Another great paper on phenomenology and science by @themispant.bsky.social and @haraldwiltsche.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Flexibility is the hallmark of human evolution. If humans evolved, as I believe, by neoteny, then we are, in a more than metaphorical sense, permanent children. | Gould

Dissertation defended! Feeling very grateful for all the support from my committee, colleagues, friends, and family

It is publication day for The Organism-Environment Pairing (@mitpress.bsky.social)! This 📗 has been deeply formative for me as a scholar, and it owes so much to so many wonderful people. I truly hope it finds many readers! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205282... #booksky #philsci #histsci #philsky #evosky

This is a good book. I’ve been having a bunch of fun reading it. If you want to be a “left-Aristotelian,” it’s a must read!

What are your laws and systems compared with a bird that knows how to build its nest and fills the warm summer nights with songs? Or compared with a flower, or in comparison with the world that forms in and around a flowering tree? | von Arnim

It's Karl Marx's Birthday today (He'd be 208). And by a happy coincidence, it's also the publication day of my book, Flourishing Together Karl Marx's Vision of the Good Society. academic.oup.com/book/62523

We're very happy to announce a new lecture series organized by Sergei Shevchenko. It reconsiders Soviet biology as a science of life changing together with its milieu. The four lectures take place online via zoom in May and June. Information and registration 👉 rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture...

The blank between life and death does not come in place of an and or an is. | Derrida

I wrote for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social about Kathryn Paige Harden's new book, an attempt to popularize the eugenics of criminality. I read it as a gambit to build liberal support for the project animating far right politics today, inspired by Replacement theory.

@karenkyng.bsky.social reviewing @vcwills.bsky.social 's Marx's Ethical Vision ( @academic.oup.com ) for Constellations. bit.ly/41KTpPi

You can still register for tomorrow's talk in our Lecture Series: rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture... Alejandra Petino Zappala will talk about canalization, stabilizing selection and evolution. It's a hybrid talk, so come around if you're at RUB! If not, see you on zoom!🤗 #HistSci #PhilSci #HPBio

The Organism-Environment Pairing will be published in exactly two weeks by @mitpress.bsky.social ! I am so excited to share it with everyone! If you spot copies in the wild, please do let me know, as I would love to see them! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205282... #philsky #HPS #evosky #boosky #histsci 🌱🐋

My paper on metabolic rift is out in @histmat.bsky.social! The piece develops the notion of self-consciousness implicit in the concept of rift. Against Moore & others, I argue that overcoming dualism requires accounting for human distinctiveness, not relinquishing it: brill.com/view/journal...

back to the basics

I was thrilled to read this great review of my book Death by Gordon McOuat in the JHB Thanks Gordon ! link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philbio #histbio #philsci #evobio #aging

Love only wants to change, not wither… it will hunt down what is excellent. | Günderrode

Join our KLI Colloquium: "A Metaphysics for Dialectical Biology" Speaker: Denis WALSH (University of Toronto) 🕒 16 April 2026, 3:00 PM CEST 🗺️ at KLI, join online via ZOOM (link & info: www.kli.ac.at/content/en/e...)

New semester, new lecture series 🎉Starting next week, we welcome amazing scholars to give online talks in the history and philosophy of life sciences. Find all dates and registration links here: rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture... We look forward to seeing you there 🤗 #HPBio #HistSci #PhilSci

Very proud to present our paper on the spectacular “dances” of Victoria’s riflebirds! Out now in Current Biology. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Qui Parle is inviting submissions for a special issue on renovations of humanism and new directions in the thematic of the subject. Please consider submitting, and share widely! I am coediting the issue, and would be happy to answer any questions.

the materialist reason for the collapse of German Idealism is the defeat of the 1848 revolutions

It was not German Idealism that collapsed, but it was the age that was no longer strong enough to stand up to the greatness, breadth, and originality of that spiritual world—that is, truly to realize it, which always means something other than merely applying propositions and insights. | Heidegger

New from the BJPS Review of Books The Organism – Jan Baedke Reviewed by Matthew Sims  www.thebsps.org/reviewofbook... #philsci #hpbio #philsky

