My two worlds are colliding and I am shook 😳

Calling all Metascientists, Historians, Philosophers & Sociologists of Science & Technology. There's still time to get your submissions in and join us in sunny* Brisbane in December. Submissions close Friday 8th August. *Weather & sun are out of the control of AAHPSSS & not guaranteed.

We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.

🚨CfA: Joseph Needham Foundation Awards - History of Science Society @historyscience.bsky.social hssonline.org/news/705910/...

Two permanent Lecturer posts at Birkbeck (equivalent of Assistant Professor). Area of specialisation is open but with teaching needs in ethics & phil of AI, ethics and poli phil, ancient, gender, continental, engaged. Closing date August 28th, start in Jan 2026 'a significant advantage' #philsky

Thanks @catdavies.bsky.social, it was great to see critical #metascience at #metascience2025, it would have been better to see this integrated into all other sessions as part of the ongoing general discussion rather than an isolated and contained session.

Being placed in exalted company like this gives me a lot to live up to. Thanks for the compliment @jamessteeleii.bsky.social it was great to catch up with you again. Let’s make the next one less than 2 years

Final Keynote of #metascience2025 by @marialep.bsky.social (President, @erc.europa.eu). @rorinstitute.bsky.social

AIMOS on the big stage! Fiona Fidler places AIMOS at the centre of metascience developments in Australia. @fidlerfm.bsky.social @aimosinc.bsky.social #metascience2025

Kicking off day 2 of #metascience2025 wth a Plenary on Taking stock of the Science of Science with Chonnettia Jones, Cassidy Sugimoto, @fidlerfm.bsky.social, John Ioannidis, Andy Stirling and Lin Zhang @rorinstitute.bsky.social

Monday closing Plenary @ #metascience2025 Frontiers of funding: evidence, experiments & reforming assessment foundation with Ted Hodapp, Claire Forsyth, Ilan Gur, Hanna Denecke, Matt Clancy, John-Arne Røttingen (keynote) & Katrin Millie @rorinstitute.bsky.social

T1.6 Constructive Confrontation @ #metascience2025 with @nicolecnelson.bsky.social @penders.bsky.social, Sheena Bartscherer, Sven Ulpts & Ismael Rafols

First morning of #Metascience2025 was full of interesting topics. Thanks to @rorinstitute.bsky.social and the Volkswagen Foundation for making my presence here possible.

I do like this idea of open #peerreview

We are beyond excited to announce that we have won the prestigious 2024 BSHS Ayrton Prize for Digital Engagement! From our 2023-2024 team - @samaragreenwood.bsky.social @cjcontarino.bsky.social @fidlerfm.bsky.social & Indigo Keel - thank you, it means so much #hps #philsci #histSTM #sts 🧪

I cannot scream loudly enough at this. Time to call for separation of science and state. If churches are funded by the state through not paying taxes, there is justification for the state to remove itself from state funded science.

Dear @utah.edu History and Philosophy of Science majors, don’t despair - the University of Melbourne HPS department would love to have you come join us.

It’s marking season folks. Strap yourself in as the we board a rollercoaster that takes us from the wierd and wacky, to angst, to joy. What a ride! #academicsky #phdlife

What is the future of Open Science? Join @annemscheel.bsky.social @nicholascoles.bsky.social @szaszibarnabas.bsky.social @aufdroeseler.bsky.social and @stephaniemlee.bsky.social for an exciting discussion during the Keynote Panel at the #SIPS2025 Online.

A new journal record: Sage title retracts 678 more papers, tally over 1,500

Do you have a research interest in how AI can harm or benefit non-human animals? I'm recruiting a Research Officer to drive forward the "Animals and AI" priority area of The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience at the LSE. Please apply by 6 May! 🐖🐔🐟 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

SPREADING RUBBISH: once something is in a LLM it's pretty hard to get it out so retracted articles will be a big problem. "Alarm: Retracted articles on cancer imaging are not only continuously cited by publications but also used by ChatGPT to answer questions" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The political problem with parasitic AI is that its most compelling use case is starving its own hosts — “fewer teachers, fewer degrees, fewer workers, fewer healthy information environments.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/o...

This weeks night time reading by @doctorvive.bsky.social and looking at how this relates to science more generally.

In this post, I argue against university rankings (@aidybarnett.bsky.social) and assessment regimes that reward quantity over quality. Let's slow down, correct existing errors (@jabyrnesci.bsky.social), and engage in better peer review (eg, @metaror.bsky.social): theconversation.com/reliable-sci...

