New on the Archive: Moreno, Alvaro and El-Hani, Charbel and Saborido, Cristian (2026) From geochemical to biogeochemical cycles: an organizational view of how (and why) life shaped its conditions of existence. [Preprint] https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/28968/

📢 New publication by two members of the BioKoinos Group: Carolina Cuadrado Bastos (UCM) and Laura Nuño de la Rosa (CSIC). 👩‍💻🏞️ This paper addresses the question on when is (nonepistemic) value influence legitimate in climate change research. 💻 +Info: rdcu.be/e669R

🟢 Our colleague José Antonio Pérez Escobar (UNED, METIS) will give the talk: “Against a Global Conception of Mathematical Hinges” 📍 Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg 📆 Monday, 9 March Programme: n9.cl/xztaeg

❇️ Ya está abierta la 3ª edición (2026) del MOOC Filosofía de las ciencias de la salud (UNED @uneduniv.bsky.social) ✅ Un curso abierto dedicado al análisis filosófico de los conceptos, métodos y supuestos de las ciencias de la salud. 👉 Información y matrícula: iedra.uned.es/courses/cour...

🟢 METIS seminar #17: Tomorrow Laura Nuño de la Rosa (CSIC) will talk about "From Kinds to Characters: Rethinking the Concept of Sex in Evolutionary Biology'' 🕚 11:30-13:30 | 📍 Paseo Senda Rey 7, Humanities Building, Room B 💻 Attend online: blogs.uned.es/metis/contact/

🟢Seminario METIS #14: Mañana, Losner Briones @losnerbriones.com (UNED) hablará sobre “Extrapolación causal pluralista en las ciencias de la salud: Una actualización mecanicista’’ 🕚 11:30–13:30 | 📍 Paseo Senda Rey 7, Edificio de Humanidades, Aula B 💻 Asistencia online: blogs.uned.es/metis/contact/

📄 New article by Davide Vecchi (UNED, METIS): “Molecular evolutionary models and mechanistic explanation” Synthese, 207, 74 (2026). doi.org/10.1007/s112... 👉 You can access it here: rdcu.be/e2hIg

Os dejamos algunas fotos de la pasada sesión del Seminario BioKoinos-METIS metisuned.bsky.social presentada por @isanchezmoreno.bsky.social (UNED) y comentada por @josepgasol.com (UPCE) ¡Os esperamos para la próxima sesión! 📷 irenekoe97.bsky.social

🟢 Seminario de Doctorandos BioKoinos–METIS 🗓 4 feb. 2026 💠 Ponente: @isanchezmoreno.bsky.social (UNED) “Animales enculturados y el pidgin interespecie: un análisis desde la filosofía de la comunicación animal” 🔹 Comentarista: @josepgasol.com (UPCE) ➡️ Más info: blogs.uned.es/metis/ignaci...

❇️ CfA ended. Many thanks to all who submitted an abstract! Once the scientific committee reviews your contributions, the organising committee will notify you of the outcome. More info: sites.google.com/view/xivpbcs...

Want a chance to participate in Philosophy of Biology and Cognitive Sciences Workshop (PBCS)? Only a week and a half left till the CfA is closed! #xivpbcs #pbcs #philbio #cogsci bsky.app/profile/meti...

🚨Cuarta sesión del Seminario de doctorandos BioKoinos-METIS 25/26. Alberto Monterde Fuertes (UPV/EHU): «Dolor y nocicepción: Diferenciación funcional desde la autonomía biológica». Comenta: Leyre Celada-Marcén (UCM). 🔗Más info: blogs.uned.es/metis/albert...

📣Tercera sesión del Seminario de Doctorandos BioKoinos–METIS 25/26. Mañana a las 16h, Lorenzo Miláns del Bosch (UNED) hablará sobre “Simetrías gauge en física y ontología de las matemáticas”, con comentario a cargo de Turad Miguel Turad (UCM). Más info aquí🔗: blogs.uned.es/metis/lorenz...

Workshop on Authorship, Creation, and Normativity! 📅 16–17 December |🕙 10:00–17:45 |📍 Paseo Senda Rey 7, Edificio de Humanidades, Aula B. Organized by: Paloma Atencia, Nemesio García-Carril, Sergio Añón, Ramón Carnota, and Carlos Ibáñez. To attend online, please email ✉️ [email protected]

New publication alert! 🚨 José Antonio Pérez Escobar (aka JAPE), the spiritual guide of METIS PhD students, has just published in EJPS! “The making of a mathematical notion by analogy: the case of Hamiltonicity of (locally finite) infinite graphs” 🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I am incredibly honored to have been invited as one of the keynote speakers for the XIV PBCS! This long-standing initiative is very supportive of graduate students & early-career researchers, so I encourage everyone to submit their abstracts! See you in Madrid next year! #HPS #HPbio #cogsci #philsky

And this will be in June! Don't hesitate and participate of you work on #philbio or #cogsci!

This is tomorrow (in Spanish)!

Capitalism requires that we (working class people) "earn a living", which implies that we actually don't deserve to live unless we "earn" it by letting our surplus values be exploited by the capitalist ruling class. And this is all while having more than enough food, housing, etc., for everyone!

🟢This Thursday the 27th, our METIS member @ignasigil.bsky.social will talk about “The Epistemic and Zetetic Irrationality of Incessant Checking in OCD” at the SEFA 2025 Postgraduate Congress. More info: www.sefaweb.es/programacps/

🔥Segunda sesión del Seminario de Doctorandos BioKoinos-METIS 25/26. Alejandro Di Rienzo (@dirienzo.bsky.social)(USC) presenta “Mereología musical”, con comentario a cargo de Ramon Carnota (UNED). Más info 👉 blogs.uned.es/metis/alejan...

