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Morgan Thompson

@morgankthomp.bsky.social
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Philosopher of Science. Interested in measurement, technology, data ethics, and social change. Enjoys games, sci fi, cats. She/her

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There is nothing you can do to convince me to put my unpublished work into this. My biggest worry is reviewers or editors disrespecting my intellectual property. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/s...
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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)
An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.
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Justin Weinberg @dailynous.com · 28/09/2026
What happens when an author suspects their referee report was written by an AI? Many journals lack policies on this, and the publishers of many journals have policies that are vague or, given the realities of enforcement, quite lenient.
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AI in Peer Review: Practices & Policies - Daily Nous
“The key question is not whether AI is used, but how it is used.” That’s from Springer Nature’s policy on using AI when peer reviewing […]
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Old Sam @pdfmerchant.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
People judge a sexist perpetrator as less sexist if he is rude toward men. This occurs because rudeness toward men creates the illusion of gender blindness. Men who hold sexist beliefs about women often are rude to men which gives sexists plausible deniability. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Morgan Thompson @morgankthomp.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
So excited to dig into these chapters! It looks like a great resource to branch out in one’s own methods or share with graduate students considering phil sci projects.
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Morgan Thompson @morgankthomp.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
So excited to dig into these chapters! It looks like a great resource to branch out in one’s own methods or share with graduate students considering phil sci projects.
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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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Melissa Jacquart @mjacquart.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Very excited that *Methods in the Philosophy of Science: A User's Guide* is now available open access! Lucas and I have a chapter in it on "Doing Public Engagement with Science as a Philosopher of Science" #philsci #scicomm. In our chapter we ...
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Viktoria Knoll @grauesuppe.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
📣Philosophy friends and colleagues! We have an open 6-year postdoc position in theoretical feminist philosophy, philosophy of language, metaphilosophy, and/or metaphysics. 📅Starting April 1, 2027 🚨Application deadline: November 2 Please share and circulate widely! #philsky #feministsky #PhilJobs
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Angela Potochnik @apotochnik.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Who counts as a scientist, who gets to decide what counts as scientific, and are academics relevant to public engagement? Check out this Metascience symposium on Public Engagement with Science: Defining the Project. 1/ @mjacquart.bsky.social @metasciencejournal.bsky.social #philsci #scicomm �
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Book symposium: Public Engagement with Science: Defining the Project (Angela Potochnik and Melissa Jacquart)
Angela Potochnik and Melissa Jacquart. 2025. Public engagement with science: defining the project. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. This book is the ...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
NYT: “.. The move could prevent residents from raising concerns about — or even learning about — data centers before permits are approved and construction starts.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/c...
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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Out here in these streets handselling my book so more people understand how miscarriage is the gateway to understanding pregnancy surveillance and anti abortion rhetoric
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Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
This data on self-censorship among U.S. academic scientists and engineers -- not even humanities people, this is STEM -- is so disturbing. theconversation.com/self-censors...
How are scientists adjusting the way they work during the Trump administration?
The survey asked a representative sample of university based scientists: "Since January 2025, have you intentionally done any of the following due to concerns about possible negative consequences for you, your work environment, or your career?" [then data]
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Naftali Weinberger @dagophile.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Check out my newest attempt to help people understand causal mediation. This one covers just the direct effect (indirect effects are next episode) since if people truly understood the difference between CDEs and NDEs that would already clear up considerable confusion. youtu.be/gl5-HRCUfw0?...
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E12: Understanding Direct Effects
YouTube video by Causal Foundations
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Morgan Thompson @morgankthomp.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Many areas of social science (sociology, archaeology, poli sci, econ, geo) have received zero new NSF SBE grants this year. Terrible for research in the social sciences.
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ACOG @acog.org · 20/08/2026
Today, we released updated clinical guidance strengthening our recommendations that ob-gyns perform salpingectomy at the time of other applicable surgical procedures to reduce patients' lifetime risk of ovarian cancer after shared decision making. Read the press release: bit.ly/4xm7FMz
Statement graphic titled, "ACOG Strengthens Recommendation on Salpingectomy for Ovarian Cancer Prevention." The body text is a quote from ACOG CEO Dr. Sandra E. Brooks explaining how mortality from ovarian cancer remains high, and that the salpingectomy procedure represents a meaningful opportunity to reduce a person's risk.
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Finally, this has gone a bit under the radar, so I want to highlight it: The social, behavioral and economic sciences directorate (SBE) has simply ceased to deliver grants to many of its subareas. Any topic not specifically OK'd by the Trump administration is receiving zero new awards.
All of the NSF’s directorates are awarding fewer new grants, but the hardest hit is the social, behavioural and economic sciences (SBE) directorate, which the White House proposed eliminating in its 2027 budget request to Congress. SBE has so far awarded 84 new grants this year, about 11% of its average, mainly in areas of artificial intelligence, cognitive neuroscience and decision-making. Much of its portfolio, such as sociology, archaeology, political science, economics and geography, has received zero new awards. “I don’t think they’ve realized yet that there’s no awards,” one NSF staff member says of researchers in those fields. “That’s going to be clear soon.”
