We're hiring tenure-track Asst Prof Philosophy. Good people, great research and teaching. AOS applied ethics broadly construed. AOCs open. Teach bioethics, ethics of AI, undergrad, graduate certificate in Ethical Dimensions of AI, planned Masters Bioethics. philjobs.org/job/show/30245 #philsky

Happy to report that this paper is now out (Open Access!) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Excited to present a paper I’m working on at the @mcps-philsci.bsky.social Postdoc Forum, and I’d love your feedback! “Interspecific Social Relationships, Kinship and Environmental Care” 19 Nov 2025, 12:15pm CST(UTC-6) Commentator: Ben McMyler (MCPS) Let me know if you need a link! #philsci #philsky

"Here is an exciting new way to think about the century that produced Darwinism." Janet Browne's review of Martin Hewitt's Darwinism's Generations: link.springer.com/article/10.1... @vicmanch.bsky.social

📣 CALL FOR PAPERS!! New Special Issue on "Foundations of Internal Conflicts": academic.oup.com/jeb/pages/ca... #internalconflict #selfishelements #meioticdrive #imprintedgenes #reproductiveparasitism

My Element on science denial is free to download until December 1st! Get it for free while you can! doi.org/10.1017/9781...

Next Monday, we welcome @cshambaugh.bsky.social from the University of Oregon in our ROTO Lecture Series who will talk about dialectical biology. Just register via the link and join the talk and discussion at 4pm (CET): rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture... #HPBio #PhilSci #HistSci

My special issue on gardens and plants as laboratories of premodern science is out on @royalsocietypublishing.org #notesandrecords #nrrs #histplants #histsci #vegscilif #envhist with articles by me, Luzzini on minerals, @johedesan.bsky.social on Guy de La Brosse, Jalobeanu on Bacon, and Benharrech🌱

Are theories such as classical electrodynamics & non-relativistic #quantummechanics time-reversal invariant? In a recent @thebjps.bsky.social article, Ward Struyve argues that—with a suitable choice of ontology—they are! Read the 📃 here 👇 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #philsci #philsky

Since 1925, academic philosophy has moved towards professionalisation, and within that to specialisation. Professor John Haldane provides a historical overview of philosophy and argues for a philosophical humanism that was more prominent a century ago. Watch his lecture here: youtu.be/Dz_TYKNDTtc

In a new exciting collaboration with @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social and @profgerhard.bsky.social we think about how studying ambiguity in human and great ape communication can advance our theories of language evolution. Paper out at doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

I finished the audiobook of David Edmonds’s latest this weekend, and I’m still fascinated by this curious new genre that traces the life of a thought experiment including its debates, and the reach that it ended up having across different contexts. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Still 2 weeks left to register for our Winter Meeting 2025 in Leuven 🇧🇪! Register here: www.iussi-nweurope.org/meetings Date: 18-19 Dec Host: Laboratory of Socioecology and Social Evolution @KU Leuven (@twenseleers.bsky.social) We have an exciting programme, incl. Ido Pen & @rmash.bsky.social

I travelled to NYC to help launch (last night) Joanna Stalnaker's astonishing new book _The Rest is Silence: Enlightenment Philosophers Facing Death_. The book is a treasure, humane and moving: a vindication both of the #18thc philosophes and of what literary studies scholarship can do with them.

The 2025 Pfizer Award, awarded annually for an outstanding book in the history of science, is given to Adrian Johns for The Science of Reading: Information, Media & Mind in Modern America. (Apparently he wrote the entire book in ~8 months during COVID!) press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... #HSS2025

Our paper on improving statistical reporting in psychology is now online 🎉 As a part of this paper, we also created the Transparent Statistical Reporting in Psychology checklist, which researchers can use to improve their statistical reporting practices www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Are you a Dutch-speaking psychologist looking for an accessible introduction to #philosophy — one that also addresses topics such as the mind-body problem, #evolution & #psychopathology? Then look no further: Pieter Adriaens’s book is for you! 👇 www.pelckmansuitgevers.be/denken-over-... #HPS #cogsci

Join our #LSEPhilosophy Popper Seminar by Karen Kovaka (University of California) on "What is meta-analysis good for?" next week! 🗓️ Tuesday 18 November 2025 2pm - 3.30pm 📍 LSE Campus and online! 👉 Abstract and Zoom link: www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/e...

New from George Zhang: “Adaptive tracking with antagonistic pleiotropy” as an alternative to the Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution. Yeast experiments show many mutations are beneficial but rarely fix because environments vary & fitness is highly context-dependent. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our special issue on Evolutionary Functions of Consciousness, coedited with Tecumseh Fitch and Adina Roskies, now online royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202... Contributions by (1) Irina Mikhalevich; (2) Eva Jablonka and Simona Ginsburg; (3) Nicholas Humphrey; (cont'd)

This is a great proposal for studying tool use. I've been thinking about this for a long time, and when I came across it, I was hoping I would dislike it! However, I believe that the "four categories of tool use" approach is the right way to study tool use. Read it if you're interested in the topic

Apply for a History of Biology internship at the APS! Interns will conduct research using the rich archival collections at both the APS and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. https://www.amphilsoc.org/grants/apscshl-undergraduate-summer-internship-history-biology #internship #history #undergraduates

The journal's homepage is now live: journals.ub.uni-koeln.de/index.php/xphi We will soon also be found under xphi.eu. Accepting submissions in about 2 weeks.

