Simon Lohse

World Conferences on Research Integrity (@wcrifoundation.bsky.social) Official account of the World Conference on #ResearchIntegrity #WCRI2026 Vancouver, Canada 3-6 May 2026 https://wcri2026.org/ ✒️ @gengyantang.bsky.social‬

Our colleague Serge Horbach is part of the newly formed @thelancet.com & @wcrifoundation.bsky.social commission on #ResearchIntegrity. The commission is tasked to describe current threats to RI and propose evidence-based solutions.

Starting in a bit: our workshop “Postgenomic Intersections: Epistemology and Ethics for the Exposome and Microbiome”, today March 2nd and tomorrow March 3rd at Politecnico di Milano, co-organised by Thomas Bonnin and me.

www.meta.polimi.it/workshop-pos...

#philsci #philsky #postgenomics

#academicchatter

Postdoc opportunity at the Taft Research Center here at the University of Cincinnati for which philosophers are eligible to apply. See here for details and to apply: jobs.uc.edu/job/Taft-Pos...

PROGRAMME Day I (19/03): Regulatory and political perspectives Chair: Nico Müller 13:30 Introduction 13:35 Love Hansell, Radboud University Nijmegen Embracing uncertainty for new regulatory futures 14:15 Katerina Stoykova, University of Zurich From animal testing to NAMs: How EU legislative design helps – or hinders – the transition 15:00 Break 15:15 Paul Locke, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Transitioning from animal-based research to New Approach Methods at federal agencies in the United States: Window dressing or fundamental change? 16:00 Anne Van Veen, Utrecht University The transition to animal free safety testing: time to bring in the nonhuman animals! Day II (20/03): Meta-scientific perspectives Chair: Simon Lohse 13:30 Pandora Pound, Safer Medicines Trust Moving beyond animal experimentation in scientific research: Reflections on the last 20 years and where we are now 14:15 Catharine E. Krebs, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine Addressing animal methods bias: The peer review bias that favors animal use and sets back adoption of NAMs 15:00 Break 15:15 Sara Green and Michele Salluce, University of Copenhagen Replacing and refining animal models: Lessons from cancer research and neuroscience 16:00 Nico Müller, University of Basel Pipelines, mosaics, and mouse-shaped questions: Why the transition beyond animal experiments requires research agenda shifts 16:45 Closing Remarks 17:00 End of workshop

Here's the programme...
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Workshop poster with an image of a hand holding an organ-on-a-chip. (Title) Understanding Challenges and Opportunities for the Transition Beyond Animal Experimentation in Research and Safety Testing: What‘s New? What‘s Next? Animal use in science and safety testing persists at high levels – despite decades of advocacy and innovation in alternatives. Apart from technical challenges, this also raises urgent philosophical, ethical, legal, and social-scientific issues. This two-day online workshop focuses on new perspectives that can help to understand the intersection of scientific and human obstacles that slow down transition. Join the discussions to broaden your perspective on the animal experimentation transition and help to explore pathways to a future of innovative, responsible science. Organised by Love Hansell, Radboud U; Simon Lohse, Radboud U; Nico D. Müller, U of Basel Online, 19–20 March 2026 13:30–17:00 CET each day Register by 17 March: tinyurl.com/nam-workshop

📣 Upcoming Online Workshop, 19–20 March 2026

*Understanding Challenges and Opportunities for the Transition Beyond #AnimalExperimentation in Research and Safety Testing: What‘s New? What‘s Next?*

Register by 17 March: tinyurl.com/nam-workshop

#NAM #animalethics #philsci #animalstudies #STS

AI is threatening science jobs. Which ones are most at risk? Data-analysis and modelling positions are already becoming obsolete, but hands-on experimentalists can breathe easy for now.

"Some scientists warn of potential dangers if undergraduate students, graduate students and technicians can no longer secure academic laboratory jobs, which provide a stepping stone to other scientific positions." #AI

TPI Nijmegen | Radboud University On 25 February, a symposium will mark the launch of TPI Nijmegen: the partnership for the Transition to Animal-Free Innovation.

📣 TPI Event @Nijmegen, 25 February

"Joining Forces to Accelerate Animal-Free Innovation"

#NAM #animalstudies

Programme: www.ru.nl/en/about-us/...

