Save the date:The next biennial Society for the Study of Measurement (SSM) conference will be held at the University of Edinburgh June 22-25, 2026.
Calls for conference papers, posters, & workshops will be posted soon ⤵️
measurementsociety.org
#HPS #STS #metrology #statistics #data #science #philsci

“Google has filed a patent for a face-detection activation system that would eliminate the need for ‘Hey Google’ hotwords by automatically triggering its Gemini AI assistant when a user's phone detects their face nearby.” 😩

google wants to introduce errors into my spreadsheets and attribute them to me

Hey authors, the official list of Anthropic works is available for searching.

secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup

Finally officially published! "Race science in mainstream psychology, 1960–2010" with @rhacodactylus.bsky.social (who needs a job btw) direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... 🧵

#histsci #sts #philsci #metascience

"Every single one of you has that indomitable spirit. But so many people don’t let it out. They don’t realize the power they have to influence and change the world. And so I’m saying to you, let your indomitable spirit make a difference."
— Jane Goodall, March 30, 2024,

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Lol. But seriously, have you played it yet?

NOT A DRILLLLLLL IT WORKS!

Upshot:
NNES report to need twice as long to read English-language papers and to prepare English presentations. Even among highly proficient NNES (C1–C2 level), ~60% report having avoided asking questions at events due to concerns about their English (compared to 16% of NES). #philsky

Also promising advances in treating pancreatic cancer! www.mskcc.org/news/can-mrn...

36 mo postdoc / research fellow position in Philosophy, History, and/or Social Studies of the Life Sciences in the STS dept. at Technical Universtiy of Munich, apps due Oct 31: #histphil #histsci #histSTM

www.sts.sot.tum.de/en/sts/arbei...

When we posted this a couple of weeks ago, we had some AI enthusiasts insist that this diagram was the result of poor prompting, or that the prompt that the original poster made was to generate a funny, bad diagram. So we decided to test ChatGPT's capability...

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

In tenure letters the last few years I've been forcibly struck by how much service the women I'm reviewing are doing compared to the men. (Actual evidence backs this anecdote up - see below.) link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Very happy to announce that the CFP is now open for APSA26: The Inaugural Biennial Conference of the Asian Philosophy of Science Association! It will be held at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. The keynote will be Craig Callender. Submission deadline: 31 Dec 2025. URL: tinyurl.com/APSA26

🚨 Breaking News 🚨

The Admin just destroyed $10M of birth control purchased by USAID for women in low-income countries. That birth control would have prevented 362,000 more unintended pregnancies, 110,000 more unsafe abortions, and 718 preventable maternal deaths.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

In late June, Google quietly scrubbed its pledge to hit net zero by 2030 from its sustainability website as it goes full steam ahead on hyperscale data centers and generative AI.

The researchers profiled in this Science piece are doing amazing work improving understanding of the causes of endometriosis and possible diagnostic tests that are less invasive than surgery. An excellent example of how feminist science can produce work that is more open to various explanations,

and takes the experiences of people menstruating as important and relevant to research projects that are about them.

The researchers profiled in this Science piece are doing amazing work improving understanding of the causes of endometriosis and possible diagnostic tests that are less invasive than surgery. An excellent example of how feminist science can produce work that is more open to various explanations,

We’re excited to launch the official BlueSky profile of ISHPSSB! Founded in 1998, we connect researchers in philosophy, history, and social studies of biology and medicine worldwide. Follow us for updates and events! #PhilosophyOfBiology, #HistoryOfScience, #STS, #Biology, #Medicine

I’m seeing a lot of inaccurate info about the Anthropic settlement being passed around as fact, so here’s a good basic explainer from the Author’s Guild that I highly recommend reading so you understand it better if you’re potentially part of the class: authorsguild.org/news/what-au...

For context that's a third the price the RIAA expected a single human to pay for just downloading 24 songs a decade ago (after cutting the ruling down from $1.5m, or $62,000 per song), and that's not adjusting for inflation: