Enjoy this interview with Andrew H. Knoll on his new book, Earth and Life and learn more about how the world as we know it—from the soil beneath our feet to the air we breathe and the life that surrounds us—came to be? press.princeton.edu/ideas/andrew... #EarthScience #Earth #Biology #geology

🎺If you can teach Introductory Logic, or the History of Philosophy (Ancient, Medieval, or Modern), then come and by my colleague! The Dept. of Philosophy at @tcddublin.bsky.social is looking for *two* Teaching Fellows (3 year posts). For full details, see: universityvacancies.com/trinity-coll...

How quantifiers interact with intensional operators?🤔 In today’s seminar, Stef Frijters will present a Kripke semantics for normal quantified modal #logic & a neighborhood semantics for non-normal cases, comparing their treatment of de re/de dicto readings, Barcan formulas & varying domains #philsky

Hassan Masoud reviews 'Sustainability and the Philosophy of Science' by Jeffry L. Ramsey—an incisive look at how philosophy of science shapes sustainability thinking. Read the review in the latest issue of PiR: journals.uvic.ca/index.php/pi... #BookReview #Sustainability #PhilosophyOfScience

Apply now to join us in December for our workshop "Rethinking Cell Differentiation and Development: A Unicellular Perspective". This will be an intimate meeting (30 people total) and we hope will be a great place to discuss this topic.

Join us for #BHLDay2026: “Towards a Biodiversity Data Ecosystem Built on BHL Data” a public symposium exploring how biodiversity literature powers data, research, and discovery. 📅 Wed 29 April; 2-5pm BST 📍 London + Online 🎟️ View the program + register: bit.ly/bhlday2026

What do you think of earth worms? And did you know that Charles Darwin was so passionate about them that he used to play music for them? Listen to Janet Browne (author of the forthcoming Darwin, publishing 6/2) on the newest episode of CBC Ideas:

At last! Ediacarans and Cambrian animals in the same site! Amazing! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

LLMs are often referred to as "stochastic parrots 🦜," a label that assumes they cannot bear meaning. But how could this be evaluated? @tjc1999.bsky.social distinguishes three problems around #AI and meaning in a short Substack reflection 👇 moralweights.substack.com/p/should-we-... #philsky #philsci

New #OpenAccess educational resource: "Teaching Animal Mobilities: (How to) Move Animals into Your Classroom" 🐛🪼 🐘 Modules include historical sources, discussion questions, assignment ideas, and readings to explore key themes in animal mobility. 🔗 animalmobilities.org #HistSci #AnimalMobilities

Our work on chromatin evolution in brown algae is now published in @natecoevo.nature.com! We show that developmentally complex brown algae evolved without epigenetic silencing pathways long thought universal, underscoring why non-model lineages are important to study. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Research from the Tilburg philosophy department: the fully open access book edited by Sander Verhaegh on American Philosophy and the Intellectual Migration. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

In the latest #HOPOS, Jamie Shaw, Kevin C. Elliott, and Deivide Garcia da S. Oliveira provide a transcription and critical overview of Paul Feyerabend’s unpublished manuscript “On the Responsibility of Scientists.” Link: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

A bit more time left to apply to the Summer Development Program run by the Logic & Philosophy of Science Dept this summer 2026 @ucirvine.bsky.social #philsci #philsky The SDP runs from August 2nd-8th, 2026 & applications are due by *April 17th, 2026*! See website for more details: lpssdp.com

What are Dennett's powerful ideas? Discover it in this new thread on #vol39issue3. Let's start with an editorial by Felipe De Brigard on #AI and the breakdown of the intentional stance, free access here: doi.org/10.1080/0951...#vol39issue3.#AI#philsky #philpsy 1/16

🎉 New paper out in Biological Reviews! 🎉 With 19 brilliant co‑authors from the IUCN SGA's Working Group on Chimpanzee Cultures, led by Crickette Sanz and me, we provide a much needed toolkit on how animal cultures can be built into conservation. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Congratulations to this year’s Dobzhansky Prize recipient, Dr. Wendy Valencia-Montoya! She will give the Dobzhansky Prize talk at #Evol2026 in Cleveland, OH in June. Learn more about her work: www.evolutionsociety.org/news/display... @wendyssae.bsky.social

My PhD paper on my beloved cycads and beetles on the cover of Science!!! Check out how we studied thermal infrared as a pollination signal, from molecular mechanisms to the wonders of behavior... science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A new review of Jan Baedke’s #OpenAccess Cambridge Element The Organism (@universitypress.cambridge.org), by Matthew Sims (@philosobio.bsky.social), has been published in @thebjps.bsky.social Review of Books! Check it out! 👇📕 www.thebsps.org/reviewofbook... #HPBio #philsky #HPS #evosky #booksky

Hey ⚒️ geo folks: Can anyone recommend a geobiologist who might be interested in discussing foundational/methodological issues in co-evolution of life & environment, from #paleobio to #geobio with historians & philosophers of science at MBL this summer?

Check out this nice review of the Element (short book) @mjacquart.bsky.social and I coauthored. A PDF of the Element is freely available from @universitypress.cambridge.org, here: doi.org/10.1017/9781... #philsci #SciComm 🧪 jcom.sissa.it/article/pubi...

