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Alisa Bokulich
@alisabokulich.bsky.social
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Professor @ Boston U, History & Philosophy of Science—esp Philosophy of Geosciences, Director Phi-Geo Research Group, Assoc @ Harvard U. Hist Sci, Radcliffe Fellow Alum. Settler, wife, & mother. 📸s my crappy phone.
Webpage: https://bokulich.org/
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Xmas tree up!
A coastal/ocean themed Christmas tree with sea stars, seahorses, whales, fish, sailboats, lighthouses, jellyfish, urchins & more
December 3, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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center4philsci.bsky.social
For those applying to the visiting fellow or postdoctoral positions and unable to access our site, the direct links to apply can be found below.

Visiting Fellow - https://ow.ly/uIna50XBrjT

Postdoctoral Fellow - https://ow.ly/uc9T50XBrjU

Please email us at [email protected] with any questions.
December 3, 2025 at 6:30 PM
alisabokulich.bsky.social
TT #PhilJobs in Philosophy Dept joint w/ Bouvé College of Health in Ethics & Health @ Northeastern University, Boston. Ph.D. in #Philosophy, #HPS #STS, #Bioethics
To apply northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...

Review of applications begins December 15 til position is filled.
Assistant Professor/ Associate Professor/ Full Professor
About the Opportunity The College of Social Sciences and Humanities and its ten tenure units are the home of the Experiential Liberal Arts. Through its research, teaching, and engagement missions, the...
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December 3, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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dustinmulvaney.bsky.social
Reminder that the CSU system is spending $17 million on ChatGPT.
hormiga.bsky.social Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 8h
Some more context on my university’s proposal to discontinue offering a Philosophy degree.

scienceforeveryone.science/humanities-a... 🧪
December 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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wolvendamien.bsky.social
Could be a solid step toward getting people pissed off enough to demand that surveillance pricing and surge pricing stop for good.
couts.bsky.social Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 1d
NEW: A newly enacted NY state law requires retailers to reveal whether it used "surveillance pricing" to decide how much you pay for goods. Target, for example, shows the alert on a pop-up when you try to buy eggs online. @regret.bsky.social—@wired.com's new investigative data reporter!—reports:
Your Data Might Determine How Much You Pay for Eggs
A newly enacted New York law requires retailers to say whether your data influences the price of basic goods like a dozen eggs or toilet paper, but not how.
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December 3, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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mpiwg.bsky.social
Next in our Institute's Colloquium series 2025/26 "Rethinking #Time in the History of Science": @profemmakowal.bsky.social on "Freezing Time: A Decade of #Cryopolitics" ❄️🕰️

🗓️ Jan 27, 2025 (14:00 CET)
📍 Harnack Haus, Berlin

🔗 bit.ly/48w3WAR

#HistSci #Anthropology @deakinuniversity.bsky.social
Poster of the MPIWG Institute’s Colloquium. It features the titles of its five events below an image that shows a colorful mixture of liquids in red, orange, yellow, green, and violet.
December 3, 2025 at 1:11 PM
alisabokulich.bsky.social
Still just rain in Boston, but eldest kid sent this bucolic scene of calfs in the newly-fallen snow at a farm in the woods.
December 2, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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theserfstv.bsky.social
Shout out to Crash Course for doing Indigenous history with some incredible free episodes already (starring Lily Gladstone no less!)
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A History of Indigenous Women with Lily Gladstone: Ep 19 of Crash Course Native American History
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December 2, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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#HPS
philsci.bsky.social Philosophy of Science Association @philsci.bsky.social · 1d
Submissions for PSA 2026 in San Diego are now open! ☀️ Link and deadlines below

Symposia ✨ 15 January 2026
Papers ✨ 15 March 2026
Posters ✨ 1 June 2026

psa26.oa-event.com/c...
December 2, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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AI is automating injustice. From housing loans to job offers, critical decisions must be free from AI-powered discrimination. That’s why today I reintroduced the AI Civil Rights Act with @repyvetteclarke.bsky.social. No bias, no exceptions.
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December 2, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Tony Burnetti and I recorded this super fun podcast in which we rank evolution's craziest adaptations. I think it turned out great! I might make this an exercise for one of my final evolution lectures next time I teach (dynamically rank / debate in class!).

