Massimiliano Simons
Assistant Prof. in Philosophy of Technology Maastricht University, fascinated by #synbio, #experimentation, #historicalepistemology, #HOPOS, #HOPOT, #sciencefiction and #conspiracytheory - he/him
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- Reposted by Massimiliano SimonsI regularly talk in panel discussions on AI and its social repercussions, and exactly this is the thing I constantly need to remind people of. Your nice and shiny AI or social media platform runs on the invisible labor of poor data workers. But it’s a subject Westerners prefer to ignore.
- Reposted by Massimiliano Simons🚨History Job: Assistant Professor in Early Modern British History (Permanent) 🗃️ Come work with us at Warwick! You will join a group of excellent early-modernists and one of the nicest bunches of historians around! 👇👇👇 @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...
- Reposted by Massimiliano SimonsLast Friday I successfully defended my dissertation on the French philosopher Michel Serres. You can read the entire dissertation on the university website. @masssimons.bsky.social @drchriswatkin.bsky.social @timhowles.bsky.social @lilian-kroth.bsky.social pure.eur.nl/en/publicati...
- Reposted by Massimiliano SimonsInteresting contribution to the #media study of #AI narratives from a #sociology of expectations perspective journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- Reposted by Massimiliano SimonsExcited to recruit a 🚨 postdoc 🚨 for projects on #AI and evolving scientific practice, norms, and impact! Interdisciplinary work across science of science, philosophy of science, math with creative Purdue/Argonne/CMU/Chicago/Princeton collaborators! *pls repost*! careers.purdue.edu/job/Postdoc-...
- Reposted by Massimiliano Simons2 Postdoc positions in Intellectual History at Aarhus! www.au.dk/om/stillinge...
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- These *two* TT positions in #politicalphilosophy at our faculty are still open! Come join us!
- Reposted by Massimiliano SimonsI'm co-chairing the Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social Conference in Toronto, Oct 2026. #STS #scipol #innovation Theme: "TechnoPower • Technoscientific Futures". Open panel submissions portal is open! ls! Deadline: 2nd February 2026 www.4sonline.org/about_the_co...
- Reposted by Massimiliano SimonsI once heard Anscombe point out that there’s a parallel argument for books. Everything we take to be real also happens in books. How do we know we’re not in a book? #philsky
- Reposted by Massimiliano SimonsApplication deadline for our fully-funded PhD position has been extended to 1 February 2026 - especially geographer friends, please share! www.liverpool.ac.uk/courses/envi...
- Happy to share this workshop program on 'Introduction to Category Theory for Non-Mathematicians', organized by a PhD student of mine, Marjolein Holvoet. It takes place at Ghent University. #philsky #philsci #philmath www.ugent.be/doctoralscho...
- These *two* TT positions in #politicalphilosophy at our faculty are still open! Come join us!
- 🚨We've got two tenure track posts in political philosophy @maastrichtu.bsky.social.🚨 Deadlines are 31 January and 26 February. #philosophy #academicjobs | @apaphilosophy.bsky.social www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3566... www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3574...
- Reposted by Massimiliano SimonsFinally, here it is! (Many thanks to @uminnpress.bsky.social.)
- We are hiring another Assistant Professor Position at @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social, this position is in #STS with clear focus on sustainability and environmental challenges. Feel free to reach out for questions! vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
- Reposted by Massimiliano Simons2 year Postdoctoral Research Fellow opportunity at the University of St Andrews on my project "Aesthetic Values and the Social Dimensions of Science" www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... #philosophy #philsci
- Reposted by Massimiliano SimonsHappy new year! If you are early career or graduate in Phil of Bio, consider European summer school below: fantastic venue, brilliant mix of junior & senior scholars, a wealth of debates, PPTs & skills training organised by @thomasreydon.bsky.social and myself. Deadline EXTENDED to 31 Jan! #philsci
- The call for applications for 2026 European Advanced School in Philosophy of Life Sciences is now open! Deadline 15 Jan 2026, theme will be “philosophy of biology for a healthy planet”, all info here: www.kli.ac.at/en/events/ev... graduate students &early postdocs, do consider joining us! #philsci
- Reposted by Massimiliano SimonsThe Nagel-Hempel correspondence has just been published in the Vienna Circle Institute Library. Check it out! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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- Reposted by Massimiliano SimonsThis will be an extraordinary volume.
