Happy #WorldOceanDay ! 🐠 🌊🤿 💙 (video from my youngest son Kai snorkeling in Roatán, Honduras last year) (alt: underwater video of a clear blue sea with vibrant coral reef & fish)

The Trans*Formations: Gender Euphoria event on Sunday June 7th looks amazing! organized by @upsalon.bsky.social @univie.ac.at, it has an incredible line-up of talks, performances, music acts, food, and film screening. upsalon.univie.ac.at/events/detai...

New to @univie.ac.at? Subscribe to our research magazine's newsletter to receive round-ups of each semester's big question-- the #Semesterfrage. rudolphina.univie.ac.at/en/newslette...

The @rad-institute.bsky.social fellowship is ending and the birds are leaving the nest (though some of us are staying for the summer). May has been a month of utter denial. This has been my personal Magic Mountain with the most fun, kind, intellectually stimulating & creative people. Transformative.

28.000 Menschen in Wien bei Demonstration gegen Budgetkürzungen der Universitäten. Ein starkes Signal an die Politik. @cemess.bsky.social @microbesplanet.bsky.social @univie.ac.at #unisretten

#UnisRetten: Zukunft lässt sich nicht einsparen‼️✊ Gemeinsam auf die Straße gehen und ein Zeichen setzen -gegen die geplanten Einsparungen und für Qualität in Lehre & Forschung, für Chancengerechtigkeit & Zukunftsfähigkeit! 📅: 27. Mai, 13 Uhr 📍: Hauptgebäude Uni Wien www.univie.ac.at/aktuelles/un...

Future of the public university at stake here. #UnisRetten demonstration organized by the Universities Alliance of Austria against draconic budget cut plans.

Die menschliche Geburt gilt häufig als einzigartig schwierig und gefährlich. Forschungen an der Universität Wien zeigen nun, dass viele andere Säugetiere – von Haustieren bis zu wild lebenden Arten – mit ähnlichen Geburtsproblemen und Sterblichkeit konfrontiert sind. Mehr dazu: ⤵️

Unis rufen zu Demos gegen Kürzungen auf‼️ Die Unis befürchten Einsparungen von einer Mrd. Euro im #Budget. Rektorensprecherin Brigitte Hütter sprach bei einer Pressekonferenz von einem "Supergau" für Unis, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. Rektor Schütze sprach von enormen Schaden für die Reputation. ⤵️

Playing with @altmetric.com explorer because @univie.ac.at has a subscription. Wanna know what the top 2 articles are (since 2025 Jan)? Papers about the distribution of dogs and the distribution of cats.

What I like about this wonderful review by Nicole Grunstra: it shows that the two tradeoffs dealt with by the obstetrical dilemma (bipedalism vs big heads) are just two of many more in the mammalian kingdom. www.univie.ac.at/en/news/pres...

When species are subjected to changing environments, they can survive in their current location through genetic adaptation. #univie Biomathematician @polejit.bsky.social shows that, even when environmental change is only gradual, there is a tipping point beyond which adaptation can suddenly fail. ⤵️

5 PhD positions in @univie.ac.at's new interdisciplinary research platform Trustworthy Science Communication. Areas include communication science, STS and health psychology. Apply by 14 May to join our amazing team. More info: sci-comm.univie.ac.at/phd-positions #PhDLife #PhDJobs #BehSci #SciComm

We (with @dornhaus.bsky.social) finally wrote up our class on how to teach modeling to biologists, which ends up being a non-trivial exercise in understanding the roles that theory plays in the scientific method. We hope others will use our class, or simply enjoy the manuscript!

Excited that this has officially come out! Smith et al. (including @joannamasel.bsky.social ): "Why are there so many definitions of fitness in models?" academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...

Communication from the US health authority fuels scepticism about vaccines & #science 💉 The CDC, under pressure from the Trump administration, changed its official website communication on #vaccinations & autism. The results: decreased trust in health authorities & 📉 willingness to get vaccinated. ⤵️

“The story of work is to a great extent the history of humankind,” writes historian Jan Lucassen in the introduction to his monumental Story of Work. “But what exactly do we mean by work?”

🚨 #Fulbright Visiting Professorship of #SocialSciences at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Vienna - Call for Applications is now open! 👉 U.S. scholars may apply by 15 September 2026 @univie.ac.at

I got to experience the sweat and tears and joy of multitudes tonight, at the @univie.ac.at #LNF26 Long Night of Research science stations! Scientists, #scicomm-ers, students put an extraordinary amount of hard work into communicating research to the public. And the results were amaze amaze amaze!

The exact minute I get home from the "dancer against cancer" ball, with my friend who's gone through so much, I receive really bad news from another friend, who's now going to go down a challenging path as well. Fuck cancer.

Pretty sure the report says that American universities that are like Yale bear significant responsibility. It also says that Yale is not at all representative of what American colleges are actually like, only what American colleges are portrayed to be like in national media outlets.

