13. Hence our dismal conclusion: rather than finding that LLMs free us to do a better job of what we were doing before they came along, they shift scientific incentives (and the playing field of academic competition) in ways that compel us to do more and more, faster and faster, less and less well.

Nature did a short piece on our preprint about how LLMs will affect the practice of science; my more detailed thread is below.

Scientists using LLMs will ‘do more, less well’, modelling study predicts

Research suggests that the combination of incentives to publish and the use of large language models will lead to more papers, but they will be less refined.

nature.com

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2w ago

1. We—@eduede.bsky.social, @mjcrockett.bsky.social, Kevin Gross, and I—have a new preprint on the arXiv today, based on ideas that emerged during an @sfiscience.bsky.social workshop in November 2024: The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science.

And eternal reminder: philtech neither started with Heidegger nor was he particularly influential until the 1980s or so (his influence actually co-originate with label of analytic philtech).

FASoS will host ETHICOMP 2027: Tech Shaping Lives from 2–4 June 2027. The international conference explores #ethical, #social, #political and #philosophical questions around AI, IoT, XR and VR. Keynotes include Prof. Joanna Bryson and Prof. Sven Nyholm. More info: shorturl.at/G5GIH

We need much more hopot.

Closing this tough academic year with Res Philosophica paper on the legacy of Popper's & Bergson's ideas on #OpenSociety and #OpenScience - huge thanks to colleagues & @erc.europa.eu for so much learning and fruitful collaborations, and wishing all some rest in the coming month! #philsci

Applications for the Postdoctoral Fellowships are open. We're inviting proposals from early-career researchers in the humanities and social sciences wishing to pursue an independent research project. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4xWduAS

📢 Job vacancy - Chair in Intellectual History We welcome applications from scholars working across a broad range of fields, including: 💠 History of political theory, political economy 💠 Knowledge systems and IT 💠 Postcolonial and intersectional thought 💠 Humanist, post-human, and planetary history

My department is hiring a lecturer or senior lecturer in philosophy. It's an open call in terms of research specialization, but we're keen to hire someone whose teaching/research speaks to PPE in some way. This is a great job in a great department. Please help me spread the word!

Loughborough International Relations, Politics and History@irph.bsky.social · 3w ago

JOB KLAXON! We're looking to hire a lecturer or senior lecturer in philosophy. This is a permanent, full-time teaching-and-research position. The deadline for applications is 26 August. Further details below. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSG697/l...

Tech billionaires didn’t misread science fiction. They performed an edit: keeping the frontier, the visionary, the chrome; cutting the public institution, the collective, and the warning. Every. Single. Time. My new piece is now up in Aeon.

Aeon Magazine@aeon.co · 3w ago

Tech billionaires like to claim their work is inspired by science fiction, but in truth, they are using its ‘chrome-plated aesthetic’ as a fig leaf to further what the social theorist Ali Rıza Taşkale labels ‘reactionary futurism’

@masssimons.bsky.social is elected one of three members of the the SCIANCE EU Project (RAISE Secretariat) AI in Science Working Groups (AISWGs), together with @micheldumontier.bsky.social and @penders.bsky.social. Congratulations! 👏

Full comic here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/turing #smbc #comics

Update: I’m co-editing a special issue of @jgps.bsky.social on “Comparative Philosophy of Science” (i.e. the systematic comparison of scientific fields and practices from a philosophical perspective) together with @karimbschir.bsky.social #philsci #HPS #HOPOS philevents.org/event/show/1...

EXTENDED DEADLINE - Towards Comparative Philosophy of Science (Special Issue of the Journal for General Philosophy of Science)

CALL FOR PAPERS: Towards Comparative Philosophy of Science (Special Issue of the Journal for General Philosophy of Science) Guest editors: Simon Lohse (Nijmegen) & Karim Bschir (St....

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From the new issue: Charting the Territories of Epistemic Concepts in the Practice of Science: A Text-Mining Approach – Christophe Malaterre & Martin Léonard Abstract in the alt text ot read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #philsci #philsky

Today we do the future!! Starting with Mendel and Neurath!!

