Eran Tal at Society for Study of Measurement Conference on "When is Measurement Good? Evidence, Validity, and Values" comparing competing vales & standard tradeoffs in measurement evaluation with examples of UTC time & patient well being. #philsci

Brilliant talk on biodiversity metrics by my former PhD @federicabocchi.bsky.social #philsci

Alan Love on "Measuring Biological Function in Biomechanics: Observations and Consequences" at Society for Study Measurement Conference. #philsci

Summer conference season begins for Philosophy at Edinburgh with this conference this week organised by my excellent colleague Dr Jo Wolff with a fantastic line-up of talks on history and philosophy of measurement 🤩. Welcome everyone to Scotland. #philsci

Open letter about philosophy job losses at Nottingham. Please consider signing docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Deadline extended to July 1, 2026! Complete details here - mms.philsci.org/msg_detail.p... PSA Philosophy of Science and Race Prize (Jul 1) - docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... PSA26 UPSS Session (Aug 1) - docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

And it is a wrap! Many thanks @daianbica.bsky.social and Adrien Avramoglou for bringing us together. Au revoir Sorbonne.

Fascinating talk by @daianbica.bsky.social on levels and scales and what binds them together. #philsci

Adrien Avramoglou presents a new pluralist take on the Best System Analysis of Laws building on Cohen and Callender’s seminal paper #philsci

This great 2-day conference on the metaphysical challenge of scientific pluralism is happening now in Sorbonne — so grateful to the organisers and wonderful hosts @daianbica.bsky.social and Adrien Avramoglou— with @msuarez.bsky.social Anjan Chakravartty, Andrea Hüttemann and many more speakers.

In Paris where this afternoon I present jointly authored work with @abbeaberdeen.bsky.social and Marcel Jaspars on local knowledge and the law of the sea from our academic.oup.com/book/62270/c... at the Law Faculty in Sorbonne.

Bas van Fraassen receives the Rolf Schock Prize 2026 with other laureates in mathematics, music, and visual arts in recognition for creativity in humanities, arts, and science. And tomorrow a symposium will celebrate Bas’s lifelong achievements 🎉 #philsci

If you work in phil science and never sent your paper to a generalist journal (because worry your readership isn’t there), Philosophy and Phenomenological Research intends to bring more Phil science to its pages, and I have just joined as one of the editors. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

🏵️ Happy #WorldEnvironmentDay! My new report on #Food Systems, #ClimateChange #HumanRights benefitted enormously from consultations with #Children and #Youth whose voices and clear views are amplified in🔗 tinyurl.com/2s4h8wkc 📘 Full report at tinyurl.com/497pkm44

Very much looking forward to reading a few pages from my story ‘Awd Goggle’ - which has just been published by @carnyxpress.co.uk in the anthology Oaths and Offerings - at The Hyde Park Book Club tomorrow as part of the Leeds Literary Festival! www.leedslitfest.co.uk/events/oaths...

Very pleased to see my 'What could a human right to participate in science be?' in Royal Society Open Science (open access) This paper certainly would not exist had it not been for the gentle persuasion and strong support of @michelamassimi.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...

How would #psychology look through the lens of @michelamassimi.bsky.social's Perspectival Realism? In her new paper, Suilin Lavelle defends the pursuit of Majority World psychological frameworks and experiments beyond WEIRD biases 👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsci #philsky #psysky #cogsci

Summer coming up and pondering what books to read? Interested in ocean, local communities, epistemic injustices, and ongoing debates around the law of the sea? Our Ways of World Knowing is now available with 30% discount using promotion code AUFLY30

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.