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Thomas Spiteri @tespiteri.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If you have a moment and would like to have some HPS content work it's way through your YouTube algorithm, subscribe to our channel!

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Thomas Spiteri @tespiteri.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If you have a moment and would like to have some HPS content work it's way through your YouTube algorithm, subscribe to our channel!

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The HPS Podcast @hpspodcast.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This week, the UniMelb HPS Seminar was lucky to hear PhD candidate & founding podcast host Samara Greenwood deliver a wonderful completion seminar: 'Working through Context: A Study of Contextual Explanation in HPS' Join us in wishing Samara the best for her final push towards completing her PhD! 🎉

Samara Greenwood, 'Working through Context', HPS Seminar, University of Melbourne 16/09/2026

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The HPS Podcast @hpspodcast.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"But on the night sky, it's like seeing an atom held at arm's length..." This week on the podcast, Peter Galison joins Sophie Ritson to discuss what it took to make the first image of the black hole — and what it means to say we saw it. linktr.ee/thehpspodcast

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Thomas Spiteri @tespiteri.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I enjoyed speaking to Dr Jahnavi Phalkey about India’s place in the history of modern science, the ways in which that history has been constructed, & how the pursuit of nuclear physics became intertwined with a newly independent nation’s efforts to define its own identity. linktr.ee/thehpspodcast

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Thomas Spiteri @tespiteri.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I just learnt that Kurt Danziger passed recently, shortly after his 100th birthday. No one has influenced me quite like he did... I feel grateful to have some correspondence with him near the end of his life, to have shared my gratitude to him. He was so generous to a stranger's questions.

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Terrific episode! Recommended listen - especially for any neuro or cognitive scientist who hasn’t yet read Chirimuuta’s book (on the topic of what we’re up to and how we’ve been going about it). Also featured is her concept of the Heraclitean brain (always changing), which I find insightful.

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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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Philosophical Psychology @journalphp.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

In #vol39issue6 Anya Plutynski & Claire Pouncey ask what personality can teach us about #mentalhealth doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy

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Thomas Spiteri @tespiteri.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Delighted to see this book out. Timely & important contributions to ongoing debates on theory, models, cumulative knowledge, replication & concepts in psychology. Am enjoying – slowly–working my way through these diverse & thoughtful chapters..! Ed: @fabianhutmacher.bsky.social & Alexander Wendt

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The HPS Podcast @hpspodcast.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

In an effort to make our podcast more accessible & reach a broader audience, we're now on YouTube! If you have a moment and enjoy the podcast, it would mean a lot if you could like & subscribe — or leave a comment. This helps more people discover our interviews and our guests' expertise & insights!

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The HPS Podcast

Leading scholars in History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (HPS) introduce contemporary topics for a general audience. Developed by graduate students from the HPS program at the University ...

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David Colaço @davidcolaco.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

The syllabus for my course Philosophy of Scientific Communication is now available here. Please share to anyone who might be interested in teaching a course like this (and kindly give me an acknowledgment if you use it): drive.google.com/file/d/1LDKY...

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Colaco Philosophy of Scientific Communication Syllabus.pdf

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Thomas Spiteri @tespiteri.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

After a break, The HPS Podcast is back for Season 6! 🎙️ In our first episode, I'm joined by Dr. Magdalena Skipper, Editor-in-Chief of Nature, for a conversation about trust in science, transparent peer review, COVID-19's legacy, & the inequities that continue to shape who gets published.

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S6 E1 - Magdalena Skipper on Scientific Publishing

Podcast Episode · The HPS Podcast - Conversations from History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science · 30 July · 39min

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Sabina Leonelli @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

And it’s out - our homage to the inimitable John Dupré, a giant of contemporary philosophy, from his loving colleagues and a stellar cast of contributors link.springer.com/book/10.1007... : #philsci

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Life Beyond Human Boundaries: John Dupré’s Philosophy and the Interdisciplinary Study of the Life Sciences

This open access book is self-standing as the only substantive anthology of writings centered on John Dupre’s work.

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Michael D. Barton @darwinsbulldog.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Janet Browne's new condensed and updated single volume biography of #CharlesDarwin is out today, from @princetonupress.bsky.social. Time to get reading! #HPS #histsci #Darwin #books #evolution

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TJ Perkins @teejperk.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

The June 2026 SPSP Newsletter is live! Cambridge, Climate, and Computers! #philsci #spsp2026 #cambridge sway.cloud.microsoft/WzkbQNheb1JE...

