The UC Center for Public Engagement with Science @ucpews.bsky.social is hiring a postdoc! Anyone who will earn a PhD in a related discipline with interest in public engagement is encouraged to apply.
Please share widely! More details and apply here: jobs.uc.edu/job/Postdoct...
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I am glad Trump is backing down but a line was crossed when he explicitly called for a genocide. This is not tolerable, and there is a constitutional remedy. Impeach and remove now.
Check out this nice review of the Element (short book) @mjacquart.bsky.social and I coauthored. A PDF of the Element is freely available from @universitypress.cambridge.org, here: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
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Great guest post at @dailynous.com (Full disclosure: one of the authors is a former student whom I admire greatly.) One of the many ways in which academia systematically excludes people from the Global South is by hosting prestigious events only in rich countries->
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They then offer science communication strategies based on these insights for science communicators, mothers, and other caregivers. This original research demonstrates the value of understanding stories and identities in mobilizing mothers for both science skepticism and science advocacy.
explores the obstacles and opportunities for public engagement with scientific topics. After an overview of the nexus of science communication, stories, and identities, the author applies insights from these topics to the case study of motherhood in the climate change and vaccination controversies.
Mothers as Science Storytellers explores how scientific meaning and decision-making are filtered through the stories we tell about science and through our social, cultural, and personal identities. Focusing on mothers as a prominent and important identity in science communication, this Element...
Check out the newest Element in Public Engagement with Science: Mothers as Science Storytellers, by Emma Frances Bloomfield.
Full text free to download until March 12.
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Read "Mothers as Science Storytellers" FREE online until Mar 12! 📖
New in the @universitypress.cambridge.org series edited by @apotochnik.bsky.social & @mjacquart.bsky.social.
🔗 www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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Philosophers tend toward the literal, so engagement with broad themes like this might not feel natural, but many philosophers work on topics related to a metaphorical meaning of "counter." Our department would be happy to engage with any philosophers (or others with related work) in this position.
They are "interested in scholars whose work can speak to the 2026–27 theme “Counter,” which explores questions of quantification, representation, and opposition, asking what kinds of accounting the current moment demands, as well as reflections and responses to what the humanities are up against."
Postdoc opportunity at the Taft Research Center here at the University of Cincinnati for which philosophers are eligible to apply. See here for details and to apply: jobs.uc.edu/job/Taft-Pos...
Excited to have this new paper out, a qualitative study with Sachika Singh and Dani Clark on Patient and Family Perspectives for Trauma-Informed Ethics Consultation.
We piloted a case-based focus group methodology, inviting participants to reflect on two clinical ethics consultation situations. 🧵
Audiobook now available for this introductory philosophy collection. I coauthored a chapter with Dana Tulodziecki @193.bsky.social. Overall it seems like a really interesting approach to introducing philosophical topics.#philsky
Hello all! The PSA DEI Caucus is coming to BlueSky! Hoping to share news about our wonderful membership and our @philsci.bsky.social community at large! Doggo Pic for attention. #philosophy #hps #dei
Thanks Anna! My talk partly drew from Ch 2 of my Science and the Public Element, where I introduce the Vienna Circle as a different model of how philosophy can engage with science and also the public, supplemented with material I've used in teaching. Happy to share the slides if you are interested.
Listening to the first panel on history of #philsci in CEE. Inspiring that so many colleagues around the world tuned in. A wonderful first talk by Marta Sznajder on Janina Hosiasson (her heartbreaking story below). Now Angela Potochnik on the role of Marie Neurath (Reidemeister) in the Vienna Circle
Good question! This collection is new, so I hadn't gotten around to looking into preprint sharing permissions and making a preprint available if allowed. I'll figure that out now and share (assuming possible)!
Check out this video about the chapter Dana Tulodziecki @193.bsky.social and I wrote for the philosophy book, Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny. It's a neat collection, congrats to the editor, Cliff Sosis!
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Nayef Al-Rodhan book prize trophy.
Thanks very much to The Royal Institute of Philosophy for awarding me the Nayef Al-Rodhan Book Prize 2025. Thanks as well to the ERC who funded it, Peter Momtchiloff who commissioned it for OUP, all my LSE team members past and present, and everyone who made the book possible!
I just learned Recipes for Science is coming out in Italian this month! That's fun. (See info about the original English-language version here: www.angelapotochnik.com/recipes.html)
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Check out the schedule of the online conference PSA Around the World Eastern Europe (pm of Nov 6,14,22). A collaboration between @philsci.bsky.social and @eenphilsci.bsky.social it showcases #philsci from, about, and otherwise connected to the region. Wonderful names and titles, looking forward!
This review in Public Understanding of Science puts Melissa Jacquart's and my recent short book, Public Engagement with Science: Defining the Project, in conversation with a recent introduction to science communication.
You can get a PDF of our open access Element here: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
This week, we’re joined by Professor Miriam Solomon to discuss stigma and its impact on psychiatry — how it has shaped diagnoses, DSM revisions, and ideas of what counts as disorder
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"...The scientific world-conception serves life, and life receives it." Good ol' Vienna Circle.
"...We witness the spirit of the scientific world-conception penetrating in growing measure the forms of personal and public life, in education, upbringing, architecture, and the shaping of economic and social life according to rational principles..."
"Thus, the scientific world-conception is close to the present. Certainly it is threatened with hard struggles and hostility. Nevertheless there are many who do not despair but, in view of the present sociological situation, look forward with hope to the course of events to come..."
Yay more PSA for me!