Alok Srivastava
@somatictropes.bsky.social
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I just learned that David Peterson's book is coming out in April. Excited to read it and to know that he will spend April-July at the University of Hannover!
#philsci, #sts, #psychology, #metascience
cup.columbia.edu/book/the-unb...
#philsci, #sts, #psychology, #metascience
cup.columbia.edu/book/the-unb...
The Unbuilt Bench | Columbia University Press
Psychological experts are omnipresent across public and private spheres. Nonetheless, psychology has always been dogged by questions about its authority and ... | CUP
cup.columbia.edu
February 25, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I just learned that David Peterson's book is coming out in April. Excited to read it and to know that he will spend April-July at the University of Hannover!
#philsci, #sts, #psychology, #metascience
cup.columbia.edu/book/the-unb...
#philsci, #sts, #psychology, #metascience
cup.columbia.edu/book/the-unb...
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If you're in the Netherlands, join us for this little "political economy/ecology meets political epistemology/ontology" event next Monday afternoon, 24 Feb
February 18, 2025 at 9:25 PM
If you're in the Netherlands, join us for this little "political economy/ecology meets political epistemology/ontology" event next Monday afternoon, 24 Feb
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Democracy Docket is tracking the 42 most important Trump accountability lawsuits related to democracy. Here is an update on some of those cases. To stay informed on the efforts to hold the Trump administration accountable, subscribe to our free newsletters: newsletters.democracydocket.com/bluesky
February 14, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Democracy Docket is tracking the 42 most important Trump accountability lawsuits related to democracy. Here is an update on some of those cases. To stay informed on the efforts to hold the Trump administration accountable, subscribe to our free newsletters: newsletters.democracydocket.com/bluesky
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Dear federal scientists: If you have been affected by the probationary firings and would be willing to speak with Science, please reach out to me by email ([email protected]) or on Signal. We can guarantee annonymity.
February 14, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Dear federal scientists: If you have been affected by the probationary firings and would be willing to speak with Science, please reach out to me by email ([email protected]) or on Signal. We can guarantee annonymity.
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Can confirm
ALTMAN, on Musk:
“.. I wish he would just compete by building a better product. .. Probably his whole life is from a position of insecurity, I feel for the guy... I don't think he's, like, a happy person.”
@bloomberg.com
“.. I wish he would just compete by building a better product. .. Probably his whole life is from a position of insecurity, I feel for the guy... I don't think he's, like, a happy person.”
@bloomberg.com
February 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Can confirm
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As I say every year on Women In Science Day:
There are unfathomably many ways to be a woman.
There are unfathomably many ways to be a scientist.
Attacks on women and attacks on science go together, and it takes strength across the spectra of gender and science to stop them from breaking us down.
There are unfathomably many ways to be a woman.
There are unfathomably many ways to be a scientist.
Attacks on women and attacks on science go together, and it takes strength across the spectra of gender and science to stop them from breaking us down.
February 11, 2025 at 5:56 PM
As I say every year on Women In Science Day:
There are unfathomably many ways to be a woman.
There are unfathomably many ways to be a scientist.
Attacks on women and attacks on science go together, and it takes strength across the spectra of gender and science to stop them from breaking us down.
There are unfathomably many ways to be a woman.
There are unfathomably many ways to be a scientist.
Attacks on women and attacks on science go together, and it takes strength across the spectra of gender and science to stop them from breaking us down.
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Registration for Integrated HPS 10 (scheduled to take place at Caltech from 27-29 March 2025) is open: sites.google.com/view/integra... Consider joining us and feel free to share widely! #philsci #hps #histSTM
Integrated HPS - Conferences
International Conferences on Integrated History and Philosophy of Science
sites.google.com
February 1, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Registration for Integrated HPS 10 (scheduled to take place at Caltech from 27-29 March 2025) is open: sites.google.com/view/integra... Consider joining us and feel free to share widely! #philsci #hps #histSTM
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This isn't "I Told You So", because this stuff was obvious to any fool. But looking back at my column from last October made me feel it might be worth circulating again. (Sorry, does need a subscription...)
www.theneweuropean.co.uk/philip-ball-...
www.theneweuropean.co.uk/philip-ball-...
Critical mass: Should science be free from politics?
Scientific American magazine has endorsed Kamala Harris, but many in the science community have their concerns
www.theneweuropean.co.uk
January 29, 2025 at 3:41 PM
This isn't "I Told You So", because this stuff was obvious to any fool. But looking back at my column from last October made me feel it might be worth circulating again. (Sorry, does need a subscription...)
www.theneweuropean.co.uk/philip-ball-...
www.theneweuropean.co.uk/philip-ball-...