The paper (forthcoming in Synthese) is available on PhilPapers! philpapers.org/rec/PRITRO-23

New from the BJPS Review of Books The Organism – Jan Baedke Reviewed by Matthew Sims  www.thebsps.org/reviewofbook... #philsci #hpbio #philsky

Still two weeks to submit your abstract for our Beyond Neurocomputationalism workshop (Antwerp 4-5 June). Keynote Speakers include Kate Nave, Romain Brette, Vicente Raja, Matteo Mossio, Mazviita Chirimuuta & Alicia Juarrero! Info below! #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence

Nice to find the last article from my PhD research listed in the RW Weekend reads www.tandfonline.com/eprint/8MQVY...

Lovely session (in Spanish!) last Wednesday with researchers at UNAM's Institute of Philosophy on Inference and Representation. Amazingly good questions and comments. Thanks for the careful reading and attention! ¡Gracias! youtube.com/live/lTYzdDI... #philsci #hps #sts #metascience #philsky

🎉 We're excited to announce the SPAN Seminar Series: virtual introductions to concepts relevant to neuroscience & phil of neuroscience. Seminars are free for SPAN members & held virtually. The first 2 seminars are on MRI methods. Register today! 🧠 philandneuro.wildapricot.org/seminar-Series

🔬What does the #SocialBrainSciencesLab research? Many, many topics including #SocialNeuroscience, #Aesthetics, #EmbodiedAI and #SocialRobots. 🧠 🤖 We compiled an overview of ongoing projects. If our work inspires you, reach out and say hi! @ethz.ch, @escross.bsky.social, @tanjaulrich.bsky.social

Sometimes we try to explain one thing but end up explaining something else. In this paper, I address when this is a problem, which I call the “Problem of Explaining Shifting Targets” (PEST). #philsci #cogsky (Available open access)

In his new #openaccess book, "Biologists Unite," Daniel Chiu Suarez traces the meteoric rise and fall of a pragmatic but ultimately doomed approach to conservation.

Culture was assumed to be unique to humans, but recent scientific discoveries have revealed that it's in fact widespread in the animal kingdom. This #PhilTransB issue is the first to present a comprehensive picture of the science & implications of this: royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...

🤓 New OA publication in EJPS *Reproducibility, questionable research practices and ethico-epistemic trade-offs in animal-based biomedicine* link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsci #animalexperimentation #metascience

📣 *EPSA25: selected papers from the biennial conference in Groningen* Submission deadline: 15 June 2026 link.springer.com/collections/... #philsci #HPS

i love m-dashes. i use 'not only but also' type of constructions in certain kinds of writing. i am not ai. i find the implication that i might be depressing. just as i dislike defensive academic writing targeting reviewers, i'd regret having to adopt defensive writing habits to prove i'm not a bot.

We just published a review 🗞️😁: ‘The ecology of adaptive radiation’ revisited: A 25-year reflection Dolph Schluter’s book inspired the interest in adaptive radiation, and we wanted to revisit it. academic.oup.com/evolinnean/a... 1/5 🧵

I’m not sure if I ever shared on Bluesky this article we wrote on how almost everyone giving career advice is susceptible to survivorship bias, but I think it was good and you should read it www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Just a couple days left to submit your PSA - AAAS Cognate Society Symposium proposal! #philsci

SPAN’s website and membership platform just got a huge upgrade! Memberships are now fully integrated into events. If you’re familiar with how the PSA/APA tracks memberships— it’s like that!

Most creatures use daylight to keep time. But a newly discovered jellyfish species has a mysterious biological clock that tracks periods of 20 hours, instead of 24. It suggests there may be more unconventional clocks across the tree of life.

New blog post for @universitypress.cambridge.org on #darwin and #colour: www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...

Cambridge offers botany course that inspired Darwin after rare archive uncovered

Join us for virtual Evolution on May 20-22! SSE members in 152 countries and territories around the world receive free virtual meeting registration - request your discount code today! #Evol2026 www.evolutionsociety.org/index.php?mo...

Peter West reviews Andreas Vrahimis's book Bergsonism and the History of Analytic Philosophy in #HOPOS. Link: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

🚨 New paperback alert! The Bloomsbury Handbook of Pragmatism surveys the role of contemporary pragmatism across a broad range of traditions, looking ahead to new directions of research. Order now: https://bit.ly/3PDnZHO Read a preview: https://bit.ly/411wHCb

New episode!! 🎙️🎉 A conversation w/ @glupyan.bsky.social & @mcxfrank.bsky.social. Questions swirl about what AI will mean for work, education, and society. But cognitive scientists can't help but also wonder: What will AI mean for our understanding of the mind? Listen: disi.org/what-can-ai-...

📣 Out now in @pnasnexus.org our *NEW PAPER* revamping a long-standing debate: to what extent does causal reasoning aid the cultural evolution of technology? academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ad...

What is an environment, really? I reflect upon this in my latest essay, in which I write about my own path toward #EnvHist and the #EnvHum. This is also a commentary on Sverker Sörlin's great piece in the latest Global Environment. Turns out we have had similar but different environments!

Choanoflagellates — our closest animal relatives — form multicellular colonies in two ways: cell division AND aggregation. This previously unknown "mixed multicellularity" suggests our animal origins are more complex than thought. 📄 @thibautbrunet.bsky.social ↘️

Spring marked the start of MOTH at Bielefeld University (funded by @volkswagenstiftung.de). Led by @lisaregazzoni.bsky.social, we explored material analysis as a way to rethink the study of the past and connect the natural sciences with the humanities. A first step in a four-year journey.

Have a look at the following argument: 2 + 2 = 4 ∴ This argument is invalid. Are you puzzled by the so-called Paradox of Validity? So are we! Join us today to discuss with Boaz Schuman Pseudo-Scotus’s solution, modern responses, and the dialetheist challenge to classical validity. #philsky #logic