Great to see that people are reading Danziger! I increasingly started to get interested in questions about cultural specificty of psychological kinds toward the end of my book as well. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

I hope Melvin Bragg's retirement will not end In Our Times. He has a lovely voice and manner but it's the people he invites that hold the show. I'll take this chance to post a thread of some of the more memorable episodes for me. Starting with Schaffer, Worrall, and @michelamassimi.bsky.social

Ghostwriters frame material and framing matters. Even in science. A great write up on Nick Hopwood’s research into the history of Edwards and Steptoe’s book A Matter of Life. #histmed #histsci

At LSE Philosophy we have two assistant prof vacancies - one for sustainability-related areas, the other for AI-related areas - and for neither of these will you need a $100,000 visa.

“Roy Kent”, Oi! on canvas

My 11 years in USA now seem like a dream. In the sense of being unreal. 5 years of amazing education @ucsandiego.bsky.social (to which i gave back plenty as a TA), then six years in St Louis as a postdoc and an Assistant Prof. Solidarity with all the colleagues affected. I know what a blow this is…

This puzzlement confirms the survey results discussed in this article by @federicobrandmayr.bsky.social Indeed the identity of a social scientist is secondary to most economists, anthropologists, political scientists. Sociologists are most ok with it bsky.app/profile/anna...

Got my popcorn out today for Logic Lane (1972). A 6-part documentary on Oxford philosophy. Intro episode followed by extended conversations between: Isaiah Berlin & Stuart Hampshire; A. J. Ayer & Bernard Williams; Irish Murdoch & David Pears; P. F. Evans & Gareth Evans; Gilbert Ryle & J. O. Urmson.

Baroque cycles of yearning by the inimitable Contrapoints. Gorgeous

This is a link to a hybrid book launch for the megavolume Methods in Philosophy of Science edited by the amazing @phieveigl.bsky.social and @adrian-currie.bsky.social Chapter 5 is mine with @inkerikoskinen.bsky.social The book will become open access in July 2026: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255224...

Delighted to hold the latest #veryshortintroduction in my hands, and it's a terrific one: Douglas Boyd's ORAL HISTORY. Loads to learn here, drawing on interviews with bourbon makers, WWII soliders-- even Shirley Manson and Steve Zahn, of all people. Enjoy! global.oup.com/academic/pro...

"The university will stop sharing the data required to be included in the ranking as of 2026. As a result, Sorbonne University will no longer feature in future rankings produced by THE, which include the World University Rankings, the Rankings by Subject or the Impact Rankings." Excellent!

My colleague Nick Hopwood's latest. To be publishable the story of IVF had to be made into a story about Edwards and Steptoe *plus* the supporting cast of women overcoming infertility. This was achieved by their ghostwriter Dannie Abse who added human interest and novelistic detail #histmed #histsci

Great investigative journalism uncovering the predatory business behind asylum hotels. That it all happens in buildings that used to be the pride of British seaside towns somehow makes the story especially poignant

Leytonstone, London, 14th September 2025

Bohemian Rhapsody on last night of BBC Proms was so joyful

“almost no one aided girls who wanted to avoid these guys; we were on our own and had to become escape artists”. God how true. I didn’t expect this to hit me hard since my childhood was Soviet. But it did. Gropers, exhibitionists were part of my daily reality at school, on the way home 1/2

Here’s the book link for your convenience 😊https://academic.oup.com/book/60508

New entry on the history of EENPS by Richard David-Rus 🩷

A reminder that our 2025 Philosophy essay competition is now open. Do pass this on to anyone you think might be interested in submitting. ✍️📚 Visit royalinstitutephilosophy.org/news/bodies-... for full details. #philosophy #essay #competition #prize

Very interesting keynote by Muhammad Ali Khalidi on demarcation between natural and social kinds. At ENPOSS 2025 picturesque setting, Ca’ Foscari, Venice. #philsci

Really enjoyable article from @alessandrabasso.bsky.social and @annaalexandrova.bsky.social on the tensions inherent within the design of measures and indicators. Includes a really useful framework to surface and analyse these tensions. Definitely one that I will be coming back to.

