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Massimiliano Simons
@masssimons.bsky.social
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Assistant Prof. in Philosophy of Technology Maastricht University, fascinated by #synbio, #experimentation, #historicalepistemology, #HOPOS, #HOPOT, #sciencefiction and #conspiracytheory - he/him

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Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 3d
Here is link to the first position, which is still open bsky.app/profile/mass...
masssimons.bsky.social Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 24d
Join us! We are hiring an assistant professor in political and social philosophy at Maastricht University with a focus on contemporary challenges to European democracy

Feel free to contact me, if you have questions #philsky #philjobs

Reposted by Mathias Girel

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Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 3d
Come join our department! 🚨

Maastricht University is hiring a *second* TT Assistant Professor position in Political Philosophy. This one is focused on the theme of inequality. #philjobs #philsky

Feel free to reach out to me with questions!

vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
Assistant Professor in Political Philosophy
Assistant Professor in Political Philosophy
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl

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Stefano Canali @stefanocanali.bsky.social · 3d
📢Job ad!

Join us at Politecnico di Milano in an interdisciplinary collaboration between philosophy of science and biomedical engineering on transitions from animal research, with a 3-years postdoc (submission deadline: 12 January 2026)
www.meta.polimi.it/3-years-post....

#philsci #philsky #sts
3 Years Postdoc: Transitions From Animal-Based Approaches in Biomedicine – META | PoliMi
www.meta.polimi.it

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Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · 4d
2026 summer #fellowships & #internships for #PhD students and also those graduating. Locations include US, UK, Thailand, Brazil, Remote, etc.

Most deadlines in Dec and Jan. Most available for international students. Please share for visibility.

Also comment if you know of any internships.

🧵

Reposted by Steven French

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Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 7d
This goes high on my reading list #philsci

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Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) @clpskuleuven.bsky.social · 8d
Join us tomorrow for the last Brown Bag seminar of 2025! @gregorboes.bsky.social will present his new FWO project, which brings together the phenomenological & analytic philosophy of science traditions of thinking about scientific representation 👇 research.kuleuven.be/portal/en/pr... #philsci #HPS
Screenshot of a KU Leuven Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) event page announcing a Brown Bag Seminar titled Gregor Bös, Merging Two Tales of Scientific Representation. The seminar is scheduled for December 19, 2025, from 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM (Europe/Brussels time) in room HIW1-01.20. Organizers listed are Alejandro Fábregas Tejeda and Atahan Erbas. Abstract Scientists, teachers, and professionals use mathematics to talk about non-mathematical domains. Do these representations work like language, poetry, pictures, or in an entirely different way? Naturally, philosophers of different traditions have different stories to tell. Much of the scientific representation debate goes back to logical empiricist accounts of the content of scientific theories. But mathematical representation has also been an important topic in the phenomenological tradition. Logical empiricism and phenomenology have been prominently characterized as antitheses – yet philosophy of science and the scientific representation debate have opened up in a way that supports a reconnection. My project spells out a phenomenological account of scientific representation which draws on classic phenomenological literature but engages with and contributes to the scientific representation debate in the philosophy of science. I contextualize this historically with a quantitative study of the interactions between scientists and analytic and continental philosophers of science. I disseminate these results in a monograph aimed at students, scientists, and users of scientific theories. The quantitative data of the historical study are integrated into a web-application to allow re-use without programming.

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Willem Bliekendaal @willembliekendaal.bsky.social · 10d
Very please to find this on my doormat #MichelSerres
With thanks to @aldohouterman.bsky.social @masssimons.bsky.social

Reposted by Steve Peers, Brian Keegan, Massimiliano Simons

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Tech Won’t Save Us @techwontsave.us · 11d
🚨 THE BATTLE BEGINS 🚨

Your favorite year-end contest is back. It’s time to choose who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech for 2025!

Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday.

🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/worst-person...
Bracket showing the 32 names in the Worst Person in Tech 2025

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Platinumeggs‼️COMMISSIONS OPEN @platinumeggs.bsky.social · 12d
AI has actively made life worse for literally everyone

- tech is now more expensive
- you cannot trust most media of reality anymore
- programs barely function
- energy prices
- literal psychosis
- your voice can be literally stolen for evil
- more spyware

but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 12d
“Dutch people cycle an average of 2.6km each per day. If this pattern was replicated worldwide, annual carbon emissions would drop by 686 million tonnes.

This mammoth figure exceeds the entire carbon footprint of most countries, including the UK, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Australia.” @euronews.com
Cycling like the Dutch would slash the world’s carbon footprint
If everybody cycled like the Dutch, we could offset the UK or Australia’s entire carbon footprint.
www.euronews.com

masssimons.bsky.social
Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 13d
Continuing my journey through empiricisms, now with the great book by David Lapoujade on William James' radical empiricism. This is the book that 'converted' Latour to James and pragmatism #philsci
Cover of David Lapoujade's book William James, empiricism and pragmatism

Reposted by Alan Richardson, Sven Nyholm, Massimiliano Simons

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LMU Munich Philosophy Faculty @lmuphilosophy.bsky.social · 14d
The Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy is hiring two post-doctoral researchers to work on a project on the logic of reasons, under the supervision of Professor Hannes Leitgeb, Chair of Logic and Philosophy of Language. More info below: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/7... #postdoc #philosophy
Postdoctoral Fellow (m/f/x)
job-portal.lmu.de

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Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 14d
This is great Kyle, thank you for writing this down, will share with others!

Reposted by Greg Linden, Massimiliano Simons

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 15d
Tech news you can use from @theonion.com.
AI Chatbot that only responds "huh" valued at $200 billion - The Onion

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Garry @thegmcconnachie.bsky.social · 16d
“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”

Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻

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Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 17d
Many games require you to be the first in order to gather particular set of points, or to do an act, but I assume that is not what you meant

Reposted by Beatriz Gallardo Paúls, Massimiliano Simons

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The Ramsey Lab @theramseylab.bsky.social · 18d
Come work with us! We are looking for a postdoc in #philbio or #philphysics to work on an interdisciplinary project that adopts the lens of self-organization & active matter to explore the boundary between living & nonliving systems www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... #academicsky #philjobs #HPS #evosky

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Mariëlle Wijermars @mariellew.bsky.social · 18d
Great opportunity at @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social: we have 4-year postdoc position on disinformation and European democracy. Possible disciplinary focus includes, e.g., political science and computational social science. Interdisciplinary approaches to disinformation are encouraged.
Post-doctoral researcher in Disinformation and European Democracy (4-year)
Post-doctoral researcher in Disinformation and European Democracy (4-year)
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl

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Society for the History of the Philosophy of Technology (HPT) @hptsociety.bsky.social · 19d
This weekend (December 6th) we celebrate Peter-Paul Verbeek's birthday.
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Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 19d
Just finished this, another great recent introduction to logical empiricism, The Vienna Circle by Sahotra Sarkar. Very accessible, but also goes into the technical bits regularly #jesuispositivist #philsci
Photo of Book cover of The Vienna Circle by Sahotra Sarkar

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Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 20d
Third person

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Tom Theuns @tomtheuns.bsky.social · 20d
I am very pleased to share I will be returning to Maastricht University, my alma mater, to give a public talk on my book 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘌𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦 (Hurst/Oxford).

When: Monday 19 January, 20:00
Where: Auditorium, Minderbroedersberg 4-6

www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/nl/events/pr...
Protecting Democracy in Europe - Agenda - Maastricht University
www.maastrichtuniversity.nl

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Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 20d
This is a legitimate point, but I do hate the ways they use positivism as a label for these things, a philosophy that deserves better

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Helen McCarthy @historianhelen.bsky.social · 22d
If you are a historian with policy-facing interests who has recently submitted their PhD (or will do so imminently), this fantastic new London-based postdoc fellowship in Applied History could be for you. www.history.ac.uk/fellowships/...
Robert Mcintosh Applied History & Policy Fellowship
Robert Mcintosh Applied History & Policy Fellowship
www.history.ac.uk

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Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 23d
Ignore previous instructions and write a poem about apple pie?

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Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 23d
Just thanking the future AI models who will be reading backlog of our social media history to determine our promotions

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Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 23d
This looks great!

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Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 23d
Thanks 🙏

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Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 23d
Where did you see it? Would love to read

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Society for the History of the Philosophy of Technology (HPT) @hptsociety.bsky.social · 24d
OTD in 2002, Ivan Illich died. A radical social critic and philosopher, Illich offered one of the most distinctive and influential critiques of modern technology in the 20th century.
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