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Are you interested in the past, present & future of Artificial Life (ALife) as a scientific field?

🚨 We are hosting an interdisciplinary minisymposium this December, so send us your work & come along! Please share widely!

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#philsci #academicsky #evobio #AI #HPS
Promotional graphic for a mini-symposium titled “Life As It Could Be: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Artificial Life,” taking place 7–8 December 2026 at Aula Symbiosis, BioScience Center, KU Leuven. The text appears over a blue-and-orange honeycomb-like cellular pattern.
September 29, 2026 at 4:25 PM
philsci-archive.bsky.social
New on the Archive:

Krause, Décio and Jorge, Juan Pablo (2026) Connecting Lombardi’s quantum property ontology to Dalla Chiara and Toraldo di Francia’s intensional quantum metaphysics. [Preprint]

https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/31159/
September 29, 2026 at 4:09 PM
center4philsci.bsky.social
Join us as we sit down with postdoc fellow Aditya Jha to learn more about his work here at the Center!
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/280pxAuYOy0

Don't miss Adi's Lunchtime Talk next Tuesday: "The Anatomy of Thermal Equilibrium and Fluctuation Theorems" #philsci
September 29, 2026 at 4:01 PM
edouardmachery.bsky.social
his book is open access - download it! #philsci.
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September 29, 2026 at 3:40 PM
samulireijula.net
very proud to share: @sobla.bsky.social has a new paper out in Synthese, "Explaining evidential discordance" #philsci link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Explaining evidential discordance - Synthese
Evidential discordance, or the situation where scientific evidence supports contrary hypotheses, claims or theories about a given phenomenon, is common in scientific inquiry (Franklin, 2002; Boyd, 201...
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September 29, 2026 at 1:17 PM
thebjps.bsky.social
If you missed this year's BSPS annual conference, fear not! By the power of technology, we bring you Eleanor Knox's keynote talk, 'The Scale (and Context) Relativity of Spacetime Structure'

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#philsci #philsky
Eleanor Knox, 'The Scale (and Context) Relativity of Spacetime Structure'
Keynote address delivered in July 2026 at the annual conference of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science #philsci
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September 29, 2026 at 9:16 AM
casp-life-science.bsky.social
Thank you, @oscarw.bsky.social for the discussion last week on "Understanding to Some Purpose." The video, our latest in the International Postdoc Forum series, is now available to watch on the MCPS YouTube channel.
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IPDF September 2026: Oscar Westerblad, University of Iceland
Understanding to Some Purpose
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September 28, 2026 at 5:30 PM
mcps-philsci.bsky.social
Thank you, @oscarw.bsky.social for the discussion last week on "Understanding to Some Purpose." The video, our latest in the International Postdoc Forum series, is now available to watch on the MCPS YouTube channel.
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IPDF September 2026: Oscar Westerblad, University of Iceland
Understanding to Some Purpose
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September 28, 2026 at 5:30 PM
gregpriest.bsky.social
OTD in 1838, Charles Darwin read Malthus’s Principles of Population “for amusement.”

The idea of a “war of nature” was venerable, but D realized that such a war would tend to remove deleterious variations from populations. Natural selection would necessarily follow.

🌱🐋🧪#HistSTM #philsci 📈📉#evolbio
Cartoon of Darwin holding a copy of the Origin, looking into a mirror and seeing as his reflection Malthus holding a copy off his Essay on the Principle of Population. By Tom Dunne for American Scientist.
September 28, 2026 at 4:53 PM
apotochnik.bsky.social
I'm very excited to visit northwest Arkansas to give a talk at University of Arkansas. I grew up nearby in Rogers, so U of A was my hometown university. The lecture (3pm Friday 10/2) is open to the public, so feel free to attend if you are in the area and interested! #philsci #philsky 🧪
Philosophy Department Presents the Spellman Lecture in the History of Science
Join us for the Lynne and James Spellman Lecture in the History of Science, featuring Dr. Angela Potochnik, professor of philosophy, head of the Philosophy Department and founding director of the Cent...
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September 28, 2026 at 4:25 PM
philsci-archive.bsky.social
New on the Archive:

Schilling, Andreas (2025) Emergence from Quantum Uncertainty: Testing a Novel Organizing Principle using Neural Networks. [Preprint]

https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/31157/
September 28, 2026 at 4:06 PM
philsci-archive.bsky.social
New on the Archive:

