I had kept my academia.edu page active for convenience, but the new Terms of Use are rapacious — they can use all your content for AI. (See below) Sorry! NO. Please share and consider.

Hey so, next week is Austria's very first postdoc appreciation week #paw2025! A collection of events the @univie.ac.at is part of can be found here: postdocs.univie.ac.at/paw2025/ Participants include @univie.ac.at, University of Graz, ISTA, the Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft, TU Wien.

Meanwhile, I'm enjoying this Paternoster lift, the rotating elevator, at the Rathaus #Vienna

What great pleasure to receive a hot-off-the-digital-press copy of the HPS&ST Sept newsletter on the way back from an incredible week in Slovenia! Always love browsing the new book & article sections. Tireless work by Michael Matthews, as always. #HPS #philsky #histsky www.hpsst.com/uploads/6/2/...

I don't usually post about my hobbies, but I spend almost all of my "free" time frolicking around the fiber arts. Joining good friend Alina Serban #co-rizom at the #MadeINdialogues closing conference. She will now talk about crafts and circularity in the Craft Heritage Reinterpreted panel.

Just realised that not enough of you have cited this paper. Worried about what that portends for racism. philpapers.org/rec/HEEPBI

Next stop: Vienna ➡️ Prague 🏛️💕 Arts behind the Iron Curtain: What kind of clues and real-life people is Anna-Marie Kroupová seeking in Prague's archives? 🕵️‍♀️ And why does the football-loving art historian sometimes wish she could cheer in the reading room as loudly as in the stadium? ⚽ Find out here: ⤵️

Happy #internationaldogday!

New publication: In "Communicative AI", @coeckelbergh.bsky.social and ‪‪@davidgunkel.bsky.social‬ offer a critical introduction to #LLMs, investigating the philosophical significance of this technology and its practical ramifications. Find out more: ⤵️ #AI

In two weeks, the Stellar Origins 2025 conference starts in Vienna! Check out the programme 👉 stellarorigins2025.univie.ac.at/program/ and follow @stellarorigins2025.bsky.social for the latests results on star formation and what we have learned from ALMA, JWST, and Gaia observations 🔭💫 @univie.ac.at

🔥 Just out: We tracked how Austrians’ misbeliefs about COVID being a deliberately engineered #bioweapon shifted (or didn’t) over 2 years – and how threat perceptions & media exposure 🗞️ shaped belief updating & reinforcement. w/ N. Lebernegg, @schnizzl.bsky.social & @hajoboo.bsky.social 🧵

The ÖPG-SPS conference kicked off yesterday at the University of Vienna with a variety of public events. From Tuesday to Friday, renowned speakers will present the latest advancements in a range of research fields. We are looking forward to three more days full of exciting program items.⚛️ #IYQ2025 ⤵️

On the left is a rabbit. On the right is an elephant. But guess what: They’re the *same image*, rotated 90°! In @currentbiology.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I show how these images—known as “visual anagrams”—can help solve a longstanding problem in cognitive science. bit.ly/45BVnCZ

Wonderful symposium 100 Years of Quantum Physics at the joint conference of the Austrian & Swiss Physical Societies in Vienna, with contributions by historians & philosophers of science Christoph Lehner (IQOQI), David Kaiser (MIT), Allissa Ney (LMU Munich), and Beatrix Hiesmayr (U Vienna). #histsci

"By the time I reached my seat, Časlav Brukner(opens a new tab) and Markus Arndt(opens a new tab), both of the University of Vienna, were deep in conversation about whether the fabric of space and time follows the same quantum rules that particles do." www.quantamagazine.org/its-a-mess-a....

