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We invite you to submit a proposal for our special issue "The Human Diversity Dilemma: Navigating the Intersection of Microbiomes, Ethics and Society in Africa" to appear at the South African Journal of Science. Find the call here 👉
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Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼♀🎶🥾
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“Colleges and universities must not relinquish their constitutional rights to Trump’s authoritarianism...In America, the president should not get to decide what professors can teach, what research is conducted or who universities can enroll.” Stand up for the 1st amendment, colleges & universities!
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Microbes.Info
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A high-protein
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A high-protein diet can defeat cholera infection, according to study
Cholera, a severe bacterial infection that causes diarrhea and kills if untreated, can be defeated with a diet high in protein, according to a new study from UC Riverside.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-01-high-protein-diet-defeat-cholera.html
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Center for PhilSci
12 days ago
Our director, Edouard Machery has just published a new on book on the concepts of health and disease. You can download it for free for two weeks at
https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/health-and-disease/275DD294A0657AE0A4E12B710677A051
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ROTO Research Group
12 days ago
For the first lecture in 2026, we welcome Libby O'Neil (Mississippi State University) in our ROTO Lecture Series. In her talk next Monday, Libby will speak about boundary crossings in 20th century science. Just register here to participate 👉
rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture...
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Vivette García Deister
12 days ago
Latin America’s 'cyborg methods' turn digital precarity into invention—where scientists hack tools, pirate data, and forge collaborative workarounds amidst infrastructural scarcity across five Southern countries. 🦾👾
@tapuya.org
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Brian D. Earp, PhD
12 days ago
New paper 🚨 US Laws Restricting Medical Care for Transgender Minors: Statutory Inconsistencies Involving Intersex and Other Individuals
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Santiago Ginnobili
about 2 months ago
El aniquilamiento científico -
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El aniquilamiento científico
La baja de los proyectos de investigación
https://www.pagina12.com.ar/2025/12/08/el-aniquilamiento-cientifico/
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Timothy Harvie
about 2 months ago
A great little piece on the depiction of the human in raced/gendered/linear ways in evolutionary education at the 100th anniversary of the Scopes trial.
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Is Our Picture of Evolution Still Stuck in the Past?
We may have ditched the monkey-to-man meme, but the myth of humans as nature’s “pinnacle of evolution” persists in subtler ways.
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/is-our-picture-of-evolution-still-stuck-in-the-past/
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Climate, Ecology, War & More - Dr Glen Barry BigEarthData.ai
about 2 months ago
New report warns of mounting planetary crises - and pathways to hope
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New report warns of mounting planetary crises - and pathways to hope
A global U.N. report released Dec. 9 warns that the planet is on track for deeper climate shocks, accelerating biodiversity loss, worsening land degradation and deadly pollution — unless countries drastically transform how economies are powered, fed and governed. The...
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/12/new-report-warns-of-mounting-planetary-crises-and-pathways-to-hope/
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Awesome news! Congratulations🌱🌱🌱
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Microbes.Info
about 2 months ago
#Mushrooms
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Fungi proposed as solution to New Hampshire pollution - Valley News
Angela Graves proposes using fungi to clean up forever chemical contamination in Merrimack, N.H. as an experimental and natural solution.
https://vnews.com/2025/12/06/mycoremediation-pfoa-contamination-solution/
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Philipp Hölzing
about 2 months ago
Linda Martín Alcoff widmet sich in ihrem brillanten Buch der Genealogie des Rassismus und seinen Erscheinungsformen in der Gegenwart. Ausgehend vom Kolonialismus durchdenkt sie die komplexen Beziehungen zwischen rassifizierten Identitäten, Geschichte und Kultur neu. Out now!
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Leeds Centre for the History and Philosophy of Science
about 2 months ago
Special issue of Osiris Our postdoc Elisabeth Yang and her fellow co-editors, Andrea Graus and Violeta Ruiz, are thrilled to see the final publication of our special issue of Osiris: The Histories of Science and Childhoods. Featured are articles written by an array of brilliant scholars! Stay…
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Special issue of Osiris
Our postdoc Elisabeth Yang and her fellow co-editors, Andrea Graus and Violeta Ruiz, are thrilled to see the final publication of our special issue of Osiris: The Histories of Science and Childhoods. Featured are articles written by an array of brilliant scholars! Stay tuned!
https://hpsleeds.wordpress.com/2025/12/08/special-issue-of-osiris/
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Sonja van Wichelen
about 2 months ago
Applications open for Ischia Summer School! Confirmed faculty: Daryn Lehoux (Queen’s), Dániel Margócsy (Cambridge), He Bian (Princeton), Patrick Anthony (Uppsala), Alison Bashford (UNSW), Hannah Landecker (UCLA), Edna Suárez-Díaz (UNAM), Sabina Leonelli (TUM)
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About the school - Ischia Summer School on the History of the Life Sciences
Ischia 2013 Summer School on the History of the Life Sciences: About the summer school.
https://ischiasummerschool.org/
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Chantal James
about 2 months ago
It's not eugenics, it's just *gives the definition of eugenics*
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Michael Erard
about 2 months ago
From April. But you might have missed it.
