Latest papers: Ross Pain develops a methodological distinction between two approaches to the study of the mind; the philosophy-first view and the science-first view in this open access article doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy

📣 We are hiring!! 📣 The Philosophy Department at Maastricht University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences is looking for a senior colleague doing research on "Philosophy and the City." See the vacancy below and get in touch if you have questions. lnkd.in/e3Q2cKrT

About to do the annual Applying for Philosophy PhD Programs session. If you have undergrads or MA students, now is a great time to start thinking about application prep. Guide here: www.hkandersen.com/applying-for... #philsky #philsci

Had a great time talking about animal minds with Charlotte Bookham and Claire Hamlett, for the inaugural episode of their 'Animal Culture' podcast open.spotify.com/episode/7gYL...

➡️ New article out! ⬅️ What Lives? A Meta-Analysis of Diverse Opinions on the Definition of Life by Reed Bender, Karina Kofman, Blaise Agüera y Arcas & Michael Levin (@blaiseaguera.bsky.social, @drmichaellevin.bsky.social) Open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Philosophy job in beautiful Lund 🇸🇪 lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/... #philjobs

Grab your cup ☕; we're spilling the #ReproducibiliTea. Our first-ever international conference. 🗓️Sept 25 | 💻 Online | 🎟️ Free Register now → forms.gle/KgemQ3gM2fEe... 🔗 Learn more: reproducibilitea.org/conference2026 #OpenScience #ResearchIntegrity #Reproducibility

Just published: “What is critical metascience and why is it important” doi.org/10.3389/fpsy...

🌿📚 More than 64 million pages of biodiversity knowledge are freely available through the Biodiversity Heritage Library. As funding challenges put its future at risk, the Internet Archive is proud to help preserve this invaluable resource. 🌎 Learn more 👇 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Update to my Sunday story on the strange retraction of two 1940s papers by Max Planck: arstechnica.com/science/2026... Springer Nature has supplied Ars Technica with an official statement from Tim Kersjes, head of research integrity, resolutions, as follows: [1/3]

New paper out by our former visiting fellow Alberto Monterde Fuertes! It examines the methodological decisions structuring inquiry in engaged philosophy of science. Check it out here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #PhilSci

We are delighted to welcome Jordan Mursinna @mursinna.bsky.social , as Historian of Life Sciences at the Center for Humanities and the History of Modern Biolog at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory! Jordan will contribute to the Center's educational and public programs and conduct original research.

Just resharing this job🚨because the deadline for applications is this Sunday (11.55pm Melbourne time). #philjobs

Meet SpudCell, a synthetic cell made from lifeless ingredients that feeds, grows, divides, and experiences selection. If it doesn't have all the hallmarks of life, it has a lot! Here's my story. Gift link: nyti.ms/4vCbTih

I had a ton of fun the other day talking with @nonresidentdesi.bsky.social and @scifri.bsky.social 's Flora Lichtman and Rasha Aridi about murderous microbes and the things that we are trying to learn from them. Happy for the opportunity to bring some new awareness to the world of protists!

Excited to announce some changes to my Bluesky #philosophy feeds! First, the philosophy lists now have their own dedicated account at @philosophy.eurosky.social. Second, working with @eurosky.social and @mu.social, this account is a #TrustedVerifier for philosophers on the mu.social app. 1/4

New book review in BioScience: @gerlame.bsky.social takes on Jeremy Fox's interesting “The Ecology of Ecologists: Harnessing Diverse Approaches for a Stronger Science". academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

Fascinating talk on the history of peer review from Melinda Baldwin at @icssi.org, with some parallels to current crises. Also I hadn't realized peer review was such an American thing.

Summer reading recommendation! This new book by Elana Shever is fantastic. It's an ethnography of dinosaur science in the spirit of Latour and Woolgar's Laboratory Life. Historians and philosophers of paleo, this is a must read. #Philpaleo #philsci www.ucpress.edu/books/making...

Have ideas for your own, independent research program in Theoretical Biology? Then come and join us as a Group Leader at the @mpi-evolbio.bsky.social in Plön, Germany!

I gave a talk about my book The Tree of Life at a very hot Linnean Society last Thursday. This is now available to view on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzT2...

Nominations open for Linnean Medal for research! Awarded for significant and sustained advances in the understanding of nature, including academic research into any relevant branch, including science, history and the humanities. Deadline Sept 30. For more details and past winners 👇️ buff.ly/X52reM9

I had the pleasure of reviewing a new collection of Susan Stebbing's papers edited by Siobhan Chapman for Mind. There's some #HOPOS in the review, and a short section about public philosophy in the history of analytic philosophy. academic.oup.com/mind/advance...

Janet Browne's new condensed and updated single volume biography of #CharlesDarwin is out today, from @princetonupress.bsky.social. Time to get reading! #HPS #histsci #Darwin #books #evolution

As philosophy rushes to claim expertise on AI, AI companies rush to control the philosophical narrative. Unlike other disciplines, philosophy has no standards for reporting conflicts of interest. This petition endeavors to change that: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Deadline for applications is July 8. Let me know if you have any questions.

