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Anna Alexandrova

@annaalexandrova.bsky.social
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Philosophy of science, methodology of social sciences, wellbeing, evidence based policy, measurement. Professor @hpscambridge.bsky.social Fellow @kingscollege.bsky.social Russian Brit She/her philpeople.org/profiles/anna-alexan…

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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Here’s the especially depressing bit: “peer review reports and funding recommendations have “suddenly become much longer, more detailed and complex”. Colleagues, what are you doing?
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Snoop-and-scoop poses a real threat to science in the AI age
Establishing attribution in research has become harder in the age of AI-assisted breakthroughs
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Samuli Reijula @samulireijula.net · 29/09/2026
very proud to share: @sobla.bsky.social has a new paper out in Synthese, "Explaining evidential discordance" #philsci link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Explaining evidential discordance - Synthese
Evidential discordance, or the situation where scientific evidence supports contrary hypotheses, claims or theories about a given phenomenon, is common in scientific inquiry (Franklin, 2002; Boyd, 201...
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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So satisfying that this Slovak babygirl is in control. I pray to the same thing she does
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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A writeup abt the special issue of Studies in HPS which @martinkusch.bsky.social and I edited based on a 2022 conference held @crasshlive.bsky.social & @kingscollege.bsky.social The standard of articles is high, my own submission got rejected! So I poured my heart into the introduction. Have a read
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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Somebody somewhere in Russia sent a drone to hit this great Kyiv institution. We mustn’t get used to this
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Russian Drone Strikes Ukraine’s Science Academy, Causing Fire in City Center (Gift Article)
A Russian jet-powered drone hit Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences, the source of almost all of the country’s major scientific discoveries.
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Cambridge Philosophy @cambridgephilos.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Alexander Bird will be giving his Inaugural Address as President of @aristotsoc.bsky.social on 28/9/26. His talk is entitled “Against Empiricism”. The abstract, draft paper, and other details can be found here: www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk/the-proceedi... @stjohnscollege.bsky.social
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119th Inaugural Address: Alexander Bird – The Aristotelian Society
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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Life is first boredom, then fear. Whether or not we use it, it goes, And leaves what something hidden from us chose, And age, and then the only end of age.”
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Dockery and Son
‘His son’s here now.’ Death-suited, visitant, I nod. ‘And do You keep in touch with—’ Or remember how Black-gowned, unbreakfasted, and still half-tight We…
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Martin Kusch @martinkusch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Beyond Austria. -- A statue somewhere in the centre of Oslo. I was unable to identify the sculptor. #Vienna #Austria #photography #Oslo
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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
someone should write a science fiction story called "2+2=5" set in a future where no-one has retained any ability to do the basic operations and an apocalyptic cult introduces malware into the LLMs that store all human knowledge so that the LLMs stop knowing how to do them as well
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Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Also just published in the recent flurry is Suilin's musing on trying to decolonise her philosophy of mind & cogsci syllabus (I of course recused myself with respect to any handling or decision making here)
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What I learned in my attempt to decolonise my syllabus | Hypatia | Cambridge Core
What I learned in my attempt to decolonise my syllabus
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Owen Garling @ojgarling.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Looking forward to taking part in PPL's series of conversations on Neighbourhood Resilience on Monday. Do sign up! ppl.org.uk/ppl-launches...
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PPL launches Neighbourhood Resilience conversation series - PPL
In September, PPL is launching a series of exploring what makes neighbourhoods resilient and what this means for communities, public services and the future of place-based working. In recent years, co...
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Adam Tamas Tuboly @tuadam.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I am happy to say that our volume on the history of value-laden ideals of science is out today! I am grateful to the wonderful contributors for their really nice chapters! First of its kind, check it out! www.routledge.com/Histories-of...
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Histories of the Value-Laden Ideals of Science: Philosophical Perspectives
This volume challenges oversimplified accounts of the value-free (VFI) and the value-laden ideals (VLI) in twentieth-century philosophy of science. Rather than a single, unified position, it reveals a...
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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Lorna Finlayson on Ed’s freedom to be apolitical: “The incident fits a broader pattern in the discourse around ‘free speech’ and ‘cancel culture’: whatever comes from the top down is freedom; whatever comes from the bottom up is bullying and censorship.”
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Lorna Finlayson | Public Positions
In much of the coverage of the Ed Sheeran-Macklemore debacle, the reality of the incident is turned on its head, as...
