Helene Scott @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Some exciting stuff happening in Oxford this term 👀 AI and death and dying | understanding cancer | prosthetics, the human and the monstrous - all relevant for #philmed #philsci #hpbio folks (I may be biased for the prosthetics workshop 🦾🦿🫀🦴) 033
Helene Scott @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social · 19/09/2026(2) from musician Marie Højlund, speaking on soundscapes and emotional agency in hospitals at #SymPCa2026 - where I went to discuss *symptoms* with a fun group of medics, psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists and philosophers (incl @laukas.bsky.social ) #hpbio #philsci #philmed 141
Helene Scott @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I just learnt that (1) there are cows that produce 57L milk/day 🤯 and (2) Munch’s scream isn’t screaming, but shielding their ears from the sound of a valley in despair 👀 (1) from the wonderful Nathalia Brichet in her nuanced and horrifying exhibition on the history of farming in Denmark 180
Helene Scott @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Exciting week in Cambridge ☀️ #spsp2026 Polishing slides for our talk on the @pdncambridge.bsky.social #cultureLab - “Philosophers and scientists in practice” with @anatoliikozlov.bsky.social Come practice with us Friday in session 6H. #philsci 0121
Reposted by Helene ScottOxford Medical Humanities @oxmedhum.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Our ECR/DPhil workshop tomorrow (Thursday18)+Friday19 June. Keynote by Helene Scott-Fordsmand (UCL) on Friday morning: Fat tissue and the collapse of the subject-object divide in anatomical dissection practices torch.ox.ac.uk/event/object... @uehiro.ox.ac.uk @torchoxford.bsky.socialtorch.ox.ac.ukObjectivity and Subjectivity in Medicine 065
Helene Scott @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social · 08/06/2026#philsky #philsci Come teach with me! 0.5 FTE for 2 years to start with 01110
Helene Scott @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Term is over and it's writing time!🔥 If anyone wants ✍️company - and ✍️celebration vibes - I'm joining @valeriaramirez.bsky.social for @clarehallcambridge.bsky.social writing marathon. It's a fundraising event to celebrate 60 years of CH, but donations are optional www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sixty-hour...media.tenor.coma black and white photo of a man with the words now we shall do some writing below himAlt: a black and white photo of a man in an old-fashioned cape stepping forward to announce. Caption: now we shall do some writing. 030
Reposted by Helene ScottAnatolii Kozlov @anatoliikozlov.bsky.social · 24/02/2026What's common between the creativity tests and meat-imitating food? Social interactions and formal modelling? Trembling Earth and a trembling body? Our suggestion is: performativity. @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social @gluzmania.bsky.social @sshmedicine.bsky.social and others.sshm.orgRepresenting, Reshaping Reenacting.Anatolii Kozlov, (Université de Genève) What is common between the creativity tests and meat-imitating food? Between social interactions and formal modelling? Between the trembling Earth and a trem… 022
Reposted by Helene ScottAlice Murphy @alicemurphs.bsky.social · 07/01/20262 year Postdoctoral Research Fellow opportunity at the University of St Andrews on my project "Aesthetic Values and the Social Dimensions of Science" www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... #philosophy #philscivacancies.st-andrews.ac.ukResearch Fellow - AR3233Research Fellow - AR3233, Unit: Philosophical, Anthropological and Film Studies Salary: Grade 6 / £38,784-£42,254 pa Full time Fixed term: 24 months, <p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Application... 37169
Reposted by Helene ScottMinnesota Center for Philosophy of Science @mcps-philsci.bsky.social · 02/10/2025Two-year postdoc w/ Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science! Scholars in all areas of #philsci, inclusive of philosophical approaches to logic&math, are eligible. This is understood broadly to include issues in the history&practice of particular sciences.Deadline 5 Dec 2025. buff.ly/MhR4PcKphiljobs.orgTwo-Year Post-Doctoral Associate, Philosophy of Science, University of Minnesota - PhilJobs:JFPAn international database of jobs for philosophers 02017
Reposted by Helene ScottH.K. Andersen @hkandersen.bsky.social · 27/09/2025We're coming up on philosophy PhD application season. In case it is helpful for you or your students, I have a guide to this process, developed over the years of working with SFU MA students. Let me know if you have questions or suggestions #philsky #philsci www.hkandersen.com/applying-for...hkandersen.comApplying for Ph.d. programsThese notes were developed over the years for the annual "Applying to a PhD program" session for Simon Fraser University Philosophy MA students. This offers a perspective on how to prioritize your... 0238
Reposted by Helene ScottAlisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 21/09/2025#HPS program at the University of Copenhagen invites applications for Postdoc in History and Philosophy of Science as part of research project Human Variables in Biodiversity Assessment (PI: Joeri Witteveen): employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho... #philsky #PhilJobs #philsci Deadline is November 7, 2025.employment.ku.dkPost-doc position in History and Philosophy of Science 05432