We're going on a summer break. Have a relaxed and not too hot summer! But while we’re still at it, check out the call for papers for our conference Learning from History: The Philosophies of Historiography and the Historical Sciences: philevents.org/event/show/1....

Thanks for the new follows! I hope I can contribute something of interest to your timeline. 😊 I’m adding philosophers to my Philosophers list, but not all of you have a profile bio, so if you’re a professional/student/amateur philosopher and *don’t* say that in your bio, please DM me to be added! 🙏

Very much agree with the idea that control of scientific infrastructures should not be ceded to commercial organisations and their proprietary models. There's a huge democratic deficit in the preprint space that can only be rectified by real community control over which actors to work with.

🪲 In case you were wondering what BEClimwood-Bugs is all about: The project description is online, you can learn more about the project here: @bexplo.bsky.social @uniulm.bsky.social www.biodiversity-exploratories.de/en/projects/...

After a year of anticipation, I'm really looking forward to our long-planned workshop on the history and future of climate and cryospheric sciences next week in Copenhagen 🧊 If you're in the area, please join us for our public round table discussion on science in the Arctic cryosphere! 👇

I wrote about my journey to #PhilSci on East European Network for Philosophy of Science blog (see the link below). I also talked a bit on its start in 2015. Thanks very much to @annaalexandrova.bsky.social @elenapopaphi.bsky.social and @gabrieltarziu.bsky.social for inviting me to write!

💙📚 'Life Beyond Human Boundaries: John Dupré’s Philosophy and the Interdisciplinary Study of the Life Sciences,' an #OpenAccess book, is self-standing as the only substantive anthology of writings centered on John Dupre’s work. bit.ly/4f2gkNl#OpenAccess#PhilSci 🗃️

Feels important. Because #philosophy is actually not another way of doing science. Nor is it simply “an important part of a university’s ‘science offering.’” #philsky #booksky

Truly bizarre story of how two papers from the 1940s by physics pioneer Max Planck have been "retracted" from Naturwissenschaften, potentially by an algorithm, for anachronistic "plagiarism" issues, leaving the current editor baffled (but it is Springer Nature so.... www.science.org/content/arti...

Why science needs the humanities more than ever www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Very happy that this is now officially out in the International Encyclopedia of #Language and #Linguistics! "Animal Cognition and Language Evolution" (with @elizabethqingzhang.bsky.social). doi.org/10.1016/B978...

Come work with me! Jaakko Hirvelä is hiring a 2 year post-doc with a focus on epistemology in the awesome "Metaphysics, Ethics and Epistemology of Risk" project. jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki... #philsky #epistemology #philosophy

How do we ensure a globally coordinated and sustained research agenda to address the biodiversity crisis? We think it's time to explore a World Biodiversity Research Programme - a mechanism to coordinate and better connect biodiversity research with global policy needs. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

they’re pushing through approx 25% compulsory redundancy focused on humanities & social science without anything close to a financial justification. The only reasonable interpretation is ideological motivation. I am both heartbroken and embarrassed. Sign please. www.change.org/p/stop-redun...

Living Biology 🎧 is here! A new SEB #Podcast from the Society for Experimental Biology (@sebiology.bsky.social) exploring the people and ideas behind experimental biology. 🚨 Launch special: 2 episodes available now Listen here: www.sebiology.org/ressources/s...

We are looking for a postdoc @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social! And they are looking for another postdoc @unituebingen.bsky.social! If you want to work on the Latin translations of Aristotle's De anima and De sensu, this is your chance! www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... #ancientbluesky #philosophysky

It has been a true pleasure to organize this #PBCS edition! I’m grateful to everyone who made it possible 🌼

The first-ever Gordon Research Conference on Urban Evolution and Ecology focusing on "The Intersection and Emergent Properties of Ecology, Evolution and Human Social Environments in Cities" is now open for applications! www.grc.org/urban-evolut... #UrbanEcology #UrbanEvolution #UrbanEcoEvo 🧬🔬🥼🔭

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The website for the new book series Crafting Nature is online @brepols.net I co-edit it with Giancarla Periti - and the board is rich with colleagues working on the intersections between #arthistory #histsci We look forward to book/volume proposals #bookseries www.brepols.net/series/HMCN

Now with extended cfp deadline: July 31st

You can still register for today's talk (6pm CET) in our lecture series! rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture... #HistSci #HPBio

Next up, The Epistemology of Medicine conference @ the MCMP, LMU Jun 25-26 @lmu-mcmp.bsky.social @lmu.de 🧬🧪💊 Joining Jacob Stegenga, Benjamin Genta, Ina Jäntgen, @jonwilliamson.uk , @ennofischer.bsky.social & others on the program! #philsci #philsky #HPS www.philosophie.lmu.de/mcmp/en/late...

This article from #ProcB explains how the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) transformed its institutional identity in the decades following the Second World War doi.org/10.1098/rspb... | @zslscience.bsky.social @zslofficial.bsky.social #Ecology #Zoology #Conservation #HistSci