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Research group "Microbiome research and race in the 'Local South'" based @Utrecht University
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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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Chantal James
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It's not eugenics, it's just *gives the definition of eugenics*
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Michael Erard
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From April. But you might have missed it.
bigthinkbooks.substack.com/p/in-praise-...
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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
4 days 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
5 days 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...
#PhilSci
#HPBio
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Marina Joubert
4 days 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
@wcsj2025.bsky.social
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Media and Epidemics
4 days 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:
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/events/book-...
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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
10 days 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:
hugera.org/lecture-seri...
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Lucia C. Neco (Luba)
3 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!
#PhilSci
#Anthropology
#PhilSky
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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
5 days ago
Unveiling the global
#urban
#virome
through
#wastewater
#metagenomics
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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
5 days 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
) and Cristian Saborido. More info:
sites.google.com/view/xivpbcs...
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King's Global Affairs
8 days 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!
#histbio
#philbio🐋🌱
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https://sajs.co.za/call-human-diversity-dilemma
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Ryan Randall
18 days 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
23 days ago
#Nature's
motor from billions of years ago ... |
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@sciencex.bsky.social
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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
26 days 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
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This is crazy
arxiv.org/html/2505.23...
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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
#hps
#philbio
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Kenneth Becker
2 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
🧪🍄🍄🟫 Paper
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
2 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 😍
#hps
#hpb
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ROTO Research Group
2 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
and Phila:
figshare.com/articles/fig...
#hpbio
#philsky
#race
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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...
2 months ago
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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...
2 months ago
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ROTO Research Group
3 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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ROTO Research Group
3 months ago
Very happy to get this in the mail today! Looks nice! 😀📖
#philsci
#HPS
#hpbio
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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!
#hps
#phibio
#microbiome
#philsci
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4 months ago
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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!
5 months ago
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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
5 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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Robert Kowalenko
5 months ago
This is excellent Best piece on AI and education and the humanities I have read yet
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Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence?
By New York Times -D. Graham Burnett - May 24, 2025. (Article in book format) – (Fox News Video) Maybe not as we’ve known them. But, in the ruins of the old curriculum, something vital is stirring....
https://human-synthesis.ghost.io/2025/05/25/will-the-humanities-survive-artificial-intelligence/
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ROTO Research Group
5 months ago
Join us Monday at 4pm (CET) for our last Reading Group session in this semester, discussing "Citizen science from the margins: Epistemologies of ignorance in the movement of women with endometriosis in Mexico" by Julieta Piña-Romero. Just email jan.baedke[at]rub.de to participate!
#PhilMed
#PhilSci
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Epistemic injustice in health care! Join this exciting talk!👇
#HPBio
#PhilMed
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Microbes.Info
5 months ago
#Microbes
can actually be a help around the
#house
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#plants
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#pets
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#bacteria
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#home
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@sandiegouniontribune.com
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Good germs? Microbes can actually be a help around the house
Plant parents, take note: They help your home’s microbiome, the good-for-you bacteria
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/06/21/good-germs-microbes-can-actually-be-a-help-around-the-house/
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ROTO Research Group
6 months ago
Next week, we welcome Daniel Whistler (University of London) in our ROTO Lecture Series. Dan will speak about Agnes Arber and her thoughts on the dangers of morphological method. Just register here to participate 👉
rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture...
#HPBio
#PhilSci
#HistSci
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ROTO Research Group
6 months ago
Out now (print and open access!): Jan Baedke’s Element on “The Organism” at @cambridgeup.bsky.social . It discusses philosophical, historical and social dimensions of the organism concept.
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
#philsci
#philsky
#HPS
#hpbio
#histsci
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Save the date! Interdisciplinary Workshop: The Human Diversity Dilemma: Navigating the Intersection of Microbiomes, Ethics, and Society in Africa
#hpbio
#histbio
#philbio
🌱🐋 Check the Call for Abstracts for our special issue on our website:
perspectivesrace.wixsite.com/the-human-di...
6 months ago
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This week, we are super happy 🤩 to share Aline Potiron’s publication on the measurement of biodiversity in microbial ecology.
#philbio
#hpbio
#histbio
🐋🌱 Check it out!
doi.org/10.1007/s131...
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Beyond the microscope: Rethinking microbial diversity measurement with the model-based account - European Journal for Philosophy of Science
Measuring diversity in microbial ecology and microbiome studies is fraught with challenges, rendering the assessment of its “real-world” value nearly impossible. The instability of taxonomic classific...
https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194-025-00660-6
6 months ago
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Tomorrow at 3:30 CET, we will have our reading group! We will read: Sumrall, Laura, and Maureen A O’Malley. “Conceptual Parallels: Microbiome Research and Ancient Medicine.” Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 67, no. 3 (2024): 406–23.
doi.org/10.1353/pbm....
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ROTO Research Group
7 months ago
Next week, we welcome
@elisj.bsky.social
(TU Munich) in our ROTO Lecture Series. He will ask "What is normal?" and talk about shifting baselines in biology. Just register via this link to participate:
rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture...
🦓
#HPBio
#PhilSci
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Great talk! 🦠#HPBio
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7 months ago
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ISHPSSB2025
7 months ago
📣2nd call for
#ISHPSSB2025
travel grants open until May 15, 2025! Information here:
ishpssb2025.icbas.up.pt/registration...
#philsci
#hpbio
#histSTM
#histsci
#philbio
#hbio
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Travel support
https://ishpssb2025.icbas.up.pt/registration/travel-support/
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ROTO Research Group
7 months ago
Our group did a little excursion today before lunch to see the giant Titan Arum (Amorphophallus titanum) in full bloom at the botanical garden here in Bochum 🌺 It only blooms once every few years for 1-2 days, so this was quite the botanical spectacle. 😍
#Botany
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Our favorite philosopher Aline Potiron is presenting her work next Monday 12 May at 16 CET
@roto-rub.bsky.social
You can't miss this talk!
#HPBio
#PhilSci
#HistSci
🦠💗🐋🌱We are so lucky to have her
@utrechthps.bsky.social
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