- Reposted by Massimiliano SimonsPost-doc positions: "Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..." uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...
- Reposted by Massimiliano SimonsNew on the Archive: Simons, Massimiliano (2025) Political philosophy of experimentation. European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 15. ISSN 1879-4912 philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27381/
- Reposted by Massimiliano SimonsNew on the Archive: Simons, Massimiliano (2026) What is the history of philosophy of experimentation a history of? The cases of Hugo Dingler and Gaston Bachelard. HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science. philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27380/
- Reposted by Massimiliano SimonsHeel interessant stuk over de rol van wetenschappers en experten in het publiek debat - zowel de rol die ze daarin zelf opnemen als die hen door anderen (journalisten, het publiek) wordt toegedicht. www.standaard.be/opinies/de-p...
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View full threadReposted by Massimiliano SimonsEn voor het onderscheid tussen een expert en een wetenschapper, in het licht van de publieke opinievorming, verwijs ik altijd heel graag naar dit stuk van @masssimons.bsky.social www.eoswetenschap.eu/gezondheid/e...
- Reposted by Massimiliano Simons‘Tis the season to read “Father Christmas Executed” by Claude Lévi-Strauss! varenne.tc.columbia.edu/texts/levstc...
- Reposted by Massimiliano Simons📢Job ad! Join us at Politecnico di Milano in an interdisciplinary collaboration between philosophy of science and biomedical engineering on transitions from animal research, with a 3-years postdoc (submission deadline: 12 January 2026) www.meta.polimi.it/3-years-post.... #philsci #philsky #sts
- Come join our department! 🚨 Maastricht University is hiring a *second* TT Assistant Professor position in Political Philosophy. This one is focused on the theme of inequality. #philjobs #philsky Feel free to reach out to me with questions! vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
- Here is link to the first position, which is still open bsky.app/profile/mass...
- Reposted by Massimiliano Simons2026 summer #fellowships & #internships for #PhD students and also those graduating. Locations include US, UK, Thailand, Brazil, Remote, etc. Most deadlines in Dec and Jan. Most available for international students. Please share for visibility. Also comment if you know of any internships. 🧵
- This goes high on my reading list #philsci
- Reposted by Massimiliano SimonsYou have been wondering about the argument for Bas van Fraassen’s constructive empiricism? In this paper forthcoming in the HOPOS journal, I provide some answers! #philsci #hps
- Reposted by Massimiliano SimonsJoin us tomorrow for the last Brown Bag seminar of 2025! @gregorboes.bsky.social will present his new FWO project, which brings together the phenomenological & analytic philosophy of science traditions of thinking about scientific representation 👇 research.kuleuven.be/portal/en/pr... #philsci #HPS
- Reposted by Massimiliano Simonsthere is that
- Reposted by Massimiliano SimonsThe Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy is hiring two post-doctoral researchers to work on a project on the logic of reasons, under the supervision of Professor Hannes Leitgeb, Chair of Logic and Philosophy of Language. More info below: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/7... #postdoc #philosophy
- Reposted by Massimiliano SimonsVery please to find this on my doormat #MichelSerres With thanks to @aldohouterman.bsky.social @masssimons.bsky.social
- Reposted by Massimiliano Simons🚨 THE BATTLE BEGINS 🚨 Your favorite year-end contest is back. It’s time to choose who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech for 2025! Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday. 🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/worst-person...
- Reposted by Massimiliano Simons“Dutch people cycle an average of 2.6km each per day. If this pattern was replicated worldwide, annual carbon emissions would drop by 686 million tonnes. This mammoth figure exceeds the entire carbon footprint of most countries, including the UK, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Australia.” @euronews.com
- Continuing my journey through empiricisms, now with the great book by David Lapoujade on William James' radical empiricism. This is the book that 'converted' Latour to James and pragmatism #philsci
- Reposted by Massimiliano SimonsA little personal, but here's a new post about Imposter Syndrome. I've dealt with it for years and none of the usual advice worked. Then I realized it behaves like a conspiracy theory – and that insight changed how I relate to it. Check it out here! open.substack.com/pub/kylevo/p...