Jacobs, Caspar and Martens, Niels C.M. (2026) Physical Constants. [Preprint]

https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/31148/
September 28, 2026 at 4:06 PM
philsci-archive.bsky.social
New on the Archive:

Roig-Loscertales, Francesc and Teira, David (2026) Disclosure policies and the epistemic corruption of biomedical research. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 119. ISSN 00393681

https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/31146/
September 28, 2026 at 4:06 PM
center4philsci.bsky.social
Visit our calendar for more information about this week's events. #philsci

https://www.centerphilsci.pitt.edu/events/
September 28, 2026 at 3:00 PM
cdj.bsky.social
Me too! 2016 was the last/first time for me, incredibly. I managed to remember in time to catch the poster submission window 😮‍💨 Looking forward to catching up with all you philsci peeps!
sarahwieten.bsky.social Sarah Wieten @sarahwieten.bsky.social · 1d
For the first time since 2018 (!?!?) I am going to the PSA in San Diego in November!
The program looks amazing. Really looking forward to the new work and seeing everyone.
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September 28, 2026 at 3:00 PM
sabinaleonelli.bsky.social
Want to make data and AI systems more resilient, sustainable, responsible? Want to think about what “research commons” may mean today? Join us in person or online in London next Monday! ethicaldatainitiative.org/2026/08/11/b... @edinitiative.bsky.social @researchdataall.bsky.social #philsci
Bringing Ethics to the Global Research Commons: The EDI Stakeholder Forum at the RDA P27 - The Ethical Data Initiative
As data-driven research reshapes global science, industry, and governance, a critical question remains: how do we ensure that the infrastructures we build are both technologically robust and socially ...
ethicaldatainitiative.org
September 28, 2026 at 1:47 PM
wolfgangwalter.bsky.social
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September 28, 2026 at 12:23 PM
embiophysics.bsky.social
3/3 The light itself is well documented — it rises with oxidative metabolism and stress, tying it to reactive oxygen species. So it could be a non-invasive stress readout. The open question is its statistics, not its existence. What would settle it? #academicsky #sciart #philsci
September 26, 2026 at 8:05 PM
embiophysics.bsky.social
1/3 Your body glows — faintly. Ultraweak photon emission leaks from every living cell: a few hundred photons per second per square centimeter. Some researchers call it coherent 'biophoton' light. A 2015 review asks whether the evidence supports that. #academicsky #sciart #philsci
September 26, 2026 at 8:05 PM
cepaea.bsky.social
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philsci.bsky.social Philosophy of Science Association @philsci.bsky.social · 2d
The PSA invites submissions of course syllabi that showcase effective and creative teaching of the philosophy of science that reaches beyond the mainstream! 🧵
September 26, 2026 at 7:27 PM
gregpriest.bsky.social
L: Color print magazine advertisement for Pennsalt DDT products. This ad appeared in Time Magazine, June 30, 1947. Science History Institute.

R: Photo of children being spayed with DDT in a public swimming pool. Date and photographer unknown.

🌱🐋 # HistSTM 🧪🌎 #philsci #philsky #WomeninSTEM
September 26, 2026 at 3:45 PM
gregpriest.bsky.social
Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was published OTD in 1962.

“[W]e have now acquired a fateful power to alter and destroy nature. But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.”

🌱🐋 # HistSTM 🧪🌎 #philsci #philsky #WomeninSTEM
Caricature of Rachel Carson by David Levine for the New York Review of Books.
September 26, 2026 at 3:42 PM
philsci-archive.bsky.social
New on the Archive:

Eisenthal, Joshua (2024) 'Normal Connections' and the Law of Causality. Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus - A Criticial Guide. pp. 166-186.

https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/25718/
September 26, 2026 at 2:45 PM
philsci-archive.bsky.social
New on the Archive:

Northcott, Robert (2026) What did Danto show? In: UNSPECIFIED.

https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/31137/
September 26, 2026 at 2:45 PM
philsci-archive.bsky.social
New on the Archive:

Duerr, Patrick M. and Pitts, J. Brian (2026) From Mass to Energy-Momentum: The Field-Theoretic Perspective on the Energy-Mass Relation. [Preprint]

https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/31138/
September 26, 2026 at 2:45 PM