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Massimiliano Simons
@masssimons.bsky.social
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Assistant Prof. in Philosophy of Technology Maastricht University, fascinated by #synbio, #experimentation, #historicalepistemology, #HOPOS, #HOPOT, #sciencefiction and #conspiracytheory - he/him

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Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 1d
Awesome!
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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d
My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.
Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books
A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.
www.pilsencommunitybooks.com
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Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · 1d
If you’d like to read a paper about World War One, history and philosophy of science—especially Sarton’s New Humanism and Reichenbach’s logical empiricism—, and scientific humanism, I wrote one!: www.cambridge.org/core/books/s... #philsky
Scientific Humanisms (Chapter 5) - Science and Humanism
Science and Humanism - October 2025
www.cambridge.org
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Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 2d
Wow, impressive!
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Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 2d
I would have loved to be at #SHOT2025, sadly our paper on the history of Dutch philosopher-engineers was rejected ! Maybe next time
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Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social · 3d
And we're back! Andreas Fickers, director of @c2dh.uni.lu, kicks off tonight's plenary by welcoming @shothisttech.bsky.social to Luxembourg. He notes that the theme of #SHOT2025 (Technologies of Migration, Migrating Technologies) is esp. relevant given recent threats to global academic freedom.
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Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social · 3d
And we're back! Andreas Fickers, director of @c2dh.uni.lu, kicks off tonight's plenary by welcoming @shothisttech.bsky.social to Luxembourg. He notes that the theme of #SHOT2025 (Technologies of Migration, Migrating Technologies) is esp. relevant given recent threats to global academic freedom.
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Society for the History of the Philosophy of Technology (HPT) @hptsociety.bsky.social · 10d
On this day in 1924, Gilbert Simondon was born. A pioneering French philosopher of technology, Simondon challenged us to see machines not as passive tools but as entities with their own modes of existence.
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Hanna Lucia Worliczek @hworliczek.bsky.social · 10d
#Job #PhilSci #HPS
Fully funded PhD-position at Bielefeld University, Philosophy of the Biomedical Sciences), deadline Oct 30, 2025
Job ad: uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/451...
On the program: blogs.uni-bielefeld.de/blog/isosnew...
Doctoral Researcher in Philosophy of the Medical S...
The History and Philosophy of Medicine Group, led by Prof. Lara Keuck, is looking for a highly motivated candidate for a three-year PhD project in phi...
uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org
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Maastricht University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social · 10d
How did #computers go from niche machines to everywhere, all at once? It turns out one of the oldest technologies, #books, was key.

Join our MUSTS colloquium by @patrickmccray.bsky.social on Wednesday 8 October in which we will explore how literature shaped the rise of computing.

shorturl.at/UJsqM
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Reposted by Adrian Vickers, Christine Kooi, Anthony Burke , and 7 more

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 14d
“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.
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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · 15d
Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in History of Modern Science - UCL - Department of Science and Technology Studies (STS) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOV745/a... #skystorians 🗃️
Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in History of Modern Science at UCL
Discover an exciting academic career path as a Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in History of Modern Science at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!
www.jobs.ac.uk
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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 16d
#Postdoc at Technische Universität Berlin in digital humanities & history/philosophy/sociology of science #philsci #STS. ERC project investigates digital communication within the ATLAS collaboration at CERN

Deadline: October 13, 2025
www.jobs.tu-berlin.de/en/job-posti...
#PhilJobs
Job Posting I-390/25: Research Associate - salary grade E13 TV-L Berliner Hochschulen – Job Postings at Technische Universität Berlin
Faculty I - Humanities and Educational Sciences, Institute of History and Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Literature / History and Philosophy of Modern Science
www.jobs.tu-berlin.de
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Society for the History of the Philosophy of Technology (HPT) @hptsociety.bsky.social · 16d
On this day in 1889, Martin Heidegger was born. Heidegger holds a prominent place in the history of the philosophy of technology as he is often taken to be one of the first philosophers to take technology seriously.
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Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 17d
Would read it
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Patrick @plferree.bsky.social · 18d
PhD project in philosophy of science in practice. The main PI is Sara Green. Check it out!

employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...
PhD Project in Philosophy of Science: Philosophical Perspectives on Animal Models in Translational Neuroscience
employment.ku.dk
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Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 18d
Cannot but disagree
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Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 19d
Goes on my reading list! Very much in favor of more metaphilosophy of science!
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Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com · 19d
I am quite excited to share a new preprint on the prospects for a 'metaphilosophy of science'—a second-order inquiry into the concepts, assumptions, aims, and methods that underpin philosophy of science itself. 👇📃 philsci-archive.pitt.edu/26661/ 1/3 #philsci #philsky #HPS #HPbio #metaphilosophy
Toward a Metaphilosophy of Science - PhilSci-Archive
philsci-archive.pitt.edu
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Reposted by Kathleen Kennedy, Massimiliano Simons, François Guesnet

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 19d
AN #EARLYMODERN POST!! They still exist! And a lovely one at that, for five years and with the brilliant people at KCL who have turned that place in quite the hub of exciting early modern research.

Run, don’t walk.
Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World at King's College London
Discover an exciting academic career path as a Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!
www.jobs.ac.uk
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Reposted by Fabián Muniesa, Massimiliano Simons

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Society for the History of the Philosophy of Technology (HPT) @hptsociety.bsky.social · 21d
Today, we celebrate the life and contributions of Mario Bunge (1919–2025), a prominent philosopher of science who also reflected on technology.
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Elaine Ayers @eayers0.bsky.social · 23d
36 mo postdoc / research fellow position in Philosophy, History, and/or Social Studies of the Life Sciences in the STS dept. at Technical Universtiy of Munich, apps due Oct 31: #histphil #histsci #histSTM

www.sts.sot.tum.de/en/sts/arbei...
Jobs
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Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) @clpskuleuven.bsky.social · 24d
Hello, #AcademicSky! We are the Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) at KU Leuven. Our senior and junior researchers focus on #logic, #epistemology & #philsci. We’re here to share our work and connect with logicians and philosophers of science worldwide—help us spread the word! #philsky
Cobblestone pathway leading to the red-brick Institute of Philosophy building at KU Leuven in Belgium (home of the Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science), framed by ivy-covered walls, arched windows, and lush greenery with purple wisteria flowers in the foreground.
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Dr Juliette @ferrydanini.bsky.social · 25d
Le mood board que j'ai envoyé et la couverture qu'on a eu ✨ poke @samlepine.bsky.social
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Bart Penders 🟥 @penders.bsky.social · 25d
"Epistemic oligarchies: capture and concentration through science reform", a new preprint by Sven Ulpts (not here), Sheena Bartscherer (also not here), @nicolecnelson.bsky.social and me. Read it here: zenodo.org/records/1713... 1/
Epistemic oligarchies: capture and concentration through science reform
In this paper we describe how current efforts to reform science create oligarchic power structures within science and prepare scientific products for the uptake by existing oligarchic actors like Big ...
zenodo.org
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The HOPOS Journal @hoposjournal.bsky.social · 25d
In the latest #HOPOS Fenner Tanswell, Brendan Larvor & Colin Rittberg "examine the origins of the dialectical approach to the philosophy of mathematics."

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1...
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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 27d
The vision of human-out-of-the-loop science fundamentally mistakes what knowledge production is. It aims at the production of, wait for it, knowledge: a thing that definitionally involves an epistemic agent or agents, unless you are theistic about it.
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Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · Sep 12
If only Latour would have defined his own project as a revival of Descartes, all would have been fine
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Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · Sep 12
I also see it regularly in Francophone conferences.. do not underestimate the French loyalty to some kind of rationalism that they see threatened by a social study of science
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Reposted by Michela Massimi, Alan Richardson, Dolly Jørgensen , and 2 more

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Sabina Leonelli @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social · Sep 12
JOB AD: If you research philosophy, history or social studies of biology, with interest in agroecology, crop science or environmental intelligence, consider applying for 3-year postdoctoral fellowship in Munich! Deadline for applications: 31/10, details www.sts.sot.tum.de/en/sts/arbei... #philsci
Jobs
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Reposted by Richard McElreath, Ingo Rohlfing, Massimiliano Simons

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Sabina Leonelli @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social · Sep 12
A quick reminder to all those who care about open research to consider joining us for the FOR2026 Conference in the Future of Open Research at the Technical University of Munich in May 4-6, 2026! Deadline for paper and poster proposals: 30 September

opensciencestudies.eu/for-2026-con...
FOR 2026 Conference – A Philosophy of Open Science for Diverse Research Environments
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