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Philosopher of science in a previous life, short story writer in this one and comics and music lover in both.

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Steven Richard Douglas French is an emeritus professor of philosophy at University of Leeds.

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Scott Edelman @scottedelman.bsky.social · 13h
I suddenly realized the cover art to my new all science fiction short story collection 101 Things to Do Before You're downloaded shares a theme with my last purely SF collection, 2010's What We Still Talk About, a completely unplanned connection. Time to blast off! pspublishing.co.uk/101-things-t...
The two covers side by side. On the left, What We Still Talk About, which features a planetoid with a banner across the front of it which contains the title. A rocket swooshes by, and a ringed planet is in the background. It's in a simplistic woodcut style of blue, yellow, red, and grey. There's some fake wear to the corners of the cover. On the right, the cover to 101 Things to Do Before You're Downloaded, done in pastel pinks, purples, blues, and yellows. The bottom of the front cover shows the skyline of a futuristic city from which a rocket zooms and goes into orbit parallel with the subtitle. Vertical along the right side of the cover is a digitized human form rising up from the city and wrapped in an atomic nucleus.

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I Support People Protesting in Support of Palestinian Action @srdfrench.bsky.social · 16h
This was the story that was originally accepted by Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. Who then failed to respond to any of my emails, leading me to withdraw it. And then lo and behold, 10 months later, after TPP accepted the piece, EQMM sent me the contract! As I said in reply, “Well, this is awkward “

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I Support People Protesting in Support of Palestinian Action @srdfrench.bsky.social · 16h
My short story ‘Tweedledum’ just appeared at The Piker Press:
www.pikerpress.com
Tweedledum by Steven French
The Piker Press is a weekly journal for arts, sciences, fiction and non-fiction, featuring a wide array of literature, from humor to drama. We like to think of it as the illegitimate, onli...
www.pikerpress.com

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I Support People Protesting in Support of Palestinian Action @srdfrench.bsky.social · 16h
Ditto!

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Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science @mcps-philsci.bsky.social · 18h
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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Frances Egan @francesegan.bsky.social · 19h
The online journal Philosophy and the Mind Sciences is doing a symposium on my book, Deflating Mental Representation, based on my Jean Nicod lectures. See the Call for Papers here:
philosophymindscience.org/index.php/ph...
and a précis of the book here:
philpapers.org/rec/EGAPOD
Call for Papers: Book Symposium on "Deflating Mental Representation" by Frances Egan | Philosophy and the Mind Sciences
Philosophy and the Mind Sciences (PhiMiSci) focuses on the interface between philosophy of mind, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. PhiMiSci is a peer-reviewed, not-for-profit open-access journal...
philosophymindscience.org

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Dr Kathrine Cuccuru @aphilosopher.bsky.social · 19h
#PHILOSOPHY PLAYTIME! This week we play with the idea ‘can we trust our senses?’

18.30-20.00, Wednesday 12 November at EH9|Espresso, Perth Rd, #Dundee
£6 cash on door, complimentary (decaf) coffee
All curious minds welcome!
Small green card with ‘can we trust our senses?’ handwritten on it

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PhilSci-Archive @philsci-archive.bsky.social · 20h
New on the Archive:

De Haro, Sebastian (2025) The Geometric View of Theories. [Preprint]

https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27183/

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 22h
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
It's an artistic representation of a circulatory system walking through a kitchen, as drawn by Dave Gibbons and written about by Alan Moore. It happens a lot 'round here.

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Aline Ghilardi @alinemghilardi.bsky.social · 23h
🚨New paper alert!🚨🤩

🧪⚒️Welcome the first filter-feeding pterosaur from Brazil: Bakiribu waridza, from the Araripe Basin!! 🥳

The new species is AWESOME and was discoverd inside a regurgitalite 😱🤍

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A regurgitalite reveals a new filter-feeding pterosaur from the Santana Group - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - A regurgitalite reveals a new filter-feeding pterosaur from the Santana Group
www.nature.com

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Josh Habgood-Coote @impractknow.bsky.social · 23h
I wrote a paper arguing that we should replace authorship with contributors, spokespeople, writers, and guarantors. One of the contributors to that paper (Mikkel Gerken) has written a response paper arguing that the view defended in that paper is implausible www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Scientific Contributions and Scientific Authorship | The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science: Vol 0, No ja
www.journals.uchicago.edu

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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 1d
Right-wing vigilante violence against the left (including assassinations of trade-unionists and environmental activists) has long been a feature of Latin American politics. I sometimes fear that this is in our future in Europe too.
In Sweden, online hate and anti-immigrant extremism are driving women out of public life | Martin Gelin
A leading liberal politician has quit in fear of her physical safety. It is a crushing setback for democracy in one of the world’s most open societies, says journalist Martin Gelin
www.theguardian.com

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The HOPOS Journal @hoposjournal.bsky.social · 1d
The second in Sander Verhaegh's two part institutional history of American analytic philosophy appearing in the 15th volume of #HOPOS.

