Vanessa Seifert

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#PhilSci #Philosophy #Popper

So thrilled this is coming up in just 3 days!

Sharing the updated poster for the Athens roundtable on Reconsidering Historical Epistemology (Feb 2).

Happy to send the Webex link to anyone who’d like to join online — just message me.

Do molecules have structure? The view from quantum physics | Vanessa Seifert and Alexander Franklin 6.30pm Wed 25 Feb | Vanessa Seifert, Alexander Franklin | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE

📣 Join us for the inaugural BSPS #Popper Prize lecture, delivered by philosophers of science Alexander Franklin and @vanessaseifert.bsky.social.

🗓️ Wednesday 25 February, 6.30pm - 8pm
📍 LSE Campus and online
💻 Register now to attend in-person or online!

More: www.lse.ac.uk/events/molec...

Democratising science, one step at a time Artifical intelligence is just the latest method to open up chemistry to more people

Happy new year, with the first article of 2026 already out in @chemistryworld.com !!!

www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/demo...

Why water may not be a natural kind after all ... or Por qué el agua podría no ser una clase natural después de todo!
Very cool to have an article out in the Argentinian journal Analysis Filosofico! Check it out: analisisfilosofico.org/index.php/af...

What makes a scientific breakthrough truly chemical? Why MOFs are a great choice for the Nobel prize in chemistry

The new @chemistryworld.com article is about this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry! Check it out 👇
www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/what...

The conceptual challenge of consumer safety Understanding causation can motivate product improvements

My new article @chemistryworld.com is about how consumer safety can be informed by the analysis of causal relations 👇
www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/the-...

Chemical reactions as causes? (part III) In this final article prompted by the work done during the research project "Chemical Reactions as Causes and Laws", I would like to present some of the problems and challenges that I encountered when...

The #MSCA project #CReaCaL is officially over, so here is one final post that I wrote for @jargonium.bsky.social to sum up what I did in the last couple of years. Not many answers; rather more questions came out of this work! www.jargonium.com/post/chemica...

What the smell of benzene tells us about the world A philosophical discussion about how much we can trust our senses

New article @chemistryworld.com on smell and other senses. Check it out #CReaCaL www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/what...

Women and Correspondence Women and Correspondence in the Nineteenth Century Workshop, June 19, 2025 organized with the cooperation of the Book History Lab Department...

Today Im taking part in a very different event on ‘Women & correspondence’ where I will talk abt Darwin’s correspondence w/ women and discuss it from the perspective of feminist critiques on his work

www.historyofideas.gr/2025/06/wome...

How feminist bioethics can improve women’s health From correcting research imbalances to placing value on lived experiences

Feminist philosophy of science points out the mechanisms by which sexism has systematically affected women's health and helps us appreciate the different factors that influence how knowers produce knowledge claims. www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/how-...

Jargonium asks … Kostas Gavroglu Kostas Gavroglu is Professor Emeritus at the Department of History & Philosophy of Science at the University of Athens.

For this instalment of Jargonium Asks, we are delighted to have Kostas Gavroglu Prof. Emeritus @ the Un. of Athens. He is an expert historian of chemistry, among the few who have illuminated the social, historical & philosophical aspects of early quantum chemistry
www.jargonium.com/post/jargoni...

Women's health | Chemistry World Many medical conditions affect only women, or affect them disproportionately, but women's health has historically been neglected in medical research. In this collection, we look at the gender gap in h...

🚨 Today @chemistryworld.com launched a new collection on women's health. From menstruation to menopause, the articles reveal the stark gaps in medical research that have left women overlooked for far too long, and the people working to change the narrative: www.chemistryworld.com/collections/... 🔬💊

Chemical reactions as causes? (part II) Some further thoughts on the nature of reactions

Im keeping a sort of diary of my research during the #CReaCaL project through a series of short essays in @jargonium.bsky.social. @erc.europa.eu This is part II of my thoughts around chemical reactions as causal relations:

www.jargonium.com/post/chemica...

