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 🧪

Methods in the Philosophy of Science: A User's Guide, edited by the inestimable @phieveigl.bsky.social (and me!), has 27 chapters from super-cool philosophers of science explaining how they do their thing, and is now open access! Our baby is free! #philsci

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Very excited that *Methods in the Philosophy of Science: A User's Guide* is now available open access! Lucas and I have a chapter in it on "Doing Public Engagement with Science as a Philosopher of Science" #philsci #scicomm. In our chapter we ...

OK, so AI can apparently solve the puzzles of the Navier-Stokes equation. But can it solve the puzzles of the universe, in the way that Einstein did? My latest news feature for @nature.com looks into the question of how far AI can go towards scientific discovery.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

These are on topics like how to distinguish science from pseudoscience, how to read a scientific article, experimental validity, base rates and false positives, and more. If you are interested in the textbook or videos, check out this introductory video about the book.
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Recipes for Science is an introductory textbook about scientific methods and reasoning that I coauthored with Matteo Colombo and Cory Wright. For the 2nd ed (2024), my colleague Lucas Dunlap produced 17 videos on topics from the book, for use with or without the book.
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And very many thanks for @apotochnik.bsky.social and @mjacquart.bsky.social for their thought provoking book, Public Engagement with Science ...

...which shaped how I approached my Attenborough talk, see here www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7FW...

Great photos chronicling the first meeting of the Asian Philosophy of Science Association shared out with all participants! Here I am un-photogenically talking about how Causes Don't Push.
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Here's a link to the volume itself, which is fully open access: doi.org/10.1017/9781... This is the first volume of a new interdisciplinary series with @universitypress.cambridge.org, Elements in Public Engagement with Science. 4/4
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Our exchange with @rogerhighfield.bsky.social gets at important issues about how academics relate to public engagement with science. The full symposium is linked in the preview below, and here's a link to Melissa's and my reply without a paywall: rdcu.be/fAmwN 3/
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Many thanks to Karen Kovaka, Elis Jones and Sabina Leonelli, and Roger Highfield for their thoughtful reviews. All of the reviewers pressed us on important issues. Highfield was the most critical of our project... 2/
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Who counts as a scientist, who gets to decide what counts as scientific, and are academics relevant to public engagement? Check out this Metascience symposium on
Public Engagement with Science: Defining the Project. 1/
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