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Pieter T. L. Beck @ptrbck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A good day for the Ghent HOPOS-tradition (I take the liberty of considering @masssimons.bsky.social as part of that tradition, I don't think he will mind?)

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Pieter T. L. Beck @ptrbck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My article arguing that Nathan Cofnas's race realism is rightly labelled as pseudoscience is now also published at @skeptic.org.uk. Honoured to have it up there.

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Jan Potters @janpotters.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

What can we learn from the history of philosophy of experimentation, you ask? Well, tell me your philosophy of experiment, and I'll show you what you take to be the goal of philosophy of science! Very nice paper by Massimiliano, building on our earlier work in @hoposjournal.bsky.social

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

via Siska De Baerdemaeker: 2 #HPS #philjobs in Philosophy Dept @ Stockholm Uni: 1. #PhilSci w/ a focus on social epistemology, values & science: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... 2. #HistSci or #DigitalHumanities: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Deadline: November 8, 2026.

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Researcher in Philosophy of Science

The Department of Philosophy at Stockholm University is the largest in Sweden, with vibrant research groups in a wide range of philosophical disciplines. The department has significant strengths in ph

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Bestor - Belgian Science and Technology Online Resources @bestor2008.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Call for submissions open at Gewina! The Gewina–Descartes–Huygens Thesis Prize recognizes outstanding master’s theses in the history of science and universities. Deadline: 1 November 2026 More information via the link: www.gewina.nl/call-for-sub...

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Pieter T. L. Beck @ptrbck.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

@deafspraak.bsky.social Waarom blijven journalisten herhalen dat Cofnas onderzoek doet naar ras en IQ. Stop daar aub mee. Hij schrijft ideologische traktaten over ras op zijn blog, hij doet er geen onderzoek naar.

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Call for Nominations: 2026 Hanneke Janssen Memorial Prize by Radboud University for best work in History &/or Philosophy of Modern Physics, by a student as part of Masters Thesis Prize: 2000 euros Nominations by a supervisor due by October 5, 2026 Qs & submit to sandra.hendriks@donders.ru.nl #HPS ⚛️

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Simone Schleper 🟥 @moneschleper.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Hello #sts #histsci folks. I am looking for an accessible reading, undergraduate level, that talks about science, trust and authority, maybe the scientific persona, in the post truth, climate crisis, trump2 era. Oreskes 2019 is great, but a bit long… suggestions?

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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)

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The world's most notorious custard-pie thrower is dead. What an obituary. He got Bernard-Henri Lévy seven times.

Known to his army of fans as L’Entarteur or Georges le Gloupier, Godin launched his career as a serial deflator of egos in 1969, when he planted a tarte à la crème on the face of the French novelist Marguerite Duras (“She has a kind of intelligence and cleverness that serves only her own vanity,” he complained), and he went on to “pie” a cast list of celebrities for sins ranging from pomposity to “choosing to function in the service of the capitalist status quo”.

The same could not be said of Bernard-Henri Lévy, one of France’s “new philosophers,” whose provocative views on sex, frequent appearances on television and penchant for white silk shirts unbuttoned practically to the navel, had made him a cult figure – and one of Godin’s most satisfying victims.

Levy once declared: “I am the most gifted writer of my generation,” and often boasted of his reasonableness and tolerance, but he was forced to endure footage being repeatedly shown on French television of himself, covered in cream, during a visit to the Belgian city of Liège, trying to strangle Godin and shouting: “Get up, or I’ll kick your head in.”

Noël Godin was born on September 13 1945 and came to pie-throwing after a rebellious youth in which he scandalised the priests in the confessional by speaking of his “horrible sexual life”, and was thrown out of Liège University after emptying a pot of glue over the head of a law lecturer who had helped write the constitution for the Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar.

He found work at Friends of Film, an obscure magazine published by the Belgian Catholic League. It had a tiny readership, which was just as well, as Godin made up most of his articles. In one he claimed that Louis Armstrong had once been a cannibal and had invested in a film called The Vegetables of Good Will in which Claudia Cardinale played a giant endive.

In another he conjured up a fictional blind Thai filmmaker named Vivian Pei, describing her film, The Lotus Flower Will Never Again Grow on the Edge of Your Island, in such convincing terms that an Asian film specialist travelled to Thailand in an effort to track her down.

“We’re very careful not to hurt people,’’ he explained. “Well, they are hurt, but always in their amour-propre.”

In 1995 Godin published an autobiography, Cream and Punishment. His other targets over the years included the New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard (who charmed his assailant by hailing the attack as a homage to silent film), the French politician Nicolas Sarkozy, the choreographer Maurice Béjart and the Ryanair chairman Michael O’Leary. He tended not to pick Belgian victims, he explained, because few would notice if he did.

