If you are planning to attend, the registration is open. We @hpscambridge.bsky.social are pouring our hearts into this conference and it will be amazing. Even though my own submission was not accepted! #philsci #philsky #hps #metascience

Social media is no longer social. Most of it is passive viewing of videos and pictures from people we've never met. But we're still studying social media like it's 2010. We've entered the post-social media era — and research needs to catch up. osf.io/preprints/so... preprint w/ Richard Rogers

Registration for the British Society for the Philosophy of Science is now open! IMPORTANT: Early-bird registration closes on 1 MAY. You will NOT be able to book campus accommodation if you don’t register by this date, and will have to make your own arrangements. (Early-bird registration is also…

LLM‑Assisted Software Engineers Can Only Be Mad (And Will Block Smartasses) An impromptu essay on the impossible equilibrium of AI‑augmented coding (1)

JOB! I'm hiring a Senior Research Associate in Social and Political Philosophy as part of the ERC LEAD Project. Deadline is May 3rd, and candidates would ideally begin in September 2026 or asap after. Feel free to contact me with any questions - Share widely! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

A little piece I wrote for The Conversation proposing that the president's most ridiculously false statements aren't really lies... theconversation.com/as-a-philoso...

A final, friendly reminder: Coming Monday (13.04, 14h), Florian Ruttner (Collegium Carolinum Prague) will give the talk "Between Early Critical Theory, Unified Science and Sociology of Knowledge. Josef Doppler’s Critique of Oswald Spengler" in Ostrava. More info below, and all welcome!

In today's AIP History Weekly Edition @janpotters.bsky.social looks at Tom Kuhn's frustrations interviewing ~100 physicists for the landmark Sources for History of Quantum Physics project. An important lesson in what we want from oral history and what it can give us. 📷Niels Bohr & Homer Dodge #HPS

A bit more time left to apply to the Summer Development Program run by the Logic & Philosophy of Science Dept this summer 2026 @ucirvine.bsky.social #philsci #philsky The SDP runs from August 2nd-8th, 2026 & applications are due by *April 17th, 2026*! See website for more details: lpssdp.com

Our call for our next history of philosophy of technology conference is out! Spread the word and submit your abstracts. Looking forward seeing you in Maastricht in October! #philtech

COLUMN - @masssimons.bsky.social zat in maart niet tussen de boeken, maar schreef een aanvraag voor een NWO-beurs. Dit niet zonder frustratie: "Wie succesvol is, schrijft meer aanvragen. En wordt dus minder onderzoeker, en steeds meer projectmanager." www.observantonline.nl/Home/Artikel...

Tomorrow at Deutsches Museum Kārin Nicklesen, Tamar Novick and I host Greg Radick, who will reflect on how history & #philsci in framing key concepts through the example of his book Disputing Inheritance. If in Munich, come join this brilliant discussion! www.sts.sot.tum.de/en/sts/home/...

Our call for our next history of philosophy of technology conference is out! Spread the word and submit your abstracts. Looking forward seeing you in Maastricht in October! #philtech

fresh off the press from yours truly: oecs.mit.edu/pub/b61joemo... I offer an overview of algorithmic bias. I trace its historical roots, examine canonical scholarship and notable real-world incidents, and explore how algorithmic bias emerged as a field of study 1/

Two of our members, @masssimons.bsky.social and Darryl Cressman talk about Dutch philosophy of technology at Delft! #philtech

Today in Delft to talk about the history of philosophy of technology in the Netherlands #hopot #philtech

New Position: Associate or Full Professor in Cultural Studies at Maastricht University. We are looking for a senior colleague who is capable and enthusiastic to take on management roles. Please share widely. www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3589...

In Boston area? Join me with Jessica Riskin, March 24, to discuss her new book on Lamarck. www.harvard.com/event/jessic...

Do we remember the term Ian Hacking used for concepts that were folk-ontological, deeply polysemous, and value-laden? Something like suitcase concepts, duffel bag concepts, garbage bag concepts... I’m drawing a mental blank.

Leverhulme Prize is open to philosophers again this year. Little known fact: I actually won one of those, back in the day.

