Una 4a plaza abierta a concurso en el IIFs, UNAM. Esta en historia de la filosofía. Ojo acá: www.filosoficas.unam.mx/docs/2104/fi...
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Jordi Cat
@jordicat.bsky.social
science, philosophy, history, politics, art and so much else
Historic treasures only survive if every generation takes care of them in an unbroken chain. Amid my donations to improve and save lives in the present, I always feel it’s vital to make a few to protect the legacy of the past as well.
Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans@astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 2w agoHelp! Parton Community Council has 60 days to raise £70k to buy Parton Kirk (resting place of James Clerk Maxwell). They plan to turn it into a visitor centre celebrating our great hero! The other buyers could turn it into long-term storage 😬 Even £5 would help 🙏🧪⚛️ www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
Can AI spread like a virus and erode cognitive autonomy? Our new paper models how LLM adoption can cross tipping points, triggering runaway dependence and tech lock-in, suggesting routes to "cognitive immunization". arxiv.org/abs/2609.03344 @ruffini.bsky.social @francesca-castaldo.bsky.social
"The gap between science and practice may become its own kind of Tolstoyan tragedy if we do not have trustworthy intermediaries." Benjamin Santos Genta reviews Helen Pearson's "Beyond Belief": http://lareviewofbooks.org/article/beyond-belief-evidence-what-really-works-helen-pearson
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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On October 13, my book will officially be out into the world! Available open access from MIT Press, made possible in part by a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. mitpress.mit.edu/978026205474...
"A question hovers over the book’s conclusion: after 11,000 years of being data-driven, can we now finally drive data?" Lorraine Daston reviews Roopika Risam's "Data Empire": http://lareviewofbooks.org/article/data-empire-roopika-risam-information-organize-control-dominate
🧵 on our new forum, “How to Save Science.” Zeynep Pamuk, author of Politics and Expertise: How to Use Science in a Democratic Society, opens the discussion. Trump has killed the postwar social contract, she argues, but its demise was long in the making. To save science, we need democratic reforms.
How to Save Science
Trump has killed the postwar social contract, but its demise was long in the making. To protect science as a public good, we need a different approach.
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Boston Review@bostonreview.bsky.social · 4w agoOur forum “How to Save Science” is now online. Led by Zeynep Pamuk, with responses from @alondra.bsky.social @sbagen.bsky.social @jeremymberg.bsky.social @madeleineebaker.bsky.social @jamesowenweatherall.com @cbo.bsky.social @nataliebaviles.bsky.social @heatherdouglas.bsky.social + more
All social science core classes at the University of Chicago will transition to an “analog” approach for the upcoming academic year, restricting in-classroom technology use and banning AI-assisted writing and grading for students and professors
Sosc Core to Institute AI Ban, Technology-Free Classrooms This Fall
All social science Core classes will transition to an “analog” approach for the upcoming academic year, restricting in-classroom technology use and banning AI-assisted writing and grading for students...
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#Blog: Modern science is being reshaped from every direction. What it will take for science to keep serving as a trustworthy, globally accessible public good? https://council.science/blog/geopolitics-tech-strain-modern-science/
Most American students are already using A.I. to generate writing. I took a step back to ask: What does cognitive science tell us about what writing *does* for us? Is there a way to teach and learn alongside this technology without degrading skills? www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/u...
What Do Students Lose When They Stop Writing? (Gift Article)
Educators are worried that many students can no longer write essays without A.I. And it’s costing more than just grammar skills.
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Why much academic writing isn’t thinking. A response to Lavinia Marin
Why much academic writing isn’t thinking. A response to Lavinia Marin
Especially since the arrival of LLMs, there are quite a few pieces that claim “writing is thinking” or portray writing as thinking in a certain way (even nature featured a piece on it). The idea is…
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"We can't use your product if anyone knows it's your product because everyone hates your product" is maybe a sign that your company stinks
Bryan Toporek@btoporek.bsky.social · last mo.lmfaoooooo www.businessinsider.com/claude-users...
The Trump administration delayed a rule last year that could have sped up the effort to pinpoint the source of the cyclospora contamination. Experts say that food safety oversight in the U.S. has eroded overall. nyti.ms/4g9Ubxv
The magnum Carnap Handbook is out, with open access. link.springer.com/book/9783662...
Carnap-Handbuch
Dieses Open Access Buch widmet sich Leben und Wirkung von Rudolf Carnap (1891–1970), einem der bedeutendsten Philosophen des 20. Jahrhunderts.
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New article in @nature.com by @sylviawenmackers.be & a great team of collaborators: the widely reported finding that disruptive science is in decline may be explained by dataset artefacts. Check out the 🧵 by @vincentholst.bsky.social 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #philsci #academicsky #metasci
Dataset artefacts can partially drive the measured decline in disruption - Nature
Nature - Dataset artefacts can partially drive the measured decline in disruption
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vincentholst.bsky.social@vincentholst.bsky.social · last mo.In 2023, @nature.com published 'Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive over time', receiving world-wide media attention. Our Matters Arising, published after a 32 month delay (more on that soon), shows that the reported decline can largely be attributed to dataset artefacts. 🧵
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If the markets reject OpenAI and Anthropic, the US should nationalize them | Bruce Schneier and Nathan E Sanders
From space to telecommunications, the US has a long history of fostering technology for the public good. These AI models could be aligned to democratic values, not corporate profits
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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
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Thanks for reading and sharing! We just published our official working version here: Baum, Micah, Joaquín Endara, and Annaliese Paulson. (2026). Do Faculty Affect Student Partisanship?. (EdWorkingPaper: 26-1538). Retrieved from Annenberg Institute at Brown University: doi.org/10.26300/8ej...
Do Faculty Affect Student Partisanship?
We study whether Democratic college professors make their students more liberal. We link voter data to salary records from 33 state flagships and show that faculty skew Democratic, especially in the h...
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My paper on logical negativism and shadow science is out link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Failure in Practice and Dialectic in Theory: More Value, Context, Relativity and Plurality in Shadow Science
In this paper I point to different features and cases of scientific inquiry that suggest the relevance of a broad pattern of negativism. I have noted the role in categories of description and more nor...
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#Appeal: A new international appeal calls for connected, joint action in support of science and its contribution to global wellbeing. https://appealforscience.com/
