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And the winner of the 2019 Lakatos Award is... dailynous.com/2019/06/14/de-…

Join us for 't Hooft's conference tomorrow in Utrecht. Celebrating the 20th anniversary of Gerard 't Hooft's Nobel Prize in Physics “for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions.” thooft2019.sites.uu.nl

Proud that my paper 'Towards a Theory of Emergence for the Physical Sciences' is now accepted in the European Journal for Philosophy of Science! philsci-archive.pitt.edu/16256/

My essay was just published in Foundations of Science. For a broad audience, slightly more playful than one's normal academic self. Written back in 2013, but it is still true. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

'Towards a Theory of Emergence for the Physical Sciences' is now online in the October issue of the European Journal for Philosophy of Science. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Do dualities bear on discussions of theoretical equivalece and, if so, how? link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Scholarships available for the Radboud Summer School Emergence in Physics, organised by the Dutch Institute for Emergent Phenomena, 13-17 July. I will lecture about emergence in AdS/CFT. Consider applying! bit.ly/2FoYMcO

Nightwish did a music video touching on issues of social media, narcissism, and nature. Good music and a good laugh! youtube.com/watch?v=LczGSo…

De minister van Ministerie van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap heeft Jan de Boer benoemd als lid van de raad van bestuur bij NWO. Hij wordt tevens de nieuwe voorzitter voor het NWO-domein Exacte en Natuurwetenschappen (NWO Domain Science (Inactive)), met ingang van 1 september 2020: nwo.nl/actueel/nieuws…

I'll be live on air tonight at Nieuws en Co on NPO Radio 1, chatting about dark matter! ~17:30

Surreal to change jobs during lockdown. I have accepted a position as Assistant Professor in Philosophy of Science at the Faculty of Science of the University of Amsterdam. Excited to join the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation and the Institute of Physics.

Applications are now open for the XXIV Urbino Summer School in Philosophy of Physics, about the black hole information paradox. Excited to contribute! sites.google.com/view/xxivurbin…

Join us for the 25th International Summer School in Philosophy of Physics in Urbino! I look forward to lecturing on the philosophy and physics of dualities. sites.google.com/view/xxv-urbin…

Happy to announce that our project Quantum Impact on Societal Security has been awarded by NWO, with co-funding from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Dutch Banking Association. uva.nl/en/shared-cont…

The arrival of quantum computers will have a great impact on our society, including in the field of cyber security. The new consortium Quantum Impact on Societal Security has received a large grant to study this impact and help manage the transition: uva.nl/en/shared-cont…

Our project Is there Space and Time for Experimental Philosophy? w/ Mark Golden was awarded as part of NWA-consortium Fundamental building blocks. NWO preferred to call our project Philosophy of Space and Time, which covers the topic and sounds just fine. nwo.nl/nieuws/financi…

Congratulations to Sanne Vergouwen for being awarded the Hanneke Janssen Memorial Prize for the best MSc thesis worldwide in philosophy of physics: 'Emergent Solitons and the Philosophy of Non-Perturbative Quantum Field Theory'. Well done, Sanne! ru.nl/imapp/news/@13…

On 3 April, Eline L. de Jong and I will host the workshop Understanding Science and Technology: From Fundamental Science to Technology, Quantum and Society at UvA Institute for Advanced Study. Registration is free and is available on the website: there are 6 spots remaining. ias.uva.nl/content/events…