For anyone who missed our digital workshop earlier this year, here's a brief summary! Coorganised with Love Hansell and @simonlohse.bsky.social 🙌 #animalexperimentation #animalresearch #3Rs doi.org/10.14573/alt...
Simon Lohse
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Philosopher of science at Radboud University 📚🇪🇺🏳️🌈🇳🇱🇩🇪 & big fan of liberal democracy #philsci #ELSI #HPS #STS -- @isis-radboud.bsky.social -- https://simonlohse.com -- @epsaphilsci.bsky.social steering committee
In unserem AfD-Gutachten haben wir auch ein längeres Kapitel zum Antisemitismus in der Partei. Vereinzelt ist er ganz explizit, etwa durch die Verbreitung antisemitischer NS-Karrikaturen. Ganz überwiegend ist er aber codiert. AfD-Funktionär*innen auf allen Ebenen sprechen zB von 1/
The #SPSP organising committee just announced that the next conference will be in Bogota, Colombia! Fantastic city I had the pleasure to visit last year - see you all there for more philosophy of science in practice in 2028 😊🦋 #philsci philosophy-science-practice.org
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67.569 Menschen haben übrigens schon ihre Bundestagsabgeordneten über das Gutachten informiert. Du auch? freiheitsrechte.org/schreib-dein...
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Die Debatte um die Verfassungsfeindlichkeit der AfD steht still. Das ändern wir jetzt. Wenn Bundestagsabgeordnete E-Mails von echten Menschen aus ihrem Wahlkreis bekommen, hören sie hin. Sie können da...
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New on the Archive: Moody, Merijn and De Regt, Henk W. (2026) Beyond Stochastic Parrots: Examining the Scientific Creativity of Large Language Models. [Preprint] https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/30509/
Hasok Chang opening the 11th biennial conference of the Society for the Philosophy of Science in Practice #spsp2026 - as ever, fantastic to see so many dear friends and beautiful minds together in one (large!) room! #philsci spspcambridge2026.com
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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On July 3rd, we were on the yearly excursion for our students in the 'Science in Society' programme, helping SiS students to explore their future job opportunities. This year we visited the Next Nature Museum, (nextnature.org/en) getting a tour of the museum ....
Home - Next Nature
The planet is changing. Climate change, artificial intelligence, urbanization. Human presence is everywhere. Next Nature tells the story of humans changing their world with the fruits of knowledge, de...
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Opening of Forum Wissenschaftsreflexion @Leibniz Universität Hannover, sure to be in regular dialogue with our Munich Center for Transformative Technologies and Societal Change! Today I reflect on how to facilitate open exchange www.wissenschaftsreflexion.uni-hannover.de/news-und-ver... #philsci
Programm – Forum Wissenschaftsreflexion – Leibniz Universität Hannover
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Replacement changes what tools are available. Displacement changes how science is done. @nicodmueller.bsky.social's revisit of “Lane‑Petter’s Pipeline” provides the wider lens we need to modernize and humanize biomedical research. 🧵 #bioethics #paradigmchange #scipol #metasci #philsci
Very good news for the research-on-research community! #STS #philsci #metascience #sociologyofscience
Research on Research Association@roration.bsky.social · 2mo agoWe're excited to launch J·ROR, the Journal of Research on Research. A new open-access home for research on how research is funded, organised, conducted, communicated, and evaluated. Our first editorial: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #ResearchOnResearch #MetaScience #OpenScience #STS
Open letter – A €1 billion European moonshot for new approach methodologies #NAM #AnimalStudies www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Open letter – A €1 billion European moonshot for new approach methodologies
This Open Letter, endorsed by 125 scientists, researchers and innovators across Europe, calls on the European Union to establish a dedicated €1 billio…
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How would #psychology look through the lens of @michelamassimi.bsky.social's Perspectival Realism? In her new paper, Suilin Lavelle defends the pursuit of Majority World psychological frameworks and experiments beyond WEIRD biases 👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsci #philsky #psysky #cogsci
📝 New publication by our colleagues Jill v d Kamp, Lotte Krabbenborg et al.: Who is left out? A systematic review on the barriers and facilitators for screening participation reported by people in vulnerable situations with strategies for the future #RRI #IntegralInnovation doi.org/10.1016/j.pu...
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The Routledge Handbook of Values and Science, edited by Kevin Elliot and Ted Richards is now available as open access: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi... In includes a chapter on the limits of diversity in science by @acfischer.bsky.social, @abigailnd.bsky.social and our group leader Jan Baedke.
