Ivan Flis
@iflis.bsky.social
Psychologist turncoat | history of science, history of psychology, philosophy of science | PhD from Utrecht University | Postdoc at University of Rijeka, Croatia: https://revenant.uniri.hr/ | Teaching in the cognitive sciences https://cogsci.uniri.hr/
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Scientists and scholars in AI and its social impacts call on von der Leyen to retract #AIHype statement.
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Scientists call on the President of the European Commission to retract AI hype statement
Experts in AI call on the President of the European Commission to retract unscientific AI hype statement she made in the budget speech.
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November 10, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Scientists and scholars in AI and its social impacts call on von der Leyen to retract #AIHype statement.
@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
& many others have signed
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@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
& many others have signed
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lol
November 6, 2025 at 4:47 AM
lol
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A permanent post in my department. Closing date Dec 14th 2025, interviews in March. Please spread #histsci
Assistant Professor in History of Knowledge Pre-1400
Applications are invited for the position of Assistant Professor in History of Knowledge Pre-1400, in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. Please note
www.cam.ac.uk
October 30, 2025 at 10:07 AM
A permanent post in my department. Closing date Dec 14th 2025, interviews in March. Please spread #histsci
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No neede for expensyve consultinge firmes. Heere ys a planne for excellent higher education:
1) Hire manye facultye
2) Small class syzes
3) Emphasyze engagemente & delighte
4) Sustayne & cultivate a varietye of fieldes and disciplines, even currentlye unfashionable ones -- thys ys ed, not retail
1) Hire manye facultye
2) Small class syzes
3) Emphasyze engagemente & delighte
4) Sustayne & cultivate a varietye of fieldes and disciplines, even currentlye unfashionable ones -- thys ys ed, not retail
October 29, 2025 at 4:25 PM
No neede for expensyve consultinge firmes. Heere ys a planne for excellent higher education:
1) Hire manye facultye
2) Small class syzes
3) Emphasyze engagemente & delighte
4) Sustayne & cultivate a varietye of fieldes and disciplines, even currentlye unfashionable ones -- thys ys ed, not retail
1) Hire manye facultye
2) Small class syzes
3) Emphasyze engagemente & delighte
4) Sustayne & cultivate a varietye of fieldes and disciplines, even currentlye unfashionable ones -- thys ys ed, not retail
When we were in school and Wikipedia was becoming popular, our teachers warned us that we can’t trust free crowd-sourced sources because they are less trustworthy than printed books.
Must suck to realize that there are some forms of epistemic grounding that you and your pals can't simply purchase and torch to the ground.
October 28, 2025 at 8:01 PM
When we were in school and Wikipedia was becoming popular, our teachers warned us that we can’t trust free crowd-sourced sources because they are less trustworthy than printed books.
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Must suck to realize that there are some forms of epistemic grounding that you and your pals can't simply purchase and torch to the ground.
October 22, 2023 at 11:31 PM
Must suck to realize that there are some forms of epistemic grounding that you and your pals can't simply purchase and torch to the ground.
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Question
Can anyone recommend an article for grad students so that they can better understand what “critical” scholarship means — i.e. that they don’t make moral judgements or assessments of right/wrong or good/bad, but rather understand how meaning circulates in particular places / times etc
Can anyone recommend an article for grad students so that they can better understand what “critical” scholarship means — i.e. that they don’t make moral judgements or assessments of right/wrong or good/bad, but rather understand how meaning circulates in particular places / times etc
October 28, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Question
Can anyone recommend an article for grad students so that they can better understand what “critical” scholarship means — i.e. that they don’t make moral judgements or assessments of right/wrong or good/bad, but rather understand how meaning circulates in particular places / times etc
Can anyone recommend an article for grad students so that they can better understand what “critical” scholarship means — i.e. that they don’t make moral judgements or assessments of right/wrong or good/bad, but rather understand how meaning circulates in particular places / times etc
I have become fake, the consumer of words.
October 28, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I have become fake, the consumer of words.
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Huzzah! The PhilSci preprint archive for #philsci papers is finally on Bsky! Give them a follow to keep up with latest work in field ⬇️
@philsci-archive.bsky.social
@philsci-archive.bsky.social
October 25, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Huzzah! The PhilSci preprint archive for #philsci papers is finally on Bsky! Give them a follow to keep up with latest work in field ⬇️
@philsci-archive.bsky.social
@philsci-archive.bsky.social
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I am teaching a grad readings seminar for the first time and man books are amazing and also if you have ever read one or 15, you know how insane it is that anyone would think knowledge is something you query and receive in a pat answer
October 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I am teaching a grad readings seminar for the first time and man books are amazing and also if you have ever read one or 15, you know how insane it is that anyone would think knowledge is something you query and receive in a pat answer
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My department (Computer science) is recruiting a postdoc (18 months) on any topics related to trust and AI (could be a philosophical project or a more empirically minded one). Belgian postdoc salaries are competitive. To apply: jobs.unamur.be/emploi.2025-...
18 Months Postdoc in AI and Trust (Social Sciences and Humanities) — UNamur
Faculté d'informatique -
jobs.unamur.be
October 23, 2025 at 7:12 AM
My department (Computer science) is recruiting a postdoc (18 months) on any topics related to trust and AI (could be a philosophical project or a more empirically minded one). Belgian postdoc salaries are competitive. To apply: jobs.unamur.be/emploi.2025-...
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The academic publishing industry is an oligopoly, an inefficient market. Oligopoly actors force us to buy a long list of crap so we can read the dozen journals we want. Anti-trust action would be rational. Let's hope at least that exploitative bundle deals are refused. We can walk away!
