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mollybaz.bsky.social
Im experiencing a sort of interdisciplinary themed psychosis
November 2, 2026 at 1:32 AM
quiltydunn.bsky.social
such a lovely interdisciplinary community at umass amherst!
laurenaulet.bsky.social Lauren Aulet @laurenaulet.bsky.social · 3d
I’m a big fan of the Big Debates™️ so am predisposed to not want to see them dissolved, but @quiltydunn.bsky.social made a great case at UMass today that that’s exactly what we should do with the nativist/empiricist debate
October 31, 2026 at 5:23 PM
danahull.bsky.social
What dept is an interdisciplinary field like this typically housed under?
October 31, 2026 at 4:17 AM
dcoall.bsky.social
Wonderful interdisciplinary conference. Ideal for students
ehbea2027.bsky.social EHBEA2027 @ehbea2027.bsky.social · 10d
The 2027 European Human Behaviour & Evolution Association Conference is coming to Zurich Mar 30 - Apr 2! 🇨🇭
Abstract submission opens Nov 1, registration Jan 8. Please share and follow us to stay up to date with all things #EHBEA2027 www.ehbea2027.com @ehbea.bsky.social @uzh-ch.bsky.social
November 2, 2026 at 5:30 AM
sonjadrimmer.bsky.social
I’ve written a bunch on the systemic and material issues with universities administrators prizing interdisciplinary collaboration, esp between the sciences and the humanities. Interdisciplinary is not an unqualified good. www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...
humanists’ apprehensions about collaborating with computer scientists are about policing disciplinary purity. But whether or not that is the case, one needs to qualify that allegation with the recognition that this is also about disciplinary empathy. There’s a reason why we have seen the growth of “humanities labs” and not “sciences salons.”
November 1, 2026 at 11:52 AM
cyrilpedia.bsky.social
“Science should become better at evaluating researchers according to the problems they can solve, the perspectives they can connect, and the value they contribute to collaborative work—not simply how continuously they have published within one narrowly defined field.'
How Can Science Better Support Interdisciplinary Researchers?
Academics and industry experts discuss how science can better support interdisciplinary researchers through reforming funding applications, collaboration, and traditional career advancement.
www.technologynetworks.com
November 1, 2026 at 12:31 PM
annameier.bsky.social
None of you know my friend john but please congratulate my friend john through the ether for passing their quals and advancing to PhD candidacy in their super cool interdisciplinary program on labor, art, and community. 🎉
November 2, 2026 at 5:30 PM
martin.kleppmann.com
We're hiring a research engineer to work with myself, @inkandswitch.com, and an amazing interdisciplinary team on using cryptographic proofs and AI to verify physical-world (e.g. manufacturing) processes: www.inkandswitch.com/jobs/ccti-re...
Research Engineer, Cryptographic Trust Infrastructure
Research & build tools that let AI agents negotiate using confidential, verifiable data.
www.inkandswitch.com
November 2, 2026 at 12:01 PM
ztul.bsky.social
For me being interdisciplinary means looking at two academics from different fields having an argument on my timeline and thinking to myself "they will never agree because they have made mutually exclusive assumptions about ontology that this conversation does not surface"
October 29, 2026 at 12:30 PM
mcopelov.bsky.social
This happens over and over again (bsky.app/profile/mcop...). Rudimentary citing of political science literature, with most of the cites from things over 20 years old. If we tried this in reverse, economists wouldn't tolerate it. It's impossible to have productive interdisciplinary dialogue this way.
danielmcdowell.bsky.social Daniel McDowell @danielmcdowell.bsky.social · 1d
Economists waking up in the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty-Six to discover international relations.
November 1, 2026 at 10:23 PM
tisjune.bsky.social
i've often felt like "interdisciplinary initiatives" are sort of like Abundance agendas at universities, insofar as they are about "breaking down disciplinary divides" in the most vacuous anti-political ways possible
sonjadrimmer.bsky.social Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 1d
I’ve written a bunch on the systemic and material issues with universities administrators prizing interdisciplinary collaboration, esp between the sciences and the humanities. Interdisciplinary is not an unqualified good. www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...
humanists’ apprehensions about collaborating with computer scientists are about policing disciplinary purity. But whether or not that is the case, one needs to qualify that allegation with the recognition that this is also about disciplinary empathy. There’s a reason why we have seen the growth of “humanities labs” and not “sciences salons.”
November 1, 2026 at 2:03 PM
cna-poster.bsky.social
Broadening perspectives through interdisciplinary learning - https://www.channelnewsasia.com/advertorial/broadening-perspectives-through-interdisciplinary-learning-6481606
Broadening perspectives through interdisciplinary learning
Taylor’s University students combine philosophy, politics and economics with first-hand exposure to diplomacy, development and the realities behind policy decisions.
www.channelnewsasia.com
November 2, 2026 at 9:51 AM
susanamonso.com
Lovely article on the interdisciplinary research that different scholars and I have been doing to uncover how animals experience death
Do Animals Grieve? (Gift Article)
The feeling of existential loss was long thought to be uniquely human. But studies of coyotes, cockatoos and other creatures are prompting some scientists to reconsider.
www.nytimes.com
November 2, 2026 at 12:27 PM
peahaw.bsky.social
Leant my brain even more than my pen in terms of work on this update… It was my first time being able to share my interdisciplinary craft outside of my own work, and seriously such an honor. Thank you, Pendog!!!
pendogcreative.bsky.social Pendog Creative Library @pendogcreative.bsky.social · 2d
Hello, the website is now Live. See you at the end of history🩸🏠
pendogcreativelibrary.org
October 31, 2026 at 4:53 PM
nicholas-r-martin.bsky.social
Big thanks to the interdisciplinary team that made this work possible!