Congratulations to Steve Epstein and Ulrike Felt, awarded the 2026 John Desmond Bernal Prize for outstanding lifetime contributions to science and technology studies. From @4sonline.bsky.social. Particularly happy to see Steve's shout out to the beloved and much-missed Adele Clarke.... #STS

Bas van Fraassen receives the Rolf Schock Prize 2026 with other laureates in mathematics, music, and visual arts in recognition for creativity in humanities, arts, and science. And tomorrow a symposium will celebrate Bas’s lifelong achievements 🎉 #philsci

📣Interested in studying history and philosophy of science and/or logic? Come around to learn more about our HPS+Logic M.A. program at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de on Thurs, 11/06, 12:00 (CET)! In person and zoom: ruhr-uni-bochum.zoom-x.de/j/6842065321... More info: www.hpsplus.org #PhilSci #HistSci #HPS #STS

new William Gibson book opening line dropped

MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦@maks23.bsky.social · 2mo ago

💥 In Donetsk region, birds are building nests from drone fiber optics.

1. How common is LLM use in scientific publishing, and how does it vary across field, publisher, journal prestige, author demographics etc.? @kylesiler.bsky.social has new paper in PNAS that addresses this question on a massive scale: 7.3 million papers from Elsevier, PLOS, MDPI, and Frontiers.

The diffusion of large language models in published academic articles | PNAS

Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly changing academic research, raising questions of who is adopting these tools and under what conditions. Th...

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Please consider joining us on June 15, 2026 for a webinar titled "Philosophers of Science at Work: Exploring Non-Academic Careers". docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Philosophers of Science at Work

Please consider joining us on June 15, 2026 for a webinar titled "Philosophers of Science at Work: Exploring Non-Academic Careers". Its focus will be a high-level overview and introduction to the non-...

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Spread the word! Abbiamo inaugurato il network italiano di filosofie delle scienze della vita in pratica (#PIPoLS) e già siamo all'opera con il nostro primo workshop, che si terrà il 17-18 Dicembre al Politecnico di Milano. L'evento é supportato da @ishpssb.bsky.social come #ISHoffyear workshop

PIPoLS: People of the Italian Philosophy of Life Sciences@pipols-italy.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🔥Call for PIPoLS Workshop!🔥 📆17-18 dicembre 2026 Il primo workshop PIPoLS è all'orizzonte! 🗒️In occasione del nostro primo evento in presenza, invitiamo dottorande/i e studentesse/i di laurea magistrale a inviare una proposta per un flash talk, un poster o un breve video da presentare all’incontro.

Give me names for people based in the UK who are in the Humanities/Anthro and working on inequality. Thank you!

If you know a Masters student who would like to go on to the PhD and knows Dutch, there's a Phd position open in Alisa van de Haar's exciting "Leveraging Language, Proclaiming Power: Linguistic Politics in Early Colonial North America" project at Leiden: careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/Leiden-P...

"The increasing involvement of technology companies in mathematical research raises the risk that research questions may come to be prioritized because of their amenability to automated mathematics, rather than expert judgment of their deeper significance."

Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics

This declaration calls for action to address the challenges posed by the use of artificial intelligence within mathematics research.

leidendeclaration.ai

Reading books is slowly turning into a very special skill again, like reading musical scores.

On this day, 50 years ago, Der Spiegel published an interview with Heidegger - 5 days after his death. Heidegger holds a prominent place in the history of the philosophy of technology: with a phenomenology of tool-use in Being & Time (1927) and later with The Question Concerning Technology (1954).

As predicted! From the person who gave us "Eugenics will solve global poverty", now: "Eugenics will solve climate change".

Pieter T. L. Beck@ptrbck.bsky.social · 4mo ago

It seems the eugenicists are going into "eugenics will solve everything"-mode. New academic sub-genre: "Embryo screening will solve age-old problem X" philarchive.org/rec/DEVUES

Excellent job alert!!!! #STS

Adrienne Williams Boyarin@aboyarin.bsky.social · 3mo ago

UVic Humanities is hiring a Research Chair in AI and Cultural Change — focused on justice-centered, critical, humanist approaches to AI and related technologies. Check it out and distribute widely (deadline Aug 28). www.uvic.ca/faculty-staf...