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Massimiliano Simons
@masssimons.bsky.social
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Assistant Prof. in Philosophy of Technology Maastricht University, fascinated by #synbio, #experimentation, #historicalepistemology, #HOPOS, #HOPOT, #sciencefiction and #conspiracytheory - he/him

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Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social · 2d
I'm co-chairing the Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social Conference in Toronto, Oct 2026. #STS #scipol #innovation

Theme: "TechnoPower • Technoscientific Futures".

Open panel submissions portal is open! ls!

Deadline: 2nd February 2026

www.4sonline.org/about_the_co...
About the Conference
www.4sonline.org

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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 4d
I once heard Anscombe point out that there’s a parallel argument for books. Everything we take to be real also happens in books. How do we know we’re not in a book? #philsky
jholbo.bsky.social John Holbo @jholbo.bsky.social · 4d
Preparing for my week 1 lecture, like always. I am going to. Blow. Their. Minds. These kids don't know what's in store for them. They have no idea what's coming down the pike. I'm basically unstoppable. Not to sound immodest.
Kirby panel. Nurse: "And yet, how can we ever know what is actually real ... and what is a dream?" Doctor: "I'm afraid we CAN'T!"

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John Holbo @jholbo.bsky.social · 4d
Preparing for my week 1 lecture, like always. I am going to. Blow. Their. Minds. These kids don't know what's in store for them. They have no idea what's coming down the pike. I'm basically unstoppable. Not to sound immodest.
Kirby panel. Nurse: "And yet, how can we ever know what is actually real ... and what is a dream?" Doctor: "I'm afraid we CAN'T!"

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Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 5d
Happy to share this workshop program on 'Introduction to Category Theory for Non-Mathematicians', organized by a PhD student of mine, Marjolein Holvoet. It takes place at Ghent University. #philsky #philsci #philmath

www.ugent.be/doctoralscho...
Introduction to Category Theory for Non-Mathematicians
www.ugent.be

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Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 8d
These *two* TT positions in #politicalphilosophy at our faculty are still open! Come join us!

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Darian Meacham @posteurope.bsky.social · 8d
🚨We've got two tenure track posts in political philosophy @maastrichtu.bsky.social.🚨 Deadlines are 31 January and 26 February.
#philosophy #academicjobs |
@apaphilosophy.bsky.social

www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3566...

www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3574...
Assistant Professor in Political and Social Philosophy
Welcome to Maastricht University! At Maastricht University, philosophy plays a vital role in understanding a world marked by political tensions, technological upheaval, and societal transformations. H...
www.academictransfer.com

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Sarah Arens @saraharens.bsky.social · 8d
Application deadline for our fully-funded PhD position has been extended to 1 February 2026 - especially geographer friends, please share!

www.liverpool.ac.uk/courses/envi...
From Empire to Ecology: Environmental, Colonial and Industrial Legacies of the Manchester Ship Canal | Courses | University of Liverpool
This interdisciplinary PhD project investigates the environmental, industrial and colonial legacies of the Manchester Ship Canal, one of the great engineering feats of the Victorian era. While histor...
www.liverpool.ac.uk

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Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 9d
We are hiring another Assistant Professor Position at @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social, this position is in #STS with clear focus on sustainability and environmental challenges.

Feel free to reach out for questions!

vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
Assistant Professor Science, Technology and Society Studies
Assistant Professor Science, Technology and Society Studies
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl

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Christian Dries @morbuscriticus.bsky.social · 9d
Finally, here it is!
(Many thanks to @uminnpress.bsky.social.)

