Last lecture of SocSci H1F: Explanation in the Social Sciences, the class that @laurennross.bsky.social and I co-teach at UCI. The class brings together the philosophy of science on explanation with case studies from International Relations, illustrating how explanation matters for social science. 🧵
Congratulations Danielle! 🎉
Berlin! (with @tonychemero.bsky.social, @francesegan.bsky.social, and @laurennross.bsky.social)
Later this month in Berlin, with @laurennross.bsky.social @okaydaniellle.bsky.social @gualtiero.bsky.social
@francesegan.bsky.social @davidcolaco.bsky.social
www.merex-project.org/workshop-2026
How is current genomics impacted by social, political, and ethical assumptions?
@yashaddad.bsky.social and I had the pleasure of presenting this issue in our newest work (link below)
#popgen #STS #STEM #philsky #HPbio
I was invited to give a talk in the community last night on Trump's second-term foreign policy. I thought I'd share my slides and bullet points here too.
The Money Signal | New book by @daniellethomsen.bsky.social, @ucirvine.bsky.social political science professor, explores how fundraising matters in American politics
@uchicagopress.bsky.social @uofcalifornia.bsky.social
"Most medical trainees have never seen measles or its complications, muscle rigidity from tetanus, or an infant struggling to breathe from pertussis....Now educators must prepare trainees for a world we deliberately worked to leave behind." www.statnews.com/2026/01/12/m...
Call for Abstracts!
The Center for Philosophy of Science invites submissions for the upcoming workshop, Social Ontology and Empirical Inquiry: Conflicts and Connections (April 11-12, 2026).
Deadline: January 15th
Details: https://ow.ly/eFpj50X9T2o
#PhilosophyOfScience #CallForPapers
Sometimes you have to work hard to remember that this is the actual world.
Causation, correlation, and attempts to explain ALS (aka Lou Gehrig’s disease). Great article on a devastating disease. #philsci #philsky
In work led by Samantha Kleinberg @healthailab.org and with Phyllis Illari, and Dave Lagnado. Joins up the Stevens Institute of Technology, University of College London @ucl.ac.uk , and UC Irvine @ucirvine.bsky.social @ucisocsci.bsky.social
#philsci #philsky #cogsci
Call for Papers for “The Epistemology of Medicine Conference” hosted by LMU Munich June 25-26 2026. @lmu-mcmp.bsky.social
Talk/paper submission deadline is January 31, 2026!
Speakers: Enno Fischer, Ina Jäntgen,
Ulrich Mansmann, Lauren Ross
Jacob Stegenga & Jon Williamson
#philsci #philsky #hps
I've got a fully-funded PhD studentship open at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social, investigating social learning about metacognition & awareness, w/ behavioural studies & neuroimaging (fMRI) - thanks to @leverhulme.ac.uk
More details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPV831/p...
#cogsci #neuroskyence
Understanding scientific explanations | As a Ph.D. candidate in the top-ranked @ucirvine.bsky.social Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, Jaehyun Lee investigates the very nature of scientific inquiry
@uofcalifornia.bsky.social
I am accepting graduate students for the UCI Cognitive Sciences PhD program for Fall 2026. Check out my lab website - www.relcoglab.org for our recent themes. Our funded work focuses on combinatorial reasoning, moral decision-making, and conceptual cognition in humans and large language models.
Looking forward to this!
#philsci #cogsky #CognitiveNeuroscience
www.merex-project.org/workshop-2026
@tonychemero.bsky.social @dcm.social.sunet.se.ap.brid.gy @davidcolaco.bsky.social @francesegan.bsky.social @gualtiero.bsky.social @laurennross.bsky.social @okaydaniellle.bsky.social
Amazing talk by Sally Haslanger @shaslang.bsky.social on "Social systems & their micro, meso, & macro interactions'' @ucisocsci.bsky.social & dinner afterwards with Ari Koslow, Tori Cotton @wittgencism.bsky.social, Cailin O’Connor @cailinmeister.bsky.social & Kate Ritchie @kateritch.bsky.social !!!
Enjoyed discussing "Why Science & Philosophy Need Each Other" w Megan Peters @meganakpeters.bsky.social
We discuss the importance of engagement between science & philosophy, our experience w this & simplified conceptions of science & philosophy 🧠📕
Thanks Tev Naidu! #philsky #philsci #sciencesky
Huzzah! The PhilSci preprint archive for #philsci papers is finally on Bsky! Give them a follow to keep up with latest work in field ⬇️
@philsci-archive.bsky.social
So bad even political science (and philosophy) professors are showing up. With @daniellethomsen.bsky.social 🇺🇸
Here for democracy, science and #noKings #philsky #philsci #STS #sciencesky #HPBio
The Causality in Cognition Lab at Stanford University is recruiting PhD students this cycle!
We are a supportive team who happened to wear bluesky appropriate colors for the lab photo (this wasn't planned). 💙
Lab info: cicl.stanford.edu
Application details: psychology.stanford.edu/admissions/p...
Congratulations, Megan! So excited and happy for you! Will seriously miss you at UCI but looking forward to staying in touch and all your exciting next steps! 🎉🎉🎉
📣 BIG NEWS EVERYONE. I am so excited to announce…
🎉 I’m moving to University College London @ucl.ac.uk to join the Experimental Psychology department in @uclpals.bsky.social! 🎉
The big move happens in spring/summer. So I’m already exploring recruiting staff & students at UCL for fall 2026!
Thanks for the wonderful talk, Tobi! Great having you out!
Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was published OTD in 1962.
“[W]e have now acquired a fateful power to alter and destroy nature. But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.”
🌱🐋 # HistSTM 🧪🌎 #philsci #philsky #WomeninSTEM
Enjoyed talking with Benjamin Kuper-Smith about: philosophy of science, mechanism, explanation, and career topics for his BJKS Podcast @bjkspod.bsky.social #philsci #philsky #HPS
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Check out other great episodes too!
www.buzzsprout.com/1390924/epis...
Check out our chapter (led by @beakr.bsky.social) on cognitive ontology here! : philpapers.org/archive/KRIC...
We propose a developmental approach to 'cognitive homologies' –– (cognitive capacities that are "the same across species") –– as a means for carving up cognition.
Our approach adopts...
Another great summer development program at UCI LPS @ucisocsci.bsky.social
#philsci #philsky #HPS
The peer review process: 3 strangers yelling “more cowbell” at your life's work