Reposted by Helene ScottAlisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 25/09/2025#PhilJobs Dept Philosophy @ Stanford University AOS: Philosophy of Physics (understood broadly to include all physical sciences, complexity, etc.), Philosophy of Science AOC: Open Open rank: tenure-track Assistant Prof, tenured Associate Prof, or Full Prof Deadline: November 1 #PhilSci #philskyfacultypositions.stanford.eduStanford | Faculty Positions: Details - Open Rank Faculty Position in Philosophy of Physics 12915
Reposted by Helene ScottMauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · 21/09/2025New paper out jointly with the formidable @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social in a volume edited by Pietro Gori honouring Mary Hesse: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...link.springer.comInference and Negative Analogy: Lessons on Analogical Reasoning from Clinical Medical PracticeMary Hesse’s work on the role of analogical reasoning in science has set the disciplinary standard. Her classic Models and Analogies in Science (1966) spearheaded the emergence of the philosophy... 0153
Helene Scott @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social · 23/09/2025🎉 can’t wait to dig into this book - and to add it to my syllabus for philosophers-to-be. The glimpses I’ve seen are full of exciting ideas, and I’m sure the full thing is even richer. #sts #philsci 🙌 to @adrian-currie.bsky.social and @phieveigl.bsky.social for pulling this into existence 0185
Helene Scott @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social · 18/09/2025@anatoliikozlov.bsky.social taught me this: no better way to disrupt academic stiffness than bringing 🎈into the conversation. Pre-action shots from the beautiful @britishacademy.bsky.social before we forgot about our phones in all the excitement of moving and talking #researchculture #sts #ECR 140
Reposted by Helene ScottAmy Taggart 🍎 @amytaggart.eurosky.social · 18/09/2025“There is a whole world of unheard voices and unsought inspiration waiting to inject freshness and novelty into philosophers.” ✨ Yes ✨ #philsky 051
Helene Scott @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Today we’re taking the #CultureLab to @britishacademy.bsky.social - to set a tone of connection and joyful energy at the BA ECRN National Postdoctoral Conference ✨ celebrating the wonderful promise of early career, and creating support networks for the difficult bits. @anatoliikozlov.bsky.social 141
Helene Scott @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social · 16/09/2025Finally, Richard Long’s Rock installations (~1980s). On making traces in the real world as an art (and philosophical?) form - and how we display this after the fact? On making the ordinary noticeable by organisation and classification. And on stones as nature, ressource and symbol. 020
Helene Scott @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social · 16/09/2025Second: Cildo Meireles’ Babel (2001). On how we tell the history of technology, on noise and ways of attending to sound, on the transition from a technology of resistance to one of state communication, and on the return of chaos as the return of the need for households to have transiter radios. 141
Helene Scott @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social · 16/09/2025First work: Rothko’s black on maroon (1958). On how the quiet and unsettling can call us to connect. On the uncomfortable of emergent objects and on restaurant, museums and universities as ambiguous places between consumption and contemplation #sts 150
Helene Scott @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social · 16/09/2025Start-of-year awayday with @stsucl.bsky.social - we’ll kick off at Tate Modern, discussing the relations between sts and art, before we head into workshopping AI issues and large scale teaching formats ☀️ 190
Reposted by Helene ScottAlisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 05/09/2025Adrian Research Fellowship, a 3-4 year paid Postdoc in any area of philosophy at Darwin College, Cambridge U, invites applications if w/in 3 yrs PhD. Submit app.casc.cam.ac.uk/fas_live/dar... by 3 October 2025. www.darwin.cam.ac.uk/vacancies/ www.darwin.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/u... #PhilSci #PhilJobsdarwin.cam.ac.uk 11519
Helene Scott @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social · 04/09/2025This looks like an exciting new steering committee - not least because I spot several members with an interesting in the intersection between qualitative empirical methods and #philsci 👀✨ 120
Helene Scott @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social · 04/09/2025Also worth noting that @msuarez.bsky.social and I have a chapter in the same volume on *Inference and Negative Analogy* – and broken bones, of course 🦴. #philsci link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...link.springer.comInference and Negative Analogy: Lessons on Analogical Reasoning from Clinical Medical PracticeMary Hesse’s work on the role of analogical reasoning in science has set the disciplinary standard. Her classic Models and Analogies in Science (1966) spearheaded the emergence of the philosophy... 051
Helene Scott @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social · 04/09/2025For anyone interested in her early ideas, @loadofbunk.bsky.social just published an exciting chapter on this 🙌 bsky.app/profile/load... 181
Helene Scott @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social · 04/09/2025Today, working from Whipple Library in Cambridge to do research on Mary Hesse. Here is her first book (1954) addressing the compatibility of science and religion, with early thoughts on operationalism and models - pushing against established positivist accounts of science. #philsci #hps 0191
Helene Scott @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social · 01/09/2025Returning to online life to share a photo from my new office - 1st day at @stsucl.bsky.social ❤️🔥 Can’t wait to get into teaching and research and wonderful conversations in this place! 3210
