Anna Alexandrova
@annaalexandrova.bsky.social
Philosophy of science, methodology of social sciences, wellbeing/happiness studies, evidence based policy, measurement/quantification. Professor at Cambridge HPS, Fellow of @kingscollege.bsky.social
https://philpeople.org/profiles/anna-alexandrova
https://philpeople.org/profiles/anna-alexandrova
Pinned
The dataset of this survey (data anonymised) is open and available to anyone. Please use it! Federico and I conceived of it and carried it out in 2021 while at @crasshlive.bsky.social. Part of Expertise Under Pressure project. Many UK colleagues, namely 1188, completed it. Thank you! #openscience
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it's so sad to read that he was shunned for his name despite his anti-nazi work during the war. statistically speaking this means he was shunned by people who did less to resist the nazis than he did. human beings are so stupid. i'm going to bed.
Also, I recently found out about Herman's much, much more fun and badass younger brother Albert.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_...
Albert Göring - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 30, 2025 at 9:06 AM
it's so sad to read that he was shunned for his name despite his anti-nazi work during the war. statistically speaking this means he was shunned by people who did less to resist the nazis than he did. human beings are so stupid. i'm going to bed.
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Everything old is new again, I get to recycle my Good Times with Francis Galton line again and again and again web.archive.org/web/20230608...
November 30, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Everything old is new again, I get to recycle my Good Times with Francis Galton line again and again and again web.archive.org/web/20230608...
Summary of expert opinion on 1) Social media n mobile phone use reduce attention span, resulting in major long-run negative wellbeing effects. 2) Urgent intervention in the form of restrictions on social media n phone use is needed to protect the attention span n normal development of children.
World Wellbeing Panel
wellbeing.research.mcgill.ca
November 29, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Summary of expert opinion on 1) Social media n mobile phone use reduce attention span, resulting in major long-run negative wellbeing effects. 2) Urgent intervention in the form of restrictions on social media n phone use is needed to protect the attention span n normal development of children.
Thank you for catching this, Erik! Keep collecting those Author Processing Charges @natureportfolio.nature.com
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
November 27, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Thank you for catching this, Erik! Keep collecting those Author Processing Charges @natureportfolio.nature.com
So much to admire in my colleague at @kingscollege.bsky.social Azim Surani. Now that he is collecting accolades for discovery of genomic imprinting, there are videos telling his unlikely story. Many obstacles but also a fateful encounter w Bob Edwards (of IVF fame) who became his PhD supervisor...
Kyoto Prize Laureate Introduction: Azim Surani
YouTube video by Kyoto Prize
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November 27, 2025 at 4:46 PM
So much to admire in my colleague at @kingscollege.bsky.social Azim Surani. Now that he is collecting accolades for discovery of genomic imprinting, there are videos telling his unlikely story. Many obstacles but also a fateful encounter w Bob Edwards (of IVF fame) who became his PhD supervisor...
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Lots of great content in the latest newsletter from the Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (SPSP is so good at fostering community). If you scroll all the way to the last feature I pour my heart out in the Proust Questionnaire. So good of Saana Jukola to give me the opportunity 🙏
ok, so I'm in serious procrastination mode, which led me to read the SPSP-newletter cover to cover, enjoying the interview with @annaalexandrova.bsky.social (among other things)!
sway.cloud.microsoft/Et71m6wUBR3w...
Over and out
Please call me out if you see me on here again today
#SPSP
sway.cloud.microsoft/Et71m6wUBR3w...
Over and out
Please call me out if you see me on here again today
#SPSP
SPSP Newsletter # 24
November 2025
sway.cloud.microsoft
November 25, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Lots of great content in the latest newsletter from the Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (SPSP is so good at fostering community). If you scroll all the way to the last feature I pour my heart out in the Proust Questionnaire. So good of Saana Jukola to give me the opportunity 🙏
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The @scottpolar.bsky.social are looking for a librarian. This is a rare opportunity! Work with (probably) the world's largest dedicated polar library alongside archive and museum colleagues. The dream 😍
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Librarian
The Library of the Scott Polar Research Institute is one of the most comprehensive collections of published polar information in the world. This highly specialist reference collection, which attracts
www.cam.ac.uk
November 25, 2025 at 8:45 PM
The @scottpolar.bsky.social are looking for a librarian. This is a rare opportunity! Work with (probably) the world's largest dedicated polar library alongside archive and museum colleagues. The dream 😍
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Nice toolkit supported by one of our small grants for how science communicators can make their messages memorable through understanding how people remember things. By @hanachronism.bsky.social
livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3194747/
livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3194747/
Storytelling for Science Communication Toolkit: Cognitive Biases, Memory & Objectives
Humans have used stories to understand the world around us for millennia, from folktales to news stories, and from movies to the gossip we collect in the local pub. Science communicators have long bee...
livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk
November 25, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Nice toolkit supported by one of our small grants for how science communicators can make their messages memorable through understanding how people remember things. By @hanachronism.bsky.social
livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3194747/
livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3194747/
Lots of great content in the latest newsletter from the Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (SPSP is so good at fostering community). If you scroll all the way to the last feature I pour my heart out in the Proust Questionnaire. So good of Saana Jukola to give me the opportunity 🙏
ok, so I'm in serious procrastination mode, which led me to read the SPSP-newletter cover to cover, enjoying the interview with @annaalexandrova.bsky.social (among other things)!
sway.cloud.microsoft/Et71m6wUBR3w...
Over and out
Please call me out if you see me on here again today
#SPSP
sway.cloud.microsoft/Et71m6wUBR3w...
Over and out
Please call me out if you see me on here again today
#SPSP
SPSP Newsletter # 24
November 2025
sway.cloud.microsoft
November 25, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Lots of great content in the latest newsletter from the Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (SPSP is so good at fostering community). If you scroll all the way to the last feature I pour my heart out in the Proust Questionnaire. So good of Saana Jukola to give me the opportunity 🙏
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It's been three (!) years since I last posted something on my blog, but you still gotta love cells, as they say... so here's a little piece discussing philosopher Talbot Brewer's talk/essay "What Good Are the Humanities?"
lovecells.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/w...
#philsky 💙📚
lovecells.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/w...
#philsky 💙📚
What Good Are the Humanities?
This is the title of a recorded talk (2017) and essay by Talbot Brewer, professor of philosophy at the University of Virginia. He proceeds to answer this question by first elucidating what the huma…
lovecells.wordpress.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:52 AM
It's been three (!) years since I last posted something on my blog, but you still gotta love cells, as they say... so here's a little piece discussing philosopher Talbot Brewer's talk/essay "What Good Are the Humanities?"
lovecells.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/w...
#philsky 💙📚
lovecells.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/w...
#philsky 💙📚
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🚨We're hiring! A tenure track position at McGill University in the area of #bioethics and / or philosophy of science, with a special focus on the ethics of medical technologies. Please share widely. #philsky #ethics #philsci philjobs.org/job/show/30402
Assistant Professor (Tenure Track), Department of Equity, Ethics, and Policy and Department of Philosophy, McGill University
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An international database of jobs for philosophers
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November 25, 2025 at 2:02 AM
🚨We're hiring! A tenure track position at McGill University in the area of #bioethics and / or philosophy of science, with a special focus on the ethics of medical technologies. Please share widely. #philsky #ethics #philsci philjobs.org/job/show/30402
Saturday night TV. Seeing his sketches and how Turner’s style progressed was great. Of the way too many interviewed guests, Leslie Primo is 👍. But Orna Guralnik was such a predictable cartoon psychoanalyst that by the end I was finishing her sentences (which were naturally about Turner’s mother)
BBC Two - Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks
JMW Turner’s sketches reveal how he became one of Britain’s most celebrated artists.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Saturday night TV. Seeing his sketches and how Turner’s style progressed was great. Of the way too many interviewed guests, Leslie Primo is 👍. But Orna Guralnik was such a predictable cartoon psychoanalyst that by the end I was finishing her sentences (which were naturally about Turner’s mother)
Starting the last day of PSA Around the World Central and Eastern Europe with a session on scientific understanding. @henkderegt.bsky.social is the first plenary speaker on understanding by an artificial system
The PSA Around the World 2025 is coming soon: Nov 6, 14 & 22 (online)!
Hosted by @philsci.bsky.social and @eenphilsci.bsky.social it highlights #philsci from, about, and connected to Central and Eastern Europe.
Great lineup, still time to register!
www.philsci.org/psa_around_t...
Hosted by @philsci.bsky.social and @eenphilsci.bsky.social it highlights #philsci from, about, and connected to Central and Eastern Europe.
Great lineup, still time to register!
www.philsci.org/psa_around_t...
PSA Around the World 2025 - Philosophy of Science Association
www.philsci.org
November 22, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Starting the last day of PSA Around the World Central and Eastern Europe with a session on scientific understanding. @henkderegt.bsky.social is the first plenary speaker on understanding by an artificial system
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Thank you! Here a review of the debate: plato.stanford.edu/entries/scie...
Scientific Research and Big Data (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
plato.stanford.edu
November 22, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Thank you! Here a review of the debate: plato.stanford.edu/entries/scie...
