There are 10 days left to submit a proposal for the 6th Biennial EENPS Conference (Bucharest, 18–19 September 2026). Submission deadline: 15 February! Talks and symposia across all areas of philosophy of science are welcome ☀️ eenps2026.sciencesconf.org #philsci

Meet the new editors-in-chief of *EJPS*: Catherine Herfeld & Samuel C. Fletcher Here you can find more information about the associate editors and the editorial board of our journal: link.springer.com/journal/1319... #philsci

Looking forward to studying this. Not the central point of the article but I am startled by the first sentence "The purpose of scientific research is to generate generalizable knowledge". If this is true, science should not study the Big Bang, the extinction of dinosaurs, and other one off events.

Wow this hits the spot. Thank you

So many questions after reading this… like how will the funds for ´curiosity-driven research’ (hate this term for its levity and whimsical connotations) be distributed between research councils?

Glad to share a new paper with Ivan Boldyrev and Bob Sugden, written for the 75th anniversary of the famous 1952 Paris conference on risk. We reconstruct the rich discussions at the meeting and address the “sleeping beauty puzzle” linked to ideas presented there by Allais and Arrow. bit.ly/4rkZqNn

British Library placement profiles include illustrated & illuminated incunabula, Elgar's letters, law & legal studies, UK newsletter publishing, war poetry, digital sustainability, decarbonisation and more. Deadline 27 February. #Skystorians

Looking forward to introducing this speaker tonight. Drop by if you are in Cambridge #philsky

Eldest child drew me this amazing snail blorbo on my notebook cover, had to share

Yes! In this article I tried to offer some context for thinking about that. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

An amazing collection of primary sources on how science is represented and how these representations evolved #histsci #philsci #hps

Master’s students and PhD candidates, your favorite Russian human rights media project, OVD-Info, is taking submissions for an award recognizing scholarly research on state repression, surveillance mechanisms, and censorship in contemporary Russia. ovd.info/en/oi-prize-...

With this brief editorial, I present our special issue on Dennett's Powerful Ideas, due out very soon in @journalphp.bsky.social. I'm very pleased with the quality and variety of contributions we received! doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy

The 100th Joint Session Call for Papers is closing soon. Get your abstracts in by Sunday! DEADLINE: 1 February 2026. www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk/the-joint-se...

Very exciting to see this material out. Life satisfaction has been a black box for far too long and is now finally being opened. Superb use of qualitative evidence for quantitative aims.

Congratulations on this paper! Certainly if we are going to have ‘item banks’, they should only be presented in terms of potential not actual nor even probable validity. #measurement #philsci #metascience

The snowdrops are back!

Thank you for sharing this remarkable pedagogical story,Thi!

Some quality content from my better half #philsci #history #philsky

#jobs #publishing #booksky #humanities

JOBS Associate & Assistant Professorships in Public Policy, University of Cambridge www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/about-us/car...

Great to read @unsocialtheory.bsky.social in the Letters in LRB! A very helpful reply to David Runciman on replacement rate. Glad they published such a comparatively long letter

After a provocation from Todd Kashdan I wrote up some frustrations I have with "wellbeing science", specifically the idea that it was born with life satisfaction scales. I think this belief is untrue and unhelpful. profmarkfabian.substack.com/p/airing-my-...

Helpful disaggregation by @annaalexandrova.bsky.social @martinkusch.bsky.social: "there has not been one single & continuous S-debate [debate over the specialness of the soc scis] during the last 200 years [but] S-debates in diff countries at diff times, focused on diff paradigmatic nat & soc scis"

Ooh this one will become my daily regular alongside Wordle and Connections.

Deadline today!! Society for the Study of Measurement, June 22-25, 2026, University of Edinburgh. 500-word abstract. #histsci #philsci #PhilSky #MLSky #psycsci #PsychSciSky #dataethics 🧪https://measurementsociety.org/2026-second-biennial-conference/

The Palestine Lectures at Cambridge. On Childhood with Lorna Finlayson. All welcome.

