@simonlohse
Philosopher of science at Radboud University ๐๐ช๐บ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ช & big fan of liberal democracy #philsci #ELSI #HPS #STS -- @isis-radboud.bsky.social -- https://simonlohse.com -- @epsaphilsci.bsky.social steering committee
For tomorrowโs ISiS Colloquium, we will have Lauren Wilson from University of Exeter to give a talk titled โDiversity within Genetic Studies of Complex Traitsโ. If you wish to join, please send us a message!
www.lhwilson.com
#InternationalWomensDay
www.dutchnews.nl/2026/03/inte...
Workshop poster with an image of a hand holding an organ-on-a-chip. (Title) Understanding Challenges and Opportunities for the Transition Beyond Animal Experimentation in Research and Safety Testing: Whatโs New? Whatโs Next? Animal use in science and safety testing persists at high levels โ despite decades of advocacy and innovation in alternatives. Apart from technical challenges, this also raises urgent philosophical, ethical, legal, and social-scientific issues. This two-day online workshop focuses on new perspectives that can help to understand the intersection of scientific and human obstacles that slow down transition. Join the discussions to broaden your perspective on the animal experimentation transition and help to explore pathways to a future of innovative, responsible science. Organised by Love Hansell, Radboud U; Simon Lohse, Radboud U; Nico D. Mรผller, U of Basel Online, 19โ20 March 2026 13:30โ17:00 CET each day Register by 17 March: tinyurl.com/nam-workshop
๐ฃ Upcoming Online Workshop, 19โ20 March 2026
*Understanding Challenges and Opportunities for the Transition Beyond #AnimalExperimentation in Research and Safety Testing: Whatโs New? Whatโs Next?*
Register by 17 March: tinyurl.com/nam-workshop
#NAM #animalethics #philsci #animalstudies #STS
Our colleague Serge Horbach is part of the newly formed @thelancet.com & @wcrifoundation.bsky.social commission on #ResearchIntegrity. The commission is tasked to describe current threats to RI and propose evidence-based solutions.
Starting in a bit: our workshop โPostgenomic Intersections: Epistemology and Ethics for the Exposome and Microbiomeโ, today March 2nd and tomorrow March 3rd at Politecnico di Milano, co-organised by Thomas Bonnin and me.
www.meta.polimi.it/workshop-pos...
#philsci #philsky #postgenomics
#academicchatter
Postdoc opportunity at the Taft Research Center here at the University of Cincinnati for which philosophers are eligible to apply. See here for details and to apply: jobs.uc.edu/job/Taft-Pos...
PROGRAMME Day I (19/03): Regulatory and political perspectives Chair: Nico Mรผller 13:30 Introduction 13:35 Love Hansell, Radboud University Nijmegen Embracing uncertainty for new regulatory futures 14:15 Katerina Stoykova, University of Zurich From animal testing to NAMs: How EU legislative design helps โ or hinders โ the transition 15:00 Break 15:15 Paul Locke, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Transitioning from animal-based research to New Approach Methods at federal agencies in the United States: Window dressing or fundamental change? 16:00 Anne Van Veen, Utrecht University The transition to animal free safety testing: time to bring in the nonhuman animals! Day II (20/03): Meta-scientific perspectives Chair: Simon Lohse 13:30 Pandora Pound, Safer Medicines Trust Moving beyond animal experimentation in scientific research: Reflections on the last 20 years and where we are now 14:15 Catharine E. Krebs, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine Addressing animal methods bias: The peer review bias that favors animal use and sets back adoption of NAMs 15:00 Break 15:15 Sara Green and Michele Salluce, University of Copenhagen Replacing and refining animal models: Lessons from cancer research and neuroscience 16:00 Nico Mรผller, University of Basel Pipelines, mosaics, and mouse-shaped questions: Why the transition beyond animal experiments requires research agenda shifts 16:45 Closing Remarks 17:00 End of workshop
Here's the programme...
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Workshop poster with an image of a hand holding an organ-on-a-chip. (Title) Understanding Challenges and Opportunities for the Transition Beyond Animal Experimentation in Research and Safety Testing: Whatโs New? Whatโs Next? Animal use in science and safety testing persists at high levels โ despite decades of advocacy and innovation in alternatives. Apart from technical challenges, this also raises urgent philosophical, ethical, legal, and social-scientific issues. This two-day online workshop focuses on new perspectives that can help to understand the intersection of scientific and human obstacles that slow down transition. Join the discussions to broaden your perspective on the animal experimentation transition and help to explore pathways to a future of innovative, responsible science. Organised by Love Hansell, Radboud U; Simon Lohse, Radboud U; Nico D. Mรผller, U of Basel Online, 19โ20 March 2026 13:30โ17:00 CET each day Register by 17 March: tinyurl.com/nam-workshop
๐ฃ Upcoming Online Workshop, 19โ20 March 2026
*Understanding Challenges and Opportunities for the Transition Beyond #AnimalExperimentation in Research and Safety Testing: Whatโs New? Whatโs Next?*
Register by 17 March: tinyurl.com/nam-workshop
#NAM #animalethics #philsci #animalstudies #STS
"Some scientists warn of potential dangers if undergraduate students, graduate students and technicians can no longer secure academic laboratory jobs, which provide a stepping stone to other scientific positions." #AI
๐ฃ TPI Event @Nijmegen, 25 February
"Joining Forces to Accelerate Animal-Free Innovation"
#NAM #animalstudies
Programme: www.ru.nl/en/about-us/...
Call for participation: Transitions in Emergence
Two-day conference at UNamur (Belgium) - May 12-13, 2026.
Keynote speakers: K. Crowther, S. Fletcher, T. O'Connor, E. Onnis, J. Heil and J. Wilson.
