The 19th Ischia Summer School in the History of the Life Sciences will take place 28 Jun - 5 July 2026. Interested graduate students should apply by 27 February. This year's theme? PROBLEMS of GROWTH! ischiasummerschool.org/theme #histSTM #histbio #histsci
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we have no reason to believe science is or has ever been linear, homogenous, rational, or inevitable. what scientists do also hardly ever mirrors our reductive, idealized statistical models. we need to know exactly what purpose those idealizations are meant to serve and use them in that capacity.
WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.
Need people to understand the difference between "this is a social construct" and "this is not real"
The problem is organizations and institutions that create fear and hatred of autism, trans people, and immigrants, as well as ignorance of the ways that organizations can be destructive. Especially, e.g., reductionist individualism.
Workers of the UC stand together to protect people, not just money.
Join your UC Faculty Association or union!
Please help us build a following for Stand Together for Higher Ed! We are helping build a national movement to defend against attempts to dismantle, defund, and disparage the greatest #highered system in the world! Please follow, re-post, share widely on other sites. www.standtogetherhighered.org
Moreover, pruning the list to include only "high quality" or "important" books won't help, because the process is fractal; the reduced list will have the same properties,
and you'll only feel worse.
This is true for all scholars, not just grad students. And the list is always growing no matter how fast you read. The only thing that changes is that after a while, you get to move some titles to the "history" section of the list.
The Center for the sociology of innovation learned with great sadness that Michel Callon has passed away.
A graduate of the École des Mines, Michel joined the center in the late 1960s and was its director from 1982 to 1994.
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“In qualitatively oriented research, where data are often personal, and deeply contextual, sharing data raises ethical dilemmas and tensions and may compromise the relational foundation of qualitative inquiry”
Lovely paper
Bridging qualitative methods and open research
Comment by Madeleine Pownall
go.nature.com/44U1qnj
Social means taking other(s) into account and modifying own behavior accordingly. They're social-- they're heavily embedded in a way of thinking very hard to get into and which makes shifting perspective very difficult, even punishable. That's what being social means for them.
No, that's for logicians
This. 100% We need to reward that invisible work more. What many male academics do is not the normative standard that we should be encouraging everyone to emulate
"Men who sell machines that mimic people want us to become people who mimic machines. They want techno feudal subjects who will believe and do what they’re told. We, as people, are being strategically simplified. This is a fascist process."
organizingmythoughts.org/some-thought...
The intense embrace of LLMs at metascience 2025 is a recipe for handing over the reigns of scientific decision making to private interests and governments.
#OpenScience lobbyists, skeptics and everything in between: consider coming to Munich in May 2026 (gorgeous time to visit..) to discuss the future of Open Research!
FOR2026 is open for submissions: opensciencestudies.eu/for-2026-con... pls help spread the word 🙏 #philsci #sts #methods #policy 🧪
BREAKING:
The White House lashed out at the creators of this ad for "fear-mongering".
It must have really struck a nerve. Maybe they don't like being outed as fascists.
You know what to do: SPREAD THIS EVERYWHERE!
#MAGAKidnappers
It's pretty irritating how many pundits would hear the ideas "I want to shove 100 live scorpions in your mouth" and "I want to shove 0 live scorpions in your mouth" and sagely declare: "The wisest course of action is to let someone shove 50 live scorpions in your mouth."
Does anyone think these unspeakably evil political assassinations of Democratic lawmakers would’ve occurred without the vicious permission structure erected by Trump, Vance, Rubio, and their MAGAts?
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...
What happened in Minnesota is a direct consequence of the violent way that Trump talks about his political opponents.
Alan Richardson describing Quine’s autobiography perfectly: On the Road if it had been told by the car. @roberttalisse.bsky.social
protest sign that says NO FAUX KING WAY
my mom just sent me her sign for tomorrow. no notes.
On June 6, 2025, the federal government initiated immigration raids across the City of Los Angeles. Protests swiftly followed, and some individuals involved in those protests were unruly and even violent. State and local law enforcement responded. The following day, President Trump ordered that members of the California National Guard be federalized, and thereupon assumed control of those forces. At this early stage of the proceedings, the Court must determine whether the President followed the congressionally mandated procedure for his actions. He did not. His actions were illegal-both exceeding the scope of his statutory authority and violating the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. He must therefore return control of the California National Guard to the Governor of the State of California forthwith.
JUST IN: Judge Charles Breyer finds that President Trump exceeded the scope of his authority and violated the 10th Amendment by federalizing the California National Guard and orders him to return control to Governor Newsom. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
