Some of you may know #philsci #philbio Subrena Smith, Prof of #philosophy at UNH. Her family in Jamaica lives in one of parishes hardest hit by Hurricane Melissa: Westmoreland. She & David are raising funds to support them w/ generators, supplies, truck water in to them, etc. Please donate if can!

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Join us for "How Science is Changing," a free interdisciplinary panel discussion! Scholars from across North America discuss the evolving nature of science. 🗓️ Nov 20th, 6 PM 📍 @cincymuseum.bsky.social w/ @philsci.bsky.social Free, open to all, parking included! RSVP: 🔗 forms.gle/3Ei7GM91LTmy...

Because plants move so slowly relative to human time scales, Darwin developed a diagrammatic system to make their movements more easily perspicuous to us. Below is a cartoon of the apparatus, and one of Darwin’s diagrams. 🧪🌱🐋 #philsci #HistSTM 🦋🦫

I'm so grateful to receive this gracious & thoughtful review of my book that I want to quote the whole thing, but I'll content myself w/ a screenshot and point you to the rest at doi.org/10.1558/jsrn... There is nothing better than hearing that you achieved the goals you set out to achieve. 🌱🐋 🌎 📗

If you know an undergrad that would like to spend the summer doing research in my philosophy of biology lab, encourage them to apply to the U’s SPUR program. Includes a $5,000 stipend and subsidized housing to work in my lab. Details and how to apply here: tinyurl.com/SPUR-PhilBio...

HAHR author Rick A. López discusses his research on the history of botany in Mexico with the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast. newbooksnetwork.com/rooted-in-pl...

New Element in the #PhilBio series—free to download until Nov 17! Is disease an objective biological fact or a value-laden construct? Peter Takacs argues for a hybrid view that unites both sides under an evolutionary notion of dysfunction👇 www.cambridge.org/core/element... #philsky #philsci #evosky

The thematic issue I co-edited with @javiersuarez.bsky.social "Complicating the Concept of Lineage" is online. Includes papers by Javier & @phieveigl.bsky.social, @lucielaplane.bsky.social, François Papale, Kate MacCord and me. See reply for links to articles: doi.org/10.1007/s137...

For anyone interested, new paperback of The Riddle of Organismal Agency, eds. Fábregas-Tejeda, Baedke, Prieto, Radick, is $11 less at Routledge than at Amazon, bn.com, has free shipping, and looks like it will arrive sooner. Don't know about other Routledge books. #hpbio.

Call for papers: Synthese Topical Collection "Meta-Level Reflections on the Scientific Realism Debate". Deadline: March 31, 2026. Guest editors: Matthias Egg, Mahdi Khalili & myself, @unibe.ch. Looking forward to your contributions! philevents.org/event/show/1... #philsci

New internship opportunity! The American Philosophical Society and CSHL invite applications for a joint summer internship program for undergraduates working on junior or senior research projects related to the history of the life sciences. More info here: apply.interfolio.com/174285

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o... (gift link)

What is it like #inside a #honeybee hive? You would see several parallel combs covered with workers, doing their jobs. It would be dark. This is a view, in red light, which we can see but bees cannot. From an installation at Gallery Project in Ann Arbor. #BlueSkyArtShow #insects #photography

New England Journal of Medicine & Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy (CIDRAP) to begin publishing “public health alerts” “...will basically serve to be a way to convey the info. that once was shared in the MMWR,” to be published in new section of NEJM Evidence as needed w/ free access🛟

Not #philbio, but could be of extra interest to some folks there (here).

New paper in @philscijournal.bsky.social! Sacha Ferrari, Wouter Lammers & Sylvia Wenmackers built an agent-based model to explore how the structure of scientific #networks shapes the public uptake of science—especially under uncertainty & affinity bias👇 doi.org/10.1017/psa.... #philsci #philsky #HPS

yoooooo does anyone have a PDF of - Julius Schaxel, Vergesellschaftung in der Natur. Jena: Urania, 1931. or institutional access? would love to get a better sense of what’s in the book!

New Element in the Philosophy of Biology series—free to download until Oct. 24! @djnicholson.bsky.social uncovers Schrödinger’s motivations for writing "What Is Life?", revisits its central arguments & examines the book’s lasting impact on cell & molecular biology👇 www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Check out the schedule of the online conference PSA Around the World Eastern Europe (pm of Nov 6,14,22). A collaboration between @philsci.bsky.social and @eenphilsci.bsky.social it showcases #philsci from, about, and otherwise connected to the region. Wonderful names and titles, looking forward!

