i just found out about early modern epigrams. they're just tweets! books full of epigrams! the mind has always lusted for short form content!!!

Lovely piece on thick concepts from @annaalexandrova.bsky.social. Working with Anna has definitely shaped my thinking on infrastructure, measurement and evaluation. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/research/eve...

My ward goes Green

Chanced upon this evocative piece at Lake Lugano: "The Death of Socrates", Mark Antokowski (replica).

Convinced my dour 18yo to come along to the polling station so he can vote for the first time but forgot his effing passport. So he didn’t vote and now I am feeling angry and stupid. I hate the ID requirement 🖕

Convinced my dour 18yo to come along to the polling station so he can vote for the first time but forgot his effing passport. So he didn’t vote and now I am feeling angry and stupid. I hate the ID requirement 🖕

Happy to see this excellent paper by Snow Zhang finally get an official publication.

If you want to read more of my own work on critique (including engagement with these two traditions), here are two examples: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... and www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We are hiring a PhD student (3+1 years) and a postdoctoral fellow (3 years) to work on the history and philosophy of physics. Deadline: May 20, 2026. More information available at: erc-rescale.com/news/

great trousers with pockets and great RBF

It was a delight to be on the BMJ Sharp Scratch podcast, talking about education around race and ethnicity in medical school. We had a really interesting discussion about how we can make medical school anti-racist. open.spotify.com/episode/5kIz...

New blog post! Super self-indulgent, sorry, but perhaps still useful to people? profmarkfabian.substack.com/p/on-the-ant...

If you're looking for something to get you through the long weekend, here's an interview for Embrace the Void on epistemic injustice, primary harms/wrongs, hermeneutical injustice, and whether appealing to the notion of epistemic injustice helps defend or undermines the notion of objective truth.

AI psychosis is just “I really think the stripper likes me” for guys who don’t leave their house

Freud on how he felt leaving Vienna in 1938: « I saw the scientific society I had founded dissolved, our institutions destroyed, our printing press taken over by the invaders, the books I had published confiscated or reduced to pulp, and my children expelled from their professions »

So much insight squeezed into this hour, a great episode. Do not miss the supplemental chat at the end where cybernetics is shown to be a victim of a) its own success (many fields are effectively cybernetics w/o the name), b) its socialist associations, c) of bad blood between Minsky and Wiener.

great rabbit hole, Professor French! I kept thinking you meant Stoner the novel by Williams, but yours is a different Stoner and just as interesting.

Here they are again, so lush

Lovely review of Robert Northcott's book on fragility in science in BJPS--and if you want a second one, why not check out this one... journals.uvic.ca/index.php/pi... #philsci #philsky

So proud of my guy

Still funny, after all these years.

So excited to listen to this! #hps #histsci

Katherine died five years ago. In 2023 PQ put together a special issue on her philosophy. katherinehawley.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk academic.oup.com/pq/issue/73/3

I like the list of 25 ideas that shaped @crasshlive.bsky.social for their anniversary. I contributed an entry on my beloved thick concepts and now enjoying scrolling through the other entries. Happy anniversary, CRASSH, my research life would have been so much less interesting without you!

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

Bowing, Matt! A beautiful day for it too, though probably warmer than ideal, right?

They were so cute together… has it really been 40 years ?

I made a sentence that can be read in either russian or english: А ВОТ! ВАМ, ВОР! НА МОРЕ

This is really fascinating. More hot guys should make cute musicology videos on fascinating topics while kissing their cat. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN2E...

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

In case you haven't heard yet, philosopher of science Nancy Cartwright has received this year’s BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Humanities category. www.frontiersofknowledgeawards-fbbva.es/noticias/the...

Eye opening and informative on the costs of the French system of agrégation

My CUP Element on "Wittgenstein and Relativism" can now be downloaded for free. I hope some of you will find it interesting. www.cambridge.org/core/element... #philosophy #Wittgenstein #relativism

Casaubon in Middlemarch. Pathetic, even pitiable, but definitely an asshole.

Forthcoming in @hoposjournal.bsky.social! I discuss the systemic injustice that saw women banned from scientific education in Victorian Britain through the lenses of how artisanal knowledges like weaving and knitting were severed from mathematical knowledge. #philsci philsci-archive.pitt.edu/29274/

The philosophy department at @univie.ac.at is advertising a permanent senior lectureship position in Ethics/Applied Ethics! Here's the ad: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Senior-L...

The real q is how you react to such education: do you a) refuse to assert a causal claim pleading absence of evidence, or b) triangulate the causal claim w/ whatever evidence is available, even if not covered in this course and communicate uncertainly? I do not like that (a) is now seen as virtuous.

Causal inference courses: here's how you estimate causal effects and these are the assumptions you rely on and by the way the assumptions are always violated kthxbye

Enjoying reading this attempt at quantifying evidence triangulation: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

We're hiring! The Aristotelian Society is recruiting a new Managing Editor. This is a demanding part-time role suitable for a current graduate student to undertake alongside their studies. Deadline: Monday 18th May 2026. Read more here: mailchi.mp/9ec3fa312725...

Stand by for some fresh #hps content!

We were grad students at UC San Diego together. Dale was honour and class incarnate. Whether he crafted philosophy (that would invariably get published in top places) or singling Purple Rain in karaoke. Leaves a partner with two young daughters, suddenly alone in new to them Oxford. Devastating

This bumper special issue was an absolute joy to co-edit. Get stuck in!

Just finished Solvej Balle’s On the Calculation of Volume I. Never been so puzzled about what I’ve read. Huh? Most importantly how did i practically inhale a novel in two days with zero understanding of it? Some dark magic … anyone can share any thoughts?

#Philjob #philsci ⚒️ Senior Research Fellowship interdisciplinary research on ethics, values & uncertainty in early warning of N. Atlantic climate tipping points. Position, funded until August 2028 at UCL’s Grade 8 (£54,931-£64,644). Applications close on 28th April. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Our paper was recognized as a 2024 top cited article in Social and Personality Psychology Compass. See paper 👉 doi.org/10.1111/spc3... In this paper with Micaela Rodriguez, we addressed a problem in the solitude literature: what exactly are we studying when we study “solitude”?

Are you an early career academic working in social science? GO-Science has launched a survey inviting early career researchers from a range of disciplines, including the social sciences, to share their insights into new & emerging technologies. Closes 30 April. ➡️

This was our one in Cambridge. Established in WWII during rationing, councils were allowed to keep them open so long as they were not subsidised. Cambridge kept going until the early 1970s! www.cambridgehistorian.co.uk/photographs/...

MA courses and entire departments are being closed, redundancies are sweeping the sector - and the UK Government is running a ‘Choose Canada’ marketing campaign