In the latest #HOPOS, Ties van Gemert analyzes a 1968 lecture by the French historian and philosopher of science Suzanne Bachelard (1919–2007), titled “Epistemology and the History of the Sciences”. Van Gemert's paper can be read here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Bryan Frances just dropped one helluva good paper on philpapers (forthcoming in Philosophical Studies). It lists 200 elementary facts from epistemology and on that basis draws interesting conclusions about the nature and progress of philosophy philarchive.org/rec/FRAPAF-2

Just discovered an #ISHPSSB25 photo gallery! If you didn’t know about it, you’re welcome :) Here I’m having a great conversation with @profmatthaber.bsky.social and @rebeccacmann.bsky.social about individuality in social beings! #philsci #philsky ishpssb2025.icbas.up.pt/moments-from...

Call for Papers Workshop on 'ENTITY REALISM BEYOND MANIPULATION' (June 16 - 17, 2025) at the University of Bern (CH). We are very much looking forward to welcoming Nora M. Boyd and @msuarez.bsky.social as keynote speakers and invite further contributions! #philsci philevents.org/event/show/1...

This Friday, 14 November is the second of three meetings of the PSA Around the World! A fantastic online program with plenary panel and parallel sessions. All welcome! Note: time zone is 3pm CET.

Last call for papers for the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology! Don't miss a fabulous program in sunny Atlanta this February. Submissions due Nov 20. See you there! #philosophy #psychology #CFP southernsociety.org

Just published: our introduction to the history of peer review in the humanities! (with Marie-Gabrielle Verbergt) link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Here's a short piece on de-extinction that just came out in Ethics, Policy, & Environment: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/DKVRV...

For brave biologists/ecologists with a penchant for venturing beyond the boundaries of the intellectual comfort zone, I strongly recommend Jan Baedke's recent monograph "The Organism" in the series "Elements in the Philosophy of Biology". An absolute conceptual treat. doi.org/10.1017/9781...

I am happy to be part of the organization of the next Causality in the Sciences conference in Sevilla, focusing on cases from medicine. Mark your calendars for October 8-9th 2026. Deadline for abstract submission: March 8th. More details here: eventos.us.es/142286/secti...

Please join us for this exciting new conference on the emergence, function and evolution of biological collectives - unpacking the wonderful world of self-organization: www.embl.org/about/info/c...

I had SO much fun talking to Paul for almost 2 hours about my new book on Schrödinger & molecular biology. Easily one of the most enjoyable podcasts I've ever done. Check it out! P.S. CUP has made the PDF of my book free to download for 2 more weeks. Get it here: www.cambridge.org/core/element...

My biggest piece yet for the #Rudolphina research magazine of #UniVienna on Rupert Riedl and thread of meta-inquiry that led to the creation of marine biology, theoretical biology, electron microscopy and cognitive biology at the University of Vienna. rudolphina.univie.ac.at/en/the-intel... #evobio

Our newest issue culminates #HOPOS's 15th year in publication. Don't miss the special issue marking the 50th anniversary of the publication of Against Method. Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/hopos/20... #philsky #histsci

Online lecture, open to all: 2 Dec 18:30 (GMT) Renée Bergland on her book 'Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science' Winner of @bshsnews.bsky.social Hughes Prize, for the best #histSTM book accessible to a broad audience www.bshs.org.uk/online-lectu...

I'm not sure any amount of prior awareness actually prepares you emotionally for how few opportunities there are immediately post-PhD atm, especially in the humanities

Can metadata curation count as experimental practice? We answer in this new paper on data reanalysis in #plant #spacebiology, a major outcome of #PHIL_OS & Paola Castaño‘s collaboration w NASA’s open data team! #philsci, #data, #experimentation, #modelling, #ISS. OA version: doi.org/10.1016/j.sh...

My book Playing Possum has been nominated in its German edition for 'Science book of the year' (Wissenschaftsbuch des Jahres)! Please kindly vote for it if you think it deserves to win 😇

We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

Join us on Friday for the next CLPS seminar! Karolina Krzyzanowska (University of Amsterdam) will examine how framed messages in #health campaigns affect persuasion, drawing on philosophical #logic & the psychology of conditional reasoning 👇 hiw.kuleuven.be/clps/events/... #philsky #cogsci #philsci

PhD project on the evolution of animal memory now available in my research group, through the TREES DLA: www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/evo.... Come and join us if you're interested in the evolution of animal minds and you want to do some cool experimental evolution!

Do you get confused when reading meta-analyses? Our new paper offers a practical guide to help researchers understand, interpret, and use them properly. We also show that the insights meta-analyses provide are often overlooked by those who cite them.

New chapter co-authored with William Bechtel on the notion of heterarchy #philbio "Autonomy and Heterarchy: Organizing Control in Biological Organisms" link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Come join us in July 2026 for the 14th European Conference on Mathematical & Theoretical Biology in Graz, Austria! Registration opens now: ecmtb2026.org #ECMTB’26 @smbmathbiology.bsky.social

The 9th Notes and Records Essay Award is open for entry! Notes and Records reports on current research and archival activities across the history of science, technology and medicine. This is open to researchers who have completed a postgrad degree within the last five years.

A little over three weeks to go to apply for MCPS' next two-year postdoctoral fellowship! Philosophy of science broadly construed. Open to applicants within five years of receiving their doctorate. #philsci

The next conference of the Society for the Study of Measurement will take place at Edinburgh on 22-25 June. Call for papers and symposia opens Nov 15 and closes Jan 15. Submissions via app.oxfordabstracts.com/auth?redirec...