Losing Exeter philosophers of science would be devastating to our field and to the international standing of U.K. universities. Please help us publicise this letter and put pressure to the Exeter execs. Their work as teachers and researchers is irreplaceable #philsci #HigherEd

British Society for the Philosophy of Science@thebsps.bsky.social · 4w ago

We have published an open letter to the University of Exeter Executive Board expressing our concerns about proposed redundancies. Read it here: www.thebsps.org/news/open-le...

We have published an open letter to the University of Exeter Executive Board expressing our concerns about proposed redundancies. Read it here: www.thebsps.org/news/open-le...

Open Letter to University of Exeter Executive Board regarding proposed redundancies

- BSPS

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LSE student Rebecca Dreier wins this year's Philosophy of Memory prize for her now forthcoming article "The deep connections between consciousness and 'episodic-like' memory in animals". Her work is generally excellent but I ain't read this one yet, so I'm looking forward! phil-mem.org/prize.php

"I used an LLM to help me write, but it was just to polish the style and grammar" is something you've probably come across, or done yourself. Many conferences and journals and teachers are ok with this. But does it...? Just focus on the style and grammar...?

death is so so weird one minute they were there all the time the next they're just not but everything else looks the same and you spend half your time wondering if you're crazy and imagined them being there all along

Bad day to be an LSE philosopher

@lastpositivist.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Mine are, maybe yours are just better than mine.

Some dates for your diary: My research group will host the next PAMBA bi-annual meeting at @philoswarwick.bsky.social on April 27th-29th next year. Additionally, @giuliapalazzolo.bsky.social will host a one day one workshop on animal/evolutionary syntax at Warwick on April 26th next year.

Philosophy of Animal Minds and Behavior Association@pamba.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Wondering when the next Philosophy of Animal Minds and Behavior Association meeting will be? PAMBA 2027 will be at the University of Warwick on April 27-29, 2027. Confirmed keynotes: Steve Butterfill, Marta Halina, Susana Monsó @martahalina.bsky.social @susanamonso.com Stay tuned for CFP!

Wondering when the next Philosophy of Animal Minds and Behavior Association meeting will be? PAMBA 2027 will be at the University of Warwick on April 27-29, 2027. Confirmed keynotes: Steve Butterfill, Marta Halina, Susana Monsó @martahalina.bsky.social @susanamonso.com Stay tuned for CFP!

It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way

Can chimpanzees prepare for mutually exclusive possibilities individually or collectively? Check out our new paper in Phil Trans @royalsociety.org, led by @drelizabethwarren.bsky.social, and funded by @templetonworld.bsky.social! And stay tuned for the next paper, clarifying the mechanism!

Elizabeth Warren@drelizabethwarren.bsky.social · 5mo ago

New paper alert! 📢 Out now, fully #openaccess, in a special issue of Phil Trans on the evolution of collective intelligence (1/4) royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...

Plato tells us that there is but one Jason Statham movie, which we perceive as many due to our inability to access true knowledge in the realm of the forms

Once had a masters student tell me, apparently concerned, that they were the only one in their cohort not applying for PhDs. I said, attempting to make them feel better, 'well, it's not all it's cracked up to be'. They snorted derisively and said 'it's not cracked up to be much'.

Harriet Taylor Mill officially recognised as co-author of 'On Liberty'! dailynous.com/2026/03/19/o...

“On Liberty” Now Officially Has Two Authors - Daily Nous

An edition of On Liberty published this month is the first to officially name Harriet Taylor Mill as a co-author alongside John Stuart Mill. The new volume is edited by Piers Norris Turner (Ohio State...

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*pinches bridge of nose* #ohgodsherewegoagain #animalstudies #STS #scicomm #histSTM link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Building a Public Controversy

This chapter will focus on the interaction between ‘backstage’ policy debates over badger/bTB and the increasingly noisy and visible ‘frontstage’ of the controversy. It will re...

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Ed Davey@eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 6mo ago

Winston Churchill helped defeat fascism in Europe. He deserves better than being replaced by a badger 🦡

Wallace and Gromit: The Wrong Trousers is very good, actually.

Wow.

Dr Keith Wilson 💭@keithwilson.eu · 6mo ago

In a mock Turing-style test in my #Philosophy of Mind & #AI class, students posed #Gemini an ethical dilemma concerning assisted suicide. Not only did the chatbot argue that the (fictional) person in the scenario should be euthanised, it provided a list of instructions to bring this about. #AIEthics

FULLY FUNDED PHDs IN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY I'm looking for *two* PhD students to join my ERC project on refugee-led approaches to displacement justice. The positions are funded for four years, and you get to join our lovely community in Bristol. Please share widely! philjobs.org/job/show/30997

Not gonna lie: much less exciting story than the headline made it sound

⚛️ Do molecules have structure? Yesterday, @vanessaseifert.bsky.social and Alexander Franklin delivered the BSPS Popper Prize lecture and talked about their award winning research. 📹 Lecture recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1Sa... #PhilSci @aliboyle.bsky.social @thebsps.bsky.social

⏰ Next week! @aliboyle.bsky.social @thebsps.bsky.social @vanessaseifert.bsky.social #PhilSci #Philosophy #Popper

LSE Philosophy@lsephilosophy.bsky.social · 8mo ago

📣 Join us for the inaugural BSPS #Popper Prize lecture, delivered by philosophers of science Alexander Franklin and @vanessaseifert.bsky.social. 🗓️ Wednesday 25 February, 6.30pm - 8pm 📍 LSE Campus and online 💻 Register now to attend in-person or online! More: www.lse.ac.uk/events/molec...

In case you need a distraction from... *gestures broadly at everything* here's a cool 🚨NEW PREPRINT🚨: Philosopher of medicine Cristian Saborido and I tackle the question of whether animals engage in medical practices. Spoiler alert: we think they very much do👇🧵 1/20

www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...

A bonobo tea party: Study shows humans aren't the only species that can pretend

Researchers offered a bonobo named Kanzi imaginary juice and grapes, presenting the tests as a kind of make-believe tea party. Kanzi could play along, they found.

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If there was any justice in the world, tennis elbow would be more commonly known as knitter’s elbow. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

hey scientists, have you seen a cool paper recently that didn't get enough attention? let me know! I'm always looking for new studies to cover and would love to hear from you👇

David Attenborough [whispering]: “Like a grain of sand in a vast desert, the predator blends seamlessly into its environment, nearly imperceptible to the naked eye.”

Send help have become trapped by this AI animal alphabet source: www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfu...

I once had an anaesthesiologist reply ‘nothing philosophical about this [anaesthesia]; it’s pure science’. Sadly he said this just as he was giving me a general anaesthetic, so I only got as far as ‘um, actually -‘ before losing consciousness. When I came to he was nowhere to be seen, the coward.

my favorite thing about the benoit blanc movies is that they aren't really about benoit blanc. he is not grappling with demons from his past. we are not getting flashbacks to the husband whose murder he never solved. he just shows up and does his job like mary poppins for homicides