Anna Alexandrova
@annaalexandrova.bsky.social
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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
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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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Good bit of history. Shows yet again that it’s not written in the sky what scientific measurement means. Axiomatic basis evolves even if it isn’t infinitely flexible #philsci
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"In the 1930s, the British Association for the Advancement of Science established the Ferguson Committee to investigate the possibility of psychological attributes being measured scientifically. In its Final Report (Ferguson, et al., 1940), Campbell and the Committee concluded
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Great to have you in the UK, Megan! Hope you manage to continue your links with #philsci. Here’s your chance @stsucl.bsky.social
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Sad about Diane Keaton - will never forget her hilariously convoluted but spot on monologue in Love and Death
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Great photo of Lotte's relative Lise Meitner who by the way lived in Highsett @chrisbrooke.bsky.social
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"And then he shuts the door on Annie Hall". Good bye Annie Hall... you were immortalised in Simpsons (among other places).
S14E22 - Moe Retelling the Godfather to Maggie
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Congrats Pablo, you've outlasted the system.
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Superintelligence is not required for AI to undermine solidarity. When AI provides ind-l estimates of risk of disease etc, these estimates (accurate or not) wreck uncertainty, i.e the basis of pooling risk n hence of socialized healthcare n welfare programs. Solidarity is impossible w/o uncertainty.
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great to see Elliott looking good!
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a sheepish vote for two shorter shorter papers. I am at the point of battle with my attention span when I best take in papers I can listen to while walking and my walks are about an hour long. I am not proud of it and I hope others feel differently
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Apparently the current discount rate in the US federal government cost benefit analysis is 7% 😳
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Geoff Mann reviews Liliana Doganova's book on the history of social-discount-rate economic analysis in the US and how the federal govt ditched political/ethical/prescriptive obligations to the future for a "descriptive" philosophy of market forces. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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Classical Vienna. -- Passageway in the first district. #Vienna #photography #photographyOnBlueSky #Austria
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Karl Jaspers Award is given for the best unpublished paper in the area of philosophy of psychiatry by a trainee in the disciplines of philosophy, psychiatry, or psychology.

Deadline for submission for 2025 Karl Jaspers Award is Sunday, December 7, 2025

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Are you a phd student? Are you in the vicinity of one and want to help them with their bad life choices? Then this is for you! #philsci
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✨Don't forget✨ PSA Office Hours are back! Join us this Thursday, October 9 at 12 PM EST with S. Andrew Schroeder. Sign up at the link below to save your spot!

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King’s admissions team working very hard to convince applicants of the value of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and other arts and humanities degrees. Godspeed, may these words be heard by young people filling out their UCAS forms.
Can you figure out what all these jobs have in common? #cambridge #uni #careers #ucas #studyatkings
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King’s admissions team working very hard to convince applicants of the value of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and other arts and humanities degrees. Godspeed, may these words be heard by young people filling out their UCAS forms.
Can you figure out what all these jobs have in common? #cambridge #uni #careers #ucas #studyatkings
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Congratulations to all three!
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Stefan Zweig, The World of Yesterday, p. 436
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In Russia I have seen the Swan Lake of Bolshoi quality set by Grigorovich himself. It was perfect, clinical, and lifeless. I never thought the Swan Lake can be funny, camp, erotic, and moving to tears. Matthew Bourne is a genius who reminds us to never stop reinterpreting art.
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Mind blowingly good. Speechless
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No, I don't think Williams had any epistemology of thick concepts. Just to note I don't think consultation of the public (whatever that is) is necessary for responsible deployment of thick concepts. It's too high and too bureaucatic a bar for many cases. Still it has a place of course...
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Congratulations, Marion! A very compelling thesis. It’s so great to see the literature on thick concepts in science exploding even though Bernard Williams himself thought that thick concepts is what differentiates ethics from science. Thank you for tagging me