One of the very few upsides of Covid-19-enforced shift to remote work in academia was the rapid improvement in accessibility of research. You no longer had to be at the particular place at the right time to hear about the most recent work on something you're interested in, or interact with some big name, or just to hang around and chat and check out the community. (Honorable mentions go to Beyond Spacetime project and Black Hole Initiative, which were functioning partially online long before 2020.) On a slightly more lofty note, inclusive education is a human right; academic research wants to be free; and equality, openness, and ease of access to all forms of knowledge are of fundamental importance for the functioning of democratic societies. Many people, and big kudos to them, continue to organize their seminars and talks series in either fully remote or hybrid modes; for mathematics and mathematical physics, researchseminars.org is a useful central resource. (This is also as good a place as any to digress about one of my pet peeves: that every university should also have an equivalent of talks.cam for their local on-site events. Anyway...) Below is a list of Zoom/Teams/otherwise in-real-time accessible and free to access --- though mostly requiring registration to avoid Zoom bombing --- talk series, seminars, and reading groups in philosophy of physics, foundations of physics, and broadly related to that philosophy of science and HPS.
I am keeping this list up to date; please let me know if you'd like your series added or removed, or if you spot any outdated information. All times below are in CE(S)T, so modify accordingly for your local timezone. Last update: 20.10.2025.
Monday 15:30-16:30 - during the term (Sep-Dec & Feb-May), weekly Black Hole Initiative Foundations seminar; followed by (17-18) the BHI Colloquium; general link
Monday 16 - weekly reading group of the Radboud Centre for Natural Philosophy, instructions for subscribing here, link
Tuesday 15:30/16-17 - during the term (Sep-Jan & Feb-June), weekly Utrecht Philosophy of Astronomy & Cosmology Colloquium (multi-format: seminar/work in progress/reading group), link
Wednesday 17-18 - working meetings of the History, Philosophy & Culture working group (including focus groups on: Algorithms, Inference, and Visualization; Ethical Siting; Collaborations) of the next generation Event Horizon Telescope, general link
Wednesday 17-18 - LSE-Cambridge Foundations of Physics Bootcamp, in autumn 2025 focus on physics and idealizations, link (previously; even earlier)
Thursday 16-18 - during the term, weekly Oxford Philosophy of Physics Thursday seminar, link
Friday 17:30-19 - QFT² (quite fun things about QFT) reading group, link
monthly (on average about 1 meeting/month, but see Virtual Labs) - COSMOS network in History & Philosophy of Cosmology, link
monthly - History and Philosophy of Contemporary Theoretical Physics reading group, link. Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine has a number of events and working groups on a large variety of topics, including also [a monthly History and Philosophy of Science reading group ] group on Quantum Century; see the full list of CHSTM events here
monthly - NYU space talks, covering various topics in history and politics of outer space, including broader cultural implications, link
monthly - Philosophy of Science and Machine Learning lecture series at TU Dortmund, link
monthly - Quantum Information Structure of Spacetime (QISS) virtual seminar, link
monthly - Boston Network for History and Philosophy of Physics seminar, link
monthly (from 2025-26) - Bonn History and Philosophy of Physics Research Seminar, link
irregular - Foundations of Physics @ Harvard series run by Jacob Barandes, link
Unfortunately, the following seem to no longer be happening: