Lauren Ross
Philosopher of Science, PhD, MD. Dean’s Professor and Chancellor’s fellow, Logic and Philosophy of Science, UC Irvine.
sites.socsci.uci.edu/~rossl/
- Reposted by Lauren RossHow is current genomics impacted by social, political, and ethical assumptions? @yashaddad.bsky.social and I had the pleasure of presenting this issue in our newest work (link below) #popgen #STS #STEM #philsky #HPbio
- @celsoneto.bsky.social and I have a new chapter coming out in the Routledge Handbook of Values and Science, titled "Values in Human Genomics". It was such a pleasure writing this together #PhilBio #PhilSci @hugeraproject.bsky.social philpapers.org/rec/HADVIG
- Reposted by Lauren RossI was invited to give a talk in the community last night on Trump's second-term foreign policy. I thought I'd share my slides and bullet points here too.
- Reposted by Lauren RossThe Money Signal | New book by @daniellethomsen.bsky.social, @ucirvine.bsky.social political science professor, explores how fundraising matters in American politics @uchicagopress.bsky.social @uofcalifornia.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Lauren RossCall for Abstracts! The Center for Philosophy of Science invites submissions for the upcoming workshop, Social Ontology and Empirical Inquiry: Conflicts and Connections (April 11-12, 2026). Deadline: January 15th Details: ow.ly/eFpj50X9T2o #PhilosophyOfScience #CallForPapers
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- In work led by Samantha Kleinberg @healthailab.org and with Phyllis Illari, and Dave Lagnado. Joins up the Stevens Institute of Technology, University of College London @ucl.ac.uk , and UC Irvine @ucirvine.bsky.social @ucisocsci.bsky.social #philsci #philsky #cogsci
- Congrats to @laurennross.bsky.social, @ucirvine.bsky.social logic & philosophy of science Dean's Professor and Chancellor's Fellow, who’s received research funding from the John Templeton Foundation to study token causality, which concerns explanations for specific events!
- Call for Papers for “The Epistemology of Medicine Conference” hosted by LMU Munich June 25-26 2026. @lmu-mcmp.bsky.social Talk/paper submission deadline is January 31, 2026! Speakers: Enno Fischer, Ina Jäntgen, Ulrich Mansmann, Lauren Ross Jacob Stegenga & Jon Williamson #philsci #philsky #hps
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I've got a fully-funded PhD studentship open at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social, investigating social learning about metacognition & awareness, w/ behavioural studies & neuroimaging (fMRI) - thanks to @leverhulme.ac.uk More details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPV831/p... #cogsci #neuroskyence - Reposted by Lauren Ross[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Lauren RossI am accepting graduate students for the UCI Cognitive Sciences PhD program for Fall 2026. Check out my lab website - www.relcoglab.org for our recent themes. Our funded work focuses on combinatorial reasoning, moral decision-making, and conceptual cognition in humans and large language models.
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- Amazing talk by Sally Haslanger @shaslang.bsky.social on "Social systems & their micro, meso, & macro interactions'' @ucisocsci.bsky.social & dinner afterwards with Ari Koslow, Tori Cotton @wittgencism.bsky.social, Cailin O’Connor @cailinmeister.bsky.social & Kate Ritchie @kateritch.bsky.social !!!
- Enjoyed discussing "Why Science & Philosophy Need Each Other" w Megan Peters @meganakpeters.bsky.social We discuss the importance of engagement between science & philosophy, our experience w this & simplified conceptions of science & philosophy 🧠📕 Thanks Tev Naidu! #philsky #philsci #sciencesky
- Reposted by Lauren RossHuzzah! The PhilSci preprint archive for #philsci papers is finally on Bsky! Give them a follow to keep up with latest work in field ⬇️ @philsci-archive.bsky.social
- So bad even political science (and philosophy) professors are showing up. With @daniellethomsen.bsky.social 🇺🇸 Here for democracy, science and #noKings #philsky #philsci #STS #sciencesky #HPBio
- Reposted by Lauren RossThe Causality in Cognition Lab at Stanford University is recruiting PhD students this cycle! We are a supportive team who happened to wear bluesky appropriate colors for the lab photo (this wasn't planned). 💙 Lab info: cicl.stanford.edu Application details: psychology.stanford.edu/admissions/p...
- Reposted by Lauren Ross📣 BIG NEWS EVERYONE. I am so excited to announce… 🎉 I’m moving to University College London @ucl.ac.uk to join the Experimental Psychology department in @uclpals.bsky.social! 🎉 The big move happens in spring/summer. So I’m already exploring recruiting staff & students at UCL for fall 2026!
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- Enjoyed talking with Benjamin Kuper-Smith about: philosophy of science, mechanism, explanation, and career topics for his BJKS Podcast @bjkspod.bsky.social #philsci #philsky #HPS 🧠📒🔬 Check out other great episodes too! www.buzzsprout.com/1390924/epis...
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- Reposted by Lauren RossThe peer review process: 3 strangers yelling “more cowbell” at your life's work
- Reposted by Lauren RossI had a rich and wide-ranging conversation w/ Professor Philip Kitcher for the podcast this week. We discuss his intellectual journey, interventions in creationism, sociobiology & the genome project, his philosophical evolution, and vision for philosophy serving the common good. A real privilege.
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- Great paper by Jacqueline Wallis @jwallis1.bsky.social on dirty mice! 🐁🐀 #philsci #philsky #HPS "Here I draw on a recent movement...use of what are often called “dirty mice” – to challenge the standard view that less controlled experiments have diminished epistemic power."
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- Enjoyed giving a keynote at CogSci 2025! 🧠 🖥️ 🌉@cogscisociety.bsky.social #CogSci2025 #philsci #philsky #HPS
- Reposted by Lauren RossNeuroscience needs a new paradigm: the brain is not a machine | By Nicole Rust “The brain is a dynamic complex system—like the weather or a megacity—whose parts interact via feedback loops that are impossible to study in isolation from each other.” iai.tv/articles/neu... #philsky #philsci #neuro
- Congratulations to Jessica Lauman-Lairson for defending her excellent dissertation on "A Middle-Range Account of Analogical Inference" 🎉 Jeff Barrett and I co-advised, w Kyle Stanford on her committee! @ucisocsci.bsky.social Check out her new Synthese pub here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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- Reposted by Lauren RossBrilliant keynote by @laurennross.bsky.social at #cogsci2025 on cognitive science and its philosophy. Lauren pointed out the myriad ways in which cogsci and philosophy support and benefit one another, using explanation and causal reasoning as case studies. Thank you for a great talk!! 🙏
- Reposted by Lauren RossNotes from @noranewcombe.bsky.social 's beautiful Rumelhart Prize "tasting menu" - congratulations Nora!!! #CogSci2025
- Congratulations to Dr. Ben Santos Genta for a terrific dissertation defense! 🎉 Ben has a Sloan Foundation Postdoc grant for work on Metascience & AI at NYU's Philosophy Department. Shown celebrating with his proud co-advisors! 😊 @cailinmeister.bsky.social Check out his work: benjamingenta.com
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- Reposted by Lauren Ross“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?” - A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
- Giving a talk in the UCI Center for Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (CNLM) series today at 11am PST! @ucirvine.bsky.social 🧠X➡️Y Title: Bridging Philosophy and Neuroscience to Support Clarity About Causation Abstract and virtual login at link below. cnlm.uci.edu/scientific-a...
- Incredible Beyond ASU workshop organized by @saraimari.bsky.social great discussion w David Wallace David Krakauer Seth Lloyd @mdubova.bsky.social @robertchisciure.bsky.social @thaliawheatley.bsky.social @leecronin.bsky.social & more! 🔭🧬🧪 #philsci lots on possibility space, contingency & causation!
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- Enjoyed this discussion with @drmichaellevin.bsky.social We discussed scientific explanation, its types, causation, reduction/emergence, & other topics. Great to see the strength of bringing both science and philosophy to the table for hard topics. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoY-...
- My paper "What is social structural explanation? A causal account" is one of the top 10 most-cited papers published by Noûs in 2023 #TopCitedArticle #philsci #PhilSky I provide a framework capturing how social structures are causes that explain inequalities onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
- Applications open for the Summer Development Program at UCI Logic and Philosophy of Science. Room & board provided, plus reimbursement for transportation (up to $500). Deadline for application submission is April 17th 2025! lpssdp.com
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- Reposted by Lauren RossReally needed this reminder of why we do what we do as researchers. Thanks for the great #whistlerbrain2025 meeting @toddc.bsky.social
- Enjoyed the 8th Whistler Scientific Workshop on 'Brain Functional Organization, Connectivity, & Behavior' organized by Todd Constable @toddc.bsky.social Great mix of scientists from all career levels, impressive new research, & a supportive group! Lots of 🧠 and also ❄️⛷️🏂🏔️!!!
- Enjoyed this interview with Ricardo on @thedissenteryt.bsky.social ! We discussed different types of causation, the topic of explanation in science, & my recent Cambridge Univ Press Elements book on "Explanation in biology" 📕 YouTube: youtu.be/sbY40h-1gKY Book: www.cambridge.org/core/element...
- Great article by @kordinglab.bsky.social on "why causal knowledge is pragmatically possible". The best arguments for causation--& only one we need--is pragmatic. Here pragmatic isn't weak/subjective, but connected to actual goals, utility & outcomes in the world. medium.com/@kording/why...
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- New paper in EJN by Cédric Brun, Jan Pieter Konsman, Thomas Polger How Do Computational Models in the Cognitive and Brain Sciences Explain? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
- New book "Explanation in Biology" with Cambridge University Press is out & open access! Covers (1) causal explanation & (2) non-causal/mathematical explanation in life sciences--bio, neuro, etc 🌿🧬🧠 Introduction to philosophical work on scientific explanation! www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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- Philosophy & Theory of Neuroscience Conference 🧠 next week @ Chapman & available via zoom.Talks by @drmichaellevin.bsky.social @meganakpeters.bsky.social Newsome, Yassa, Roskies, Carolyn Parkinson, Frederick Eberhardt & many others! www.chapman.edu/scst/confere... #philsky #philsci #neuroskyence
- Reposted by Lauren RossIn the era of Trump 2.0, we're calling on all scientists+ to unpack science for the public. This is much bigger than anyone of us. But if we all do one thing, imagine the cumulative impact! It need not be a burden. More here, in @thetransmitter.bsky.social. www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-ca...
- Reposted by Lauren RossNow that those #OHBM abstracts are done - think about submitting to this connectivity workshop. Stellar lineup of speakers is set! Register (and submit abstracts) here - medicine.yale.edu/mrrc/about/s... deadline is Jan 10, 2025.
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- Alison Gopnik on Causation, Cognitive Science, and Philosophy. #philsci #philsky @alisongopnik.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2ZK...
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- Reposted by Lauren Ross(1/5) Very excited to announce the publication of Bayesian Models of Cognition: Reverse Engineering the Mind. More than a decade in the making, it's a big (600+ pages) beautiful book covering both the basics and recent work: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204941...
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