1. The philosophy of science sometimes gets an unearned reputation as a purely academic exercise that offers little by way of concrete tools for advancing research.

This is wrong.

And today, as we grapple with how AI is changing the nature of scientific activity, it's desperately wrong.

I wrote this short text: "AI and the Return of the Separate Intellect"
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My colleague Rashid Khalidi: "We are approaching the status of Chilean universities under Pinochet, where on the orders of an authoritarian government, ideas and books were banned, students were expelled and arrested, departments were taken over & faculty fired."

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It was developed by Sam Ahern & I @ucl-arc as part of the FAIR Data Accelerator run by Eileen Kennedy, Louise Chisholm, Francisco Duran del Fierro & @allisonl.bsky.social, funded by UKRI and DSIT
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'Narrating FAIR: recognising and rewarding FAIR practices and the use of narrative CVs' by Sam Ahern @ucl_arc The idea for this workshop was developed through the FAIR Data Accelerator @UKRI run by Eileen Kennedy, Louise Chisholm, Francisco Duran del Fierro blogs.ucl.ac.uk/research-sof...

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Key message from our FAIR Data Accelerator Pilot research funded by UKRI and presented by @fdurandelfierro.bsky.social in today's @UK_SKARC webinar.

My first post here. A recently published paper examining the relation between Foucault and Hegel. www.ingentaconnect.com/content/plg/...