Call for participation: Transitions in Emergence

Two-day conference at UNamur (Belgium) - May 12-13, 2026.

Keynote speakers: K. Crowther, S. Fletcher, T. O'Connor, E. Onnis, J. Heil and J. Wilson.

Contributed speakers: M. Stürmer, D. Bella, M. Paolini Paoletti, M. Pedroni, F. Eskens

#philsci

Dear EPSA25 participants, We are delighted to announce that the European Journal for the Philosophy of Science will be publishing a Topical Collection containing selected papers from the EPSA25 conference. Please consider submitting your paper. Submission is open to anybody who was accepted for presentation or poster presentation and attended the conference. The special issue will be edited by Julie Jebeile, Vincent Ardourel and Hannah Hilligardt. The submission deadline is 15 June 2026. To submit please go to the EJPS submission page (https://www.editorialmanager.com/epsa/) and select “EPSA25” from the drop-down list. If you have any questions please send them to: julie.jebeile@unibe.ch We very much look forward to receiving your contributions. All the best, The European Philosophy of Science Association

📣 CFP for a topical collection containing selected papers from the *EPSA25* conference:

philsci.eu/page-1075762 #philsci

OpenClaw AI chatbots are running amok — these scientists are listening in Artificial-intelligence agents have their own social-media platform and are publishing AI-generated research papers on their own preprint server.

Ugh, great:

"Agents have also begun publishing AI-generated research papers on clawXiv, […] 'These outputs reproduce the style and structure of scholarly writing without the underlying processes of enquiry, evidence-gathering or accountability […]'.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#philsci #STS

I gotta ask, sorry, will Mariah be singing too?

📣CFA -- We are inviting submissions for the next round of the *EPSA Epistemic Diversity in European Philosophy of Science* seminars

More info:
philsci.eu/Epistemic-Di...

#philsci #epistemicdiversity

Like this, perhaps?
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Wie die Industrie den Rhein mit unbekannten Stoffen verschmutzt Der Rhein gilt heute wieder als sauber. Doch unsere Recherche entlarvt einen mysteriösen Chemiecocktail im längsten deutschen Fluss. Die Industrie darf massenweise völlig unbekannte Schadstoffe einlei...

Gerade haben wir bei @correctiv.org unsere Recherche zu unbekannten Chemikalien im Rhein veröffentlicht - die große Resonanz freut uns sehr! Unerforschte Gifte gehören zu den meist unterschätzten Gefahren überhaupt.
Daher sind wird die Tage in Kölle sehr aktiv:🧵
correctiv.org/aktuelles/ka...

It is really infuriating to see how misogyny really does unite men across the sociopolitical spectrum. And, in so far as the Epstein files go, they sort women into two categories: fuckable or irrelevant. When they near a hint of accountability they complain about not being able to make women prey.

Studying asphyxiation in the lab: the role of experimental evidence in cause-of-death inquiry - History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences Like most scientific and medical disciplines, forensic medicine employs evidence from experimental studies. Yet, unlike most disciplines, forensic medicine is primarily interested in the post-hoc eval...

Can lab experiments help settle real-world death cases?
In our new paper, we look at experimental asphyxiation studies at the center of debates on deaths in custody.👇
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#philsci #philsky #HPS

Dear EPSA members, In our first newsletter of 2026, we want to announce some good news and update you on some recent developments pertaining to EPSA. The good news is that we have now secured locations not only for EPSA27 but also for EPSA29! We were very lucky this year to receive nothing less than four bids to host EPSA27; all bids were very strong and carefully prepared, and the Steering Committee found it very difficult to decide. Eventually, we settled on Warsaw, Poland, for 2027 (with Marcin Milkowski and Hajo Greif as co-chairs) and Ljubljana, Slovenia, for 2029 (with Borut Trpin as chair). More details will follow in due course, but for now, we can all be happy that the next two EPSAs are in good hands and will take place in splendid locations! This is also a good moment to thank the Steering Committee members who have concluded their term (Lilia Gurova, Federica Russo, Marcel Weber, Catherine Herfeld, Edouard Machery and Caterina Marchionni) and in particular my predecessor Stéphanie Ruphy as EPSA President. Thanks to their good work, the current Steering Committee has found EPSA to be in excellent shape, which will allow us to continue to serve the philosophy of science community in Europe in constructive ways. We also want to thank Dunja Šešelja and Mathias Frisch, who have completed their terms as Editors-in-Chief of the European Journal for Philosophy of Science, and to welcome Samuel Fletcher and Catherine Herfeld as the new Editors-in-Chief of EJPS. Speaking of EJPS, we will soon be announcing the Call for Papers for the Proceedings of EPSA25, with Julie Jebeile as guest editor for the Proceedings (plus a team of co-editors to be announced shortly). Finally, the EPSA BlueSky account is now managed by Simon Lohse; if you are on BlueSky, please follow us there at https://bsky.app/profile/epsaphilsci.bsky.social Warm Regards, Catarina Dutilh Novaes and the EPSA Steering Committee