🧪 Mathematicians in Vienna are pioneering a new geometry for Einstein's theory of relativity, allowing it to describe non-smooth space-time. Aiming to offer new insights into phenomena like black holes and the Big Bang, and potentially laying the groundwork for a theory of quantum gravity. #PhySky

Happening now ⬇️

⚛️💭 This was the University's Quantum Physics Panel Discussion! 🎙️ To conclude the "semester question" on how quantum research is changing our reality, international scientists and alumni of Uni Vienna discussed the future potential of quantum research. 📸: © Markus Korenjak

New paper: In #greylaggeese, influencers are bold and their followers are open to novelty. Aggressive geese? They stick to family. Followers may choose leaders whose traits provide protection so that innovation can emerge and spread. #AnimalBehavior @univie.ac.at www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

A History of Displaced Knowledge : Austrian Refugees from National Socialism in Australia by Philipp Strobl (2025) I look forward to reading this open access book based on extensive interviews conducted with Austrians who fled to Australia to escape the Nazis. library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...

Only managed to make a slice of Alyssa Ney's talk at the "100 years of quantum physics" satellite symposium of the ÖPG-SPS conference @univie.ac.at due to other duties. So exciting to witness a full, captivated house at the Großer Festsaal! oepg-sps-meetingvienna2025.univie.ac.at/satellite-ev...

Did you know that chemosensitive motile E. coli can efficiently explore nontrivial mazes in times much shorter than a no-memory (Markovian) walk would predict, and can collectively escape from a fractal topology? Now you do. Amazing! #ComplexSystems 🦠🧪🌐💡 journals.aps.org/prx/abstract...

à propos, we kicked off the #Rudolphina Roadtrip summer series with a guest post by authors Sonia Kleindorfer & Lauren Common on their Floreana Island Restoration Project at the Galápagos! rudolphina.univie.ac.at/en/ecologica... You can listen to songs of several Darwin´s finches in the article!

Konrad Lorenz and geese- name a more iconic duo. New paper by Kleindorfer etal @klf-univienna.bsky.social @univie.ac.at w/external partners examined the fitness payoffs of social roles during collective movement, showing stable connection w/personality traits. www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Take a look at this formal approach to #qualia, which characterizes it "by their relational structures rather than their intrinsic nature. Assuming the structure of qualia is characterized by the geometry of neural representations,we posit that this geometry is fundamentally organized by symmetry"

Von Wien nach Prag: Zwischen Aktenordnern & Anstoß 📚 Nach welchen Spuren und echten Menschen Anna-Marie Kroupová in Prager Archiven sucht und warum die #Archivarbeit manchmal so ist, als würde man ein Puzzle zusammensetzen, erklärt die fußballbegeisterte Kunsthistorikerin im #Rudolphina Roadtrip. 🧩🔍

It's publication week for the Oxford Handbook of Social Epistemology, edited by Jennifer Lackey and myself, in the UK and in the rest of the world aside from North and South America (where it was available in May)

The mental load = the cognitive work of family life. Not time spent cooking or cleaning, but: remembering the school schedule organizing childcare keeping track of bills planning meals & activities etc etc It’s a constant hum of ancitipating, planning, monitoring —often invisible & exhausting.

In the spirit of syllabus season, here’s a link to an extinction studies course of the #envhist #envhum variety. From the dodo to dire wolves...Please borrow, adapt, share! drive.google.com/file/d/1SzKp... cc: @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social!

✨ PhD position available ✨ @loehrgui.bsky.social and I will be running a research project on disruptive technologies from a niche construction perspective, and we're hiring a PhD candidate! Details 👇 Please circulate the add and tell your students about it 😊 workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/ph...

One of the biggest differences between writing articles for magazines vs journals-- even when the latter is still for academics-- is the sweet release from the (perceived) need to cite the entire body of active scientists working on this topic and their ancestors. 1/

Organismal agency is one of today's liveliest debates in the life sciences. Our volume—published a year ago—brings historians, philosophers & scientists into the conversation, offering the kind of nuanced treatment this complex issue deserves 👇 www.routledge.com/The-Riddle-o... #HPS #evosky #philsky

Greg Radick takes over as the new editor-in-chief of journal Metascience (thanks to Greg for this service)! And ICYMI, Metascience now has a Bluesky account ⬇️ @metasciencejournal.bsky.social Welcome to Bsky Metascience & congrats on the great new editor! #HPS link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A philosopher recently told me that this exact quote was used when CEU was kicked out of Hungary. She told me this months ago, saying that what's unfolding in the US is eerily similar to the path Hungary has taken. Next, "the sciences will start blaming the humanities, causing a rift in academia"

Special issue in @science.org on #EvolvingImmunity (great illustrations!), with themes addressed by the ERC #IDEM @philinbiomed.bsky.social 10+ years ago: the need to rethink the function of immunity in the context of its physiological roles & co-evo with microbes www.science.org/toc/science/...