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Ranking Evolution’s Most Outrageous Survival Strategies! Tier List
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December 2, 2025 at 7:38 PM
alisabokulich.bsky.social
It looks like the Philosophy of Science Association could use a little help reaching its fundraising goal for #GivingTuesday 😳 Show your pride in #philsci & chip in @ least what you'd pay for a coffee/drink. Every little bit counts & it's easy (& tax deductible) @ link below ⬇️
philsci.org/donate.php
A fundraising thermometer with goal of $15K now only at $2,300
December 2, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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lsephilosophy.bsky.social
🎥 Watch the Lakatos Award Lecture 2025 by Mazviita Chirimuuta on "Apocalyptic Technology: #AI and the Limits of #Science"

Mazviita Chirimuuta received the award for her book “The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience”

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Mazviita Chirimuuta (University of Edinburgh): Apocalyptic Technology: AI and the Limits of Science
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December 2, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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I am incredibly honored to have been invited as one of the keynote speakers for the XIV PBCS! This long-standing initiative is very supportive of graduate students & early-career researchers, so I encourage everyone to submit their abstracts! See you in Madrid next year! #HPS #HPbio #cogsci #philsky
Poster for the XIV Workshop on Philosophy of Biology and Cognitive Sciences. The background is dark green with large yellow text and decorative abstract flower illustrations in red, yellow, and green at the corners. Dates ‘18–19 June’ appear at the top right, along with the venue: UNED, Edificio de Humanidades, Paseo de la Senda del Rey 7, Madrid. The keynote speakers are Enara García (SDU), Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda (KU Leuven), and José Antonio Pérez-Escobar (UNED). A bold yellow banner reads ‘Call for Abstracts,’ with a deadline of 15 January. At the bottom is a contact email: xivpbcs@gmail.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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A couple of weeks ago I spoke at the University of Minnesota on the topic of how AI would change science.

Now you can watch online (or get AI to summarize it for you.)
Still from the video. Left: slide of surfer emerging from the waves at sunrise "Or a magical helper, here to make our lives immeasurably easier." Right: Carl Bergstrom, gesturing as he talks.
December 2, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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ferwen.bsky.social
A Christmas Carol: Dickens and the Little Ice Age paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2014/12/24/a...
December 2, 2025 at 6:18 PM
alisabokulich.bsky.social
Excited to be participating as a keynote in this conference "What Makes a Geoscience Model Useful?" next year at The Geological Society of London ⚒️ #philsci

www.geolsoc.org.uk/events/what-...
The Geological Society What Makes a Geoscience Model Useful? Home > ••• > What Makes a Geoscience Model Useful? 21 - 22 September 2026 09:00 - 18:00 Overview Speakers The meeting aims to use oral, poster and keynote presentations combined with discussion and debate sessions to progress answers to the following questions: • What makes a geoscience model useful? • How should conceptual, analogue and numerical models be used and integrated in geoscience? • How much do conceptual models inform, influence or limit data collection and interpretation? • Do digital outcrop models have significant untapped potential, for example to improve existing conceptual models? • What does it mean for a model to be predictive? • How do you find the simplest model or models able to answer the question being asked? • Are simple process models as useful as complex process models? • Do we need metrics for model complexity? • What new process models remain to be developed? geolsoc.org.uk
December 2, 2025 at 3:51 PM
alisabokulich.bsky.social
With Tom Stoppard's recent passing, I am reminded of this passage from Hapgood that served as the inspiration & epigraph of my last book. ⚛️
Photo of open book with epigraph on left page & index on right. Text: "There is a straight ladder from the atom to the grain of sand, and the only real mystery in physics is the missing rung. Below it, [quantum] particle physics; above it, classical physics: but in between, metaphysics. All the mystery in life turns out to be this same mystery, the join between things which are distinct and yet continuous, body and mind, free will and causality, living cells and life itself." Tom Stoppard, Hapgood, Act I Scene 5 Acknowledgements Introduction Intertheoretic relations: Are impe options? 1.l Introduction 1.2 Traditional accounts of redi 1.3 Theoretical pluralism 1.4 The limits of the classical 1 1.5 Decoherence and the case 1.6 Conclusion 2 Heisenberg's closed theories an 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Abgeschlossene Theorie 2.3 Holism, incommensurabil 2.4 Theoretical pluralism and 2.5 The case of Ptolemaic ast 3 2.6 The disunity of science Dirac's open theories and the r 3.1 Open theories 3.2 Structures, analogies, an 3.3 principle A gradualist model of th 3.4 Beauty and the unity of 3.5 Dirac and the Einstein-l 4 Bohr's generalization of class 4.1 The rise and fall of the 4.2 The correspondence pri 4.3 Quantum
December 2, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
December 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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SINGLE DIGITS & TEENS COMING 🥶

