Massimiliano Simons

Associate or Full Professor in Cultural Studies Welcome to Maastricht University! At Maastricht University, we value cultural studies as an interdisciplinary field that examines how culture shapes and is shaped by power, media, identities, economie...

New Position: Associate or Full Professor in Cultural Studies at Maastricht University.

We are looking for a senior colleague who is capable and enthusiastic to take on management roles. Please share widely.

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Jessica Riskin at the Harvard Science Center | Harvard Book Store downstairs at 1 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138

In Boston area? Join me with Jessica Riskin, March 24, to discuss her new book on Lamarck.
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Do we remember the term Ian Hacking used for concepts that were folk-ontological, deeply polysemous, and value-laden? Something like suitcase concepts, duffel bag concepts, garbage bag concepts... I’m drawing a mental blank.

Leverhulme Prize is open to philosophers again this year. Little known fact: I actually won one of those, back in the day.

Writing a thing, I recall this counterfactual piece (open access) which I wrote a little over nine years ago, with the kind encouragement of @roliroberts.bsky.social

roses are red
violets are blue
but it's after time t
so we can infer that they're grue

just two monks and a dream

My department is hiring!! Philosophy and ethics of environment. Please spread the word. The turn around is a short! #philsky #philsci #philtrch #moralphil

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Bas van Fraassen Wins Schock Prize - Daily Nous Bastiaan "Bas" van Fraassen, professor emeritus of philosophy at Princeton University, has been awarded the 2026 Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy. The Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy is...

APA member Bas van Fraassen has been awarded the 2026 Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy. Congratulations! dailynous.com/2026/01/21/b...

‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI Women in rural communities describe trauma of moderating violent and pornographic content for global tech companies

I regularly talk in panel discussions on AI and its social repercussions, and exactly this is the thing I constantly need to remind people of. Your nice and shiny AI or social media platform runs on the invisible labor of poor data workers. But it’s a subject Westerners prefer to ignore.

🚨History Job: Assistant Professor in Early Modern British History (Permanent) 🗃️

Come work with us at Warwick! You will join a group of excellent early-modernists and one of the nicest bunches of historians around!
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@uni-of-warwick.bsky.social

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'Our body invents a thousand unexpected figures': Michel Serres's philosophy of the body, movement, and sport

Last Friday I successfully defended my dissertation on the French philosopher Michel Serres. You can read the entire dissertation on the university website. @masssimons.bsky.social @drchriswatkin.bsky.social @timhowles.bsky.social @lilian-kroth.bsky.social pure.eur.nl/en/publicati...

Disappointment or hype? Framing artificial intelligence in the US elite news media - Lilla Vicsek, Katalin Feher, Dennis Nguyen, 2026 How do elite US news outlets frame AI within accounts of hype, disappointment and tempered expectation? This study finds that rather than fueling hype, coverage...

Interesting contribution to the #media study of #AI narratives from a #sociology of expectations perspective journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Excited to recruit a 🚨 postdoc 🚨 for projects on #AI and evolving scientific practice, norms, and impact! Interdisciplinary work across science of science, philosophy of science, math with creative Purdue/Argonne/CMU/Chicago/Princeton collaborators! *pls repost*! careers.purdue.edu/job/Postdoc-...

2 Postdoctoral positions in Intellectual History at the Department of History - Ledig stilling på Aarhus Universitet Ledig stilling ved Institut for Kultur og Samfund - Historie, fag, Aarhus Universitet

2 Postdoc positions in Intellectual History at Aarhus!
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I'm co-chairing the Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social Conference in Toronto, Oct 2026. #STS #scipol #innovation

Theme: "TechnoPower • Technoscientific Futures".

Open panel submissions portal is open! ls!

Deadline: 2nd February 2026

www.4sonline.org/about_the_co...

I once heard Anscombe point out that there’s a parallel argument for books. Everything we take to be real also happens in books. How do we know we’re not in a book? #philsky

Application deadline for our fully-funded PhD position has been extended to 1 February 2026 - especially geographer friends, please share!

www.liverpool.ac.uk/courses/envi...

We are hiring another Assistant Professor Position at @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social, this position is in #STS with clear focus on sustainability and environmental challenges.

Feel free to reach out for questions!

vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

Introduction to Category Theory for Non-Mathematicians

Happy to share this workshop program on 'Introduction to Category Theory for Non-Mathematicians', organized by a PhD student of mine, Marjolein Holvoet. It takes place at Ghent University. #philsky #philsci #philmath

www.ugent.be/doctoralscho...

These *two* TT positions in #politicalphilosophy at our faculty are still open! Come join us!

Finally, here it is!
(Many thanks to @uminnpress.bsky.social.)

We are hiring another Assistant Professor Position at @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social, this position is in #STS with clear focus on sustainability and environmental challenges.

Feel free to reach out for questions!

vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

2 year Postdoctoral Research Fellow opportunity at the University of St Andrews on my project "Aesthetic Values and the Social Dimensions of Science"

www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

#philosophy #philsci

Happy new year! If you are early career or graduate in Phil of Bio, consider European summer school below: fantastic venue, brilliant mix of junior & senior scholars, a wealth of debates, PPTs & skills training organised by @thomasreydon.bsky.social and myself. Deadline EXTENDED to 31 Jan! #philsci

Ernest Nagel on Science and Philosophy This book provides new perspectives on the twentieth-century history of philosophy of science through the person of Ernest Nagel

The Nagel-Hempel correspondence has just been published in the Vienna Circle Institute Library. Check it out!

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Against "Epistemic Injustice" On the Epistemic Injustice as a Central Organising Concept

Against “Epistemic Injustice”

#philsky #philosophy #epistemology

Southern Epistemologies - HAU Books H. Clark Barrett is Professor of Anthropology at UCLA. He studies contemporary variation in social and moral judgment as a window into the evolution of human cognition. His current project asks how ev...

This will be an extraordinary volume.

You cannot stop the future, therefore I am creating new assignments that incorporate whatsapp, rather than banning it like luddites!