A new #HOPOS paper from Tivadar Vervoort on the relations between Georg Lukács and the Frankfurt School and the French epistemologists including Michel Foucault. “Nous Sommes Tous Néokantiens”: Foucault, Lukács, and the Critique of Social Forms www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

PhD and postdoc positions available in HPS at the University of Copenhagen. The project is “Human Variables in Biodiversity Assessment” with Joeri Witteveen. employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...

Two tenure track/ tenured positions--one Assist Prof & one Assoc Prof in Philosophy of Science &/or Technology at @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social philjobs.org/job/show/29502 philjobs.org/job/show/29506 Areas include phil of social science, Native American philo, phil of race #philsci #philtech #philjobs

CFA The Human Diversity Dilemma: Navigating the intersection of microbes, ethics & society ISHPSSB Off-Year Workshop Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa October 1-3, 2025 Abstracts due Aug.18 Organizers @abigailnd.bsky.social & @msimang.bsky.social #philsci #STS 🦠 More info ⤵️

Integrating and interpreting brain maps | doi.org/10.1016/j.ti... Imaging and recording technologies make it possible to map multiple biological features of the brain. How can these features be conceptually integrated into a coherent understanding of brain structure and function? ⤵️

STS postdoc position open at Medical Museion employment.ku.dk/all-vacancie...

RIP #histsci Margaret Rossiter, who coined term Matilda Effect en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margare... #philsci #feministsky

We already know that overselling findings and “story over substance” are a threat to scientific knowledge production. I’m extremely worried that the massive restructuring of science funding will reproduce the same hype-dependent dynamic for research.

Different disciplines handle the division of labor between theory and experiment. Some fields have dedicated theoreticians who hardly ever do experiments (and vice versa). Others divide it less strongly or not at all. Why is this?

'To determine whether a screening truly works, we have to measure not survival time but mortality. Did fewer people die of cancer in the screened group? This is the outcome that really matters. Yet demonstrating such a benefit is slow, arduous work (...) you must wait for the final end point: death'

The plenary talk by Philip Ball, 24 July, #ISHPSSB2025, focusing on new biology - full house! #hpbio #philsci #histstm #histsci #philbio #hbio #sts

This collection of foreign bodies removed from the oesophagus was donated to the museum in 1928.

Very excited to share our new work on gastruloids by the incredible Cat Triandafillou! We mapped gene expression across 26 individual gastruloids at single-cell resolution and discovered some pretty amazing patterns about how these "mini-embryos" organize themselves. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A Museum Contends with Its Collection of Human Remains www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

So sorry that Helen de Cruz has died. I have never met her in person, and don't know her work well. But during Covid, she suggested that we play music together (lute and voice). We only had a few online sessions but they made me appreciate what a brilliant and warm person she is. R.I.P. #philosophy

📣 My latest coauthored paper with Wendy Parker "Understanding Data Uncertainty" is finally forthcoming in /Studies in History & Philosophy of Science/: philarchive.org/rec/BOKUDU #philsci #philsky 🧪 #Data

Cell death and cancer: Metabolic interconnections www.cell.com/cell-report...

trying to understand my ex better

📣The #ISHPSSB2025 program has been released! Check it out here ➡️ ishpssb2025.icbas.up.pt/program/ #hpbio #philsci #histstm #histsci #philbio #hbio #sts

James DiFrisco (Crick Institute, UK) on "Moving beyond conceptual analysis: conceptual methodology for philosophy 'in' science"

Am I missing something here or does this paper report finding large clonal T cell populations shared across diverse tissues in humans using random T cells and sparse sampling (10x)? That surprises the hell out of me... CMV-reactive? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It is fun to make fun of, but I think that the "epistemic" bonanza gets at least something right: way more things are knowledge-production-related than we used to think.

One of my biggest fears is that people get the impression that I'm interested in technology

I just had a fascinating conversation with a stem-cell biologist about organoids. SCB: These cells are trying as hard as they can to make the organ. Me: I’m interested that you put it so agentially. So they are trying and failing? SCB: Yes, clearly. /1

Extremely excited and proud to be at the PhD defense of Hilde Røsstad at Univ of Agder today. Her dissertation “Handling Pesticides in Horticulture: Norwegian Horticulturists’ Perception of and Praxid with Chemical Plant Protection Products, 1945-2021” is fantastic.

