From epistemology to ontology to politics, community-based approaches reveal that knowledge is not singular. Partial overlaps, not binaries, guide how communities understand and act. Transformative Transdisciplinarity argues for a philosophy of science rooted in agency and diversity: bit.ly/4gswVsU

“Transformative Transdisciplinarity. An Introduction to Community-Based Philosophy” is out with Oxford University Press! I’m actually pretty proud of this book. It’s Open Access, so feel free to share fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/...

Cheeky title, lively examples & points. E.g. on epistemic justice and it's relationship with 3 dimensions of social justice- distribution, recognition & representation. Epistemic extraction. Not reductionism to economic inequality! by David Ludwig @davidludwig.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0269...

"'The people of Techiman eat Teporo': migrant farming and epistemic pluralism in Forikrom, Ghana" - our new article explores knowledge diversity beyond the simple divide of scientific vs. local knowledge. Unfortunately not OA yet but happy to share the paper. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Exciting times for philosophy of economics

Defended my doctoral dissertation on grand challenges and research policy yesterday. Such a wonderful day! Big thanks to opponent @davidludwig.bsky.social and custos @ustagan10.bsky.social & all who joined! 🌸🌷💖

"It’s a shame that you can’t afford rent, but we can offer epistemic compensation." - my paper on relating epistemic and social justice is out. Mostly written as self-therapy, struggling with my own scholarship. But we also need a broader discussion on ways forward in "epistemic injustice" debates.

Join us in Newcastle for the "Understanding Science Co-Creation in Climate and Environmental Research" conference 19-20 June!

If you're in the Netherlands, join us for this little "political economy/ecology meets political epistemology/ontology" event next Monday afternoon, 24 Feb

Epistemic diversity is great but often becomes reduced to a superficial management & mainstreaming tool. Excited that the lovely magazine _Science for the People_ published our little article "Reclaiming Epistemic Diversity. Between Community Struggles and Corporate Capture"

German Research Foundation DFG closing its Twitter account and landing here. Every day, bluesky seems to become a little bit more attractive & useful. At least as a nerdy hangout for academics.

If you're in Belgium, join us for this nice seminar with David Azupogo (Millar Insitute, Ghana) on "Doing Development. Epistemic Justice and the Integration of Indigenous and Local Knowledge in Research and development." in Ghent on Jan 9.

2025 is a great year to get into transdisciplinary & participatory action research. Reposting this starter pack I made a while a ago, full of awesome researchers

Back home in Berlin for the winter holidays and for evening walks at the Schlachtensee

My favorite news headline today. I'm imagining an investigative Bloomberg journalist unmasking the sinister union plot: "We'll make it look like an effort to improve labor conditions but what we truly desire is to disrupt Christmas! 🎄"

thegreatestbooks.org casually putting Hitler's Mein Kampf on Nr. 28 of the greatest German books of all time between Thomas Mann & Max Weber is not what I was looking for...

Last academic workshop of the year took my to Edinburgh for the first time. What a beautiful place.

🐠🛶🦀 Thrilled to share my new article in collaboration with new @davidludwig.bsky.social & @charbelelhani.bsky.social about the conceptual potential of more-than-human care in Siribinha, a fishing village in Brazil. 🌴 Read it here: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

So encouraging to see many of my favorite academics arriving at bluesky. Here is Martin Kusch's first post - consider following him for philosophy of science & society + Vienna photography.

How can science & technology actually benefit people instead of enabling socio-environmental destruction & exploitation?

Tapuya, one of my favorite journals, is now on bluesky. Follow them for critical perspectives on the interface of science, technology, and society in Latin America & beyond!

I made a starter pack for transdisciplinary & participatory action research. Please share and let me know who else to add (including yourself, maybe) go.bsky.app/DBBkc6g

"Rivers across worlds: A conceptual framework for ontological inclusion & exclusion in participatory water governance" is out now. Very grateful to Thomas for this collaboration, bringing water governance & philosophy together journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I'll be one of the lecturers in the upcoming spring school on "Forms of Knowledge and Values in Science and Society" at Utrecht University 13-17 April 2025. Great opportunity for master students & early PhD candidates utrechtsummerschool.nl/courses/huma...

Our event on "Political economy/ecology meets political epistemology/ontology" collides with the protest in The Hague against the funding cuts in Dutch higher education. Please join the protests on 25 Nov and join our event in February instead campagnes.degoedezaak.org/campaigns/st...

