When the far right weaponises the suffering of Ukrainian refugees, it exposes what populism really is: not about ‘security’ or ‘values’, but about racism, fear-mongering, and dismantling solidarity. kyivindependent.com/how-the-righ...

Today @dsbrooks.bsky.social and I hosted our symposium about conceptual ambiguity at #epsa25, with talks by us, Freek Oude Maatman and Markus Eronen (no pictures of me but you can see my intro slide) 😉

I’m truly honoured to have been elected to the Steering Committee of the EPSA @epsaphilsci.bsky.social . Thank you for the trust and support! I look forward to working with colleagues to strengthen our community – and I’m grateful to those who have served before us for their work 💜 #philsci

The 33rd round of our newsletter is available under the link: eenps.weebly.com/members-publ... ⭐

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!)

EPSA 2025 (@epsaphilsci.bsky.social) was a fantastic conference – full of learning, inspiring conversations, and wonderful people. Grateful to @celsoneto.bsky.social for the invitation to the Race Across Genomics Symposium!

Since the program is not yet online I am posting the screenshot of the panels from the newsletter. @mmilkowski.bsky.social @tmarvan.bsky.social @olesyabondarenko.bsky.social @apotochnik.bsky.social @magdalenamalecka.bsky.social @malinowska.bsky.social thank you for all the work!

‘Pursuing peace’… I have no civil words to describe this performance – an alliance steeped in cynicism, hypocrisy, corruption, cruelty, and duplicity. They truly have no shame.

I just came across a 2001 text advocating a new classification of human biological races. Given Russia’s ongoing crimes against Ukrainians and various indigenous ppls (eg Crimean Tatars), it is telling that the author is from Moscow. Racist ideas continue to flourish there today.

I’ve been swamped with work lately and missed the fact that Steven Pinker has once again appeared on a podcast openly promoting racist and eugenicist ideas. Absolutely vile — though sadly no surprise. Sharing in case others missed it too. More👇 www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Life expectancy at birth reportedly declined by approximately 35 yrs in 2024. This represents a greater collapse in longevity than that recorded during the genocide in Rwanda, where life expectancy at birth declined from age 42·9 yrs in 1993 to age 12·2 yrs in 1994. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

While #ISHPSSB2025 is underway, I'd just like to draw attention to an opportunity at University of Vienna @univie.ac.at for international researchers: senior & early-career fellowships at the new #Vienna Center for Advanced Studies #ViCAS vicas.univie.ac.at Deadline: Sept 1, 2025. Please apply!

A great opportunity to get to know the series (for free)!

Just watched Heads of State. Apparently, we live in the Wild Wild East, there are mountains on the Poland–Belarus border, Warsaw runs on 90s PCs and landlines (all set to country music in the background), and border residents resemble memes of squatting Slavs in tracksuits...

I am truly honoured to be invited to speak at @philsci.bsky.social Around the World 2025 on the panel “Showcasing excellent current work in the CEE region”, organised by Magdalena Małecka and featuring Olesya Bondarenko, Endla Lõhkivi, Stathis Psillos, and myself 😊 eenps.weebly.com/eenps-psa_aw...

Save the dates of 18-19th of September 2026 for the 6th Biennial EENPS Conference at the University of Bucharest!!! Please expect a call for abstracts in autumn 2025 with submissions due likely in winter 2026! eenps.weebly.com/eenps-2026.h...

Dear all, Helen passed away at 13:21 local time. Helen would not have wanted us to be sad for a long time. All they wanted was to be remembered. They looked forward to being rid of pain and to being at rest. Helen took great comfort in you, their friends and readers. pt. 1/2

"There are few things in my life that I am truly proud of, being part of the beginning of EENPS is certainly one of them." Lilia Gurova The first entry regarding the history of EENPS has been published on our website! 👇 eenps.weebly.com/history-and-...

The East European Network for Philosophy of Science (EENPS) is pleased to announce the relaunch of its Mentorship Scheme for Early Career Scholars! 🥳🔥 More info👇 eenps.weebly.com/mentorship.h... #philsci

It’s probably nothing unusual for you, but for me – a philosopher from Poland – seeing my work mentioned in The Lancet Digital Health, Medical Image Analysis, or Neuroimage is hard to believe. Sadly, most other philosophers don’t seem that interested😅 #philsci #metasci

Next week we will have another seminar discussing academic geopolitics - this time from Kazahstanian perspective! 15th of May, 16:00 CET - see you on Zoom! Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regist

An extremely interesting symposium on perfomativity in science (with so many great participants and talks ❤ ) will be held in Hanover in June!

If you're spending your Friday afternoon at home, I highly recommend this event!

Looking forward to presenting another panel in October, at Feminist Ethics and Social Theory (FEAST) conference (@feministphilosophy.bsky.social)! Honored to talk Lorde, Hansberry, and bfem critique alongside Andrea Warmack & Naomi Simmons-Thorne. It's a great community I love being a part of. 🌻

This is a heartbreaking tragedy. A 22-year-old student attacked staff at the University of Warsaw this afternoon, killing a female employee with an axe and seriously injuring a security guard, who remains in critical condition. The attack took place on campus. tvn24.pl/polska/uniwe...

