What is social constructionism about race? This #OpenAccess article reframes SCR as a shared investigative practice, not just a metaphysical claim—responding directly to Adam Hochman’s critique. bit.ly/49eivup#OpenAccess@celsoneto.bsky.social #philsky #STS

Tomorrow!

Are you interested in messy, imprecise concepts in science with huge social implications? Join us online on Tuesday, Dec 2nd, for Yasmin’s talk. Register here: hugera.org/lecture-seri... #philsci #STS #popgen #HPbio

A new issue of PTPBio has dropped with articles from Marco Casali, Francesca Merlin & Alberto Vianelli; Meghan Barrett, Thomas Raffel & Bob Fischer; and Maja Dorota Sidzinska, Jacqueline Mae Wallis & Kate Nicole Hoffman. Always fully #OpenAccess: free for authors and readers. ptpbio.org 🐋🌱

The call for applications for 2026 European Advanced School in Philosophy of Life Sciences is now open! Deadline 15 Jan 2026, theme will be “philosophy of biology for a healthy planet”, all info here: www.kli.ac.at/en/events/ev... graduate students &early postdocs, do consider joining us! #philsci

The rumours are true: Leeds is hosting BSPS 2026! Make sure you put the date in your calendars (21-23 July) and, while you're at it, consider submitting a symposium proposal (CFS closes on 14th January 2026)! www.thebsps.org/news/bsps-an...

This Tuesday, 17:00 GMT. Join us online!

🚨TALK 🚨 Should Genomics change our personal conceptions of race? Join us online for this talk by Sarah Abel on Nov 4th. Registration link below. #humangenomics #philsky #philsci #STS #HPBio #STEM

In the next week's Perspectives on Science Seminar on Monday, October 27th, Abigail Nieves Delgado (Utrecht University) will give an online talk titled “Beyond Race: Rethinking Population Descriptors in Microbiome Research”. More here: tint-helsinki.fi/2025/10/21/2... #philsky #philsci

Still time to sign up for the talk tomorrow! #philsky #philsci #STS #humangenetics #sciencesky #HPBio

🚨TALK🚨Interesting in Antiracism and Genomics in South Africa? Katharina Schramm gives an online talk on the topic, on Oct 21st 17:00 (UK). Follow the link below for registration. #philsky #STS #HPBio #STEM #popgen #philsci #HPS #race

‪ Next Monday, @celsoneto.bsky.social will speak in our lecture series on race reification and population descriptors in human genomics. Come around! Register here: rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture... #PhilSci #PhilMed #race

If you’re interested in practicing the philosophy of science in practice why not come along to an online workshop “the philosophy of science in practice - in practice”? #philsci

Next Monday, we start the new Lecture Series! We're very happy to welcome @celsoneto.bsky.social as our first speaker. 🤩 Celso will talk about race reification and population descriptors in human genomics. Just register here to participate: rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture... #PhilSci #PhilMed

Interested in the social implications of genomics and its philosophical aspects? Our project has numerous activities coming up! Follow the blusky account to stay up-to-date. #philsky #STS #popgen #metascience #philsci #HPbio

Finally officially published! "Race science in mainstream psychology, 1960–2010" with @rhacodactylus.bsky.social (who needs a job btw) direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... 🧵 #histsci #sts #philsci #metascience

Book launch for “Methods in the Philosophy of Science: a user’s guide”. Ftf in Exeter and online on the 29th of Sept feat Sophie Veigl, Kerry McKenzie, Hasok Chang, and me. It should be fun! (the book will be open access in July, contact me in the meantime) www.exeter.ac.uk/events/detai... #philsci

I’m thrilled to share that I’ll be spending a few months as a visiting PhD at Egenis, the Centre for the Study of Life Sciences at the university of Exeter. I am joining prof. @celsoneto.bsky.social’s ERC-funded project HUGERA (Human Genomics Without Racism) hugera.org

Moving through the editing and production process! Volume 24 of the Minnesota Studies in Philosophy of Science will be published in Spring 2026 and will be available open access. Learn more: Z.UMN.EDU/21026

New semester, new lecture series 🎉Starting next month, we welcome amazing scholars to give online talks in the history and philosophy of life sciences. Find all dates and registration links here: rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture... We look forward to seeing you there 🤗 #PhilSci #HistSci #HPBio

🚨Paper🚨 What is social constructionism about race? Philosophers of race usually treat constructionism as a theory about what exists. This misses something important: race constructionism is a practice - a way to investigate human activities. #philsky #STS link.springer.com/article/10.1...

[NEW PAPER] In "Beyond Dichotomies", I challenge the false dichotomy between subjectivity and objectivity in human social relationships. I show how they are both biological and social, using kinship research as an example. I’d love to hear your thoughts! #PhilSci #Anthropology #PhilSky

EPSA 2025 (@epsaphilsci.bsky.social) was a fantastic conference – full of learning, inspiring conversations, and wonderful people. Grateful to @celsoneto.bsky.social for the invitation to the Race Across Genomics Symposium!

