One of my good friends worked at 18F. She’s one of the smartest, most creative and dedicated problem solvers that I know. This is so wrong.

American science and medicine has been thrown into chaos and uncertainty over the past week. Here are some stories to get up to speed. 1/12

Carlos Santana (UPenn) argues that optimal openness is not maximum openness. Openness is one of the core values that govern science. Trade offs apply depending on contexts. #ScienceAndValues #philsci #philsky

MAP-Penn’s eighth annual conference is April 4-5 on zoom! This year’s theme is Displacement(s) — issues of migration, gentrification, homelessness — and we’re lucky to have Serena Parekh and Ronald Sundstrom as keynote speakers. Submit an abstract by January 15! sites.google.com/sas.upenn.ed...

With today's report outlining risks on mirror life www.science.org/doi/full/10.... many have asked: Could mirror life survive in the wild? Yes. While mirror life in the wild could have some significant disadvantages (like finding food it can digest), they do not appear to be insurmountable: 🧵

I attended one of the PSA Office Hours earlier this year - it was really productive! Not only do you get to meet a senior scholar, but also other early-career people you might not have known. Highly recommend to other grad students!

Today in my bioethics course I’m teaching J. J. Thomson’s “A Defense of Abortion.” My goal, as always, is to help my undergrads learn how to think well, in community, about deeply important questions. I have a contingency plan, but this seems like an ok first step towards *doing something* to help.

Most election-day rumors will take shape around some kind of “evidence” — photos, videos, first-person accounts — of voting issues. These evidence-based election rumors mislead in a few common ways:

Looking forward to the PSA @philsci.bsky.social conference in New Orleans in 2 weeks! @celsoneto.bsky.social and I are co-organizing the symposium "Race, Ethnicity, and Ancestry: The Uses and Misuses of Population Descriptors in Genomics". Hope to see many of you there! 🤝 #philsci #philbio #hps

Quote post with something green from a photo you took :)

I bike around a US city, to commute and generally get around. From my vantage point, I can see into most cars. The number of drivers on their phones is ASTRONOMICAL. I also hate how many bikes run reds, so I’m now the stubborn cyclist waiting at every red light on corridors timed for cars 😔

At the old place, one of the things I enjoyed most was seeing papers (phil, bio, sci, other stuff) that I wouldn’t have found otherwise (or as fast). That’s starting to happen more and more here, which is awesome! Keep posting your cool stuff and hyping other cool people’s cool stuff!

Program for #PSA2024 is now out on our website. Poster sessions and cognate societies sessions will follow soon. Time to register for the conference — we very much look forward to seeing you in New Orleans in November: site.pheedloop.com/event/psa24/...

The 2025 The International Society for the History, Philosophy, & Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB) biennial meeting will take place in Porto, Portugal, 20–25 July. Call for session proposals & papers with submission deadline 1 November, 2024 #hpbio #philsci #paleobio #histsci

Upcoming virtual event on ethical dimensions of microbiome research #philsci #hpbio 🧪🦠 www.microbiome-vif.org/en-US/-/futu...

Penn Today did a spotlight on work I’ve been doing at a local high school! Here in the US, philosophy isn’t a standard curriculum topic, so PLATO’s Philosopher in Residence program can help address that gap. Students seem to have fun - and so do I! penntoday.upenn.edu/news/penns-p...

For new users just exploring the fact that you can choose your algorithms here, I highly recommend the "Quiet Posters" feed (which highlights users you follow who don't post that often, but have finally chosen to speak up): bsky.app/profile/did:...

MAP-Penn is organizing our 8th annual conference - this year a virtual event on Racial Justice, broadly construed. The call-for-abstracts is out now and you have until February 25th to submit! Info here: philevents.org/event/show/1...

Spread the work: Philosophy of Science Office Hours! @philsci.bsky.social #philsci #philsky January: Feminist Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Biology and Medicine.

🧪 Scientist? 🟦 New to BlueSky? 👀 Wanna find posts by other people in your area and use the right hashtags in your own posts? 📃 Here’s a list of over 170 science-related feeds and their hashtags. #AcademicSky #PhDSky

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