Guess who's back Back again Guess who's back, guess who's back, guess who's back... @kli.ac.at

New paper from our #microbiome powerhouse at the @univie.ac.at. #stress www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Philosophers of science/physics and physicists alike would find Caslav Brukner's essay (downloadable via the link below) of exceptional interest. He points out the problems with ontologically reifying the wave function as about a literal physical wave and what physicists should learn from this.

What's in my bag (at the moment)

If you're excited about science writing and can do it in both German and English, come work with us! www.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/or... This #freelance position at our editorial office offers a wonderful experience for those interested in getting into multiple areas of #comms #scicomm work. #job

It is probably insane to admit this, but for the first time in my research career, I am writing and reading with sheer, steady joy.

Noticed this in others before, but experiencing it for the first time myself. Anger is a powerful drive for writing, and maybe critical for getting philosophical work done. Oh boy, with this fire I so definitely will find the time to write.

If not for the institutional memory stored in one of our senior colleagues' heads, we wouldn't have realized that the proposed April Fool's joke had already been made 10 years ago.

Back for the love of the game.

"We don't have solid evidence that social media or smartphones are harmful to teens' mental health — and that's not for a lack of looking. This remains a controversial and contested area of social science, and policies like social media bans are definitely getting ahead of the available evidence." 👨‍🔬

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While thinking about self-censorship when it comes to reporting about sensitive topics in the context of university communications, a colleague forwarded me @vdeminstitute.bsky.social's graph of the week, which just happens to be about media self-censorship in Austria. v-dem.net/weekly_graph...

📣 Call for Applications: The University of Vienna invites applications for more than 40 fully funded doctoral positions across a broad range of disciplines in Life Sciences and Natural Sciences. 👨‍🔬👩‍🔬 #PhDSky #PhD #univie 📅 Application period: 2 March – 27 March 2026, 12:00 CET More information: ⤵️

wow wow wow! a new book from Giuseppe Longo! came out this Jan. Longo is amazing. this is an instant must read for me. tagging @neuroyogacara.bsky.social jic, bc bio complexity & great stuff on how to think re computation. www.upress.umn.edu/978151792050...

I am happy to share this article, entitled "The importance of Biological Theory". It is my inaugural editorial as the new Editor-in-Chief of @biologicaltheory.bsky.social . In these complex and challenging times, theory is more important now than ever. Enjoy! doi.org/10.1007/s137...

Tom Van Dooren and I are organising a symposium on "Advances in theoretical evo-devo" at the next Euro Evo Devo meeting in Glasgow. Invited speakers: @n-martin.bsky.social, Nayely Vélez-Cruz, Thomas Hansen & Günter Wagner. Consider submitting an abstract, now open! www.evodevoconference26.com

🗓️ Save the dates! Join our Spring-Summer 2026 KLI Colloquium series! www.kli.ac.at/content/en/e... We kick off the series on March 12, with Carrie Figdor (University of Iowa) on biological modality and its role in psychology.

🏵️ We are happy to welcome our new Visiting Fellow Denis Walsh! www.kli.ac.at/content/peop... Denis is a philosopher of science/biology (University of Toronto) and will work on his project “‘The Being of Living Beings’: A metaphysics for agency” at the KLI.

Happy World Book Day! Book-writing philosophers, do tell us what your current book project is about... #philsky

Hot take: the hippocampus isn't actually "evolutionarily ancient" and its not helpful to think of it as such. The full argument for this take is right here (but you need to scroll down to sections 5-6): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

It has been argued that what sets model organisms apart from other experimental 🐋🌱 is their high representational power. In our latest 📃, we argue otherwise: the hallmark of MOs lies in the dimensions of modeling versatility they afford to scientists 👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsci #HPS

Looking very much forward to the upcoming special exhibition at the Wien Museum, one of my favorite museums in Vienna! This one will be about the construction of the then-controversial Danube Island, which separates the old and new Danubes. www.wienmuseum.at/donauinsel_2...

Directional dynamics coming from physics itself! www.univie.ac.at/en/news/deta... Original paper: journals.aps.org/prx/abstract...

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

I had the great pleasure to interview @mattminich.bsky.social, a new #APARTUSA postdoc at @univie.ac.at, for our #Rudolphina research magazine. Thank you, Matt, and welcome to UniWien!

📣 We are pleased to announce the call for nominations for the Lakatos Award 2027! Deadline: 1 September 2026. 📚 Submit in your nominations for the best monograph in the philosophy of science! More information: www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/n... #PhilSci #Lakatos #LSEPhilosophy #Philosophy

Oh wise elders, teach me the way to walk and knit, so as to stay industrious during my commutes.

The find promises new insights into one of the most famous ideological transitions in the history of science: the moment when Earth was thrust from the center of our universe. Cool story by @joshuasokol.bsky.social for @science.org

Schrödinger’s Equation Turns 100 🎉 On 27 Jan. 1926, the journal Annalen der Physik received Schrödinger’s manuscript for the first of his four papers on “Quantisation as an Eigenvalue problem”. 🐈 Follow the journey from the original papers to the laboratories & technologies shaping the next century.