1/3 Your proteins don't just bump into each other — they shake hands. But each protein has only a few hands, and how many it has decides whether it stays dissolved or condenses into a droplet. Could that number be the whole story? #academicsky #biophysics #philsci

🎥 Some highlights from today's Lunchtime Talk with Aditya Jha.

Don't miss Friday's Annual Lecture Series with Serife Tekin: "Stability and Intervention in Psychiatry." #philsci

Good to see that our opinion piece on grand theories of consciousness is out. #consciousness #neuroskyence #philsci #philsky🧠 #neuroscience #brain 🧪

The paper & symposia submission deadline (15 November 2026) is approaching for the International Congress of Logic, Methodology & Philosophy of Science & Technology. The 2027 edition will be at Kobe University in Japan (23-28 Aug 2027). The theme is Dialogues Across Borders.
clmpst2027.org
#philsci

@terezahendl.bsky.social and I are very happy to finally share the full programme of our workshop, “Mind the Gap: Engaging Europe’s East in Global Health Debates”!

29–30 October
Berlin or online
Free participation
Apply until 9 October:
www.globalhealth.de/news/view/mi...

#philsci

The @mcps-philsci.bsky.social post-doctoral fellows program is continuing into the future and is currently accepting applications for a 2-year fellowship starting Fall 2027! Interested recent or impending PhDs in #PhilSci, #HPS and #HOPOS, please apply!

cla.umn.edu/mcps/news-ev...

1/3 Your cell membrane is a 5-nanometre-thick fluid sheet. Zap it with a radiofrequency field and it flexes, stretches, even opens pores. Which comes first — the electrical force, or the mechanical squeeze? #academicsky #biophysics #philsci

New semester, new lecture series! This time with the fantastic @federicabocchi.bsky.social, @rossbrooks.co.uk, @drandyflack.bsky.social and others. Join us online on Mondays at 4pm (CET). Just click here to register: www.pe.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/philosophie/...
#HPBio #HistSci #PhilSci

I am really happy to share that I have started as PI of an @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social-funded 3-year project @clpskuleuven.bsky.social. I'll investigate how scientists conceptualize, model & measure environments across the life, cognitive, social & Earth sciences! #philsci #philsky #evosky #envhum 🧪

#philsci 🦑

Philosophers working on causation thats interesting. take a look! #philsci

New from the BJPS Review of Books:

Neurocognitive Foundations of the Mind
—Gualtiero Piccinini

Reviewed by
Felipe De Brigard

www.thebsps.org/reviewofbook...

#philsci #philsky

The symposium will feature commentaries by:
Dr. Geoffrey Hobbis — KTI WUR
Dr. Clemens Driessen — Cultural Geography WUR
Dr. Hugh Desmond — Philosophy WUR
The commentaries will be followed by a brief response from Prof. Wilson and discussion with the audience.
All are welcome!
#philsky #STS #philsci

Visit our website for more information about this week's events. #philsci

www.centerphilsci.pitt.edu/calendar

#philsci #PSA26

1/3 Your cells' filaments — microtubules, actin — bend. But some of them prefer to be curved, even with no force applied. What happens to a filament's stiffness when its own shape memory can switch on and off? #academicsky #biophysics #philsci

Here is three great podcast with Stephan Hartmann on the rationality and shortcomings of deliberation. Listen to it! @lmuphilosophy.bsky.social #philsci

In this episode of Conversations at the Center, Director Edouard Machery sits down with Stephan Hartmann of LMU Munich to discuss social epistemology and group deliberation. #philsci

YouTube:
https://ow.ly/hXGB50ZTWUY
Spotify:
https://ow.ly/GGPi50ZTWUW
Apple Podcasts:
https://ow.ly/6f3750ZTWUX

Just accepted: Jeffrey Barrett & Eddy Keming Chen, 'Algorithmic Randomness, Exchangeability, and the Principal Principle'

Abstract in alt text or read it here:
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

#philsci #philsky

In this OA article, Philippe van Basshuysen and I address three fundamental challenges for predictive policy advice (and some of their interrelations):

#philsci #policyadvice

link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

@mapsproject.bsky.social