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For @us.theguardian.com, I wrote about how Silicon Valley’s right-wing politics go back to the dotcom mania of the 1990s — and how they’re far more central to the tech industry than we’ve previously thought
www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
‘Headed for technofascism’: the rightwing roots of Silicon Valley
The industry’s liberal reputation is misleading. Its reactionary tendencies – celebrating wealth, power and traditional masculinity – have been clear since the dotcom mania of the 1990s
www.theguardian.com
January 29, 2025 at 2:24 PM
For @us.theguardian.com, I wrote about how Silicon Valley’s right-wing politics go back to the dotcom mania of the 1990s — and how they’re far more central to the tech industry than we’ve previously thought
www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
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Latest revision of my SEP entry Feminist Perspectives on Science is now online: plato.stanford.edu/entries/femi...
Feminist Perspectives on Science (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
plato.stanford.edu
January 28, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Latest revision of my SEP entry Feminist Perspectives on Science is now online: plato.stanford.edu/entries/femi...
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I'm not an AI expert. But IMO, the biggest take away is that our biggest AI companies tried to make competition about how much money they could spend. Locking out others.
Deepseek turned that upside down. Which could open the door to many smarter, more entrepreneurial competitors
Deepseek turned that upside down. Which could open the door to many smarter, more entrepreneurial competitors
Curious what you think about DeepSeek and how it could affect Trump’s ‘nose distance’ plan to rule the world.
January 28, 2025 at 5:02 AM
I'm not an AI expert. But IMO, the biggest take away is that our biggest AI companies tried to make competition about how much money they could spend. Locking out others.
Deepseek turned that upside down. Which could open the door to many smarter, more entrepreneurial competitors
Deepseek turned that upside down. Which could open the door to many smarter, more entrepreneurial competitors
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"“It would not have been possible for us to take power or to use it in the ways we have without the radio,” said the Nazis’ chief propagandist Joseph Goebbels in 1933, and it is no longer hyperbolic to substitute his name for Musk and radio for social media."
lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...
lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...
The Case for Kicking the Stone | Los Angeles Review of Books
Philip Ball finds Nicholas Carr’s “Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart” disturbingly compelling.
lareviewofbooks.org
January 28, 2025 at 11:37 PM
"“It would not have been possible for us to take power or to use it in the ways we have without the radio,” said the Nazis’ chief propagandist Joseph Goebbels in 1933, and it is no longer hyperbolic to substitute his name for Musk and radio for social media."
lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...
lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...
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Frank Wilhoit seems very topical today: "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
January 28, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Frank Wilhoit seems very topical today: "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
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I'd like to note the outrage of overediting a Nobel laureate in his area of expertise, and that a lot of writers (including me) have had horrible experiences of overediting in the legacy media: not just changing language but meaning and often values. Making your voice and views into theirs.
Krugman says the editors at the Times editorial page were increasingly trying to water down his columns and arguments www.cjr.org/analysis/pau...
Paul Krugman on Leaving the New York Times
The paper wanted to take away his newsletter or make him write less frequently, he says.
www.cjr.org
January 25, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I'd like to note the outrage of overediting a Nobel laureate in his area of expertise, and that a lot of writers (including me) have had horrible experiences of overediting in the legacy media: not just changing language but meaning and often values. Making your voice and views into theirs.
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Yes! Enough bending over backward
Baltimore's mayor, Brandon Scott, alluded to the possibility he might be jailed over the city "simply doing the right thing" on its immigration policies. "We are prepared for that," he said, via @emilyopilo.bsky.social @leeosanderlin.bsky.social
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-pow...
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-pow...
Baltimore will not change immigration policies, Scott says, despite arrest threat
A Justice Department official directed prosecutors across the nation to investigate and charge officials who don’t comply in carrying out the administration’s mass deportation agenda
www.thebaltimorebanner.com
January 26, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Yes! Enough bending over backward
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January 26, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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If you're interested in theory in biology, please consider applying for this EMBO|FEBS Lecture Course "Emergence & Evolution of Multi-Level Regulatory Systems", organized by @yoginho.spore.social.ap.brid.gy, @nrepina.bsky.social, and James DiFrisco. meetings.embo.org/event/25-mul... #philsci #evobio
Venice Summer School 2025: Emergence & Evolution of Multi-Level Regulatory Systems
Biological systems comprise multiple levels of organization , from molecules, organelles, and cells, to the multi-cellular structures that form whole tissues, organisms, and ultimately societies and …
meetings.embo.org
January 26, 2025 at 3:53 PM
If you're interested in theory in biology, please consider applying for this EMBO|FEBS Lecture Course "Emergence & Evolution of Multi-Level Regulatory Systems", organized by @yoginho.spore.social.ap.brid.gy, @nrepina.bsky.social, and James DiFrisco. meetings.embo.org/event/25-mul... #philsci #evobio
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Submissions are still open for SPAN2025! If you're a neuroscientist or philosopher of neuroscience, be sure to submit an abstract and share the CFP with your friends!
