Exciting week in Cambridge ☀️ #spsp2026 Polishing slides for our talk on the @pdncambridge.bsky.social #cultureLab - “Philosophers and scientists in practice” with @anatoliikozlov.bsky.social Come practice with us Friday in session 6H. #philsci
Helene Scott
@hscottfordsmand.bsky.social
Philosophy-medicine-bodies | working on messy categories in clinical enquiry @STSucl | previously @camHPS & @ClareHall | PhD from Medical Museion (@UCPH)
Our ECR/DPhil workshop tomorrow (Thursday18)+Friday19 June. Keynote by Helene Scott-Fordsmand (UCL) on Friday morning: Fat tissue and the collapse of the subject-object divide in anatomical dissection practices torch.ox.ac.uk/event/object... @uehiro.ox.ac.uk @torchoxford.bsky.social
Objectivity and Subjectivity in Medicine
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#philsky #philsci Come teach with me! 0.5 FTE for 2 years to start with
UCL Science and Technology Studies (STS)@stsucl.bsky.social · 2mo agoWe’re hiring! We are recruiting for a Lecturer in Philosophy of Science to join our Department from September 2026. For more info and to apply, please visit: bit.ly/3Q7do8w Closing date 21-Jun-2026. #WeAreSTS #Science #Philosophyofscience
Come be my colleague!!
UCL Science and Technology Studies (STS)@stsucl.bsky.social · 3mo agoWe’re hiring! We are recruiting for a Lectureship in Global History of Science to join our Department from September 2026. For more info and to apply, please visit: https://bit.ly/3R94V58 Closing Date: 9th June 2026 #WeAreSTS #Science #Historyofscience #Globalscience
Term is over and it's writing time!🔥 If anyone wants ✍️company - and ✍️celebration vibes - I'm joining @valeriaramirez.bsky.social for @clarehallcambridge.bsky.social writing marathon. It's a fundraising event to celebrate 60 years of CH, but donations are optional www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sixty-hour...
a black and white photo of a man with the words now we shall do some writing below him
Alt: a black and white photo of a man in an old-fashioned cape stepping forward to announce. Caption: now we shall do some writing.
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What's common between the creativity tests and meat-imitating food? Social interactions and formal modelling? Trembling Earth and a trembling body? Our suggestion is: performativity. @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social @gluzmania.bsky.social @sshmedicine.bsky.social and others.
Representing, Reshaping Reenacting.
Anatolii Kozlov, (Université de Genève) What is common between the creativity tests and meat-imitating food? Between social interactions and formal modelling? Between the trembling Earth and a trem…
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2 year Postdoctoral Research Fellow opportunity at the University of St Andrews on my project "Aesthetic Values and the Social Dimensions of Science" www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... #philosophy #philsci
Research Fellow - AR3233
Research Fellow - AR3233, Unit: Philosophical, Anthropological and Film Studies Salary: Grade 6 / £38,784-£42,254 pa Full time Fixed term: 24 months, <p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Application...
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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. buff.ly/MhR4PcK
Two-Year Post-Doctoral Associate, Philosophy of Science, University of Minnesota - PhilJobs:JFP
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Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science@mcps-philsci.bsky.social · 10mo agoTwo-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. buff.ly/MhR4PcK
We're coming up on philosophy PhD application season. In case it is helpful for you or your students, I have a guide to this process, developed over the years of working with SFU MA students. Let me know if you have questions or suggestions #philsky #philsci www.hkandersen.com/applying-for...
Applying for Ph.d. programs
These notes were developed over the years for the annual "Applying to a PhD program" session for Simon Fraser University Philosophy MA students. This offers a perspective on how to prioritize your...
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#HPS program at the University of Copenhagen invites applications for Postdoc in History and Philosophy of Science as part of research project Human Variables in Biodiversity Assessment (PI: Joeri Witteveen): employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho... #philsky #PhilJobs #philsci Deadline is November 7, 2025.
Post-doc position in History and Philosophy of Science
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#PhilJobs Dept Philosophy @ Stanford University AOS: Philosophy of Physics (understood broadly to include all physical sciences, complexity, etc.), Philosophy of Science AOC: Open Open rank: tenure-track Assistant Prof, tenured Associate Prof, or Full Prof Deadline: November 1 #PhilSci #philsky
Stanford | Faculty Positions: Details - Open Rank Faculty Position in Philosophy of Physics
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New paper out jointly with the formidable @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social in a volume edited by Pietro Gori honouring Mary Hesse: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Inference and Negative Analogy: Lessons on Analogical Reasoning from Clinical Medical Practice
Mary Hesse’s work on the role of analogical reasoning in science has set the disciplinary standard. Her classic Models and Analogies in Science (1966) spearheaded the emergence of the philosophy...
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🎉 can’t wait to dig into this book - and to add it to my syllabus for philosophers-to-be. The glimpses I’ve seen are full of exciting ideas, and I’m sure the full thing is even richer. #sts #philsci 🙌 to @adrian-currie.bsky.social and @phieveigl.bsky.social for pulling this into existence
Adrian Currie@adrian-currie.bsky.social · 11mo agoBook launch for “Methods in the Philosophy of Science: a user’s guide”. Ftf in Exeter and online on the 29th of Sept feat Sophie Veigl, Kerry McKenzie, Hasok Chang, and me. It should be fun! (the book will be open access in July, contact me in the meantime) www.exeter.ac.uk/events/detai... #philsci
“There is a whole world of unheard voices and unsought inspiration waiting to inject freshness and novelty into philosophers.” ✨ Yes ✨ #philsky
@lastpositivist.bsky.social · 11mo agoInteresting interview with @axdouglas.bsky.social re his general take on philosophy and what not. www.contralytic.co.uk/conversation...
