If you are curious about vitamins or natural kinds in history of science check out my new paper: “What is it about vitamins? Vitamins as investigative kinds” in Philosophy of Science 🎉 www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @philscijournal.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk @assemblinglife.bsky.social

That's me, delivering my keynote lecture during #EPSA25, introducing the idea of the functional atlas of theories. The conference was a blast! (Photo courtesy @bartoszradomski.bsky.social)

Thanks to everyone at #EPSA25 in Groningen. I talked during the AssemblingLife symposium, where we presented the results of the first year of the ERC Project AssemblingLife. Congrats to the organisers of this event for the fantastic experience! @assemblinglife.bsky.social @epsaphilsci.bsky.social

We had a great time at our symposium “Self-assembly and self-organisation in living systems” at #EPSA25. Here some pics from our talks from Gry Oftedal and @jietongx.bsky.social @sanderoest.bsky.social @frabellazzi.bsky.social and Bendik Hellenic-Aaby. 🦋 @epsaphilsci.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu

If you are in Porto for the #ISHPSSB, look out for our team presenting different works on self-assembly&self-organisation! Interesting talks from @sanderoest.bsky.social @jietongx.bsky.social and Bendik Hellem-Aaby 🦋 @erc.europa.eu @uio.no ishpssb2025.icbas.up.pt

I had a terrific time at #BSPS25 and all the talks were amazing. I am grateful to my fellow symposium speakers in “Functions across scientific contexts”, where I presented on molecular functionality in nutrition. #FunMo 🧬 @leverhulme.ac.uk #philsky Full program here: www.thebsps.org/news/2025-gl...

One of my favourite (now yearly) appointment is with the Master in Reproductive Technologies at #UniPv where I am lecturing today about infertility and pregnancy from a philosophical perspective. @leverhulme.ac.uk @durham-university.bsky.social

As every year, I am going to give a lecture on pregnancy at the master in reproductive technology at #UniPV. This year I would like to add a little bit about fertility and infertility as a disease - any reccomended literature? 📚 #philsky #philmedicine

You will find us at #BSPS, #ISHPSSB and #EPSA - ready to present all the work of the last year 🦋 #philsky #philbio #philscience (2/2)

We just concluded our second year project meeting in Copenhagen! It was a great opportunity to get feedback on our drafts and get to know a new project member (details soon). Ahead a summer of conferences and holidays (1/2) 🗣️⛵️ @erc.europa.eu #philsky

Today I presented a short talk on #AlphaFold and biochemical functionality at the Turing Tables of the London AI and Humanities Project at the Institute of Philosophy ~ learning so many things in this program! #philsky #philAI #FunMo🧬

First activity of #FunMo! Starting today my time as AI Fellow of the London AI and Humanity Project organised by the Institute of Philosophy and Google DeepMind. I will try to figure out what #AlphaFold can tell us about proteins and bio-functionality. #philsky philosophy.sas.ac.uk/laihp/summer...

My Leverhulme Trust project #FunMo: functions at the molecular scale is officially up and running at the Department of Philosophy at Durham University 🧬 @durham-university.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk #philsky #leverhulmetrust (1/2)

Fellow Italian philosophers of science, how do you navigate the clash between #EPSA and #SIFA this summer? Both of them are looking great but also exactly at the same time 😬 #philsky #philscience

Saying goodbye to Oslo for now, I had a fantastic time and will bring everything with me into my next adventure. Very grateful I will keep on collaborating with @assemblinglife.bsky.social as part of my Leverhulme project. The fjord will always be in my heart 💙🇳🇴 #philsky #lovenorway

Our little book is about learning how to listen to those who need our help so we avoid making their lives even harder. Happens to be about healthcare too but the message has wider applications link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #booksky #philsky #epistemicinjustice #openaccess

One year ago we started a small online reading group on functions and now we have our first workshop on biological functions! Proud of the growing functions in philosophy network 💙 thanks to best co-organiser @harrif.bsky.social and @assemblinglife.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk #philsky

This week we are hosting a workshop on Biological functions organised by @frabellazzi.bsky.social and @harrif.bsky.social. Check out the program and get in touch if you want to attend remotely 🦋 www.hf.uio.no/ifikk/englis... In collaboration with @leverhulme.ac.uk #philsky

Super excited to officially share that I will start a new job as Assistant Professor and Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at Durham University from 1/05! I will be running my *dream project* “FunMo: functions at the molecular scale”🤓 🧬 @leverhulme.ac.uk @durhamuniversity.bsky.social

Last week us&CPS organised a great workshop on “ScaM: scales and measurement in the sciences”. We kicked off with some group work and ended up with a panel discussion. Thanks to all the attendees and speakers! @federicabocchi.bsky.social @beccajackson.bsky.social @uio.no

It has been such a great workshop with amazing speakers 🙌🏻 and we all learned so much on measurement and scales in the sciences 📐 @assemblinglife.bsky.social @uio.no #philsky

So great to see the amazing philosopher Katie Robertson chairing this debate 😍

Exciting week of #AssemblingLife events ahead: 📖 Reading group on AssemblingLife&Medicine with Sara Green, Rebecca Jackson and Harriet Fagerberg 🗣️ Science Colloquium with Sara Green 📐📏 ScaM workshop organised with #CPS www.hf.uio.no/ifikk/englis...

