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It was no “mere” metaphor: “plants do not … possess nerves or a central nervous system; and we may infer that with animals such structures serve only for the more perfect transmission of impressions, and for the more complete intercommunication of the several parts." 🧪🌱🐋 #philsci #HistSTM 🦋🦫

A new review paper from our lab courtesy of @jazzsynbio.bsky.social is published in Trends in Biotechnology In this review, we look at the many opportunities for synthetic biology to be used in the research and applications of Holobionts.

Gut microbial topography across can be significant in wild fish, too! 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.fi... #SymbioSky #MicroSky #microbiomesky #symbiosis @microbiomevif.bsky.social @superbugs.bsky.social @hostmicrobelit.bsky.social #phylosymbiosis #holobiont @marinemicrobiome.bsky.social

This is a fascinating exhibition showing at Edinburgh's Fruitmarket Gallery (@fruitmarket.bsky.social) until February 2026 www.fruitmarket.co.uk/jaune-quick-...

At the #Rudolphina editorial desk, we're quite excited about Sarah Davies' new #STS book on strategies for living in a technoscience world. Enjoy our interview-- and learn more about her recommended reads for this summer! #RudolphinaReads

Jane Goodall's work insisting, with evidence from her brilliant and tenacious fieldwork, that we were not so separate from animals, and they were much more like us than the Eurocentric theorists asserted, was so important.

Our department (Berkeley PMB) is hiring an asst. prof. in Plant Resilience to Climate Change! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05049

DOUBLE #hpbio job alert! The @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social has 2 postings for full-time tenure stream positions in the #Philosophy of Science and/or Tech at the Assistant and Associate prof levels (general #philsci or phil. of race/indigenous knowledge/non-western sci). 🐋🌱

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

Positive cascades of social change are needed to address climate crisis, says tipping point expert Tim Lenton. My fifth and final interview for the Guardian series, Tipping Points: On the Edge. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

1/ 📣 Big news! For the next 5 years I’ll be working with this amazing team @evahaifa.bsky.social Alasdair Cochrane & Bob McKay on the @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded Multispecies Mutualisms project wellcome.org/grant-fundin...

My interview for *The Philosopher's Zone* podcast on Feminism and Primatology is out now! I managed to scrounge up the courage to listen and I'm quite proud 🙃 You can listen to the ep via the ABC website or in the usual podcast places #hps #sts #histsci #PhilSci #feminism #primatology

🚨JOBS Interested in #STS research on pharmaceutical innovation and microbial biopolitics? 2 position available @stsvienna.bsky.social to work with me on my @erc.europa.eu ERC Project #ALTERBIOTIC: PhD: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/PhD-posi... POSTDOC: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Postdoc-...

Registrations for #ISHPSSB2025 are open! Check here ➡️ ishpssb2025.icbas.up.pt/registration... #hpbio #philsci #histstm #histsci #philbio #hbio #sts

Soon you will all be here! #ISHPSSB2025 #philsci #hpbio #histSTM #histsci #philbio #hbio #sts

We have an exciting new interdisciplinary program in critical perspectives on the relation between science, technology, and sustainability The program is a track in the globally unique two year master in philosophy and social studies of science, technology and society at the university of Twente.

We are excited to announce the appointment of our new Lecturer in Medicine, Health and Society, Dr Helene Scott-Fordsmand @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social, who will join STS from 1st September 2025.

If you write scientific papers, then you also revise them post-review. And the most important part of that? Arguably NOT the revision, it's the Response letter that goes along. scientistseessquirre...

So, I have created a starter pack for people interested in #metaphor. I bet I left a lot of people out. Please let me know if you want to be added. go.bsky.app/DvxejFX

Gutscapes: an experiment in #STS #artscience, with artists Baum & Leahy. Thank you @beinghumanfest.bsky.social for inviting us to write this case study in public engagement. #microbiome #holobiont #scicomm www.beinghumanfestival.org/resources/ca...

Reminder to those interested in the excellent work of historians, philosophers and sociologists of science - pls checkout our very popular Bluesky 'HPS Starter Pack' #hps #philsci #histsci #sts 🧪

If you're interested in philosophy of biology—particularly its intersections with #evolution, #paleosky, and comparative studies of #behavior, #cognition, and #culture —consider following @theramseylab.bsky.social! We're a cool group of philosophers with a broad range of expertise! #philsci #HPbio

Send us your big ideas STS-niks!

Counting the days for #ISHPSSB2025! #philsci #hpbio #histSTM #histsci #philbio #hbio #sts

We have a vacancy for a 3 year full time postdoc position to: ➡️ research bottom up and transformative initiatives for biodiversity and climate ➡️ develop innovative knowledge and governance infrastructure ➡️ collaborate with societal actors to create space for just and sustainable futures

📢CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: The CSSM now welcomes applications for The CSSM PhD School, held in Helsinki, 4-6 June 2025. 📅Deadline: 7 March 2025 🦠For more details, please visit our website: www.socialmicrobes.org/current/call...