With @eliamascolo.bsky.social we'll be presenting this project at the #EvoKE2025 conference in Athens🇬🇷 this November! Check out what the initiative is doing to promote the education and outreach of (biological) evolution in Europe! ➡️ @evokeproject.bsky.social

If you have any interest in theoretical biology, or an interest in some kind of engineering, computer science or machine learning that could be wedged sideways into a biology program, this: https://www.janelia.org/content/janelia-theory-fellow-program would be pretty fucking cool.

"This spring, I was offered the kind of job I had dreamed of for eight years in graduate school: a tenure-track position at an R1 university. I was set to start at Texas A&M University.... Last week, I withdrew from the appointment." (Paywalled--sorry.) #philsky www.chronicle.com/article/why-...

Juvenile songbirds acquire key life skills primarily from siblings and non-parent adults, with sibling influence surpassing that of parents in species with limited parental care. doi.org/g9578b

cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/content/cisa... In my new role at @stanfordcisac.bsky.social, I'm recruiting for a postdoc to define how benefits of risky research should be evaluated. w Tony Mills of @notredame.bsky.social . #philsci #biosecurity #scipolicy

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Two-year postdoc w/ Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science! Scholars in all areas of #philsci, inclusive of philosophical approaches to logic&math, are eligible. This is understood broadly to include issues in the history&practice of particular sciences.Deadline 5 Dec 2025. buff.ly/MhR4PcK

Interested in the social implications of genomics and its philosophical aspects? Our project has numerous activities coming up! Follow the blusky account to stay up-to-date. #philsky #STS #popgen #metascience #philsci #HPbio

Question for the #phylogenetics hive mind. What freely available phylogenetics programmes are out there that will work on iPads with morphological character based data? This is for a 200 level evolutionary biology lab working with bird skulls.

Ohio State just advised all staff and students not to attend the SACNAS (Society for the advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science) annual meeting of 6000+ scientists -- which is in Columbus, OH this year! -- saying it may be exclusionary, even though it is open to all.

Do you like theoretical biology, mathematical&conceptual modelling and want to apply yourself to cutting-edge research at all levels of biology, from molecules to ecosystems? Come to EMBL! Scope includes physics-based models, emergence, statistics, ML/AI embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

Mathematician Hilda Geiringer was born OTD 9/28/1893. In philosophy of science, best known for translating and adding to her husband Richard von Mises' books on probability and statistics, in biology for seminal work on genetic linkage. www.bbc.com/future/artic... #philsci #evobio #probability #math

And that's how you integrate digital elements into an exhibition. Part of the temporary "China's Dinosaur World" at the Shanghai Natural History Museum, China. Closing this November. Video source: Shanghai Let's Meet

Here's a simple classroom exercise to teach #history students to leverage two databases together, in this case old death certificates and digital newspapers. It works well but could use some refinement. #HistoryTeachers do you do anything similar? #AcademicSky #sschat docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Left unchecked, openAI and other infotech providers will destroy any remnants of the American education system that manage to escape the Trump administration. Read the full thread.

Just 2 weeks left to submit for 2025 Du Châtelet Prize in Philosophy of Physics Topic: Physics in the writings of women 1700-1900 Deadline: October 10, 2025, 11:59 PM GMT <10K words, blinded, unpublished; prize is open to grad students & scholars w/in 5 years of PhD www.duchateletprize.org #HPS

3 year PhD position at U of Copenhagen for a philosophical analysis of animal models in translational neuroscience. Those with MA in HPS, philosophy, anthropology, psychology, STS, etc. are welcome to apply. Application deadline is Oct 31 #HPS #STS employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...

New paper led by PhD student Elise Pletcher! Forecasts from simple, density-dependent population models are highly transferable to new sites. Adding env. covariates does little to improve prediction in-sample and worsens forecasts out-of-sample. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New Element in the Philosophy of Biology series—free to download until October 6! Walter Veit examines the role of models in evolutionary biology: their types, testability, and interrelations 👇📕 www.cambridge.org/core/element... #philsci #HPBio #evobio