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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
How do people exploit doubt? Of course, it's by Gricean means, how else. The latest by my colleague in @hpscambridge.bsky.social Tim Lewens #philsci #philsky
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Conduits of confidence and doubt - European Journal for Philosophy of Science
Oreskes and Conway’s (2010) paradigmatic cases for agnotology show how misplaced doubt can be deliberately produced in the minds of one’s audience, even when everything one asserts is strictly true. T...
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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I am now President-Elect of my dear @thebsps.bsky.social 🤘which means you might be receiving emails "from me" with urgent requests for assistance from a very new and scrambled gmail address. Obviously ignore these and direct all your urges to give me money to the BSPS fund for PhD studentships. 🙏
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BSPS Committee - BSPS
BSPS Committee - BSPS
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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Prof. @josephinequinn.bsky.social's inaugural lecture, "Anarchical Antiquity", will be at 5pm on Thursday 8 October in the Old Divinity School Main Lecture Theatre, St John’s College, Cambridge. www.joh.cam.ac.uk/about-us/new...
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Niall Roe @niallroe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
C. S. Peirce, echoing recent comments by Terrence Tao and other mathematicians on the use of AI to solve Navier-Stokes (except Peirce is writing in 1903):
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Eugene Lim @tukohbin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
21k this year. Last year was 17k.
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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Some of this advice generalises outside North America, some doesn’t. Increasingly the high quality articles in the pipeline are not enough. Cash strapped departments want you to recruit bums on seats, bring in grants, and take over admin functions left unfulfilled after the office staff is ‘let go’.
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Alex Holcombe @alexh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If we have to call them Type 1 / 2 instead of false positive and false negative, use this mnemonic: the boy who cried wolf caused both Type I & Il errors, in that order.
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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Some of this advice generalises outside North America, some doesn’t. Increasingly the high quality articles in the pipeline are not enough. Cash strapped departments want you to recruit bums on seats, bring in grants, and take over admin functions left unfulfilled after the office staff is ‘let go’.
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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Greetings from Bucharest. A man who believed a nation loved him lost the crowd from this balcony in 1989. Means it can happen again, hopefully sooner rather than later
Building in a rationalist style with a view of a balcony decorated with Romanian flags
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 18/09/2026
Cluster analysis can be applied to these, and clusters will be found. But that doesn’t mean those clusters are meaningful.>
man to computer: Find clusters
computer: >CLUSTERS FOUND
man: oh my god.
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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
In Bucharest for the 6th conference of @eenphilsci.bsky.social No registration fee, tiny budget but a great program run on pure enthusiasm of the organisers. Very proud to be involved
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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Fiery sunrise on the horizon & reflected in a still black sea  9/17/25
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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Said goodbye to my first born who is off to uni and feeling a bit fragile, so stopped to read in the airport store this latest instalment of the series he so loved as a child. It’s self-referential and sophisticated with themes from Scheherazade. Obviously I cried
Colourful cover of the children’s book Gruffalo Granny
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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Happy birthday, Marquis! So amazing to think that his voting theorems were forgotten until Arrow rediscovered them independently.
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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is a big deal. For the first time (I believe) the Lakatos Award goes to a book not published by one of the big commercial presses but by BSPS Open, an idealistic project to issue diamond access monographs. Small budget, top notch philosophy. Congratulations to John Norton and BSPS open!
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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Every talk I give about models
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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Is this what they call a side eye?
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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Frank Ramsey now on the wall along with the portraits of other former fellows of @kingscollege.bsky.social I am proud to have advocated for this recent addition
Wall of black and white photo portraits
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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
All this newly fashionable talk about misalignment of AI and human values, but @privateeyenews.bsky.social has been running the Malgorithms rubric for as long as I can remember.
MALGORITHMS
Futurism: "Man Wearing Pervert
Glasses Films Himself Harassing Famous Female Comedian in Middle of TV Shoot" Accompanying ad: "Record vibrant memories while staying in the moment with the new Ray-Ban Meta. Film in 3K Ultra HD resolution" (Ray-Ban Meta Al glasses)
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Adrian Currie @adrian-currie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Methods in the Philosophy of Science: A User's Guide, edited by the inestimable @phieveigl.bsky.social (and me!), has 27 chapters from super-cool philosophers of science explaining how they do their thing, and is now open access! Our baby is free! #philsci direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edi...
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Methods in the Philosophy of Science: A User's Guide
A guidebook to methods and methodology, encouraging deeper engagement across the philosophy of science and beyond.The last twenty years have seen multiple
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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Apparently the original idea was “honest consensus of relevant experts”. But that was in theory
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Dan David Prize @dandavidprize.org · 09/09/2026
Nominations for the 2027 Dan David Prize are open. Deadline: Oct 13, 2026⌛ Up to 9 winners will be awarded $300,000 each. Nominees can work in any discipline that focuses on the human past, be within or outside of academia, and be based anywhere in the world: dandavidprize.org/nominate
Nominations for the 2027 Dan David Prize are open until 13 October, 2026.