Bridging the Humanities with Chemistry | Jargonium Established by early-career researchers with a shared research interest in history and philosophy of chemistry, Jargonium showcases short essays on chemistry and alchemy from the perspective of humani...

Jargonium is..
*a chemical element that turned out to be a compound
* a blog about chemistry
* bridging the humanities with chemistry
🧪Check it out! www.jargonium.com

Symbols and tables in chemistry Looking beyond today's periodic table

Symbols, pictograms and tables have always been part of chemical practice. Delving into that story is quite exciting! Here are some snippets of it in my new article @chemistryworld.com #CReaCaL @erc.europa.eu

www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/symb...

The Limits of the Periodic Table — Chalk In the quest for new chemical elements, scientists have pushed physics to its breaking point. Their efforts may take us beyond the bounds of the periodic table. Vanessa Seifert

A new print magazine is out called @chalk-magazine.bsky.social & Im honoured to be in the first issue! I talk abt the periodic table & the limits in discovering elements- what does this mean about chemical discovery? 🙏 @willgarbett.bsky.social & Amy Louise!!!

www.chalk-magazine.com/articles/the...

Alexander Bird: Knowing Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022, 304 pp., €67.88 (Hardback), ISBN: 9780199606658 - Journal for General Philosophy of Science Journal for General Philosophy of Science -

My review of Alexander Bird’s book ‘Knowing Science’ just came out @jgps.bsky.social . If you want to get an idea of what’s it about before reading the actual thing, here are my impressions! #msca #creacal

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

YouTube video by PSDI_UK Units, Symbols, and Terminology in the Physical Sciences in and for the Digital Era

Very honoured to talk at the "Units, Symbols, and Terminology in the Physical Sciences in and for the Digital Era" conference, held at the wonderful Burlington House, the house of the @rsc.org! Thank you @psdi-uk.bsky.social Jeremy Frey & Victoria Hooper! #CReaCaL
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Amp...

Dr Vanessa Seifert

How #AI will change the future of #Chemistry❓

First #speaker of this meeting 🎤

🔸 Dr Vanessa Seifert, @vanessaseifert.bsky.social, Research Associate, Department of #Philosophy, @bristoluni.bsky.social.

🔹 Prediction, explanation, and #chemical progress in the age of AI.

🌐 www.vanessa-seifert.com

BBC World Service - CrowdScience, Is water wet? The wetness of water seems obvious - but dive into the science and it's not so clear cut

I tried to give my take on whether water is wet for the BBC World Service - CrowdScience! The episode hosts chemists and material scientists too so this is a really nice & rounded way to approach the question. Here is the link:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

Classifications, racial discrimination and Covid-19 Lessons with philosophical significance for how we group people and objects

New article @chemistryworld.com
#CReaCaL #ERC #MarieCurie #MSCActions 👇

www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/clas...

Thank you Wayne!!!

Thank you so much Richard!!! I still remember my first day in Bristol as a phd student when you welcomed us as head of department! How time flies!!!

❤️❤️❤️

Thank you very much!!

Thank you Alisa!!!

I don’t know what to say abt this apart from how honoured and thankful I am. This paper really took a life of its own from the very beginning it came out. It’s a genuine product of interdisciplinarity, merging the philosophy of physics with chemistry.

ScaM workshop: on scale and measurement in the sciences - Centre for Philosophy and the Sciences (CPS) Read this story on the University of Oslo's website.

Interested in scales and measurement? 📐 With #AssemblingLife and #CPS we are organising a two days workshop on “ScaM: scales and measurement in the sciences”. We have a great lineup of speakers. Info and registration ➡️ www.hf.uio.no/english/rese...

YouTube video by desmond Murray Vanessa Seifert: January 30, 2025 - Chemistry and Philosophy

Here is the talk I gave to undergrad chemists at Andrews University about philosophy of science & chemistry. Presenting philosophical issues to non-philosophers is hard and I wish I could explain some things a bit more carefully but what can you do!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=toPY...