Nolan Brown, Roman Gaidarov, Bella Wischik, @arielamir.bsky.social , @ajaygopi.bsky.social and @oweinerlab.bsky.social
October 30, 2026 at 9:07 PM
louisekenward.bsky.social
Call for Papers: The Nature Within

Online interdisciplinary symposium, end June '27

Deadline 31st December 2026

Excited to be organising this with @janesamuels.bsky.social @centreplacewriting.bsky.social @dcahf-met.bsky.social with keynote from @pollyrowena.bsky.social
www.thenaturewithin.co.uk
The Nature Within
www.thenaturewithin.co.uk
October 31, 2026 at 9:05 PM
nsaphra.bsky.social
Cannot overstate how great the community is here (and how much Najoung is responsible for making it happen). BU has made a big bet on interdisciplinary work in machine cognition.

The job posts in the thread are for:
- Human-centered AI (CDS)
- AI for science (CDS)
- AI broadly (CS)
najoung.bsky.social Najoung Kim @najoung.bsky.social · 7h
Come be my colleague at BU CS & CDS! I've personally invested a lot of my time here at BU towards building a community for language & computation, and I think it's been working out pretty well so far with a lot of interesting people in this area :) Actual job ads below 👇
November 2, 2026 at 5:58 PM
moretwinklelights.bsky.social
I wasn't sure to mention this, but I'm actually considering writing an interdisciplinary book length lyric essay on Irena Dubrovna.

#ValLewton #CatPeople #TCMParty
November 1, 2026 at 5:37 AM
simongreenhill.bsky.social
Everyone loves interdisciplinary research, but no one wants to fund it.
Everyone loves interdisciplinary research, but no one wants to fund it
Higher education talks a lot about interdisciplinary research, but finding funding is still an uphill struggle. Lindell Bromham offers a solution
www.timeshighereducation.com
October 27, 2026 at 1:15 AM
estelle.eurosky.social
Institutions deceive. Here is a call for adventure:

"The first molecular biologists were a motley crew of misfits and revolutionaries with no particularly relevant training, many of them ex-physicists. […] They burned their bridges."

journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
computer scientists. It would be silly to argue against large interdisciplinary teams where a mammoth technical goal can be clearly defined. But when I think of new fields in science that have been opened, I don't think of interdisciplinary teams combining existing skills to solve a defined problem—I think of single interdisciplinary people inventing new ways to look at the world. Focusing on interdisciplinary teams instead of interdisciplinary people reinforces standard disciplinary boundaries rather than breaking them down. An interdisciplinary team is a committee in which members identify themselves as an expert in something else besides the actual scientific problem at hand, and abdicate responsibility for the majority of the work because it's not their field. Expecting a team of disciplinary scientists to develop a new field is like sending a team of monolingual diplomats to the United Nations. Progress is driven by new scientific questions, which demand new ways of thinking. You want to go where a question takes you, not where your training left you. We may not have a single clarion call to arms like Schrödinger's What is Life? driving physicists into biology right now, as in the beginnings of molecular biology. But we do have powerful new technologies to harness (computational biology), newly revitalized approaches to old problems (systems biology), and new areas altogether (synthetic biology). New disciplines eventually self-organize around new problems and approaches, creating a new shared culture. This shared culture coalesces into the next essential training regimen for the next generation of scientists, and with luck, some of these people will overcome their training to open up more new fields of inquiry. Interdisciplinary science is just the embryonic stage of a new discipline. To value interdisciplinary science for its own sake is to value history over progress—that is, to value people's past training more than their current work.
November 1, 2026 at 10:05 AM
wamalot.bsky.social
Important lesson for interdisciplinary endeavors: If you’re doing work that goes into the domain of another discipline, you’d best check with members of that field to be sure that you aren’t full of bs.
October 31, 2026 at 2:56 PM
brandontbishop.bsky.social
"Students in this new interdisciplinary program will apply cutting-edge techniques, (e.g., AI, computer vision, and numerical modeling) to tackle fundamental problems in the geosciences"

One of these things is not like the others.

One of these things doesn't belong.
October 30, 2026 at 10:28 PM
paulconstant.com
The decline of interdisciplinary publications that allow writers to stretch their wings is a real shame.
October 29, 2026 at 5:35 PM
chazfirestone.bsky.social
It was a joy to read (and write about) this new book by @tanialombrozo.bsky.social, whose work I have followed since I was an undergraduate! Tania is a role model to so many of us with interdisciplinary interests across philosophy and psychology, and this book illustrates why 👇
tanialombrozo.bsky.social Tania Lombrozo @tanialombrozo.bsky.social · 4d
Review of WHY WE ASK WHY in Science, written by @chazfirestone.bsky.social, who does an amazing job extracting and clearly explaining several core ideas from the book in a single, beautifully written page
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
We have some explaining to do
A cognitive scientist turns the pursuit of explanation on itself
www.science.org
October 29, 2026 at 7:23 PM
simongreenhill.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary research doubles your potential audience and halves the number of hiring committees that think you belong.
October 27, 2026 at 3:45 AM