Anna Alexandrova
@annaalexandrova.bsky.social
Philosophy of science, methodology of social sciences, wellbeing/happiness studies, evidence based policy, measurement/quantification. Professor at Cambridge HPS, Fellow of @kingscollege.bsky.social
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Pinned
The dataset of this survey (data anonymised) is open and available to anyone. Please use it! Federico and I conceived of it and carried it out in 2021 while at @crasshlive.bsky.social. Part of Expertise Under Pressure project. Many UK colleagues, namely 1188, completed it. Thank you! #openscience
Saturday night TV. Seeing his sketches and how Turner’s style progressed was great. Of the way too many interviewed guests, Leslie Primo is 👍. But Orna Guralnik was such a predictable cartoon psychoanalyst that by the end I was finishing her sentences (which were naturally about Turner’s mother)
BBC Two - Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks
JMW Turner’s sketches reveal how he became one of Britain’s most celebrated artists.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Saturday night TV. Seeing his sketches and how Turner’s style progressed was great. Of the way too many interviewed guests, Leslie Primo is 👍. But Orna Guralnik was such a predictable cartoon psychoanalyst that by the end I was finishing her sentences (which were naturally about Turner’s mother)
Starting the last day of PSA Around the World Central and Eastern Europe with a session on scientific understanding. @henkderegt.bsky.social is the first plenary speaker on understanding by an artificial system
The PSA Around the World 2025 is coming soon: Nov 6, 14 & 22 (online)!
Hosted by @philsci.bsky.social and @eenphilsci.bsky.social it highlights #philsci from, about, and connected to Central and Eastern Europe.
Great lineup, still time to register!
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Hosted by @philsci.bsky.social and @eenphilsci.bsky.social it highlights #philsci from, about, and connected to Central and Eastern Europe.
Great lineup, still time to register!
www.philsci.org/psa_around_t...
PSA Around the World 2025 - Philosophy of Science Association
www.philsci.org
November 22, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Starting the last day of PSA Around the World Central and Eastern Europe with a session on scientific understanding. @henkderegt.bsky.social is the first plenary speaker on understanding by an artificial system
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Thank you! Here a review of the debate: plato.stanford.edu/entries/scie...
Scientific Research and Big Data (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
plato.stanford.edu
November 22, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Thank you! Here a review of the debate: plato.stanford.edu/entries/scie...
Lorraine Daston can take any topic and make it profound and exciting. Even insurance. This was a wonderful lecture
How much risk is too much for the world’s top insurers?
Did you miss Lorraine Daston’s lecture in September on how the insurance industry confronts catastrophic risk?
👀You can watch the full recording on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/BEqrapJURxI?...
Did you miss Lorraine Daston’s lecture in September on how the insurance industry confronts catastrophic risk?
👀You can watch the full recording on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/BEqrapJURxI?...
November 21, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Lorraine Daston can take any topic and make it profound and exciting. Even insurance. This was a wonderful lecture
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Open specialty. Ability to teach central topics at u/g and p/g level in ethics is essential. Also desirable, e.g. Political Philosophy, History of Philosophy (including post-Kantian Philosophy up to Nietzsche), Aesthetics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind. Closing date Dec 21 2025 #philsky #philjob
Assistant Professor in Philosophy
The Faculty of Philosophy is seeking to appoint an Assistant Professor in Philosophy with effect from 1 September 2026. This post requires teaching expertise at a level that is at the forefront of
www.cam.ac.uk
November 20, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Call for proposals for articles for a special issue of this well edited journal #econsky #histsci #climate
History of Climate Economics
Editors of the Special Issue Christophe Cassen (CNRS, CIRED Paris) Béatrice Cointe (CNRS, CSI Paris) Antoine Missemer (CNRS, CIRED Paris) Call for Papers In 2018, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Eco...
journals.openedition.org
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Happening now! #philsci #metascience
Reminder! Starts in one hour - “How science is changing” livestream event from 6pm EST tonight! Join MCPS director Alan Love, Lydia Patton, Jacqueline Sullivan, and Craig Callender.
