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Katrina Miller @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social · 11h

three cheers for slow science, each Nobel representing decades of inquiry that paved the way for the technology, treatments, & toys of tomorrow:

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Nobel Prizes This Year Offer Three Cheers for Slow Science

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Sally Latham @sallylatham.bsky.social · Mar 26

Beyond excited to finally share this project! I am so proud to be co-creator and education consultant on this show.

Narrated by the incredible Stephen Fry, Fantastic Philosophy aims to help children develop critical thinking and oracy.
#PhilosophyMatters ##philsky

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Fantastic Philosophy: Primary philosophy teaching resources

In this illustrated series narrated by Sir Stephen Fry, a community of animals living in a fictional savannah try to navigate some tricky philosophical questions. Aimed at pupils studying at KS2 level...

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Lisa Bortolotti @lisabortolotti.com · 2d

How did the definition of pain change? Elisabetta Lalumera talks about conceptual change in medicine in this wonderful talk as a part of our @triphilosophy.bsky.social lectures by Women in Philosophy: youtu.be/Q9lYgYQDQ4s Enjoy! #philsky #philpsy #EpistemicInjustice

Women in Philosophy: Elisabetta Lalumera

YouTube video by The Philosophy Garden

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Victor Gijsbers @victorgijsbers.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 21h

Leiden has an opening for an assistant professor in African and Comparative Philosophy. Please send it on to anyone who might fit the profile!

https://careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/Assistant-Professor-in-African-and-Comparative-Philosophy-%280_8-1_0-fte%29/16036-en_US

Assistant Professor in African and Comparative Philosophy (0.8-1.0 fte)

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Anita Leirfall @anitaleirfall.bsky.social · 19h

The Rise and Unraveling of America’s Science Pact

The system of federally funded research gave the U.S. wealth, power, and prestige. Its future is now uncertain. thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-rise-and... #science #academia #philsky

The Rise and Unraveling of America’s Science Pact

The system of federally funded research gave the U.S. wealth, power, and prestige. Its future is now uncertain.

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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 1d

In 1947, some Hollywood stars including Henry Fonda stood up to anti-communist witch hunts.

Now, Jane Fonda and artists like Viola Davis, Pedro Pascal and Billie Eilish are reviving their organization — the Committee for the First Amendment — to defend free speech again.

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Jane Fonda, other stars, revive the Committee for the First Amendment – a group that emerged when the anti-communist panic came for Hollywood

Even after the original group fizzled, many of its members were able to keep making films with progressive messages.

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Anita Leirfall @anitaleirfall.bsky.social · 1d

Babies love peek-a-boo because it plays with their developing notion of object permanence. V-JEPA, an AI model recently built at Meta, similarly exhibits “surprise” when its predictions of the real world fail to match its observations. www.quantamagazine.org/how-one-ai-m... #philsky

How One AI Model Creates a Physical Intuition of Its Environment | Quanta Magazine

The V-JEPA system uses ordinary videos to understand the physics of the real world.

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Anita Leirfall @anitaleirfall.bsky.social · 1d

«The antidote… lies not in more data or smarter algorithms, but in cultivating the intellectual virtues that make genuine understanding possible: persistence, rigor, and humility.»

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Anita Leirfall @anitaleirfall.bsky.social · 1d

«Knowledge is a survival skill. One that societies must cultivate to sustain trust and democracy in the digital age. While technology has expanded access to information, it has also eroded our ability to think well.» | By Jason Baehr iai.tv/articles/in-... #knowledge #thinking #philosophy #philsky

In a post-truth world truth-seeking is more important than ever | Jason Baehr

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Nature @nature.com · 2d

The class of immune cells at the centre of Monday’s Nobel prize is showing promise as a treatment for autoimmune diseases, cancer and even organ transplants — but there are still key challenges to overcome before these cells can be used in therapies in the clinic.

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These immune cells won Nobel fame — can they solve autoimmune disease?

Regulatory T cells, which help to dampen inflammation, are being used in clinical trials against ailments such as rheumatoid arthritis.

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Anita Leirfall @anitaleirfall.bsky.social · 2d

The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books

To read a book in college, it helps to have read a book in high school | By Rose Horowitch www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc... #academia #reading #philsky

The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books

To read a book in college, it helps to have read a book in high school.

