As Editors-in-Chief of the EJPS, we organized our first Editorial Retreat together with Sam Fletcher (Oxford) to discuss editorial procedures but also challenges arising from the use of AI in a completely new publishing landscape together with our wonderful Associate Editors. They do the hard work.

Even significant corrections of published papers are not adequately signalled to users. Our paper with @wytskehepkema.bsky.social and Frédérique Bordignon provides an overview and identifies the room for improvement. Collaboration of @isis-radboud.bsky.social and LISIS. dx.doi.org/10.1002/leap...

The Limited Communication of Corrections to Users of Scholarly Platforms

Formal corrections of research publications should be clearly communicated to users of the scholarly literature, especially when these corrections have consequences for reported knowledge. However, t...

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🎉Paper out! The communication of corrections to readers is limited in the various platforms through which we interact with the literature. @freddie2310.bsky.social @willemhalffman.bsky.social @nanobubbles.bsky.social @isis-radboud.bsky.social

The Limited Communication of Corrections to Users of Scholarly Platforms

Formal corrections of research publications should be clearly communicated to users of the scholarly literature, especially when these corrections have consequences for reported knowledge. However, t...

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In this OA article, Philippe van Basshuysen and I address three fundamental challenges for predictive policy advice (and some of their interrelations): #philsci #policyadvice link.springer.com/chapter/10.1... @mapsproject.bsky.social

Three Problems for Predictive Policy Advice

Scientific policy advice has become a key input for rational decision-making. In this article, we address three fundamental challenges predictive policy advice is faced with and that are inextricably ...

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📰 Our team member Willem Halffman has co-authored a preprint on the market for paid peer review! 🛋️ Read the @nature.com coverage below by @miryamnaddaf.bsky.social, preprint is available at doi.org/10.31222/osf... @isis-radboud.bsky.social @willemhalffman.bsky.social

Nature@nature.com · 2w ago

Freelance peer-review jobs through third-party companies raise practical and ethical questions. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

😎 The excellent digging work by ISiS' Amna Pottarath together with Serge Horbach, is covered in a nice piece in Nature by journalist Miryam Naddaf! #STS #iscientificintegrity

Nature@nature.com · 2w ago

Freelance peer-review jobs through third-party companies raise practical and ethical questions. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Tomorrow for ISiS Colloquium, We will have Natalia Calderon to give a talk titled “Visions of nature in Peru”. If you’d like to join online, send us a message. www.ru.nl/en/people/ca...

N.E. Calderon Moya Mendez (Natalia) MSc | Radboud University

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‘#CA125’ By studying Instagram accounts, Jill van der Kamp, Lotte Krabbenborg and Wieke Betten show how biomedical knowledge is constantly mobilised by women living with incurable cancer to juggle between everyday life and illness. #sciencecomm @jscicom.bsky.social jcom.sissa.it/article/pubi...

`My #CA125 biomarker has halved!': how women with incurable cancer give meaning to biomedical knowledge on Instagram

To understand how people give meaning to biomedical knowledge in their everyday lives, we studied 60 Instagram accounts of women living with incurable cancer. What sets them apart is that, although they are incurably ill, they sometimes live relatively long lives because of scientific developments. Thus, illness experiences become entangled with biomedical knowledge. We found that women discuss and interpret, for instance, test results or therapy modifications by using biomarkers as hashtags, e.g. #CA125. Biomedical knowledge is constantly mobilised and interpreted to juggle between living everyday lives and being incurably ill for a relatively long time. We also found how the visual element of Instagram allowed the women to make sense of their ever-changing realities, e.g. bodily changes. Studying spontaneous engagement with science on social media enables the perspectives of people who are not able to participate in organised public engagement, e.g. because of illness, to still be heard.

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Preparing and looking forward to a joint presentation with @karimbschir.bsky.social as part of a workshop on ‘Philosophy, Evidence and Policy-making’ at the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. #philsci #sciencepolicy #policyadvice #evidencebasedpolicy philevents.org/event/show/1...

🥁 Call for Applications: ‘ISiS Research Visiting Scientist Programme’. Residencies would need to take place before the end of 2026. Our institute will host a maximum of four researchers. More info: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/9nk4a... #philsci #ELSA #ELSI #STS #ecology

🎂 Check out this special Issue of *Technophany*, edited by Yuk Hui and Pieter Lemmens, marking the centenary of Jean-François Lyotard’s birth: technophany.philosophyandtechnology.network/issue/view/l... #philsky #philtech #Lyotard

Technophany, A Journal for Philosophy and Technology Vol. 4 No. 2 (2025): Lyotard and the 21st Century

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Upcoming keynote by our very own Pieter Lemmens: The Anthropocene as Deinocene. The Contemporary Planetary Crisis and the Monstrous (Non-)Nature of Technology www.uc.pt/fluc/ief/tec... #philtech

🔊 New publication on medical ghostwriting! Bernisson, Maud, and Willem Halffman. ‘Imaginaries of Writing and Pain: The Backstage of a Ghostwritten Paper’. Social Studies of Science, 7, September 2026: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #STS

Why do so many processes in nature run in only one direction? Our colleagues will find out! @rcnp-nijmegen.bsky.social #philsci #philphy www.ru.nl/en/about-us/...