- Reposted by Massimiliano SimonsCome work with us! We are looking for a postdoc in #philbio or #philphysics to work on an interdisciplinary project that adopts the lens of self-organization & active matter to explore the boundary between living & nonliving systems www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... #academicsky #philjobs #HPS #evosky
- Reposted by Massimiliano SimonsPlease help share this vacancy for a 4-year postdoc in Disinformation and European Democracy at Maastricht University #Polisky #EUsky #Commsky #Academicsky
- Great opportunity at @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social: we have 4-year postdoc position on disinformation and European democracy. Possible disciplinary focus includes, e.g., political science and computational social science. Interdisciplinary approaches to disinformation are encouraged.
- Reposted by Massimiliano Simons"I'm not in denial, I'm in open rebellion" damn that quote goes hard
- Reposted by Massimiliano SimonsTech news you can use from @theonion.com.
- Reposted by Massimiliano SimonsThis weekend (December 6th) we celebrate Peter-Paul Verbeek's birthday. 1/
- Just finished this, another great recent introduction to logical empiricism, The Vienna Circle by Sahotra Sarkar. Very accessible, but also goes into the technical bits regularly #jesuispositivist #philsci
- Reposted by Massimiliano SimonsI am very pleased to share I will be returning to Maastricht University, my alma mater, to give a public talk on my book 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘌𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦 (Hurst/Oxford). When: Monday 19 January, 20:00 Where: Auditorium, Minderbroedersberg 4-6 www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/nl/events/pr...
- This is a legitimate point, but I do hate the ways they use positivism as a label for these things, a philosophy that deserves better
- “Positivism Creep” “The subtle, often unacknowledged infiltration of positivist or post-positivist assumptions into methodologies where they do not naturally, philosophically, practically, or epistemologically belong.” By @thomasgraves.bsky.social @maddipow.bsky.social @annayahprosser.bsky.social
- Reposted by Massimiliano SimonsIf you are a historian with policy-facing interests who has recently submitted their PhD (or will do so imminently), this fantastic new London-based postdoc fellowship in Applied History could be for you. www.history.ac.uk/fellowships/...
- Reposted by Massimiliano SimonsOTD in 2002, Ivan Illich died. A radical social critic and philosopher, Illich offered one of the most distinctive and influential critiques of modern technology in the 20th century. 1/
- Join us! We are hiring an assistant professor in political and social philosophy at Maastricht University with a focus on contemporary challenges to European democracy Feel free to contact me, if you have questions #philsky #philjobs
- 🚨🚨 We're #hiring! 🚨🚨 Assistant Professor of Political and Social Philosophy @maastrichtu.bsky.social @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social @hdijkstra.bsky.social @ccmmody.bsky.social @masssimons.bsky.social www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3566...
- Reposted by Massimiliano SimonsDelighted to receive my own copy! Here is the press site where eventually the volume will be available as open access mitpress.mit.edu/978026255224... well done again @adrian-currie.bsky.social @phieveigl.bsky.social
- Reposted by Massimiliano SimonsThis is my last post in the 'metaphors for AI' trilogy. I never thought there was so much to say about it all. But this is it for now! Comments welcome. #AI #metaphor makingsciencepublic.com/2025/11/28/o...
- Reposted by Massimiliano SimonsPleased to announce that this week the Michel Serres theme issue of Wijsgerig Perspectief will be published, with contributions from @masssimons.bsky.social, René ten Bos, Maria Karssenberg and myself.
- Reposted by Massimiliano SimonsNominations are open for the BSHS Pickstone Prize 2026, recognising the best scholarly English-language book in the history of science. 📆 Deadline: 31 Jan 2026. Anyone may nominate (self-nominations welcome). Submit via our online form on the BSHS website www.bshs.org.uk/the-bshs-pic...
- Who was Ferdinand Gonseth? If you want Ties van Gemert and me talk about this half-forgotten Swiss philosopher of science and what role he played in 20C #philsci, you can join online! This Wednesday! sigma.mathsworlds.org/activities/s...
- Reposted by Massimiliano SimonsCOLUMN - "In de wetenschap is er vaak verzet tegen het herzien van heldenstatussen. Die spanning kwam ook terug in de Epstein-files", schrijft @masssimons.bsky.social. #Epsteinfiles #Wetenschap #Heldenstatus #Seksisme www.observantonline.nl/Home/Artikel...
- Reposted by Massimiliano SimonsPour les aficionados du patrimoine scientifique …. La Tribune de Genève du jour
- Reposted by Massimiliano SimonsOpening for a tenure-track assistant professor in the history of science, with a preferred focus on water issues: 👇 #HistSTM
