I just gave a talk on interdisciplinary yesterday that features a call for interdisciplinary people and not just diverse teams of disciplinary types. Today I read this essay with delight. Viva antedisciplinarity. journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Diagrammatic reasoning: Abstraction, interaction, and insight: www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour... (open here: pure.au.dk/ws/files/952...)

Riccardo Fusaroli@fusaroli.eurosky.social · 4d ago

here we go again. I write the grant application text. I make a conceptual plot. The conceptual plot immediately makes an obvious gap evident. Sigh! back to the drawing (writing?) board. It's not as if I wrote extensively on how diagrams are active forms of thinking...

Interdisciplinary research is great and necessary, and also has consistently lower funding success www.nature.com/articles/nat... #academiclabourmarket #academia #research

Someone asked me how many monitors a theoretical physicist has on their desk. They guessed 3. I said “One, but I always have dual-wield desk lamps because reading is hard with tiny journal column fonts.” Totem of your spirit animal (mine is Figment) optional. #physics #researchlife #academicsky

How do philosophers and scientists of mind actually work together, and where does the collaboration break down? ISPSM is launching In Conversation, a new online series that aims to bring philosophers and scientists together to work through questions like these. 📅 23 Oct 2026, 1pm BST/8am EDT

Question: what is the difference between a “logic” and an “algorithm”? If I have a “logic of discovery” versus an “algorithm for discovery“ how are they different? I want to give summary bullet points to students in a course. But we don’t use these concepts in physics. #philsci #scisci #metasci

Too many of us share this experience. (+1) If you haven’t seen this Instagram post from Hassan Ihssan at the Perimeter Institute on how much what we hear as students and say as professors affects us as scientists it’s worth a read. #academicsky #physics #scisci www.instagram.com/p/DdjtEI8lm2...

Hassan Ihssan on Instagram: "Science requires criticism, evidence and accountability. But we should be able to challenge an idea without humiliating the person who expressed it. A culture terrified of...

1,651 likes, 25 comments - hassan.ihssan on September 21, 2026: "Science requires criticism, evidence and accountability. But we should be able to challenge an idea without humiliating the person who ...

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What a real AI-free, human-generated logo looks like when you start your own science business. The painter’s tape cost me extra. Still, totally worth it. Janky but genuine.

I found much of this compelling, particularly, "Our collective rate of progress will be determined by how well our infrastructure helps us verify, filter, continuously synthesize, and even find surprise from the firehose." www.shishyko.com/supercritica...

Researchers across the country are turning to side hustles to fund their work. Behind the cuts sits a bigger shift: whether American science can still sustain durable research capacity. @lindseydcameron.bsky.social and I examine the stakes in a new piece @science.org: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Daniel Blumstein recently sat in a Colorado meadow waiting for yellow-bellied marmots to appear, as the ecologist and evolutionary biologist had done many times before, the New York Times reported. Bu...

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3 years after publishing my book 'Representational Change and the Use of Metaphors in Problem Solving', this week it has finally become open access www.taylorfrancis.com/reader/downl... I had a thread about it on Tw*r, but I've long since deleted that account, so let me say a few words here: 1/13

Methods in the Philosophy of Science: A User's Guide, edited by the inestimable @phieveigl.bsky.social (and me!), has 27 chapters from super-cool philosophers of science explaining how they do their thing, and is now open access! Our baby is free! #philsci direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edi...

Methods in the Philosophy of Science: A User's Guide

A guidebook to methods and methodology, encouraging deeper engagement across the philosophy of science and beyond.The last twenty years have seen multiple

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You know you’ve being doing research and Minecraft too long when searching computer files for a journal article you swear you downloaded five years ago sounds like digging through a shulker monster. #researchlife #minecraft

I’m looking for good quotes about the reality of scientific discovery from everyday scientists. Preferably something they said in a talk (but in a paper is ok too). Or you can riff live. Hit me with your best ones! #science #discovery #philsci #histsci #physics

Any history buffs out there know when and where was the first use of the word “discovery” re: a scientific finding? Been looking at old dictionaries and learned it used to be used to mean uncover info as a spy. Now I picture scientists as peeping Toms. Awkward. #histsci #lexicographer

Aloha Bluesky! I'm Bernadette, founder of The Insightful Scientist. We help researchers use scientific discovery as a force for good. Also, we’re based in Hawai’i. Happy to join researchers and thinkers here. What discoveries are on your mind right now? #scisci #philsci #histsci #citsci #metasci