More of my Wageningen colleagues showing up here on Bluesky. Follow Harro and his amazing work on history & social studies of science, agriculture, colonialism, food & co

Next Wednesday, I'll give a lecture on "A Political Epistemology of International Development" at the Global Development Institute in Manchester. If you're around, stop by and say hi! events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:...

If you're in the Netherlands on 25 Nov - we're doing an informal roundtable on "political economy/ecology meets political epistemology/ontology" in Wageningen in the afternoon. Feel free to join!

I was interviewed by the journal "GAIA – Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society". For the full journal issue see here www.oekom.de/ausgabe/03-2...

After 3 months, my last days in Beijing with the obligatory Tsinghua University goodbye photo. I'll be back though :)

Our Special Issue “Science as a Site of Inequality” has been published in Environmental Science & Policy. Check out the 15 amazing research articles & our editorial! www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

We made another thing! Here is a pretty great 'HPS Starter Pack' so you too can follow all the awesome history, philosophy and social studies of science (and #metasci #histSTM #philsci #philsky #hps #histsci 🧪) accounts on Bluesky. Please share widely #academicsky :)

Teaching a PhD course on "Philosophy of Science in Action" at CAS Beijing next Monday. If you're around and want to join, let me know!

How can scientists collaborate globally on AI safety, climate change, or pandemics in times of "China vs. the West" narratives? Great conversations on tricky questions of international solidarity at Science & Technology Ethics Symposium of the Chinese Academy of Science.

I'll be one of the keynote speakers at the workshop “Scientific Pluralism, Epistemic Diversity, and Progress in Science” in March in Wuppertal in Germany. Their CfP is open until 15 Nov, consider joining us: grk2696.de/scientific-p...

Nice report on our project "Global Dialogues About Science Governance" at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. www.ihns.ac.cn/xwdt/xsdt/20...

Greetings everyone! I am a philosopher that primarily works on the philosophy of race and its intersections with the sciences and social issues. I have interests in the philosophy of science (esp. biology), African philosophy, and epistemology. It would be great to connect with you. I am new here.

This December I'm co-teaching a new PhD course on "Foundations of Inter- and Transdisciplinary Research" in Wageningen with a great crew of colleagues. Consider joining us! www.wur.nl/en/activity/...

If you’re in Beijing, join us at the Chinese Academy of Sciences for my talk with great discussants

Já existe uma lista de filósofos brasileiros aqui no bluesky?

My workplace in Beijing for the next 3 months. The institute for the history of the natural sciences of the Chinese Academy of Science is an inspiring place to be :)

Super happy about this truly amazing collaboration with @davidludwig.bsky.social, Thierry Ngosso, Pius M. Mosima, and Birgit Boogaard :-) It has been published in Open Access with Ergo, so please feel free to give it a read: journals.publishing.umich.edu/ergo/article...

In the midst of this planetary crisis, you may wonder: what is the biggest threat humanity is facing? Clearly, it's philosophers using the term “natural kind” in their journal papers. My campaign against natural kinds therefore bravely goes into another round. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Academic philosophy remains deeply provincial. But how do we move towards critical global debates? Our new paper addresses some methodological challenges - “Confrontation or Dialogue? Productive Tensions between Decolonial and Intercultural Scholarship” journals.publishing.umich.edu/ergo/article...

A big thanks to @davidludwig.bsky.social for his talk on Monday about chances and obstacles for transdisciplinarity in the philosophy of biology and of science in general. And thank you to everyone who tuned in and joined the talk and discussion! #PhilSci #HPbio

Next Monday, we welcome @davidludwig.bsky.social from Wageningen University in our ROTO Lecture Series. He will be talking about a transdisciplinary philosophy of biology. Join us for the talk and discussion by registering via this link 👇 rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture... #PhilSci #HPbio

We want research to be more inclusive & just. But doing science differently is difficult. Proud of this paper where we reflect on our own challenges & failures: "Research as a Mangrove: Emancipatory Science and the Messy Reality of Transdisciplinarity". journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

“Ontology” is an awkward and sometimes confusing word but still central for equitable collaborations in global contexts. Check out our paper “Southern Ontologies. Reorienting Agendas in Social Ontology” based on collaborations in Brazil & Ghana journalofsocialontology.org/index.php/js...

Participatory environmental management is great .. but remains superficial when nature can only be addressed as a resource system. Check out our new paper: “Dam the river: Ontological exclusion in global and Brazilian Integrated Water Resources Management” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Our paper "Transdisciplinary Philosophy of Science: Meeting the Challenge of Indigenous Expertise" is now out in Philosophy of Science. This one is close to my heart both in message and in collaborative format - both with hopefully valuable lessons for philosophy of science. #philsci #philsky #STS