ISHPSSB 2027 will be in Buenos Aires, Argentina 3rd week July. #HPS ishpssb.org/meetings

Activist Shot While Open Carrying at ‘No Kings’ Protest Will Not Face Charges, but Security Volunteer Will

haha check out this world of wanimal crossing amiright

Just failed at carving a turkey at its joints so don't know why metaphysicians think they can do it for nature.

Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.

these emails infuriated me way more than i expected. here's us losing sleep over doing right by students, colleagues, community, losing our health, breaking our brains to do our best. there's them, these elite assholes ingratiating themselves with the most depraved, failing their way up as they go.

My old pal Pete Coviello — one of the best writers and thinkers I've ever known — wrote the piece of the moment lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

A Nature poll found that 75% of U.S. researchers are considering leaving the country. Guyz, even the *historians* are leaving or contemplating / likely to go. Including, at least 3 historians that I know of in my subfield. 😢

it’s never too late to post your paper ✨

Huzzah! The PhilSci preprint archive for #philsci papers is finally on Bsky! Give them a follow to keep up with latest work in field ⬇️ @philsci-archive.bsky.social

Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

if these numbers are right that’s about 2% of the US population of around 340 million

My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Hammam, & Chris Shay) has a new piece, whose title speaks for itself. A 🧵 with some key descriptive takeaways:

A master class from MIT in responding to authoritarian overreach: Your “premise … is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone. … America’s leadership in science & innovation depends on independent thinking & open competition for excellence.

WHEN THERE’S TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Oh wow. Yes, very clever! Waterfall treasure! No one’s ever done that before. Lazy jackass WHEN THERE’S NO TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Wow. Too stuck-up to put treasure there huh? Too much of a fucking ICONOCLAST for that? Piece of shit. FUCK you

This is an excellent piece from @georgianndavis.bsky.social on the wave of anti-scientific censorship sweeping the country and what it means to teach honestly in the moment.

The thing regular people don’t often grasp about ‘academic freedom’ is that if you don’t allow experts to research & teach in their fields of expertise, guided by their professional judgment & decades of training, you have effectively given up on the concept of knowledge & shut down your university

i made a helpful reference

We're coming up on philosophy PhD application season. In case it is helpful for you or your students, I have a guide to this process, developed over the years of working with SFU MA students. Let me know if you have questions or suggestions #philsky #philsci www.hkandersen.com/applying-for...

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)

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)