Please circulate: www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/news/call-ap... Seeking 10 Early Career Fellows to participate in 2 summer academies to be held in Berlin June 14–18, 2027 & June 26–30, 2028: SCIENCE IMAGINES ITS FUTURE. How have scholars deliberated about investing scarce resources in an uncertain future?

Wait you can do this?!

Sharon Z@sharonz.bsky.social · last wk.

Learning that Duck Duck Go let's you block specific sites from search results is a game changer for when you are looking for things and you don't want the first 10 results to be Amazon.

Great reading for the weekend! Kate Salen Tekinbas writes in @sciencepolitics.bsky.social about how we can manage online spaces for children. In well-designed play environments, safety is not achieved by eliminating risk but by designing for it. sciencepolitics.org/2026/07/17/o...

Online Spaces for Children Don’t Have to Be Outlawed. They Just Have to Be Safe Enough. - Science Politics

In well-designed play environments, safety is not achieved by eliminating risk but by designing for it.

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The AI-written emails telling me that my book is already a failure 3+ months before publication are something else. (Don't worry, if I pay the emailer a hundred bazillion dollars they can un-fail my book.)

We need merch @nickseaver.website

Nick Seaver@nickseaver.website · last mo.

My book is coming out in October and will be available open access! However, for those who prefer physical copies, Barnes & Noble is currently running a preorder sale for members. Use code PREORDER25 to get 25% off the paperback! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/in-referee...

In Referees We Trust?: How Peer Review Became a Mark of Scientific Legitimacy

Barnes & Noble’s online bookstore for books, NOOK ebooks & magazines. Shop music, movies, toys & games, too. Receive free shipping with your Barnes & Noble Membership.

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We are hiring for a science policy news editorial director here at AIP. This position will coordinate coverage across our renowned FYI science policy news service and Physics Today. This is a new and exciting thing, and if this is your wheelhouse, take a look! workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...

If human editors can’t control who reviews science, it’s no longer peer review — it’s a rubber-stamp machine designed for volume and profit, not quality. I have no intention of attaching my name to it. So I’m out.

Court holds Google liable for false claims in AI Overviews. Seems significant. "A regular search engine just points to outside websites. But AI overviews generate 'independent, new, and substantive statements' by evaluating and combining content from various third-party sites" the-decoder

Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers

A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previous limited liability protections for search engine operators don't apply to AI overviews. In this case, Google's AI had falsely linked two publishers to fraud and made claims that didn't appear in any of the linked sources. The ruling could set a precedent for AI-generated content liability worldwide.

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Physics Today is hiring! They're looking for a Senior Editor with a graduate degree in physics (PhD preferred) and 8+ years of science writing and editing experience. www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/44...

🚨New Issue Alert🚨 Volume 56 Issue 3 is out now with essays by Karin Nickelsen and David Kaiser, as well as a book review by John DiMoia. online.ucpress.edu/hsns/issue/5...

Volume 56 Issue 3 | Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences | University of California Press

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If your business requires me to download yet another app to use it, odds are pretty good at this point I am not going to use your business. It's like a part-time job at this point. Enough.

MIT (endowment: $27B) shuttering three of its four main libraries is one of those news items that just knocks you off balance, auguring, as it does, profound and permanent changes to the entire institutional apparatus of higher education in this country.

eileen chengyin chow@chowleen.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“I write with dismay, grief and sorrow for the permanent closure of MIT Libraries Barker, Dewey and Rotch, and termination of library staff in those libraries. For MIT to be closing three of its four major libraries..." fnl.mit.edu/may-june-202...

We are closing this call on May 31, but would still very much like to see more proposals from periods pre-1800 and regions outside the US and Europe! Please don't hesitate to reach out with questions.

Melinda Baldwin@mbaldwin.bsky.social · 4mo ago

New Special Section Call for Proposals for @hsnatsci.bsky.social ! My co-editor Dominik Huenniger and I are seeking short essays (800-1000 words) on the theme of "Revisiting Classics and Major Influences." More below.

I AM AT INBOX ZERO. I do not expect this situation to last more than 2 hours but I am going to enjoy it.

