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Historian of psychology, psychiatry and evolutionary biology.

University of Melbourne
Joined February 2017
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PhD scholarship @UniMelb #MedicalHumanities Research Lab with Drs James Bradley & Jacinthe Flore Interested in history of mental illness, psychiatry, psychology, therapies (late 19C-21C) or history & social implications of tech use in mental health? EOI by June 10 #histsci #hps
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Our friend and colleague Ron Numbers (history.wisc.edu/people/numb…) has passed away. The science/religion community worldwide, the UW-Madison community, and those fortunate to call him a friend have lost a titan of the history of science and religion. His absence will be keenly felt.
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RIP Ian Hacking. Feb 18 1936 - May 10 2023 A very bright light has gone out.
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Rod Buchanan retweeted
Hard copies have arrived at my publisher’s office in Sydney. Next stop: my mailbox in Melbourne. It's getting very real and very exciting! @harpercollinsaustralia. #myfatherthewhale #auswrites #ausswomenwriters #writingcommunity
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Interested to hear the views of people with lived experience of #CBT treatment on this line of argument. #mentalhealth @NSUNnews @AsylumMagUK
New on the podcast: We speak with Sahanika Ratnayake (@SahanikaR) on her recent @philpsychpsy paper that calls into question the ethical grounds of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). Listen now: bit.ly/3V93Nul
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Teaching & Research position in History and Philosophy of science and technology at University of Melbourne, deadline 9 Nov @4sWeb @SocHistTech jobs.unimelb.edu.au/caw/en/j…
Teaching & Research position in Philosophy of Life Sciences at University of Melbourne, deadline 9 Nov @HOPOS_Society @hssonline jobs.unimelb.edu.au/caw/en/j…
Explore the life of psychologist Molly Harrower with author Jonathan Swinton on Nov. 3 at 2pm ET. This free talk sheds light on the professionalization of clinical psychology and the experiences of women scientists in the mid-20th century. RSVP now: eventbrite.com/e/talk-dr-har… #Akron
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The History & Philosophy of Science program @ArtsUnimelb is a rare and wonderful thing. Jobs in the discipline don’t come along very often and right now we have 2 x ONGOING ACADEMIC POSITIONS 👇
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🚨 Exciting times! The Open University of the NL is seeking to recruit a full professor of "Theory and Methods in Psychology" to lead a department drawing students from across the the Netherlands and Flanders. (Picture description is a machine translation) academictransfer.com/en/3157…
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New article from the @JHistoryBiology ~ Janet Browne, "Reflections on #Darwin Historiography" ~ link.springer.com/article/10… #histsci #histSTM @MyDearDarwin
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Join us next Friday the 18th @ 15 CET for our webinar on How to improve scientific peer review: Four schools of thought by Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner & @LudoWaltman,   For more info & the link to join, go to: cwts.nl/seminars/announcemen…
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Ivan Flis’ new paper in the Review of General Psychology considers the back and forth between three groups in the psychology reform discussions: 🔹 Status-quoers 🔹 Preregistration-minded reformers 🔹 Theory-minded, preregistration-skeptic reformers doi.org/10.1177/108926802110…
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The latest contribution to the special issue on Australasian perspectives on Darwin Studies is this excellent piece by @rosicrane on "T.J. Parker, New Zealand Huxleyite." sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Stop funding research (the way you do) Because it is wasteful, unethical and unscientific A thread (1/16)
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You can watch my @aimos_inc talk about the future of meta-research here: youtube.com/watch?v=Ov4lJnZ5… Slides & links: osf.io/etk9c/ Stressed over this for weeks! Thanks to the #aimos2021 organisers for the opportunity to voice dissatisfaction.
⬇️this time next week I'll be speaking about the future of meta-research in the last session of the @aimos_inc conference. There will be four (4) references to #Succession. Check out the schedule & sign up here: aimosconference.com/ (registration is cheap / free if you'd like)
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Whoever made this is my new favorite person.
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