'New proposals by Elsevier, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis, Wiley and Sage were sent to universities this week after their initial offers were decisively rejected by institutions in a sector-wide consultation run by Jisc,...negotiating jointly with Universities UK on behalf of universities.' 1/3
New offers from big five ‘still too costly’ for UK universities
‘Significant’ number of institutions predicted to drop deals with main scholarly imprints, leaving journal access much reduced
www.timeshighereducation.com
October 23, 2025 at 7:30 AM
The academic publishing industry is an oligopoly, an inefficient market. Oligopoly actors force us to buy a long list of crap so we can read the dozen journals we want. Anti-trust action would be rational. Let's hope at least that exploitative bundle deals are refused. We can walk away!
I more and more think that the reason they want to colonize Mars is not some highfalutin cyberpunk extinction ethics, but for the opportunity to make us subscribe to air.
The AWS outage bricked people's $2,700 smartbeds, leaving them in a reclining position or with the heat up. People were unable to use them, basically. A GitHub repo exists that lets people operate their beds without reliance on the normal infrastructure
www.404media.co/the-aws-outa...
www.404media.co/the-aws-outa...
The AWS Outage Bricked People’s $2,700 Smartbeds
When Amazon Web Services went offline, people lost control of their cloud-connected smart beds, getting stuck in reclined positions or roasting with the heat turned all the way up.
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October 23, 2025 at 5:34 AM
I more and more think that the reason they want to colonize Mars is not some highfalutin cyberpunk extinction ethics, but for the opportunity to make us subscribe to air.
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The most fundamental motivation for pluralism is *humility*. We operate against a complex, inexhaustible, and unpredictable external reality. Seems unlikely to find the perfect system of science so perhaps we should foster multiple ones, each with its unique strengths.
October 21, 2025 at 12:17 AM
The most fundamental motivation for pluralism is *humility*. We operate against a complex, inexhaustible, and unpredictable external reality. Seems unlikely to find the perfect system of science so perhaps we should foster multiple ones, each with its unique strengths.
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"I've just come from Timbuctoo on my horse, Rumpelstiltskin."
"Your horse is called Rumpelstiltskin??"
"That's right. I've been through the desert on a horse with gnome-name."
"Your horse is called Rumpelstiltskin??"
"That's right. I've been through the desert on a horse with gnome-name."
October 12, 2025 at 12:50 PM
"I've just come from Timbuctoo on my horse, Rumpelstiltskin."
"Your horse is called Rumpelstiltskin??"
"That's right. I've been through the desert on a horse with gnome-name."
"Your horse is called Rumpelstiltskin??"
"That's right. I've been through the desert on a horse with gnome-name."
University of Rijeka opened a call for a funded PhD position for the project “Epistemic Democracy in a Digital Era,” PI: Ivan Cerovac. If you have Master's students looking for funded doctoral projects on such topics, please pass it forward! euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/378303
Research Assistant
Research Assistant, for a fixed term of 6 years, full-time, on the Croatian Science Foundation project “Project for Career Development of Young Researchers – Training of New Doctors of Science” (DOK-2...
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October 14, 2025 at 3:59 PM
University of Rijeka opened a call for a funded PhD position for the project “Epistemic Democracy in a Digital Era,” PI: Ivan Cerovac. If you have Master's students looking for funded doctoral projects on such topics, please pass it forward! euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/378303
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"There are no footnotes."
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.
“The tapes wouldn’t start”
“The tapes wouldn’t start”
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.
“Translate 'yoroshiku onegai shimasu'”.
“Translate 'yoroshiku onegai shimasu'”.
October 12, 2025 at 6:31 AM
"There are no footnotes."
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Do you have a favorite academic book cover?
October 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Do you have a favorite academic book cover?
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David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
October 9, 2025 at 4:42 AM
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
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I wish more people got this. Science is inefficient. I'd say probably say inherently inefficient. I know we all want to hurry up and make the world a better place with those tax dollars, but I believe the harder we try to rush things, the less effective we will be in the long run.
"Science is not broken, and it most certainly is not dying. It is an inefficient human activity....When we catastrophize, we feed a disillusionment which political actors can weaponize to get rid of scientific evidence they find inconvenient."
#AcademicSky 🧪
#AcademicSky 🧪
Difficult for me to put into words how disappointed I am in Sabine Hossenfelder. Many years back when she was just blogging about physics I was a huge fan, and she published a lot of intriguing papers. Now she makes money as a social media arsonist. 🧪
www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...
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September 29, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I wish more people got this. Science is inefficient. I'd say probably say inherently inefficient. I know we all want to hurry up and make the world a better place with those tax dollars, but I believe the harder we try to rush things, the less effective we will be in the long run.
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Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in History of Modern Science - UCL - Department of Science and Technology Studies (STS) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOV745/a... #skystorians 🗃️
Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in History of Modern Science at UCL
Discover an exciting academic career path as a Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in History of Modern Science at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!
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September 27, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in History of Modern Science - UCL - Department of Science and Technology Studies (STS) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOV745/a... #skystorians 🗃️
It’s not only about revenue. We started the first program in English at our faculty a few years ago, and the international cohorts of students produce a completely different learning and teaching atmosphere that would be available to local students only if they moved abroad.
A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.
30% drop year over year!
September 29, 2025 at 9:06 PM
It’s not only about revenue. We started the first program in English at our faculty a few years ago, and the international cohorts of students produce a completely different learning and teaching atmosphere that would be available to local students only if they moved abroad.
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