Clearly fighting jetlag & a toddler that sings past midnight while trying to do some deep work, so of course, the mind fights back by wandering to other fun papers. Anyway, this chapter on public engagement & an ecological & equitable model of knowledge production is so beautifully written! #scicomm

Anyone who is Editor-in-Chief of a major journal for ten years deserves enormous appreciation for their service to the academic community. Thank you Stuart for your great work.

➡️New issue out!⬅️ Our special issue on "The Concept of Lineage in Biology" guest edited by Javier Suárez and Matthew Haber is now out. See everything in the December issue here: link.springer.com/journal/1375...

With the end of this year, Stuart Newman will step down from his role as Editor-in-Chief. We sincerely thank Stuart for his outstanding 10 years of service and dedication to Biological Theory! Read Stuart's Farewell Editorial: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The wonderful Kevin Lala is now the editor-in-chief of @biologicaltheory.bsky.social! He has very big shoes to fill, but I know that he also has very big feet himself! Thank you so much, Stuart (don't think he is on Bluesky) for maintaining such an important pillar of our ecosystem.

Please share widely! #ESTEEM #postdoc CFA: 20 positions for female scientists in natural sciences, life sciences, economics @univie.ac.at: careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e... To save you a click: PhD completed in 2022 or after (minus career interruption), defended by deadline #UniVienna

Doctorate SSH Call 2026! 40+ fully funded doctoral positions in the social sciences, humanities, and cultural studies @univie.ac.at #PhD #PhDposition #Phdsky Join and international research community at one of Europe’s leading universities & apply now ⬇️⬇️⬇️ careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/p...

Sociologist Katja Mayer explores in this video how digital technologies shape participation, power, and civic engagement. When systems start speaking for us, we risk becoming passive. #Democracy is not something we simply have, it is a skill that must be learned, practiced & renewed. #futureskills ⤵️

I experienced a terrifying (& terrific) developmental leap in my 2 yr old. She can be reasoned *out* of a tantrum. But with one person's modus ponens being another's modus tollens, I can totally see her firing back when she gains more vocab. This is going to be a very interesting terrible twos.

Reading the @theassc.bsky.social Jan newsletter! "call for all ASSC members who are curious, collaborative, and eager to dive deeper into open questions in #consciousness research. Think Tanks are small research groups (4–5 ppl) that meet regularly online" Seems like a fun idea, at least on paper!

As someone from Taiwan & living in Europe who somewhat randomly did a PhD in philosophy in the Midwest (thanks, Leiter Reports...), I appreciate that @brettcmullins.com's list brought me to this @aeon.co article! aeon.co/essays/how-p...

The Science in Society Journalism Awards & Excellence in Institutional Writing Awards are open until Feb 1. If you're reflecting upon your own work, or have been moved by the work of another, please consider submitting to the awards. www.nasw.org/article/subm... #SciWriAwards @sciencewriters.org

Christmas reading: The junkification of research - Rhodes & Linnenluecke (Organization, 2025) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #academicsky Pictured: the downward spiral of junkification ⬇️

Philosophy & neuroscience of smell, some of my key refs (1) Smellosophy (book) www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067... (2) Smell is spatial link.springer.com/article/10.1... (3) No odor objects www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy... (4) No neural map/representation onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

"The endless pursuit of life's hidden order: Why theory is necessary to understand the hidden structure of life" Short piece on the evolutionary biologist Rupert Riedl by Lynn Chiu (@drlynnchiu.bsky.social) LINK: rudolphina.univie.ac.at/en/the-intel...

Airports need yarn shops.

We got the PhilPapers feminist philosophy of science category philpapers.org/browse/femin... moved up from "miscellaneous" to "general philosophy of science" proper 🎉 Combatting disciplinary marginalisation and recognising the strength of feminist work on sciences! #philsky

Quite excited about Lydia Patton's talk @univie.ac.at, happening right now! Here's the live-stream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve8g... #ViennaCircleLecture

Gentle reminder that John Odling-Smee, who is now in his 90s (!) published his big update on #NicheConstruction last year. It's open access and can be downloaded here: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon... ( #pleasecite )

Oh gosh, I'm really doing this! First podcast recorded for a new @univie.ac.at podcast series, by supervisors, for supervisors. Stay tuned.

there is not any particularly strong evidence that study of the humanities make people good people. the elites of many brutal empires were extremely well-read!

Was sollen wir lernen, wenn sich alles ändert? 🤔 Was gehört eigentlich auf den #Lehrplan von morgen? 🏫 Im Rahmen der aktuellen #Semesterfrage haben wir Expert*innen der Uni Wien gefragt, welche Future Skills Jugendliche brauchen, um Herausforderungen in Zeiten von #Krise und #KI zu meistern. ⤵️

Had a great time moderating the #NOItechtalk on #Robotics at work! Many thanks to the #EURAC Center for Advanced Studies & NOI Techpark for organizing such a meaningful event with social scientist Astrid Weiss and robotics researcher Andrea Giusti.

For decades the Philosophy of Science Association has supported under-represented groups through grants from the National Science Foundation. Any guesses on how much support we'll get this year? Please help us continue our important mission, especially when the government is hostile to it.

And I don't know if the answer is: everyone is too traumatized to do work and we need to reinvent society. Or if it's more like: generations are losing their cognitive abilities and willpower due to destructive technologies. Or: we all have post-viral brain damage. Or: all of the above.