Some days the papers/books you are reading seem so much larger than life. One month in and the words loom large. #academicsky #phdlife #phdjourney

AI is hallucinating when using real data. Using synthetic data to train AI systems will lead to outputs tha humans will find less accurate and more hallucinogenic, but tech companies will swear are “more accurate”.

There's one week left to apply for our #metascience position to study the implementation of Electronic Lab Notebooks - #ELN Join us @uniofmanchester.bsky.social and @cruk-mi.bsky.social as we study how to support users with #FAIRdata practices, #OpenResearch and #ResearchIntegrity Please share!

I run a business in a parallel universe, and our new website has just dropped. Amazing work by Deanna and John, who put together such an amazing new site, from videos to functionality whilst I'm focussing on my research. #smallbusiness #familybusiness #coffeeaddict

Even the tyranny of distance won’t protect us from the tyrrany of the current US (lack of) government.

A belated welcome to Bluesky to Dr Darrin Durant @darrinadurant.bsky.social, who talked to @cjcontarino.bsky.social about Expertise.

Metascience is shaping research worldwide, and #Metascience2025 will be our most ambitious gathering yet. Registrations are now OPEN! metascience.info/registration/ Join 650+ experts for three days of debate, discovery & new ideas. Speakers include ⬇️

Sometimes you have to get to the source. Reading Cochrane’s Effectiveness and Efficiency: Random Reflections on Health Services. Courtesy of @unilibrary.bsky.social super fast 1 day retrieval from their stores. #academicsky #metascience

Come join me as I conduct a hackathon on what constitutes good exploratory research @ SIPS 2025.

2 days until I start my PhD! Am I excited? Hell yes! And a tad nervous tbh. I had my first supervisor meeting yesterday ✅ Admin underway, 1 training module to go. Currently planning out timelines & schedules. Still waiting for a desk, and my Chair. Exciting times #academicsky #phdjourney #phdlife

When people say, “…but I’m just one person, what can I do to change things?” There is always a way 👇🏻

Officially starting my PhD in 10 days. All advice greatfully received. #academicsky

This Friday 10-11 at #AAASmtg a fantastic session on "The Value of History & Philosophy of Science for a Strong Scientific Ecosystem" with talks by @hanneand.bsky.social @mjacquart.bsky.social @williamthomas.bsky.social Moderated by Evelynn Hammonds #HPS

Check out this HPS Podcast, where #MHB Prof Nicole C. Nelson spoke on the Ethnographies of Science! Prof. Nelsons research produces a deeper and richer understanding of how and why science is conducted the way it is. #Science #Podcast @hpspodcast.bsky.social www.buzzsprout.com/2180146/epis...

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS TO SIPS 2025 IS NOW OPEN! Please visit the designated online submission portal: ONLINE SIPS 2025 pretalx.com/sips2025-onl... & IN-PERSON SIPS 2025 pretalx.com/sips2025-bud... SIPS 2025 will be held in-person in Budapest, Hungary (June 25-27, 2025), and online on May 21-22, 2025

Check out this continuing Lecturer opportunity in HPS at USyd (and come hang out with the Sydney STS folks!) Focus: History of science or medicine in Asia/Pacific #histstm #histsci #STS

Call for IUHPST Essay Prize in History & Philosophy of Science Submission deadline: 15 January 2025 This biennial prize competition seeks to encourage fresh methodological thinking on the history and philosophy of science and related areas. Prize of $1,000 US #HPS iuhpst.org/pages/inter-...

The great promise of tech was that it would free us from drudgery, it’s now coming for knowledge and creative jobs. The luddites hold a lesson for us all.

Tomorrow I’ll be part of a panel discussing psychology’s reform movement, looking back over the last 10+ years! You can register to attend here: improvingpsych.org/sips-2025-pr... Wednesday 18 Dec at: 11:30am Pacific US time 2:30pm Eastern US 8:30pm Europe 6:30am Thur in Sydney/Melb Please share!

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FREE membership for HPS grad students and post docs. Closing 12/22/24.

Call for Proposals: Metascience 2025 Be part of the biggest Metascience meeting yet! We're inviting proposals for: ✅ Virtual symposia ✅ In-person panels ✅ Talks & posters ⏰ Submit by 7 Feb 2025 🔗 Full details: metascience.info/call-for-pro...

Sorry friends, the position has been filled. Pleased to announce I will be undertaking a PhD with @fidlerfm.bsky.social and @martinjbush.bsky.social in the MetaMelb lab at UniMelb in 2025.

In our latest episode we put out the call for good write-ups on the history of the replication crisis. @drcpennington.bsky.social has delivered as this is covered in her book "A Student's Guide to Open Science: Using the Replication Crisis to Reform Psychology" www.mheducation.co.uk/a-student-s-...