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Alice Murphy @alicemurphs.bsky.social · 9d
2 year Postdoctoral Research Fellow opportunity at the University of St Andrews on my project "Aesthetic Values and the Social Dimensions of Science"

www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

#philosophy #philsci
Research Fellow - AR3233
Research Fellow - AR3233, Unit: Philosophical, Anthropological and Film Studies Salary: Grade 6 / £38,784-£42,254 pa Full time Fixed term: 24 months, <p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Application...
www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk

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Sabina Leonelli @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social · 11d
Happy new year! If you are early career or graduate in Phil of Bio, consider European summer school below: fantastic venue, brilliant mix of junior & senior scholars, a wealth of debates, PPTs & skills training organised by @thomasreydon.bsky.social and myself. Deadline EXTENDED to 31 Jan! #philsci
sabinaleonelli.bsky.social Sabina Leonelli @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social · Nov 20
The call for applications for 2026 European Advanced School in Philosophy of Life Sciences is now open! Deadline 15 Jan 2026, theme will be “philosophy of biology for a healthy planet”, all info here: www.kli.ac.at/en/events/ev... graduate students &early postdocs, do consider joining us! #philsci
Events | Event Calendar | Discover The KLI
The Konrad Lorenz Institute provides a stimulating and creative environment for fellows, visiting scholars, students, and external faculty.
www.kli.ac.at

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Justin Caouette, Ph.D. @justincaouette.bsky.social · 12d
Against “Epistemic Injustice”

#philsky #philosophy #epistemology
Against "Epistemic Injustice"
On the Epistemic Injustice as a Central Organising Concept
open.substack.com

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Adam Tamas Tuboly @tuadam.bsky.social · 14d
The Nagel-Hempel correspondence has just been published in the Vienna Circle Institute Library. Check it out!

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Ernest Nagel on Science and Philosophy
This book provides new perspectives on the twentieth-century history of philosophy of science through the person of Ernest Nagel
link.springer.com

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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · 19d
This will be an extraordinary volume.
Southern Epistemologies - HAU Books
H. Clark Barrett is Professor of Anthropology at UCLA. He studies contemporary variation in social and moral judgment as a window into the evolution of human cognition. His current project asks how ev...
haubooks.org

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Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 19d
You cannot stop the future, therefore I am creating new assignments that incorporate whatsapp, rather than banning it like luddites!

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Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 20d
Sometimes they even ask the tutor to join

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Simon Truwant @simontruwant.bsky.social · 21d
En voor het onderscheid tussen een expert en een wetenschapper, in het licht van de publieke opinievorming, verwijs ik altijd heel graag naar dit stuk van @masssimons.bsky.social

www.eoswetenschap.eu/gezondheid/e...
Een expert is geen wetenschapper
Expertise wordt vaak gelijkgesteld met wetenschap. Dat miskent de eigenheid van expertise. Vijf verschillen tussen wetenschap en expertise worden hier verkend.
www.eoswetenschap.eu

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Simon Truwant @simontruwant.bsky.social · 21d
Heel interessant stuk over de rol van wetenschappers en experten in het publiek debat - zowel de rol die ze daarin zelf opnemen als die hen door anderen (journalisten, het publiek) wordt toegedicht.

www.standaard.be/opinies/de-p...
De professor zal het wel weten, toch? Of moeten we verder kijken dan die ene expert?
Leunen we als journalisten soms te veel op de kennis van academici en specialisten, zeker bij complexe thema’s en netelige vragen? Een zelfkritische blik op experteninterviews, verantwoordelijkheid en kwetsbaarheid.
www.standaard.be

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Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 25d
Here is link to the first position, which is still open bsky.app/profile/mass...
masssimons.bsky.social Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · Dec 2
Join us! We are hiring an assistant professor in political and social philosophy at Maastricht University with a focus on contemporary challenges to European democracy

Feel free to contact me, if you have questions #philsky #philjobs

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Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 25d
Come join our department! 🚨

Maastricht University is hiring a *second* TT Assistant Professor position in Political Philosophy. This one is focused on the theme of inequality. #philjobs #philsky

Feel free to reach out to me with questions!

vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
Assistant Professor in Political Philosophy
Assistant Professor in Political Philosophy
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl

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Stefano Canali @stefanocanali.bsky.social · 25d
📢Job ad!