NSF Physics was cut by 85%, basically wiping out most of its capacity for supporting research. NSF Astronomy was cut by 53% Undergrad education was cut by 71% and research on learning by 79% Graduate education was cut by 100% to ZERO. #GiftLink ⚛️🔭 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump Administration Halts Harvard’s Ability to Enroll International Students nyti.ms/4kuDKLf

If you're in Chicago on August 7th consider coming to our event talking about "Nordic Socialism" at Pilsen Community Books. pilsencommunitybooks.com/events/20250...

International Philosophy of Medicine Online Reading group starts up again this week! This term we are focusing on articles rather than a monograph over several meetings Meetings are Weds at 5pm and Thurs at 9am UK time Join the group here: groups.google.com/g/philmed-rg/ Please share widely!

This is just a partial glimpse of the destruction of American science by Trump and the GOP.

Creative idea for a course centered around lactation biology

Young Florentines in self-isolation, 1349. From a series of miniatures depicting scenes from Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron, a masterpiece of early Italian prose in which 100 tales are told by a group of young people isolating from the plague: publicdomainreview.org/collection/t...

The Innovations in Single Cell Omics conference in Berlin was amazing! Great talks and we even had a Night Science workshop! 🙏 @stefaniegrosswendt.bsky.social, Ashley Sanders, @simonhaas.bsky.social, @leifludwig.bsky.social, @elimereu.bsky.social, @larsplus.bsky.social & @alejofraticelli.bsky.social

We are very pleased to announce further special sessions at the HCA General Meeting in Singapore, including HCA Regional Network meetings, and collaborations for Genetic Diversity. Please register or update your existing registration at buff.ly/q0XVfM2 to attend. #HCA2025GM.

And after the sessions of #ISHPSSB2025, you can continue the debates on your favourite HPSSB topics in a beach terrace... #philsci #hpbio #histSTM #histsci #philbio #hbio #sts

So awesome that in the cafeteria these days, the next table is as likely to be talking about whether they feel safe from arbitrary arrest when traveling to/from the US, as they are to be talking about science.

It was so much fun to write this review with @usymmons.bsky.social on the conceptual underpinnings of single cell biology!

Would you like to be @the-node.bsky.social's new Community Manager? Find out here what this exciting role involves and how you can apply to join the team. thenode.biologists.com/would-you-li... Application deadline 19 May #SciComm #DevBio #StemCell

📣2nd call for #ISHPSSB2025 travel grants open until May 15, 2025! Information here: ishpssb2025.icbas.up.pt/registration... #philsci #hpbio #histSTM #histsci #philbio #hbio #sts

Cool! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The do’s and don’ts of scientific image editing 🧪 @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Barbara McClintock proposed – over 40 years ago – that transposable element activity could be a response to stress, and I think that we are still only beginning to understand how right she was.

The rest of Mendel's alleles characterized! So, out of 7 traits, 3 caused by TE insertions!!! (though apparently there are two different green alleles, one cause by a TE insertion, but another a promoter deletion allele) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Highly underrated feature of having a dog is constantly singing silly songs to them about how lovely they are

A primer on scRNA-seq foundation models www.owlposting.com/p/the-lore-...

“This is a pivotal moment for our nation in terms of global competitiveness. NSF is an extremely important investment to make US scientific dominance a reality. […] A thoughtful approach to efficiencies & investments is incredibly important” www.science.org/content/arti...

The second article in the special issue is by coeditor @martinkusch.bsky.social It’s a magisterial analysis of how German speaking philosophers delineated sciences by method and subject matter, politics raging in the background. #philsci #histsci #philsky #sts

Capricorn. From John Bevis' Uranographia Britannica (ca. 1749), a watershed in the history of celestial atlases, being among the last to show allegiance to the old animated mythology of the heavens. More in our latest post: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/bevis-uranographia

I really enjoyed this paper - the samples are really cool and the writing is great. I love the “list” style. Also most figures were quite clear for an “atlas” www.nature.com/articles/s41...