Are you anxious about publishing in #philosophy & could use some guidance? Postdoctoral fellow Boaz Schuman has prepared a video covering tips, ins & outs, and dos & don'ts for taking a 📃 from completion to print in a peer-reviewed journal 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Izc5... #philsky #AcademicSky #HPS
✒️ Sommige onderzoekspistes beginnen met een ware queeste. Lang zocht Antje Van Kerckhove tevergeefs naar Linda Valins, auteur van 'When a Woman’s Body Says no to Sex'. Op Cultuurgeschiedenis.be lees je wat die moeilijke zoektocht ons vandaag vertelt.
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🖋️New blog post!
In the run up to her PhD-defence CUH-member Alessandra De Mulder reflected on the promises and limitations of digital methods in historical research.
👉Read her blog “Up for auction: one historian’s opinion on digital tools” here:
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The new issue of the JHI features a review essay by Naomi Sussman: "Building the Future with the Past: Indigenous Authorship and the Function of Ethnography": muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
This article is now free to read without a subscription.
What does the philosophy of intuitionism have to do with a language for aliens? Daniele Sansoni explains it to us! This week, we have the second part of our series about Hans Freudenthal and the development of LINCOS. Read it here: www.shellsandpebbles.com/2026/03/02/a...
L’origine des #chevaux rajeunit de 6 millions d’années !/
De oorsprong van #paarden lijkt 6 miljoen jaar 'jonger' te zijn !
dailyscience.be/24/02/2026/l...
(Etude financée par BELSPO et mené par/ BELSPO gefinancierde studie van het @naturalsciences-be.bsky.social )
The biophilia hypothesis holds that we have an innate predisposition to be drawn to #nature. Y. Joye & @andreasdeblock.bsky.social review the evidence in its favor, find it wanting, and suggest that #culturalevolution offers a better alternative www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #evosky #philsci
Tomorrow, the Flemish Young Academy are pleased to welcome the Young Academy of Sweden. Together, they will take a closer look at the freedom of science and art alongside broader tensions surrounding democracy, public institutions, and trust in expertise.
More information here: bit.ly/4big1fx !
Franz Cumont
𝗔𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗟𝗶𝗳𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗥𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗣𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗺. 𝗟'𝗘́𝗴𝘆𝗽𝘁𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘂𝗲𝘀. 𝗟𝗲𝘀 𝗠𝗮𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗲́𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗲́𝘀
𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗵𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀
Dario Cellamare, Francesco Massa, Florian Audureau, Alain Martin, Thomas Meurisse, Pierre Bonnechere, Philippe Swennen
Plus d'Infos: bit.ly/4rzzD4B
#Egyptology #Philosophy
More information about the lecture by Katherine Kinzel, historian of post-Kantian European philosophy, and the full lecture series on their website: www.tapas.ugent.be/the-politics...
You still have a few hours to clear your agenda for the lecture 'History as Destruction' by Katherina Kinzel, co-hosted by the Sarton Centre at the Library Lab Magnel (UGent) or via Teams. It is part of the series 'The Politics of Historicization' from the Ghent Centre for Meta and Public History.
✒️ In 1906 kwam Hyacinthe Vanderyst in de Congo Vrijstaat aan. Maarten Langhendries verkent in deze blog hoe Vanderyst in de kolonie als Darwinistische arts-missionaris schipperde tussen wetenschap en religie.
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New Element in the #PhilBio series by Silvia De Cesare—free to download until March 2! De Cesare examines the thorny issue of 'evolutionary progress,' recounting the arguments against and in favor of cashing out this contested notion 👇📕 www.cambridge.org/core/element... #evosky #HPS #philsky
✒️ Er is de afgelopen tijd menig woord gevallen over foutieve citaten, maar het is zeker geen nieuw fenomeen. Els Minne toont in de nieuwste blog op Cultuurgeschiedenis.be dat valse citaten al lang vóór AI voor controverse zorgden.
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The Botanical Garden Meise preserves important herbaria that are not only scientific collections, but also specimens of great historical importance.
