Viking Cruises Mississippi is so out of place.

This week in Philosophy of Medicine online reading group: Jada Wiggleton-Little's "Pain Dismissal and the Limits of Epistemic Injustice" philpapers.org/rec/WIGPDA Join us!

Celebrate the @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social win by giving some money to Eugene V. Debs Foundation, a scrappy little museum in Debs' home in Terre Haute Indiana. They are raising money for an ongoing accessibility-based remodel: donate.debsfoundation.org

I can't vote there, but it was nice to see someone look happy and competent for a while.

Might be of interest to philosophy of medicine people: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

i love how every academic knows that phd studentships are absolutely vital for research and teaching and yet increasing the number of such studentships seems to be the one thing that’s absolutely not on the table anywhere

It's that time of the cycle. If you've ever assigned something I've written, please say. Even if you're using it as an example of how not to do philosophy, it can all go in the impact file :)

Another casualty of the LLM revolution. In "arXiv’s CS category, review articles and position papers must now be accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review."

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

Young Stalin this, young Stalin that... Where is the thirst for young Enrique Flores Magón?

Call for papers: Philosophy through Art, Games, and Fiction think.taylorandfranc... Guest editor: Lisa Bortolotti. Deadline: 31 July 2026. Submit your work! #philsky #philpsy

Via @rachelankeny.bsky.social: Next Society for #PhilSci in Practice conference #SPSP2026 will be in Cambridge UK hosted by HPS Dept @ Cambridge University & SPSP co-founder Hasok Chang. Keep eye out for call next year ⬇️ philosophy-science-practice.org

Join the International Online Philosophy of Medicine Reading Group using the link in the reshared post! This week we are reading link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...

The SSHRC help desk is so nice!

Is talk of a bubble bubble-protective?

Check out the program in the thread! 🥳

I’ve just uploaded to philpapers my (preprint) chapter titled “Values and Measurement” forthcoming in the Routledge Handbook of Values in Science. It’s an overview of arguments for values playing significant roles in measurement practices. Comments welcome! philpapers.org/rec/LARVAM-2

We are starting the Philosophy of Medicine International Online reading group up again this week after a short delay. We are reading: philmed.pitt.edu/philmed/arti... Would love to see you there!

FDA review of drugs is slowing while application delays are growing, analysis finds www.statnews.com/pharmalot/20... via @statnews.com

New paper in Synthèse. Open access.

History of the Human Sciences announces its 2025-26 ECR Prize. All details (including previous winners) on our para-site histhum.com. Deadline: 30 January 2026. Also! Follow the journal on Bluesky at @histhum.bsky.social www.histhum.com/early-career...

✨Don't forget✨ PSA Office Hours are back! Join us this Wednesday, October 22 at 12 PM EST with David Wallace. Sign up at the link below to save your spot! www.philsci.org/psa_...

"We find that the Matthew effect replicates, is robust across funders and model specifications, and generalises to the whole population...To address the Matthew effect, research funders and research organisations could consider stimulating promising rejected applicants to reapply."

Has someone written a good history of British housing?

Anyone know of work comparing IRR statistics (Cohen's alpha) to accuracy statistics (sensitivity, specificity, F1)? I'm thinking about LLM vs human qual coding studies. Seems like maybe when IRR is used the study finds LLMs work okay; but when accuracy stats are used LLMs look bad? #stats #css

Morning US folks, Happy #NOKINGS Day!

The 2026 SSHM Conference will be @universityofleeds.bsky.social. The theme will be In/Out and we are inviting papers that consider experiences of being in and/or out of health or health care in any period or geographical location. #HistMed #HistSTM sshm.org/sshm-2026/

I am starting work on my promotion file. If I have provided mentoring for you, and you might be willing to be added to a list that says as much, please get in touch. Thanks!

Congrats MIT

I have some research leave in the spring and would like to work on my history and philosophy of technology book somewhere in the UK or Europe. Any suggestions of fellowships or good libraries?

btw do you know of academic papers that critically examine this #bibliometrics exercise? (I vividly remember coming across a very convincing vivisection of this paper/dataset and the harms it casts on scientific community)

I'm hugely honoured and very excited to be giving this year's Historical Research #Lecture at @ihr.bsky.social, on 'Can popular #history be radical? Historical research and writing for the #public'. Tuesday 4 November, all welcome. More info in AltText. Book here: www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

I just learned some of my work is being translated into Polish and that is pretty cool.

I got it! Now to race Farage to citizenship!

I have my Leave to Remain in the UK appointment today. Wish me luck.

📢New online event!💥 Roll-up, roll-up! Come for @sshmedicine.bsky.social's AGM, stay for The SSHM Lecture 2025: Prof. Jeremy Greene, 'Wasted medicines & medical wastes: Notes from the trash-heap of medical history' 6 Oct, 4-5:30pm BST. Deets & free registration 👇 #histmed #histSTM #matcult

The Philosophy of Medicine online reading group is resuming this fall on October 8! For more information/to suggest a book (your book?) for the group to read, join @: groups.google.com/g/philmed-rg/ #philsci #philmed #bioethics Please share widely, especially if the group has been helpful to you.

I have my Leave to Remain in the UK appointment today. Wish me luck.

Just putting it out in the universe- I would love to host In Our Time.

In my field there is a huge enthusiasm for "AI" to provide clinical decision support when the fact of the matter is that the clinical decisions we actually have evidence to support can be modeled with rules that could be deployed on a tamagotchi.

Every summer I visit family in northern Ontario Canada. It's a beautiful part of the world, but an unexpected boon is their still vibrant, often analog, local paper: the Manitoulin Expositor. I wish we still had these local papers more places. www.manitoulin.com

Who else argues (in print) that we should eliminate the category of "emotion" as an explanatory target? I know of Griffiths: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... And Moors: www.cambridge.org/core/books/d...

Ever stared at a table of regression coefficients & wondered what you're doing with your life? Very excited to share this gentle introduction to another way of making sense of statistical models (w @vincentab.bsky.social) Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... Website: j-rohrer.github.io/marginal-psy...

Okay everyone, things are getting serious. I’m going to teach research methods again, 1st year psychology undergraduates. What would you cover with respects to philosophy of science, the research process etc.? I’m not very happy with the textbook stuff so I’m open to all ideas!

The Philosophy of Medicine online reading group is resuming this fall on October 8! For more information/to suggest a book (your book?) for the group to read, join @: groups.google.com/g/philmed-rg/ #philsci #philmed #bioethics Please share widely, especially if the group has been helpful to you.

I'll be speaking at this online webinar on 9th August about "coproducing quantitative measures of value laden concepts: case studies from wellbeing" drawing on my research with @annaalexandrova.bsky.social among other things. The other speakers are great! Register! docs.google.com/forms/d/1IH9...

Tomorrow I will talk to an academic publisher regarding the possibility of a book 👀 Any questions I should absolutely ask? I already got e-book pricing on my list; any and all pointers are welcome!

This looks interesting and I am sorry to be missing it today: royalsociety.org/science-even...

Nice reminder from @aileenfyfe.bsky.social that many of the features of journals we consider fundamental - peer review, for example - happened after the second world war. Not as old as we think.

A delightful thing about Newcastle is the large population of punk elders.