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Şerife Tekin, PhD @thebusyowl.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I am excited to head back to the Center for Philosophy of Science to give an Annual Lecture this Friday, October 9. If you’re in Pittsburgh, I’d love to see you there—and if not, please join us online! www.centerphilsci.pitt.edu/event/annual...

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Annual Lecture Series – Serife Tekin - The Center for Philosophy of Science

Stability and Intervention in Psychiatry Psychiatry is often described as a methodologically unstable or fragmented science, given its reliance on heterogeneous explanatory frameworks ranging from neu...

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Sarah Wieten @sarahwieten.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Having a "seems like AI slop" option on LinkedIn is very funny to me.

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Sarah Wieten @sarahwieten.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Is authenticity a conservative virtue?

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Jake Wojtowicz @jakewojtowicz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Challenge to philosophy departments: post a job for someone who doesn't have to work on AI.

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Robert Suits @robertsuits.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If you are in London on the 26th of October, consider coming to this lecture by Princeton's Emmanuel Kreike, hosted by UCL Anthropocene! It looks to be a fascinating discussion of the Great Acceleration in Africa and the use of machine learning for historical imagery. www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

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Time-Traveling Trees

Machine-reading the Past, Present, and Future of Climate Change Adaptation from Archival Aerial Photography - a talk by Professor Emmanuel Kreike (Princeton University)

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Philosophy of Science Association @philsci.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Check out our September newsletter! PSA26 info ☀️ *Post conference workshop *Call for chairs *Interest group lunches sign-up General info ✨ *PSA office hour sign-ups *DEI Caucus updates (new email list) mms.philsci.org/msg_detail.p...

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I’ve been finding it useful to think about unsettled LLM norms in academia as reflecting pretty widespread agreement that it’s good to automate drudgery, and profound disagreement about which aspects of the job as it existed ten years ago constitute ‘drudgery’

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Sarah Wieten @sarahwieten.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If anybody reading this is a working scientist who would be interested to learn about and co-develop a public philosophy of science course for scientists, dm me, thanks! Shares appreciated!

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This presents a serious challenge to those of us in 'AI positive' institutions, where we have no choice but to engage with AI to some extent. (Tho' students here have an ethical opt-out, teachers do not.) We must educate our students about ALL aspects of AI, including the (un)ethical underpinning.

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Sarah Wieten @sarahwieten.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Holy California prices, anybody I know looking to split a room? DM me. #PSA26

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

the answer is 'yes', and it is called 'particularism'. claire danes' father-in-law is the peter singer of it

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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 29/09/2026

A very important message from Omer Reingold to our TCS community, especially us (arg, already) senior researchers: "snap out of it." Please, digest, and share. theorydish.blog/2026/09/29/s...

As for depression: the next time you have the urge to lament, or even celebrate, being “the last generation of human mathematicians,” perhaps keep it to yourself. Contemplating the end of your profession from the relative comfort of an established, tenured career is a privilege, and it comes with responsibilities. Senior academics are not merely individual researchers; we are stewards of our field, and we owe our junior colleagues active leadership rather than abandonment.

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

It’s like they assume our lives are algorithmic all the way down, rather than recognizing that the algorithmic structures of our lives (schedules, recipes, the “three part essay”) are scaffolding for the messiness of life. They’re frameworks and organizational tools for life and not life itself.

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Gave my first public lecture on the return of eugenics and race science this week at the British Science Festival. Reassuring to see how much interest, and concern, there was in the room

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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you are a graduate student in the humanities (construed as broadly as possible), what is the MOST EXCITING book published in the last five years to you? Please repost if you’re not a graduate student!

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Sarah Wieten @sarahwieten.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For the first time since 2018 (!?!?) I am going to the PSA in San Diego in November! The program looks amazing. Really looking forward to the new work and seeing everyone. psa26.oa-event.com

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 28/09/2026

I’m looking into the literature on the effects of marriage on well-being 👀 if you have any favorite studies, please let me know! My main interest is on the causal inference side of things, but I’ll take anything that is interesting 😋

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Sarah Wieten @sarahwieten.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Just spending my friday night trying to learn how citizens will be able to tell if their vote has been purged by SAVE...

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

the postwar university for all its problems worked according to a pretty complex balance of cultural and economic capital with other kinds thrown in, but it looks like we can simplify our Bourdieu for the phase of neoliberal higher ed we’re in now, where the only thing that matters, ever, is money

Diagram of Bourdieu’s four fold grid of forms of capital — Economic, Cultural, Social, and Symbolic, showing all of them crossed out except for Economic, which is now the only form recognized by the neoliberal university

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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 25/09/2026

This piece and many others like it express a level of hubris – that I'm an experienced clinician and therefore the way I wield this technology is Correct – that I find more than a little concerning. I'm worried about everyone in clinical medicine.

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 15/09/2026

The question that’s dominating the field is not a causality question. It’s really, how can one sell a causal relationship while crafting the language so that there’s plausible deniability when somebody criticizes anything.

