All-star workshop 'At the Intersection of Pragmatism, Scientific Realism and Cognitive Science' hpsleeds.wordpress.com/2025/12/08/w...

@extinctionleeds.bsky.social is an interdisciplinary doctoral training programme focusing on topics relating to extinction and its meanings, histories and legacies. Watch the whole🎬👉 media.leverhulme.ac.uk/video/extinc... @katatrepsis.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social

The BSPS is coming to Leeds! Get your symposia proposals in by Jan 14th www.thebsps.org/news/bsps-an...

The open access pdf has been out for a while but so much more exciting to hold the physical book in my hands!

@hpsleeds.bsky.social Today at 3.30 the Leeds Centre for HPS has Professor Rob Wilson delivering a talk: "Norming Human Individuality: The Significance of Eugenification". DM me to get the location or join link.

@leedsprhs.bsky.social Our vacancy for a Lecturer or Associate Professor in Social Philosophy has now been advertised: jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx.... Please spread the word! The closing date for applications is 5 Nov 2025.

The second seminar of the year is on Thursday, October 16 at 10am Eastern. @salazarafra.bsky.social + @ellenclarke.bsky.social Join us! internalconflictsstn.wordpress.com/seminars/

The Future of Practical Ethics IDEA The Ethics Centre, University of Leeds 8th - 10th September 2025 Keynote Speakers: • Clare Chambers (Cambridge) • Helen Frowe (Stockholm) • Elselijn Kingma (KCL) REGISTRATION NOW OPEN conferences.leeds.ac.uk/the-future-o...

Matt you were top among the biologists I had in mind when writing this book, so I’m delighted that you got plenty out of it!

“They don’t know what the fuck they’re doing.” First sensible thing I’ve heard him say.

The Units of Life: Kinds of Individual in Biology url:https://academic.oup.com/book/60068

Now available for preorder! The Paradox of the Organism: Adaptation and Internal Conflict, edited by me and Manus Patten, will be published by @harvardpress.bsky.social this fall. Cover coming soon.

This is an unmitigated disaster, for both trans rights and for science policy. If you are familiar with human sexual development you know “biological sex” is a strange tangle of factors and that our gender/sexual phenotypes are not discrete.

Doing this today

Quick! Deadline approaching!

Coming soon…..

How are people in the know receiving this scrap nhs England idea? Seems like a good thing?

Save the pandas, sure, but what about the worms in their guts?

See, it is possible to do this.

PhD funding available!

Fancy spending a couple of years in Leeds?

@salazarafra.bsky.social and Luca Soldini are bringing a symposium on selfish genetic elements and within-organism conflicts. Invited speakers @andygardner.bsky.so, Anna Lindholm, Daven Presgraves, @ellenclarke.bsky.social, Rafael Pinilla-Redondo, Takashi Akera, @tatianadimitriu.bsky.social (2/5)

Wow! Can Leeds have one please

I’m wondering if Steven Pinker is now rethinking his whole thing about the inexorability of moral progress?

My daughter thinks we need more nail varnish 🤯

Please spread the word as we have opened the call for @britishacademy.bsky.social International Fellowships which enable researchers to work for two years at a UK institution. If you fancy being away from your country right now this could be an option! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/inte...

Please tell me someone just hijacked the sound system 🤩

Watching #BBCnews special, waiting for Gisèle Pelicot's statement. Can’t help wondering how widespread this shit might be, who else it might be happening to. How do I protect my daughter? 😭

Philosophers of science - please submit your abstracts and symposium proposals for the British Society for Philosophy of Science 2025 Annual Conference, to be held in Glasgow 15-17 July! Symposium proposals due by 24 Jan, abstracts by 21 Feb. More info here: www.thebsps.org/annual-confe...

My excellent brother started a podcast about wellness fads open.spotify.com/episode/2VfG...

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Missing NOLA

Margerida Hermida on the Autonomy of Biology #PSA2024

Congratulations to newly minted Dr Davis on the successful defence of his thesis “What Should Conservation Aim For? Values and Objectivity in The Aims of Conservation”. Thanks to Chris Lean for examining!

Beautiful drawings in from Guido Prieto for my book

Beautiful drawings by Guido Prieto in for my book

My department is advertising a permanent position in philosophy of technology, widely construed. Background in phenomenology and/or philosophy of science and/or ethics of science is a plus. If you want to know more, feel free to contact me via [email protected]. liu.se/en/work-at-l...

Stage fright 😔 philosomama.blogspot.com/2024/10/conf...