wild way to frame one of the most aggressively anti-trans bathroom bans in the developed world

Equality and Human Rights Commission@equalityhumanright.bsky.social · 15h ago

Our code of practice for services, public functions and associations comes into force today. It provides practical guidance on how the Equality Act 2010 applies to services, public functions and associations. Find out more: https://ow.ly/alIf50Zwrkx

public libraries ftw

Philosophers, spread the word! The next Special Issue of The Philosophical Quarterly will be 'Philosophy and Climate Change' - Guest Editor Stephen Gardiner, call for papers here: academic.oup.com/pq/pages/cal...

I did a thing!! I made a rendition of the song The Man with Money in his Hands by Jessie Mazin ❤️ This song was just perfect to be made into an anti-AI anthem. "Make life easier, just give up control. It's a chemical dependance, it's a bruise on your soul" Enjoy!!!!!!! 😃 youtu.be/i6Sbu2Zf2SM?...

The man with money in his hands - Jessie Mazin (cover and edit by Ajuna Soerjadi)

YouTube video by Ajuna Soerjadi

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📣 I am hiring a 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗰 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 & 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻-𝗔𝗜 𝗛𝘆𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗱 𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀 📍 Berlin 📅 3-year position 💡 Ideal for researchers with a PhD in Computer Science, Cognitive Science, Applied Math, Physics, etc. and a strong background in AI, RL, and computational social science. Details below

Postdoctoral Fellow in Social Reinforcement Learning and Human-AI Hybrid Systems - Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung

The Center for Humans and Machines (CHM) at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin conducts interdisciplinary science to understand, anticipate, and shape major disruptions from A...

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Link: www.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf... and #OA version here on @philsci-archive.bsky.social : philsci-archive.pitt.edu/26292/1/Berg... #philsci

Contrasting Visions of Inquiry for an Open Society: Henri Bergson and Karl Popper Between Humane and Rational Openness - Volume 103, Issue 3, July 2026

This paper traces the intellectual lineage of the idea of openness as a guiding principle for scientific inquiry within democratic societies. To this aim, it contrasts Henri Bergson’s and Karl Popper’...

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Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out.

Science coverage of this open letter with quotes from @bayesianboy.bsky.social @cailinmeister.bsky.social Craig Callender, Matthew Liao @naomioreskes.bsky.social and me. Journals, the ball is in your court now.

Philosophers call for their journals to require conflict of interest disclosures

A new petition urges greater transparency amid growing ties to AI and other companies

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Anna Alexandrova@annaalexandrova.bsky.social · last mo.

Signed as soon as I read it. True, some philosophers will cheerlead for free (due to their tech optimism or with the expectation of funding later) and such behaviour is not covered by the proposed policy. But it would still be useful to be able to detect some cheerleading worth discounting.

As philosophy rushes to claim expertise on AI, AI companies rush to control the philosophical narrative. Unlike other disciplines, philosophy has no standards for reporting conflicts of interest. This petition endeavors to change that: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Open Letter about Industry Funding and Disclosure in Philosophy

*For full list of signatories, updated every few hours, please click here.* In recent years, philosophical writing on areas such as climate change, technology, misinformation, and artificial intellige...

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➡️ 🔓 [OPEN ACCESS] "Critically Engaged Pragmatism: Scientific Norm and Social, Pragmatist Epistemology for AI Science Evaluation Tools" by Carole J. Lee www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Critically Engaged Pragmatism: Scientific Norm and Social, Pragmatist Epistemology for AI Science Evaluation Tools

AI science evaluation tools aim to assess research credibility. As with traditional metrics such as impact factors, their edicts can be decontextualised and repurposed in problematic ways. To addre...

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"Knowledge and Politics: Reflections on Challenges to Open Science" by Helen E. Longino www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Knowledge and Politics: Reflections on Challenges to Open Science

This comment focuses on the contradictions inherent in current conceptualizations and practices associated with Open Science and highlighted by the preceding set of articles. Using Longino’s Critic...

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Yippie! My first solo author paper has been published in Social Epistemology! The paper explores the philosophy of data formats and how they shape participation in open research data infrastructures.

Social Epistemology Journal@socialepistemology.bsky.social · last mo.