Read more about the herbarium of the Russian aristocrat Alexey Kirillovich Razumovsky (1748–1822) on the Meise blog: bit.ly/4rQxmSd.
Link naar de aflevering op de website van de podcast zelf (waar je ook verdere info vindt over de podcast):
podcastfilosofie.transistor.fm/episodes/tho...
Suzanne Bachelard "educated more than a generation of French historians and philosophers of science". Ties van Gemert writes on her life and work & translates her lecture “Epistemology and the History of the Sciences”.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Mathematician Sofya Kovalevskaya was the first woman to:
+ Earn a doctorate in #mathematics (in the modern sense)
+ Be appointed to a full professorship in mathematics
She was also one of the first women to work for a scientific journal as an editor. She died #OTD in 1891.
#WomenInSTEM
Why is trying important? How does one move from art to science and back? Our very own Maura Cassidy Burke interviewed Peter Galison about black holes, objectivity, and more! Read it on the blog: www.shellsandpebbles.com/2026/02/02/o...
We're happy to announce our 12th ROTO Workshop: "Diversity in Motion". It will be held on March 26-27 in Bochum. Please register here: rotoworkshop2026.wixsite.com/diversity/co... and tell us if you'll participate in person or online. Registration and participation is free and everybody is welcome!
Heeft academische vrijheid een geschiedenis? Welke uitdagingen of methodologische moeilijkheden duiken op wanneer je dit thema onderzoekt?
In de nieuwste blog van Cultuurgeschiedenis.be reflecteert Kaat Wils op deze vragen.
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Final reminder 📢 We are looking for a #philbio or #philphysics postdoc for an interdisciplinary project exploring the boundary between living and nonliving systems through the lens of self-organization & active matter 👇 www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... #philjobs #philsky #HPS #devbio Please share!
OUT NOW: Humanimalia 16.1 (2025), special issue on “Elephant (Research) Routes”, guest edited by Violette Pouillard and Marianna Szczygielska. 🐘🐘🐘
With essays on Babar, Avi, Ziggy, Arikomban, Kalloor Komban, Soorya, and Hansken, any many more!
Read it for free here: humanimalia.org/issue/view/1...
De tiende en laatste blogtekst van Christiaan Engberts over 600 jaar KU Leuven! 📜🌎
Daarin blikt hij, naar aanleiding van de publicatie van zijn boek 'Decentering Leuven University', terug. Is de KU Leuven een unieke of typisch Europese universiteit? 📖
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Our colleague Pieter Adriaens has published a new Dutch-language introduction to #PhilMind for scientists & philosophers! He covers topics such as modularity, psychopathology, comparative psychology & free will—and much more! 👇 www.pelckmansuitgevers.be/this-is-ment... #philsci #philsky #AcademicSky
The deadline for the next Day of Contemporary History is approaching! Don't forget to submit your abstracts.
The 2026 edition on 29/04, organized by the BVNG-ABHC and the University of Antwerp, will focus on the use of AI in (Belgian) historical research, heritage management, and education.
The national centre for the history of science (CNHS-NCGW) is organizing a series of talks at the library Riches Claires in Brussels! See pic for more info or check the website: astrolabium.be
#histsci
Tomorrow (29.01, 16h/17h, Central European/Finnish time), Herman Paul will give the talk "The Return of Truth in an Age of Post-Truth: What Historical Theorists Can Do" in our joint research seminar. For more info and the Zoom link, please see here: www.oulu.fi/en/events/re....
All welcome!
✒️ Dinosauriërs zijn al miljoenen jaren uitgestorven, maar toch drukten ze hun stempel op de inrichting van een museum. De Iguanodons, opgegraven in het mijndorpje Bernissart, werden dé eregasten in het Natuurhistorisch Museum in Brussel. 🦕
Benieuwd hoe? 👉
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Appel à candidatures pour le Collegium d'Académie royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique!
📆 15 février 2026
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