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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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

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Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 5d

For the next two days, I will be at 'The human phenomenon. Plessner's crossroads' conference in Cologne, talking about Helmuth Plessner's reception history in Dutch philosophy of technology and science #hopot #hopos #philsci #philtech philevents.org/event/show/1...

The human phenomenon. Plessner's crossroads

Among the great European thinkers of the 20th century, HelmuthPlessner occupied a special position. Having studied medicineand zoology and then turning to philosophy, his thought articulatesvarious ce...

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MAPS Project @mapsproject.bsky.social · 18d

Team member Philippe van Basshuysen's paper has just been published: Performativity in Science: Past and Future in Philosophy Compass. doi.org/10.1111/phc3...

Performativity in Science: Past and Future

Performativity is the capacity of science to exert influence on the very phenomena it seeks to describe, for instance, when an economic prediction of a recession creates expectations which, in turn, ....

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Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 19d

I will be at this great conference in Brussels on Arendt and philosophy of technology for the next few days #philtech

ethu.research.vub.be/conference-c...

Poster of conference on 'coming to terms with technology'

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Elaine Ayers @eayers0.bsky.social · 21d

And and Endowed Chair in History of Technology (nice salary) at UC Irvine, due Dec 1.

recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09897

History Of Technology

University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!

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Elaine Ayers @eayers0.bsky.social · 21d

A couple of job postings in the #histSTM #histsci #histmed realm: Asst Prof in Social Studies of Medicine at Cambridge, due Nov 17.

www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

Assistant Professor Social Studies of Medicine

This is a joint post 65% Sociology, 35% HPS. The Departments of Sociology and History and Philosophy of Science are looking to recruit an Assistant Professor in the Social Studies of Medicine in a

www.cam.ac.uk

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Charley Wu | hiring PhDs/Postdocs @thecharleywu.bsky.social · 21d

Fully-funded 4-year #PhD in Cultural Evolution! Join my @erc.europa.eu project exploring how compression & compositionality drive cultural innovation: hmc-lab.com/ERCPhDCultur...
Apply by Nov 12!
Maybe of interest to folks from #COSMOS2025 or @eslr.bsky.social? Please feel free to share! 🙏

ERC funded PhD position on Cultural Evolution

ERC funded PhD position on Cultural Evolution posted on October 16, 2025 We are currently seeking a highly motivated individual for a ful...

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Sjang ten Hagen @sjangtenhagen.bsky.social · 24d

Join us next year in Leuven for the workshop "Histories of Scholarly Evaluation, 1700–2000." Deadline for abstracts: 31 Jan 2026. hshh.ugent.be/en/news/cfp-...

CFP: Histories of Scholarly Evaluation, 1700–2000

A workshop organised by Leuven, Ghent, and Utrecht. Co-funded by HSHH and the ERC project Global Academies.

hshh.ugent.be

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Max Planck Institute for the History of Science @mpiwg.bsky.social · 24d

Three new funded #DoctoralPositions in the International Max Planck School "Knowledge and Its Resources: Historical Reciprocities!"

🗓️ Deadline: Jan 15, 2026
🔗 bit.ly/4peeKez

#HistSci #DH #STS #HistSTM #EnvHum #PolSci #SocSci

Collage of three images. The first reads: "Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. Career. We're hiring." The second image shows bookshelves in the institute's library (Photo by Vivienne Rischke, 2024). The third image shows the MPIWG Summer Publications Slam held in the institute's library (Photo by Marvin Müller (2024).

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Josh Habgood-Coote @impractknow.bsky.social · 26d

Psst Job in social and theoretical philosophy jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

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SciPlu Project @scipluproject.bsky.social · 26d

📝 Join us tomorrow for the first online session of HISTEPS with a talk by Flavia Padovani "Hans Reichenbach and C.I. Lewis on the Pragmatic A Priori: Cognition and Values" (see 2025/2026 programme below)

📅 16 Oct 16:00-17:30 (CET)
🔗 To register and receive the link, please contact: sciplu@unive.it

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Society for the History of the Philosophy of Technology (HPT) @hptsociety.bsky.social · 27d

On this day in 1906, Hannah Arendt was born. Best known for her political philosophy, Arendt also offered profound reflections on technology in, among others, The Human Condition (1958).
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Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · Oct 11

Awesome!

