Miguel Ohnesorge

A fantastic kickoff tonight of the Boston Network for History & Philosophy of Physics, organized by @miguelohn.bsky.social & featuring talk by Peter Galison on his work with the Black Hole Initiative. #HPS ⚛️

New History & Philosophy of Physics network in Boston! Join us: open to locals and visitors. Check out the inaugural colloquium program & sign up to our mailing list and register for the inaugural lecture given by Peter Galison: www.bu.edu/cphs/boston-...

#philsci #histsci #philsky

Forgot: #philsky #philsci #histsci

Many thanks to @cristianlarph.bsky.social @erantal.bsky.social @beccajackson.bsky.social @annaalexandrova.bsky.social @federicabocchi.bsky.social for discussions at various stages and nice audiences at Cambridge, BU, UW Madison, UEA, Durham, and PSA for questions and comments :-)

Now out as preprint in Philosophy of Science. l argue that two central desiderata for measures often conflict: quantitativeness and responsiveness to stakeholder values, forcing a choice between them. The conflict poses a challenge for recent work on "legitimate" measurement. doi.org/10.1017/psa....

S5 E5 - Cristian Larroulet Philippi on Measurement in the Human Sciences The HPS Podcast - Conversations from History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science · Episode

This week, Cristian Larroulet Philipi joins us to talk about measurement in the human sciences: why it can be more philosophically complex than in the physical sciences, and how it raises pressing questions about the role of numbers in psychology, social science, and policy

#philsci #measurement

Congratulations to both of you, and to @annaalexandrova.bsky.social too!

My student, Sebastian Rodriguez Duque, has just successfully defended his dissertation on the role of ethical and social values in measurement. Next stop: two-year postdoc at Cambridge U supervised by @annaalexandrova.bsky.social . Congratulations, Dr. Rodriguez Duque! #philsky #philsci

It is a bit odd to think someone could have a PhD in earth science and write two standard works on the history of geophysics and not know the difference between g and G...

This is extremely uncharitable. She is clearly talking about g only, which is frequently presented as a constant in school textbooks and science communication (this is a public lecture!). Not to mention that g was de facto taken to be a universal constant prior to Newton.

YouTube video by The Royal Institution Rethinking the origin of plate tectonics - with Naomi Oreskes

@naomioreskes.bsky.social's brilliant @rigb.org lecture: how military secrecy delayed plate tectonic theory for 3 decades - a narrative that remains ever relevant to science today...

⚒️ 🧪 #histsci #skystorians #science #academicsky #STS #geoscience @miguelohn.bsky.social

A young couple smiling in a restaurant, where the woman is dividing the desserts for everyone to sample.

A lovely meal the other day in Porto with newlyweds 🎊 Miguel & Maria, where Maria introduced us to a few traditional Portuguese desserts such as "Bacon Pudding" & "Camel Drool" 😂 🐫🐪

Join us for this free online event to discuss the meaning, limits, and prospects of assigning numbers to the social and natural world. All online with free registration. #philsci #philsky #histsci #sts #histtech #sociology

Such a nice picture of you and Aja!

Phi-Geo at ISH Porto Matilde Carrera Boston University, USA Defining Ancestry: Conceptual Clarity to Minimize Harms [Virtual] Organized: Conceptual Challenges in the Field of Human Evolution, 14:30-16:00 Monday, 21 July, 2025 Conceptual Challenges in the Field of Human Evolution Organized: Conceptual Challenges in the Field of Human Evolution, 14:30-16:00 Monday, 21 July, 2025 Federica Bocchi University of Copenhagen, Denmark Relationship-Building and the Limits of Participatory Science Organized: Participation in Conservation in Postcolonial and Settler Colonial Contexts — Session 1, 14:30-16:00 Monday, 21 July, 2025Organized: Participation in Conservation in Postcolonial and Settler Colonial Contexts — Session 2, 16:30-18:00 Monday, 21 July, 2025 Matthew Brewer Boston University, USA Classification, Uniqueness, and Analogical Reasoning: Lessons from Biology and Geology [Virtual] Individual: Classification, 11:00-12:30 Tuesday, 22 July. 2025 Aja Watkins University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Criteria for Soil Classification Organized: How Does Dirt Become Soil? Categorizations of Soil in the Agricultural Sciences — Session 1. 14:30-16:00 Wednesday, 23 July, 2025Organized: How Does Dirt Become Soil? Categorizations of Soil in the Agricultural Sciences — Session 2, 16:30-18:00 Wednesday, 23 July, 2025 Alisa Bokulich Boston University, USA Reconstructing, Extinct Life: Analogues, Homologues, & Biomechanical Models Organized: Evolutionary Reconstruction and Explanation, 16:30-18:00 Wednesday, 23 July. 2025

