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Alisa Bokulich
@alisabokulich.bsky.social
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Professor @ Boston U, History & Philosophy of Science—esp Philosophy of Geosciences, Director Phi-Geo Research Group, Assoc @ Harvard U. Hist Sci, Radcliffe Fellow Alum. Settler, wife, & mother. 📸s my crappy phone.
Webpage: https://bokulich.org/
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I can’t think of a better way to celebrate my 2nd year in Germany than keynoting the German Society for Women in Philosophy - join us in Ulm to discuss openness & democracy on Thursday 13 November: www.uni-ulm.de/einrichtunge... #philsci
SW*IP Germany Jahrestagung 2025 - Universität Ulm
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November 11, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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View from a cliff of the Boston skyline across the bay just after sunset.
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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#MosaicMonday

A mosaic floor of Bellerophon and Chimaira, Archaeological Museum of Rhodes, in the Medieval City of Rhodes, ca. 300-270 B.C.

#Art #Myth #Archaeology
November 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Two weeks until the Philosophy of Science Association’s next office hours! @michelamassimi.bsky.social and Mazviita Chirimuuta on “New approaches to realism.”
Sign up and more information:
PSA Office Hour - Philosophy of Science Association
The PSA Office Hour aims to facilitate interactions between our graduate student membership and prominent philosophers of science, and in a more controlled, accessible, and carbon-conscious setting…
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November 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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#philsky #philsci
November 10, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Day 9 DIY shed build: soffits, fasciae, drip edge, roof felt, & half of the roof shingled....then it started raining 🌧️
A gray shed in progress with partial roof & no windows or doors.
November 10, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Happy birthday to #inventor Hedy Lamarr (1914 – 2000) & Hollywood star. 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬 #histsci Born Hedwig Keisler in Vienna, she gained fame after her risqué & notorious starring role in Machatý’s ‘33 film Ecstasy. Mandl, 1st of 6 husbands, objected & tried unsuccessfully to buy all copies of film.
My linocut portrait of Hedy Lamarr in indigo, with diagrams from her patent (Fig 4 like a piano roll) and a schematic of how a signal marked “Data”could be encoded with a pseudo-random binary sequence “PBRS” to produce a transmitted signal “Tx” - all in blue.
November 9, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Ok, but consider trace fossils with body fossils in them
Mesolimulus preserved at the end of Koupichnum trackway Attribution and license info: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mesolimulus_walchi_with_trace.JPG
November 9, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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#histstm #HPS
abney.bsky.social Charlotte Abney @abney.bsky.social · 2d
We are also currently hiring a curatorial fellow to work with the papers of Rosalind Franklin and others in the History of Molecular Biology Collection!

This is a 2-year staff position in the archive with a salary of $55k/year and full benefits:

www.sciencehistory.org/research/fel...
abney.bsky.social Charlotte Abney @abney.bsky.social · 2d
For those with a scholarly interest in Franklin, Watson, and other pioneering researchers in molecular biology, @sciencehistory.org has just opened our new landmark collection of their papers, and applications for research fellowships are currently open:

www.sciencehistory.org/hmbc
November 9, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Please donate (any token amount welcome!) to support Subrena Smith's family and neighbors in Jamaica who have been devastated by Hurricane Melissa. The aftermath is often the hardest...
www.gofundme.com/f/692hk-help...
alisabokulich.bsky.social Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 2d
Some of you may know #philsci #philbio Subrena Smith, Prof of #philosophy at UNH. Her family in Jamaica lives in one of parishes hardest hit by Hurricane Melissa: Westmoreland. She & David are raising funds to support them w/ generators, supplies, truck water in to them, etc. Please donate if can!
November 8, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Tree silhouetted in front of bay on hazy golden day. November 8, 2023
November 8, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Some of you may know #philsci #philbio Subrena Smith, Prof of #philosophy at UNH. Her family in Jamaica lives in one of parishes hardest hit by Hurricane Melissa: Westmoreland. She & David are raising funds to support them w/ generators, supplies, truck water in to them, etc. Please donate if can!
A photo of Subrena smiling
November 8, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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I wish @dusttodigital.bsky.social was active here on Bsky. They recently shared this amazing clip of flamenco dancer Carmen Amaya from the film Los Tarantos in honor of her birthday.
youtu.be/EwVODokMJYo?...
Los Tarantos (1963) - Carmen Amaya, buleria
YouTube video by skifxyz
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November 8, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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A pink "Venus belt" sky at sunset looking east over ocean and Boston Harbor Islands from a sand bar exposed at low tide. November 7, 2022.
November 7, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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In case anyone is wondering if Watson was really THAT bad, @lpachter.bsky.social compiled a list of quotes that are absolutely not for the faint of heart.
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
November 7, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Opening for a tenure-track assistant professor in the history of science, with a preferred focus on water issues: 👇 #HistSTM
h-net-job-guide.bsky.social H-Net Job Guide @h-net-job-guide.bsky.social · 3d
New job:

Professor of History

University of Wisconsin - Madison

jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69456
November 7, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Happy birthday to the only two women with elements named after them on the periodic table: #MarieCurie & #LiseMeitner.

As I do every year, I will once again repeat my proposal that November 7 should be International #WomenInSTEM Day!