We’re back today, with JS Mill (and as we’ll hear Harriet Taylor Mill) on the case for personal liberty and the limits of state interference. The presenter is Misha Glenny www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

New paper just published in Synthese: Instrumental Understanding link.springer.com/article/10.1... In this paper I start developing an account of pragmatic understanding fit for an epistemology of scientific instruments, drawing especially on Davis Baird's Thing Knowledge. #philsci #philsky

new bi-weekly podcast where logic, mathematics, philosophy, and computer science meet #philsky

“Not monetizing does not equal not considering or not valuing the human health impact.” Many on the left believe lives should not be valued in money terms. The difference between those people and the Trump administration is that when the Trump administration utters the statement above, it's false.

🔔 We're launching our Bluesky account today! Can you help us spread the word by retweeting this post? 😀 #Theoria #diamondopenaccessjournal

Here now are all ten of my "rules" for writing about the history of philosophy combined as a single blog post. Hope they will be useful to students and teachers, even if only to prompt disagreement! www.historyofphilosophy.net/rules-writin... #philsky #philosophy #writing #history

📣 Join us for the inaugural BSPS #Popper Prize lecture, delivered by philosophers of science Alexander Franklin and @vanessaseifert.bsky.social. 🗓️ Wednesday 25 February, 6.30pm - 8pm 📍 LSE Campus and online 💻 Register now to attend in-person or online! More: www.lse.ac.uk/events/molec...

The London Spinoza Circle has been reborn as the UK Spinoza Circle, thanks to the hard work of Tony Salgado Borge. Please see the website here to sign up and for info on the first event, happening this Friday! www.spinozacircle.co.uk

Knowledge is power

Call for Abstracts! The Center for Philosophy of Science invites submissions for the upcoming workshop, Social Ontology and Empirical Inquiry: Conflicts and Connections (April 11-12, 2026). Deadline: January 15th Details: https://ow.ly/eFpj50X9T2o #PhilosophyOfScience #CallForPapers

Some excellent jobs in a new teaching program in #xrisk in Germany – please share. Link to the page for the course below. jobs.fernuni-hagen.de/job/Teaching...

Our special issue with @martinkusch.bsky.social is finally complete and here’s at long last our introduction. I pitched the idea to him in 2019! Thank you for your patience and generosity, Martin. I am proud of this manifesto and hope colleagues will join us in rethinking this old debate #philsci

I hope everyone is enjoying the Eastern APA. I'd like to see a bunch of the sessions today, but I've got to teach classes before getting there tomorrow. I'm going to be a panelist on a session on this excellent book: academic.oup.com/book/59987

Solidarity with Martin Peterson, a wonderful philosopher. I enjoyed working on this volume with him. Buy his books!

We are delighted to announce that the BSPS will be running a doctoral scholarship competition in 2026! The competition will open in February, and the deadline will be 27 March. www.thebsps.org/funding/doct...

Fantastic work by @plutynski.bsky.social i still have no idea what factor analysis is good for. #philsci #philpsy #philmed

To celebrate the launch of the xphi-journal and kick-off our talk series, we are happy to invite everyone to this talk by Edouard Machery. ruhr-uni-bochum.zoom-x.de/j/6780355881...

dusk at Mill Road cemetery. May we all stay safe and healthy in 2026!

Let me try again. Have any of you authors of pirated books submitted the claim to get your share of the settlement? Or will the publisher pocket the proceeds anyway?

Ramsey coming up with his mature theory of induction in the middle of a talk

Anyone opting in or out the Anthropic Copyright Settlement?

The list of innovations in neonatal medicine this one man was responsible for is so impressive. Not the least the famous kangaroo care (he run an RCT showing its effectiveness). He was our alumnus @kingscollege.bsky.social! Rest in peace, Professor Whitelaw and thank you for everything