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Steven Richard Douglas French is an emeritus professor of philosophy at University of Leeds.

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by Steven French

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Two of the winners of this year’s Nobel Prize for physics, Michel Devoret & John Martinis, were awarded the Fritz London Memorial Prize in 2014. Which I mention apropos of nothing other than London being one of my personal Heroes of Quantum Mechanics!
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Fritz London Memorial Prize
2025 London Prize winners are announced!The Fritz London Memorial Prize Selection Committee is proud to announce the winners of this year’s Fritz London Memorial Prize (in alphabetic order):
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I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
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Image by @cutfingers.bsky.social #writingcommunity
Poster features a fractured skull and a chain link border. Micro publisher of weird fiction aiming to amplify working class voices in the face of corruption. www.infestedpublishing.com
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Still puzzled by the debate on organismal agency? Our edited collection brings historians, philosophers, and scientists into dialogue—offering a wide array of perspectives. An affordable paperback edition will be out at the end of the month! www.routledge.com/The-Riddle-o... #HPS #evobio #philsky
Book cover of "The Riddle of Organismal Agency: New Historical and Philosophical Reflections" (Routledge, 2024). The book belongs to the "History and Philosophy of Biology" series. The editors are Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda, Jan Baedke, Guido I. Prieto, and Gregory Radick. The design features a geometric pattern of interlocking, multicolored triangles and rectangular prisms in shades of red, yellow, teal, white, and pink. The Routledge logo appears in the lower right corner.
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Breaking News: The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis for their work in quantum mechanics.
Nobel Prize in Physics Is Awarded for Work in Quantum Physics
The prize was awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis.
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benjaminpope.bsky.social
it's actually not two Nobels for Josephson junctions, just one that tunnelled over a gap of 52 years
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Reposted by: Steven French, Evelyne de Leeuw, Kris Inwood

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#JobFairy - if you really are looking to get out, get away, the University of the South Pacific is looking for a historian. 5 years in the first instance, looks like mostly remote teaching though?
recruitment.usp.ac.fj/job/e57a20fd...
LLS006-Assistant Lecturer/Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in History - University of the South Pacific - The University of the South Pacific | Careers
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Are dimensions fundamental to the universe or just a mathematical framework for what we observe? | iai.tv/video/dimensions-of-the-unknown

Join Professor Karen Crowther, Professor Raphael Bousso, and Professor Dean Rickles as they debate the dimensions of the unknown.

#philsci ⚛️🧪
Dimensions of the unknown
We think of dimensions as central to reality. The three dimensions of space -- up and down, forwards and backwards, left and right -- we take for granted. Some hold time as a fourth. But critics maintain dimensions aren't fundamental to the universe, an...
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Reposted by: Steven French, Robert W. Wallace, Michela Massimi , and 1 more

philsci.bsky.social
✨Don't forget✨ PSA Office Hours are back! Join us this Thursday, October 9 at 12 PM EST with S. Andrew Schroeder. Sign up at the link below to save your spot!

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aphilosopher.bsky.social
#PHILOSOPHY PLAYTIME! This week we play with the idea ‘under what circumstances should we idolise someone?’

18.30-20.00, Wednesday 8 October at EH9|Espresso, Perth Rd, #Dundee
£6 cash on door, complimentary (decaf) coffee
All curious minds welcome!
Small red card with under what circumstances should we idolise someone?’ handwritten on it
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by Madeleine Pownall — Reposted by: Steven French

maddipow.bsky.social
Love the look of this Call for Papers in Perspectives on Psychological Science: "Psychology in 2125 – A Century Forward"

Editor: Arturo E. Hernandez
What will psychological science look like in the year 2125?

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Call for Papers: Psychology in 2125 – A Century Forward
Editor: Arturo E. HernandezWhat will psychological science look like in the year 2125?This special issue of Perspectives on Psychological Science invites contributors to imagine the long arc of our di...
www.psychologicalscience.org
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Reposted by: Steven French, Anna O. Law, Ashish Arora , and 2 more

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In the latest issue of #HOPOS Caterina Agostini reviews Fabrizio Baldassarri and Craig Martin, eds.: Andrea Cesalpino and Renaissance Aristotelianism: Natural Philosophy in the Sixteenth Century.

Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....
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Pixel Scroll 10/5/25 Many Are Scrolled But Few Are Pixeled
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Pixel Scroll 10/5/25 Many Are Scrolled But Few Are Pixeled
(1) TEXAS SCHOOL DISTRICT REMOVES YOLEN BOOK. “Texas school district yanks Holocaust book ‘The Devil’s Arithmetic’ over ‘DEI content’” reports The Times of Israel. A school district in central Texa…
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iai.tv
The received view in physics is that the direction of time is provided by the second law of thermodynamics, according to which the passage of time is measured by ever-increasing disorder in the universe. | https://bit.ly/4mpjriZ

This view, Julian Barbour argues, is wrong.