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November 20, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Happening now! #philsci #metascience
Fascinating to think about the longterm consequences of this for social science. Might it lead to a reversal of the 'empirical turn' in economics and return to theory? A growth in popularity of in person qualitative research? Prioritisation of objective indicators in quant work?
new paper by Sean Westwood:
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
November 20, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Fascinating to think about the longterm consequences of this for social science. Might it lead to a reversal of the 'empirical turn' in economics and return to theory? A growth in popularity of in person qualitative research? Prioritisation of objective indicators in quant work?
With LLMs destroying online survey research I feel especially grateful to have collected this data in time. bsky.app/profile/josh...
The dataset of this survey (data anonymised) is open and available to anyone. Please use it! Federico and I conceived of it and carried it out in 2021 while at @crasshlive.bsky.social. Part of Expertise Under Pressure project. Many UK colleagues, namely 1188, completed it. Thank you! #openscience
November 20, 2025 at 10:48 PM
With LLMs destroying online survey research I feel especially grateful to have collected this data in time. bsky.app/profile/josh...
Open specialty. Ability to teach central topics at u/g and p/g level in ethics is essential. Also desirable, e.g. Political Philosophy, History of Philosophy (including post-Kantian Philosophy up to Nietzsche), Aesthetics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind. Closing date Dec 21 2025 #philsky #philjob
Assistant Professor in Philosophy
The Faculty of Philosophy is seeking to appoint an Assistant Professor in Philosophy with effect from 1 September 2026. This post requires teaching expertise at a level that is at the forefront of
www.cam.ac.uk
November 20, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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It’s been a frustrating week so far - digging our way out of the house and then digging our way back in to the house each day. But my cycle ride home today makes up for it all. Winter here is so beautiful (not all the time!)
November 19, 2025 at 1:44 PM
It’s been a frustrating week so far - digging our way out of the house and then digging our way back in to the house each day. But my cycle ride home today makes up for it all. Winter here is so beautiful (not all the time!)
Extremely well put. Amazing that this gets called feminism today. A testament to the infinite flexibility of ideologies
November 19, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Extremely well put. Amazing that this gets called feminism today. A testament to the infinite flexibility of ideologies
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Fascinating morning visiting the Niels Bohr Archive - with Bohr’s handwritten diagram of the atom, a model of the box used in the 1930 Solvay debate with Einstein, and even Bohr’s pipe still smelling of tobacco! 🤩
November 19, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Fascinating morning visiting the Niels Bohr Archive - with Bohr’s handwritten diagram of the atom, a model of the box used in the 1930 Solvay debate with Einstein, and even Bohr’s pipe still smelling of tobacco! 🤩
Views of the river Cam from my walks. On the left is a busy Sunday morning for rowers in Fen Ditton. On the right the quiet stretch in Newnham
November 19, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Views of the river Cam from my walks. On the left is a busy Sunday morning for rowers in Fen Ditton. On the right the quiet stretch in Newnham
Hilarious and depressing at once. Apparently the latest in certain parts of feminism is ‘Fix yourself by becoming more yourself’
How Corporate Feminism Went from “Love Me” to “Buy Me”
A decade ago, Sheryl Sandberg’s “Lean In” aimed to tear down the obstacles that kept women from reaching the top. Now her successors want to tear down everything.
www.newyorker.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Hilarious and depressing at once. Apparently the latest in certain parts of feminism is ‘Fix yourself by becoming more yourself’
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Join us NEXT THURSDAY (Nov 20) for "How Science is Changing," a free interdisciplinary panel discussion!
Hear from scholars on the evolving nature of science.
🗓️ 6 PM 📍 @cincymuseum.bsky.social w/ @philsci.bsky.social
Free, open to all, parking included! RSVP:
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Hear from scholars on the evolving nature of science.
🗓️ 6 PM 📍 @cincymuseum.bsky.social w/ @philsci.bsky.social
Free, open to all, parking included! RSVP:
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November 14, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Join us NEXT THURSDAY (Nov 20) for "How Science is Changing," a free interdisciplinary panel discussion!
Hear from scholars on the evolving nature of science.
🗓️ 6 PM 📍 @cincymuseum.bsky.social w/ @philsci.bsky.social
Free, open to all, parking included! RSVP:
🔗 forms.gle/3Ei7GM91LTmy...