Had a lot of fun presenting this work in progress based on the workshop we did with @simonlohse.bsky.social and @karimbschir.bsky.social 🤓 #philsky #philscience

One of the last outputs of #Metascience has just been published! Here an article with our take on “Unification Principles for Biochemical Kinds” for the the edited volume “Special Objects” ⤵️ @ttahko.bsky.social #philsky #philbio philpapers.org/rec/BELUPF

I tried to give my take on whether water is wet for the BBC World Service - CrowdScience! The episode hosts chemists and material scientists too so this is a really nice & rounded way to approach the question. Here is the link: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

Today our postdoc Bendik Hellem-Aaby gave a fantastic talk on the interplay between self-organisation and natural selection at the CPS LunchTime seminar 🦋 www.hf.uio.no/ifikk/englis...

How we group objects, data and especially people matters.

On #InternationalWomensDay I want to say thank-you for the support I've had from women in philosophy as I navigate world of academia. @lisabortolotti.bsky.social @jelliedsours.bsky.social @drelizabethmac1.bsky.social @frabellazzi.bsky.social @kmurphyhollies.bsky.social @eabyrne.bsky.social #philsky

We’re very excited to receive all the submissions from our lovely invited authors 😌 We’re also open for wider submissions! Deadline is just over 3 weeks away, at the end of this month 🤓

The #CPS book club is one of my favourite activities and this week we interviewed Hilary Gaskin, editor at CUP, about book publishing and writing! #philsky @cambridgeup.bsky.social www.hf.uio.no/english/rese...

The team is growing - last month we welcomed our new PhD researcher Hilde Langengen Teigen. Hilde will explore the explanatory role and scope of the predictive processing framework by identifying self-assembly processes in the brain in relation to brain function. 🦋 www.hf.uio.no/ifikk/englis...

2+year postdoc at Leibniz University Hannover in ERC project MODEL TRANSFER for someone working with computational tools Candidates with a background in #philsci #histsci, digital humanities, #hopos are welcome to apply. Deadline April 10 job ad: www.uni-hannover.de/en/jobs/id/7...

I'm trying to put together a history and philosophy of biology and medicine starter pack! Let me know who to add, including if that is you! go.bsky.app/UCbEmtj

Last days to apply for the #postdocs in @assemblinglife.bsky.social at UiO! It is a great project in a fantastic team! 🦋 #philjobs www.hf.uio.no/ifikk/om/org...

My article for #PhilosophyCompass on the Metaphysics of Pregnancy has been accepted for publication! It has been the result of some years of teaching and I think it’s such a cool topic. 🎉 Here is the link to the AAM version: philpapers.org/rec/BELTMO-20 @assemblinglife.bsky.social 🦋

We are hiring one 3yr post doc and one 2yr researcher to work on philosophy of science in the AssemblingLife project! Please distribute to possible applicants! Deadline: Feb 28 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

The @AssemblingLife project is on Bluesky! Excited to share our activities and work on philosophy of self-assembly and self-organization in living systems. Follow us here for updates on project research and events, and have a look at our website: www.hf.uio.no/ifikk/englis...

The ERC #AssemblingLife Project at @uio.no is now on Bsky 🦋 Please give it a follow for all info about self-assembly and self-organisation in biology and everything we are doing in the project 💯 #philsky #philosophy @erc.europa.eu bsky.app/profile/asse...

I don’t know what to say abt this apart from how honoured and thankful I am. This paper really took a life of its own from the very beginning it came out. It’s a genuine product of interdisciplinarity, merging the philosophy of physics with chemistry.

Proud to see @vanessaseifert.bsky.social and Alex Franklin win the BJPS Popper Prize for 2024 with their joint paper that was developed during the MetaScience ERC project. Plus honourable mention for Toby Friend's paper. Three MetaScience project members featured! www.thebsps.org/auxhyp/bjps-...

Had a lot of fun giving this seminar on complexity and functions in biochemistry for the biomedical phd students of #UniCampus! Great exchange between philosophy and biomedicine 🧬 #AssemblingLife @erc.europa.eu

Off to Roma for a week visiting at #CampusBiomedico to work with my dear colleague Marta Bertolaso and teach a seminar on the philosophy of molecular functionality and complexity to medicine and bioscience PhD students 🤓 #philsky

🚨JOB ALERT 🚨 Are you a social scientist (broadly construed) with expertise in race and science? We are offering a 3.5 years postdoctoral position at Egenis (University of Exeter). Applications due February 27! Please share widely! #STS #philsky jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

Interested in scales and measurement? 📐 With #AssemblingLife and #CPS we are organising a two days workshop on “ScaM: scales and measurement in the sciences”. We have a great lineup of speakers. Info and registration ➡️ www.hf.uio.no/english/rese...

The ERC Project #AssemblingLife is hiring *two postdocs*. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a great team in a very active department. Feel free to get in touch if you want more info 🤓 #philjob #jobalert www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

The functions in philosophy reading group is back! We are meeting next Wednesday at 15.00GMT on zoom to discuss “Sterner, Beckett & Cusimano, Samuel (2019). Integrative pluralism for biological function. Biology and Philosophy 34 (6):1-21”. 📖 Get in touch if you want to attend 🤓

I am building up a metaphysics of science starter pack! Please let me know if you want to be added or of anyone I should add 💫 #SMS go.bsky.app/MQSP9oQ

What can the periodic table teach us about the laws of nature? Check out this brilliant piece from @vanessaseifert.bsky.social 🔍⚛️

Don't forget to submit your abstract for the European Philosophy of Science Association Conference #EPSA25. The CfP is closing this Friday, 31st Jan. philsci.eu/EPSA25/CfP