#neuroscience #philosophy #neuro #phil #philscience
#neuroscience #philosophy #neuro #phil #philscience
We've just added some additional speakers to SPAN2025! Be sure to submit an abstract by February 1st and join us at WashU May 1-3 🥳 philandneuro.com
January 24, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Submissions are still open for SPAN2025! If you're a neuroscientist or philosopher of neuroscience, be sure to submit an abstract and share the CFP with your friends!
#neuroscience #philosophy #neuro #phil #philscience
#neuroscience #philosophy #neuro #phil #philscience
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We are pleased to announce that the EENPS is organising an online reading group on pragmatism and feminism in the philosophy of science.
The sessions are planned to last one hour, but if there are additional questions and concerns we can also... [1/6]
The sessions are planned to last one hour, but if there are additional questions and concerns we can also... [1/6]
December 4, 2024 at 5:09 PM
We are pleased to announce that the EENPS is organising an online reading group on pragmatism and feminism in the philosophy of science.
The sessions are planned to last one hour, but if there are additional questions and concerns we can also... [1/6]
The sessions are planned to last one hour, but if there are additional questions and concerns we can also... [1/6]
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#HPS
"It has become common to belittle the humanities for their irrelevance...Yet perhaps most important part of our method is...to ask whether our questions are in fact the right ones...we need to think—ever more carefully & critically—about other questions we’ve left unchallenged for far too long"
"It has become common to belittle the humanities for their irrelevance...Yet perhaps most important part of our method is...to ask whether our questions are in fact the right ones...we need to think—ever more carefully & critically—about other questions we’ve left unchallenged for far too long"
November 29, 2024 at 5:15 PM
#HPS
"It has become common to belittle the humanities for their irrelevance...Yet perhaps most important part of our method is...to ask whether our questions are in fact the right ones...we need to think—ever more carefully & critically—about other questions we’ve left unchallenged for far too long"
"It has become common to belittle the humanities for their irrelevance...Yet perhaps most important part of our method is...to ask whether our questions are in fact the right ones...we need to think—ever more carefully & critically—about other questions we’ve left unchallenged for far too long"
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Wow-incredible history of Dubrovnik IUC & more!
"threats were real... academics were subject to questioning at secret police headquarter...Wilkes, Newton-Smith, Hare & Taylor were 1st to visit...They talked about... #philsci, Descartes, #philmind, all somehow considered threatening by authorities"
"threats were real... academics were subject to questioning at secret police headquarter...Wilkes, Newton-Smith, Hare & Taylor were 1st to visit...They talked about... #philsci, Descartes, #philmind, all somehow considered threatening by authorities"
I’m so glad Aeon found a way to use this picture for my article. It’s of Kathy Wilkes, taken by the secret police.
aeon.co/essays/how-a...
aeon.co/essays/how-a...
How a Cold War underground university smuggled in Western ideas | Aeon Essays
During the Cold War, Oxford philosophers worked together to aid dissidents behind the Iron Curtain. I was one of them
aeon.co
November 29, 2024 at 1:23 PM
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New chapter co-authored with Bill Bechtel on Mechanisms, organisms and biological organization. Part of an open-access book on "New Mechanism. Explanation, Emergence and Reduction" published by Springer.
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Organisms Need Mechanisms; Mechanisms Need Organisms
According to new mechanists, mechanisms explain how specific biological phenomena are produced. New mechanists have had little to say about how mechanisms relate to the organism in which they reside. ...
link.springer.com
December 12, 2023 at 4:19 PM
New chapter co-authored with Bill Bechtel on Mechanisms, organisms and biological organization. Part of an open-access book on "New Mechanism. Explanation, Emergence and Reduction" published by Springer.
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
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Cfa: Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (SPSP)
16–18 May 2024, U. South Carolina, Columbia, SC USA
Abstract submission deadline: 26 January 2024
On-line submission site for paper or session proposals: submissions2024.philosophy-science-practice.org
#philsci #metasci
16–18 May 2024, U. South Carolina, Columbia, SC USA
Abstract submission deadline: 26 January 2024
On-line submission site for paper or session proposals: submissions2024.philosophy-science-practice.org
#philsci #metasci
SPSP2024 - OpenConf Abstract Submission, Peer Review, and Event Management System
submissions2024.philosophy-science-practice.org
November 3, 2023 at 5:57 PM
Cfa: Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (SPSP)
16–18 May 2024, U. South Carolina, Columbia, SC USA
Abstract submission deadline: 26 January 2024
On-line submission site for paper or session proposals: submissions2024.philosophy-science-practice.org
#philsci #metasci
16–18 May 2024, U. South Carolina, Columbia, SC USA
Abstract submission deadline: 26 January 2024
On-line submission site for paper or session proposals: submissions2024.philosophy-science-practice.org
#philsci #metasci