A glimpse of the Christmas tree at Ely Cathedral today. 📷 #photography

Publication day! It’s been a long journey to get to this point, and I’m grateful to everyone who’s supported that, and to @routledgebooks.bsky.social for publishing it.

Here is my annual reminder to not say "come work with me" or "be my colleague" when sharing job ads fom your department. Being on the job market is incredibly hard. Candidates know that he actual chances of being your colleague are vanishingly small (sorry if this sounds harsh)

Boston people, please welcome Nienke!

Call for papers: Ian Hacking and the Philosophy of Psychiatry. Deadline: 1st February 2026. Guest editors: Şerife Tekin and Jonathan Y. Tsou. Submit your work! think.taylorandfranc... #philsky #philpsy #philsci

Policy #evaluation inherits concepts from multiple disciplines, and somewhere along the way many of them have become muddled. This blog post sketches what I think are seven of the most irritating myths. andifugard.info/seven-persis...

”Raspberry Queen“ – known in Vienna @martinkusch.bsky.social?

Endorsing this book eagerly. Really important ideas about how to evaluate what is salient to us

A sunny morning in Wicken Fen. Very muddy boots…

At last I have a shareable draft of my book on Fitting Happiness! Drop me a line if you'd like to see. alexgregory.name#HAPbook

Thanks to the huge work of @milenaivanova.bsky.social history and philosophy of science will now be taught at the Professional and Contunuing Education at Cambridge. Bravo, Milena! Please share so she recuits a strong first cohort to start in autumn 2026. #philsci #histsci #hps

A terrific term at the Moral Sciences Club, with talks by Michael Potter, Christine Korsgaard (pictured with Lia and George), Léa Salje, Megan Blomfield (pictured with Alexander Bird), Andrew Ma, Hasok Chang, & Lucy O'Brien, all led by wonderful club secs Eirini and Tatiana!

"the intellectual roots of Russia’s economic transformation lie not in external imposition, but in late Soviet reformism and a growing recognition of the command economy’s unworkability." Late USSR was a "failed technocracy", so I much as I'd like to blame Jeffrey Sachs, this book won't let me.

A Friday afternoon bump for a couple of opportunities at @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk. First, for the Professor of Public Policy in your life. See below. 1/2

Continuing the fine tradition of declining to review for Nature Publishing Group, in my case @natmentalhealth.nature.com for all the fine reasons Alex descibed in this letter. The APC for this journal is £9190.00/$12690.00/€10690.00. Join us!

On the increasingly troubled relationship between science, evidence and policy; some thoughts, and proposals, from @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social and me.

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Lorna Finlayson pens a review of three recent books on feminism by Judith Butler, Sophie Lewis, and a reissue of Andrea Dworkin. Convincing criticism of the first, good subtle observations bringing out the strengths of the latter two.

Here’s a whole other dimension of the problem. Taking phones away from kids is a way of keeping them away from certain material that would otherwise outrage them. Issue of political agency newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Went for a walk in the rain to Granchester and back

Following some rewarding reading group meetings with @michelamassimi.bsky.social and others in the department, a review of Robert Northcott's new book 'Science for a Fragile World' has now come out in @philosophyinreview.bsky.social #philsci #philsky #science journals.uvic.ca/index.php/pi...

A sprawling academic cheating network turbocharged by Google Ads that has generated nearly $25 million in revenue has curious ties to a Kremlin-connected oligarch whose Russian university builds military drones, reports Brian Krebs.

Absolutely. An open access book on evidential pluralism: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon...

Whether or not the concerns expressed in this paper are legitimate, the way ‘positivism’ became somehow both meaningless and pejorative is not good.

Open access précis of Rahel Jaeggi book on progress in the journal Analyse & Kritik #philsky

Opening in February: 6M worth of grants on “more effective ways of conducting and supporting research and development (R&D), including the impact of artificial intelligence (AI), how to optimise research institutions and the challenges of measuring research excellence.” #metascience

Filling this out as individual. Telling them that if I had to wait for ten years to apply for indefinite leave to remain I would not have thrown myself into my community as I did. I’d be aloof and shorttermist w/ little to none affective commitment to the U.K.

