Profile avatar
inkerikoskinen.bsky.social
A philosopher of science, among other things. University of Helsinki https://www.inkerikoskinen.net
43 posts 2,387 followers 1,845 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter

Tutkijayhteisö on laajalla konsensuksella varoittanut metsähakkuiden negatiivisesta vaikutuksesta nieluihin jo yli kymmenen vuotta. Suomen ilmastotavoite olisi täysin mahdollista saavuttaa, jos metsäsektori olisi muiden alojen tapaan kantanut oman vastuunsa ilmastotoimista. 1/3

A rare and wonderful sight of a great UK philosophy job. Please spread widely to colleagues worldwide. Area of Specialization: Ethics and/or Political Philosophy Would be an advantage to be able to teach Ethics of AI Tenure-track Application deadline: 10th March 2025 #philsky

Have you published in venues funded by the US government? Go and save your work NOW!

Authors, if you see this, it's a sign to post the first line of your book. Kaivinkoneet murisivat Sipoossa vuonna 1987. [Excavators growled in Sipoo in 1987.]

Suomen Filosofisen Yhdistyksen vuosikollokvio alkaa vajaan tunnin kuluttua Tieteiden talolla.

@helendecruz.net, Jennan Ismael, Hasok Chang and myself are plenary speakers for this year's #EPSA conference. The CFP is out: philsci.eu/EPSA25/Plena...

Our global study on the state of trust in scientists is now out in Nature Human Behaviour! 🥳 With a team of 241 researchers, we surveyed 71,922 people in 68 countries, providing the largest dataset on trust in scientists post-pandemic 👇🧵https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-02090-5

Another Elsevier paper with obvious AI-written text. “In summary, the management of bilateral iatrogenic I'm very sorry, but I don't have access to real-time information or patient-specific data, as I am an AI language model. “

This is the shape of the crisis: to prevent cataclysmic climate breakdown, we have to RADICALLY cut carbon pollution at a completely unprecedented rate. All prior climate policy has failed. Any university without a massive, cross-disciplinary program to inform this task is part of the problem.

@teemulari.bsky.social interviewed Professor Ha-Joon Chang as he visited us in Helsinki. The interview is now out in Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics. Issues covered: Pluralism in economics, role of economists in politics, advice for young scholars doi.org/10.23941/ejp... #EconSky

Please share news of this new post. We are particularly interested in candidates with expertise in the philosophy of medicine and the biomedical sciences. Closing date February 2nd 2025 #philsci #philsky

1st post on bsky - about bsky! I was fascinated with academic starter packs and made an interactive network to see academic communities and how they connect - a map of knowledge! link to an interactive & searchable network: ketikagarg.github.io/blueSkyAcade...

One of my colleagues will be organizing this workshop in Krakow in April. It should be of interest to philosophers of psychology and social science and those working in applied philosophy more broadly: philevents.org/event/show/1...

Another CFP for a workshop in Krakow, this time online, bringing together philosophical and social science perspectives on mental health and psychiatric diagnosis. Deadline in January: listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A...

I’m thrilled to co-chair, with Marie I. Kaiser, the PC of the 10th biennial meeting of the European Philosophy of Science Association, to be held in Groningen on August 27-30, 2025. The conference CFP is out: philsci.eu/EPSA25/CfP Deadline for submissions is January 31. Hope to see you there!

Lauren Ross introduces Jim Woodward, winner of the Hempel Award 2024 for lifetime achievements

"Day after day, operating on children who would say I was lying on the ground after a bomb had dropped and a quadcopter came down and hovered over me and shot me..." www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K5N...

Another nail in the coffin for AMOC found, and published today. Turns out melting sea ice had a large impact on circulation during the last interglacial. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Does ChatGPT have a poetic style? Can it successfully generate poems in different forms and styles? In this new paper, we show that, yes, ChatGPT definitely has a poetic style (it’s bad), and it can kind of, sort of emulate different styles... except for when it can’t. arxiv.org/abs/2410.15299

The extent (and volume) of global sea ice cover is currently the lowest on record for this time of year, even surpassing last year's outlier. Woah. More sea ice graphics available at zacklabe.com/global-sea-i...

The University of Helsinki decided to use online competency assessment tests developed by a private company in the application process for salaried PhD positions. I'm the PI of a project on pseudoscience in work life. We wrote this. tint-helsinki.fi/2024/10/21/c...

We made another thing! Here is a pretty great 'HPS Starter Pack' so you too can follow all the awesome history, philosophy and social studies of science (and #metasci #histSTM #philsci #philsky #hps #histsci 🧪) accounts on Bluesky. Please share widely #academicsky :)

Ei ainakaan torille: "Finland has seen its once huge land sink vanish in recent years – meaning that despite reducing its emissions across all industries by 43%, the country’s total emissions have stayed unchanged." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

We're so fucked. "Our analysis of a selection of questionable GPT-fabricated scientific papers found in Google Scholar shows that many are about applied, often controversial topics susceptible to disinformation: the environment, health, and computing."

Post doc job offers at Aarhus #philsky

Fantastic postdocs opportunities: Six 4.5-year postdoc research fellowships in the new Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory, University of Stirling, central Scotland, led by John Sutton: x.com/suttonprofes...

The program for the conference of the Eastern European Network for Philosophy of Science is now online! Looking forward to enjoying my field in beautiful Krakow #philsci #philsky

“According to the United Nations, 477 out of 564 schools in Gaza have been directly hit or damaged in the war as of July 6.”

Know an undergrad who is interested in learning more about philosophy of science? Check out this fantastic summer program--especially great for students from underrepresented groups! ⬇️