#philsci ⚛️ 🧪
Time is the increase of order, not disorder | Julian Barbour
The received view in physics is that the direction of time is provided by the second law of thermodynamics, according to which the passage of time is measured by ever-increasing disorder in the univer...
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alihaydor.bsky.social
Greta Thunberg for Nobel Prize
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by Steven French

srdfrench.bsky.social
Millions of us are still struggling to access affordable NHS dental care. I’ve signed 38 Degrees’ petition demanding Keir Starmer properly funds NHS dentistry now, will you join me? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/fu...
Save NHS dentistry now!
I just signed the 38 Degrees petition calling on the Government to properly fund NHS dentistry. Millions of us are still struggling to access affordable dental care, so now the Government needs to stu...
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Ursula K. Le Guin is with us still: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
The best recent poetry – review roundup
So Far So Good by Ursula K Le Guin; Thrums by Thomas A Clark; Sculling by Sophie Dumont; Magadh by Shrikant Verma
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iai.tv
What does beauty have to do with science? | https://bit.ly/4gm1LDm

Professor Milena Ivanova argues that science does in fact use beauty to trigger feelings of awe and wonder, but beauty can also be a guide to scientific discovery.

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James Webb images were made to look beautiful | Milena Ivanova
The recent images from the James Webb Telescope were deliberately made to look beautiful by NASA. The telescope itself can’t even detect visible light – the colours of the images were chosen by the as...
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williamthomas.bsky.social
In this week's AIP History Weekly Edition, we look at Barbara Hof's new article in BJHS on an unsuccessful push by British engineer John Adams to move @cern.bsky.social into fusion research. A footnote in CERN's history, the episode had lasting effects on the fusion landscape.
October 3, 2025
Article spotlight: Barbara Hof on CERN’s dalliance with fusion
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iai.tv
Is simplicity the path to truth, or a dangerous illusion? | https://bit.ly/3Wk95pX

Occam’s razor is often taken as a guiding principle of science and rational thought, but theoretical physicist Jim Al-Khalili argues that its appeal conceals a deeper problem.

#philsci ⚛️ 🧪
Occam's razor is leading cosmology astray | Jim Al-Khalili
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by Steven French

srdfrench.bsky.social
Former human rights lawyer now decides rights are merely ‘constraints’:
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Chris Rivers @chrisrivers50.bsky.social · 5d
Starmer named Articles 3 and 8 of the ECHR - protecting against torture and interference with private & family life - as key legal barriers in some rulings. He also spoke about the Refugee Convention & the Rights of the Child Convention as relevant constraints.

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Starmer signals tougher stance on interpreting human rights law - LabourList
Keir Starmer has said his government is prepared to revisit how international human rights law is applied in the UK, arguing that current interpretations have made it too difficult to deport some fore...
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natacha.bsky.social
The Starmer government is REALLY running scared of this petition, now at 2.75 million, to the extent that it has responded 3 months early, in a transparent attempt to spike it.

So please, under no circumstances should you sign it and share it widely. Starmer & his boss McSweeney would not like it.
Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards
We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.
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sadehormio.bsky.social
🌟 Call for Applications: Small Grants for Workshops in Social Ontology 🌟 The International Social Ontology Society is excited to announce the opening of our Small Grants program for 2026! We fund innovative workshops that advance research in social ontology: isos.wildapricot.org/page-18190
International Social Ontology Society - Applying for Small Grants for Workshops
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Reposted by: Steven French, Steve Peers

chrisrivers50.bsky.social
Starmer named Articles 3 and 8 of the ECHR - protecting against torture and interference with private & family life - as key legal barriers in some rulings. He also spoke about the Refugee Convention & the Rights of the Child Convention as relevant constraints.

labourlist.org/2025/10/huma...
Starmer signals tougher stance on interpreting human rights law - LabourList
Keir Starmer has said his government is prepared to revisit how international human rights law is applied in the UK, arguing that current interpretations have made it too difficult to deport some fore...
labourlist.org
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brianaltano.bsky.social
GUY WHO JUST CAME BACK FROM DOING THE JABBA'S PALACE COMEDY FESTIVAL:

You know, I gotta say they're really great in there, they're just like us. I thought it was only gonna be women in chains and a trapdoor monster they feed slaves to but like, they also have a band that plays cool music.
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Thank you to The Royal Institute of Philosophy (@triphilosophy.bsky.social) and the department of Philosophy @sussex.ac.uk for the invitation to speak at this exciting event next week 🎙️💡🤖
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Two-year postdoc w/ Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science! Scholars in all areas of #philsci, inclusive of philosophical approaches to logic&math, are eligible. This is understood broadly to include issues in the history&practice of particular sciences.Deadline 5 Dec 2025.
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Two-Year Post-Doctoral Associate, Philosophy of Science, University of Minnesota - PhilJobs:JFP
An international database of jobs for philosophers
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karenattiah.bsky.social
Washington Post dismantled the platform Jamal wrote on. Discarded the fellowship they created in his memory.

They fired me unjustly for speaking the truth.

But I’ll never stop talking about my friend, writer, and amazing human, Jamal Khashoggi.

RIP, Jamal.

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Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post, and the Cost of Speaking Out
As Saudi Arabia hosts comedians and courts gamers, the silenced voice of Jamal Khashoggi still echoes.
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