Excited to be heading to the International Society for the History, Philosophy, & Social Studies of Biology (aka ISH) conference in Porto (my 1st!). Check out the great program & these talks by members of our #PhiGeo research group ⬇️ #HPS #ISHPSSB2025

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Join us for this free online event to discuss the meaning, limits, and prospects of assigning numbers to the social and natural world. All online with free registration. #philsci #philsky #histsci #sts #histtech #sociology

Summer School: The Aim and Structure of Cosmological Theory A number of challenging questions arise in contemporary cosmology, and philosophers can contribute constructively to answering them. Over the past century cosmologists have debated whether, for exampl...

Very excited for this summer school on my forthcoming book with Chris Smeenk, The Aims and Structure of Cosmological Theory!!

The book is very nearly finished. Let us know if you'd like to give feedback on a draft.

www.usi.ch/en/education...

I would read a draft for sure. Congrats to you and Chris! (I would have wanted to attend the summer school, too, under normal circumstances, but it's just been too hectic relocating my life to the States this year).

Alisa Bokulich & Wendy Parker, Understanding Data Uncertainty - PhilArchive Scientific data without uncertainty estimates are increasingly seen as incomplete. Recent discussions in the philosophy of data, however, have given little attention to the nature of uncertainty estim...

📣 My latest coauthored paper with Wendy Parker "Understanding Data Uncertainty" is finally forthcoming in /Studies in History & Philosophy of Science/:
philarchive.org/rec/BOKUDU
#philsci #philsky 🧪 #Data

Co-organized with @wmyrvold.bsky.social, the 2025 Foundations of Thermodynamics workshop will be held in NTU from 16-18 July 2025. We have a great slate of participants and I am very much looking forward to it!

Attendance is free and there will be a Zoom option. Details here: bit.ly/3SxvSNi

View from top of GBH Observatory with crystal ball of the Campbell-Stokes sunshine recorder in foreground & trees& pond far below in distance.

Miguel hiking up GBH

View of downtown Boston in distance from GBH

Lower Mills section of Neponset River and old Bakers chocolate factory.

@miguelohn.bsky.social is staying with us for week, so today took him on hike to top of Great Blue Hill to see weather observatory where they've continuously used same historic instruments since #19thC, such as this Campbell-Stokes sunshine recorder. Then walked along @neponsetgreenway.bsky.social

Congrats, David!

Job ad for position in DFG project: "Progress through Principles: An Epistemology of Foundational Assumptions Guiding Contemporary Physics"

Apply to join a team of wonderful colleagues at Philosophy at TU Dresden. I am advertising a 3-year PhD position in philosophy of science/philosophy of physics as part of the DFG project 'Progress through Principles', deadline 28.06.2024. For details: tinyurl.com/3eb2f667
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Great that you will be in Boston!

7 people behind the glass wall of Faraday’s original laboratory, surrounded by his apparatus

The only possible way to round off the @ri-science.bsky.social Geophysics conference was to stick the attendees in Faraday’s lab 🤷🏻‍♀️ Thank you all so much for coming! @miguelohn.bsky.social @alisabokulich.bsky.social

Had a fantastic time yesterday at Ri as part of the "Decoding our Planet" workshop beautifully organised by @katysduncan.bsky.social and @miguelohn.bsky.social
More info here: www.aip.org/history/deco...

Photo of workshop convenors Miguel Ohnesorge and Katy Duncan in the Royal Institution lecture theatre

Naomi Oreskes starting her keynote talk, ‘Re-thinking the origins of plate tectonics’ at the Royal Institution

Thank you @katysduncan.bsky.social and @miguelohn.bsky.social for convening such a wonderful discussion meeting on #histsci and #geophysics at @ri-science.bsky.social, and a great keynote from @naomioreskes.bsky.social

Naomi giving talk at historic Royal Institution lecture hall: Slide text: • 1920s, Vening Meinesz had pioneered precision measurement of gravity at sea. • Dutch "East Indies" • Large band of negative gravity anomaly, along the line of the Java trench. • Coincided with zone of major earthquakes, & a parallel narrow zones of active volcanoes

A wonderful talk tonight by @naomioreskes.bsky.social at the @ri-science.bsky.social on how Navy secrecy of oceanographic data impeded rise of plate tectonics.

Oh no - I hope you made it here eventually!!

I'm glad to be one of the contributing museum professionals at this