COVID-19: Things everyone should know (Part 1: Immune System) With poor public health messaging, the general public doesn't seem to know some important things about how COVID-19 and the immune system actually works. 🧵1/

TO THOSE WHO STILL WANT TO AVOID COVID: We’re in a one-way masking world now. Therefore, it’s time to upgrade your respirators. Cloth and surgical masks (and even some KN95s and N95) simply won’t suffice. Here’s a 🧵 on some of the best masks you can get:

York Philosophy is hiring an Assistant Professor in Philosophy of Cognitive Science, broadly construed to include philosophy of: animal cognition, AI & computation, cultural psychology, perception, linguistics, psychology, neuroscience. Please share! webapps.yorku.ca/academichiring…

Tomorrow UWaterloo Office of Indigenous Relations has two events for #NDTR. 🗓️National Day for Truth and Reconciliation: 7AM - 1:30 PM 🗓️Kevin Lamoureux: Truth and Reconciliation in Higher Learning Institutions: 4PM - 5PM Don't miss out on these important events. More: bit.ly/38EGpCR

FINALLY! 🙌🏼

Thrilled to see Helen Longino receive the prestigious Hempel Award for her life-long achievements, as well as her pivotal role in transforming philosophy of science for the good. Congratulations on this much-deserved recognition, Helen! #PSA2022

I really despise the adversarial relationship that university financial incentives set up between departments and/or schools. You can’t genuinely advocate for interdisciplinary work while making it so that a program loses money if its students take classes in other programs

I’m setting up over on #Mastodon. If anyone wants to find me there, here’s the link! scholar.social/@katieplaisance

🎉🎉 ❗️❗️Call for abstracts for #ISHPSSB23 9-15 July, University of Toronto & Western University Ontario site.pheedloop.com/event/ISHPSSB2…

Interested in the social science of vaccines? Don't have time to keep up to date with the literature? Please join us for an online talk by Dr. Maya J. Goldenberg on Dec 12th. All welcome vax-trust.eu/lecture-by-may…

Post-doctoral research position available immediately - Western University Robarts Research Institute, Western BrainsCAN - AOS:Empirical Philosophy of Science, Sociology of Science, Psychology of Science. Come work with an excellent interdisciplinary collaborative team philjobs.org/job/show/22385

Dear INSciTS Community, Due to numerous requests, the 2023 INSciTS Conference Program Committee has extended the deadline for abstract submissions for papers and posters for the 2023 conference. Abstract submissions are now due May 18, 2023. julnet.swoogo.com/inscits2023/ab…

For anyone interested in team science, or collaboration more generally, I *highly* recommend attending the INSciTS conference. I always learn a lot and find the folks there to be incredibly welcoming. I’ll be at this year’s INSciTS (July 24-26), so hit me up if you’re there!

#ISHPSSB2023 folks: If you’re interested in cross-disciplinary collaboration, come check out my talk, “What Makes Collaborations Between Philosophers and Scientists Work?” where I’ll be presenting new data from interviews with STEM scholars. Today at 2:30pm, MY 317. #ish2023

#INSciTS Welcomes University of Waterloo's Carla Fehr, PhD Presenting: Creating Diverse, High-Functioning Teams: From Theory to Practice and Back Again Date and Time: Tuesday, July 25, 2023, from 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM (EDT)

Only a couple more days to apply, but this looks like a very cool postdoc for those interested in science policy, science communication, and knowledge mobilization. And, I cannot speak highly enough of Dr. Westwood - would be a great position! dal.peopleadmin.ca/postings/13900

Man, this Tressie McMillan Cottom piece is just bursting with original and important insights that explain the Harris phenomenon (and it IS a phenomenon, not just a candidacy). So well done. nytimes.com/2024/08/11/opi…