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Philosopher of science in a previous life, short story writer in this one and comics and music lover in both.

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Steven Richard Douglas French is an emeritus professor of philosophy at University of Leeds.

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Philosophy 36%
Physics 21%
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Miami DSA @miamidsa.org · 4h
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 5h
Another Budget, another attempt to pretend that endlessly frozen fuel duties will be raised at some point in the future

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 6h
"The first complete translation of Albert Camus’s personal notebooks written between 1933 and 1959, published for the first time in one comprehensive volume."

HUGE NEWS.

press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
The Complete Notebooks
The first complete translation of Albert Camus’s personal notebooks written between 1933 and 1959, published for the first time in one comprehensive volume.   Throughout his career, French writer and ...
press.uchicago.edu

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Geeky Brummie @geekybrummie.com · 6h
Our Comic of the Week is Galactic #1 from @dstlry.bsky.social by @curtpires.bsky.social @amilcarpinna.bsky.social Lee Loughridge & @micahmyers.bsky.social - It’s ambitious, stylish, & unafraid to ask big questions about power, survival, and identity in the far reaches of space ^KB wp.me/p8WCuG-3Q3

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tRaum Books @traumbooks.bsky.social · 7h
Our newest, BLACK HOLE SCIENCE IS FILLED WITH APOLOGIES by @never.horse , is coming out in Jan, so we've reopened orders for all the little books! If you've been eyeing one/some of them, it's a great chance to mix and match 👀
ITCH: traumbooks.itch.io/the-little-b...
PAYHIP: payhip.com/b/EV3Kq
A clipart-ish image of two children in a bedroom, staring out at a giant snake floating in space outside their window. Cover for Never Angeline North's poetry collection, BLACK HOLE SCIENCE IS FILLED WITH APOLOGIES. Cover designed by North. Book released by tRaum Books. A picture of all our palm-sized paperbacks (excluding the newest, BLACK HOLE SCIENCE). In order: Read and then Burn This, by R. Merey It Helps with the Blues, by Bryan Cebulski Eusect, by C.L. Methvin Query, by Zilla Novikov Corrupted Vessels, by Briar Ripley Page A/E, by R. Merey

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Gernot Münster @gernot-muenster.bsky.social · 7h
⚛️ After a long summer break, more physics stories.
Find previous ones in my timeline.

Houtermans and the Lifespan of the Sun

In the 1950s, Fritz Houtermans was sitting in a café in Bern with a colleague, explaining how long, according to his calculations, the sun will continue to shine.
1/2
Fritz Houtermans

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Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · 7h
You may be cool, but you'll never be as cool as these two cats wearing sunglasses in the window of an optician's Boulevard St Germain in 1925
black and white photo of to cats wearing small round sunglasses in the window of a "lunetterie"

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British Journal for the Philosophy of Science @thebjps.bsky.social · 7h
Just accepted

The Unanimous Consent Approach to Value Management in Citizen Science
– Andrew Allison

Abstract in alt text or read it here:
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

#philsci #philsky
ABSTRACT. Citizen science involves collaboration between citizens and researchers. Just as is the case with scientific inquiry among trained researchers alone, both epistemic and non-epistemic values can conflict with one another within citizen science. When this happens, philosophers of science have sought to manage the various values of researchers and other stakeholders. I consider two approaches for addressing these conflicts: the transparency model and the unanimous consent model. While proponents of the former suggest that difficulties implementing this approach will be faced by both citizens and researchers, I argue that they are likely amplified in the case of citizen science: citizens face greater difficulties than researchers in making explicit other interpretations of data and clarifying major assumptions that were made, two steps of the transparency approach. Instead, I propose that the unanimous consent model be adopted to manage values in citizen science.

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The HOPOS Journal @hoposjournal.bsky.social · 9h
The Editor in Chief of #HOPOS, Matthew J. Brown, sets out his vision for the future of the journal in a new #openaccess editorial. It is "part manifesto, part call for papers, part love letter to one of my favorite fields of study."

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....
Title of the editorial with a black and white and red journal logo.

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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 10h
Good morning, while everyone is waiting for the budget to be announced it’s a good time to say that immigration is a source of prosperity for the UK and painting Britain as a hostile state is sabotaging the country. Thanks!

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 18h
When @masterreplicas.bsky.social announced Star Trek: The Starship Library, I obviously shared the news, but I hadn't planned on buying them. I'm not interested in 8-10cm replicas anymore. 😅

They sent them to me for review anyway, and... I had forgotten how cool this small format with a booklet is.
Star Trek: The Starship Library

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Center for PhilSci @center4philsci.bsky.social · 20h
Become a Visiting Fellow or Postdoc!

