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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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Morgan Thompson @morgankthomp.bsky.social · 9h
I must team up with your other friends to continue recommending Love is War then.
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Morgan Thompson @morgankthomp.bsky.social · 10h
Recently, I went to the Donald Campbell archives to draw out connections between Campbell’s work and Bill Wimsatt’s work on robustness. My paper was just published in the Acta Biotheoretica Festschrift issue (edited by Daniel Brooks and Caitlin Mace). link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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William Wimsatt, Donald Campbell, and the Idea of Robustness - Acta Biotheoretica
In this paper, I chart the influence of social scientist Donald Campbell’s work on William Wimsatt’s ideas of robustness reasoning. One reason is that Campbell’s work is less familiar in the broader p...
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Morgan Thompson @morgankthomp.bsky.social · 10h
I hope these Letterboxd reviews help convince you
Two juxtaposed Letterbox reviews for In the Mood for Love

Five stars, heart: “These two should fuck!!!!”

five stars, heart: “me: :)
wong kar wai: Heres a reminder that love is painful and indistinct.
me: :(“
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Morgan Thompson @morgankthomp.bsky.social · 10h
Have you seen In the Mood for Love? A romance built around small moments of connection. And as a bonus, the use of color in the film is 🔥🔥
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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In 1974, Cornell lecturer Lin Farley began recognizing a pattern in the experiences women shared in her Women and Work course: women were being pushed out of jobs by men’s sexual behavior. Farley coined the term, “sexual harassment.”
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
All of this. I also want to add that, in my research, I found that a lot of “inconsistencies” in a victim’s story actually came from gender bias affecting investigators’ record keeping and interview methods.
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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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🐺Cold🪦Sam🪾 @pdfmerchant.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Morgan Thompson @morgankthomp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Similarly:
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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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Morgan Thompson @morgankthomp.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I often make Ethiopian red lentils or a quick chana masala from Nisha’s Big Vegan Flavor cookbook. Those recipes aren’t exactly the same as the ones on her website or the NYT food app, but I am happy to message details if they sound interesting. rainbowplantlife.com/bigveganflav...
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BIG VEGAN FLAVOR
Order now Order a signed copy Canada Germany UK Australia Netherlands Other Countries Get excited about vegan cooking I would…
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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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Morgan Thompson @morgankthomp.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Each bus stopping and each pedestrian crossing the street is an imposition that shouldn’t be getting in their path. Makes sense that politicians try to leverage these feelings among certain groups.
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Morgan Thompson @morgankthomp.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
She was not mad that she almost injured or killed people with her unsafe driving, but rather that someone had the audacity to touch her vehicle.
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Morgan Thompson @morgankthomp.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
One time I was crossing the road at a crosswalk during the walk phase with two others. A driver flies down the road and tries to turn right on red without stopping and almost hits all of us. One person slapped their car window (no damage) and the driver was so mad.
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Morgan Thompson @morgankthomp.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
As a Chicago pedestrian, I have a lot of thoughts on driver identity politics. For some, the car/truck seems to become an extension of themselves and they expect complete control of their journey in a way I don’t think public transit riders do.
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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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Morgan Thompson @morgankthomp.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Thanks! I put this resource together the last time Phil Neuro was discussing gender composition of conferences. It is sorely out of date, so please folks update your entry (if needed)! I’m sure there are new folks to add as well and I’m less in touch with the subfield these days.
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Morgan Thompson @morgankthomp.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Should we tell them about Kitcher’s significant truths argument…
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Morgan Thompson @morgankthomp.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Wow, I remember having these conversations in grad school over 6 years ago! It’s days like today that I miss the Feminist Philosophy blog, including the necessary work on why these panels can be harmful (even if everyone has the best intentions).
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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
- BSPS
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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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Morgan Thompson @morgankthomp.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I went on a mural art tour in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood. One mural was of many butterflies representing (im)migration between Canada/the US and Mexico. Beautiful!
A bright orange-yellow house with monarch butterflies and others painted over the whole front. Native green plants peak into view from the below street level yard.
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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
Yes, a colleague recommended Waggoner’s Zero Trimester book recently and I suspect she discussed this issue as part of the ideology that caused the shift in public health. www.ucpress.edu/books/the-ze...
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The Zero Trimester by Miranda Waggoner - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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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...
nytimes.com
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 · 27/07/2026
Friends from California don’t believe me when I try to explain why it’s hot in Chicago
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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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Morgan Thompson @morgankthomp.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
@olivia.science and @irisvanrooij.bsky.social against using “AI” models as models of cognition in psych, and questions about methods (self-report, fMRI), operationalization and concepts ( @ufeest.bsky.social), protocols ( @jackiesullivan.bsky.social ) and replication ( @edouardmachery.bsky.social ).
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Morgan Thompson @morgankthomp.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
My course converged on many of the same topics that you suggest: animal minds for questioning the necessity of settling theory first ( @birchlse.bsky.social ‘s work) and the underdetermination problem (Povinelli v Tomasello), @cameronbuckner.bsky.social ‘s empiricist perspective on DNN models,
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Morgan Thompson @morgankthomp.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
At Northwestern, we have both a Philosophy of Mind and a Philosophy of Psychology course. When designing the latter, I was frustrated to find that many Phil Psych syllabi follow the Philosophy of Mind style you describe. I designed my Phil Psych to analyze psychology as a scientific discipline.
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