I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

Been waiting to get paid for some work I did in April on an NIH funded grant held at UCLA. Maybe I’ll finally get compensated for my labor as contracted

Book launch for “Methods in the Philosophy of Science: a user’s guide”. Ftf in Exeter and online on the 29th of Sept feat Sophie Veigl, Kerry McKenzie, Hasok Chang, and me. It should be fun! (the book will be open access in July, contact me in the meantime) www.exeter.ac.uk/events/detai... #philsci

The Philosophy of Science Association makes experts on various topics available for conversation with graduate students anywhere with its "Office Hour" program. Other associations should consider doing this.

The University of Utah announced a new scheduling plan to spread classes out more over the week. In a social media, the school touted one of the benefits as improving parking congestion — and students had something to say about that.

Yes, it was carefully hidden in the New England Journal of Medicine. Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine (www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... ) 1/2

Reading an article titled "Why didn't Brazilian democracy die?" and a key part of the story is a Supreme Court that actually did its job

I keep saying this but it remains true: Dems have not learned the central lesson of Reconstruction, that multiracial democracy cannot survive when those working to overthrow the rule of law & fair elections are allowed to operate with impunity.

Philosophy Dept @ U of Toronto invites applications for 7 #philjobs incl Asst Prof – Metaphysics & Epistemology, St. George Campus (deadline: Nov 3): jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-... Asst Prof – Philosophy & Statistics, St. George Campus (deadline: Nov 4): jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-... #philsci

So... I have a new paper on the problem of classifying the Ediacaran biota, which includes a (very selective) historical narrative and some philosophical reflections, as well as a comparison with the problem of Burgess problematica www.extinctblog.org/palaeonews/2...

I work at the University of Utah. My dean mentioned the U’s partnership with Ariel at our faculty retreat on Thursday, but I didn’t know much about it. I learned more about the arrangement, timing, and reception via the article below:

one of the single best deals in streaming. i've been paying for PBS Passport for years. it rules

I am no constitutional scholar, but I can't help but feel that "the President gets to dictate what every university can teach and what every television station should broadcast" is closer to what the founding fathers were worried about when it comes to free speech than trigger warnings on syllabi.

The 2025 conference of International Society for the Philosophy, History and Social Studies of Biology #ishpssb25 opens in the gorgeous Botanical Gardens, culminating in a passionate call to understand and resist fascism and authoritarianism - full programme here: ishpssb2025.icbas.up.pt/program/

Tomorrow #ISHPSSB2025

Coming *very* soon #philsci

Oooo Charles Pence & Daniel Swaim are putting together a special issue on the philosophy of the historical sciences (and you can publish in French!). pencelab.be/en/events/rp... #philsci

at the risk of upsetting everyone, here’s a charming video of British high school boys trying Texas brisket for the first time

"Was it really this dumb in 2003" guys they renamed french fries

@bostonreview.bsky.social just published a Forum on a recent (critical) post-mortem of US COVID policy, with responses from me and @cailinmeister.bsky.social, along with @adamjkucharski.bsky.social, Adam Gaffney, and @jonathanpjwhite.bsky.social. V. interesting! www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-di...

Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.

Per source, NIH has been instructed to hold off from issuing ALL awards to Harvard, Cornell, Columbia, Brown, and Northwestern (including med schools) Agency staff have also been instructed to not speak about this funding freeze to grantees and applicants

NEW: A protester was shot and killed at the Salt Lake City 'No Kings' march. A man is in police custody, booked on suspicion of murder—but not the one who fired the gun. From video, witnesses and interviews, @schotthappens.com and I tried to piece together what really happened Saturday. Our report-

Melissa Hortman, who was assassinated last night, was the Speaker of the Minnesota House in the 2023-2024 session, when Democrats ran the state government. That means she had a leading role in shepherding the many landmark reforms that Dems adopted in that period—an important legacy. Brief 🧵.

“No Kings Day”: A compilation

Stunning capture by Etienne Laurent, AP

Harvard's president tells NPR he finds Trump's recent measures "perplexing." "Why cut off research funding? Sure, it hurts Harvard, but it hurts the country," he said, adding that those dollars are awarded to efforts deemed "high-priority work" by the government. https://n.pr/43hPDhX

tl;dr — this EO co-opts the language of open science to implement a system of political control wherein presidential appointees are given broad latitude to designate any number of reasonable scientific activities and inferences as scientific misconduct, and to penalize those involved accordingly.

My year on OPT after the F1 visa is fondly remembered, now looking all the more miraculous

My Leverhulme Trust project #FunMo: functions at the molecular scale is officially up and running at the Department of Philosophy at Durham University 🧬 @durham-university.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk #philsky #leverhulmetrust (1/2)

Just got mine. Totally expected, but it still sucks. Probably the most for all the work that so many of us put in on behalf of US taxpayers that is now wasted and will never come to fruition.

Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.

newly minted dr Perkins with very proud advisor prof Havstad ✨

I can't believe this is actually happening. link.springer.com/book/9783031... #philsci

This is brilliant: Fara Dabhoiwala, "A Man of Parts and Learning" www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

"They are abducting people off the streets because Marco Rubio or Donald Trump disagree with their speech. That's unAmerican, unconstitutional, and outrageous." – AAUP President Todd Wolfson

We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now

very grateful to be in Hanover with the SOCRATES project this spring ✨❤️

This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

My heart goes out to all the recent PhDs who were finalists for various jobs only to learn that hiring freezes are being implemented at 11th hour. Job market was already hard enough. 💔

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.” Absurd we still need to go through this 🧪👩‍🔬

I reviewed a book, and the review is out. It is a pretty good book!

I found Craig Callender’s piece as the PSA President in this latest newsletter really moving. Very funny at the start and serious at the end

Unbelievable news. Pancreatic is one of the deadliest cancers. New paper shows personalized mRNA vaccines can induce durable T cells that attack pancreatic cancer, with 75% of patients cancer free at three years—far, far better than standard of care. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

All PSA members are welcome to join the first PSA conversation of the subdivision meeting dedicated to postdocs! 📅 24 February (Tomorrow) ⏰ 10:00–11:00 CST 💻 Online (via Zoom) To get email updates and the Zoom link, please reach out to Alan Love at [email protected].

good time for academics to join AAUP