 01/06/2026 (via our website).

My wonderful colleague, Adrien Avramoglou, and I are going to organise a two-day conference about the role of pluralism in contemporary metaphysics of science. Come to Paris for the city, stay for the metaphysics! sites.google.com/view/hhu-sor...

Packed workshop today in honour of our wonderful colleague Pauline Pheminster who has just retired. Jennifer Marusič presents Pheminster’s scholarship on Leibniz’s metaphysics, its deeply relational nature, and implications for environmental philosophy

Delighted to see this volume out and open access with lots of interesting chapters related to the human right to science. My chapter explores the notion of ‘epistemic jurisdictions’ as a way of better understanding the interlacing of local knowledge and scientific knowledge under this human right.

The Science, Innovation & Tech committee have written the most amazing letter to DSIT/UKRI/STFC: "What is clear is that, despite your assertions to the contrary... widespread cuts have been proposed before adequate consultation with those affected was undertaken. This is wholly unacceptable" 💪🔭⚛️🧪

Submissions (< 10,000 words) invited for 2026 Du Châtelet Prize in Philosophy of Physics. Topic Celebrating 300th anniversary of 3rd ed. Newton’s Principia. www.duchateletprize.org Winner will receive $1000, workshop & SHPS pub Open to grad students & w/in 5 yrs PhD Deadline September 1, 2026 #HPS

Delighted to present our hot off the press coedited volume with @abbeaberdeen.bsky.social and Marcel Jaspars “Ways of World Knowing” at the #BBNJ Third Symposium 2026 in Rio de Janeiro tomorrow global.oup.com/academic/pro... — Preface now Free to read for a limited period (Ch2 is OA)

Reminder: the deadline for contributed papers is coming up fast on 15 March!

This year's Adolf Grünbaum Memorial Lecture will be given by Professor Wayne Myrvold. Visit our website for more information: https://www.centerphilsci.pitt.edu/event/annual-lecture-series-wayne-c-myrvold/ #philsci

Very pleased to be speaking at his Royal Society conference 'Science as a Global Public Good, March 16th-17th. Hybrid event, organised by @michelamassimi.bsky.social and Geoffrey Boulton. I'll be talking on "What could a human right to participate in science be?" royalsociety.org/science-even...

"Cultivating A Nation: how biodiversity shapes countries" Tue 24 March, 4-5pm at IASH and online A free interdisciplinary roundtable on plant humanities, featuring Dr Alice Wolff, Dr Diego Molina, Dr Hilal Alkan and Dr Molly Rose Bond. cultivatinganation.eventbrite.co.uk

Our co-edited volume with @abbeaberdeen.bsky.social and Marcel Jaspars is out: academic.oup.com/book/62270#l... (hardback to follow). Our ch 2 is OA academic.oup.com/book/62270/c.... We discuss how to better integrate local knowledge into ocean governance esp #BBNJ implementation.

Celebrating Chryssi Mallouchou Kannellopoulou who has just brilliantly defended her viva on selective realism and starts a postdoc at the University of Rennes in a week. Well-done Chryssi 👏👏

Fantastic upcoming conference — check out the super-interesting work that @vmywang.bsky.social will present on the Glasgow effect and the tricky choice of causal variables for causal modelling in public health when dealing with complex multifactorial phenomena such as excess mortality.

Sámi science, philosophy, and art #Tate Modern in London where a maze-like structure reproduces the anatomy of reindeer nose and the structure is enriched with smell from native plants, lichens and shoegrass. A celebration of the land in the old turbine hall. One for you @katiekendig.bsky.social?

In beautiful Strasbourg today where this afternoon I will give a seminar at the Institut de science et d'ingénierie supramoléculaires on Bohr’s legacy for the debate on the nature of physical reality (and my Perspectival realism). qtts.ipcms.fr/qtts4/

Are you a member of AAAS & interested in presenting at upcoming PSA26 meeting? Here's an opportunity to get on program w/ the AAAS-PSA Cognate Society Session. Deadline April 1st. Still time to become member. Note that participation in cognate sessions does not preclude giving a poster etc #philsci

Fixed term #museumjob @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social Assistant Curator in Renaissance and Early Modern History, based in the Scottish History & Archaeology Department 📜🗃️ careers.nms.ac.uk/job/829206

🔊 Calling UK early career researches in astro, particle & nuclear physics. Please sign this open response to the proposed cuts at STFC ⚛️🧪🔭 "Protecting the UK's reputation as a science superpower requires not only investment, but continuity, confidence, and people" ✍️ ecr-openletter-stfc.github.io

💡How revolutions can be a sign of moral progress | An excerpt from Lea Ypi's @leaypi.bsky.social inaugural lecture as Ralph Miliband Professor of Politics and Philosophy at @lselaw.bsky.social. blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

There are 10 days left to submit a proposal for the 6th Biennial EENPS Conference (Bucharest, 18–19 September 2026). Submission deadline: 15 February! Talks and symposia across all areas of philosophy of science are welcome ☀️ eenps2026.sciencesconf.org #philsci

Exciting job opening @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social Library and Archives Manager. Details here careers.nms.ac.uk/job/827960 #museumjobs #libraryjobs 📜

The British Philosophical Association has launch a new annual prize competition to celebrate the best of British Philosophy: bpa.ac.uk/prizes/. #philosophymatters

Deadline in about 2 weeks. Send your abstracts!

Many congrats to Dr @daianbica.bsky.social for a brilliant PhD defence of a fascinating PhD thesis on Perspectival realism and a Perspectival account of Lewis’s Best System Analysis of laws — in the words of Daian’s intro ‘friends of epistemic humility, let us all unite!’ 👏👏

Bas van Fraassen has won the 2026 Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy

Many thanks to my excellent colleague Suilin Lavelle for organising a stimulating cross-disciplinary workshop @schoolofppls.bsky.social on Scientific Pluralism and Majority World Psychology.

Lecture under way @schoolofppls.bsky.social by Dr Adetula on the need to go beyond Western epistemology in psychological research and include African perspectives. Thanks to the School DEI committee for organising this cross-disciplinary event.

We're really excited to have Richard deliver our second annual Daniel C. Dennett lecture in Culture and Technology at Northeastern University London @northeasternu.bsky.social @nulondonphilos.bsky.social More info/registration (online and in-person) here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-daniel...

If you work on #food systems and #climate, do consider submitting to this call for input by the UN Special Rapporteur on Climate and Human Rights. Deadline end of January. And welcome to BlueSky 👋 Elisa Morgera. Kudos to her and all UN rapporteurs working under increasingly difficult conditions.

First international congress of the Chilean Society for Philosophy of Science starts tomorrow in Valparaíso. So grateful to the colleagues for the invitation to give the first plenary of this amazing new initiative. Among the barrage of dreadful news, it is heartening to see initiatives such as this

Final CFA for the 8th Scientific Understanding and Representation (SURe) annual workshop, which will take place May 27-29, 2026, at the IFIS PAN in Warsaw. Submission deadline: 20 January 2026. More info: shorturl.at/AUoye @philsci.bsky.social @eenphilsci.bsky.social @epsaphilsci.bsky.social

Registration is open for this event 16-17 March @royalsociety.org with programme (titles and abstracts) available online: royalsociety.org/science-even.... In person and online.

Bit of good news - the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction agreement, which protects marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction, comes into force on 17 January. It has 145 signatories (although the US has not signed up) economist.com/internationa...