Thanks to dear friend Alina, who leads a non-profit, I learned so much about the history of the #Augustin street paper, the spirit of the content it carries & the people behind it at the Wien Museum. Viano, a cheerful & kind constant at the Volkstheater Ubahn entrance, is prominently featured!

Vampires in the Deep: An Ancient Link Between #Octopuses and #Squids 🧛🦑🐙 A "genomic living fossil" reveals how evolution of octopuses and squids diverged more than 300 million years ago: ⤵️ #evobio 🧪🧬

German version is out!

The T. H. Huxley Award recognizes an outstanding evolution education resource and provides funding for the awardee to attend the Evolution or NABT conference to present their work! Apply by February 2nd: bit.ly/2kP2pPM

With great joy—and a touch of nervousness—I’m thrilled to share that my first academic monograph will be published by @mitpress.bsky.social in May 2026! It examines the organism–environment relationship in biology from an integrated #HPS perspective: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205282... #evosky #philsky

"And then came Rupert Riedl, who presented morphology as a systems science capable of formulating laws and intimately intertwined with epistemology. An almost audible sigh of relief from the beleaguered community of morphologists accompanied the reading of [his book]" (eng translation, Schmitt 2007)

Günter Wagner started the symposium talking about Riedl & the importance of "an intimate feel of the organism" for theory and philbio... and (to me) the golden period of evolution I was raised on by my mentors: the beginning of critical reflections on Darwinism in the 70s and 80s.

100 years of Rupert Riedl: Systems Conditions for Evolution phylogenetic-symposium-vienna-2025.univie.ac.at/program/ Here we go! @univie.ac.at #evobio (we all get mugs!)

Wonderful! I am a huge admirer of Rupert Riedl’s writings. bsky.app/profile/mrag...

What a great honor to be here at the kick-off event of Rupert Riedl's 100th anniversary symposium hosted by the Theoretical Biology unit @univie.ac.at. Sabina Riedl, his daughter, made a new documentary on his life. The screening is now held @nhmwien.bsky.social.

A new podcast in the works by the doctoral schools of @univie.ac.at to service scholars interested in improving their supervision skills, to become leaders who guide with value and heart.

The importance of substantial European alliances. Hopeful optimism in the air as #CircleU leaders & projects come together to see each other in person & understand what a complex alliance system can do to foster cohesion based on multicultural but common values in research, teaching, societal impact

Had the opportunity to once again stare intensely at the #Klimt artwork adorning the ceiling of our Grosser Festsaal. @univie.ac.at

Officially started the mulled wine season by organizing a @univie.ac.at international "meet & greet" networking event at the Campus Christmas Village! 🎄 Reps from the postdoc career development project, EU intl funding team, alma mentoring & comms mingled with intl researchers, esp PhDs/postdocs 🤝

Excited to report that this paper has been accepted at Royal Society Open Science. Updated version coming soon!

In the words of his students, we trace how Riedl's journey at the University shaped a generation of researchers in marine, theoretical and cognitive biology. Read more about Rupert Riedl here: rudolphina.univie.ac.at/en/the-intel...

Gratulation an Ulrike Felt! 🎉 Die Wissenschafterin der #univie erhält den Friedrich-Schiedel-Preis 2025 für ihre wegweisende Forschung an der Schnittstelle von Wissenschaft, Technologie und Gesellschaft. Mehr hier 👉 sowi.univie.ac.at/meldungen/de... #Forschung #STS #Innovation

Received a heart-bursting compliment about the #RupertRiedl article, from Riedl's daughter herself: Thank you so much … I love your article … it’s so profound and well written - he’s so well-portrayed - almost as if you’d known him personally.  🥹 rudolphina.univie.ac.at/en/the-intel...

My biggest piece yet for the #Rudolphina research magazine of #UniVienna on Rupert Riedl and thread of meta-inquiry that led to the creation of marine biology, theoretical biology, electron microscopy and cognitive biology at the University of Vienna. rudolphina.univie.ac.at/en/the-intel... #evobio

Really nice to be here at a special Austro-Philippine society event, esp by the invitation of Camilo Antonio, to hear Maximilian Larena (Uppsala) talk about the pop gen of the Filipino people. I'm particularly interested in hearing more about the "out of Taiwan" hypothesis!

11 US #scientists will arrive at the University of Vienna in early 2026. Five #postdocs will be funded directly by the #univienna, while six will come through the APART-USA scholarship programme of the @oeaw.bsky.social. A strong signal for scientific excellence & the promotion of young talent. ⤵️👨‍🔬👩‍🔬

quick, open the word file! The euphoric rush of the second sip of coffee in the morning is here!

Jump in now! The KLI is hosting Richard Cockett, author of Vienna: the Laboratory of Modernity. kli.ac.at/en/events/ev...

🎓 Happy #WorldTeachersDay! At #univie we ask this semester’s big question (#Semesterfrage):❓ What should we learn when everything is changing? Join our researchers explore how schools & lifelong learning can prepare us for the future 👉 https://rudolphina.univie.ac.at/lernen-im-wandel

After the first keynote, the opening festival of #VISTA continues with a panel discussion on "How to enhance public trust in science." After a round of explanations of the principles behind the space, the discussion now dives into diff forms of science engagement. #scicomm @istaresearch.bsky.social