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Losner Briones

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He/him. Vegan. Predoctoral researcher in Philosophy of Science at UNED, Madrid. FPI Fellow at EVISOC. With NATE project. Evidence and causal extrapolation in the social sciences. 🔍 Basic income experiments via Evidential Pluralism. www.losnerbriones.com

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Losner Briones @losnerbriones.com · Jun 21

Happy to kick off the summer with the news that I'll be presenting papers next week and over the coming months at:

- VI SLMFCE Graduate Conference (@slmfce.bsky.social)

- EPSA 25 (@epsaphilsci.bsky.social)

- XI SEFA 2025 (@sefa2025.bsky.social)

- PSA Around the World 2025 (@philsci.bsky.social)

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METIS research group @metisuned.bsky.social · 1d

Hoy hemos celebrado una comida para despedir a Francisco Álvarez, Manuel Sellés y Eduardo Bustos, fundadores del Departamento de LHFC de la UNED, que se jubilan.

Gracias por todo vuestro legado. Paco, Manolo y Eduardo, esta siempre será vuestra casa💚

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METIS research group @metisuned.bsky.social · 7d

At the XI SEFA Congress in Seville, Losner Briones (@losnerbriones.com) (with Guillermo Marín Penella) presenting:

“Two Extensions of Causal Extrapolation within Evidential Pluralism”

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METIS research group @metisuned.bsky.social · 8d

The XI SEFA Congress starts!

We’re proud to see so many METIS members: Javier González de Prado, Losner Briones, Paloma Atencia Linares, Marco Portillo, Neri Marsili, Umberto Rivieccio, Ignacio Sánchez Moreno, Laura Delgado-Verges, Laura Delgado, Claudia Picazo & Sophie Keeling.

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Ivan Moscati @ivan-moscati.bsky.social · 12d

Save the Date: JUNE 8–12, 2026.

Fourth Lake Como Summer School in Philosophy of Economics.
Villa del Grumello, Como, Italy.

Sponsored by INEM, the University of Insubria, and the University of Milan.

More information forthcoming.

@catemar.bsky.social
@rseri.me

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METIS research group @metisuned.bsky.social · 13d

👋📢 METIS Seminars 2025-2026!
Hi 😊 As every year, we’re back with our weekly philosophy seminars. They are one of METIS’s main activities, and everyone is more than welcome to join. Here’s a thread on who we are, what we do, and how you can take part 👇🧵

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Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com · 15d

I am quite excited to share a new preprint on the prospects for a 'metaphilosophy of science'—a second-order inquiry into the concepts, assumptions, aims, and methods that underpin philosophy of science itself. 👇📃 philsci-archive.pitt.edu/26661/ 1/3 #philsci #philsky #HPS #HPbio #metaphilosophy

Toward a Metaphilosophy of Science - PhilSci-Archive

philsci-archive.pitt.edu

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Losner Briones @losnerbriones.com · 16d

This academic year, I'll be co-teaching with @mjbuedo.bsky.social Philosophy of Science I and Philosophy of the Social Sciences for undergrads at UNED ✨📚

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METIS research group @metisuned.bsky.social · 20d

📢 Reminder! Susana Monsó from METIS will participate in the "Festival de las Ideas" with the talk “Las otras inteligencias”.

📍 Círculo de Bellas Artes C/ Alcalá, 42, Madrid
📅 19 Sept. 2025 | 18h

A fantastic chance to meet @susanamonso.com and explore her work. Don’t miss it!

Info: goo.su/bNVDiT

Las otras inteligencias - Festival de las Ideas

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FJI-PRECARIAS @fjiprecarios.bsky.social · 29d

🧑🏼‍🏫 Vamos con el primer punto del #PactoXLaCiencia
📄 Estatuto del Personal de Investigación (EPI)
@cienciagob.bsky.social @dianamorantr.bsky.social
👇🏼🧵

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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · Sep 9

A privilege to co-author with the brilliant @alessandrabasso.bsky.social whose mastery of economics of inequality and its philosophy is unparalleled. Our general point: indicators always have more than one ideal to serve, so will have to prioritise and hence sacrifice #philsci #econsky #measurement

Measurement requires compromises: the case of economic inequality

We examine considerations that enter into design and evaluation of measures in social science, categorizing them into four drivers: epistemic, ethical…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Josh Milburn @joshmilburn.bsky.social · Sep 4

Now on the Oxford University Press website, complete with cover: Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka's Animals and the Right to Politics, the long-awaited sequel to 2011's Zoopolis.

An expected release date of 11 December. Just in time for Christmas!

global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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METIS research group @metisuned.bsky.social · Sep 3

September 📚 🏫
In August we took a little vacation 🌞🏖 from the department’s social media, but some members of METIS kept moving. A very brief thread with some of their activities 👇 🧵

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METIS research group @metisuned.bsky.social · Sep 2

🔷 METIS has a new social media team! 🚀

From now on, we will be behind the keyboard: Ignasi @ignasigil.bsky.social & Marco @raciondeser.bsky.social

We will continue to share the work, ideas, activity and good humour that make METIS what it is.

Stay tuned! 📚

a picture of yoda from star wars with the words `` may the metis be with you '' written on it .

