Thank you Alisa!

Thank you Aidan!

Very grateful to the reviewers and editors of @hoposjournal.bsky.social (esp @thehangedman.com) for the very constructive comments and timely feedback!

I zoom in on a very local historical case study of Scottish mathematical-physics ca. 1860-1880 on the vortex atom theory and knot theory and show how in a generation of physicists (Guthrie Tait, Crum Brown, Thomson, Maxwell) knitting was key to explore these concepts, whose memory is today lost.

Forthcoming in @hoposjournal.bsky.social! I discuss the systemic injustice that saw women banned from scientific education in Victorian Britain through the lenses of how artisanal knowledges like weaving and knitting were severed from mathematical knowledge. #philsci

philsci-archive.pitt.edu/29274/

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...

#SciComm #philsci 🧪

Some images of the geology/natural history/scientific instrument inspired installation - in place for the rest of the Edinburgh Science Festival, along with a range of activities linked to scientific instruments and #histsci

Starting soon! Sea Level Rise: Measurement, Understanding, Adaptation
Hybrid lectures free to register below
www.conncoll.edu/academics/ma...

Stay to the very end AND the day after for opportunities to visit @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social stores and other trips #ESHS-HSS

Hey gang! Exeter’s looking for a 4-year postdoc in philsci & AI. Sweet gig at a great place - share around :D #philsci #philjobs www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRD641/p...

Thanks so much for the kind words 🙏🏻.

The book is open access (see link OA) from the Oxford University Press website thanks to the @erc.europa.eu that funded the research behind it: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Centenary of Erwin Panofsky’s lecture, “Perspective as Symbolic Form”

Growing up reading Foucault, Velazquez has always been very present in my mind. And van Eyck is one of my favourite painters. It was the wonderful work of art historian Erwin Panofsky that made me think about what is involved in perspectival representation warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

… most of all, I hope I have not unwittingly ruined your trip to the botanical gardens on an otherwise sunny spring day 😄.

😂 no need to put the idea in words — tell Robert to compare the two mirrors in Arnolfini (perspectival2) and Velazquez (perspectival1). Any representation is always both Perspectival1 and perspectival2. But the emphasis is different—and it makes all the difference in how we think of realism 😊

Thanks so much for these very generous words, Anna! Coming from you, it means a lot. 🙏🏻

I share your lack of excitement Philip. And let us not forget Art 11 of the 1979 Moon Agreement about the Moon being ‘common heritage’ of humankind against extractivist practices in outer space something I discussed here (paper coming out soon in edited vol): www.college-de-france.fr/en/agenda/sy...

Submit your nominations for the 2026 Hempel Award, a biennial award recognizing lifetime scholars achievement in the philosophy of science! The award will be presented prior to the PSA Presidential Address at PSA 2026 in San Diego. (1/2)

Huge congrats 🎉 to the brilliant @vmywang.bsky.social who one year into the PhD programme has already published a paper on the fair share principle in health research and the challenges it faces. #HPS #philsci

Lecturer in Philosophy or Sociology of Data and Artificial Intelligence at University of Exeter Apply for the Lecturer in Philosophy or Sociology of Data and Artificial Intelligence role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.

Exeter’s got a two-year teaching stint for someone into philosophy of data and related - the job’s pretty plush as far as non-permanent ones go - and Exeter is an amazing place to do this kind of philosophy - please pass around! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQZ094/l... #philsci

PSA Office Hour - Philosophy of Science Association The PSA Office Hour aims to facilitate interactions between our graduate student membership and prominent philosophers of science, and in a more controlled, accessible, and carbon-conscious setting…

3 more PSA Office Hours this semester! All at 12pm EDT. April: Scientific Epistemology:KareemKhalifa, Pitt/UCLA: 8 April; May: Philos of Ecology:KarenKovaka (UC SanDiego)&CarlosSantana (UPenn): 7 May; May: Philos of Linguistics:GabrielDupre (UC Davis)&Ryan Nefdt (U CapeTown): 20 May

Reminder that you can submit an abstract to give a talk at our upcoming 'Rewilding the Web' workshop at the University of Edinburgh up until the 31st March.

Details in image and alt text.

Supported by @schoolofppls.bsky.social @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social + Scotsphil

The workshop will be held in person from 11/06/2026 to 12/06/2026, at Sorbonne University. Current undergraduate,graduate students (MA and PhD), and established scholars are welcome to participate. The application deadline is 01/06/2026 (via our website).

HHU-Sorbonne Conference About This conference aims to extend the scientific pluralist stance into the domain of scientific metaphysics. Although the metaphysics of science is a vast field, pluralism offers both a way to pos...

My wonderful colleague, Adrien Avramoglou, and I are going to organise a two-day conference about the role of pluralism in contemporary metaphysics of science.

Come to Paris for the city, stay for the metaphysics!

sites.google.com/view/hhu-sor...

Leibniz and the Environment | Pauline Phemister | Taylor & Francis eBo The work of seventeenth-century polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz has proved inspirational to philosophers and scientists alike. In this thought-provoking

And this is Pauline Pheminster’s book on Leibniz and the Environment www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...

Packed workshop today in honour of our wonderful colleague Pauline Pheminster who has just retired. Jennifer Marusič presents Pheminster’s scholarship on Leibniz’s metaphysics, its deeply relational nature, and implications for environmental philosophy

Delighted to see this volume out and open access with lots of interesting chapters related to the human right to science. My chapter explores the notion of ‘epistemic jurisdictions’ as a way of better understanding the interlacing of local knowledge and scientific knowledge under this human right.

The Science, Innovation & Tech committee have written the most amazing letter to DSIT/UKRI/STFC:

"What is clear is that, despite your assertions to the contrary... widespread cuts have been proposed before adequate consultation with those affected was undertaken. This is wholly unacceptable" 💪🔭⚛️🧪

Portrait of Emile Du Chatelet at desk with books, compass, armillary sphere (source: Wiki)

Titlepage and frontispiece of the third edition Newton's Principia (source Wiki)

Submissions (< 10,000 words) invited for 2026 Du Châtelet Prize in Philosophy of Physics. Topic Celebrating 300th anniversary of 3rd ed. Newton’s Principia.
www.duchateletprize.org
Winner will receive $1000, workshop & SHPS pub
Open to grad students & w/in 5 yrs PhD
Deadline September 1, 2026 #HPS

Third BBNJ Symposium 2026

Delighted to present our hot off the press coedited volume with @abbeaberdeen.bsky.social and Marcel Jaspars “Ways of World Knowing” at the #BBNJ Third Symposium 2026 in Rio de Janeiro tomorrow global.oup.com/academic/pro... — Preface now Free to read for a limited period (Ch2 is OA)