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Scoop: For nearly a year, NSF has struggled to make new grants. Now we know that it will not catch up. In fact, NSF will award just 6,100 new grants—a 30% y/o/y decline, itself down from a previous avg. of 11,000+. In fact, the last time NSF awarded so few grants was in the early '80s.
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Exclusive: NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decades
The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.
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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 19/08/2026
This book by Wimsatt is a must-read
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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Two junior research fellowships @kingscollege.bsky.social opening soon due on Oct 1st. The theme is REPLICATION conceived broadly to encompass different research projects in humanities and social sciences. As a philosopher of science I am esp hoping for applications in #philsci #metascience #hps
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Current research opportunities
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Thomas Spiteri @tespiteri.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
How do we come to know the hypercomplex object that is the brain? I had the pleasure of speaking with Dr Mazviita Chirimuuta about the history and philosophy of its simplification, its analogy with computers, & the case for theoretical humility in how we study it. Links: linktr.ee/thehpspodcast
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British Society for the Philosophy of Science @thebsps.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
We have published an open letter to the University of Exeter Executive Board expressing our concerns about proposed redundancies. Read it here: www.thebsps.org/news/open-le...
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Open Letter to University of Exeter Executive Board regarding proposed redundancies
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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Losing Exeter philosophers of science would be devastating to our field and to the international standing of U.K. universities. Please help us publicise this letter and put pressure to the Exeter execs. Their work as teachers and researchers is irreplaceable #philsci #HigherEd
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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.
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Morgan Thompson @morgankthomp.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Woah, this is huge news: most ovarian cancer begins in the fallopian tubes, which can be removed (if patient desires) during other abdominal surgeries. Ovarian cancer has vague symptoms and often isn’t diagnosed until late stage with low survival rates. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/h...
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There’s a Way to Prevent Ovarian Cancer. Few Know About It.
The vast majority of cases begin in the fallopian tubes — and removing them can reduce the risk by nearly 80 percent.
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Morgan Thompson @morgankthomp.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Woah, this is huge news: most ovarian cancer begins in the fallopian tubes, which can be removed (if patient desires) during other abdominal surgeries. Ovarian cancer has vague symptoms and often isn’t diagnosed until late stage with low survival rates. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/h...
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There’s a Way to Prevent Ovarian Cancer. Few Know About It.
The vast majority of cases begin in the fallopian tubes — and removing them can reduce the risk by nearly 80 percent.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
For many years, people didn’t randomly film others in public—not because we didn’t have the technology, but because the social contract said you didn’t do that. That’s why Meta is going full court press on their PR and celebrity endorsements. They remember how people ran google glass outta town.
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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
1/ The cyclosporiasis foodborne outbreak continues to grow, and there’s A LOT of conflicting information out there. So the YLE team compiled answers to some of the top questions we’re seeing to bring the nuance you may be looking for.
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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
6/ The recall still stands. The false positive was on lettuce coming from Mexico that was NOT part of the recall. If that had been a true positive, then we would need a larger recall. Even with the reversal, the FDA still sayTaylor Farms is linked to the outbreak as all other evidence points to them
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 19/07/2026
Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out.
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Morgan Thompson @morgankthomp.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Looking forward to Uljana’s keynote and what looks to be a fantastic conference! Hard choices to be made regarding the parallel sessions.
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Morgan Thompson @morgankthomp.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Great to see innovation among gynecological tools. Tenaculum placement is typically the second most painful part of intrauterine device (IUD) insertion, so this is great news!
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Morgan Thompson @morgankthomp.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Great to see innovation among gynecological tools. Tenaculum placement is typically the second most painful part of intrauterine device (IUD) insertion, so this is great news!
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19thnews @19thnews.org · 11/07/2026
Trials found that Carevix — a portmanteau of “care” and “cervix" — reduced pain during IUD insertion by up to 73 percent and bleeding by 78 percent, compared to the tenaculum.
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Why is gynecology still using a Civil War-era tool?
A new medical device is part of a broader effort to make gynecological care less painful — and to take patients more seriously.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 06/07/2026
as genai proliferates, it has become difficult to avoid it. at @aial.ie, we're compiling a list of genai-free tools, libraries & websites to support research across tasks;grammar/spell check, coding/code review, data analysis (esp large scale text classification) & graphing/data visualisation recs?
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Freemedou: We'd Love To Hear It
ALT: Freemedou: We'd Love To Hear It
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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Science coverage of this open letter with quotes from @bayesianboy.bsky.social @cailinmeister.bsky.social Craig Callender, Matthew Liao @naomioreskes.bsky.social and me. Journals, the ball is in your court now.