ALT: a picture of yoda from star wars with the words `` may the metis be with you '' written on it .

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Losner Briones @losnerbriones.com · Aug 27

Today I'm discussing randomised controlled trials and pilot studies. How do these designs assess redistributive policies, such as basic income? We'll find out!

METIS research group @metisuned.bsky.social · Aug 26

🚨🚀 Our PhD student @losnerbriones.com kicks off the new academic year with a talk at EPSA25 tomorrow at 17:00. Full programme here:
➡️https://philsci.eu/EPSA25/Programme

European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA) - EPSA25 - Programme

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Pilar Lopez-Cantero @lopezcantero.bsky.social · Aug 22

My first paper on urban justice is out. It draws an analogy between gentrification and mass incoming migration, and shows that neighbourhoods receiving large numbers of needy migrants are treated unfairly, even if hosting needy migrants IS a requirement of justice/1

AFFINITY @affectinthecity.bsky.social · Aug 22

First publication out! It questions whether people who report loss of community due to gentrification and migration should both be treated as victims of injustice. My view is that we should, although injustice has different grounds in the latter case: the unjust distribution of affective burdens.

Gentrification, migration, and non-material injustice

Gentrification can harm residents at a personal and emotional level, even when they are not physically displaced. Recognising these non-material harms as a source of wrongful ‘phenomenological disp...

www.tandfonline.com

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Losner Briones @losnerbriones.com · Aug 21

Congrats, Alejandro!! What great news!! 🎉👏

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Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com · Aug 21

With great joy—and a touch of nervousness—I’m thrilled to share that my first academic monograph will be published by @mitpress.bsky.social in May 2026! It examines the organism–environment relationship in biology from an integrated #HPS perspective: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205282... #evosky #philsky

The Organism-Environment Pairing

In this first systematic book-length examination of the organism-environment relationship in the life sciences, Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda addresses a crucia...

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Cristian Larroulet Philippi @cristianlarph.bsky.social · Aug 15

I chat with Thomas Spiteri on measurement in the human sciences. I think the interview came along very well 😊

bsky.app/profile/hpsp...
Thanks to Thomas for all the work put into the podcast.

#philsci #measurement
#philsky

The HPS Podcast @hpspodcast.bsky.social · Aug 14

Grateful to Cristian Larroulet Philippi — our inaugural Seddon Fellow in the HPS program at UniMelb — for a rich and most insightful deep dive…

🎧 Don't miss this one!
🔗 linktr.ee/thehpspodcast

@cristianlarph.bsky.social
#philsci #hps #measurement

Thomas Spiteri @tespiteri.bsky.social · Aug 14

This week, Cristian Larroulet Philipi joins us to talk about measurement in the human sciences: why it can be more philosophically complex than in the physical sciences, and how it raises pressing questions about the role of numbers in psychology, social science, and policy

#philsci #measurement

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Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · Aug 15

It's publication week for the Oxford Handbook of Social Epistemology, edited by Jennifer Lackey and myself, in the UK and in the rest of the world aside from North and South America (where it was available in May)

The cover for the Oxford Handbook of Social Epistemology, featuring a detail from an impressionist painting of a busy Paris Boulevard by day by Camille Pissaro.

I’m leaning far back in my chair, looking bemused, while a copy of the Oxford Handbook of Social Epistemology takes up most of the shot in the foreground. There’s a bookcase with some other books stacked just behind my head.

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Julia Jorati @juliajorati.bsky.social · Aug 13

The first volume of my anthology of early modern texts about slavery should come out later this year (paperback, hardcover, and e-book)! The cover image is by the amazing NYC artist Ivan Forde. Here's the table of contents: global.oup.com/academic/pro... #philsky #academicsky #slavery

cover of the forthcoming anthology Slavery in Early Modern Philosophy 1500–1765

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Susana Monsó @susanamonso.com · Aug 13

Our paper on 🌱🦧ANIMAL MEDICINE🐜🍄 has been accepted for publication in Philosophy of Science!

You can find the accepted version here, open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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CESifo @cesifo.org · Aug 5

📢New Working Paper!
"Cash Transfers, Mental Health and Agency: Evidence from an RCT in Germany"
✍️ Sandra Bohmann, Susann Fiedler @maxkasy.bsky.social @jpschupp.bsky.social Frederik Schwerte

For further information, read the full paper: www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/pu...

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Alberto López Ortega @bertous.bsky.social · Aug 4

📝Why has a Bukele-style far-right party emerged in Spain—even though VOX already exists?

In our new paper, @javierpadilla.bsky.social, @canalejoalvaro.bsky.social and I explain the unexpected rise of SALF ("Let the Party Be Over") in the 2024 EP elections:

journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

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Losner Briones @losnerbriones.com · Jul 31

Thrilled to continue working alongside a fantastic team on questions about evidence, including evidential pluralism, computer simulations, external validity, and causal extrapolation! 🥳

Saúl Pérez-González @saulpg.bsky.social · Jul 30

Our project "New Approaches to Evidence: Theoretical and Practical Developments" (NATE) has been awarded funding by the Spanish Ministry!
Over the next 3 years, we’ll host workshops, conferences, and even hire a PhD student at @vlc-lab.bsky.social .
More details coming soon—stay tuned!
#PhilSci