A privilege to co-author with the brilliant @alessandrabasso.bsky.social whose mastery of economics of inequality and its philosophy is unparalleled. Our general point: indicators always have more than one ideal to serve, so will have to prioritise and hence sacrifice #philsci #econsky #measurement

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My article in HOPOS, "Feyerabend, Freedom, and the Tyranny of Science" is now available ahead of print over at www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

Very happy to have been part of this project. I wrote the entry on Universal History, see: philpapers.org/rec/GANUHS. Come and join us on September 30 to celebrate the publication of The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Philosophy of the Historical Sciences and Big History, either online or in person!

Come and join us for the book launch event for The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Philosophy of the Historical Sciences Big History, edited by our very own Aviezer Tucker and @david-cernin.bsky.social! We'll celebrate the publication on September 30, in Ostrava and over Zoom. More info below!

We’re excited to launch the official BlueSky profile of ISHPSSB! Founded in 1998, we connect researchers in philosophy, history, and social studies of biology and medicine worldwide. Follow us for updates and events! #PhilosophyOfBiology, #HistoryOfScience, #STS, #Biology, #Medicine

This constituent already has. Daniel has a good moral compass. I now expect him to speak loudly on all the own goals of this government.

Editorial Board: Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social Joachim Horvath Josh Knobe @xphilosopher.bsky.social Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social Isidora Stojanovic @isidorastojanovic.bsky.social Jonathan Weinberg @jonathanweinberg.bsky.social

The conference had a civilised starting time of 10am. The Pinacoteca di Brera opens at 8:30, so…

Interesting intervention in what might be called the philosophy of public statistics by Daniel Malinsky www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I wrote a Biographical Memoir of my PhD supervisor Hugh Mellor for the @britishacademy.bsky.social www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publishing/m...

Ugly ferris wheel on Parker’s Piece is down to an orange slice. So long, please don’t come back. This has got to be a money laundering operation as no one is ever on it

Heading to Milan to listen to some heroes of mine and to speak on whether thick concepts have a place in science #philsci #philsky

The Next Turing Tests conference page is now live! Don’t miss your chance to hear leading experts discuss pressing questions with a serious interrogation of the past, present and future of AI. www.kingselab.org/the-next-tur...

Yes! Social statistics are best when they enable people to represent their lives and advocate for themselves, not when they seek the perfect master number. Wellbeing statistics should not be treated as the latter any more than GDP.

Just registered for PSA Around the World Eastern Europe. Hope you do too! Organised by @philsci.bsky.social with @eenphilsci.bsky.social this online conference over three afternoons in November covers the past and the present of #philsci in Eastern n Central Europe (where it arguably started!)

This looks extremely good by @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social So important to recognise differences in what 'open' means in #openscience. She shows for Bergson it's to cultivate meaningful social relationships, for Popper it's to exchange ideas and materials. The two can come apart! #philsci #metascience

I just posted a video on the Front-Door criterion, which enables you to identify an effect using mechanisms. This video is more technical than the others, but really illustrates how causal graphs create a bridge between causes and probabilities. youtu.be/xRFOj71FPU0

I have figured out presta valve #womeninSTEM

French philosophy was doomed from the start because you can't write "I argue that" in French

Convincing husband that this is exactly what he wants to see on his upcoming birthday is not easy. But I am working on it.

A really old tree is as therapeutic as hell. This olive tree has been alive since 300 BC. You can tell just looking at it that it’s not been easy. But it’s still here, and as beautiful as anything on Earth

UK Higher Ed friends, we are MASSIVE. www.kcl.ac.uk/policy-insti...

Sure each image is an outcome of a lucky serendipitous moment. But the grit that goes into catching these moments is why wildlife photographers deserve to be celebrated. Some fantastic and moving shots in this lineup. Especially the sloth on the fence 🥹

Illustrating the first point: the talk is by Korean man who works at a British university, he's presenting ideas based on previous work by American thinkers, speaking at a Dutch university, to an audience from around the world. The casual cosmopolitanism of academia is striking to me in these times.

Next week, it will be held the final conference of the Normative Kinds project, "Values and Classificatory Decisions in the Social and Biomedical Sciences" Save the date: 3-4 September At the University of Milan Info: sites.unimi.it/guala/normat...

Received the print copy of my book (out next week!). Obligatory shot with @theul.bsky.social in the background.