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Philosophers call for their journals to require conflict of interest disclosures
A new petition urges greater transparency amid growing ties to AI and other companies
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Morgan Thompson @morgankthomp.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Enjoying my time in Wales this week! The juxtaposition of mountains and sea are more beautiful than photos can capture.
View from Snowden mountain. Green and rocky mountains stretch into the horizon. The sky is blue without clouds. There are two lakes down below.A light house stands on a rocky outcropping. The aqua blue ocean extends to meet the blue sky in the horizon. Many razorbills are nesting in the rocky cliffs below the light house and to the cliff on the right.A dock extends to the light blue bay during low tide. Sailboats dot the bay. Across the bay green mountains in the distance. It is a bright sunny day with a few clouds.
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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
What a great article not only on faculty workloads, but how little our salaries actually factor in to most university budgets. A few highlights. First, our salaries are falling:
Third, faculty salaries are falling even if we statistically control for faculty rank and institution. By our analysis of National Center for Education Statistics data, tenured and tenure-track salaries are down 10 percent in real terms since 2016 and are lower today than they were in 2002; nontenured faculty salaries are down 4 percent since 2016 and are at 2002 levels today.

To put this plainly: Suppose sharply increased teaching loads enabled institutions to cut one out of every seven full-time faculty. (That’s roughly what we saw last year in severe cuts announced at West Virginia, Western Illinois, and St. Cloud State Universities.) The associated savings in salary and benefits even through such drastic action would amount to less than 2.5 percent of total institutional expenditures for the typical university.

The upshot? If you think higher education has a cost problem, squeezing more teaching out of faculty is not the first place you should look.
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Morgan Thompson @morgankthomp.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Enjoying revisiting our Scotland holiday from seven years ago when Michael and I were engaged. It’s now in celebration of 5 years married.
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Morgan Thompson @morgankthomp.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
After 16 years with Fluffy, we had to say goodbye. She had a lovely morning and got to eat fish again this last week (as we were no longer worried about her kidneys). I will miss this sweet, goofy girl. Hug your furry friends tonight.
Fluffy, a calico medium haired cat, lays on a neutral striped rug. Her eyes are mostly closed as she smells the outside smells and feels the breeze while in the screened-in porch. She looks peaceful.
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Olesya Bondarenko @olesyabondarenko.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Can social scientists use genomic tools to make claims about complex phenomena like equality while also steering behavioural genomic research away from determinism? My new paper argues that sociogenomic research on gene-environment interaction (GxE) faces significant challenges on both fronts.
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Credibility and trustworthiness: the promises of sociogenomic integration and research on gene-environment interaction - European Journal for Philosophy of Science
This paper provides a philosophical examination of the integrative field of sociogenomics which seeks to incorporate genomic tools into social science research on individual outcomes. I characterise s...
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Morgan Thompson @morgankthomp.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
I am revising my first year undergraduate seminar on Data, Technology, and Society. I’d be interested to hear your favorite topics, cases, or papers. #philsci #STS
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 29/05/2026
This is bad. Bad for researchers. Bad for science. Bad for universities. Bad for professional associations. For example: 1. Every award would be vetted by political appointees, who could overrule peer reviewers and deny the award if it doesn't advance the president's priorities. 1/🧵
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Wil Eelsing @wileelsing.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Dune Cat Budget Version
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 churu 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯
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Inkeri Koskinen @inkerikoskinen.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
If you work on values in science, and have noticed that the literature is a bit too focused on values in science in Anglophone democracies – and that it therefore stays silent on issues that we should be talking about – please consider submitting an abstract to our workshop! (24–25 August, Helsinki)
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CFP – Pre-conference workshop: Values in science in the rest of the world
24–25 August 2026, Helsinki – just before ENPOSS 2026 Keynote speakers: David Ludwig (Wageningen University) Karoliina Pulkkinen (University of Helsinki) The idea that social, political and ethical ...
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Morgan Thompson @morgankthomp.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Women truly can do it all (defeat the Witch-king)
Lord of the Rings scene. Witch King menacingly stands above Eowyn and says “No man can kill me.” Next image is a triumphant close up of Eowyn’s face without her helmet. She says “I am no man.” Next image is Eowyn stabbing the Witch King through the helmet as he falls.
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Morgan Thompson @morgankthomp.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
The tulip bulbs don’t know about Chicago’s Third Winter. :(
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Carolyn Dicey Jennings @cdj.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Excellent post on financial satisfaction and labor status for graduate students by Kino Zhao @kinozhao.bsky.social at APDA: apda.ghost.io/2025-survey-... Short write up here: dailynous.com/2026/03/10/u...
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2025 Survey Results: financial satisfaction and labour status, comparison to 2023
In both the 2023 and 2025 surveys, we asked participants who list as current students to rate their satisfaction with their financial situation on a 5-point scale (very unsatisfied, unsatisfied, neutr...
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