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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
tell em terry
In short, the indiscriminate use of powerful solution-extraction tools can achieve the immediate short-term goal of solving problems at hand, but at the cost of sustaining the ecosystem for the next wave of progress, or in understanding the progress already obtained.

While it may be technically infeasible to completely prohibit the use of automated tools to perform indiscriminate solution extraction, I believe that we can still designate many classes of problems as being desirous of a careful analysis that not only solves the problem, but identifies insights from the solution process, and learn more about the difficulty landscape for nearby problems, and for which raw solutions without such analysis would be of negligible or even negative value for these purposes.  This is analogous to how a modern food donation drive no longer accepts arbitrary contributions even when they are verified to be technically edible, but instead maintains explicit and socially accepted standards on what level of contributions are actually sought. (4/4)
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Mark Schroeder @philosophymark.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
So... I started a Substack? I'll be posting regularly this fall about how and why philosophy matters, how and why to use philosophy to shed light on interpersonal conflict, and from time to time some tangential musings. philosophymark.substack.com
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Mark Schroeder | Substack
I'm a philosopher and author interested in how philosophy can help us to understand and navigate conflict in interpersonal relationships. I teach at USC and am the author of When Things Get Personal. ...
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Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Labo(u)r Day is a good time to remind folks about YOU DESERVE A TECH UNION by @ethanmarcotte.com — collective organizing and worker power is maybe *especially* important for these industries that shape all of our lives, especially now. ethanmarcotte.com/books/you-de...
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You Deserve a Tech Union — Ethan Marcotte
Read this page on ethanmarcotte.com
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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
i can't get over the fact that someone asked wong kar-wai what he thinks about AI and he said "AI can replicate, but can it yearn?". superb. he knows what we want from him.
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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
My first act as the head of @hpscambridge.bsky.social is to fill a bowl with choice sweets and to position it strategically in the middle of the table in my office, so that it’s the first thing people see when they enter it. Godspeed
Glass bowl on a wooden table full of different kinds of sweets, door and office wall in the background
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Our autumn public events season is on the theme of the ‘search for wellness’. Includes discussions on what makes for a good life, why music moves us, and how humans have obsessed about their gut through history! In person or most live streamed. Book here! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/searc...
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Searching for wellness
Explore what it means to live well in an increasingly complex world, where our ability to rest, connect and heal is being reshaped by economic pressure, global change and digital life.
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Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
We're going to need cluster hires and special centers of study at every university to engage with literary fiction. Institutions also need to deal with the seedy underbelly of the lit-fic economic powerhouse that no one wants to mention: (whispers) poetry
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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
When stats people visit the Simpson’s gap do they discuss Simpson’s paradox ?!
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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Literary fiction is coming. It is going to revolutionize the economy. We know that China has already got a start on literary fiction. We can’t afford to be left out of the literary fiction economy. Think of your kids. They might already be engaging with literary fiction.
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Sander Verhaegh @sanderverhaegh.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
In the 1930s, a group of European philosophers fled fascism and reshaped American philosophy. Why did logical positivism have such an impact on US thought? And why did it play a central role in the culture wars of the 1950s and 1960s? Released today! Logical Positivism: An American History (1/3)
Cover of Logical Positivism: An American History
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Tanay Katiyar @adigitaltanay.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
All six talks from the Bridging Mental Health Network at Cambridge are now out on YouTube! ft. @timdalgleish.bsky.social @camillanord.bsky.social @kristensyme.bsky.social @mkbruun.bsky.social @realadamhunt.bsky.social @annaalexandrova.bsky.social and Sebastian Rodriguez youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Network Talks (2025 - 2026) - YouTube
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Georg Gangl @ggangl.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Indeed! Send something in today still and then come to Ostrava in November to discuss some philosophy of history with us.
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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
A warm Mediterranean night in Cyprus. Enjoy
Moon over the sea with the coastal rocks in the foreground
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Martin Kusch @martinkusch.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
My classical music favourites CDX. -- Debussy's "Clair de Lune", performed by Evgeny Kissin. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5h4... #music #classicalmusic
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Evgeny Kissin - Clair de Lune
YouTube video by Chicken Man
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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Watched with the teenager The Hunt for the Red October. How come that a film made in 1990 gave the KGB minder on the submarine the name Putin? Anyone knows?
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