Bas van Fraassen receives the Rolf Schock Prize 2026 with other laureates in mathematics, music, and visual arts in recognition for creativity in humanities, arts, and science. And tomorrow a symposium will celebrate Bas’s lifelong achievements 🎉 #philsci

📣Interested in studying history and philosophy of science and/or logic? Come around to learn more about our HPS+Logic M.A. program at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de on Thurs, 11/06, 12:00 (CET)! In person and zoom: ruhr-uni-bochum.zoom-x.de/j/6842065321... More info: www.hpsplus.org #PhilSci #HistSci #HPS #STS

new William Gibson book opening line dropped

1. How common is LLM use in scientific publishing, and how does it vary across field, publisher, journal prestige, author demographics etc.? @kylesiler.bsky.social has new paper in PNAS that addresses this question on a massive scale: 7.3 million papers from Elsevier, PLOS, MDPI, and Frontiers.

Please consider joining us on June 15, 2026 for a webinar titled "Philosophers of Science at Work: Exploring Non-Academic Careers". docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Spread the word! Abbiamo inaugurato il network italiano di filosofie delle scienze della vita in pratica (#PIPoLS) e già siamo all'opera con il nostro primo workshop, che si terrà il 17-18 Dicembre al Politecnico di Milano. L'evento é supportato da @ishpssb.bsky.social come #ISHoffyear workshop

Give me names for people based in the UK who are in the Humanities/Anthro and working on inequality. Thank you!

If you know a Masters student who would like to go on to the PhD and knows Dutch, there's a Phd position open in Alisa van de Haar's exciting "Leveraging Language, Proclaiming Power: Linguistic Politics in Early Colonial North America" project at Leiden: careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/Leiden-P...

"The increasing involvement of technology companies in mathematical research raises the risk that research questions may come to be prioritized because of their amenability to automated mathematics, rather than expert judgment of their deeper significance."

Reading books is slowly turning into a very special skill again, like reading musical scores.

On this day, 50 years ago, Der Spiegel published an interview with Heidegger - 5 days after his death. Heidegger holds a prominent place in the history of the philosophy of technology: with a phenomenology of tool-use in Being & Time (1927) and later with The Question Concerning Technology (1954).

As predicted! From the person who gave us "Eugenics will solve global poverty", now: "Eugenics will solve climate change".

Excellent job alert!!!! #STS

Very happy to be part of this History of Humanities issue with a piece on philosopher Félix Ravaisson between philosophy, visual arts, and archaeology www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Just one step from automating the CEOs and managers away

Boudry in complottheorie-modus, terwijl de memo die hij met zijn eigen ogen gezien heeft (én voorgelezen heeft in De Afspraak) uitlegt waarom die info niet gedeeld werd (en waarom daar goede, statistische redenen voor zijn, geen "politiek correcte zwijgcultuur"). Ondertussen verder bevestigd. /1

#performativity www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🚨Job! 🚨 Lecturer in Global History of Science at UCL! In London! Permanent, full-time! #histstm #histsci www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Recently, for *obvious reasons*, I've been thinking about what it means when anxiety and sadness are caused not by individual predispositions, but by the state of the world itself. This led me to early 19th-c. France and the notion of "mal du siècle" (sickness of the century) aeon.co/essays/young...

Reminder that our call for abstracts is still open for our conference on history of philosophy of technology!

What are your favourite books/articles/poems/passages on anxiety (both theory and fiction)?

Great job opportunity at the university of Vienna! Mischa Suter is a good colleague of mine who's worked on money and imperialism and is currently doing a project on how pychoanalysts confronted the psychology of people in non-Western societies, with a focus on Paul Parin and his group:

Where are the public benches on the internet? “Like cities that have prioritized cars, visiting the Internet now entails controlled apps and search engines, designed for extraction. There’s nowhere to rest because the benches are covered in spikes.” [news.spencer.place]

Remember to submit your abstracts for the inaugural Dutch Marxism Conference by 29th May!!

Hi bsky world! This looks like a fitting first post :)

Had much fun at this workshop; and, as usual, listening to Tim is a test of the will, not to immediately abandon one own projects and start working on whatever new fascinating topic Tim came up with

A bunch of new people followed me recently so I must remind you that I wrote a biography of Henri Bergson called Herald of a Restless World. I wrote it with my HANDS and BRAIN and I'm very proud of it. John Banville called it “The most intellectually stimulating book I read this year” (last year).

this is the content I am here for.

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