Join us at Politecnico di Milano in an interdisciplinary collaboration between philosophy of science and biomedical engineering on transitions from animal research, with a 3-years postdoc (submission deadline: 12 January 2026)
www.meta.polimi.it/3-years-post....

#philsci #philsky #sts
3 Years Postdoc: Transitions From Animal-Based Approaches in Biomedicine – META | PoliMi
www.meta.polimi.it

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Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · 25d
2026 summer #fellowships & #internships for #PhD students and also those graduating. Locations include US, UK, Thailand, Brazil, Remote, etc.

Most deadlines in Dec and Jan. Most available for international students. Please share for visibility.

Also comment if you know of any internships.

🧵

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Duncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social · 28d
Post-doc positions:
"Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..."

uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...
Call for Applications: Early Career Rescue Fellowship – Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
uni-freiburg.de

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Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 29d
This goes high on my reading list #philsci

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Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) @clpskuleuven.bsky.social · 29d
Join us tomorrow for the last Brown Bag seminar of 2025! @gregorboes.bsky.social will present his new FWO project, which brings together the phenomenological & analytic philosophy of science traditions of thinking about scientific representation 👇 research.kuleuven.be/portal/en/pr... #philsci #HPS
Screenshot of a KU Leuven Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) event page announcing a Brown Bag Seminar titled Gregor Bös, Merging Two Tales of Scientific Representation. The seminar is scheduled for December 19, 2025, from 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM (Europe/Brussels time) in room HIW1-01.20. Organizers listed are Alejandro Fábregas Tejeda and Atahan Erbas. Abstract Scientists, teachers, and professionals use mathematics to talk about non-mathematical domains. Do these representations work like language, poetry, pictures, or in an entirely different way? Naturally, philosophers of different traditions have different stories to tell. Much of the scientific representation debate goes back to logical empiricist accounts of the content of scientific theories. But mathematical representation has also been an important topic in the phenomenological tradition. Logical empiricism and phenomenology have been prominently characterized as antitheses – yet philosophy of science and the scientific representation debate have opened up in a way that supports a reconnection. My project spells out a phenomenological account of scientific representation which draws on classic phenomenological literature but engages with and contributes to the scientific representation debate in the philosophy of science. I contextualize this historically with a quantitative study of the interactions between scientists and analytic and continental philosophers of science. I disseminate these results in a monograph aimed at students, scientists, and users of scientific theories. The quantitative data of the historical study are integrated into a web-application to allow re-use without programming.

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Willem Bliekendaal @willembliekendaal.bsky.social · Dec 16
Very please to find this on my doormat #MichelSerres
With thanks to @aldohouterman.bsky.social @masssimons.bsky.social

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Tech Won’t Save Us @techwontsave.us · Dec 15
🚨 THE BATTLE BEGINS 🚨

Your favorite year-end contest is back. It’s time to choose who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech for 2025!

Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday.

🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/worst-person...
Bracket showing the 32 names in the Worst Person in Tech 2025

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Platinumeggs‼️COMMISSIONS OPEN @platinumeggs.bsky.social · Dec 14
AI has actively made life worse for literally everyone

- tech is now more expensive
- you cannot trust most media of reality anymore
- programs barely function
- energy prices
- literal psychosis
- your voice can be literally stolen for evil
- more spyware

but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Dec 13
“Dutch people cycle an average of 2.6km each per day. If this pattern was replicated worldwide, annual carbon emissions would drop by 686 million tonnes.

This mammoth figure exceeds the entire carbon footprint of most countries, including the UK, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Australia.” @euronews.com
Cycling like the Dutch would slash the world’s carbon footprint
If everybody cycled like the Dutch, we could offset the UK or Australia’s entire carbon footprint.
www.euronews.com

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Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · Dec 13
Continuing my journey through empiricisms, now with the great book by David Lapoujade on William James' radical empiricism. This is the book that 'converted' Latour to James and pragmatism #philsci
Cover of David Lapoujade's book William James, empiricism and pragmatism