This week, we celebrate Democracy Week in the GA building of @ruhr-uni-bochum.de. Come around, if you're on campus! We've put together a really great program: uni.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/sites/uni.ru... Let's stand together against any queer- and democracy-hostile tendencies! 🏳️‍🌈

LGBTQ+ Journal Club is turning 1! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈To celebrate, here's a bit about what we've been up to over the past year: a thread of interesting papers in queer biology (1/n) ⬇️🧵

Apply to join a team of wonderful colleagues at Philosophy at TU Dresden. I am advertising a 2-year PostDoc position in philosophy of science/philosophy of physics as part of the DFG project 'Progress through Principles', deadline 03.11.2025. Details: tinyurl.com/493dffby #philsci #philsky

Even on a grey and rainy day in October (or especially then?), the botanical garden at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de is just magical 🤩🍂

A big thanks to @celsoneto.bsky.social who gave an inspiring talk on race reification in human genomics research yesterday! Thank you also to everyone who joined the talk and the great discussion afterwards! #HPBio #PhilSci #PhilMed

Postdoc Opportunity - Interested in plant scaling, quantitative botany, or theoretical plant biology? join our group to explore how plant form, function & scaling principles connect across levels of organization www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-postdoctoral-fellowships-in-plant-biology🧪🌾🌐

I'm very much looking forward to the BPC conference tomorrow and on Friday at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de! Everyone is welcome to attend and you can also watch the stream on zoom. I will give a talk at 4pm about early 20th century concepts of plant agency (featuring Arber, Ungerer and Francé). 🌿

Nach drei anregenden Tagen ist die Jahrestagung #gwmt2025 schon wieder vorbei. Wir danken dem lokalen Organisationsteam für die tolle Vorbereitung! Allen Teilnehmenden eine gute und sichere Heimreise und wir sehen uns 2026 in Prag!

Happy to be in Dresden for my 3rd conference this year: the annual meeting of the German Society for the History of Science, Medicine and Technology. Looking forward to learning a lot about animal history after already talking about plant history at the FoGeL meeting yesterday. 🦉🌳 #PhDSky #HistSci

I am quite excited to share a new preprint on the prospects for a 'metaphilosophy of science'—a second-order inquiry into the concepts, assumptions, aims, and methods that underpin philosophy of science itself. 👇📃 philsci-archive.pitt.edu/26661/ 1/3 #philsci #philsky #HPS #HPbio #metaphilosophy

We have some really great talks lined up for this semester 🤩

We are organising the 1st Basic Principles of Cognition conference at RUB, Germany, 9-10 October 2025. Save the date! #MinimalCognition #BasalCognition #CognitiveScience #CogSci #Philosophy #Mind #Life #Organism #Evolution basicprinciplesofcognition.wordpress.com #EPSA25 #ESPP #GAP12 #KogWiss

We’re taking a short mid-season break, but we’ll be back next week with more great conversations! In the meantime, why not catch up on some of our earlier episodes? They’re well worth a listen. www.hpsunimelb.org/the-hps-podc... #HPS #philsci #histsci #sts

Hi, #evosky #EvoDevo #paleosky hivemind! I have a Q: Have there been any studies that build theoretical or empirical morphospaces that include and/or compare organisms from different kingdoms? I am looking for instances of research that meet that condition (regardless of their focus). Thanks a lot!

#EPSA2025 was a really great experience! Thank you to @epsaphilsci.bsky.social and all the local organizers for creating this beautiful event! Inspiring talks, friendly people, interesting posters and dinner in a church - what else could you ask for?! 😀 #PhDSky #PhilSci

Wishing a very #Goethe birthday to this guy. (Engraving by James Posselwhite)

Gave my talk today at the @epsaphilsci.bsky.social meeting, speaking about plant agency in Agnes Arber, Emil Ungerer and Raoul Francé. 🌳🤓 Thank you to everyone who attended, it was a really great session and an engaged audience! 🤩 #PhDSky #HistSci #PhilSci

Happy to be at the meeting of @epsaphilsci.bsky.social in Groningen! Already had a great day yesterday visiting the amazing botanical garden, having a great Poké-Bowl for dinner and chilling in my hostel bunk bed 😃 #PhDSky #PhilSci

The Department of Botany and Plant Pathology at Oregon State University is Hiring! We are searching for a Director of the Oregon State University Herbarium and applications are welcomed at the ranks of assistant, associate, or full professor.

Rereading Rudi Schmid's paper on Agnes Arber from 2001 (academic.oup.com/aob/article-...) and appreciating all the hours of work he must have put into this meticulously researched piece! So valuable!!

🔎 We are looking for new associate editors to join our Biological Flora team!🌷 🌲Do you have expert knowledge of one or more aspects of diverse species of vascular plants either in Britain and Ireland or in other regions globally?🌺 👉 More info: buff.ly/rmzadTG

The NMNH Department of Botany is looking for a Museum Specialist. Please spread the word!

As requested - A Starter Pack of PIs in Biology (or related fields) who are recruiting PHD STUDENTS! If you would like to be added, feel free to ask! go.bsky.app/Bf4DRFm

I’m deeply inspired after attending my first ISHPSSB in Porto. I was excited by the diversity of problems and the openness of the community. I felt truly impressed and grateful for the responses to my work (on varieties of organicism and the metaphysics of phylogenetic systematics). Until next time!

