Rachael Brown

This is good to hear (though it gives away just how long it is since I lived in Melbourne!!). Also I didn’t realise you had street photography as yet another string to your bow - such you multitalented lady!!!

Meeting at the clocks on flinders st station steps in Melbourne before a day/night out. No phones or far too expensive to call for something so trivial.

Trump team axes contracts with publishing giant Springer Nature The action comes as high-ranking US officials criticize top journals as ‘woke’ and ‘corrupt’.

Several outlets have reported on agency cancellations of Springer Nature journal subscriptions in recent days. @maxkozlov.bsky.social has the latest today. The administration cites the journals as "junk science." www.nature.com/articles/d41... (2/3)🧪

Expressions of interest in this Metascience PhD scholarship @unimelb are open now

This should be read by everyone who expresses an opinion on academia…
#academia #highered #auspol

Bang on. Sigh.

Very excited about the Call for Papers for the upcoming 2025 conference for the Australasian Association for History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science.

Come join us in sunny Brisbane QLD this December!! It is always a wonderful event.

#hps #histSTM #philsci #STS #metasci 🧪

Third annual Aust-NZ Philosophy of Biology Workshop this time at Mittagong! Fun times :-)

Smartphones: Parts of Our Minds? Or Parasites? Smartphones are often assumed to be obvious examples of cognitive extension. We offer reasons to reject this assessment, arguing that modern smartphones (and the apps installed on them) are not cog...

Here’s the journal length version www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Your smartphone is a parasite, according to evolution Many of us are hostage to our phones – and it’s not unlike having head lice.

New piece just out - Who benefits? Are smartphones parasites? theconversation.com/your-smartph...

I am also pleased to announce that Ellen Clarke (Leeds) and Charles Pence (Louvain) have agreed to join the editorial team as Associate Editors alongside our existing crew of Jay Odenbaugh (Lewis & Clark), Emily Parke (Auckland) and Marcel Weber (Geneva). Thank you for this service to our discipline

So, I was appointed Editor-in-Chief at Biology & Philosophy in January. It is a huge honour and I am really proud to be the first philosopHer in the role. Thank you to Michael Weisberg, out going EiC, for all his hard work for the journal over many years - they are big shoes to fill.

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I'm back! I got off the twits a while back and have been enjoying the brain space so I'm not sure how much I will be on here, but nonetheless hello all!

More reasons to be excited about AIMOS2023: Science writer StuartRitchie will explore the proliferation of low-quality studies and ways that #metascience can improve the reliability of scientific literature. bit.ly/aimos2023

Thanks Alisa!!

New here. Keen to connect with other #philsci folks.

First post here! Hoping for a less hostile space than that which shall not be named.