An arctic front arrives Thursday with snow showers & squalls, gusts to 40 & crashing temps! Plus what we're keeping an eye on for the weekend: https://1do.us/arcticblast
December 2, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Frog knocked at Toad’s door. “Toad, wake up,” he cried. “Come out and see how wonderful the winter is!”

“I will not,” said Toad. “I am in my warm bed.”
December 2, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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minouette.bsky.social
Day 2 #artAdventCalendar I made several portraits this year including Sophie Brahe (1559 or 1556 -1643) horticulturalist, astronomer, genealogist, & alchemist 🐡👩🏼‍🔬🧪🔭with the gardens at her brother #astronomer Tycho Brahe’s Uraniborg estate, where she often assisted his research, alchemical tools &
My 11” x 14” linocut portrait of Sophie Brahe, a Renaissance aristocrat in headgear, ruff, dark clothing with medallion on a wide band and a long scarf or other thin fabric draped over her shoulders with her hands folded in front of her and alchemical vessels, printed in dark bronze ink, on a bronze background. In green behind her head is a map of the gardens at Uranienborg, with her head at the centre of the diamond shaped pale green knot garden (geometric planned gardens). This is surrounded by an orchard in darker green with semicircle bump outs on each side of the diamond. The stars of Cassiopeia from De stelle nova are printed in gold on top of everything; there are stars across her chest and ruff and in the garden and the large supernova is above her head
December 2, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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mattepritchard.bsky.social
Today I’m joining the #GivingTuesday challenge to save the Museum of the Earth. As a Board of Trustee emeritus member, I see first-hand the Museum's impact on educating our community and the world about climate change, biodiversity, and our home planet. Please donate at priweb.org/support.
Save the Museum of the Earth and PRI – Secure Its Future!
In these challenging times, places like the Paleontological Research Institution (PRI) stand as beacons of hope, fostering understanding of the natural world and inspiring action for a sustainable fut...
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December 2, 2025 at 1:11 PM
alisabokulich.bsky.social
It's #GivingTuesday & PSA @philsci.bsky.social is running a fundraiser! I just made a donation to support PSA's initiatives, such as UPSS @psa-upss.bsky.social & other grad & early career support.
See where they stand with their fundraising “thermometer” on the donation page
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December 2, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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We are pouring our heart into this conference to keep it high quality, supportive, and accessible (no registration fee!). Do consider it for your #philsci content broadly conceived. I also can't wait to see Bucharest in September.
eenphilsci.bsky.social eenphilsci.bsky.social @eenphilsci.bsky.social · 1d
The EENPS 2026 call for papers & symposia is now open! 🔥🔥🔥

🗓 Submission deadline: 15 Feb 2026
Conference: 18–19 Sept 2026, Bucharest 😉

See the conference website for full details!
eenps2026.sciencesconf.org
The Sixth Biennial Conference of the East European Network for Philosophy of Science - Sciencesconf.org
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December 2, 2025 at 10:09 AM