Rachael Brown
@rachaelbrown.bsky.social
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Philosopher of Science. Director of Centre for Philosophy of the Sciences + Associate Professor at ANU and Editor-in-Chief at Biology in Philosophy. http://rachaelbrown.net
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This is good to hear (though it gives away just how long it is since I lived in Melbourne!!). Also I didn’t realise you had street photography as yet another string to your bow - such you multitalented lady!!!
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Meeting at the clocks on flinders st station steps in Melbourne before a day/night out. No phones or far too expensive to call for something so trivial.
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alexwitze.bsky.social
Several outlets have reported on agency cancellations of Springer Nature journal subscriptions in recent days. @maxkozlov.bsky.social has the latest today. The administration cites the journals as "junk science." www.nature.com/articles/d41... (2/3)🧪
Trump team axes contracts with publishing giant Springer Nature
The action comes as high-ranking US officials criticize top journals as ‘woke’ and ‘corrupt’.
www.nature.com
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fidlerfm.bsky.social
Expressions of interest in this Metascience PhD scholarship @unimelb are open now
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meerashar.bsky.social
This should be read by everyone who expresses an opinion on academia…
#academia #highered #auspol
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Spot on. @GraemeTurn2947

theage.com.au/national/netfl…#higherede#auspolol
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Very excited about the Call for Papers for the upcoming 2025 conference for the Australasian Association for History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science.

Come join us in sunny Brisbane QLD this December!! It is always a wonderful event.

#hps #histSTM #philsci #STS #metasci 🧪
aahpsss.bsky.social
Call for Papers - AAHPSSS Conference 2025

The 2025 AAHPSSS conference will be held in a hybrid format at the University of Queensland from Wednesday 3rd December to Friday 5th December.

Further details, including on submissions, can be found on our website:
aahpsss.net.au/conference/2...
2025 Conference
We are pleased to announce that the 2025 conference of the Australasian Association for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (AAHPSSS) will be held in a hybrid format at the Univer…
aahpsss.net.au
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Third annual Aust-NZ Philosophy of Biology Workshop this time at Mittagong! Fun times :-)
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I am also pleased to announce that Ellen Clarke (Leeds) and Charles Pence (Louvain) have agreed to join the editorial team as Associate Editors alongside our existing crew of Jay Odenbaugh (Lewis & Clark), Emily Parke (Auckland) and Marcel Weber (Geneva). Thank you for this service to our discipline
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So, I was appointed Editor-in-Chief at Biology & Philosophy in January. It is a huge honour and I am really proud to be the first philosopHer in the role. Thank you to Michael Weisberg, out going EiC, for all his hard work for the journal over many years - they are big shoes to fill.
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I'm back! I got off the twits a while back and have been enjoying the brain space so I'm not sure how much I will be on here, but nonetheless hello all!
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More reasons to be excited about AIMOS2023: Science writer StuartRitchie will explore the proliferation of low-quality studies and ways that #metascience can improve the reliability of scientific literature. bit.ly/aimos2023
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New here. Keen to connect with other #philsci folks.
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First post here! Hoping for a less hostile space than that which shall not be named.