An awesome hybrid conference on the legacies of Richard Lewontin is coming to Toronto. Elliott Sober is the keynote! "Dialectical Biology Today" runs from October 10-12. Learn more and register below! #philbio 🐋🌱 @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/diale...

Congratulations Alejandro!!

Longshot but, does anyone know where I can find the original version of this photograph of Norbert Wiener, Arturo Rosenblueth, and Julian Bigelow? I assumed this would be from a Macy Conference (with Mead behind Rosenblueth?), though I'm confused by the white coats #histsci #histstm #histtech #hps

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As I say in the acknowledgements, I’m so grateful to everyone who contributed to this in ways big and small. Special thanks to @afabregastejeda.bsky.social who went far above the call of duty by carefully reading and commenting on the entire thing!

Back on social media after a long hiatus! Been a little busy ;) Just submitted this, defence will be mid November!

I'm thrilled to share my latest article at the EJPS! I assess the potential & limitations of aligning notions of 'research environments' with biological concepts of environment to try to grasp the socio-material contexts in & through which science happens 👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsci

I was so happy to be invited to contribute to this! It’s the most historical piece I’ve written to date, on the largely forgotten prehistory of the cybernetic account of teleology. Can’t wait to read the other chapters. Thank you to Alejandro and the other edits for their amazing and fast work!

Well that took forever. But I finally finished my three-part essay on Stephen Jay Gould and punctuated equilibria. In Part 3: why did Gould change his mind about key features of evolution around 1977? Read to find out: www.extinctblog.org/extinct/2023...

"We get this instinct that true science must start from a firm foundation. Time and again, that's what I see NOT happening in the practice of science. We start from where we stand. The foundation is never indubitable, the foundation is provisional." Hasok Chang in our latest ep. Out Now! #PhiSci 🧪

Hot off the presses: The latest Minnesota Studies volume edited by myself, William Bausman, and Oliver Lean! cla.umn.edu/mcps/publica...

Very excited that my long-time collaborator & friend @charbelelhani.bsky.social found his way to Bluesky. Follow him for an exciting mix of philosophy of biology, science education, pragmatism, ethnobiology, and intercultural philosophy :)

Huge congratulations to Dr. Alejandro, who never ceases to be a source of inspiration and support for many of us!!

I finally found time this afternoon to take a good look at Greg Radick’s Disputed Inheritance. What a magnificent book. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

#FossilFriday here's an amazingly intact, vertically preserved tree trunk from Pennsylvanian Carboniferous of Cape Breton. I believe it's a Lycopsid, but correct me. Almost feels like walking into a forest c. 315 million yrs ago. Time is preserved in so many different ways in stratigraphic record⏳⚒️

Join us this Thursday for the next talk in the ROTO lecture series! Alkistis Elliott-Graves (Bielefeld University) will discuss the epistemic success criteria of "applied predictions" in ecological research. Please register in this link 👇 rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture... #PhilSci #HPBio

Very glad to have contributed to this wonderful volume on New Perspectives on Classical German Philosophy with Andrea Gambarotto!

📣Excited to welcome the flagship organization for #philsci the Philosophy of Science Association (PSA) to Bsky! 📣 @philsci.bsky.social Follow them for updates about philosophy of science, PSA conferences, & their many initiatives. www.philsci.org/what_we_do.php #histsci #metasci 🧪#edusky #philsky

Sometimes #writing feels like the fast flow of a stream rushing through; you joyously swoop and catch the words before they slip past. Other times it is a geological labour, an accretionary gravel lag where you must take pick and place every pebble from out of the grit.

Hi, Bluesky!👋 We are ROTO or "The Return of the Organism in the Biosciences: Theoretical, Historical and Social Dimensions" research group at Ruhr University Bochum! Our work spans #philsci #philbio #histbio #histSTM #evobio & #philosophyofmedicine 👇 rotorub.wordpress.com We are excited to connect!

This sound like a fantastic new. paper from Miguel! Congratulations :)

Only 2 more days until Season 2 starts with a bang! An awesome ep with the fab @rachelankeny.bsky.social discussing scientific change and research repertoires #philsci #histsci #sts

A Bluesky quick primer 🧵 for recent arrivals: 1. check default settings -- they set to min threshold likes before see in feed-- can change to show all.

Welcome Josh! @josheisenthal.bsky.social He's a historian & philosopher of science-esp physics working on Einstein Papers @ Caltech Primer bsky.app/profile/alis... Follow Philosophy of Science Feed picks up #philsci bsky.app/profile/did:... History of Science #histsci bsky.app/profile/did:...

Great book! Great thread!