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Pieter T. L. Beck @ptrbck.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

We have written a statement in support of Ghent Uni's decision to suspend Nathan Cofnas. We resist attempts to frame this as a punishment for "whistleblowing" or censorship of "controversial research". We invite all academics who share our views to sign our letter. forms.gle/qwN8xzEM5C7Q...

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Open letter on the suspension of Nathan Cofnas at Ghent University

We, colleagues of Nathan Cofnas - supported by many colleagues internationally - want to respond to the negative and incorrect framing of Ghent University’s decision to suspend Nathan Cofnas. With th...

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Q for #histSTM colleagues: I'm out of the loop - is anyone *currently* doing good stuff with Kuhn/Paradigms as a genuinely useful model for exploring *specific* (ideally post-1800) case studies of changing scientific theories? Not just oblig ref but as explicit way to structure story/explanation?

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Elif Oezmen @elifoezmen.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Ich, wenn jemand ERC Grant sagt

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Digressionsimpressions @nescio13.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

That fifa can make uefa seem to have any principles is quite an achievement.

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innes mck @innes.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

but they already made a historically accurate version of the odyssey?

three men, grinning, stand in front of an old timey microphone in a still from O Brother Where Art Thou

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Eoghan Walsh @eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I am afeaid to say it but it is now incumbent on you all to support Belgium tomorrow.

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lilastromech (Mischa) @mischajaye.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

The cooling system was installed by the village AC technician, Thermodynamix 😊

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I love this. Unmute.

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Rosencrantz: what time is it? Guildenstern, looking at his watch: t Rosencrantz, later: now what time is it Guildenstern, frowning: now it’s t again. Or t still? Rosencrantz: that can’t be right. It’s got to be t+1 or something eventually Guildenstern: the watch hand just keeps clicking back…

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The HOPOS Journal @hoposjournal.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

We are delighted to announce that HOPOS will become a publication of Cambridge University Press @universitypress.cambridge.org as of 2027. All publications starting with vol. 17 will be open access. It is an honor to join the Cambridge family of journals. #HOPOS #HPS #philsky #philosophy #histsci

Blue and red and white announcement that HOPOS will join Cambridge University Press. Follow link in post for more details.

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Call for papers (<10K words unpublished) for 2026 Du Châtelet Prize in Philosophy of Physics Topic: Newton’s Principia & its reception (300th anniversary of 3rd Ed.) Prize $1,000, workshop, & pub in SHPS Open to grad students & w/in 5 yrs PhD Deadline: September 1, 2026 www.duchateletprize.org #HPS

A painting of Du Châtelet in 18thC dress at her desk with her books & compass. Text: The Du Châtelet Prize in Philosophy of Physics

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Jan Potters @janpotters.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Preprint of a forthcoming paper in HOPOS @hoposjournal.bsky.social on Thomas Kuhn's (unpublished) work on the history of quantum physics

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PhilSci-Archive @philsci-archive.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

New on the Archive: Potters, Jan (2027) Sharpening Philosophical Concepts: Thomas Kuhn and the History of Quantum Physics. [Preprint] philsci-archive.pitt.edu/29809

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Natalie Alana Ashton @natalan.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

happy boards of canada day to all who celebrate

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Society for the History of the Philosophy of Technology (HPT) @hptsociety.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

📢 Call for Abstracts 2nd International Conference on the History of the Philosophy of Technology 📍 Maastricht University 🗓 Oct 26–28, 2026 Theme: National and Cultural Traditions in the Philosophy of Technology 📅 Deadline: May 25, 2026 #philtech #histtech fasos-research.nl/history-of-p...

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CfA: 2nd International Conference ‘The History of the Philosophy of Technology’ (Maastricht, October 26-28, 2026) | HoPoT

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Jan Potters @janpotters.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Very nice post from Fons Dewulf on our youthful attempts to live and breathe history and philosophy of science

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Marco Facchin @marcofacchin.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Registrations are still open for our Beyond Neuro-compuationalism workshop in Antwerp (4/5 of June). You can check our stellar line-up of speaker and register here www.uantwerpen.be/en/research-... #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence

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The HOPOS Journal @hoposjournal.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Routledge Handbook of the History of Philosophy of Science After Kant (2026). Edited by Flavia Padovani, Adam Tamas Tuboly. The 50 essays in this Handbook cover perspectives, theories, movements, and traditions in the field. Link: www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

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The Routledge Handbook of the History of Philosophy of Science After Kant

The History of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS) is a relatively new yet rapidly growing field. Emerging from diverse approaches within the history and philosophy of science, it encompasses a wide range…

