A very nice read here from @amandagefter.bsky.social. One wonders how many thousands of similar stories have never been told? #history #science #HPS #neurodiversity

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vypvpc4rkozpib6mloo63yq2/post/3lrvxks4lvc2o

A history student wants to read “guns, germs and steel” to fulfill a reading requirement in my intro to biology for
#hps
course. I want to suggest a *better* book that might appeal to her. Which book should I recommend?

Arizona State is looking for a #HPS assistant professor. https://apply.interfolio.com/143046

Pre-job-ad announcement: soon advertising 2 x 3-year research posts to work with me & Ethical Data Initiative at the Technical University of Munich (really fun & supportive environment!). Closing date for applications 1st April, start in September. Pls spread the word! Details coming v soon #philsci #sts #hps #DataScience #dataethics

Postdoc opportunity with us, in anything related to #HPS, #STS, #PHILSCI, #HISTStem etc.

@philosophyofscience @philosophy @historyofmedicine @sts @philbio

"the 2023 Conference of the Australasian Association for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (AAHPSSS) will take place at the University of Sydney, Wednesday 29 November and Friday 1 December, 2023.
The call for papers is now open!"
https://aahpsss.net.au/cfp-aahpsss-2023-conference/ #hps #philosophy #philsci

#Oppenheimer #Bohm
#Science rolls on in a great variety of ways.

The doco below has it that Oppenheimer basically organized his theoretical physicist fellows to ignore work by David Bohm, even though they could find no refutation it.

And nuclear physics rolled on.

#STS Science Technology Studies #HPS History and Philosophy of Science.
#CopenhagenInterpretation #DeBroglieBohmTheory

Caution: Doco contains some music and explicit psychologizing.

https://youtu.be/cysMpadecfU

In Pieces

Elizabeth
2022

#fotografia
#photography
#fotografie
#portrait
#retrato
#IlfordFilm
#HPS+ #35mmFilm
#ShotOnCanon

Hello World! This account collects events, news & publications about the philosophy of astronomy & cosmology, especially within the EU. DM or tag us if you think a post is relevant for this account.
#HPS #philosophy #philsci #philosophyofphysics #philosophyofcosmology

An impressive volume dedicated to the memory of a unique and important scholar. #JeanGayon

#HPS #histsci #philbio #philsci

@philosophy @philbio @intellectualhistory

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-28157-0

An autobiographical essay by Ian Hacking that I like a lot. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0308514042000225671 #HPS #IanHacking @philosophyofscience @philosophy @intellectualhistory @sociology

Finalizing the proofs of my Darwin and Darwinism handbook essay I came across this paper that I haven't read before. It is quite interesting.

Desmond, Adrian. 1984. “Robert E. Grant: The Social Predicament of a Pre-Darwinian Transmutationist.” Journal of the History of Biology 17 (2): 189–223. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00143732.

Now online: James Griesemer‘s talk from the Evolutionary Lens meeting,

Jablonka and Lamb: Innovators of a Novel Logic of Research Questions about Inheritance Systems. https://youtu.be/sAxOKPwHg1o

#philsci #philbio #hps @philosophy @philbio

I just saw someone use the word “sciencephobic” as pushback about being labelled transphobic because, according to them, XX=female XY=male is just “basic #science

So, you may not know this… but I spent quite a lot of time studying History and Philosophy of Science at Uni.

So I have spent a lot of time thinking and learning and writing and studying the question “so like… what even IS science??”

And it turns out that… wow that is actually a fucking difficult question to answer as it turns out?

So there are lots of ways that people try to define science but most of them fail pretty hard to describe the way science actually works in the real world. Which is why #HPS is so fun for me.

But anyway. It’s way more complicated than you’d think.

But one thing that I am sure about about science, is that science does some pretty intense and important sciencing when “we think we know how this works” doesn’t match up with “what actually happens”

t’s not ~basic science~ to say “well XY is male and XX is female”.

It’s ~basic science~ when you look at more closely at the world and discover “actually… wow, it’s WAY more complicated than that”

(Which, I must point out, biologists actually do. As it turns out, teachers don’t actually go into the full, wild, wonderfully baffling complexity of all human knowledge in High School.)

Je bosse depuis 2 semaines sur la notion de révolution scientifique et surtout sur les conceptions discontinuistes et continuistes de la révolution astronomique. C'est passionnant, mais c'est touffu !

#histsci
#HPS
#philsci

The chat with Chomsky is a lot of fun. Demonstrates why everyone should want to study #hps. https://anchor.fm/mind-chat/episodes/Noam-Chomsky-Chomsky-on-Consciousness-e1obplt

I am honored and pleased to be among the elected #AAAS Fellows for 2022!! This is quite a distinguished group and I am thrilled and humbled to be included among them.

Congratulations also go to my fellow History and Philosophy of Science Fellows for this year, @erikconway, Amy Lauren Fairchild,, and Alan Love!

#AAASFellows #HPS #philsci #philbio @philosophy

https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/8-from-uc-davis-elected-aaas-fellows