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Kant, Kantianism, and Morality @kantingroningen.bsky.social · 10d

We have a recent (open access 🔑) publication from a member of our research group: a new paper on the structure of Kant’s argument in the first section of the Groundwork.

Pauline Kleingeld, ‘Kant’s Analytic Method and the Argument of Groundwork I’, in Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society.

X—Kant’s Analytic Method and the Argument of Groundwork I

Abstract. In the famous first section of the Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals, Kant sets out to identify the principle of morality, but each of the

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Nature @nature.com · 4d

BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi "for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance"

Stay tuned for more.
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Anita Leirfall @anitaleirfall.bsky.social · 3d

How the Public Sees Philosophy:
Insights from a National Survey in the Czech Republic | by Vít Gvoždiak & Martin Zach dailynous.com/2025/09/03/h... #philosophy #public #philsky

How the Public Sees Philosophy: Insights from a National Survey in the Czech Republic (guest post) - Daily Nous

What do ordinary people think philosophy is for? That's one of the questions a pair of philosophers, Vít Gvoždiak and Martin Zach (Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences) aimed to answer. ...

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Joel David Hamkins @joeldavidhamkins.bsky.social · 24d

New post-doctoral position at Notre Dame
Core analytic/logic/phil math. philjobs.org/job/show/29622
2 year position, $75K annual salary plus $15K expense account. Please apply! (I am chairing this search.)

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Joel David Hamkins @joeldavidhamkins.bsky.social · 11d

I have made a post on Substack Notes substack.com/@joeldavidha...
to the effect that we should have a Mathematics category on Substack. If you support math on Substack, please like and restack there.

Joel David Hamkins (@joeldavidhamkins)

Substack @Substack, when do we get a Mathematics category for bestsellers? We have many great math stacks with huge engagement and audiences.

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Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social · 5d

Miira Tuominen and I edited this new book from Brill with no fewer than 25 chapters on various aspects of ancient and medieval philosophy in Greek, Arabic, and Latin texts. Actually there's a little Persian in there too.

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Animals in Greek, Arabic, and Latin Philosophy

"Animals in Greek, Arabic, and Latin Philosophy" published on 29 Sep 2025 by Brill.

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Anita Leirfall @anitaleirfall.bsky.social · 3d

Why Cartesianism appealed to women and became the inspiration for a pioneering feminist, Poullain de la Barre; and why Cartesianism was not the only option for women philosophers of the age. | @histphilosophy.bsky.social www.historyofphilosophy.net/cartesianism... #Descartes #women #philsky

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Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social · 4d

Opening here at the LMU: a W2 Professorship in Philosophy Education at the Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and the Study of Religion. The position combines research in philosophy with a strong focus on didactics.

Application deadline: 15 November 2025

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Professorship (W2) of Philosophy Education

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 3d

#Philosophy Graduate Student Conference CFP:
American Philosophy and Philosophy in the Americas: Past, Present, Future, April 3 – 4, 2026
Submit papers suitable for a 45-minute presentation including Q&A (roughly 6000 to 8000 words) to [email protected] by December 28, 2025
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BU Graduate Student Philosophy Conference

April 3 - 4, 2026

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Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science @mcps-philsci.bsky.social · 7d

Two-year postdoc w/ Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science! Scholars in all areas of #philsci, inclusive of philosophical approaches to logic&math, are eligible. This is understood broadly to include issues in the history&practice of particular sciences.Deadline 5 Dec 2025.
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Two-Year Post-Doctoral Associate, Philosophy of Science, University of Minnesota - PhilJobs:JFP

An international database of jobs for philosophers

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Lucia C. Neco (Luba) @luciacneco.bsky.social · 29d

[NEW PAPER] In "Beyond Dichotomies", I challenge the false dichotomy between subjectivity and objectivity in human social relationships. I show how they are both biological and social, using kinship research as an example. I’d love to hear your thoughts!

#PhilSci #Anthropology #PhilSky

Beyond Dichotomies: Embracing an Integrated Approach to Social Relationships | Philosophy of Science | Cambridge Core

Beyond Dichotomies: Embracing an Integrated Approach to Social Relationships

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