Always a pleasure to be back @alisabokulich.bsky.social

This is happening tomorrow, Sunday October 19th!

Excited our paper "Are We in a 6th Mass Extinction?" accepted in 2022 is now out @ BJPS! It began as UROP project w/ undergrad Gloria, expanded to a COVID lockdown project w/ Phi-Geo group, Sect 5 became kernel Federica's dissert & Sect 7 Aja's dissertation. Read ⬇️ doi.org/10.1086/722107 #HPS ⚒️

New paper alert! My paper "Turning Biodiversity Data into Evidence" has been accepted in BioSocieties, as part of a collection on the making and shaping of #data_communities. PREPRINT: philsci-archive.pitt.edu/26871/

Call for Abstracts #HPS of Biodiversity April 30 — May 2, 2026 Copenhagen, Denmark Abstracts of 200-500 words should be submitted through: tinyurl.com/hpsbio. The deadline for submissions is Friday, November 7, 2025. Co-organized by @federicabocchi.bsky.social

My article “What to do about data distance? Responsible alternatives to data sharing” now in Harvard Data Science Review as commentary on Groth & Borgman’s feature conceptualising data distance - a stimulating debate which I am grateful to be part of hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/c4t7vqmm... #philsci

Italian readers: articolo intervista sul “lato umano della scienza” e la relazione tra #scienza e #filosofia, messo insieme da Sofia Belardinelli a Padova: ilbolive.unipd.it/it/news/scie... #philsci 🧪

This Friday Phi-Geo grad @leticiacastillo.bsky.social will be giving an invited lecture at Tufts University on "Hidden Narratives in Paleontology: Toward Ethical & Inclusive Practices". #philsci #STS #PhiGeo #philsky ⚒️

Thanks, @frabellazzi.bsky.social, for co-organizing a great multidisciplinary workshop on Scale and Measurement at the Center for Philosophy and the Sciences at the University of Oslo. Here's a picture from @beccajackson.bsky.social 's talk on the Apgar Score and "Construct Realization".

In these uncertain times, this is something to look forward to. I will present a brand new project, "When Adequacy is Inadequate: a Pragmatist Approach to Accurate Measurement Democratization," with Carlos Santana. »https://www.centerphilsci.pitt.edu/event/pragmatism-and-measurement-2/

I received some copies of my forthcoming book in the mail! The official release date is March 11 #hps #philsci #psychology #metascience #sts

I am honored to have been invited to present “Quantifying the Biodiversity Crisis: measurement and scaling issues” at the ScaM workshop on scale and measurement at the University of Oslo. Drawing from a collaboration with @alisabokulich.bsky.social Check it out: www.hf.uio.no/english/rese...

I am excited to give a talk, "Democratizing Measurements for Environmental Justice," at the AAAS Meeting in Boston on Feb. 15th. I argue that "Science Shaping Tomorrow" must be participatory and democratic starting from the foundation: measurement. Details: aaas.confex.com/aaas/2025/me...

Another #HPS talk of interest at the upcoming AAAS meeting in Boston on Saturday, February 15, 2025 is "Democratizing Measurements for Environmental Justice" by Federica Bocchi @federicabocchi.bsky.social , University of Copenhagen #philsci #philsky

Thanks to all those who joined my talk at #PSA2024! Special thanks to my coauthor, Carlos Santana, and the other symposium presenters: Tina Heger, Melissa Charenko, Aja Watkins, and Karen Kovaka.

Publication alert! My paper, "Biodiversity Skepticism and Measurement Practices," is now available in Biology & Philosophy open access. It's my first attempt to link measurement theory and conceptual engineering to the practices of measuring biodiversity. Link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Don't forget to check out the Underrepresented Philosophy of Sciences Scholars (UPSS) Session highlighting PSA's UPSS Mentoring Initiative this weekend at #PSA24 in NOLA #philsci

New Stanford Encyclopedia article out today, written by myself and Katharine Jenkins: Feminist Metaphysics plato.stanford.edu/entries/femi... #philsky

See you in NOLA!

Good morning, #phisky, #philsci, #conservation, #envhum and 🌎 @federicabocchi.bsky.social has an upcoming paper in Philosophy and Biology, arguing that we are not doomed to skepticism regarding biodiversity despite its multiple/conflicting measures. Preprint: philsci-archive.pitt.edu/24138/

Congratulations to new #HPS AAAS Fellows, incl Kevin Elliott, Michigan State Univ Pnina Geraldine Abir-Am, Brandeis Uni Kristine Harper, University of Copenhagen (pic) who were inducted at 150th AAAS Fellows Gala in DC on Saturday Sept 21st. Read more about AAAS Fellows: www.aaas.org/fellows/2023...

Day 2 of #SPSP2024, the day of our symposium "Demanding Evidence and Addressing Justice at the Intersection of Health and Environmental Sciences"! Co-organised with @federicabocchi.bsky.social, with great talks by Federica, Ariane Hanemaayer, and Helena Alves Pinto.

My paper "Metrics in biodiversity conservation and the value-free ideal" is now available OA in Synthese. Here's the link: rdcu.be/dF0sC

Excited that my former PhDs @federicabocchi.bsky.social & Aja Watkins also had their #PSA24 symposium session "From Data & Evidence to Policy & Action in the Environmental Sciences" accepted, with great talks by them, Karen Kovaca, Tina Heger & @melissacharenko.bsky.social, & Carlos Santana #philsci

A great survey intro to philosophy of geosciences by my recent PhD Aja Watkins & @miguelohn.bsky.social is now out ⤵️ #philsci ⚒️

Thanks to Charles Pence and Max Bautista Perpinyà for organizing a workshop on Integrating the History and Philosophy of Biodiversity at the Brussels' Natural Science Museum, last week. I had a great time presenting my work in progress on a "theory of evidence" for evidence-based conservation!

AND HERE IT IS!! This year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year has been awarded to this *gorgeous* picture of a tri-spine horseshoe crab taken by Laurent Ballesta! Absolutely obsessed with how much it looks like some sort of alien spaceship 🎉🌿🧪 www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

Instead of patrolling the border between indigenous knowledge & science, philosophers of science should contribute to methods for navigating the epistemic & political complexity of transdisciplinary research. Check out our short & programmatic paper here philpapers.org/archive/LUDT...

I really enjoyed working on this paper with @alisabokulich.bsky.social and there’s so much work to be done on expanding these philosophical reflections into biology!