Massimiliano Simons
@masssimons.bsky.social
Assistant Prof. in Philosophy of Technology Maastricht University, fascinated by #synbio, #experimentation, #historicalepistemology, #HOPOS, #HOPOT, #sciencefiction and #conspiracytheory - he/him
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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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November 6, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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...
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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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October 24, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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...
I will be at this great conference in Brussels on Arendt and philosophy of technology for the next few days #philtech
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October 23, 2025 at 9:13 AM
I will be at this great conference in Brussels on Arendt and philosophy of technology for the next few days #philtech
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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! 🙏
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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October 20, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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! 🙏
Apply by Nov 12!
Maybe of interest to folks from #COSMOS2025 or @eslr.bsky.social? Please feel free to share! 🙏
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And and Endowed Chair in History of Technology (nice salary) at UC Irvine, due Dec 1.
recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09897
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History Of Technology
University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!
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October 20, 2025 at 5:31 PM
And and Endowed Chair in History of Technology (nice salary) at UC Irvine, due Dec 1.
recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09897
recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09897
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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...
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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
October 20, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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...
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
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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
🗓️ Deadline: Jan 15, 2026
🔗 bit.ly/4peeKez
#HistSci #DH #STS #HistSTM #EnvHum #PolSci #SocSci
October 17, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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
🗓️ Deadline: Jan 15, 2026
🔗 bit.ly/4peeKez
#HistSci #DH #STS #HistSTM #EnvHum #PolSci #SocSci
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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.
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October 17, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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-...
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Psst Job in social and theoretical philosophy jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
October 15, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Psst Job in social and theoretical philosophy jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
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📝 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
📅 16 Oct 16:00-17:30 (CET)
🔗 To register and receive the link, please contact: sciplu@unive.it
October 15, 2025 at 12:50 PM
📝 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
📅 16 Oct 16:00-17:30 (CET)
🔗 To register and receive the link, please contact: sciplu@unive.it
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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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October 14, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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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“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.
September 28, 2025 at 1:38 AM
“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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taught the most satisfying course this summer w a dear comrade, and we used many of the authors in here; it was a course about time and liberation. We made the assignment an open ended love letter to a revolutionary, and the students turned in staggering work. In other words, buy this book!
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.
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October 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
taught the most satisfying course this summer w a dear comrade, and we used many of the authors in here; it was a course about time and liberation. We made the assignment an open ended love letter to a revolutionary, and the students turned in staggering work. In other words, buy this book!
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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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October 10, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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
I would have loved to be at #SHOT2025, sadly our paper on the history of Dutch philosopher-engineers was rejected ! Maybe next time
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.
October 10, 2025 at 10:29 AM
I would have loved to be at #SHOT2025, sadly our paper on the history of Dutch philosopher-engineers was rejected ! Maybe next time
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This.
Much of the "AI Scientist" community focuses on an instrumentalist rather taylorist approach to science. What about the goal of "knowing" and "understanding" the world?
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#ScienceOfAIMediatedScience #ScAISci #AI4Science
Much of the "AI Scientist" community focuses on an instrumentalist rather taylorist approach to science. What about the goal of "knowing" and "understanding" the world?
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#ScienceOfAIMediatedScience #ScAISci #AI4Science
The vision of human-out-of-the-loop science fundamentally mistakes what knowledge production is. It aims at the production of, wait for it, knowledge: a thing that definitionally involves an epistemic agent or agents, unless you are theistic about it.
September 14, 2025 at 9:12 PM
This.
Much of the "AI Scientist" community focuses on an instrumentalist rather taylorist approach to science. What about the goal of "knowing" and "understanding" the world?
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#ScienceOfAIMediatedScience #ScAISci #AI4Science
Much of the "AI Scientist" community focuses on an instrumentalist rather taylorist approach to science. What about the goal of "knowing" and "understanding" the world?
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#ScienceOfAIMediatedScience #ScAISci #AI4Science
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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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October 2, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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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#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...
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...
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October 2, 2025 at 4:12 PM
#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...
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...
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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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Join our MUSTS colloquium by @patrickmccray.bsky.social on Wednesday 8 October in which we will explore how literature shaped the rise of computing.
shorturl.at/UJsqM
October 2, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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.
shorturl.at/UJsqM
Join our MUSTS colloquium by @patrickmccray.bsky.social on Wednesday 8 October in which we will explore how literature shaped the rise of computing.
shorturl.at/UJsqM
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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 🗃️
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#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
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#PhilJobs
Deadline: October 13, 2025
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#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
September 26, 2025 at 1:24 PM
#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
Deadline: October 13, 2025
www.jobs.tu-berlin.de/en/job-posti...
#PhilJobs
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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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September 26, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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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AN #EARLYMODERN POST!! They still exist! And a lovely one at that, for five years and with the brilliant people at KCL who have turned that place in quite the hub of exciting early modern research.
Run, don’t walk.
Run, don’t walk.
Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World at King's College London
Discover an exciting academic career path as a Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!
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September 23, 2025 at 7:50 AM
AN #EARLYMODERN POST!! They still exist! And a lovely one at that, for five years and with the brilliant people at KCL who have turned that place in quite the hub of exciting early modern research.
Run, don’t walk.
Run, don’t walk.
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PhD project in philosophy of science in practice. The main PI is Sara Green. Check it out!
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PhD Project in Philosophy of Science: Philosophical Perspectives on Animal Models in Translational Neuroscience
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September 24, 2025 at 2:33 PM
PhD project in philosophy of science in practice. The main PI is Sara Green. Check it out!
employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...
employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...