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · Oct 11

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books

A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.

www.pilsencommunitybooks.com

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Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · Oct 10

If you’d like to read a paper about World War One, history and philosophy of science—especially Sarton’s New Humanism and Reichenbach’s logical empiricism—, and scientific humanism, I wrote one!: www.cambridge.org/core/books/s... #philsky

Scientific Humanisms (Chapter 5) - Science and Humanism

Science and Humanism - October 2025

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Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · Oct 10

Wow, impressive!

Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · Oct 10

I would have loved to be at #SHOT2025, sadly our paper on the history of Dutch philosopher-engineers was rejected ! Maybe next time

Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social · Oct 9

And we're back! Andreas Fickers, director of @c2dh.uni.lu, kicks off tonight's plenary by welcoming @shothisttech.bsky.social to Luxembourg. He notes that the theme of #SHOT2025 (Technologies of Migration, Migrating Technologies) is esp. relevant given recent threats to global academic freedom.

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Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social · Oct 9

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Society for the History of the Philosophy of Technology (HPT) @hptsociety.bsky.social · Oct 2

On this day in 1924, Gilbert Simondon was born. A pioneering French philosopher of technology, Simondon challenged us to see machines not as passive tools but as entities with their own modes of existence.
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Hanna Lucia Worliczek @hworliczek.bsky.social · Oct 2

#Job #PhilSci #HPS
Fully funded PhD-position at Bielefeld University, Philosophy of the Biomedical Sciences), deadline Oct 30, 2025
Job ad: uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/451...
On the program: blogs.uni-bielefeld.de/blog/isosnew...

Doctoral Researcher in Philosophy of the Medical S...

The History and Philosophy of Medicine Group, led by Prof. Lara Keuck, is looking for a highly motivated candidate for a three-year PhD project in phi...

uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org

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Maastricht University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social · Oct 2

How did #computers go from niche machines to everywhere, all at once? It turns out one of the oldest technologies, #books, was key.

Join our MUSTS colloquium by @patrickmccray.bsky.social on Wednesday 8 October in which we will explore how literature shaped the rise of computing.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · Sep 28

“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.

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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · Sep 27

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!

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · Sep 26

#Postdoc at Technische Universität Berlin in digital humanities & history/philosophy/sociology of science #philsci #STS. ERC project investigates digital communication within the ATLAS collaboration at CERN

Deadline: October 13, 2025
www.jobs.tu-berlin.de/en/job-posti...
#PhilJobs

Job Posting I-390/25: Research Associate - salary grade E13 TV-L Berliner Hochschulen – Job Postings at Technische Universität Berlin

Faculty I - Humanities and Educational Sciences, Institute of History and Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Literature / History and Philosophy of Modern Science

www.jobs.tu-berlin.de

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Society for the History of the Philosophy of Technology (HPT) @hptsociety.bsky.social · Sep 26

On this day in 1889, Martin Heidegger was born. Heidegger holds a prominent place in the history of the philosophy of technology as he is often taken to be one of the first philosophers to take technology seriously.
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Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · Sep 25

Would read it

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Patrick @plferree.bsky.social · Sep 24

PhD project in philosophy of science in practice. The main PI is Sara Green. Check it out!

employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...

PhD Project in Philosophy of Science: Philosophical Perspectives on Animal Models in Translational Neuroscience

employment.ku.dk

Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · Sep 24

Cannot but disagree

Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · Sep 23

Goes on my reading list! Very much in favor of more metaphilosophy of science!

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Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com · Sep 23

I am quite excited to share a new preprint on the prospects for a 'metaphilosophy of science'—a second-order inquiry into the concepts, assumptions, aims, and methods that underpin philosophy of science itself. 👇📃 philsci-archive.pitt.edu/26661/ 1/3 #philsci #philsky #HPS #HPbio #metaphilosophy

Toward a Metaphilosophy of Science - PhilSci-Archive

philsci-archive.pitt.edu

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