Contributed speakers: M. Stรผrmer, D. Bella, M. Paolini Paoletti, M. Pedroni, F. Eskens
#philsci
Dear EPSA25 participants, We are delighted to announce that the European Journal for the Philosophy of Science will be publishing a Topical Collection containing selected papers from the EPSA25 conference. Please consider submitting your paper. Submission is open to anybody who was accepted for presentation or poster presentation and attended the conference. The special issue will be edited by Julie Jebeile, Vincent Ardourel and Hannah Hilligardt. The submission deadline is 15 June 2026. To submit please go to the EJPS submission page (https://www.editorialmanager.com/epsa/) and select โEPSA25โ from the drop-down list. If you have any questions please send them to: julie.jebeile@unibe.ch We very much look forward to receiving your contributions. All the best, The European Philosophy of Science Association
๐ฃ CFP for a topical collection containing selected papers from the *EPSA25* conference:
philsci.eu/page-1075762 #philsci
Ugh, great:
"Agents have also begun publishing AI-generated research papers on clawXiv, [โฆ] 'These outputs reproduce the style and structure of scholarly writing without the underlying processes of enquiry, evidence-gathering or accountability [โฆ]'.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#philsci #STS
I gotta ask, sorry, will Mariah be singing too?
๐ฃCFA -- We are inviting submissions for the next round of the *EPSA Epistemic Diversity in European Philosophy of Science* seminars
More info:
philsci.eu/Epistemic-Di...
#philsci #epistemicdiversity
Like this, perhaps?
bsky.app/profile/edip...
Gerade haben wir bei @correctiv.org unsere Recherche zu unbekannten Chemikalien im Rhein verรถffentlicht - die groรe Resonanz freut uns sehr! Unerforschte Gifte gehรถren zu den meist unterschรคtzten Gefahren รผberhaupt.
Daher sind wird die Tage in Kรถlle sehr aktiv:๐งต
correctiv.org/aktuelles/ka...
It is really infuriating to see how misogyny really does unite men across the sociopolitical spectrum. And, in so far as the Epstein files go, they sort women into two categories: fuckable or irrelevant. When they near a hint of accountability they complain about not being able to make women prey.
Can lab experiments help settle real-world death cases?
In our new paper, we look at experimental asphyxiation studies at the center of debates on deaths in custody.๐
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#philsci #philsky #HPS
Dear EPSA members, In our first newsletter of 2026, we want to announce some good news and update you on some recent developments pertaining to EPSA. The good news is that we have now secured locations not only for EPSA27 but also for EPSA29! We were very lucky this year to receive nothing less than four bids to host EPSA27; all bids were very strong and carefully prepared, and the Steering Committee found it very difficult to decide. Eventually, we settled on Warsaw, Poland, for 2027 (with Marcin Milkowski and Hajo Greif as co-chairs) and Ljubljana, Slovenia, for 2029 (with Borut Trpin as chair). More details will follow in due course, but for now, we can all be happy that the next two EPSAs are in good hands and will take place in splendid locations! This is also a good moment to thank the Steering Committee members who have concluded their term (Lilia Gurova, Federica Russo, Marcel Weber, Catherine Herfeld, Edouard Machery and Caterina Marchionni) and in particular my predecessor Stรฉphanie Ruphy as EPSA President. Thanks to their good work, the current Steering Committee has found EPSA to be in excellent shape, which will allow us to continue to serve the philosophy of science community in Europe in constructive ways. We also want to thank Dunja ล eลกelja and Mathias Frisch, who have completed their terms as Editors-in-Chief of the European Journal for Philosophy of Science, and to welcome Samuel Fletcher and Catherine Herfeld as the new Editors-in-Chief of EJPS. Speaking of EJPS, we will soon be announcing the Call for Papers for the Proceedings of EPSA25, with Julie Jebeile as guest editor for the Proceedings (plus a team of co-editors to be announced shortly). Finally, the EPSA BlueSky account is now managed by Simon Lohse; if you are on BlueSky, please follow us there at https://bsky.app/profile/epsaphilsci.bsky.social Warm Regards, Catarina Dutilh Novaes and the EPSA Steering Committee
๐ฃ Letter with the latest updates on EPSA2027 *and* EPSA2029, changes in the steering committee, the proceedings for EPSA25, and more... #philsci
Meet the new editors-in-chief of *EJPS*:
Catherine Herfeld & Samuel C. Fletcher
Here you can find more information about the associate editors and the editorial board of our journal:
link.springer.com/journal/1319...
#philsci
๐ฃ ISiS workshop on "Scientific Understanding in the Age of Machine Learning"
#philsci #maschinelearning
February 20, 1:00-5:30PM, Radboud University: Huygens Building, room HG 01.160.
New paper, the first of 2026, and it's a big one!
๐Evidence-based medicine and the promises and limits of digital health and wearable technology, out in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#philsky #philsci #histsci
๐จ New paper out today ๐จ
The message is simple: As we replace some animal experiments with alternatives, new animal experiments are also being innovated.
If our policy goal is inflicting less harm on animals in science, replacement wonโt be enough. We also need a shift in model innovation. ๐ญ๐
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"The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that theyโre the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave."
Upcoming: RROSA symposium #4 with a double lecture by @jabyrnesci.bsky.social & @willemhalffman.bsky.social
Monday, 2 March 2026, 10.30-12.00
Radboud University
Room HG00.616 (Huygens building, ground floor, wing 6)
No registration needed.
halffman.org/rrosa-symp4/
#STS #philsci #metascience
The story is not that there are two conflicting versions of what happened.
The story is that the federal government is lying about what happened.
There is plenty of evidence.
Your job, our job, is to sift that evidence and describe what actually happened ffs.