Reposted by Helene ScottAlisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 30/08/2025The Department of Science & Technology Studies at Cornell University invites applications for a two-year Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the area of “Science, Technology, and Governance.” #HPS #STS #PhilJobs academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30301academicjobsonline.orgCornell University, Society for the Humanities Job #AJO30301, WDR-00046364 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Science and Technology Studies, AY 2026-2028, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US 06451
Reposted by Helene ScottAlisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 27/08/2025Two tenure track/ tenured positions--one Assist Prof & one Assoc Prof in Philosophy of Science &/or Technology at @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social philjobs.org/job/show/29502 philjobs.org/job/show/29506 Areas include phil of social science, Native American philo, phil of race #philsci #philtech #philjobsphiljobs.org Assistant Professor - Philosophy of Science and/or Technology, University of Toronto - PhilJobs:JFP Assistant Professor - Philosophy of Science and/or Technology, University of Toronto An international database of jobs for philosophers 15445
Helene Scott @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social · 20/06/2025I wanted to pass this on to a few people, but the link takes me to "Business development manager - Corporate Partnership", and I as much as I think STS is a versatile field, I don't think those are quite the same profiles. Could you send the link in a message or email so I can spread the word? 🙌 120
Helene Scott @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social · 23/05/2025Celebrating traces of the CultureLab at @pdncambridge.bsky.social with a mini exhibition of images from the Living Science performance 🥂🧬🥼🔬✨ #sciart @anatoliikozlov.bsky.social 052
Helene Scott @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social · 23/05/2025Perhaps of interest to you @miguelohn.bsky.social and @cristianlarph.bsky.social 📏 020
Reposted by Helene ScottSarah Wieten @sarahwieten.bsky.social · 19/05/2025International Philosophy of Medicine Online Reading group starts up again this week! This term we are focusing on articles rather than a monograph over several meetings Meetings are Weds at 5pm and Thurs at 9am UK time Join the group here: groups.google.com/g/philmed-rg/ Please share widely!pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.govIn silico clinical trials: concepts and early adoptions - PubMedInnovations in information and communication technology infuse all branches of science, including life sciences. Nevertheless, healthcare is historically slow in adopting technological innovation, com... 1109
Helene Scott @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social · 15/05/2025I love this! Resisting established dynamics and demonstrating attention to nuance and detail with a return to the ‘ordinary’ and unflashy. May birdwatchers invent the next big online platform. 020
Helene Scott @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social · 14/05/2025Had a wonderful afternoon yesterday, borrowing/testing a new format: Walking seminar discussing co-creation and #STS methods (🖇️Mol). My conversation path touched questions of extractivism, the problem of neat ideals of collaboration, and the always central “what for?” in methods.walkingseminar.blogspot.comThe Walking SeminarThe Walking Seminar is an monthly walk, hosted by Annemarie Mol, during which we talk-walk about various issues concerning academic work. The idea is that talking-while-walking enhances thinking in wa... 092
Reposted by Helene ScottMilena Ivanova @milenaivanova.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Excited to see more #PhilSci scholars employing diverse methodologies in their work. To that end, in our paper we used qualitative data analysis to understand the role of surprise in science. #aestheticsofscience #surprise #qualitativemethods link.springer.com/article/10.1...link.springer.comSurprise in Science: A qualitative study - ErkenntnisA growing literature in philosophy of science focuses on the role of surprise in scientific practice. The aesthetic dimension of science is also gaining momentum in very recent discussions. While surp... 34212
Reposted by Helene ScottValeria Ramirez, PhD @valeriaramirez.bsky.social · 27/04/2025It’s fascinating to witness what theatre methods in the philosophy of science can do to improve scientists’ lives 🥼👨🔬👩🔬and work 🧪🧬🔬. These two👇🏼are doing incredible work, and we’ll be having them soon at @ifmcambridge.bsky.social Buns Talk. How lucky are we! 021
Helene Scott @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social · 18/04/2025😏 nice! And interesting, would love to hear more 👀 010
Helene Scott @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social · 18/04/2025🙌 network for qualitative methods in philosophy! Maybe something for @eraldo.bsky.social @karllandstrom.bsky.social @drjastockdale.bsky.social - and probably several others ✨ 190
Helene Scott @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Seeing this now! Congratulations to you, too 🙌 ✨ methods ✨ 000
Helene Scott @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Thank you, Anna!🌼 I have learnt so much here - from you and all the other people in HPS, students and staff ✨ 010
Helene Scott @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Thank you! It will be such an exciting adventure ☀️ - lots of space for new ways of doing general philosophy of the (specific) sciences, I hear that is the new trend 😎 010