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Happy holidays! Today my paper "Turning Biodiversity Data into Evidence" is officially out on BioSocieties. This is the first paper of a special issue on Data Communities co-edited with Paola Castaño & Emma Cavazzoni. link.springer.com/article/10.1... Stay tuned for the other contributions!

I will be celebrating World Philosophy Day this week by giving a talk in Copenhagen on the profound influence of Kierkegaard’s philosophy on Niels Bohr’s view on the nature of physical reality and the ideal of an open world in his 1950 letter to the UN. Part of this conference openworld.ku.dk/ow25/

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!