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In praise of history’s famous first words
While death-bed utterances are more famous, baby’s first words have influenced us too.
https://bigthinkbooks.substack.com/p/in-praise-of-historys-famous-first
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Catherine Herfeld
about 2 months ago
💥 The new issue of the Royal Economic Society Newsletter (
@resmedia.bsky.social
) is out. It contains a short summary of my forthcoming book Conversations on Rational Choice (starting on page 4).
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ROTO Research Group
about 2 months ago
Next week, we welcome
@rebeccasear.bsky.social
in our Lecture Series. Rebecca will talk about 21st century eugenics, scientific racism and the role of academia in promoting political ideology. Just register here to participate 👉
rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture...
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Marina Joubert
about 2 months ago
Attending
#WCSJ2025
in Pretoria or online? We need your insights on the future of
#scijourn
and
#scicomm
. Please take the survey here ➤
survey.ifkw.lmu.de/wcsj2025/
Led by Prof Lars Guenther (LMU Munich) & Prof Marina Joubert (Stellenbosch University). Thank you
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Media and Epidemics
about 2 months ago
Join Amelia Bonea and Irina Nastasa-Matei online on Thursday 4th December (7pm-8pm CET) to discuss their Manchester University Press book Negotiating Invisibility:
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We invite you to submit a proposal for our special issue "The Human Diversity Dilemma: Navigating the Intersection of Microbiomes, Ethics and Society in Africa" to appear at the South African Journal of Science. Find the call here 👉
sajs.co.za/call-human-d...
#philsci
#philsky
#HPS
#hpbio
#histsci
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HUGERA
about 2 months ago
Dr. Yasmin Haddad (Postdoctoral Fellow at UQAM) continues our online speaker series with the talk "When imprecision is a bad thing: the case of ancestry" on December 2nd. You can register to attend via zoom here:
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Lucia C. Neco (Luba)
5 months ago
[NEW PAPER] In "Beyond Dichotomies", I challenge the false dichotomy between subjectivity and objectivity in human social relationships. I show how they are both biological and social, using kinship research as an example. I’d love to hear your thoughts!
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#Anthropology
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Beyond Dichotomies: Embracing an Integrated Approach to Social Relationships | Philosophy of Science | Cambridge Core
Beyond Dichotomies: Embracing an Integrated Approach to Social Relationships
https://doi.org/10.1017/psa.2025.10138
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Microbes.Info
about 2 months ago
Unveiling the global
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Unveiling the global urban virome through wastewater metagenomics - Nature Communications
Wastewater-based surveillance tends to focus on specific pathogens. Here, the authors mapped the wastewater virome from 62 cities worldwide to identify over 2,500 viruses, revealing city-specific…
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65208-x
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METIS research group
about 2 months ago
🚨CFA for the XIV PBCS that will be held at UNED (Madrid) 18-19 June 2026, where several of our METIS members are part of the organisation committee: Losner Briones (
@losnerbriones.com
), Jorge Ramos (
@jsramos.bsky.social
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King's Global Affairs
about 2 months ago
New Blog Post🆕 From pandemics to probiotics, the history of microbial research goes beyond Louis Pasteur and the lab. Explore the history of it and how it can shape future research 🦠🔬
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Rethinking Microbial Histories: Beyond Pasteur and the Lab
In an age when microbes are once again at the centre of global attention - whether through pandemics, probiotics or planetary health - rethinking their histories is more than an academic exercise.
https://open.substack.com/pub/kingsglobalaffairs/p/rethinking-microbial-histories-beyond
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📣 Our second call for abstracts for our special issue is out! 🙌 If you work on the intersection of human microbiomes, ethics and society in Africa, this call is for you! Check it out there:
sajs.co.za/call-human-d...
If not, you can still spread the message widely!
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Ryan Randall
2 months ago
This storyline has been old for decades, yet it seems like every day there's another new installment.