The whole AI-to-make-graduation- efficient is bizarre. The most efficient way to award diplomas is by mail; there’s no logical need for ceremonies. The whole reason they exist is for the human touch & so people can celebrate each other. AI for “efficiency” here is nonsensical (& doesn’t even work🫠)

Alex Hanna@alexhanna.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Sir, another graduation ceremony in which the students booed AI has dropped. "College graduates were pissed after their school used AI to announce graduates’ names and missed hundreds of names" (via @/FearedBuck on Twitter)

Extremely proud to say that my new @physicstoday.aip.org feature article is live. In it, I explore the history and context of the rare interviews with J. Robert Oppenheimer recently made public by @aiphistory.bsky.social. physicstoday.aip.org/features/opp...

Oppenheimer reflects on his early career

Interviews now available to the public bring the famed physicist’s lesser-known early years to life.

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My book is webpage official! Available open access in October 2026! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205474...

In Referees We Trust?

n Referees We Trust? investigates the origins of the peer review system, a system that is often considered the essential mechanism that protects the trustwor...

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Julie Taddeo spoke with WBAL about King Charles's address to Congress. Read more here: www.wbaltv.com/article/hist...

History professor discusses King Charles' address to Congress

Julie Taddeo, a research professor for the University of Maryland's Department of History, discussed King Charles' address to Congress.

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🔬 Next #ICSSI2026 Speaker Spotlight: Melinda Baldwin A historian of science at UMD, @mbaldwin.bsky.social literally wrote the book on the history of the journal Nature. Her work is a fascinating dive into peer review, publishing, and the institutions shaping science. See you in Boulder! icssi.org

ICSSI@icssi.org · 3mo ago

With 2 months to go, let's meet our #ICSSI2026 invited speakers! 🔬 Speaker Spotlight: Donna Ginther The KU/NBER economist who uncovered the "Ginther Gap" of disparities in NIH funding. Her work on who gets funded (and who doesn't) is essential science of science. Registration is open → icssi.org

If you work in or around the history of physics, take a look at the list of past winners, think of someone who deserves it, and then find some folks who agree with you to put together a nomination. Only a bit over a month left!

Kathryn Olesko@kathrynolesko.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Nominations are open for the Pais Prize in the History of Physics, awarded by the American Physical Society. Information on the Prize, and a link to the nomination process, are found here: www.aps.org/funding-reco...

On episode 2 of @dreamingagainstthemachine.com, @chanda.blacksky.app and I talk about Star Trek, the power of labor unions, and fascist footwear. Check it out wherever you get your podcasts!

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · 4mo ago

I went on @adambecker.bsky.social’s new podcast and had a shitload of fun talking about Star Trek and yes, fascist shoes Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

Cambridge Department of History and Philosophy of Science are now on Bluesky! 🔭📚 @hpscambridge.bsky.social

Boston area!! One week from today I will be in conversation with MIT historian and fellow physicist, my mentor David Kaiser @brooklinebooksmith.bsky.social!! RSVP today! www.eventbrite.com/e/chanda-pre...

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein with David Kaiser: The Edge of Space-Time

Read on for important details for this Brookline Booksmith event.

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If anyone in history ever wants to talk about this, feel free to reach out to me! I had a somewhat unusual contingent academic --> non-academic --> tenured academic career path, but I'm happy to be useful in any way I can on this question. Big supporter of non-academic paths.

Benjamin Tausig@burrata.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Getting a PhD and then working outside academia is dope. My advisees who’ve done that are more or less uniformly happy and feel that they’re using the skills they trained on. (I talked to one today who just landed a great gig). Just wanted to convey that to anyone it might benefit.

For fuck's sake, sign up for The Onion, and get a free limited edition IW tote. A share of merch sales will go to the Sandy Hook families, which will be the first time they get any money since they filed this lawsuit eight years ago. Legal fees have been insane. Please sign up and help us out!

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New Special Section Call for Proposals for @hsnatsci.bsky.social ! My co-editor Dominik Huenniger and I are seeking short essays (800-1000 words) on the theme of "Revisiting Classics and Major Influences." More below.

The opening guitar chords of “Style” (OG version)

Nick J Mascis@bridgemusicbunker.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Tell me about a part, a moment, a time stamp in a song that has you like this.

the Science Wars are dead, long live the Science Wars

Magdalena Skipper@magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · 4mo ago

This is quite extraordinary- scientists set a kind of trap for AI chat bots by inventing a fake disease. AI told people it was real and… the deliberately bogus preprints started being cited in peer reviewed literature 🫣 🧪 #MedSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A feast of Oppenheimer documents on display tonight at AIP!