“What Can a Global Turn in Philosophy of Science Look Like?”, forthcoming in Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, by former Ashoka philosophy undergrad Kabir S. Bakshi. Congratulations Kabir! philsci-archive.pitt.edu/26382/

Interested in questions about the use and misuse of race in science? Come to our symposium at #EPSA25, this Thursday 9:00 (A2). @epsaphilsci.bsky.social #philsky #philsci #HPbio #STS hugera.org/blog/

#philsky #STS #HPbio

Why was Newton so sure that if you just did his optical experiments you’d *have* to believe him about light? Kirsten Walsh, Tom Roberts and I use 4E cognition to suggest an answer. Anachronism? You be the judge… (also i’m real proud of this paper) www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.... #philsci

New blog post: The New Eugenics Companies (Oops, I meant to say generational health and embryo selection)

The next Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (SPSP) conference will be held at the University of Cambridge, U.K, on 15-18 July 2026. #philsci philosophy-science-practice.org

We got great news! @ishpssb2025.bsky.social gave us funding to support early career travel to our event in October! Deadline for abstract submission is extended until Aug 18. Don't miss this chance! #phibio #hps #microbiome #philsci 🦠

🚨Paper🚨 scientists often (should) rethink their work to mitigate potential harmful consequences. Should the same apply in philosophy? Yes, but I show philosophical defences of biological race don’t do a great job with that. #philsky #HPbio #evolution #popgen link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Well-timed for #ishpssb2025 👇 these authors are among the few academics actively trying to tackle the scourge of scientific racism. Would be great to see more historians and philosophers of science engage with this problem

#ISHPSSB2025 has been an absolute blast! Here we celebrate the work and mentorship of Marc Ereshefsky, a truly positive model for philosophy of biology! Thank you all for coming along! Cheers to Marc! #philsky #HPbio #philsci

Join our session on the first day of #ISHPPSB2025 to delve into epistemic and non-epistemic abuses of the deep past 👀 🕘 9 am, Anf. 1! Feat: Homo naledi & evidential standards, misinterpretations of the role of women, speculation & risk in the paleosciences. 💀🧪🏺 #philbio #philsky #paleosky

Tomorrow #ISHPSSB2025

🚨Project 🚨My project “Human Genomics without Racism” kicks off during #ISHPSSB25. Join us for the Symposium “Values, Bias, and Controversies” on Monday 21, 14:30. #philsky #popgen #evosky #STS #biological #HPbio hugera.org

3-year Postdoc in philosophy of biology w/ @lucielaplane.bsky.social in Paris on cell lineages; interdisciplinary project w/ mathematicians & biologists. Conceptually-minded historians & social scientists also welcome to apply. Project start in early 2026. Application opens soon #HPS #hpbio #STS

Job Opening at the Chair of Philosophy and History of Science and Technology at TUM! Research Fellow for 3 years (renewable). Preferably philosopher w interest in plant, crop & agricultural research (& their history and social studies) All details: www.sts.sot.tum.de/en/sts/arbei... #philsci #sts

Every now and then, the hope to disentangle and measure genetic from environmental influences in traits gets renewed. More data, higher genetic coverage, better models, is the fuel. “things are too complex” is often the conclusion, however. Nice case👇🏽 #philsky #popgen #STS #HPbio

Coming *very* soon #philsci

My article on how anti-slavery ideas may have influenced Darwin’s Expression of the Emotions is now out — and open access for a few days! authors.elsevier.com/a/1lO-f8yuR6...

💥REMINDER💥 The last talk of our @epsaphilsci.bsky.social online series will be on Thursday at 16:00. We will end the series with advices from great senior scholars on "How to deal with Imposter Syndrom and Self-Doubt". ✍️Register here: tinyurl.com/3jn3hwnm 📖More Info: tinyurl.com/2ucdvhuj

I am truly honoured to be invited to speak at @philsci.bsky.social Around the World 2025 on the panel “Showcasing excellent current work in the CEE region”, organised by Magdalena Małecka and featuring Olesya Bondarenko, Endla Lõhkivi, Stathis Psillos, and myself 😊 eenps.weebly.com/eenps-psa_aw...

🚨Reaging Group🚨 This Wednesday, July 9, 16:00 BST, I will join the online “Reading Decoloniality” Group (Warwick, UK) to discuss how biological race continues to be a misguided idea. To join the discussion, just register at readingdecoloniality.warwick.ac.uk/join/ #philsci #STS #evosky

Our associate fellow @alejandrofabregastejeda.com will speak tomorrow at the EPSA junior scholar online series. Join the meeting to learn about how to network at conferences! There will also be plenty time for questions. #PhDSky #Academia #PhilSci

Postdoc opportunity w/ @rachelankeny.bsky.social & philosophy group at Wageningen University on topics such as philosophy of science & technology, philosophy of biology, agricultural & food ethics, human-animal relations for 2026-27. For full consideration, application draft by 30 August #philsci

#OpenScience lobbyists, skeptics and everything in between: consider coming to Munich in May 2026 (gorgeous time to visit..) to discuss the future of Open Research! FOR2026 is open for submissions: opensciencestudies.eu/for-2026-con... pls help spread the word 🙏 #philsci #sts #methods #policy 🧪

What challenges emerge when investigating #behavior across the tree of life? We have an open CfA for a workshop on comparative behavioral biology (Sept. 26-27). Scientists & philosophers are welcome! Please help us spread the word! 📢👇 hiw.kuleuven.be/clps/events/... #philsci #evosky #HPbio #Paleosky

Frequently, geneticists defend the objectivity of “ancestry” over the subjective and loaded notion of “race.” This framing of the opposition is very misleading, however. Below, collaborator @yashaddad.bsky.social explores how values and biases can shape ancestry. #popgen #evobio #STS #philsky