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...

The Center is now accepting applications for our 10th annual Pittsburgh Summer Program aimed at promoting Philosophy of Science to undergraduate students! Read more about the program and learn how to apply using the below link: https://ow.ly/ijEk50UbWnh

#PhilJobs #HPS TT Assistant Professor in Philosophy, Trinity College Dublin AOS: History, Philosophy & Ethics of Science philjobs.org/job/show/30601 Great this job ad explicitly mentions *geosciences* as one of areas of sciences of interest. (I have asked PhilJobs to include a box in this area)

Excellent opportunity at @rotmanphilosophy.bsky.social #philsci #sts

2/2 i.e. if your work is on "feminism and related emancipatory philosophies, women in the history of philosophy, and achieving gender justice and related forms of justice in the profession". For more info on SWIP's aims, check here and/or get in touch: www.swipuk.org/who-we-are.h...

The call for abstracts for the 2026 Joint Session is now live! Please consider submitting to the Society for Women in Philosophy #SWIP session if your work furthers the aims of SWIP, broadly construed 1/2 sites.google.com/view/2026-jo... #CfA #philsky #feminism #SWIP @aristotsoc.bsky.social

2nd 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

A new project to digitize the complete works of Rudolf Carnap will be getting underway...

A while ago I participated in a seminar on my book with graduate students of Rogério Passos Severo at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil. Their enthusiasm and intellectual engagement was a joy and for me remains a highlight of writing this book. Their review is now out in Theoria.

In Venice today for this workshop on Varieties of Local Knowledges at the Ca’ Foscari organised by Eleonora Montuschi with @katiekendig.bsky.social @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social @charbelelhani.bsky.social and many more colleagues online.

I had the pleasure of joining the supervisory team of Seth Linga (PhD in Geography at Birmingham with DAWN project www.dawnirrigation.com). Seth just published the first article in Water Resources Research on global irrigation modelling and empirical and pragmatic assumptions that enter into it. 👏🥳

A Drive to Survive has now had a few reviews & I'm so grateful that they've been exceptionally generous and incisive. Thread here: 1st: Matteo Colombo in BJPS (particularly nice to read - given how pivotal his papers on the FEP were in helping me understand it) www.thebsps.org/reviewofbook...

I have a short Comment piece just published in Nature Reviews Physics on the 350-year-old Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and its funding rdcu.be/eSXb2 #histSTM

Last Friday Senior Lecturer in Philosophy Dr Mazviita Chirimuuta was presented with the Lakatos Award in recognition of her book “The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience”. At the ceremony Dr Chirimuuta gave a lecture which you can view below.