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Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Last week, @aiphistory.bsky.social announced it would provide open access to 3 interviews w/J. Robert Oppenheimer. In today's #histSTM & #physics lunchtime read, @wellerstein.bsky.social shares his initial reactions to these oral histories: www.aip.org/history/well... 🗃️📜

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The AIP Oppenheimer interviews: An expert perspective

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Jan Potters @janpotters.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Why study the history of history of science? This essay review by @velivirmajoki.bsky.social interestingly suggests that it can show us how this discipline, notwithstanding historians' implicit or explicit rejections of Kuhnian historiography, can be characterized as a Kuhnian discipline

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The Onion @theonion.com · 20/04/2026

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David William with a 'This IS my costume' pin @nrvscrcts.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

A new Boards of Canada track was released yesterday. Today is a little bit brighter.

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Will Thomas @williamthomas.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

If you'd like to *listen* to Thomas Kuhn interview Robert Oppenheimer, we've got you covered: repository.aip.org/node/151144 Audio quality is a little iffy, so you'll need the transcript: repository.aip.org/node/150787 More on this soon!

Kuhn: Good. You said that you found, in thinking about these things, that your memory on detail was not what it might have been and so forth. I’d just like to say, let’s get as much of that as we can, but I’d like you to think of one of the topics that interests us, no necessarily the primary one but one which is pretty obviously of a good deal of
importance; I think you can help with a lot and it’s not so dependent upon details of memory about technical papers. It is the whole subject of the development of physics in this country and the turning point with respect to theoretical physics that you come in so much with yourself.

Oppenheimer: I will do my best.

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Metascience @metasciencejournal.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

"A primary merit of the work is the heuristic clarity it brings to a field often clouded by conceptual slippage." For more from Daniele Pizzocaro's review of a new philosophical study of absolute magnitudes, see link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Pieter T. L. Beck @ptrbck.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Last Thursday, the far-right student organization KVHV organized a public lecture by Nathan Cofnas. The lecture was an absolute train wreck. It will take a while to analyze everything, but here are some first impressions. /1

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Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

"What I hadn’t anticipated was the number of times people would say, ‘I don’t know, I can’t remember; how, why would you expect me to remember that?’” Anyone who has ever conducted an #OralHistory can sympathize w/Thomas Kuhn's frustration while documenting the history of quantum #physics. #histSTM

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Makes perfect sense to me. It's extremely hard in retrospect to remember how some particular idea was developed. I suspect that most detailed reconstructions along those lines have a lot of confabulation in them.

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Trevor Owens @tjowens.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

This is a facanating must read for anyone interested in oral history or the history of science.

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Having read a lot of these interviews for my book on Bohr, I found this fascinating. I think Heilbron is right to speak of "ridiculously detailed questions". Kuhn will whip out a 40-year-old paper and start going through it, and folks like Heisenberg won't really remember it at all.

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Jan Potters @janpotters.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Very honoured to have an AIP Weekly piece on Kuhn's frustrations with interviewing quantum physicists! For those interested in more on this, I have a few forthcoming papers on this (which I would be happy to share via DM) as well as a book manuscript in progress about Kuhn and quantum physics

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Society for the History of the Philosophy of Technology (HPT) @hptsociety.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Call for Abstracts 2nd International Conference The History of the Philosophy of Technology October 26-28, 2026 Maastricht University Theme: national and regional traditions Abstracts by 25 May 2026 fasos-research.nl/history-of-p... #philtech #hopot #hopos #histtech

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Jan Potters @janpotters.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

I've just noticed that the recording of my talk at Louvain-la-Neuve is online now. For all those interested in Thomas Kuhn's work on the history of quantum physics: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ET4...

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CEFISES Seminar: Jan Potters, “Thomas Kuhn and the history of quantum physics, 1961-1984”

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Jan Potters @janpotters.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

I've just noticed that the recording of my talk at Louvain-la-Neuve is online now. For all those interested in Thomas Kuhn's work on the history of quantum physics: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ET4...

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CEFISES Seminar: Jan Potters, “Thomas Kuhn and the history of quantum physics, 1961-1984”

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Went back to Twitter to check something and @deontologistics.bsky.social reminded me of this meme, I genuinely think the best meme to ever be produced by Philosophy Twitter.

Image of Heidegger holding Guthrie's famous guitar, the sticker thereon has been changed to read "This fascist kills machines".

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Olivier Sartenaer @osartenaer.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Appel à contributions : la Société de Philosophie des Sciences organise sa 12ème édition des RDIPS (Rencontres Doctorales Internationales de Philosophie des Sciences), qui se tiendra à Namur les 24 et 25 septembre 2026. Informations ici : rdips2026.sciencesconf.org

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Rencontres Doctorales Internationales de Philosophie des Sciences (RDIPS) - 2026

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