Available now as part of the Oxford New Histories of Philosophy Series, my translations of & introductions to philosophical work by German Romantic writer Karoline von Günderrode (1780-1806): "Karoline von Günderrode: Philosophical Writings" global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Had a great time at @plaslaiko.bsky.social’s new record shop in Bellingham this week: Sunsets on Wax. Got some incredible records. If you like vinyl, it is well worth a visit

The origin of life depends on minerals, but the origin of minerals depends on life. | Hazen

Fun fact: Detroit house icon Norma Jean Bell is not only an incredible saxophonist, but also played in Zappa’s band in '75

Only insofar as it is at once subject and object for itself can the organism be the most original thing in Nature. | Schelling

It is indeed very admirable that each species of bird, through all the generations, retains a certain main song; and the tradition of the song may well be the most faithful in the world. | Kant

Stuart A. Newman, Sahotra Sarkar: Biology and Physics https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.11234 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.11234 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.11234

Alec Hinshelwood reacts to my Marx book academic.oup.com/cpe/advance-...

Back for the love of the game.

read Marx

This semester, we will be reading selected chapters from "Everything flows", edited by @djnicholson.bsky.social and John Dupré in our Reading Group. All interested are welcome to join us at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de (room NDEF04/346). If needed, we can also arrange hybrid meetings. #HPBio #PhDSky

CFP: Dialectics and Life (Marxism & Sciences, Issue 10) Main topics: organism–environment coupling, critical 4E cognition, social metabolism, dialectical approaches to modeling. Abstracts due 1 June 2026 👉 www.dialecticalsystems.eu/events/cfp-d...

Continuing to listen to David Levering Lewis's riveting biography of Du Bois. In today's chapter, Lewis suggested that Du Bois combined the voices of Sojourner Truth and Schopenhauer and I have not been able to think straight since. #DuBois #sojournertruth #blackhistory #schopenhauer #philsky

VIRALITY VITALITY brings deconstruction to the life sciences, showing how viruses unsettle the very concept of “life.” Drawing on Jacques Derrida, Jonathan Basile explores the unstable borders between virus and organism, self and other. #ACLA2026 #ReadUP tinyurl.com/c3h7j9uy

Welcome to the social media page of the International Philosophy of Biology Circle (IPBC) 🌐 Our aim is to foster an interdisciplinary forum for dialogue on the theoretical, conceptual, historical, and ethical dimensions of the life sciences. Visit our website to learn more: www.phil-bio-circle.org

📣 UK Kant Society: Andrew Cooper Essay Prize 2026 The UK Kant Society has announced a newly-named early career essay prize, in honour of the society's late executive committee member and friend, Andrew Cooper. The prize is £500. Deadline: 30 June 2026 More details 👇 bshp.org.uk/news/uk-kant...

Music resembles language in the sense that it is a temporal sequence of articulated sounds which are more than just sounds. They say something, often something human. The better the music, the more forcefully they say it. | Adorno

The title of this excellent article from Patrick Savage is spot on. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

RIP Éliane Radigue, visionary composer of electro-acoustic music, tape music, and drone

That we cannot tell what the human is does not establish a particularly majestic anthropology: it vetoes any anthropology. | Adorno

An epic Lot Radio debut from a good friend! #dissolve #ice

Excited to learn that Jessica Riskin has a timely reappraisal of Lamarck coming out soon.

We're happy to announce our 12th ROTO Workshop: "Diversity in Motion". It will be held on March 26-27 in Bochum. Please register here: rotoworkshop2026.wixsite.com/diversity/co... and tell us if you'll participate in person or online. Registration and participation is free and everybody is welcome!

I want to know what’s true about nature. It’s not that I do the politics and therefore I lay it on Nature. I have to be sure that Nature really allows that. | Lewontin

The interaction of natural bodies—both dead and living—comprises harmony as well as strife, struggle as well as co-operation. | Engels

Why should we read Henri Bergson's "Creative Evolution" today? There is more than just one reason, see my extended book review, just published in Mind: academic.oup.com/mind/advance... #Bergson #philosophy #philbio #ProcessPhilosophy #biology #science #HenriBergson