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Heather Stewart @guardianheather.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

“The idea that you could be here for the next 10, 15 years and you’d still have no legal right to remain in the country … how the hell do you plan?..It cuts across any effort to integrate at all.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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‘Fundamentally unfair’: Burnham must overhaul migration reforms, says TUC general secretary

Paul Nowak says changes to immigration rules risk overstretching social care and fuelling far-right sentiment

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I find the view that philosophy is supposed to just pump out the maximum number of true propositions (and that LLMs can help with this) completely anathema. This is a humanistic field where we engage in collective inquiry together. LLMs destroy the collective trust at the base of that

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Sanjay Srivastava @sanjaysrivastava.com · 03/09/2026

Nothing, absolutely nothing, says your nodes need to be circles

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Corinne Low @corinnelow.com · 03/09/2026

#EconSky if you know of anyone awesome who does experimental work on gender who was on the job market in the last couple years and underplaced or needs to change, we're looking at creating a fellowship in this area that would be a great reset--please have them email me corlow@wharton.upenn.edu.

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Sarah Wieten @sarahwieten.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Does someone do work on self hatred and AI use?

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 02/09/2026

this project is so cool. this is a former mining region and mijnwater uses saturated closed mining tunnels and galleries to transport excess heat and cooling between over 1000 houses and 20 major buildings and all municipal buildings it’s far more powerful than a standard thermal energy network.

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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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Sarah Wieten @sarahwieten.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Do I know anybody in the UK doing history, communications, rhetoric or theology of contemporary witchcraft?

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

“Scientists should stop trying to be neutral and instead embrace their values,”says a group of top climate scientists, including @katharinehayhoe.com. The neutrality myth is harming the reputation of science right when we need it most.” #ClimateCrisis Science isn’t neutral. It’s science.

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Prominent climate scientist argues it's time to ditch the 'myth of neutrality' | CBC Radio

Climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe talks to Bob McDonald about the polarization of science and why she thinks scientists should stop pretending to be neutral when it's our planet at risk.

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skELLY @ellyzoe.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Let’s talk “cancel culture” tho. *Look* at who gets truly canceled. This man is dead. Colin Kaepernick has not played pro football since 2016. Claudine Gay was forced out of the presidency of Harvard.

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

On counterexamples: what public facing nonfiction books do a terrific job of describing broadly compelling ideas without overselling the evidence behind them?

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The thing for which I will never forgive AI boosters in the academy is the way that we now operate almost reflexively with a sense of suspicion--if a piece is too well written, if it is too poorly written, we operate from a place of scepticism, rather than reparative belief in our students.

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Sarah Wieten @sarahwieten.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

After missing a couple, looks like I may get to go to the PSA this year-who else is going?

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Sloane Wesloh @swesloh.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Join us (virtually) on September 14 for a day-long workshop on the Philosophy of Diagnosis! What is diagnosis, who is it for, and what will become of it in the age of AI? We have an incredible line up of speakers who plan to tackle these questions. Registration is free and open at the link.

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Workshop: The Philosophy of Diagnosis - The Center for Philosophy of Science

Workshop: The Philosophy of Diagnosis September 14, 2026 9a-5p (EDT = UTC-4) Virtual (on Zoom) Hosted by the University of Pittsburgh Diagnosis is central to the practice of medicine, yet it …

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Center for PhilSci @center4philsci.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Register now for the 2026 International Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable Conference. Talks will range from diagnosis, uncertainty, AI, and policy to measurement, extrapolation, and testimony. Visit our website to register. ow.ly/ZnZy50ZxGGU #philsci

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/08/2026

I understand that funding bodies want to go all in on AI as the shiny new innovation thing. But if all the grants start going to AI at the expense of everything else then the research sector is going to end up looking like a farm with dozens of threshers hacking away in a field with no wheat.

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Sarah Wieten @sarahwieten.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

My inbox is all OOOs. Bless British August.

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Sarah Wieten @sarahwieten.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

If they were called something besides "nurdles" would this be taken a bit more seriously?

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

My friends over at @povertycenter.bsky.social are looking for a researcher to join as their new Research Director. This is a PhD level position suitable for someone with 6 or more years of social scientific research experience. povertycenter.columbia.edu/lead-our-res...

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Join Our Team as Research Director | Center on Poverty and Social Policy

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 05/08/2026

I am actually infuriated by this assumption, as writers and artists of all kinds, that if our work runs up against the audience’s ignorance (vocabulary, intertexuality, &c.) this is somehow a failing, our fault and something it is our responsibility to avoid.

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Sarah Wieten @sarahwieten.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

A 9-to-1 spending disadvantge is just nuts.

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Pete Turton @peteturton85.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Holy mother of Galen what the hell is this. Junior doctors basically paying to do a meta-analysis in just two days. Recruitment in the UK is goosed.

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Sarah Wieten @sarahwieten.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I have trouble seeing how a position for 24/7 ethics call can be counted as part time.

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Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Heartening news from "the heartland" where a gathering of 1000-2000 people opposed to hate in affluent Fishers, Indiana drove a planned "Rally for Mass Deportation" (endorsed by the Lt Governor and attended by Bovino) into a secret location elsewhere in the state www.ipm.org/news/2026-08...

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Public march counters pro-deportation event in central Indiana

About 1,000 Hoosiers supportive of immigrants marched through Fishers on Saturday — a counter protest to a pro-deportation event planned for the city with remarks from two statewide elected officials.

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Sean Mackinnon @seanpmackinnon.bsky.social · 20/12/2023

Stats consulting is constantly like: Them: I want you to run (complex stats) Me: OK, what's your research question though? Them: ...A (complex stat)? Me: Research question? Them: You know, like the stats in this journal article. Something reviewers will like.

Goose chasing meme.

"What's your research question?"

Then angry goose chasing yelling the same phrase.

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