After months of verification and mapping, the archive now includes 248 confirmed white phosphorus strikes across South Lebanon (2023-2024).

Only incidents with visual evidence were used, then geolocated, verified, and cross-checked with satellite imagery

Part of my PhD research at TU Delft.

OTD in 1950, Judy Wajcman was born. A pioneering sociologist and feminist theorist, Wajcman reshaped the philosophy and sociology of technology by showing how technological systems are deeply entwined with gender, power, and social organization.
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Theoretical biologist Meyer-Abich argued that biological laws are more fundamental than physical laws

His example: we can't deduce how a cat falls from how a stone falls. But we can say that a stone falls like a dead cat

Given a biological law, by abstracting from life, we obtain the physical law

The World Algorithm
Knowledge and Power in the New Global Order
Symposium, 2-3 February 2026, Venice

Call for papers: unive.it/worldalgorithm

The Authoritarian Stack How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next

Project by @francescabria.bsky.social and us. With support by @autonomy-institute.bsky.social & @josebautista.bsky.social and more.

Who was Ferdinand Gonseth? If you want Ties van Gemert and me talk about this half-forgotten Swiss philosopher of science and what role he played in 20C #philsci, you can join online!

This Wednesday!

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“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.

Back to 80s energy scenarios at the Nationaal Archief where letters offer a good reminder of serious ’computing costs’. Modeling futures demanded time, energy and digital infrastructure.

I lowkey hate it that McLuhanite pessimists were proven right

Ten years ago, François Dagognet died. A philosopher of science and technology, Dagognet extended the work of Gaston Bachelard by turning attention to the material traces and inscriptions produced by scientific instruments.
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On this day in 1924, Gilbert Simondon was born. A pioneering French philosopher of technology, Simondon challenged us to see machines not as passive tools but as entities with their own modes of existence.
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I would love to see the reading list if you are happy to share it 🌵🌾

BREAKING 🇵🇸 Navigated by Captain Muhammad Kuchuktigin, the Mikeno ship broke the blockade of Gaza earlier this morning, bypassing the occupation's naval forces and entering Palestinian territorial waters.

The Immortal Science of ML: Machine Learning and the Theory-Free Ideal - Erkenntnis This paper contends with the notion that the methods of machine learning (ML) are unique among the tools of science in enabling a form of theory-free inductive inference. I challenge these assertions of epistemic distinctness, attributing the prevalence of these views to an untenable conception of scientific objectivity: what I term a theory-free ideal, in homage to its normative counterpart. ML, as a formal method of induction, must rely on conceptual or theoretical resources to get inference off the ground. By means of two case studies, I argue that this theory-free ideal has a deleterious effect on the epistemic standing of ML-involving science.

My article on AI for science, in which I characterize a deviant notion of scientific objectivity rooted in the impossible ideal of theory-free inference, is available now open-access in Erkenntnis link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The Human Rights Council of the United Nations: The genocide in Gaza persists because it is profitable. The special commission has meticulously documented the corporations heavily invested in the continuation of this human rights atrocity.

Intervention—“On Grassroots Witnessing: Gaza as the Terrain of Epistemic Intifada” - Antipode Online Patrick Anthony (Uppsala University) and Ghada Dimashk (American University of Beirut) Baba, when will we study astronomy in school? … I want to learn about the moon and stars. (Banias, age 9, quoted ...

Absolutely essential reading for all historians of science
antipodeonline.org/2025/09/24/o...

I am quite excited to share a new preprint on the prospects for a 'metaphilosophy of science'—a second-order inquiry into the concepts, assumptions, aims, and methods that underpin philosophy of science itself. 👇📃 philsci-archive.pitt.edu/26661/ 1/3 #philsci #philsky #HPS #HPbio #metaphilosophy

What role for local knowledge in ocean governance?

Our special issue of Marine Policy on coastal communities and their local knowledges is now out. You can read our introductory essay below. Many thanks to my wonderful colleagues Abbe Brown and Marcel Jaspars for the collaboration and to the Royal Society of Edinburgh for support.

Text image from Peter Lynch’s forward to the second edition of Richardson’s “Weather prediction by numerical process” ☁️

Lewis Fry Richardson as a pacifist, deeply aware of the connections between meteorological research and war.

Israel killed five journalists when they bombed the surgical building of the Yasser Hospital in Khan Yunis yesterday. A tragic photograph depicting epistemicide - a camera lens stained with its owner’s blood.

feminist philosophy of climate change Fall 2025 ONLINE SEMINAR pre-read and interactive discussion SEPTEMBER 17th LAURA GARCÍA-PORTELA 16.00 - 17.30 CEST Rectifying Climate Injustice OCTOBER Ist KRISTEN INTEMANN 16.00 - 17.30 CEST Equitable Research in Greenland OCTOBER 15th NANCY TUANA 16.00 - 17.30 CEST The Interlocking Domains of Racism and Ecological Indifference OCTOBER 29th KRISTINA ROLIN & INKERI KOSKINEN 16.00 - 17.30 CEST Structural Epistemic (In)justice in Global Contexts NOVEMBER 12th ANNA LEUSCHNER & MANUELA FERNÁNDEZ PINTO 16.00 - 17.30 CEST Epistemic Intimidation and Illegitimate Value-Influence in Science to register please contact sapna.kumar@unibe.ch

Online Seminar Series on Feminist Philosophy of Climate Change, organized by @juliejebeile.bsky.social & others ⤵️
femphiloclimate.ch/events/
#philsci ⚒️

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So excited to share my new article in @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social:
"Colonial World-Making and Global Knowledges at the Early Modern Cape of Good Hope" (Open access)
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Which railroad did you follow?

Congratulations, I look forward to reading it!

12 countries agree concrete steps to halt Gaza genocide TWELVE countries have agreed to take concrete action against Israel to stop its genocide against the Palestinian people ...

LIVE FROM BOGOTÁ 🇨🇴🇵🇸 "Twelve countries have agreed to take concrete action against Israel to stop its genocide against the Palestinian people."

Read more in The National.

The French philosopher Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent was born on this day. She is one of the most influential contemporary voices in the history and philosophy of technology in France.
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Thank you!

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