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Helene Scott

@hscottfordsmand.bsky.social
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Philosophy-medicine-bodies | working on messy categories in clinical enquiry @STSucl | previously @camHPS & @ClareHall | PhD from Medical Museion (@UCPH)

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Helene Scott @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Some 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 🦾🦿🫀🦴)
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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
Sign stating “SymPCa 2026”, held out by hand Women figure (me) presenting. Placed next to slide that states “upshots”, wearing name tag identical to SymPCa sign on previous image.
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Helene Scott @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I 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
Nathalia Brichet (women) speaking, placed outside a old building on an autumn day. Flags signal this is the entrance to “Production Animals - a gallery the art of the possible”.Old wooden staircase. Print on the wall says “fewer and bigger”, displaying photos of the same farm as it has changed size from 1964 till today.Case displays preserved utter from cow. On case is written “a Danish cow on average produces 29L milk per day”.
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Helene Scott @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Exciting 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
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Oxford Medical Humanities @oxmedhum.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Our 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.social
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Objectivity and Subjectivity in Medicine
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Helene Scott @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
#philsky #philsci Come teach with me! 0.5 FTE for 2 years to start with
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Helene Scott @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Come be my colleague!!
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Helene Scott @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Term 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...
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a black and white photo of a man with the words now we shall do some writing below him
Alt: a black and white photo of a man in an old-fashioned cape stepping forward to announce. Caption: now we shall do some writing.
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Anatolii Kozlov @anatoliikozlov.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
What'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.
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Representing, 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…
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Alice Murphy @alicemurphs.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
2 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 #philsci
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Research Fellow - AR3233
Research 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...
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Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science @mcps-philsci.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Two-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/MhR4PcK
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Two-Year Post-Doctoral Associate, Philosophy of Science, University of Minnesota - PhilJobs:JFP
An international database of jobs for philosophers
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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
#PhilJobs #HPS
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H.K. Andersen @hkandersen.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
We'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...
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Applying for Ph.d. programs
​These 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...
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Alisa 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.
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Post-doc position in History and Philosophy of Science
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Alisa 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 #philsky
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Stanford | Faculty Positions: Details - Open Rank Faculty Position in Philosophy of Physics
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Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
New 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...
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Inference and Negative Analogy: Lessons on Analogical Reasoning from Clinical Medical Practice
Mary Hesse&#8217;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...
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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
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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
Man in front of slides, balloons on a table by the side. Very fancy room with two human sized portraits and polished wooden floorsWoman in front of slide, holding a balloon into the air. Slide reads: solidarity, space, experience, embodiment, languages, plurality of identities.
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Amy 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
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Helene Scott @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Today 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
Lecture hall, slide showing BA ECRN National Post Doctoral Conference 2025
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Helene Scott @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Finally, 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.
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Helene Scott @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Second: 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.
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Helene Scott @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
First 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
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Helene Scott @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Start-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 ☀️
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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Adrian 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 #PhilJobs
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Helene Scott @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
This 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 👀✨
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Helene Scott @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Also 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...
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Inference and Negative Analogy: Lessons on Analogical Reasoning from Clinical Medical Practice
Mary Hesse&#8217;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...
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Helene Scott @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
For anyone interested in her early ideas, @loadofbunk.bsky.social just published an exciting chapter on this 🙌 bsky.app/profile/load...
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Helene Scott @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Today, 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
Book title pages, Science and the human imagination - Aspects of the history and logic of physical science. Mary B. Hesse, lecturer in mathematics in the university of Leeds. SCM Press LTD
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Helene Scott @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Returning 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!
View out of window. Messy back courtyard. In reflection silhouette of women wearing white shirt and holding a phone to take the photo.
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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
The 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/30301
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Cornell 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
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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Two 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 #philjobs
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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
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Helene Scott @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
👀 🙌 can’t wait
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Helene Scott @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
I 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? 🙌
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Helene Scott @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Celebrating traces of the CultureLab at @pdncambridge.bsky.social with a mini exhibition of images from the Living Science performance 🥂🧬🥼🔬✨ #sciart @anatoliikozlov.bsky.social
Man adjusting framed photo on yellow brick wall. Several photos with people writing and performing.Sign with text: 
Living science, workshops and event, March 2025
For the Cambridge festival, a group of PDN postdocs produced a live performance reflecting on life in the sciences and the role of trust and time - or lack thereof - in their day-ro-day. The performance came together by working as a group through a series of creative exercises facilitated by the CultureLab.Prosecco bottle, cup, rainbow keychain with PDN logo.
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Helene Scott @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Perhaps of interest to you @miguelohn.bsky.social and @cristianlarph.bsky.social 📏
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Sarah Wieten @sarahwieten.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
International 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!
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In silico clinical trials: concepts and early adoptions - PubMed
Innovations in information and communication technology infuse all branches of science, including life sciences. Nevertheless, healthcare is historically slow in adopting technological innovation, com...
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Helene Scott @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
I 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.
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Helene Scott @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Had 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.
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The Walking Seminar
The 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...
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Milena Ivanova @milenaivanova.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Excited 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...
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Surprise in Science: A qualitative study - Erkenntnis
A 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...
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Valeria Ramirez, PhD @valeriaramirez.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
It’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!
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Helene Scott @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
😏 nice! And interesting, would love to hear more 👀
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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 ✨
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Helene Scott @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Seeing this now! Congratulations to you, too 🙌 ✨ methods ✨
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Helene Scott @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
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Helene Scott @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
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Helene Scott @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Thank you, Anna!🌼 I have learnt so much here - from you and all the other people in HPS, students and staff ✨
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Helene Scott @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Thank 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 😎
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Helene Scott @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
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