Applications for 2026-27 now open for Visiting Fellows and Postdoctoral Fellows!

More info and application link is available on our website at https://www.centerphilsci.pitt.edu/programs/overview/

#PhilosophyOfScience #ResearchFellowship #PostdocOpportunities

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I Support People Protesting in Support of Palestinian Action @srdfrench.bsky.social · 1d
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
Poem of the week: Missing You by Miles Burrows
The moon becomes the witty image of an isolated and contemptuously neglected elderly relation
www.theguardian.com

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George Webster @georgewebster.bsky.social · 1d
Attended this fantastic conference over the weekend to mark (~)100 years since the birth of quantum mechanics!

#philsky #philsci 🧪
Panel of 6 people in front of a slide, which reads “OXFORD QUANTUM CENTENARY CONFERENCE”

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British Journal for the Philosophy of Science @thebjps.bsky.social · 1d
New from the BJPS Review of Books

Fruitfulness: Science, Metaphor, and the Puzzle of Promise
– Chris Haufe

Reviewed by Samuel Schindler & Patrick Duerr

www.thebsps.org/reviewofbook...

#philsci #philsky
Chris Haufe, Fruitfulness | BJPS Review of Books
Samuel Schindler and Patrick Duerr review Fruitfulness, by Chris Haufe
www.thebsps.org

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Science X / Phys.org @sciencex.bsky.social · 1d
Unused energy from particle accelerators can be repurposed to produce medical isotopes like copper-67, supporting cancer diagnosis and treatment without disrupting core research activities. doi.org/hbcmjt
Particle accelerator waste could help produce cancer-fighting materials
Energy that would normally go to waste inside powerful particle accelerators could be used to create valuable medical isotopes, scientists have found.
phys.org

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 1d
BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.

🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.

This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com

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Katie McDonough @kmcdono.bsky.social · 1d
Two of my favorite people :)

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The London Economic @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social · 1d
What an interesting choice of words

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I Support People Protesting in Support of Palestinian Action @srdfrench.bsky.social · 1d
I seem to have something in my eye …

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Fifteen Years
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Jeroen Van Bouwel @jeroenvanbouwel.bsky.social · 2d
#PhilSci
jeroenvanbouwel.bsky.social Jeroen Van Bouwel @jeroenvanbouwel.bsky.social · 5d
The European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (ENPOSS) invites submissions to its 15th Conference at the University of Helsinki, 26-28 August 2026. More info here: enposs.eu
European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (ENPOSS)
enposs.eu

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Star of The Harder They Come had hits including You Can Get It If You Really Want and I Can See Clearly Now
www.theguardian.com

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Fiona Fidler @fidlerfm.bsky.social · 2d
My amazing friend and MetaMelb co-director @simine.com has won the 2025 Einstein Foundation Award! @unimelb.bsky.social @psychunimelb.bsky.social and @replicats.bsky.social are so lucky to have you

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OK Comics @okcomics.bsky.social · 2d
The OK Comics Pop-Up November SALE starts today (Monday 24th) at 11am.
In-store only. First come, first served. No reserving.
Everything is individually priced. Everything is limited.

OK Comics, 19 Thornton’s Arcade, Briggate, Leeds, LS1 6LQ

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 2d
God help thee, old man, thy thoughts have created a creature in thee

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 2d
This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’.

It’s Russian.
Collingwood @admcollingwood 田 Date joined January 2017 • Account based in Europe Veritied since Since August 2024 > 1 username change Last on January 2017 Connected via Eastern Europe (Non-EU) Android App

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d
Carrie Fisher was the blueprint.
Protect your people. Call out the predators.
#RESIST

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Laura Keating @lorekeating.bsky.social · 2d
Forever proud of this novella.
Have I improved as a writer since? Yes. Do I still love this story and these characters? YES. Do I have impossible sequel ideas? Yes, my good b*tch 🖤
Please purchase from @tenebrouspress.bsky.social , they are the realest of deals 🖤
Agony's Lodestone by Laura Keating cover

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 2d
Props to the first journalist who asks how international students are actually doing while being turned into a political football.

Could start with the dangers of reporting bullying and the way university’s research reputations are upheld by those they make most precarious (and try to silence):

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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 2d
Explore as @niallharrison reviews ARCHIPELAGO OF THE SUN by Yoko Tawada, saying the book “finds both a yearning for a state beyond language, and a joy in the necessity of it.”
Archipelago of the Sun by Yoko Tawada: Review by Niall Harrison
Archipelago of the Sun, Yoko Tawada (New Directions 978-0-811-23979-0, $16.95, 214pp, tp) September 2025. In similar vein, sometimes a novel can be about a place via its absence. Yoko Tawada’s Arch…
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