#histSTM #chemistry #physics
#OnThisDay #OTD #PeriodicTable👩‍🔬🗃️📜
The squares for Curium and Meitnerium from periodictable.com, featuring portraits of their respective namesakes, are presented above a caption "Only two women have chemical elements named after them. Both were born on November 7th." (I'm aware that there was some ambiguity surrounding Lise Meitner's birthday, but Ruth Lewin Sime's biography notes that Meitner celebrated the occasion on November 7.)
November 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Good news everyone: #Duke Summer Seminars in Neuroscience and Philosophy (SSNAP) are back!! We are now accepting applications for SSNAP 2026, which will take place from May 26 to June 6, 2026. #neuroscience #philosophy #brain Please spread the word! ssnap.submittable.com/submit
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November 7, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Online workshop: Methodologies for use of History in Philosophy, hosted by Instituto de Investigatciones Filosoficas–UNAM, organised by María Martínez-Ordaz @mmartinezordaz.bsky.social & Teresa Rodriguez. Registration free. Complete form to receive zoom link forms.gle/qJRncUDEc254...
#HPS #Philsky
INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES FILOSÓFICAS - UNAM WORKSHOPnine METHODOLOGIES for the use of history IN PHILOSOPHY NOVEMBER 13-14, 2025 KIRSTEN WALSH CUNIVERSITY OF EXETER) JOUNI-MATTI KUUKKANEN CUNIVERSITY OF OULU) ANNA GADIGNANI MARIA CHIARA PARISI EVELYN ERICKSON ANDRÉS VÁZQUEZ-QUIJANO JANIK ROJAS ZAINAB SABRA BOBBY VOS NATALIA ZORRILLA DUBIAN CAÑAS MARÍA MARTÍNEZ-ORDAZ +info: methodologiesfortheuseofhistor@gmail.com November 14, 2025 • [15:30-17:00 CET || 08:30-10:00 MX] Keynote Talk: "Towards a methodologist integration of history and philosophy of science. Marriage counseling from a pragmatist perspective." Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen (University of Oulu) • [17:00-17:50 CET || 10:00-10:50 MX] "Counterfactual Sufficiency in Historical Explanation: Old and New History in 1948" Zainab Sabra (American University of Beirut) • |17:50-18:00 CET I| 10:50-11:00 MX] MINI-BREAK • [18:00-18:50 CETI 11:00-11:50 MX] "Historical Macro-Units as a Form of Conceptual Engineering" Bobby Vos (University of Cambridge) • [18:50-19:40 CET // 11:50 - 12:40 MX] "Early Modern Feminist Approaches to Misogynistic Bias in the Historical Archive" Natalia Zorrilla (McGill University) • [19:40 -19:50CET || 12:40-12:50 MX] MINI-BREAK • [19:50-20:40 CET// 12:50-13:40 MX] "Idealising the history of science for philosophical purposes" Dubian Cañas. • |20:40-21:30 CET// 13:40-14:30 MX] "Why some inaccurate case studies work? Reflections on the epistemic value of philosophically biased historical reconstructions" María del Rosario Martínez-Ordaz November 13, 2025 • [16:00-17:30 CET I| 09:00-10:30 MX] Keynote Talk: "Newton's Metaphysics in Practice" Kirsten Walsh (University of Exeter, England) • 17:30-18:20 CET I| 10:30-11:20 MX| "Reconstructing Trust: Social-Historical Trajectories of the Physician-Patient Relationship in Post-Unification Italy" Anna Gadignani (Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy) • [18:20-18:30 CET I| 11:20-11:30 MX] MINI-BREAK • [18:30-19:20 CETI 11:30-12:20 MX] "Aristotle and Proclus on Mathematics as an Axiomatic Science: A Data-Driven Comparison" Maria Chiara Parisi (University of Amsterdam, NL) • 19:20-20:10 CET // 12:20 - 13:10 MX] "A reply to incommensurability: from historiography to philosophy of logic" Evelyn Erickson (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil) • [20:10 -20:20CET || 13:10-13:20 MX] MINI-BREAK • [20:20-21:10 CET// 13:20-14:10 MX] "A Meta-Narrativist Approach to the Reconstruction of Internal History: The Autonomy-Continuity Problem" Andrés Vázquez-Quijano (UNAM) • [21:10-22:00 CET// 14:10-15:00 MX] "Problems in the historical study of the intellectual and spiritual contributions of women in classical Islam from a gender perspective" Tzitzi Janik Rojas Torres (UNAM)
November 7, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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White winter string lights are up on the campus trees today on a sunny day with sunlight filtering through golden leaves.
November 6, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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thebsps.bsky.social
The rumours are true: Leeds is hosting BSPS 2026! Make sure you put the date in your calendars (21-23 July) and, while you're at it, consider submitting a symposium proposal (CFS closes on 14th January 2026)! www.thebsps.org/news/bsps-an...
Annual Conference | 2025
The BSPS Annual Conference takes place on 15-17 July 2025 at the University of Glasgow
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November 6, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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🎺 EPSA27 Venue - Call for Bids

*Deadline: December 10*

The European Philosophy of Science Association calls for proposals for the venue of EPSA27, its 11th Biennial Conference, to be held in 2027. For details, see philsci.eu/news/13550199
European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA) - EPSA27 Venue - Call for Bids
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November 6, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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"If NOAA’s forecast holds, Thursday could bring an even higher chance of seeing the northern lights as a Kp index of 7 has been issued for tomorrow night"
November 6, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Free ebook of Conevery Bolton Valencius's book The Lost History of the New Madrid Earthquakes
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November 6, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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A long wooden boardwalk pier extending out over the sea at a blue twilight giving a strong sense of perspective & ending in distance at a glowing entrance to a boathouse at end of walkway.
November 5, 2025 at 10:32 PM