"The Analytic Turn in American Philosophy: An Institutional Perspective—Part 2"

Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

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Dr. Ryan French @ryanjfrench.bsky.social · 1d
Today the Sun produced an X1.8-class #SolarFlare (the highest category). The event also triggered an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection, although we are still yet-uncertain of the likely strength or timings of the impact at Earth. #spaceweather

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 1d
This morning, Sunday, Radio 4's religiously inclined cousin to the Today programme casually revealed the 1970s post boy charged with handling the rats in formaldehyde that the Boomtown Rats wanted to distribute across the US as a publicity stunt is now Pope Leo XIV. I'm sure I didn't dream this.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 2d
Note from my notebook (2018). Still relevant.

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The Comics Collective @cmxcollective.bsky.social · 2d
Dallas is out still this week so, naturally, Anne keeps forgetting to post these! 😅

But we are taking questions for SQUIRE by Sara Alfageeh and Nadia Shammas! Get those sent in to us at thecomicscollective@gmail.com! ⚔️

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Shen-yi Liao 廖顯禕 @liao.shen-yi.org · 2d
Here is a bit of a puzzle: Why are there so many different Logic textbooks?

Formal Logic (TFL + FOL, nothing meta) seems like one of those things that we should be able to standardize and success in teaching is more clearly measurable compared to other philosophical subjects. Yet…

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Steven Gomzi @stevengomzi.bsky.social · 2d
Reading House Of Leaves and my family probably thinks I’ve gone nuts; holding pages up to a mirror, translating pages in French to English, holding the book upside down at times, and just plain babbling to myself in my reading corner. *See footnote 289
Somewhere, Mark Danielewski is laughing. 🤪😱
A trade paperback of House Of Leaves by Mark Danielewski placed upside down, because that’s how you will feel heading down it’s infinite corridors, getting trapped in dead end, searching for missing pages, holding up pages to mirrors, *See footnote 135

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PhilSci-Archive @philsci-archive.bsky.social · 2d
New on the Archive:

Massimi, Michela (2025) The right to participate in science. Navigating cooperation among epistemic jurisdictions. [Preprint]

https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27155/

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Brittany Trang @brittanytrang.com · 2d
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 2d
Heck yeah, comics party in the park!

(At Ulsan's Taehwagan National Garden)

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Ureterocele @ureterocele.bsky.social · 3d
I woke up at 3 a.m., and it's now 5 a.m. here in Tokyo. I'm drinking decaf coffee, looking through the curtains at the still pitch-black outside, gently lit by the orange light inside the room. Recently, I've been enjoying Maya Delilah's guitar tone. Her tone feels warm, like a fireplace. I love it.
Maya Delilah - Begin Again (Live From Middle Farm Studios / 2023)
YouTube video by MayaDelilahVEVO
www.youtube.com

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Murat Gülsaçan @muratgulsacan.com · 3d
Good day to remember Rosalind Franklin like any other day. 🧬🔬
Time Magazine cover featuring Rosalind Franklin in a lab coat and x-ray of DNA

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Physgal ⚛️ @physgal.bsky.social · 3d
Happy Women in Physics Day to all of the amazing women and gender minorities in physics!! We are still greatly under-represented at all levels, so we need to continue encouraging girls and young women to consider studying physics and make systemic changes to the climate in the field. ⚛️ 🎢 👩‍🔬 🧪
Graph of bachelors degrees earned by women vs. year from 1967-2017 for various STEM fields. Physics sits at about 22% (as do engineering and computer science). Graph of %of US PhD holders who are women vs field specific beliefs about whether you need to be "brilliant" to succeed in that field. The graph has a negative slope. Physics is in the lower right corner (low % of PhDs, high brilliance). A young woman with her hand on a Van de Graaff generator and her hair standing up due to static electricity. She was participating in a physics workshop for girls. A group of mostly women physicists at the 2013 Women in Physics Canada conference at SFU.

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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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PseudoPod @pseudopod.org · 3d
"The government begins excavating the bones in late February"

The Squatters, by Shawna Yang Ryan

Narrator: Rebecca Wei Hsieh
Host: Kat Day
Audio: Chelsea Davis

pseudopod.org/2025/11/07/p...

This story originally appeared in the 2025 Anthology, Silk and Sinew
PseudoPod 1002: The Squatters
The government begins excavating the bones in late February to coincide with the events planned to commemorate the massacre. It is meant to gesture that they truly do intend to follow through on their...
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 3d
With a return to the Pliocene locked-in, the only meaningful question is, will we stop there or maintain BAU until a return to the Middle Miocene becomes inevitable or - ultimately - the early Eocene?

If the latter, this is what the UK will eventually look like

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PhilSci-Archive @philsci-archive.bsky.social · 3d
New on the Archive:

Mason, Lucy (2025) Perspectives on the Quantum State. Foundations of Physics, 55 (68).

https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27144/

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PhilSci-Archive @philsci-archive.bsky.social · 3d
New on the Archive:

Antoniou, Antonis and Lorenzetti, Lorenzo (2025) Limiting Reduction and Modified Gravity. [Preprint]

https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27152/