Vanessa Seifert
@vanessaseifert.bsky.social
Philosophy of Chemistry - Philosophy of Science I MarieSkłodowska Curie postdoctoral fellow #CReaCaL I Writer & Co-editor Jargonium.com I Writer ChemistryWorld
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'careful, insightful, and agenda-setting'
The Editors are delighted to announce the winner of the 2024 BJPS Popper Prize
https://www.thebsps.org/auxhyp/bjps-popper-prize-2024/
#philsci #philsky
The Editors are delighted to announce the winner of the 2024 BJPS Popper Prize
https://www.thebsps.org/auxhyp/bjps-popper-prize-2024/
#philsci #philsky
BJPS Popper Prize 2024 | Auxiliary Hypotheses | BJPS
The Editors are delighted to announce the winner of the 2024 BJPS Popper Prize
www.thebsps.org
I don’t know what to say abt this apart from how honoured and thankful I am. This paper really took a life of its own from the very beginning it came out. It’s a genuine product of interdisciplinarity, merging the philosophy of physics with chemistry.
The new @chemistryworld.com article is about this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry! Check it out 👇
www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/what...
www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/what...
What makes a scientific breakthrough truly chemical?
Why MOFs are a great choice for the Nobel prize in chemistry
www.chemistryworld.com
October 31, 2025 at 10:33 AM
The new @chemistryworld.com article is about this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry! Check it out 👇
www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/what...
www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/what...
My new article @chemistryworld.com is about how consumer safety can be informed by the analysis of causal relations 👇
www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/the-...
www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/the-...
The conceptual challenge of consumer safety
Understanding causation can motivate product improvements
www.chemistryworld.com
September 4, 2025 at 9:39 AM
My new article @chemistryworld.com is about how consumer safety can be informed by the analysis of causal relations 👇
www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/the-...
www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/the-...
The #MSCA project #CReaCaL is officially over, so here is one final post that I wrote for @jargonium.bsky.social to sum up what I did in the last couple of years. Not many answers; rather more questions came out of this work! www.jargonium.com/post/chemica...
Chemical reactions as causes? (part III)
In this final article prompted by the work done during the research project "Chemical Reactions as Causes and Laws", I would like to present some of the problems and challenges that I encountered when...
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August 11, 2025 at 10:33 AM
The #MSCA project #CReaCaL is officially over, so here is one final post that I wrote for @jargonium.bsky.social to sum up what I did in the last couple of years. Not many answers; rather more questions came out of this work! www.jargonium.com/post/chemica...
New article @chemistryworld.com on smell and other senses. Check it out #CReaCaL www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/what...
What the smell of benzene tells us about the world
A philosophical discussion about how much we can trust our senses
www.chemistryworld.com
June 20, 2025 at 10:29 AM
New article @chemistryworld.com on smell and other senses. Check it out #CReaCaL www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/what...
Today Im taking part in a very different event on ‘Women & correspondence’ where I will talk abt Darwin’s correspondence w/ women and discuss it from the perspective of feminist critiques on his work
www.historyofideas.gr/2025/06/wome...
www.historyofideas.gr/2025/06/wome...
Women and Correspondence
Women and Correspondence in the Nineteenth Century Workshop, June 19, 2025 organized with the cooperation of the Book History Lab Department...
www.historyofideas.gr
June 19, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Today Im taking part in a very different event on ‘Women & correspondence’ where I will talk abt Darwin’s correspondence w/ women and discuss it from the perspective of feminist critiques on his work
www.historyofideas.gr/2025/06/wome...
www.historyofideas.gr/2025/06/wome...
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Feminist philosophy of science points out the mechanisms by which sexism has systematically affected women's health and helps us appreciate the different factors that influence how knowers produce knowledge claims. www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/how-...
How feminist bioethics can improve women’s health
From correcting research imbalances to placing value on lived experiences
www.chemistryworld.com
May 25, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Feminist philosophy of science points out the mechanisms by which sexism has systematically affected women's health and helps us appreciate the different factors that influence how knowers produce knowledge claims. www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/how-...
Reposted by Vanessa Seifert
For this instalment of Jargonium Asks, we are delighted to have Kostas Gavroglu Prof. Emeritus @ the Un. of Athens. He is an expert historian of chemistry, among the few who have illuminated the social, historical & philosophical aspects of early quantum chemistry
www.jargonium.com/post/jargoni...
www.jargonium.com/post/jargoni...