Was looking into what Cognitive Scientists mean by ‘domain-general’ cognition, and then hit upon this. This is definitely NOT how we use that term. Tip: read the last sentence to understand what went wrong here. Sigh.

I've always been a big fan of institutes of advanced studies (the #KLI being one of them!). @univie.ac.at will now launch its very own #ViCAS with - €7000 (senior) or €5500 (early-career)/month stipend (+ 500/month per child) - €1500/month for housing - an exciting workspace in the heart of Vienna

The University of Vienna launches #ViCAS to foster innovative, interdisciplinary #research and to create a space where ideas thrive beyond borders - #academic, disciplinary, and national. 👨‍🔬👩‍🔬 Find out more about ViCAS and its #fellowships: ⤵️🔍 vicas.univie.ac.at #AcademicSky #edusky #PhDSky

🚨 New, short article by myself, Clark Barrett and @kevinlala.bsky.social on the legacy of Wilson's 'Sociobiology: The New Synthesis', which was published 50 years ago. @science.org #ehbea #histbiol #evobio #psyscisky Revisiting the human sociobiology debate |Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Reactivated IG just to follow #scicomm -er & science YouTuber Maria Pinto (maria.seaandme) as she takes over the @univie.ac.at account for 4 weeks for our #RudolphinaRoadtrip summer series! She's currently reporting live from Gerhard Herndl's #NEREIDES Atlantic expedition, collecting "marine snow"!

This past week, we hosted an internal info session for Uni researchers & staff and had a wonderful turn out despite the mid-summer conf & holiday season. Really glad to be working with a professional, incredible team as we support the roll out of the Center for Advanced Studies at UniVienna 💪 #ViCAS

🛣️ 🌏 The next stop in our #Rudolphina summer series ☀️ David Buchwinkler is researching the social and environmental impacts of shrimp aquaculture in Sabah, Malaysia. ⤵️ 🧑‍🔬 rudolphina.univie.ac.at/en/social-an...

After #Riga, our #Rudolphina Roadtrip goes to #Sabah!

Favorite desk at the office 😍

Forty years ago, scientists reported that human activities had punctured Earth’s protective ozone layer. What happened next offers a masterclass in international science-diplomacy. This is how science and international cooperation closed the ozone hole: #OzoneHole #ClimateChange

I should have tagged @ishpssb2025.bsky.social too. These 600+ person conferences are a tremendous amount of work by already busy academics & all that work often remains invisible when everything goes as smoothly as #ISHPSSB2025 It has been a great success; thank you again to all who made it happen!

Call for Papers: "Knowing Without Knowing: How False Confidence Shapes the World" 🗓️ Deadline: 23.4.2026 🔗 www.nature.com/collections/... Co-Edited with: M. Adamus, S. Chen #Misinformation #ConspiracyBeliefs #Polarization #ScienceDenial #Overconfidence 🧪 🔄 Help us spread the word!

UniVienna has a new look! www.univie.ac.at/en/ The renewed site now has pages dedicated to research & scicomm 🎉. Taking into account the needs of early career scholars, there is also a resource site for postdocs: postdocs.univie.ac.at Looking fwd to further developing these pages with our team!

If you need a pick-me-up, read Sabrina's wonderfully bizarre and strangely touching story about chimps sticking blades of grass up their butts.

Many thanks to @affifi.bsky.social, @kampourakisk.bsky.social, @thomasreydon.bsky.social, Maria-Elice Prestes, Susan Hanisch, William McComas, @cmooreanderson.bsky.social for the talks. Hybrid format didn't work out for the discussion, alas, but I look fwd to following your work! #ISHPSSB2025