This looks great!

We found this wonderful patch of SlimeMould, Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa I think, in the Ebbor Gorge, Somerset this time last week. #SlimeMouldSunday @nationaltrust.org.uk

In this @frontiersin.bsky.social in #Ecology & #Evolution review we compile 280 studies showing empirical evidence of natural selection occuring at the levels: - Genetic elements - Nuclei - Cells - Clones - Individuals - Groups (demes, colonies, agreggates) - Communities doi.org/10.3389/fevo...

Workshop on genetics, eugenics and scientific racism next week! #Philsci #Philosophy #Ethics #HPS #Sociology #AcademicSky We will be conducting hybrid sessions, you can find the zoom link at www.imseam.uni-heidelberg.de/en/heinzelma...

Kati Farkas and I have a new paper, 'Lack of Attitude', in a superb new volume edited by @eschwitz.bsky.social and @msgjonhere.bsky.social The paper is open access and available to download here: academic.oup.com/book/62410/c...

Hot take: the hippocampus isn't actually "evolutionarily ancient" and its not helpful to think of it as such. The full argument for this take is right here (but you need to scroll down to sections 5-6): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The biophilia hypothesis holds that we have an innate predisposition to be drawn to #nature. Y. Joye & @andreasdeblock.bsky.social review the evidence in its favor, find it wanting, and suggest that #culturalevolution offers a better alternative www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #evosky #philsci

I’m excited to finally announce a Festschrift SI at Acta Biotheoretica honoring the work of Bill Wimsatt with the SI’s first publication by @consume.red and @philosofir.bsky.social! The editors (@caitlinmace.bsky.social and I) are delighted! #philsci #hpbio link.springer.com/article/10.1...

For any one who might be curious as to why monitor lizards might have more sophisticated cognitive abilities when compared to many other closely related lizards here are a few evolutionary hypothesis. I'd more than happy to share a copy of the paper with anyone interested. Enjoy! lnkd.in/e94-Q5uw

Learning with lacertids: Studying the link between ecology and cognition within a comparative framework url: academic.oup.com/evolut/artic...

Reminder 📢 We are advertising a postdoctoral position in #philbio or #philphysics to work on an interdisciplinary project that adopts the lens of self-organization & active matter to explore the boundary between living and nonliving systems👇 www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... #philjobs #philsci #evosky

Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

Registration is open for this event 16-17 March @royalsociety.org with programme (titles and abstracts) available online: royalsociety.org/science-even.... In person and online.

This is mesmerizing stuff. I'd love to know more about the data used to generate it, and what is being assumed and omitted. aeon.co/videos/groun...

Jellyfish sleep a lot like us—and for the same reasons | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Apply now! www.thebsps.org/funding/doct...

Overlooked and Under-Studied: A Review of Evidence-Based Enrichment in Varanidae by Darcy Howard and Marianne Sarah Freeman This article belongs to the Special Issue Fundamental Knowledge on Forgotten Species: An Exploration of Data from Rarely Studied Captive Animals doi.org/10.3390/jzbg...

New article by Grant Ramsey - will read philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27701/

Anyone who is Editor-in-Chief of a major journal for ten years deserves enormous appreciation for their service to the academic community. Thank you Stuart for your great work.

With great joy—and a touch of nervousness—I’m thrilled to share that my first academic monograph will be published by @mitpress.bsky.social in May 2026! It examines the organism–environment relationship in biology from an integrated #HPS perspective: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205282... #evosky #philsky

Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality by Endogenization of Scaffolded Properties | The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science: Vol 76, No 2 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

I'm looking forward to the Schweitzer Institute conference 'Promoting Responsible Governance of Animal Protection: Policy Reform for an Ethical Future’ this Friday schweitzer.institute/conference-1 I'll be presenting a biocentric framework for extending moral standing to life beyond animals.

Microbe with bizarrely tiny genome may be evolving into a virus | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

My little book on Schrödinger's famous classic 'What Is Life?' is out! Offering the most comprehensive analysis ever undertaken of the book's origins, reception, impact, and legacy, it uncovers Schrödinger's motivations in writing it, and shows how it has shaped our current understanding of the cell

“Traits” are central units of biological analysis—but how should they be individuated, and relative to which ontogenetic frame of reference? In my new paper, I argue that answering this isn’t easy—and matters more than it seems. 📃👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsci #HPBio #evosky #evodevo

New semester, new lecture series 🎉Starting next month, we welcome amazing scholars to give online talks in the history and philosophy of life sciences. Find all dates and registration links here: rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture... We look forward to seeing you there 🤗 #PhilSci #HistSci #HPBio

A few photo moments from the Shanghai and Beijing SAPoLSN 'Cognition Across the Tree of Life' graduate summer school and workshop. Highlights: engaging with extremely sharp students; getting to know some of the other instructors; seeing old friends; Chinese culture; and Shanghainese food!

Very happy to get this in the mail today! Looks nice! 😀📖 #philsci #HPS #hpbio

"Elisabeth S. Vrba, the “Three Musketeers,” and the Expansion of Macroevolutionary Theory"

A wonderful article on work (both old and new) pushing the frontier of memory research.

Here's your chance to download not only my book 'Slime Mould and Philosophy' , but download ALL the books in Cambridge Elements Philosophy of Biology series from the 20th to the 25th of July for FREE! I highly recommend Jan Baedke's (2025) book 'The Organism'. cup.org/4kEgivL #ISHPSSB #philosophy

This year's BSPS at the University of Glasgow was grand. I had a wonderful time with Jordan Theriault; @davidcolaco.bsky.social‬; ‪@phaueis.bsky.social‬; and Patrick McGivern at our symposium (serious Phil of sci pic). @martahalina.bsky.social‬ was missed by all. Up next - the ISH in Porto.

More on C.H. Waddington at the KLI.

More documentation of the wonderful talks at the 43rd Annual Altenberg Workshop at Konrad Lorenz Institute this last week.

More theoretical biology and C.H. Waddington at the KLI. More to come.

Theoretical biology at the KLI.

#HistBio and #HistMed people: You can still send your abstracts for FoGeL 2025! 🐋🌱

Highly recommend!

Upcoming Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science: Decentering the Human in Human Sciences on Friday, May 2nd and Saturday, May 3rd. Free and open to the public. Speakers include @martahalina.bsky.social & @grantramsey.bsky.social #philsci www.bu.edu/cphs/colloqu...

Join us Monday at 4pm (CET) for our next Reading Group session! 📖🧠 We’ll be discussing "Biological Mistakes: What They Are and What They Mean for the Experimental Biologist" by David Oderberg et al., published in @thebjps.bsky.social. Just email jan.baedke[at]rub.de for the meeting details! #HPBio

My new paper examining how plasticity may have shaped the evolution of cellular differentiation is out! We propose that the plastic development of somatic-like cells may have been an intermediate step in the evolution of soma in the volvocine algae. #evosky #mevosky doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

A very well argued and thought provoking blogpost by @wiringthebrain.bsky.social www.wiringthebrain.com/2025/01/euge...

Last Friday, I had a lot of fun presenting my joint work with @philosobio.bsky.social on basal cognition research at UPV/EHU. Thanks a lot to @ias-research.bsky.social for the invitation! The recording is available here: youtu.be/GTzaRhwilIM?... 📃👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsci #cogsky

Pretty excited by this new addition to the bookshelf... Which you can add to your own bookshelf here: www.amazon.com/Drive-Surviv... Or download for *free* here: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...