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Very nice piece!

Cool project!

The Engine of Scientific Discovery: How New Methods and Tools Spark Major Breakthroughs Abstract. How do we spark new scientific discoveries? Why do some breakthroughs seem even accidental? And most importantly, how can we accelerate them and

⚗️🔭 How do we spark new scientific discoveries? Why do some breakthroughs seem accidental?

The new book 'The Engine of Scientific Discovery' by CPNSS Research Associate Alexander Krauss is for anyone who wants to understand how we make discoveries.

➡ Link to the book: doi.org/10.1093/oso/...

The view up a back street of pompeii leading from left to right and ending with a white travertine public fountain. The sky is blue and the few puffy white clouds seem lined up in an oblique line to mirror the perspective of the road

Such a perky little day to be on site. #Pompeii

A Philosophical Introduction to Language Models -- Part I: Continuity With Classic Debates Large language models like GPT-4 have achieved remarkable proficiency in a broad spectrum of language-based tasks, some of which are traditionally associated with hallmarks of human intelligence. This...

@cameronbuckner.bsky.social and @raphaelmilliere.com have a great philosophical introduction to LLMs. It is divided into two parts. The topics they discuss could be useful in the building of your syllabus:
First part: arxiv.org/abs/2401.03910
Second part: arxiv.org/abs/2405.03207

Text reads: ERC PhD studentship: The Ethics and Philosophy of Science of Machine Learning. Applications are open for this funded PhD Studentship, to begin in September 2026. Application Deadline: 16 March 2026, More info: edin.ac/46cHXPd

Headshot of Dr Sullivan. She has blue eyes, and a short brown bob haircut with a fringe. Text on image reads: Dr Emily Sullivan, Co-Director of the CTMF & Senior Lecturer in the Philosophy of Technology.

@schoolofppls.bsky.social are now accepting applications for a fully funded PhD studentship in the Ethics of AI and Philosophy of Science, supervised by CTMF Co-Director Dr Emily Sullivan!

The PhD is part of the @erc.europa.eu project TOY: Machine learning in Science and Society: A dangerous toy?

Grown up

Fragments of fresco retrieved during excavations of one the peahens striding along the yellow cornice against a backdrop of a colonnade.

Two excavators digging the other half of the peacock room in Oplontis. Behind them the facing wall being revealed and the fresco that mirrors the known wall coming to light. One of the peahens can be seen in situ on the the left side above a panel of bright red.

The excavation site from above showing where the excavators are working in the foreground in relation to the known half of the peacock room behind the hoarding in the background.

The peacock from the well known peacock room in Oplontis. It stands on the yellow cornice with its tail draped over the edge. Behind it the colonnade painted in perspective.

An undeniably emotional experience seeing the other half of the ‘peacock room’ in Oplontis being excavated and meeting their counterparts: the two peahens that graced the facing wall. What a delightfully playful idea by the artist.
Compliments to my colleagues, excavators & conservators. Spectacular

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@zotero.org Name Normalizer now supports normalizing Publishers, Locations, and Journals too!

Get suggestions like "Springer" → "Springer" (standardized) or "Cambridge, MA" → "Cambridge, Massachusetts"
Your metadata just got way more consistent. github.com/milekpl/zote...

#Zotero

I don’t know who needs to hear this but philosophy of animal minds is an actual field, and if you have an “idea” about animal minds that you want to publish you need to engage with the literature. Same with animal ethics. Signed: a frustrated reviewer.

Perhaps it could serve as the basis for a nice Stanford encyclopedia entry, should the editors receive proposals.

Fantástico! 👏👏

Interested about #innovation and #science?

Check the recent book by my fantastic colleague Krist Vaesen, "Neomania: How our obsession with innovation is failing science and how to restore trust"

It is open access and free to download here: books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp...

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Following our introductory course, A Taste of Latin, we are running a survey for people interested in taking language courses in Ancient Greek or Latin. If you think you may be interested, please complete the survey here by Friday 20 February.

ERC PhD studentship: The Ethics and Philosophy of Science of Machine Learning | Scholarships and Student Funding | Student Administration This is a four-year ERC funded PhD studentship (starting in September 2026).

Good news - we have a new ERC-funded 4-year PhD Studentship at the University of Edinburgh, based in Philosophy and our Centre @technomoralfutures.bsky.social, supervised by Dr Emily Sullivan; the project applies philosophy of science to assessing ML's epistemic & social value. Apply by 16 March!

