Atmospheric CO₂ of 340 ppm

New on the Archive: Ross, Lauren N. (2026) Causal Explanation in Biology: A Control Element Account. [Preprint] https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/28496/

New on the Archive: Bocchi, Federica and Currie, Adrian (2026) Ecologies of the Past. [Preprint] https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27880/

Hey Bsky, I need some pretend data so I can write the dashboard for my class's first-day activity next week docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I cannot stress how just a few years ago what is happening with Grok and CSAM would have been a no question Kiss of Death for X. Musk would be legitimately looking at jail time, the company would be shutting down... The sheer PANIC that would have engulfed it... And today? Fucking crickets.

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

1/3 Gregor Mendel published his work on inheritance in 1866. Careful experiments, clear data, quantitative reasoning. His paper was read — and then ignored. ... For nearly 40 years. #SciencePolicy #SciComm #philsci #ScientificInnovation #ResearchInnovation #science 🧪 #biology

Osgiliath would be a beautiful name for a baby girl.

Merry Explaining How the Academic Job Market Is Going to Non-Academic Family Members Eve to all who celebrate!

Happy holidays! Today my paper "Turning Biodiversity Data into Evidence" is officially out on BioSocieties. This is the first paper of a special issue on Data Communities co-edited with Paola Castaño & Emma Cavazzoni. link.springer.com/article/10.1... Stay tuned for the other contributions!

Sweeping science cuts in 2025 halted clinical trials, erased public health data and forced researchers into impossible choices. “This year nearly broke me as a scientist,” one writes. Six researchers share their stories: buff.ly/u2MHIQo 🧪

Leotia viscosa (Green Jelly Babies aka Chicken Lips Fungus). A pretty uncommon find. #Newfoundland Canada #fungus #fungi #fungifriends #mushroom Specimen is about 2.5” high (6 to 7cm).

My new Gould paper is out today in Paleobiology (OA)! It is, in effect, a synthesis of some of my historical work on Stephen Jay Gould’s early career, which explores the curious position of punctuated equilibria in his early vision for evolutionary paleontology www.extinctblog.org/palaeonews/2...

The discovery of organisms that have been alive for many thousands of years requires a revolution in how we understand life. An Essay by @karenlloyd.bsky.social

🏺🎮 Forgot I actually wrote a bit about the franchise’s death tableaux a few years ago and its relation to real life archaeology. animalarchaeology.com/2018/09/10/f...

newly minted dr Perkins with very proud advisor prof Havstad ✨

Was the overturning of the Mound Builders mythology in the late 19th century a "triumph for science?" I argue, no, it wasn't, and that this narrative framing should be abandoned in my latest in the History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

New on the Archive: Perkins, TJ (2025) Mound builders, mound blunders: mythmaking in nineteenth century American archaeology. [Preprint] https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27349/