If you’re interested in practicing the philosophy of science in practice why not come along to an online workshop “the philosophy of science in practice - in practice”? #philsci

Very saddened to hear of John Gurdon’s passing. I’ve been lucky enough to interact with him at multiple points through my career - from undergrad lectures, through his position as former Chair of @biologists.bsky.social’s Board of Directors, and as an author at @dev-journal.bsky.social.

'What happened during those reviews remains confidential, hidden behind the ethics panel’s closed doors. But the financial ties between the drugmaker and its ethics panel highlight how private-equity investors are transforming this obscure but vital corner of American health care'

PhD position in philosophy of medicine

uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/451...

'(...) the troubling question of who is actually making sense of such a cortical roadmap. Is there a tiny executive homunculus watching the visual, acoustic, somatosensory, and other sensory maps and sending out instructions to muscles in accordance with the picture of the world it is receiving?'

PhD project in philosophy of science in practice. The main PI is Sara Green. Check it out!

employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...

A new #HOPOS paper from Tivadar Vervoort on the relations between Georg Lukács and the Frankfurt School and the French epistemologists including Michel Foucault.

“Nous Sommes Tous Néokantiens”: Foucault, Lukács, and the Critique of Social Forms

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

Postdoc position: employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho...

PhD and postdoc positions available in HPS at the University of Copenhagen. The project is “Human Variables in Biodiversity Assessment” with Joeri Witteveen.

employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...

Two tenure track/ tenured positions--one Assist Prof & one Assoc Prof in Philosophy of Science &/or Technology at @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social

philjobs.org/job/show/29502

philjobs.org/job/show/29506

Areas include phil of social science, Native American philo, phil of race
#philsci #philtech #philjobs

CFA The Human Diversity Dilemma: Navigating the intersection of microbes, ethics & society
ISHPSSB Off-Year Workshop
Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa
October 1-3, 2025
Abstracts due Aug.18
Organizers @abigailnd.bsky.social & @msimang.bsky.social
#philsci #STS 🦠
More info ⤵️

Integrating and interpreting brain maps | doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...

Imaging and recording technologies make it possible to map multiple biological features of the brain. How can these features be conceptually integrated into a coherent understanding of brain structure and function? ⤵️

STS postdoc position open at Medical Museion

employment.ku.dk/all-vacancie...

RIP #histsci Margaret Rossiter, who coined term Matilda Effect
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margare...
#philsci #feministsky

We already know that overselling findings and “story over substance” are a threat to scientific knowledge production.

I’m extremely worried that the massive restructuring of science funding will reproduce the same hype-dependent dynamic for research.

Different disciplines handle the division of labor between theory and experiment. Some fields have dedicated theoreticians who hardly ever do experiments (and vice versa). Others divide it less strongly or not at all.

Why is this?

'To determine whether a screening truly works, we have to measure not survival time but mortality. Did fewer people die of cancer in the screened group? This is the outcome that really matters. Yet demonstrating such a benefit is slow, arduous work (...) you must wait for the final end point: death'

The plenary talk by Philip Ball, 24 July, #ISHPSSB2025, focusing on new biology - full house!
#hpbio #philsci #histstm #histsci #philbio #hbio #sts

This collection of foreign bodies removed from the oesophagus was donated to the museum in 1928.

Very excited to share our new work on gastruloids by the incredible Cat Triandafillou! We mapped gene expression across 26 individual gastruloids at single-cell resolution and discovered some pretty amazing patterns about how these "mini-embryos" organize themselves.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A Museum Contends with Its Collection of Human Remains www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

So sorry that Helen de Cruz has died. I have never met her in person, and don't know her work well. But during Covid, she suggested that we play music together (lute and voice). We only had a few online sessions but they made me appreciate what a brilliant and warm person she is. R.I.P. #philosophy

📣 My latest coauthored paper with Wendy Parker "Understanding Data Uncertainty" is finally forthcoming in /Studies in History & Philosophy of Science/:
philarchive.org/rec/BOKUDU
#philsci #philsky 🧪 #Data

Cell death and cancer: Metabolic interconnections www.cell.com/cell-report...