Here is my review of "Evolution 'On Purpose':Teleonomy in Living Systems," a nice collection of papers from various disciplines discussing the roles of purpose, agency, etc., in biology. It is available open access, so worth checking out. Thanks to Penelope and H-net for having me review!

New on H-Sci-Med-Tech: Review from @niallroe.bsky.social (@cam.ac.uk) of _ Evolution "On Purpose": Teleonomy in Living Systems_ ed Peter A. Corning, Stuart A. Kauffman, Denis Noble, James A. Shapiro, Richard I. Vane-Wright, Addy Pross, pub 2023 @mitpress.bsky.social Review @hnetreviews.bsky.social

Why am I having to hit this "Stay Signed In" button like twice a day?

C. S. Peirce, echoing recent comments by Terrence Tao and other mathematicians on the use of AI to solve Navier-Stokes (except Peirce is writing in 1903):

New on the Archive: Cairns, Monte (2026) Reasons to Doubt Microstructural Essentialism About Chemical Elements. [Preprint] https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/30847/

A new paper with @mattbrewer.bsky.social where we offer a new interpretation of @charlespeirce.bsky.social "economy of research" as being firstmost about pursuitworthiness of *data* & connect it with data collection programs in geosciences known as "targeted observation" #philsci #pragmatism #data

PhilSci-Archive@philsci-archive.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New on the Archive: Bokulich, Alisa and Brewer, Matthew (2026) Pursuitworthy Data Collection in the Geosciences: From Peirce’s Economy of Research to Targeted Observation. [Preprint] https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/30752/

Here is a great blog: www.junkcharts.com

Junk Charts

Data, graphs and AI - by the bestselling author of Numbers Rule Your World and industry veteran, blogging since 2006

junkcharts.com

@boeschb.bsky.social I thought you might like this page on tornado data: roadtolarissa.com/twisters/

A "No Trespassing" sign makes as much sense as one that says "No Crimes Allowed Here".

Thanks Alisa!

Alisa Bokulich@alisabokulich.bsky.social · 4mo ago

A wonderful talk this morning (in both content & form!) by @niallroe.bsky.social on "Measuring What We Make: From Observational Error to Experimental Object" #HPS

Now out in Studies in HPS! 'Artefactualism and the twofold experience of modelling': authors.elsevier.com/a/1mH3%7E8yu... Short article building on the phenomenology of modelling experience as discussed in @msuarez.bsky.social's excellent book, Inference and Representation.

Call for abstracts for the first conference of our new Center for Humanities and Technology. Please share! uchumanitiestech.org/2026-confere...

2026 Conference

Call for Papers: Science and Technology in the Anthropocene April 2 – 3, 2026 A conference about human experience in a world with non-biological intelligent systems and the environmental prob…

uchumanitiestech.org

"Of First Premisses. (Since somebody may think that I write premiss instead of premise from negligence, may I be permitted to say that desperately negligent as I am of non-logical matters, I endeavor to attend to all the minutiae of logic.

“My book is meant for people who want to find out; and people who want philosophy ladled out to them can go elsewhere. There are philosophical soup shops at every corner, thank God! . . .The first step toward finding out is to acknowledge you do not satisfactorily know already“

Thanks @drbeasley.bsky.social !

Dr. Brandon Beasley 🇨🇦@drbeasley.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Check out my good friend @niallroe.bsky.social's new paper on Charles S. Peirce on Experiment: philpapers.org/rec/ROECPA-2

Experimentation and thinking at the level of a program of experiments statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/09/05/e...

Hot off the press: Michael Kremer’s and my resurrection of Margaret Macdonald.

Some chairs and a hat.

Tonight’s clouds looked kiiiinda like this

Ten minute sunset sketch.

Some cabin sketches.

'Poll' in its earliest appearances refers to the top of a head – the modern political meanings of a number of votes or a survey of voters emerge from the 17th century through the act of counting people's heads. The older 'head' sense is behind terms like 'poll tax', but also 'tadpole' (toad-head).

What a great talk with Mike Travisano about evolutionary innovation and the origin of life, alongside amazing panelists Ken Waters and ‪@mrebolleda.bsky.social ! So happy to be at #ISHPSSB2025 !

It's because of medieval lists that set out their entries with the format 'also... also... also...' (in Latin: item... item... item... ) that English today has the common noun 'item'.

arxiv.org/pdf/2103.17058

⏰ Free access to read & download thru August 20 the final published version of Wendy Parker & my paper "Understanding Data Uncertainty" at this link ⬇️ authors.elsevier.com/c/1lMUI8yuR6... #philsci #metasci 🧪 ⚒️

Just accepted: ‘Severe Testing: Error Statistics versus Bayes Factor Tests’ – Deborah Mayo Abstract in alt text or read the full paper here (open access): www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #philsci #philsky