Two fabulous opportunities to come and work at Egenis on Stephan Guttinger’s automated science project! 1) A fully-funded PhD position: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... 2) A postdoctoral research position: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRD641/p... Please share! #philsci #philjobs
Philosophy of Automated Science | University of Exeter
Project Description:Over the last few years science has seen a rapid increase in talk about – and implementation of – automated workflows.
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If you are planning to attend, the registration is open. We @hpscambridge.bsky.social are pouring our hearts into this conference and it will be amazing. Even though my own submission was not accepted! #philsci #philsky #hps #metascience
Society for the Philosophy of Science in Practice 2026 Conference | SPSP Cambridge 2026
The Society for the Philosophy of Science in Practice 2026 Conference at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge
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Forthcoming in @hoposjournal.bsky.social! I discuss the systemic injustice that saw women banned from scientific education in Victorian Britain through the lenses of how artisanal knowledges like weaving and knitting were severed from mathematical knowledge. #philsci philsci-archive.pitt.edu/29274/
Knots and Knitting: On the Dangers of Epistemically Severing and Trademarking Artisanal Knowledges from Science - PhilSci-Archive
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📣 *Epistemic Diversity in European Philosophy of Science (2nd edition)* 20th May 2026, with Valeriya Chasova (Utrecht University): Deborinians and mechanists per se and as precursors to Western philosophers of science More info: philsci.eu/Epistemic-Di... #philsci #diversity #HOPOS #HPS
Für die deutschsprachige Community: Die SPIEGEL-Online-Redaktion (bzw. der Praktikant, der nachts für die Überschriften zuständig ist) ist heute ganz offensichtlich gut aufgelegt... :-)
This is the tenth article from the topical collection that Enno Fischer (@ennofischer.bsky.social) and I are editing for EJPS. Take this chance to browse the other papers that have been published and stay in the loop for the remaining additions to the collection! 👇 link.springer.com/collections/...
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Lots of great summer events coming up! History and Philosophy of Science: Past, Present, and Future 24 - 26 June 2026 Academic Building, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology www.shanyafeng.com/hps26
HPS26 - Yafeng Shan
Yafeng Shan
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A new review of Jan Baedke’s #OpenAccess Cambridge Element The Organism (@universitypress.cambridge.org), by Matthew Sims (@philosobio.bsky.social), has been published in @thebjps.bsky.social Review of Books! Check it out! 👇📕 www.thebsps.org/reviewofbook... #HPBio #philsky #HPS #evosky #booksky
Jan Baedke, The Organism | BJPS Review of Books
Matthew Sims reviews The Organism, by Jan Baedke
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Check out this nice review of the Element (short book) @mjacquart.bsky.social and I coauthored. A PDF of the Element is freely available from @universitypress.cambridge.org, here: doi.org/10.1017/9781... #philsci #SciComm 🧪 jcom.sissa.it/article/pubi...
Public engagement with science: a practical guide
Public engagement with science has gained institutional prominence while remaining conceptually fragmented and difficult to operationalise. This review evaluates Public Engagement with Science by Ange...
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🐣 Happy to announce another OA publication, co-written with Cornelius Borck (Lübeck) and published in HPLS: *Sorting Out and Navigating Uncertainty in Precision Medicine* doi.org/10.1007/s406... #HPS #PhilMed #philsci
Sorting out and navigating uncertainty in precision medicine - History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences - Uncertainty has been highlighted as a paradoxical consequence of precision medicine (PM). In the life sciences and medicine, uncertainty is often...
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🚨 New paper by myself and @tristankatz.bsky.social 🚨 "Harm-Benefit Analysis for Animal Experiments Is Not Utilitarian" It's commonly claimed that HBA – used in the licensing of animal studies – is utilitarian. We say this vastly oversells the framework. #animalexperimentation #animalresearch #3Rs
🤓 New OA publication in EJPS *Reproducibility, questionable research practices and ethico-epistemic trade-offs in animal-based biomedicine* link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsci #animalexperimentation #metascience
Reproducibility, questionable research practices and ethico-epistemic trade-offs in animal-based biomedicine - European Journal for Philosophy of Science
European Journal for Philosophy of Science - I discuss reproducibility issues in animal-based research in biomedicine and scrutinise the notion that the causes of non-reproducible results are, by...
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In @voxweb.bsky.social, our former Science in Society (SiS) student Jelte Schermer, talks about his SiS master thesis on designer drug use among students. www.voxweb.nl/nieuws/thesi...
Thesis Tales (8): Jelte interviewde studenten over het gebruik van designerdrugs - Vox magazine
Weken, maanden, soms jaren zijn studenten bezig met hun scriptie. In de rubriek Thesis Tales zetten we het onderzoek van studenten in de spotlights. Aflevering 8: Jelte Schermer (27) deed voor zijn ma...
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