"The Sequence and the Standard: An Account of Participatory Informational Format Exclusion (PIFE)" by Nathanael Sheehan www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#DefendExeterUni

I am heartbroken by University of Exeter’s decision to endanger the majority of staff in philosophy and qualitative social science, including #Egenis @exeterspspa.bsky.social No warning, no consultations, just an email dropped into inboxes announcing redundancy. c.org/zKbPJFDwBq #philsci #sts #hps

🚨 New 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐝𝐨𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫 opportunity at CWTS on Evaluating Open Science Impact and Research Culture Change, working closely with Alex Rushforth and Louise Bezuidenhout. Apply until 18 June 👇 careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/Postdoct... @leidensocial.bsky.social @opensciencenl.bsky.social

Still processing FOR2026 in Munich. We presented our poster on open & equitable research- great conversations, so much energy. The people stayed with us most. Scholars, activists, practitioners-passionate about Open Science & actively working towards it. So glad to be part of it.

updated to link to all I know of; please sign: openletter.earth/open-letter-... > Colleagues and I have written and published: Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia. Also there are versions in Dutch, French, German, Italian, and Spanish olivia.science/ai/#activism

Iris van Rooij 💭@irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The @olivia.science et al. (2025) open letter has >1800 signatures by now (please all, don't forget to confirm via email! Check your spam box if needed). The letter is already translated into 5 languages: 1. Spanish 2. French 3. Italian 4. German 5. Dutch See also olivia.science/ai/#activism

Some incredibly rich discussions were held at #FOR2026, organized by the PHIL_OS team at @tum.de 👏🏼 So grateful for the opportunity to share this collage of ideas about open research infrastructures, and for the lovely meetings with old and new friends and colleagues. Until next time!

Great to see open education represented at #FOR2026 today! @rfarrow.bsky.social presented the GO-GN, a network of PhD candidates around the world whose research projects include a focus on #OpenEducation (i.e. OER, OEP, MOOC). go-gn.net #OpenScience

kudos to @alelazic.bsky.social for bringing up this wonderful piece at #FOR2026 - always worth resharing and rereading 👏 Equity in science is a beautiful lie — and I’m done pretending www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Pleasure to share our research on public desire to learn about preliminary science at #FOR2026 Check out the slides: www.canva.com/design/DAHH2... #openscience #scicomm #scholcomm

At #FOR2026 yesterday, I learned from Carole Goble that Trust (in another person or organization) can be defined as their: (Credibility + Reliability + Intimacy) / Self-Orientation which is from Cathrin Stöver - Chief Communications Officer GÉANT

„People aren’t FAIR, data might be“ but people failed to recognize data practices and efforts of others. We have a digital #TragedyOfTheCommons in research and open science. @carolegoble.bsky.social at #FOR2026 #OpenScience #ResearchData #RDA #FAIRData #TrustedResearchEnvironments

Amazing to hear from Vaska Leshoska today at #FOR2026 about RISE-Open, a grassroots effort opening up psychological instruments & resources for Macedonian students & researchers. Nice to see the vibes of our Serbian #REPOPSI (2020-) spreading across the region. 😍 #OpenScience

During #FOR2026, I learned that I should read "Thinking like a business: Reconfiguring relationships to sustain open data infrastructures" by Kathleen Gregory and Dorothea Strecker (arxiv.org/abs/2604.27580), which takes a political economy-based look at Dryad

Thinking like a business: Reconfiguring relationships to sustain open data infrastructures

Sustaining open data infrastructures over time is a complex puzzle, involving dynamic funding models and relationships with customers, collaborators, and competitors. Despite their importance, these m...

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At the Future of Open Research conference, sponging up ideas for concrete action. ResearchEquals creates spaces for experimental forms of research, which informs new policies. Since our inception, this has popularised the notion of more diverse outputs. #FOR2026

"AI is often pitched as a climate solution, optimizing energy and accelerating decarbonization. In reality, claims of sustainability obscure the deep ties between tech, fossil fuels, and the state." #Critical_AI_Literacy www.themaybe.org/reframing-im...

Reframing "AI for Climate" with Naomi Klein

Claims of sustainability obscure the deep ties between tech, fossil fuels, and the state.

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We (@sabinaleonelli.bsky.social, @elisj.bsky.social, Emma Cavazzoni & I) are collecting stories (voice notes/text) and images (drawings/photos) of Cicadas and Fireflies for an upcoming Pianeta Lab event. If you have any, we welcome you to share them via our website-> pianeta-lab-storia.vercel.app

we did this work about 5yrs ago. disheartening to see things have gotten worse, generally speaking

Arte es Ética@arteesetica.bsky.social · 7mo ago

2021, sobre LAION-400M: «Descubrimos que el conjunto de datos contiene imágenes y pares de texto explícitos de violación, pornografía, estereotipos malignos, insultos racistas y étnicos y otro contenido extremadamente problemático» @abeba.bsky.social Si la entrenan con eso, buscan generar ESO 🚨

We need to start asking major websites not to provide Share links to X.