🏛️ The beautiful mosaic floor of the Roman baths at the sanctuary of Poseidon, Isthmia, Greece. The baths were built in 150 CE on the site of pre-existing ancient Greek baths. 📹 My own.

PhD Scholarship

My Centre is a unique place to do a PhD in Philosophy, because you can be in constant contact with experts in veterinary medicine, psychology, zoology and policy and be part of a team united by a shared interest in animal minds. We now have our 1st ever PhD scholarship: www.lse.ac.uk/sentience/phd

As a final reminder, the deadline for commentary proposals for our BBS target article, "Metabolic considerations for cognitive modeling," is next Tuesday, February 3. For details, follow the link. Please share if you can

@phaueis.bsky.social

#philsci #cogsky #CognitiveNeuroscience

Wall painting of three women wearing gold-and-blue dresses.

For #FrescoFriday here's a classic: 'Ladies in Blue' is a restored Minoan fresco from Knossos. The colour blue often appears on frescoes in garments worn by the elite, indicating blue was a status symbol in the Bronze Age Aegean and East Mediterranean.

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🏺 #Archaeology

Classical Archaeology Explore the diverse archaeology of the Classical world in Antiquity

Don't forget that our collection of #ClassicalArchaeology is still completely free for the whole of January! Check out the latest research, from Greek sculpture to Canaanite burial and everything in between, at www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Octopuses prompt rethink of why animals evolve big brains A popular idea suggests a link between big brains and a rich social life, but octopuses don't fit the pattern, which suggests something else is going on

This is a fascinating bit of research diving into why some octopuses have larger brains than others. #science #intelligence #evolution
It was great talking to @michael.muthukrishna.com, @pkatz.bsky.social and Robin Dunbar about this for @newscientist.com
🧪 🦑 🧠

www.newscientist.com/article/2512...

Bas van Fraassen Wins Schock Prize - Daily Nous Bastiaan "Bas" van Fraassen, professor emeritus of philosophy at Princeton University, has been awarded the 2026 Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy. The Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy is ...

Amidst all the craziness, some news worthy of celebration:

dailynous.com/2026/01/21/b...

One of the most scenic Roman roads in Britain runs from the fort at Burrow fort north to the fort at Low Borrowbridge in the lune gorge running along the slopes of the Howgill fells in Cumbria. The shot shows the road passing Low Carlingill farm. The road continues up to the Eden Valle #Margary7c

Animal Consciousness (first paragraph of the article). First published Sat Dec 23, 1995; substantive revision Tue Jan 13, 2026. Is there something it’s like to be an octopus, a bee, a snail? For much of the twentieth century, research into animal cognition tended to avoid questions of consciousness, following the lead of human neuroscience, where such questions were also marginalized (see the entries on animal cognition, methods in comparative cognition). However, the growing profile of consciousness science since 2000 has brought the topic of consciousness back into the scientific mainstream (see the entry on the neuroscience of consciousness), and this has led to resurgent interest in studying conscious experience in other animals.

I've been working for ages on a comprehensive revamp of the Stanford Encyclopedia Entry on "Animal Consciousness", with new sections on non-Western perspectives, methodological challenges and evolutionary big pictures, and it's out today: plato.stanford.edu/entries/cons.... Hope you find it useful!

Only two days left to send your manuscript for the special issue on artificial consciousness in Philosophy and the Mind Sciences! philosophymindscience.org/index.php/ph...

British Journal for the Philosophy of Science | LinkedIn British Journal for the Philosophy of Science | 4 followers on LinkedIn. Journal of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science, published by University of Chicago Press | Founded in 1950, the B...

We're no longer posting on twitter. Since we wanted to ensure our authors continue to receive as much coverage as possible for their work, we can now also be found on linkedin:
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🔔 We're launching our Bluesky account today! Can you help us spread the word by retweeting this post? 😀

#Theoria #diamondopenaccessjournal

Neomania Contemporary science faces a profound poly-crisis: replication failures, weak theories, poor generalizability, and declining public trust. Neomania contends that these symptoms stem not merely from fl...

A long-awaited, intellectually provocative book by Krist Vaesen, a professor specialized in philosophy of science and innovation, in which he actually criticizes innovation 😉, is coming out this February!
www.linkedin.com/pulse/neoman...

Very happy to share that a short entry on 'Metacognition' that @brianodegaard.bsky.social and I wrote for the Philosophical Glossary of AI is now live! You can check it out here:
aiglossary.co.uk/2025/12/18/m...

And the full glossary here:
aiglossary.co.uk/index/

i've updated my history of AI poster. new version is on my website. 🥳