Jargonium asks … Kostas Gavroglu
Kostas Gavroglu is Professor Emeritus at the Department of History & Philosophy of Science at the University of Athens.
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May 22, 2025 at 11:56 AM
For this instalment of Jargonium Asks, we are delighted to have Kostas Gavroglu Prof. Emeritus @ the Un. of Athens. He is an expert historian of chemistry, among the few who have illuminated the social, historical & philosophical aspects of early quantum chemistry
www.jargonium.com/post/jargoni...
www.jargonium.com/post/jargoni...
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🚨 Today @chemistryworld.com launched a new collection on women's health. From menstruation to menopause, the articles reveal the stark gaps in medical research that have left women overlooked for far too long, and the people working to change the narrative: www.chemistryworld.com/collections/... 🔬💊
Women's health | Chemistry World
Many medical conditions affect only women, or affect them disproportionately, but women's health has historically been neglected in medical research. In this collection, we look at the gender gap in h...
www.chemistryworld.com
May 20, 2025 at 2:34 PM
🚨 Today @chemistryworld.com launched a new collection on women's health. From menstruation to menopause, the articles reveal the stark gaps in medical research that have left women overlooked for far too long, and the people working to change the narrative: www.chemistryworld.com/collections/... 🔬💊
Im keeping a sort of diary of my research during the #CReaCaL project through a series of short essays in @jargonium.bsky.social. @erc.europa.eu This is part II of my thoughts around chemical reactions as causal relations:
www.jargonium.com/post/chemica...
www.jargonium.com/post/chemica...
Chemical reactions as causes? (part II)
Some further thoughts on the nature of reactions
www.jargonium.com
May 15, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Im keeping a sort of diary of my research during the #CReaCaL project through a series of short essays in @jargonium.bsky.social. @erc.europa.eu This is part II of my thoughts around chemical reactions as causal relations:
www.jargonium.com/post/chemica...
www.jargonium.com/post/chemica...
Reposted by Vanessa Seifert
Jargonium is..
*a chemical element that turned out to be a compound
* a blog about chemistry
* bridging the humanities with chemistry
🧪Check it out! www.jargonium.com
*a chemical element that turned out to be a compound
* a blog about chemistry
* bridging the humanities with chemistry
🧪Check it out! www.jargonium.com
Bridging the Humanities with Chemistry | Jargonium
Established by early-career researchers with a shared research interest in history and philosophy of chemistry, Jargonium showcases short essays on chemistry and alchemy from the perspective of humani...
www.jargonium.com
May 14, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Jargonium is..
*a chemical element that turned out to be a compound
* a blog about chemistry
* bridging the humanities with chemistry
🧪Check it out! www.jargonium.com
*a chemical element that turned out to be a compound
* a blog about chemistry
* bridging the humanities with chemistry
🧪Check it out! www.jargonium.com
Symbols, pictograms and tables have always been part of chemical practice. Delving into that story is quite exciting! Here are some snippets of it in my new article @chemistryworld.com #CReaCaL @erc.europa.eu
www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/symb...
www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/symb...
Symbols and tables in chemistry
Looking beyond today's periodic table
www.chemistryworld.com
May 13, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Symbols, pictograms and tables have always been part of chemical practice. Delving into that story is quite exciting! Here are some snippets of it in my new article @chemistryworld.com #CReaCaL @erc.europa.eu
www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/symb...
www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/symb...
A new print magazine is out called @chalk-magazine.bsky.social & Im honoured to be in the first issue! I talk abt the periodic table & the limits in discovering elements- what does this mean about chemical discovery? 🙏 @willgarbett.bsky.social & Amy Louise!!!
www.chalk-magazine.com/articles/the...
www.chalk-magazine.com/articles/the...
The Limits of the Periodic Table — Chalk
In the quest for new chemical elements, scientists have pushed physics to its breaking point. Their efforts may take us beyond the bounds of the periodic table. Vanessa Seifert
www.chalk-magazine.com
May 9, 2025 at 9:46 AM
A new print magazine is out called @chalk-magazine.bsky.social & Im honoured to be in the first issue! I talk abt the periodic table & the limits in discovering elements- what does this mean about chemical discovery? 🙏 @willgarbett.bsky.social & Amy Louise!!!
www.chalk-magazine.com/articles/the...
www.chalk-magazine.com/articles/the...
