💥#JOB: Again we expand our team: come to Institute of Philosophy LUH for a postdoc in (emp.) Phil of Science/Phil of Modeling/&HPS/SocPhilSciPract to research exciting cases of model transfer, scientific progress, and other things related. Deadl. Sept. 26; #ERCStGr European Research Council (ERC) #ModelTransfer

Theory is cool, but theory without practice ain't shit! —Fred Hampton

What a massive failure of advocacy and governance by our university leaders. They’ve failed to explain the importance of international students and the need for governments to fund research. All the public sees is well-paid VCs and a lack of care in teaching, hence this poll:

We love wattle! #organismsandus

PSA International Syllabus Prize - Call for Syllabi. Entries to be submitted to Chair of the PSA International Relations Committee, Prof. Hasok Chang, by e-mail to [email protected]. The deadline: 15 September 2024. More info on the PSA newsletter: mms.philsci.org/msg_detail.php…

'If you pause to think about it for a moment, it’s odd that volume of output has been allowed to substitute as a metric for quality or importance of output. More is not necessarily better; it is simply more.'

Living in harmony... #organismsandus

We are currently advertising two fully-funded PhD scholarships to reconstruct Australia’s pre-European mammal communities using ancient sedimentary and bulk-bone DNA. For further details, please see: lnkd.in/eBC_kpS9

Congrats all! Bronwyn Fredericks great to see you co-leading.

It's the time of week when we need cute, and amazing. #organismsandus

🎉 Huge congratulations to Dr. Erinn Fagan-Jeffries for winning the 2024 Australian Museum Eureka Prize for Innovation in Citizen Science! 🏆 Her Insect Investigators project has engaged 1,800 students in discovering and naming new insect species.. 🦗🔬 👏 📷 Australian Museum

Congrats to the fabulous Insect Investigators on their Eureka award for citizen science! #organismsandus

Wow! #organismsandus

A new article on the use of ethnoracial data in biomedical research, which I co-authored, will be published soon in Synthese! You can read it now as a preprint 👇

"Investigating Research Practices: How Qualitative Methods Enhance Philosophical Understandings of Science." Explore the #openaccess article in Qualitative Psychology from Rachel A. Ankeny (she/her) Sabina Leonelli SQIP bit.ly/3Ab5fYl

Australia is so wild! #organismsandus

The last known #thylacine died #OTD in 1936. The scant bits of #thylacines we have in our #museums are arguably more powerful physical objects than any items on earth, palpably connecting us with the reality of #extinction. #ThylacineDay #ThreatenedSpeciesDay

Don't let history repeat... #organismsandus

Six 4.5-year postdoc research fellowships in our new Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory, University of Stirling, central Scotland! Please circulate this ad for outstanding researchers to work with me in an interdisciplinary team stir.ac.uk/about/work-at-… (closing 6 Oct).