I've never looked this good in a photo before😅

The first result of our little side project "Over Their Dead Bodies: Underlying Axioms and Contemporary Use and Handling of Human Remains from Institutional Collections". Much more to come!

On the 3rd anniversary of Russia's open attack on Ukraine, I'm sharing a performance by the excellent band DakhaBrakha. I especially recommend the last song (from 14:15). It was recorded on April 15, 2022. Friends from🇺🇦, I'm sorry we are letting you down so much... www.youtube.com/watch?v=o88s...

Join us for the webinar “History is not an accident” with Maia Barkaia, Erica Marat and Iryna Zamuruieva. The speakers will reflect on the three years of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine as part of a broader web of Russian imperial and colonial violence. Register here: zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Excited to present my research on intergenerational mobility in Poland at the upcoming CNEH meeting! We examine mobility and elite openness over nine generations, from 1800 to 1984. Contrary to the recent research on the surname status, we find that there is no "law" of low and constant mobility.

Who controls the narrative controls the people. "Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past [...] We, the Party, control all records, and we control all memories. Then we control the past, do we not?" George Orwell, 1984

Those of you familiar with my research know the quality of my work and understand that allegations framing it as ‘leftist pseudoscience’ are utter nonsense. I always strive to make my job as reliable as possible. Yet, over the past few days, once again I’ve faced threats and harassment (mainly on X)

I have been very keen to organise PSA Around the World focused on Eastern and Central Europe since I first heard about this new PSA initiative. I am glad we (EENPS and PSA) put this idea into practice! More info 👇 #philsci

Research thrives on innovation and the diversity of ideas, yet our funding system often penalizes both. In our new study published in PNAS, we explore the hidden costs of competition in allocating scarce research funds. (1/10) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

We are pleased to announce that the EENPS is organising an online reading group on pragmatism and feminism in the philosophy of science. The sessions are planned to last one hour, but if there are additional questions and concerns we can also... [1/6]

Dear academic friends and colleagues, please join us in signing our open letter with the RUTA Association and expressing our support and solidarity with Georgian students and scholars in their ongoing fight for academic freedom, sovereignty, democracy and justice ruta-association.org/news/open-le...

JAMA Psychiatry A Dynamical Systems View of Psychiatric Disorders—Theory A Review jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

The first joint talk of our CAT Group (Jonatan Kurzwelly (PI), Malin Wilckens, @msimang.bsky.social, Paul W Mitchell and me) will take place today at @friasunifreiburg.bsky.social. More info: www.frias.uni-freiburg.de/en/events/fr...

Great researchers are looking for a PhD student (ethics, philosophy of science) for their exciting transdisciplinary project🔥PI: @mmuszynska.bsky.social 2 yrs with a possible extension to 3 yrs. Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Institute of Applied Statistics. www.jku.at/en/institute... #philsci

CFP: Sickness and Capitalism: New Essays on Public Health, Medicine & the Environment. Elodie Edwards-Grossi & I invite submissions for a new edited volume on the history of Medicine, Public Health & Environment under capitalism. Abstracts due 12/20. Please share networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Videos from Philosophy of Science: Past, Present, and Future are now available on the MCPS YouTube! This workshop led me to reflect on the field of #philsci, so I'll share some of those reflections here. Thanks to Sander Verhaegh and Alan Love for putting on this excellent workshop! 1/

We made another thing! Here is a pretty great 'HPS Starter Pack' so you too can follow all the awesome history, philosophy and social studies of science (and #metasci #histSTM #philsci #philsky #hps #histsci 🧪) accounts on Bluesky. Please share widely #academicsky :)

I decided to go ahead and make a starter pack of historians, scientists, and others who work on scientific racism. If you’d like to be added to the pack (or removed from it), let me know. go.bsky.app/E9PN3oG

Something worth spreading 🔥 The collection of some of the most representative texts on feminism and women’s rights published in East Central Europe in the 20th century (new translations from the original, with introductions etc) 💜 PDF file with the book (open access): ceupress.com/book/texts-a...

This is a very important read. An investigation has revealed clear links between the far-right & scientific racist outlets such as Aporia magazine. The scientific racism crowd can no longer claim to be only interested in science. Academia needs to stop facilitating these dangerous political actors

A must read for people interested in European inequities in production and distribution of knowledge: Tamas Dezso Ziegler & Anna Unger (2023). "Eurowhiteness in Science: Privilege Escalation and Intentional Sludge" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

The paper I co-authored is now officially out in Synthese: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsci #metasci #philsky

A new article on the use of ethnoracial data in biomedical research, which I co-authored, will be published soon in Synthese! You can read it now as a preprint 👇 philsci-archive.pitt.edu/23873/1/%21r...

I would love to see some numbers when it comes to the relation of 💶 transferred to ERC from each country and 💶 they get back from ERC in grants (ideally, considering each country’s budget for sciences, GDP etc). I have the feeling that CEE is funding grants for European West 🤣

#philsci making direct and tangible difference to the practices of science and medicine. Congrats to the authors!