Grant for Radboud research into why nature does not run backwards | Radboud University

Scientists at Radboud University received the John Templeton Foundation to investigate one of the fundamental puzzles of physics: why do so many processes in nature run in only one direction?

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Why eat alone? 🥪 Come join us for our lunch colloquium series instead! #STS #philsci #ecology

New article out by our colleague Serge Horbach, together with @Nicki Lisa Cole (Know Center, Graz). doi.org/10.1080/0898...

Radical reproducibility, real constraints: An autoethnography of open and transparent research from the inside

This paper presents a three-year longitudinal autoethnographic study of the TIER2 project, an international, interdisciplinary consortium committed to “radical reproducibility” through open researc...

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Now online and free to download: Klaas Landsman’s book, Philosophy of Mathematical Physics (CUP Element series) #philsci #physics www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Our paper “Scientific Understanding Across Disciplines: In Varietate Concordia?”, has been accepted for publication in the @jgps.bsky.social. Many thanks to @henkderegt.bsky.social for leading this project, and to all the co-authors for the excellent work. It was a lot of fun working on this paper!

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British Society for the Philosophy of Science@thebsps.bsky.social · 2mo 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...

Register for “Philosophers of Science at Work: Found in Translation.” This session will be focused on the problem of translating your skills and experience to facilitate the development of job application materials. The webinar will be held August 19th from 2pm - 3pm (EDT). forms.gle/a6Zzy9QPKWZA...

Philosophers of Science at Work - Found in Translation

Building on the success of our first webinar in June, “Philosophers of Science at Work: Exploring Non-Academic Careers”, we are excited to announce the second session: “Philosophers of Science at Work...

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Laatste update.

It’ll be a little while yet before it’s finished, but next week Karim and I will present the idea in an organised session at the #SPSP2026 conference, together with Federica Russo, Raphael Scholl & @henkderegt.bsky.social — something we’re very much looking forward to! (Thursday, 1.30 pm) #philsci

On July 3rd, we were on the yearly excursion for our students in the 'Science in Society' programme, helping SiS students to explore their future job opportunities. This year we visited the Next Nature Museum, (nextnature.org/en) getting a tour of the museum ....

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The planet is changing. Climate change, artificial intelligence, urbanization. Human presence is everywhere. Next Nature tells the story of humans changing their world with the fruits of knowledge, de...

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Final colloquium for this season: Speaker: Jill van der Kamp Topic: Public participation in the development of a digital home-based screening programme for chronic diseases Today at 12.30. If you’d like to join, send us a message.

We're super proud to share that our colleague, Jill van der Kamp has been awarded the Recognition and Rewards Prize by Radboud Young Academy. Shoutout to @wytskehepkema.bsky.social & Irma Arts for the nomination ✨ #recognitionandrewards #ISiSColleagues

For tomorrow’s ISiS colloquium, we will have Inge Dekker and Dr Laurens Landeweerd to give a talk titled “Misshaping Academic Identity: Guidance or Reproduction of the Academic System”. If you’d like to join, dm us!

Very good news for the research-on-research community! #STS #philsci #metascience #sociologyofscience

Research on Research Association@roration.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We're excited to launch J·ROR, the Journal of Research on Research. A new open-access home for research on how research is funded, organised, conducted, communicated, and evaluated. Our first editorial: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #ResearchOnResearch #MetaScience #OpenScience #STS

For today’s ISiS colloquium, we will have @willemhalffman.bsky.social to give a talk titled “Misidentified Selves”. Curious to know more? send us a message if you’d like to join online.

Last week, ISiS went on a wonderful outing that included a survival run and archery! 🏹 Many thanks to *NSSV Fel* for making this possible – nssvfel.nl 🏃‍♀️

Dr. Bernice Bovenkerk from Wageningen University and Research will join us for ISiS colloquium today, to give a talk on “Fishy Ethics”. Curious? Send us a message if you’d like to join! www.rda.nl/personen/raa...

Dr. Bernice Bovenkerk | Raad voor Dierenaangelegenheden

Bernice Bovenkerk, Raadslid

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