Paper Alert 🚨 Martín-Villuendas, M. (2026). The overlooked role of metascientific principles in cancer research. Synthese, 208(88) doi.org/10.1007/s112...
Losner Briones
@losnerbriones.com
He/him. Vegan. Doctoral researcher in Philosophy of Science at UNED in Madrid. 🔎 Measurement, evidence, and construct validity in causal-effect evaluation of cash transfer experiments. 🔎 Causal extrapolation in pharmacology. 🌐 www.losnerbriones.com
El próximo curso seré profe de Filosofía de la Economía en este nuevo grado junto a @lanadanadea.bsky.social y @mjbuedo.bsky.social. Tb lo seré, como de costumbre, de Filosofía de las Ciencias Sociales en los grados de Filosofía y de Antropología. ¡Y así cerraré mi docencia como predoc en la UNED!
My book Playing Possum has been nominated for the German Wissensbuch des Jahres (non-fiction book of the year) award! If you think it deserves to win, you can vote for it here under the category Überraschung. Thank you kindly 😇
Wahl zum Wissensbuch des Jahres 2026
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New article from Leah McClimans in the Studies in #HPS on whether patients-reported constructs are measurable. Interesting criticism of myself and Hausman on whether heterogeneity within a construct is an obstacle to measurement. She argues it isn’t. Open to the idea… #philsci
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📢 Abierta la convocatoria para participar en el Seminario de Doctorandos BioKoinos–METIS 26/27, un espacio para presentar y discutir trabajos en un entorno colaborativo y constructivo. 📅 Fecha límite para enviar propuestas: 13/09/26 Formulario de inscripción: forms.gle/FsJ9L4ED33EA...
PHD Seminar BioKoinos-METIS 2026-2027
Envía aquí tu propuesta para presentar en el Seminario de Doctorandos BioKoinos-METIS 2026-2027.
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New paper out by our former visiting fellow Alberto Monterde Fuertes! It examines the methodological decisions structuring inquiry in engaged philosophy of science. Check it out here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #PhilSci
Our paper “The Catalogue of Mechanisms in Analytical Sociology” (with @mjbuedo.bsky.social) has been published in Philosophy of the Social Sciences. We analyse, operationalise, and assess the project of the catalogue of mechanisms. #PhilSci journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Last week I was presenting my work at the 4th Lake Como INEM Summer School in Philosophy of Economics! I enjoyed the breadth of topics covered, the excellent presentations, and, above all, the opportunity to engage with scholars I would rarely meet at the phil of sci conferences I usually attend.
📣 Call for papers & symposia for the 2027 Congress for Logic, Methodology, & Philosophy of Science and Technology (CLMPST) has been released! The meeting will be held in Kobe, Japan, from August 23-28, 2027 🇯🇵 Proposals should be submitted by November 15, 2026 clmpst2027.org #philsci
CLMPST 2027 | 18th International Congress on Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology
Website of the 18th International Congress on Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology.
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We are very excited to share our latest 📄 (@philsci.bsky.social): a revamped version of #nicheconstruction theory that captures the evolutionary consequences of organismic activities beyond changes in selection. We call it the 'Matrix Account' 👇 philsci-archive.pitt.edu/30043/ #evobio #HPS #hpbio
Happy to share that I'm starting a 4-month research stay at @vlc-lab.bsky.social! ✨✨ Under the supervision of @saulpg.bsky.social, I'll be working on how randomised field experiments can measure heterogeneous treatment effects and welfare outcomes, against the backdrop of broader critiques of EBP.
🟢Today María J. Buedo and Losner Briones @losnerbriones.com talked at the first ModAmbEx Project meeting at the University of Valladolid: -The Success of Experiment: Some Misconceptions. (María) -Distributive Variation, Experimental Organisation, and Reconstructing RCT-Based Evaluation. (Losner)
🟢 Today our PhD student Losner Briones @losnerbriones.com will give a talk: “Distributive Measurement and the Critique of Randomised Impact Evaluation” 📍University of Helsinki (Brown Bag Seminar).