Writing a thing, I recall this counterfactual piece (open access) which I wrote a little over nine years ago, with the kind encouragement of @roliroberts.bsky.social

roses are red violets are blue but it's after time t so we can infer that they're grue

just two monks and a dream

My department is hiring!! Philosophy and ethics of environment. Please spread the word. The turn around is a short! #philsky #philsci #philtrch #moralphil philjobs.org/job/show/30842

APA member Bas van Fraassen has been awarded the 2026 Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy. Congratulations! dailynous.com/2026/01/21/b...

I regularly talk in panel discussions on AI and its social repercussions, and exactly this is the thing I constantly need to remind people of. Your nice and shiny AI or social media platform runs on the invisible labor of poor data workers. But it’s a subject Westerners prefer to ignore.

🚨History Job: Assistant Professor in Early Modern British History (Permanent) 🗃️ Come work with us at Warwick! You will join a group of excellent early-modernists and one of the nicest bunches of historians around! 👇👇👇 @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

Last Friday I successfully defended my dissertation on the French philosopher Michel Serres. You can read the entire dissertation on the university website. @masssimons.bsky.social @drchriswatkin.bsky.social @timhowles.bsky.social @lilian-kroth.bsky.social pure.eur.nl/en/publicati...

Interesting contribution to the #media study of #AI narratives from a #sociology of expectations perspective journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Excited to recruit a 🚨 postdoc 🚨 for projects on #AI and evolving scientific practice, norms, and impact! Interdisciplinary work across science of science, philosophy of science, math with creative Purdue/Argonne/CMU/Chicago/Princeton collaborators! *pls repost*! careers.purdue.edu/job/Postdoc-...

2 Postdoc positions in Intellectual History at Aarhus! www.au.dk/om/stillinge...

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I'm co-chairing the Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social Conference in Toronto, Oct 2026. #STS #scipol #innovation Theme: "TechnoPower • Technoscientific Futures". Open panel submissions portal is open! ls! Deadline: 2nd February 2026 www.4sonline.org/about_the_co...

I once heard Anscombe point out that there’s a parallel argument for books. Everything we take to be real also happens in books. How do we know we’re not in a book? #philsky

Application deadline for our fully-funded PhD position has been extended to 1 February 2026 - especially geographer friends, please share! www.liverpool.ac.uk/courses/envi...

We are hiring another Assistant Professor Position at @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social, this position is in #STS with clear focus on sustainability and environmental challenges. Feel free to reach out for questions! vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

Happy to share this workshop program on 'Introduction to Category Theory for Non-Mathematicians', organized by a PhD student of mine, Marjolein Holvoet. It takes place at Ghent University. #philsky #philsci #philmath www.ugent.be/doctoralscho...

These *two* TT positions in #politicalphilosophy at our faculty are still open! Come join us!

Finally, here it is! (Many thanks to @uminnpress.bsky.social.)

We are hiring another Assistant Professor Position at @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social, this position is in #STS with clear focus on sustainability and environmental challenges. Feel free to reach out for questions! vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

2 year Postdoctoral Research Fellow opportunity at the University of St Andrews on my project "Aesthetic Values and the Social Dimensions of Science" www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... #philosophy #philsci

Happy new year! If you are early career or graduate in Phil of Bio, consider European summer school below: fantastic venue, brilliant mix of junior & senior scholars, a wealth of debates, PPTs & skills training organised by @thomasreydon.bsky.social and myself. Deadline EXTENDED to 31 Jan! #philsci

The Nagel-Hempel correspondence has just been published in the Vienna Circle Institute Library. Check it out! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Against “Epistemic Injustice” #philsky #philosophy #epistemology

This will be an extraordinary volume.

Post-doc positions: "Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..." uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...

New on the Archive: Simons, Massimiliano (2025) Political philosophy of experimentation. European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 15. ISSN 1879-4912 https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27381/

New on the Archive: Simons, Massimiliano (2026) What is the history of philosophy of experimentation a history of? The cases of Hugo Dingler and Gaston Bachelard. HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science. https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27380/

Heel interessant stuk over de rol van wetenschappers en experten in het publiek debat - zowel de rol die ze daarin zelf opnemen als die hen door anderen (journalisten, het publiek) wordt toegedicht. www.standaard.be/opinies/de-p...