My review of Alexander Bird’s book ‘Knowing Science’ just came out @jgps.bsky.social . If you want to get an idea of what’s it about before reading the actual thing, here are my impressions! #msca #creacal
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Alexander Bird: Knowing Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022, 304 pp., €67.88 (Hardback), ISBN: 9780199606658 - Journal for General Philosophy of Science
Journal for General Philosophy of Science -
link.springer.com
April 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
My review of Alexander Bird’s book ‘Knowing Science’ just came out @jgps.bsky.social . If you want to get an idea of what’s it about before reading the actual thing, here are my impressions! #msca #creacal
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Very honoured to talk at the "Units, Symbols, and Terminology in the Physical Sciences in and for the Digital Era" conference, held at the wonderful Burlington House, the house of the @rsc.org! Thank you @psdi-uk.bsky.social Jeremy Frey & Victoria Hooper! #CReaCaL
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Amp...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Amp...
Units, Symbols, and Terminology in the Physical Sciences in and for the Digital Era
YouTube video by PSDI_UK
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April 7, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Very honoured to talk at the "Units, Symbols, and Terminology in the Physical Sciences in and for the Digital Era" conference, held at the wonderful Burlington House, the house of the @rsc.org! Thank you @psdi-uk.bsky.social Jeremy Frey & Victoria Hooper! #CReaCaL
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Amp...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Amp...
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How #AI will change the future of #Chemistry❓
First #speaker of this meeting 🎤
🔸 Dr Vanessa Seifert, @vanessaseifert.bsky.social, Research Associate, Department of #Philosophy, @bristoluni.bsky.social.
🔹 Prediction, explanation, and #chemical progress in the age of AI.
🌐 www.vanessa-seifert.com
First #speaker of this meeting 🎤
🔸 Dr Vanessa Seifert, @vanessaseifert.bsky.social, Research Associate, Department of #Philosophy, @bristoluni.bsky.social.
🔹 Prediction, explanation, and #chemical progress in the age of AI.
🌐 www.vanessa-seifert.com
March 13, 2025 at 11:41 AM
How #AI will change the future of #Chemistry❓
First #speaker of this meeting 🎤
🔸 Dr Vanessa Seifert, @vanessaseifert.bsky.social, Research Associate, Department of #Philosophy, @bristoluni.bsky.social.
🔹 Prediction, explanation, and #chemical progress in the age of AI.
🌐 www.vanessa-seifert.com
First #speaker of this meeting 🎤
🔸 Dr Vanessa Seifert, @vanessaseifert.bsky.social, Research Associate, Department of #Philosophy, @bristoluni.bsky.social.
🔹 Prediction, explanation, and #chemical progress in the age of AI.
🌐 www.vanessa-seifert.com
I tried to give my take on whether water is wet for the BBC World Service - CrowdScience! The episode hosts chemists and material scientists too so this is a really nice & rounded way to approach the question. Here is the link:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...
BBC World Service - CrowdScience, Is water wet?
The wetness of water seems obvious - but dive into the science and it's not so clear cut
www.bbc.co.uk
March 10, 2025 at 10:12 AM
I tried to give my take on whether water is wet for the BBC World Service - CrowdScience! The episode hosts chemists and material scientists too so this is a really nice & rounded way to approach the question. Here is the link:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...
I don’t know what to say abt this apart from how honoured and thankful I am. This paper really took a life of its own from the very beginning it came out. It’s a genuine product of interdisciplinarity, merging the philosophy of physics with chemistry.
'careful, insightful, and agenda-setting'
The Editors are delighted to announce the winner of the 2024 BJPS Popper Prize
https://www.thebsps.org/auxhyp/bjps-popper-prize-2024/
#philsci #philsky
The Editors are delighted to announce the winner of the 2024 BJPS Popper Prize
https://www.thebsps.org/auxhyp/bjps-popper-prize-2024/
#philsci #philsky
BJPS Popper Prize 2024 | Auxiliary Hypotheses | BJPS
The Editors are delighted to announce the winner of the 2024 BJPS Popper Prize
www.thebsps.org
February 19, 2025 at 1:33 PM
I don’t know what to say abt this apart from how honoured and thankful I am. This paper really took a life of its own from the very beginning it came out. It’s a genuine product of interdisciplinarity, merging the philosophy of physics with chemistry.
Reposted by Vanessa Seifert
Interested in scales and measurement? 📐 With #AssemblingLife and #CPS we are organising a two days workshop on “ScaM: scales and measurement in the sciences”. We have a great lineup of speakers. Info and registration ➡️ www.hf.uio.no/english/rese...