Today we’re taking the #CultureLab to @britishacademy.bsky.social - to set a tone of connection and joyful energy at the BA ECRN National Postdoctoral Conference ✨ celebrating the wonderful promise of early career, and creating support networks for the difficult bits. @anatoliikozlov.bsky.social
Start-of-year awayday with @stsucl.bsky.social - we’ll kick off at Tate Modern, discussing the relations between sts and art, before we head into workshopping AI issues and large scale teaching formats ☀️
Adrian Research Fellowship, a 3-4 year paid Postdoc in any area of philosophy at Darwin College, Cambridge U, invites applications if w/in 3 yrs PhD. Submit app.casc.cam.ac.uk/fas_live/dar... by 3 October 2025. www.darwin.cam.ac.uk/vacancies/ www.darwin.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/u... #PhilSci #PhilJobs
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This looks like an exciting new steering committee - not least because I spot several members with an interesting in the intersection between qualitative empirical methods and #philsci 👀✨
European Philosophy of Science Association@epsaphilsci.bsky.social · 11mo ago🗳️ We are happy to announce that the following members have been elected to the Steering Committee: - Catarina Dutilh Noaves (President) - Julie Zahle - Saana Jukola - Magdalena Malecka - Samuel Schindler - Simon Lohse - Joanna Karolina Malinowska Congratulations to them! 👏
For anyone interested in her early ideas, @loadofbunk.bsky.social just published an exciting chapter on this 🙌 bsky.app/profile/load...
Helene Scott@hscottfordsmand.bsky.social · 11mo agoToday, working from Whipple Library in Cambridge to do research on Mary Hesse. Here is her first book (1954) addressing the compatibility of science and religion, with early thoughts on operationalism and models - pushing against established positivist accounts of science. #philsci #hps
Returning to online life to share a photo from my new office - 1st day at @stsucl.bsky.social ❤️🔥 Can’t wait to get into teaching and research and wonderful conversations in this place!
The Department of Science & Technology Studies at Cornell University invites applications for a two-year Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the area of “Science, Technology, and Governance.” #HPS #STS #PhilJobs academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30301
Cornell University, Society for the Humanities
Job #AJO30301, WDR-00046364 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Science and Technology Studies, AY 2026-2028, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US
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Two tenure track/ tenured positions--one Assist Prof & one Assoc Prof in Philosophy of Science &/or Technology at @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social philjobs.org/job/show/29502 philjobs.org/job/show/29506 Areas include phil of social science, Native American philo, phil of race #philsci #philtech #philjobs
Assistant Professor - Philosophy of Science and/or Technology, University of Toronto - PhilJobs:JFP Assistant Professor - Philosophy of Science and/or Technology, University of Toronto
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Celebrating traces of the CultureLab at @pdncambridge.bsky.social with a mini exhibition of images from the Living Science performance 🥂🧬🥼🔬✨ #sciart @anatoliikozlov.bsky.social
International Philosophy of Medicine Online Reading group starts up again this week! This term we are focusing on articles rather than a monograph over several meetings Meetings are Weds at 5pm and Thurs at 9am UK time Join the group here: groups.google.com/g/philmed-rg/ Please share widely!
In silico clinical trials: concepts and early adoptions - PubMed
Innovations in information and communication technology infuse all branches of science, including life sciences. Nevertheless, healthcare is historically slow in adopting technological innovation, com...
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Had a wonderful afternoon yesterday, borrowing/testing a new format: Walking seminar discussing co-creation and #STS methods (🖇️Mol). My conversation path touched questions of extractivism, the problem of neat ideals of collaboration, and the always central “what for?” in methods.
The Walking Seminar
The Walking Seminar is an monthly walk, hosted by Annemarie Mol, during which we talk-walk about various issues concerning academic work. The idea is that talking-while-walking enhances thinking in wa...
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Valeria Ramirez, PhD@valeriaramirez.bsky.social · last yr.🌞 A sunny springlike walking seminar to #Grantchester: Is there a benefit to co-creation’s lack of specificity? / Who gets to tell the story? / Can you co-create the pathWay with the starts, the trees, the walkers / Ultreia! / #STSCambridgeNetwork #SCaN what a luxury! @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social
Excited to see more #PhilSci scholars employing diverse methodologies in their work. To that end, in our paper we used qualitative data analysis to understand the role of surprise in science. #aestheticsofscience #surprise #qualitativemethods link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Surprise in Science: A qualitative study - Erkenntnis
A growing literature in philosophy of science focuses on the role of surprise in scientific practice. The aesthetic dimension of science is also gaining momentum in very recent discussions. While surp...
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It’s fascinating to witness what theatre methods in the philosophy of science can do to improve scientists’ lives 🥼👨🔬👩🔬and work 🧪🧬🔬. These two👇🏼are doing incredible work, and we’ll be having them soon at @ifmcambridge.bsky.social Buns Talk. How lucky are we!
Anatolii Kozlov@anatoliikozlov.bsky.social · last yr.Last two Saturdays @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social and I worked with a group of creative postdocs from the PDN Dpt to devise an outreach performance for the @cambridgefestival.bsky.social. This Sat (22d), we will share our work with you! Come to PDN Dpt at 1 pm. CU there! (registration link below)