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Cristian Larroulet Philippi @cristianlarph.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

I'll be presenting this work at PSA (San Diego, Nov 2026). The question is how to think about "formative" (aggregate) constructs and their empirical measurements in the social sciences (e.g., socio-economic status). The standard view (e.g., Borsboom 2005) requires constructs to be causes of...

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Awais Aftab @awaisaftab.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

When patients ask, “What disorder do I really ‘have’?” the honest answer is usually more interesting and messier than a single diagnostic label. I wrote for the @nytimes.com on what I wish people understood about diagnoses and the nature of mental health problems. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...

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Opinion | We’re Thinking About Mental Health Diagnoses All Wrong

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Martin Kusch @martinkusch.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

My CUP Element on "Wittgenstein and Relativism" can now be downloaded for free. I hope some of you will find it interesting. www.cambridge.org/core/element... #philosophy #Wittgenstein #relativism

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Wittgenstein and Relativism

Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - Wittgenstein and Relativism

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Miguel Ohnesorge @miguelohn.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Now out: How did earthquakes come to have a (quantitative) size? How can we quantify without experimental control? @cristianlarph.bsky.social and I answer both questions and show their implications for human science measurement. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #philsci #histsci #seismology

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Lessons for human science measurement from the quantification of earthquake size

It remains controversial whether the human sciences can quantify the phenomena they study. The feasibility of quantification is usually assessed by id…

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The HOPOS Journal @hoposjournal.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

In the latest #HOPOS, Jamie Shaw, Kevin C. Elliott, and Deivide Garcia da S. Oliveira provide a transcription and critical overview of Paul Feyerabend’s unpublished manuscript “On the Responsibility of Scientists.” Link: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science @mcps-philsci.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Registration now open for HOPOS 2026, the 16th Biennial Congress of HOPOS (The International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science). Ohio State University, Columbus (OH) 22 to 25 June 2026 buff.ly/SNV412s

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HOPOS 2026

Early-bird registration is now open. To register for HOPOS 2026, navigate to the registration page by clicking here.The

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The HOPOS Journal @hoposjournal.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

In "Styles Against Method", Joseba Pascual Alba explores "the connection between Feyerabend’s overarching anarchism and Ian Hacking’s “anarcho-rationalism,” as presented in [Hacking's] “styles project.” Link: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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HPS @ AAAS @hps-aaas.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

CONGRATULATIONS to the new 2025 AAAS-Sect L #HPS Fellows! 🎉 ⭐️Sabina Leonelli, Technical University of Munich @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social ⭐️Deborah G Mayo, Virginia Tech ⭐️Corinna Treitel, Washington University St. Louis ⭐️John Bickle, Mississippi State U For complete list of 2025 AAAS Fellows ⬇️

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2025 AAAS Fellows | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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The HOPOS Journal @hoposjournal.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Suzanne Bachelard "educated more than a generation of French historians and philosophers of science". Ties van Gemert writes on her life and work & translates her lecture “Epistemology and the History of the Sciences”. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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Anya Plutynski @plutynski.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

“The Meaning of a Measure: p as a General Measure of Psychopathology” Our referees have now considered your paper and have recommended publication in Philosophical Psychology. :)

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Anya Plutynski @plutynski.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

News from Association for Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry! My student Derek Braverman received the 2026 Karl Jaspers Award for his paper on Addiction! Congratulations Derek! aapp.press.jhu.edu/jaspers

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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · 27/01/2026

📅 Mark your calendars for #SIPS2027! The 2027 SIPS conference, organized in collaboration with the Association for Interdisciplinary Meta-Research and Open Science @aimosinc.bsky.social, will be held in November at the University of Melbourne, Australia. We are looking forward to seeing you there!