Scientists! @skypeascientist.bsky.social matches scientists with classrooms, libraries, & more for virtual Q&As! It's easy and fun! We are looking for 750 more volunteers by 8/15 If you're down to chat with 1-5 classrooms this semester, sign up here www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

If you missed that great Cognizing life conference in Tubingen organized by Christoph Hueck two weeks ago, here are the videos of the presentations. Talks by Denis Walsh, Joan Steigerwald, Dan Nicholson and many others.  www.clc2025.de/videos

Back in the office after returning from Porto yesterday. I had a blast at #ISHPSSB2025! Thanks for all the great talks, the amazing community and a special thanks to everyone who came to my talk on the morning after the conference dinner to listen to me talking about the history of plant agency! 🥰🌳

The Palácio da Bolso! I think this is the most opulent venue for a conference dinner I have ever been to! Thank you @mstrechtalmeida.bsky.social & rest of local organizing committee for putting together this fabulous conference, spectacular venues, & for being such wonderful hosts! 🙏💕🇵🇹#ISHPSSB2025

Amazing session this afternoon at #ISHPSSB2025 about "Reimagining gardens"! 🌷🌳 Go check out the project pollinator.art by Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg - it's really cool!

This week @universitypress.cambridge.org has granted free access to all titles in the collection of Cambridge Elements in the Philosophy of Biology, edited by Grant Ramsey. There are many options to choose from! Happy reading! 📕👇 www.cambridge.org/core/publica... #philsci #HPbio #evosky #ISHPSSB2025

Looking forward to the "Cognizing Life Conference 2025", 16.-19. July! With talks by @djnicholson.bsky.social, @dalianassar.bsky.social, @gregoryrupik.bsky.social, @philippehune.bsky.social and many more! You can participate online, all info here: www.clc2025.de #HPBio #PhilSci #HistSci

What can slime moulds teach us about biological memory? Quite a bit, it turns out. Matthew Sims (@philosobio.bsky.social) dives into this question in a wonderfully engaging piece for @aeon.co. Give it a read—before it slips your mind! 👇 aeon.co/essays/what-... #HPS #philsky #HPbio #evobio #neurosky

Great session with @alejandrofabregastejeda.com today! 😊

add yours!

Here we go! Queer Approaches to Tolkien: Essays on the Many Paths to Middle-earth, edited by Robin Reid, Chris Vaccaro, and Steve Yandell, is once again available for pre-order with a brand new cover 😁 The image for which is from Shutterstock with no AI 💜 mcfarlandbooks.com/product/quee...

OTD in 1875, Charles Darwin’s Insectivorous Plants was published. These plants show “extreme sensitiveness,” more even than the human body, as well as “the power of transmitting various impulses from one part of the leaf to another,” all despite lacking “any nervous system.” 🐋🌱🧪 #HistSTM #EvoBio

Last talk of our Lecture Series for this semester today!

This looks great!! 😍

guilty of that one! 😂🙈

Looking forward to Dan's talk about Agnes Arber next Monday! 😍

#HistBio and #HistMed people: You can still send your abstracts for FoGeL 2025! 🐋🌱

It's that time of year! If you are a new PhD student in philosophy starting this fall, please let me know to add you to the starter pack! Alternatively, add the starter pack to get some fresh perspectives. :-)

🌱 Call for Contributions – FoGeL 2025: Plant-based 🌿 📍 Dresden | 🗓️ Sept 23, 2025 One day before the annual meeting of the @gwmt.bsky.social, we're looking at #plants in the history of the life sciences Submit your idea by June 15 to vera.straetmanns[at]rub.de - in German or English. #HistSci #HPBio

A big thanks to @elisj.bsky.social who gave a very interesting talk about baselines in ecology (and other biological fields!) in our Lecture Series yesterday! 🪸 Thank you also to everyone who joined the talk and the great discussion afterwards! 🤓 #HPBio #PhilSci

Such great talks at the "Thinking with Plants & Fungi" conference yesterday! Of course, I was especially looking forward to @jacobjerickson.bsky.social's talk about Agnes Arber and I wasn't disappointed! 😊 Looking forward to days 2 and 3! 🌻🍄 cswr.hds.harvard.edu/research-pro... #HPBio #PhilSci

My first paper is published!🤩 In it, I analyze how 20th century plant morphologist Agnes Arber understood teleology in plants.🪴 Spoiler: I think that she had two different notions of teleology and only liked one of them. Read more here: rdcu.be/d5xPI or in the following thread! 🧵 (1/5) 🌱🐋 #HistSci

📣Apply now for the HPS+Logic M.A. at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de! The program includes courses on science and its history, logic and topics on culture, ethics & technology. Find all info here: www.hpsplus.org Application deadline for the summer term: - 15 January (Non-EU students) - 15 March (EU students)

Great workshop last week in Bochum - the first one I co-organized 😎 Such great talks and all of them about plants!! 😍🌿 Also happy about my talk on early plant psychologists - something I will keep on working in the future. #PhDSky #HPBio #HistSci

Looking to connect Bluesky's legion of philosophy PhD students. I've gotten a start based on my followers, please let me know if I should add you! (Apologies if I've missed a mutual here...)

Had a great first day at the annual HSS meeting yesterday. Looking forward to many more interesting talks and a great time in Mérida 🙂🌴