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Microbes.Info
2 months ago
#Nature's
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How life first got moving: Nature's motor from billions of years ago
Research led by the University of Auckland has cast light on the evolutionary origins of one of nature's first motors, which developed 3.5 billion to 4 billion years ago to propel bacteria.
https://phys.org/news/2025-11-life-nature-motor-billions-years.html
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Sarah Cohodes
3 months ago
📣 New NBER Working Paper out today 📣 "The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct" Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
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Susana Monsó
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My book Playing Possum has been nominated in its German edition for 'Science book of the year' (Wissenschaftsbuch des Jahres)! Please kindly vote for it if you think it deserves to win 😇
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Wissenschaftsbuch des Jahres
Die Wahl zum Wissenschaftsbuch des Jahres
https://www.wissenschaftsbuch.at/
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Naomi Oreskes
3 months ago
This is crazy
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Large Language Models Often Know When They Are Being Evaluated
https://arxiv.org/html/2505.23836v2
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Charbel El-Hani presenting
@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social
Descartes Colloquium with awesome comments from Jonas Torrens
@utrechthps.bsky.social
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Kenneth Becker
4 months ago
Fungi may have been shaping Earth’s ecosystems far earlier than we thought. New fossil-calibrated timelines show their ancestors branching off between 1.4 and 0.9 billion years ago, long before plants appeared.
#Fungi
#Evolution
#Paleobiology
#EarthHistory
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The billion-year reign of fungi that predated plants and made Earth livable
Fungi may have shaped Earth’s landscapes long before plants appeared. By combining rare gene transfers with fossil evidence, researchers have traced fungal origins back nearly a billion years earlier ...
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/10/251001092208.htm
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Warwick Anderson
4 months ago
Interesting confirmation (and specification) of the role of autoimmunity in ALS published yesterday in Nature, open access. Still, not enough attention is given to the contributions of autoimmunity in disease causation.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Autoimmune response to C9orf72 protein in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis - Nature
An analysis of T cell responses in people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis shows that the C9orf72 antigen is a key target of autoimmune responses in the disease, and identifies C9orf72 epitopes that are recognized.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09588-6
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It is so inspiring to listen to world cafe insights and see them taking shape in the incredible art of Caileigh Pentz 😍
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ROTO Research Group
4 months ago
Amazing talk by
@msimang.bsky.social
at the "Human Diversity Dilemma" Workshop (
@localmicrobes.bsky.social
), Cape Town! Check out this great infographic on shifting racial classif. in South Africa 17-21C by
@tessamuldvarp.bsky.social
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figshare.com/articles/fig...
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We are excited to have Jan Baedke from
@roto-rub.bsky.social
in our interdisciplinary workshop. Join online!
perspectivesrace.wixsite.com/the-human-di...
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Starting with an exciting talk from Exodia Setati on the landscape of microbiome research in Africa
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Great news! Our workshop will also be streamed online! Join us this Wednesday morning from 8:30 by following the link available here:
perspectivesrace.wixsite.com/the-human-di...
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4 months ago
📢 Come work in Bochum! - 3 year PostDoc Position in an edition and research project on Ernst F. Apelt - PhD in philosophy or history of science and very good German language skills required - PI: Prof. Helmut Pulte - Deadline: 6.10.25 All information here:
jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/d...
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Wissenschaftliche*n Mitarbeiter*in (m/w/d) in einem Editionsprojekt
https://jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/de3529f0873e862e1b79d22dcb4028ef5a5456620?ref=homepage
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Last days to register for The Human Diversity Dilemma workshop! Don't miss this great opportunity!
#hpbio
#histbio
#philbio🐋🌱
Register now!
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If you haven't registered yet, please do so before September 22nd!
#hpbio
#philbio
#histbio
🐋🌱 October 1st to 3rd, 2025 – Interdisciplinary Workshop in South Africa (Cape Town) – The Human Diversity Dilemma: Navigating the Intersection of Microbiomes, Ethics, and Society in Africa
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5 months ago
Very happy to get this in the mail today! Looks nice! 😀📖
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Submitted abstracts will be selected to appear in an interdisciplinary OA special issue in the South African Journal of Science!
sajs.co.za
🙌 Deadline: August 18th. Early career scholars accepted can request travel support to our writeshop in Cape Town!
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#phibio
#microbiome
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We got great news!
@ishpssb2025.bsky.social
gave us funding to support early career travel to our event in October! Deadline for abstract submission is extended until Aug 18. Don't miss this chance!
#phibio
#hps
#microbiome
#philsci
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Such a fun an intense time
@ishpssb2025.bsky.social
with
@nmorar.bsky.social
@utrechthps.bsky.social
Thanks for the amazing discussion!
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Our confirmed speakers for the workshop "The Human Diversity Dilemma" include Jantina de Vries, Marina Joubert @marinajoubert.bsky.social, Phila Msimang
@msimang.bsky.social
, Tessa Moll
@tessamuldvarp.bsky.social
Evodia Setati. Check our exciting program! 👇🦠 💗
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Lynn Chiu
6 months ago
At the
#Rudolphina
editorial desk, we're quite excited about Sarah Davies' new
#STS
book on strategies for living in a technoscience world. Enjoy our interview-- and learn more about her recommended reads for this summer!
#RudolphinaReads
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