ScaM workshop: on scale and measurement in the sciences
- Centre for Philosophy and the Sciences (CPS)
Read this story on the University of Oslo's website.
www.hf.uio.no
February 4, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Interested in scales and measurement? 📐 With #AssemblingLife and #CPS we are organising a two days workshop on “ScaM: scales and measurement in the sciences”. We have a great lineup of speakers. Info and registration ➡️ www.hf.uio.no/english/rese...
Here is the talk I gave to undergrad chemists at Andrews University about philosophy of science & chemistry. Presenting philosophical issues to non-philosophers is hard and I wish I could explain some things a bit more carefully but what can you do!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=toPY...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=toPY...
Vanessa Seifert: January 30, 2025 - Chemistry and Philosophy
YouTube video by desmond Murray
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February 3, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Here is the talk I gave to undergrad chemists at Andrews University about philosophy of science & chemistry. Presenting philosophical issues to non-philosophers is hard and I wish I could explain some things a bit more carefully but what can you do!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=toPY...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=toPY...
Here it is! My article for @aeon.co is now out and it is about what I currently work on in my Marie Curie project #CReaCaL. Hope you like it! aeon.co/essays/the-n...
The neglected ‘laws’ of chemistry – and why they matter | Aeon Essays
Often dismissed as the poor cousin of the sciences, chemistry has revealed natural laws that illuminate our Universe
aeon.co
January 24, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Here it is! My article for @aeon.co is now out and it is about what I currently work on in my Marie Curie project #CReaCaL. Hope you like it! aeon.co/essays/the-n...
Im taking advantage of my project's Zenodo platform to publish a paper that's always well-received when I talk abt it but not so much when I write it down (weird!) It's open access & will be regularly reviewed so pls send me your comments! #CReaCaL #MarieCurie #ERC
zenodo.org/records/1441...
zenodo.org/records/1441...
Why do philosophers disagree on how the sciences relate? A metaphilosophical analysis
How the natural sciences relate and what these relations tell us about the world have been examined in philosophy for a long time. Yet despite the enormous advances in the natural sciences and the gro...
zenodo.org
December 16, 2024 at 12:39 PM
Im taking advantage of my project's Zenodo platform to publish a paper that's always well-received when I talk abt it but not so much when I write it down (weird!) It's open access & will be regularly reviewed so pls send me your comments! #CReaCaL #MarieCurie #ERC
zenodo.org/records/1441...
zenodo.org/records/1441...
Our new instalment of #JargoniumAsks hosts Marina P. Banchetti-Robino who answers all our questions abt PhilChem plus gives us some cool book suggestions🙏!!! Check it out here:
www.jargonium.com/post/jargoni...
www.jargonium.com/post/jargoni...
Jargonium asks … Marina Paola Banchetti-Robino
For this instalment of Jargonium Asks, we are delighted to interview Marina P. Banchetti-Robino, Prof. of Philosophy at Florida Atlantic Un.
www.jargonium.com
December 13, 2024 at 10:44 AM
Our new instalment of #JargoniumAsks hosts Marina P. Banchetti-Robino who answers all our questions abt PhilChem plus gives us some cool book suggestions🙏!!! Check it out here:
www.jargonium.com/post/jargoni...
www.jargonium.com/post/jargoni...
The summits on #climatechange last month were- to put it lighlty- a disappointment... In my new article @chemistryworld.bsky.social Im trying to figure out why that is.. www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/the-...
The moral theories behind climate deadlock
Why is it so controversial to do the right thing for the environment?
www.chemistryworld.com
December 11, 2024 at 9:55 AM
The summits on #climatechange last month were- to put it lighlty- a disappointment... In my new article @chemistryworld.bsky.social Im trying to figure out why that is.. www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/the-...
Reposted by Vanessa Seifert
How do we judge whether a particular experiment is 'pursuitworthy'? What factors need to be considered? @ennofischer.bsky.social & I are receiving submissions exploring these & related questions for a topical collection in EJPS! Please help us spread the word! tu-dresden.de/gsw/phil/iph... #philsci
December 2, 2024 at 5:36 PM
How do we judge whether a particular experiment is 'pursuitworthy'? What factors need to be considered? @ennofischer.bsky.social & I are receiving submissions exploring these & related questions for a topical collection in EJPS! Please help us spread the word! tu-dresden.de/gsw/phil/iph... #philsci