🚨JOB ALERT 🚨 Are you a philosopher of AI and Data looking for a permanent position in a vibrant place? Apply until April 17! #philsky #philsci #AI

🚨Job Klaxon🚨 Seeking a post-doc for 5.5 years (!) on our brand new @medicinewithoutdoctors.org project! The candidate will be working with @cathm.bsky.social and the wider team to lead on playful, design-based methodological collaboration. Deadline 31 March 2025 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMD146/p...

New article out on Science as Culture! In our latest piece, Jorrit Smit analyzes the use and implication of ecological metaphors in STS research: a timely contribution in the face of ecological destruction and STS focus on socio-ecological transformation. doi.org/10.1080/0950...

How to engage in transdisciplinary research? We discussed recent experiences at the Munin conference last November, and a report of the proceedings with lessons learnt is now available on the Septentrio Conference Series: doi.org/10.7557/5.7842 #philsci #sts #codesign @edinitiative.bsky.social

Our 2025 festival theme is ‘Between the Lines’! We invite #humanities researchers to explore the ideas, movements, and histories that emerge Between the Lines at this year’s Being Human Festival:

Discover our 2025 training offer! ✨ Our #PublicEngagement training series explores topics including creative engagement, partnerships, audiences and inclusion. All sessions are free! Find out more and book: www.beinghumanfestival.org/resources/tr...

The Many Lives of James Lovelock is the next BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week! Tune in to the first episode read by Richard Goulding on Monday at 11.45 and learn how the pioneer ecologist came to have “two loves: the natural world and bombs.” www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

New paper from my group and the group of @kiranrpatil.bsky.social: Obligate cross-feeding of metabolites is common in soil microbial communities By Ghada Yousif @metagenomez.bsky.social with @swagatika.bsky.social @isamirgiri.bsky.social Sharvari Harshe et al. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵👇

Hey microbees! Get your pens out and apply to this👇 if you have intriguing ideas for a seminar with like-minded holobionts!

I am very happy to share that my faculty @sfu-fhs.bsky.social is hiring a tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Health and Well-Being. Please share widely and I would be happy to answer any questions about the position and faculty. #IndigiSky #AcademicSky

#Holobiont biology podcast! Looking forward to listening

📣 Information on travel support for #ISHPSSB2025 available at the meeting website: ishpssb2025.icbas.up.pt/registration... #hpbio #philsci #histstm #histsci #philbio #hbio #sts

📚📚📚 New Book Review! 📚📚📚 Amy Cox Hall reviews //Eating Besides Ourselves: Thresholds of foods & bodies// by @Heather Paxson & Marianne Elisabeth Lien, eds @DukePress 2023 #AnthroSky Find it here on Early View: ⬇️ anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Do any #sts folk- or others- have access to Bruno Latour’s final interview at Art.TV? That you could share for research purposes? #Latour #philbio

This is too good to be true <3 "Many qualitative methodological approaches are already very vibey [...] In this article, I reflect on these approaches and outline some vibes-based methods. I discuss how vibes-based methods help us consider and work with the generative ambiguities of social life."

📣CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: CSSM grant for seminar exploring human-microbial relations! 📅DL: 28 February 2025 🦠For more details please visit our website: www.socialmicrobes.org/current/call...

In "Acting with the World," Andrew Pickering proposes a new way of being & doing that he calls acting with the world, foregrounding nonhuman and more-than-human agency and attuning our practices to those that align with the world’s best interests. Read the intro for free: https://buff.ly/3WlmZIL

Making important links between #WASH, #AMR, #FactoryFarming, discrimination, poverty and inequality by Victoria Saints from Bielefeld University

Terrific to see our new book reviewed in Nature "It’s rare that researchers question theories that make up the backbone of whole fields... This shift in thinking — which amounts to a new way of unifying the life sciences — is long overdue" Eva Jablonka Read the review: shorturl.at/YuHcP #science

A few months ago I read @philipncohen.com's Citizen Scholar in proof. It's now available in print. To restore public trust in expertise, professors can’t just profess—they need to engage. Citizen Scholar explores how contemporary academics can do this, and why they might choose to.

How did (post-)colonial lab + public health #infrastructures create #microbial #standards? What configurations of (non-)humans did they support & how are they contested? Read @arohelmet & @Kirchhelle's Intro to their thematic collection: https://doi.org/nvz5#infrastructures#microbial#standards?#histbiology

“Evolution Evolving defines a powerful new approach: anti-reductive, pluralist, founded in a recognition of the agency of organisms and a creative fascination with its manifold modes of expression” Jessica Riskin, Stanford University Listed as best scholarly book of 2024 www.evolutionevolving.org

Dialogue is a great way of exploring theory in movement- the ideas behind ideas. I’m a fan of Gregory Bateson’s “Metalogues” in Steps to an Ecology of Mind. #sts #philsci #complexity