📣 Letter with the latest updates on EPSA2027 *and* EPSA2029, changes in the steering committee, the proceedings for EPSA25, and more... #philsci

European Journal for Philosophy of Science The European Journal of Philosophy of Science publishes groundbreaking works that can deepen understanding of the concepts and methods of the sciences, as ...

Meet the new editors-in-chief of *EJPS*:

Catherine Herfeld & Samuel C. Fletcher

Here you can find more information about the associate editors and the editorial board of our journal:

link.springer.com/journal/1319...

#philsci

📣 ISiS workshop on "Scientific Understanding in the Age of Machine Learning"

#philsci #maschinelearning

February 20, 1:00-5:30PM, Radboud University: Huygens Building, room HG 01.160.

Evidence-based medicine and the promises and limits of digital health and wearable technology New approaches to biomedical evidence are emerging in relation to innovative technologies and data sources. These include digital health, which promis…

New paper, the first of 2026, and it's a big one!

📗Evidence-based medicine and the promises and limits of digital health and wearable technology, out in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#philsky #philsci #histsci

🚨 New paper out today 🚨

The message is simple: As we replace some animal experiments with alternatives, new animal experiments are also being innovated.

If our policy goal is inflicting less harm on animals in science, replacement won’t be enough. We also need a shift in model innovation. 🐭📉

Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong The pushback against ICE exposed a series of mistaken assumptions.

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"The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave."

RROSA Symposia no. 4: guest lecture Jennifer Byrne Programme Monday 2 March 2026, 10.30-12.00 HG00.616(Huygens building, ground floor, wing 6)Access free, no registration needed. Jennifer Byrne (U.Sydney) “Wrongly identified reagents in resea…

Upcoming: RROSA symposium #4 with a double lecture by @jabyrnesci.bsky.social & @willemhalffman.bsky.social

Monday, 2 March 2026, 10.30-12.00
Radboud University
Room HG00.616 (Huygens building, ground floor, wing 6)

No registration needed.

halffman.org/rrosa-symp4/

#STS #philsci #metascience

Early Arthropods

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xkcd.com/3199/

The story is not that there are two conflicting versions of what happened.
The story is that the federal government is lying about what happened.
There is plenty of evidence.
Your job, our job, is to sift that evidence and describe what actually happened ffs.

The next @4sweb.bsky.social conference will be in Toronto (not the USA 😅) October 7 - 10th. Currently accepting proposals (250 word abstracts) for Open Panels, due ⭐️February 2nd⭐️ www.xcdsystem.com/4sonline/abs... #histsci #philsci #sts #medanthro

Netzwerk mit Nebenwirkungen: Jens Spahn und der Milliardär Christan Angermayer gilt als Freund von Jens Spahn – und offenbar profitierte er als Investor von einer Großbestellung der Bundesregierung.

Jens Spahn äußert also Verständnis für die Grönlandpolitik von Trump.
Mmh. Vielleicht, weil der CDUler enge Verbindungen zum MAGA-Lager und zu Milliardären pflegt, die mit Trump absurde Pläne schmieden. Unsere Recherche mit @gabrielakeller.bsky.social ⬇️
correctiv.org/aktuelles/ge...

+++ EIL +++ 10 Jahre Übermedien +++ Eine Instanz: Seit 2016 decken wir Fehler in Medien auf und kritisieren sie. Wie alles begann und wem wir unseren Erfolg zu verdanken haben.

Wichtige Nachricht: Übermedien wird 10! 🥳