Mindscape 342 | Rachell Powell on Evolutionary Convergence, Mind, and Morality. Do social structures, like eyes and fins, arise independently from evolutionary pressures? #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026...

Re-reading Bateson and Gluckman's Plasticity and Robustness. Poignant and masterful prose: “...no phenotype is such that only genes are needed for its development in the sense that they could, like Japanese flowers, be dropped into water and open up” (Bateson and Gluckman 2011, p. 12).

A first co-authored piece with the brilliant @hamishlinehan.bsky.social: Natural Born Historians open.substack.com/pub/thememor...

#hpbio!

I'm very excited to take part in the workshop 'Lineages, Complexity, and Evolution' at the Universidad de Oviedo. I'll be presenting a paper that Pierrick Bourrat and I have been working on. Looking forward to engaging with some fantastic philosophers of biology.

I'm extremely excited to be taking part in this workshop at the University of Murcia next week! embodiedcomparativepsychology.square.site

The Institute of Philosophy I at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, seeks applications for 1 PostDoc position (3 yr) and 2 PhD positions (4 yr) in the Project BOTLEG – Botanical Legacies: Towards a New History and Philosophy of Virtual Herbaria”, PI Dr. Jan Baedke. cordis.europa.eu/project/id/1...

This brilliant monograph is now available! Huge congrats to Alejandro Fábregas Tejeda. mitpress.mit.edu/978026205282...

An insightful new(ish) paper by Mazviita Chirimuuta on the structuralist foundations of AI. Chttps://philosophymindscience.org/index.php/phimisci/article/view/11992

There are still three more days to register for what will undoubtably be a fantastic workshop at the University of Cambridge organised by Marta Halina and Mariel Goddu www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/49983/

Will read royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...

Cognition without brains? Learning and memory in microorganisms: Trends in Microbiology www.cell.com/trends/micro...

If you or your undergrad students are interested in philosophy of mind, this excellent MSc program at U Edinburgh is open for applications until April 30. An exceptional opportunity to study with the best in the field. Please share widely! #philsci #philsky #philai study.ed.ac.uk/programmes/p...

Looking forward to taking part in the Embodied and Comparative Psychology conference at the Universidad de Murcia next month! embodiedcomparativepsychology.square.site

Applications are now open for the 2026 International Graduate Summer School: The Agents of Evolution, to be held at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, from August 17–22, 2026 (check-in on August 15–16)! sapolsn.com/event/2026-s...

Unconventional experiments that later redefine what counts as 'pursuitworthy' are excluded by strict standards. Szymon Miłkoś suggests that we need “transformative” standards: judge risky research by how well it turns intuitions into shareable norms 📄👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #HPS #philsci

Will read - article from Guido I. Prieto and Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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

Thanks @philosobio.bsky.social for this careful read and review! Food for thought!

#philsky #philsci #booksky #evosky #histsci #AcademicSky #BNPreorder

A species of Japanese cockroach that lives in forests (good), typically consumes wood (okay) and ...appears to engage in pair bonding after eating one another's wings and mating (jaw-dropping). Reminder: this is an invertebrate. royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...

Pre-peer reviewed study by Sam Gershman's lab (Harvard) suggesting associative learning in the protozoan S. coeruleus. Let the debates regarding whether the necessary controls to establish "true" AL were used begin. This is top notch experimental design. Good on them! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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...