The location is unparalleled at the just renovated Botanical Gardens with their illustrious history.. I look forward to this and am so thankful to colleagues from the library of the University of Padova for organising all this!

Soooooooo delighted with Paola Castaño winning Interdisciplinary Session Prize & @elisj.bsky.social winning Callebaut Prize at @ishpssb2025.bsky.social!! Esp given the huge role that Werner Callebaut played in my own journey as a philosopher of biology. So well-deserved for both

Another fantastic mini-plenary, this time on the pros and cons of ecological restoration featuring @alkistiseg.bsky.social and Banu Subramaniam, to conclude a tremendous second day at @ishpssb2025.bsky.social #ishpssb25

Utterly delightful to watch ex-student now great colleague @elisj.bsky.social deliver a mini plenary together with the brilliant Sam Muka in closing today’s @ishpssb2025.bsky.social proceedings, asking if there is something special about the ocean as a research target for #philsci 🧪 #HPs #sts

So grateful to Karen Yan, Hsiang-Ke Chao, Billy Wheeler, Mike Stuart and so many others who worked hard to make this event so successful - it is a wonderful honour to meet so many colleagues from this part of the world, and to taste the special beer produced to celebrate the occasion! #philsci 🧪

Impressive attendance at APPSA-LMPST conference in Taipei, where my fellow keynote @michelamassimi.bsky.social is presenting on local knowledge in coastal communities, consistent w my talk on prospects of empirical methods in an unequal, fragmented & AI-driven world appsa2025taiwan.mystrikingly.com

For Belgian residents and visitors: we are screening the short film Data Shadows at VUB in Brussels on May 21 at 18, please come along & pass the word! It would be great to see you there.

More info on the film: opensciencestudies.eu/datashadowsf... #philsci #art #science @edinitiative.bsky.social

Gathering thoughts after a fantastically productive workshop on Open Science, which brought together our team and advisors here in gorgeous springtime Munich! A heartfelt thank you to our wonderful colleagues and team - all slides and materials available here: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Listening to Sandra Soon-Jin Lee discussing institutional empathy (and lack thereof) in AI governance, and reeling with horror at the list of terms marked as “flags” for possible termination of USA federal funding - “HISTORICAL” is a problem term?!?! Insanity does not begin to cover it #philsci #hps

Here’s a picture from our outing to the Eden Project in Cornwall yesterday - I am so lucky to work with such talented and kind colleagues ⭐️

Tomorrow fun session discussing the crucial role played by statistics in data ethics and AI, organised by the U.K. Office for Statistics Regulation - registrations here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/futureproo...

*Slowly* making my way back from Chania, overnight travel & getting to Exeter by lunchtime.. trains seem to work in London 🤞👍. Research in Crete was a dream come true, starting a long-term collaboration with brilliant colleagues there. Thank you European Research Council for making this possible!

Women’s Caucus #EPSA23 elects Maria Jimenez-Buedo as new Senior Co-Chair, succeeding amazing @johannamthoma1 and flanking brilliant @AzitaChellappoo - great to see the Caucus continuing in great hands, and grateful for their fundamental work in improving our working environment #philsci #philsky

Today we opened the 9th European Philosophy of Science Association Conference in Belgrade. thanks to local committee headed by Vlasta Sikimic & steering committee headed by Stephanie Ruphie, it is the 1st ever in Eastern Europe. Happy to close my term as vice-president in such a significant location

Spending the week hosted by the Crop Research Institute of Ghana in Fumesua, near Kumasi - a verdant site full of researchers devoted to co-creating agricultural innovation that makes a real difference to local communities. Rhetorics is practice here - so much to learn cropsresearch.org

Fieldwork in Accra is starting to take shape, with productive initial visits to CABI West Africa and the Food Research Institute discussing data exchange systems, the crucial role of two-way interactions with farming communities, and challenges of underused information. And what sunsets!

Just in time for Bsky world, my new short book is now finally out (took long due to constructive exchange w pro-Open-Science referee who did not share my pro-OS concerns) & can be downloaded for free: https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/philosophy-of-open-science/0D049ECF635F3B676C03C6868873E406