Lorraine Daston can take any topic and make it profound and exciting. Even insurance. This was a wonderful lecture
How much risk is too much for the world’s top insurers?
Did you miss Lorraine Daston’s lecture in September on how the insurance industry confronts catastrophic risk?
👀You can watch the full recording on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/BEqrapJURxI?...
Did you miss Lorraine Daston’s lecture in September on how the insurance industry confronts catastrophic risk?
👀You can watch the full recording on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/BEqrapJURxI?...
November 21, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Lorraine Daston can take any topic and make it profound and exciting. Even insurance. This was a wonderful lecture
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Open specialty. Ability to teach central topics at u/g and p/g level in ethics is essential. Also desirable, e.g. Political Philosophy, History of Philosophy (including post-Kantian Philosophy up to Nietzsche), Aesthetics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind. Closing date Dec 21 2025 #philsky #philjob
Assistant Professor in Philosophy
The Faculty of Philosophy is seeking to appoint an Assistant Professor in Philosophy with effect from 1 September 2026. This post requires teaching expertise at a level that is at the forefront of
www.cam.ac.uk
November 20, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Call for proposals for articles for a special issue of this well edited journal #econsky #histsci #climate
History of Climate Economics
Editors of the Special Issue Christophe Cassen (CNRS, CIRED Paris) Béatrice Cointe (CNRS, CSI Paris) Antoine Missemer (CNRS, CIRED Paris) Call for Papers In 2018, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Eco...
journals.openedition.org
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Happening now! #philsci #metascience
Reminder! Starts in one hour - “How science is changing” livestream event from 6pm EST tonight! Join MCPS director Alan Love, Lydia Patton, Jacqueline Sullivan, and Craig Callender.
@profess.bsky.social
@westernu.ca
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@profess.bsky.social
@westernu.ca
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November 20, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Happening now! #philsci #metascience
Fascinating to think about the longterm consequences of this for social science. Might it lead to a reversal of the 'empirical turn' in economics and return to theory? A growth in popularity of in person qualitative research? Prioritisation of objective indicators in quant work?
new paper by Sean Westwood:
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
November 20, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Fascinating to think about the longterm consequences of this for social science. Might it lead to a reversal of the 'empirical turn' in economics and return to theory? A growth in popularity of in person qualitative research? Prioritisation of objective indicators in quant work?
With LLMs destroying online survey research I feel especially grateful to have collected this data in time. bsky.app/profile/josh...
The dataset of this survey (data anonymised) is open and available to anyone. Please use it! Federico and I conceived of it and carried it out in 2021 while at @crasshlive.bsky.social. Part of Expertise Under Pressure project. Many UK colleagues, namely 1188, completed it. Thank you! #openscience
November 20, 2025 at 10:48 PM
With LLMs destroying online survey research I feel especially grateful to have collected this data in time. bsky.app/profile/josh...
Open specialty. Ability to teach central topics at u/g and p/g level in ethics is essential. Also desirable, e.g. Political Philosophy, History of Philosophy (including post-Kantian Philosophy up to Nietzsche), Aesthetics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind. Closing date Dec 21 2025 #philsky #philjob
Assistant Professor in Philosophy
The Faculty of Philosophy is seeking to appoint an Assistant Professor in Philosophy with effect from 1 September 2026. This post requires teaching expertise at a level that is at the forefront of
www.cam.ac.uk
November 20, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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It’s been a frustrating week so far - digging our way out of the house and then digging our way back in to the house each day. But my cycle ride home today makes up for it all. Winter here is so beautiful (not all the time!)
November 19, 2025 at 1:44 PM
It’s been a frustrating week so far - digging our way out of the house and then digging our way back in to the house each day. But my cycle ride home today makes up for it all. Winter here is so beautiful (not all the time!)
Extremely well put. Amazing that this gets called feminism today. A testament to the infinite flexibility of ideologies
November 19, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Extremely well put. Amazing that this gets called feminism today. A testament to the infinite flexibility of ideologies
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Fascinating morning visiting the Niels Bohr Archive - with Bohr’s handwritten diagram of the atom, a model of the box used in the 1930 Solvay debate with Einstein, and even Bohr’s pipe still smelling of tobacco! 🤩
November 19, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Fascinating morning visiting the Niels Bohr Archive - with Bohr’s handwritten diagram of the atom, a model of the box used in the 1930 Solvay debate with Einstein, and even Bohr’s pipe still smelling of tobacco! 🤩
Views of the river Cam from my walks. On the left is a busy Sunday morning for rowers in Fen Ditton. On the right the quiet stretch in Newnham
November 19, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Views of the river Cam from my walks. On the left is a busy Sunday morning for rowers in Fen Ditton. On the right the quiet stretch in Newnham