I just published a Cambridge Elements that offers a critical overview of recent work in epistocracy, Confucian meritocracy, and democratic theories of meritocracy. Free to download for the next two weeks. URL: t.co/Z5BOYrCRGF.

🎥 Watch the Lakatos Award Lecture 2025 by Mazviita Chirimuuta on "Apocalyptic Technology: #AI and the Limits of #Science" Mazviita Chirimuuta received the award for her book “The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience” www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KkX...

Things that will interest Bluesky; Misha Glenny, author of McMafia, replaces Melvyn Bragg as host of In Our Time.

What Paul is describing is scandalous. But I am also weirdly cheered up by seeing pics of him since the accident. So much willpower, such determination to rebuild a meaningful life. Unchanged is his ridiculous articulacy and humour. His substack is very good too, subscribe!

We are pouring our heart into this conference to keep it high quality, supportive, and accessible (no registration fee!). Do consider it for your #philsci content broadly conceived. I also can't wait to see Bucharest in September.

Delighted to receive my own copy! Here is the press site where eventually the volume will be available as open access mitpress.mit.edu/978026255224... well done again @adrian-currie.bsky.social @phieveigl.bsky.social

A new album from my college choir

enjoying this very much. One of the characters works on "philosophical presuppositions of social science". Pure Stoppard...

it's so sad to read that he was shunned for his name despite his anti-nazi work during the war. statistically speaking this means he was shunned by people who did less to resist the nazis than he did. human beings are so stupid. i'm going to bed.

Everything old is new again, I get to recycle my Good Times with Francis Galton line again and again and again web.archive.org/web/20230608...

Summary of expert opinion on 1) Social media n mobile phone use reduce attention span, resulting in major long-run negative wellbeing effects. 2) Urgent intervention in the form of restrictions on social media n phone use is needed to protect the attention span n normal development of children.

Thank you for catching this, Erik! Keep collecting those Author Processing Charges @natureportfolio.nature.com

So much to admire in my colleague at @kingscollege.bsky.social Azim Surani. Now that he is collecting accolades for discovery of genomic imprinting, there are videos telling his unlikely story. Many obstacles but also a fateful encounter w Bob Edwards (of IVF fame) who became his PhD supervisor...

Lots of great content in the latest newsletter from the Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (SPSP is so good at fostering community). If you scroll all the way to the last feature I pour my heart out in the Proust Questionnaire. So good of Saana Jukola to give me the opportunity 🙏

The @scottpolar.bsky.social are looking for a librarian. This is a rare opportunity! Work with (probably) the world's largest dedicated polar library alongside archive and museum colleagues. The dream 😍 📜

Nice toolkit supported by one of our small grants for how science communicators can make their messages memorable through understanding how people remember things. By @hanachronism.bsky.social livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3194747/

Lots of great content in the latest newsletter from the Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (SPSP is so good at fostering community). If you scroll all the way to the last feature I pour my heart out in the Proust Questionnaire. So good of Saana Jukola to give me the opportunity 🙏

It's been three (!) years since I last posted something on my blog, but you still gotta love cells, as they say... so here's a little piece discussing philosopher Talbot Brewer's talk/essay "What Good Are the Humanities?" lovecells.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/w... #philsky 💙📚

🚨We're hiring! A tenure track position at McGill University in the area of #bioethics and / or philosophy of science, with a special focus on the ethics of medical technologies. Please share widely. #philsky #ethics #philsci philjobs.org/job/show/30402

Saturday night TV. Seeing his sketches and how Turner’s style progressed was great. Of the way too many interviewed guests, Leslie Primo is 👍. But Orna Guralnik was such a predictable cartoon psychoanalyst that by the end I was finishing her sentences (which were naturally about Turner’s mother)

Starting the last day of PSA Around the World Central and Eastern Europe with a session on scientific understanding. @henkderegt.bsky.social is the first plenary speaker on understanding by an artificial system

Thank you! Here a review of the debate: plato.stanford.edu/entries/scie...