Hear from scholars on the evolving nature of science.
🗓️ 6 PM 📍 @cincymuseum.bsky.social w/ @philsci.bsky.social
Free, open to all, parking included! RSVP:
🔗 forms.gle/3Ei7GM91LTmy...
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✨Don't forget✨ Our next PSA Office Hours are are Monday, November 24 at 12 PM EST with Michela Massimi and Mazviita Chirimuuta! Sign up at the link below to save your spot:
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November 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
✨Don't forget✨ Our next PSA Office Hours are are Monday, November 24 at 12 PM EST with Michela Massimi and Mazviita Chirimuuta! Sign up at the link below to save your spot:
www.philsci.org/psa_...
www.philsci.org/psa_...
Stanford Enc of Philosophy is down, as is philpapers.org. It sounds like it's not just me
November 18, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Stanford Enc of Philosophy is down, as is philpapers.org. It sounds like it's not just me
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Describing, with Breckland as an example, the idea of ecological palimpsests: how history underpins much of the ecology we see today youtu.be/6pkWmMmv8bY?...
Ecological palimpsests
YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts
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November 17, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Describing, with Breckland as an example, the idea of ecological palimpsests: how history underpins much of the ecology we see today youtu.be/6pkWmMmv8bY?...
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Silver birches and sky for skypeople
November 16, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Silver birches and sky for skypeople
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Just published: our introduction to the history of peer review in the humanities! (with Marie-Gabrielle Verbergt) link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The Past and Present of Peer Review in the Humanities: An Introduction - Minerva
This Introduction to the Special Issue “The Past and Present of Peer Review in the Humanities” situates the currently dominant evaluative regime of peer review within a longer and broader history of s...
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November 13, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Just published: our introduction to the history of peer review in the humanities! (with Marie-Gabrielle Verbergt) link.springer.com/article/10.1...
So interesting, Georg! Thank you. Looking forward to the Neurath thread, reminds me of this by Uebel www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 13, 2025 at 11:43 AM
So interesting, Georg! Thank you. Looking forward to the Neurath thread, reminds me of this by Uebel www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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I am happy to be part of the organization of the next Causality in the Sciences conference in Sevilla, focusing on cases from medicine. Mark your calendars for October 8-9th 2026. Deadline for abstract submission: March 8th. More details here: eventos.us.es/142286/secti...
Causality and Causal Inference in Medicine (CauseMed)
This conference aims to bring together current research dealing with causality and inferential practices in the health sciences, broadly construed, welcoming philosophical, methodological, and scienti...
eventos.us.es
November 12, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I am happy to be part of the organization of the next Causality in the Sciences conference in Sevilla, focusing on cases from medicine. Mark your calendars for October 8-9th 2026. Deadline for abstract submission: March 8th. More details here: eventos.us.es/142286/secti...
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Very happy to see the UK government making a commitment to phasing out animal testing
www.gov.uk/government/n...
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Animal testing to be phased out faster as UK unveils roadmap for alternative methods
New plan backs researchers to seize on new and developing opportunities to phase out animal tests with specific commitments for the coming years.
www.gov.uk
November 13, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Very happy to see the UK government making a commitment to phasing out animal testing
www.gov.uk/government/n...
www.gov.uk/government/n...
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How many monkeys died for the polio vaccine? One million. Excellent reporting and solid analysis by Ava Kofman. It’s genuinely shocking to learn just how much contemporary scientific research depends on animal suffering on a massive scale
Last November, 43 rhesus macaques escaped from Alpha Genesis, one of the country’s biggest breeders of primates used in scientific experiments. Ava Kofman writes about the fraught circumstances and politics surrounding the monkey jailbreak.
The Runaway Monkeys Upending the Animal-Rights Movement
A troop of macaques escaped one of the largest primate-breeding facilities in America. Now a strange coalition of uncompromising activists and MAGA loyalists is demanding that all lab animals be set f...
www.newyorker.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:54 PM
How many monkeys died for the polio vaccine? One million. Excellent reporting and solid analysis by Ava Kofman. It’s genuinely shocking to learn just how much contemporary scientific research depends on animal suffering on a massive scale