Simon Lohse (@simonlohse) — Bluesky Profile

4 hours ago

Join our Cloud HD Video Meeting Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise cloud communications.

We’ll combine brief presentations from the contributing authors and Q&A sessions.

👩‍🏫 Speakers
Anne Fenoy • Mara Floris • Cristina Ganz • Noemi Paciscopi • Wendy Rogers • Mary Jean Walker • Sloane Wesloh

🔗Zoom link
polimi-it.zoom.us/j/9934976800...

1 2 0 0

1 day ago

Evolutionary Theory in the Sociocultural Domain and Its Criticism | 3 Evolutionary approaches to explaining socio-cultural phenomena abound. These diverse research programs import concepts, research strategies, and/or methods from

Featuring a chapter by Martina and me:

"Evolutionary Theory in the Sociocultural Domain and Its Criticism" 🤓

www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

0 0 0 0

1 day ago

Cultural Evolution and Social Ontology | Interdisciplinary Perspective This volume explores connections between two growing and complementary fields of research: cultural evolutionary theory and social ontology. It sheds light on

📖 Published today (ebook):

*Cultural Evolution and Social Ontology*

Edited by Martina Valković & @thomasreydon.bsky.social

www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...

#philsci #socialontology #culturalevolution

8 2 1 0

2 weeks ago

Please re-skeet!

3 2 0 0

4 days ago

Lauren Wilson Welcome!

For tomorrow’s ISiS Colloquium, we will have Lauren Wilson from University of Exeter to give a talk titled “Diversity within Genetic Studies of Complex Traits”. If you wish to join, please send us a message!

www.lhwilson.com

1 1 0 0

4 days ago

International Women's Day: there is much to be done in NL - DutchNews.nl As the world celebrates International Women’s Day, how does the Netherlands fare in international gender equality rankings? According to the most recent Global Gender Gap report published by the Worl...

#InternationalWomensDay

www.dutchnews.nl/2026/03/inte...

0 1 0 0

2 weeks ago

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

9 6 1 1

1 week ago

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.

5 1 1 0

1 week ago

Workshop – “Postgenomic Intersections: Epistemology and Ethics for the Exposome and Microbiome” – META | PoliMi

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

8 2 0 0

1 week ago

#academicchatter

26 9 1 1

2 weeks ago

Taft Postdoctoral Fellowship, College of Arts & Sciences Taft Postdoctoral Fellowship, College of Arts & Sciences

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...

18 13 3 0

2 weeks ago

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...
👇

2 0 0 0

2 weeks ago

📣 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

9 6 1 1

2 weeks ago

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

0 0 0 0

2 weeks ago

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/...

1 2 0 0

2 weeks ago

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

8 3 1 0

1 month ago

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

13 8 0 0

1 month ago

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

4 3 2 0

1 month ago

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

0 0 1 0

1 month ago

European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA) - Epistemic Diversity in European Philosophy of Science (Online Seminar Series) - 2nd Edition

📣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

7 3 0 0

1 month ago

Like this, perhaps?
bsky.app/profile/edip...

1 0 0 0

1 month ago

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...

623 254 9 8

1 month ago

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.

7,525 1,837 152 62

1 month ago

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

12 2 1 0

1 month ago

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

22 12 0 3

1 month ago

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

28 4 1 0

1 month ago

📣 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.

7 2 2 0

1 month ago

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

15 6 1 0

1 month ago

Lane-Petter’s Pipeline: Why reliably decreasing animal research takes more than replacements

🚨 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. 🐭📉

8 3 1 0