New paper by Abigail Nieves Delgado and colleagues on the philosophy of microbiome science

A call for artists to collaborate with our consortium on emergence (in cosmology)

www.d-iep.org/artsciencefe...

We are starting! Diversity in Motion with @roto-rub.bsky.social join us also online! #philbio #hps 🦠🌿🦫🪴

Congrats to Abigail, Aline and Elian!

Just starting! The workshop "Postgenomic Intersections: Epistemology and Ethical for the Exposome and Microbiome" with @stefanocanali.bsky.social and Thomas Bonnin @Politecnico di Milano. Check the program here: www.meta.polimi.it/workshop-pos...

In the middle of a wonderful meeting between staff members of @manchstm.bsky.social and @utrechthps.bsky.social, lead by @ctimmermann.bsky.social and Toine Pieters!

Another year, another Utrecht HPS group photo (credit: Harold van de Kamp)

Happening this Wednesday

UPAC Colloquium December 2025 - Singularity Resolution in Loop Quantum Gravity YouTube video by Utrecht Philosophy of Astronomy & Cosmology

The recording of the UPAC colloquium speaker session on December 2nd, in which Marta Pedroni (University of Geneva) gave a talk titled "Singularity Resolution in Loop Quantum Gravity", has just been uploaded!
youtu.be/noh_rdUSRh4?...

Planetary Vision The Event Horizon Telescope: It took a planet to see a black hole.

Beautifully illustrated science communication piece on black hole imaging, by Peter Galison et al.

(Best viewed on a laptop/tablet.)

planetaryvision.antikythera.org

COSMO-MASTER Page for the output from the Cosmo-Master project.

Open access collected volume on the conceptual distinction between spacetime and matter to appear in the summer of 2027 with Cambridge University Press

www.uu.nl/en/research/...

Prof Chris Smeenk (Western Uni, London Ontario) will be giving the 2025 Beth Lecture, presenting his upcoming book with @jamesowenweatherall.com on the aim and structure of cosmological theory.

10 Dec 2025, Academiegebouw Utrecht, 19:30-21:00, followed by reception.

hpp-nl.nl/events/beth2...

Ik heb afgelopen paar jaar veel verbreding gevonden in onderwijs. Bij @utrechthps.bsky.social kon ik tussen 2022 en 2024 twee jaar werken aan onderwijs over de geschiedenis en filosofie van de Aard- en klimaatwetenschappen, waarmee mijn proefschrift een hele brede context kreeg. 1/

Beth Lecture 2025 by Prof Chris Smeenk, on closing the loop on inflation

hpp-nl.nl/events/beth2...

New preprint on dark matter epistemology, by Niels Martens

Cool stuff happening tomorrow! And you can even join online

Join this proposal for an exciting collected volume with CUP. All open access fees would be covered.

Descartes Centre Colloquium with Diana Taschetto and Stefano Furlan (UU) In this colloquium the speakers will highlight his work on the atomic model during the 1910s, and from that vantage point show how we can better characterize and understand the turn that led him to co...

HPS researchers Diana Taschetto and Stefano Furlan discuss Bohr, Wheeler, and the history of quantum mechanics at the Descartes Colloquium tomorrow (23 Sept 2025, 15h30-17h00). For more information, visit: www.uu.nl/en/events/de...

The final day of the Utrecht Philosophy of Astronomy and Cosmology Conference is upon us

What can philosophy do for astronomy and cosmology, and vice versa?

Panel happening right now in Utrecht

www.uu.nl/en/research/...

Ruward Mulder summarising the divide of responses to Reichenbach on universal forces

And so it begins.

The Spacetime Matters conference in Utrecht

www.uu.nl/en/research/...

6th HPP-NL Workshop (Groningen) The 6th History and Philosophy of Physics in the Netherlands workshop will take place in Groningen on 12th September, from 13:00-17:40 followed by dinner at 18:00. The location of the workshop will be...

On the 12th of September we'll be traveling up north for a dose of history and philosophy of physics: hpp-nl.nl/6th-hpp-nl-w...

Looking for some fun and short reads for over the holiday? Why not follow @shellsandpebbles.bsky.social on Bluesky, our long-running blog on interesting finds in the history of science!

Happening in Utrecht

Final call for registration: conference on the conceptual distinction between spacetime and matter

Registration deadline: 10th of July

www.uu.nl/en/research/...

Yet another inspiring New Directions in Foundations of Physics conference concluded. For the second time in the gorgeous Logar Valley, Slovenia

Exciting workshop coming up in South Africa, co-organised by our "Microbiome research and race in the Local South" team

Exciting days with awesome colleagues 💕🌱🐬 #PhilSci @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social @utrechthps.bsky.social

Such fun and intense two days at the Spring School "Forms of Knowledge and Values in Science and Society" @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social @utrechthps.bsky.social