It is publication day for The Organism-Environment Pairing (@mitpress.bsky.social)! This 📗 has been deeply formative for me as a scholar, and it owes so much to so many wonderful people. I truly hope it finds many readers! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205282... #booksky #philsci #histsci #philsky #evosky
In our next week's PoS Seminar on Monday, May 18, Magdalena Małecka (University of Copenhagen) will give a talk titled “Theories of decision-making in economics from the perspective of integrated history and philosophy of science in practice”. tint-helsinki.fi/2026/05/12/1... #philski #philsky
18.5. Perspectives on Science Seminar: Magdalena Małecka – Centre for Philosophy of Social Science
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The schedule for the XIV PBCS is out! 🗣️ Keynote speakers: Enara García, @alejandrofabregastejeda.com, and José Antonio Pérez-Escobar. 🗣️ 15 double-blind peer-reviewed talks by master's and PhD students, as well as early postdoctoral researchers. 🕘📍 June 18–19, 2026, at UNED, Madrid. #philsci
The Organism-Environment Pairing will be published in exactly two weeks by @mitpress.bsky.social ! I am so excited to share it with everyone! If you spot copies in the wild, please do let me know, as I would love to see them! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205282... #philsky #HPS #evosky #boosky #histsci 🌱🐋
Hi! My first paper is out in Philosophical Psychology (@journalphp.bsky.social), co-authored with Laura Nuño de la Rosa 😁 "The Functional Ambivalence of Mental Symptoms: Organizational and Temporal Dimensions of Dysfunction in Enactive Psychiatry" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The functional ambivalence of mental symptoms: organizational and temporal dimensions of dysfunction in Enactive Psychiatry
This paper introduces the concept of the functional ambivalence of mental symptoms as a contribution to Enactive Psychiatry. Drawing on the autonomy-centered foundations of the enactive approach, w...
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My first book is out with @universitypress.cambridge.org ! “Sincerity and Insincerity” explores what sincerity demands, why it matters, and what falls in between — half-truths, omissions, deliberate misdirection, and more. Free download for 2 weeks 👇 doi.org/10.1017/9781...
Una sugerencia para los medios (y para el mundo en general): dejar de hablar de “prioridad nacional” y empezar a decir “discriminación por origen”. Que las batallas contra el fascismo también se dan en el lenguaje.
My submissions have been accepted for presentation at both ECAP12 and ENPOSS 2026!
[Please circulate] 📢 We're hiring a Research Assistant (online surveying & data analysis) for the ERC project COST-X @ Università di Torino ‼️ Deadline approaching: 20 April 2026 🗓️ Looking for a stats-savvy candidate (R preferred) 12+12 months Details here: 👇 www.nerimarsili.com/uploads/2/5/...
Fascinating short history, including how "Isaac Newton’s famous Waste Book is a rare example of a physical continuity between the two cultures of notetaking: humanist and scientific." www.asimov.press/p/lab-notebo...
A Brief History of Lab Notebooks
How experimental recordings have changed, from the Renaissance through today.
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📢 New publication by two members of the BioKoinos Group: Carolina Cuadrado Bastos (UCM) and Laura Nuño de la Rosa (CSIC). 👩💻🏞️ This paper addresses the question on when is (nonepistemic) value influence legitimate in climate change research. 💻 +Info: rdcu.be/e669R
A democratic science in an unequal world? The challenge of climate denialism for the new demarcation problem
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Now out: How did earthquakes come to have a (quantitative) size? How can we quantify without experimental control? @cristianlarph.bsky.social and I answer both questions and show their implications for human science measurement. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #philsci #histsci #seismology
Lessons for human science measurement from the quantification of earthquake size
It remains controversial whether the human sciences can quantify the phenomena they study. The feasibility of quantification is usually assessed by id…
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▶️ Ya está disponible la grabación de la sesión sobre las perspectivas de los contratos Ramón y Cajal en filosofía que organizamos el pasado 26 de febrero. Nuestro agradecimiento a los participantes. canal.uned.es/video/69a566...
Perspectivas sobre los contratos Ramón y Cajal en filosofía
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Excited to share that my submission has been accepted to the 4th Lake Como INEM Summer School in Philosophy of Economics! 🙂 I'll present on measurement challenges when evaluating redistributive policies in RCT-based field experiments, focusing on the Finnish basic income experiment (2017-2018).
Happy to share that I'm starting a 3-month research stay at @tint-philosophy.bsky.social! ✨✨ Under the supervision of Jaakko Kuorikoski, I'll be working on methodological and epistemological challenges in evaluating redistributive policies like basic income within evidence-based field experiments.
Heading to ENPOSS this summer? Consider submitting an abstract to the pre-conf workshop organised by Inkeri Koskinen and Katherine Furman 👇 Keynotes by David Ludwig and yours truly. blogs.helsinki.fi/valuesinscie...
CFP – Pre-conference workshop: Values in science in the rest of the world
24–25 August 2026, Helsinki – just before ENPOSS 2026 Keynote speakers: David Ludwig (Wageningen University) Karoliina Pulkkinen (University of Helsinki) The idea that social, political and ethical ...
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It has been argued that what sets model organisms apart from other experimental 🐋🌱 is their high representational power. In our latest 📃, we argue otherwise: the hallmark of MOs lies in the dimensions of modeling versatility they afford to scientists 👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsci #HPS