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Samara Greenwood @samaragreenwood.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

A brilliant presentation on history of photography in astronomy, and the blurring of the analog / digital divide, by @carljoseph.bsky.social Winner of Langham prize at this years @aahpsss.bsky.social conference Highly recommend #hps #histsci #scicomm

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Matteo Vagelli @mvagelli.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Delighted to announce a roundtable discussion of my book Reconsidering Historical Epistemology 🗓️ Feb 2, 2026 📍 Athens (NKUA) Truly honoured - and excited - to have such outstanding scholars engaging with my work. Flyer attached ⬇️

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Thomas Spiteri @tespiteri.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

The Australasian Society for Philosophy and Psychology conference was great. Many thanks to our organisers, wonderful keynotes & big, diverse cohort of participants and ideas. And I'm very grateful to those who stopped to chat with me about how I'm thinking through case studies in psychology

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The repliCATS project @replicats.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Hey folks! We're running a big repliCATS workshop in Melbourne on 16 Dec, evaluating of replicability of published papers. 🐈 metascience, psych, med, health, education, sociol, quant methods, stats ECRs welcome 💰 AU$200 🎫 + travel subsidies ℹ️ forms.gle/9JvoRBKCzYyY... Re-posts appreciated 🌈

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Fiona Fidler @fidlerfm.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

My amazing friend and MetaMelb co-director @simine.com has won the 2025 Einstein Foundation Award! @unimelb.bsky.social @psychunimelb.bsky.social and @replicats.bsky.social are so lucky to have you

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The HPS Podcast @hpspodcast.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

🎉 50,000 listens! Thanks to everyone supporting The HPS Podcast, we're so grateful We're proudly graduate-run— & work hard to provide episodes that reflect our community’s questions and passions, and the richness of ideas across HPS Lots to come! Including some exciting developments for S6 (1/2)

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Uljana Feest @ufeest.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

@tespiteri.bsky.social wrote a review of my book! #&HPS, #Psychology

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Cristian Larroulet Philippi @cristianlarph.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

I’ve just uploaded to philpapers my (preprint) chapter titled “Values and Measurement” forthcoming in the Routledge Handbook of Values in Science. It’s an overview of arguments for values playing significant roles in measurement practices. Comments welcome! philpapers.org/rec/LARVAM-2

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Cristian Larroulet Philippi, Values and Measurement - PhilPapers

At first sight, measurement might appear to be a natural candidate for a scientific practice that is value-free. This chapter reviews prominent arguments supporting the opposite view, i.e., that value...

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 21/10/2025

‘Extinction is a protracted, uneven process, and hard to square with our mental picture of abrupt catastrophe.’ Lorraine Daston reads 𝘝𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘥: 𝘈𝘯 𝘜𝘯𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘌𝘹𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯by Sadiah Qureshi. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Lorraine Daston · Kaboom! Slow-Motion Extinction

Historians who address such topics as extinction, which straddle the history of humans and of the Earth, face the...

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Thomas Spiteri @tespiteri.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

This week we welcome Prof. Steven Shapin to the pod!🎙️ We explore his journey through interdisciplinary spaces, revisit Leviathan and the Air-Pump 40 years on, and explore how credibility, trust and expertise are shaped by the fragmentation of expertise and (recent) political & cultural challenges

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S5 E11 - Steven Shapin on the Social Life of Scientific Knowledge

Podcast Episode · The HPS Podcast - Conversations from History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science · 19/10/2025 · 50m

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Center for PhilSci @center4philsci.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Become a Visiting Fellow! Interested in joining the Center for Philosophy of Science? Applications for 2026-27 now open for Visiting Fellows! Postdoc applications will be available soon! More info about our programs available on our website at www.centerphilsci.pitt.edu/programs…

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Thomas Spiteri @tespiteri.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Uljana Feest’s 'Operationism in Psychology: An Epistemology of Exploration' provides a rigorous and insightful analysis of psychological research. This important contribution is a must-read for anyone interested in the philosophy and history of science. I’ve jotted dow some brief reflections below

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Operationism recast as method: Feest’s epistemology of exploration - Metascience

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Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Unexpectedly, there's an 'education focused' job in HPS at Sydney! At snr lecturer/assoc prof level, which means associate professor in US terms. You'll need to scan down below ruminant science etc to see it, though (perhaps a message there?): #STS #bioethics #histstm #histsci #histmed

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Education Focused Academics (Sydney Horizon Educators) Faculty of Science

Full time and Part-time continuing (tenure-track) academic Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor (Education Focused) positions at The University of Sydney Opportunity for the best and brightest talented...

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Uljana Feest @ufeest.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

I wrote a short piece for the @philmemopalace.bsky.social #memory #philpsy #&HPS

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Lukas Röseler @aufdroeseler.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

ReplicationResearch.org is now open for submissions! Submit replications and reproductions from many different fields, as well as conceptual contributions. With diamond OA, open and citable peer review reports, and reproducibility checks, we push the boundaries of open and fair publishing.

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