Next week the @uneduniv.bsky.social UNED (Madrid) will host the conference “Medical Humanities in Dialogue: On the Figure of the Patient". Several members of METIS will participate. Don't miss it! Hybrid format: Online and at Faculty of Psychology @unedpsicologia.bsky.social (C/ Juan del Rosal, 10)

Today, two of our METIS members and PhD students present at the PSA @philsci.bsky.social Around the World Conference 💠 Losner Briones (@losnerbriones.com): "From Causal Inference to Distributive Outcomes" 💠 Marco Portillo (@raciondeser.bsky.social): "Biology as Evidence for the A-Theory of Time"

Analytic metaphysics and My Chemical Romance as a way to start the day. Bon dimarts.

Marx as a philosophical biologist? Chris Shambaugh on young Marx's account of organismal agency, its relation to human life to the critique of capitalism. www.dialecticalsystems.eu/publications...

Des d'AVAMET volem mostrar tot el nostre suport a Victòria Rosselló, meteoròloga valenciana que sempre ha demostrat la seua professionalitat. La seua intervenció en À Punt el migdia del tràgic 29-O avisant que no s'isquera de casa ni s'agafara el cotxe va salvar moltes vides.

Un día como hoy, recordad que la #muerte no es consecuencia de la #vida sino de la pluricelularidad. El origen de la muerte fue 2.500 millones de años posterior al origen de la vida. Podríamos encontrar un planeta con vida, pero sin muerte. En #EnBuscaDeOtrasVidas (Ed. Critica, 2020):

📢 Vuelve el Seminario de Doctorandos BioKoinos-METIS! 🗓️ 29 oct. 16h (CET). Sala 0.6, Humanidades UNED & online 💠Gabriel Corda (CONICET, UBA): ¿Los animales reviven mentalmente los eventos pasados? Comenta: Elena Ostos (UGA) + info: goo.su/abUfX7e #MenteAnimal #MemoriaEpisódica

📢 ¡Vuelve el Seminario de doctorandos BioKoinos-METIS! 🗣️12 sesiones donde doctorandxs comparten sus investigaciones. 🕓Miércoles, 16h (CEST/CET) | Formato híbrido 👥Coord.: @jsramos.bsky.social (UNED) y Turad Miguel Turad (UCM) 📅Programa completo: blogs.uned.es/metis/semina...

#HPBio #histsci #histSTM #evobio #HPS

📣José Antonio Pérez Escobar has just delivered his talk “Petrification in Contemporary Set Theory: The Multiverse and the Later Wittgenstein” at the workshop David Bloor and the Contingency of the Formal Sciences in Nancy, France. More info 👉 poincare.univ-lorraine.fr/fr/manifesta...

Hoy hemos celebrado una comida para despedir a Francisco Álvarez, Manuel Sellés y Eduardo Bustos, fundadores del Departamento de LHFC de la UNED, que se jubilan. Gracias por todo vuestro legado. Paco, Manolo y Eduardo, esta siempre será vuestra casa💚

At the XI SEFA Congress in Seville, Losner Briones (@losnerbriones.com) (with Guillermo Marín Penella) presenting: “Two Extensions of Causal Extrapolation within Evidential Pluralism”

He sacado un jueguico de destruir bloques y pasar ratos muertos en la oficina llamado STAKBLOK! albertgonzalez.coffee/stakblok/ Pueden jugarlo desde el navegador en pc y también en movil!

👋📢 METIS Seminars 2025-2026! Hi 😊 As every year, we’re back with our weekly philosophy seminars. They are one of METIS’s main activities, and everyone is more than welcome to join. Here’s a thread on who we are, what we do, and how you can take part 👇🧵

Upshot: NNES report to need twice as long to read English-language papers and to prepare English presentations. Even among highly proficient NNES (C1–C2 level), ~60% report having avoided asking questions at events due to concerns about their English (compared to 16% of NES). #philsky

Today is #WorldCancerResearchDay. I wouldn't be here without it. It's truly necessary to improve patient survival rates, quality of life, early detection, less invasive methods... And it mainly comes from public sources. It's not the time neither to defund nor to depend on private hands.

Check our new preprint on active surface simulations of amoeboid migration! We show how this mode of migration can be mechanically guided by gradients in friction, viscosity, pressure, or confinement, and even by nearby cells. Work led by Hanna Gertack and Sebastian Aland. arxiv.org/abs/2509.11801

Gotta strive for a non-violent philosophy of biology ✌️

Pet parrots which typically live alone (whilst those in the wild live in large flocks) were given the technology to call each other. They would use it for up to three hours a day, and developed favourite friends 💔 on.ft.com/3K05vhS

"Political violence" is a term that exists to suggest a moral distinction between "violence against politicians" and "violence by politicians" - so that one can be condemned while the other can be normalized. Obviously, no such distinction exists in reality: violence is violence.

This polling discrepancy is a huge concern when you consider how polls influence political behaviour. Last year, @mbarnfield.bsky.social and I published a paper about the dangers of this exact situation - a 'mixed-poll environment' with conflicting estimates academic.oup.com/ijpor/articl...

New publication by our postdoc Margarida Hermida (@unisalzburg.bsky.social) and James Ladyman (University of Bristol) on physical explanation and the autonomy of biology: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #philsky #philsci

Can a single cell learn? Even without a brain, some microbes show simple forms of cognition. Can this basal cognition be engineered? Check our new paper with @jordiplam.bsky.social on the minimal synthetic circuits & their cognitive limits. @drmichaellevin.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🧑🏼‍🏫 Vamos con el primer punto del #PactoXLaCiencia 📄 Estatuto del Personal de Investigación (EPI) @cienciagob.bsky.social @dianamorantr.bsky.social 👇🏼🧵

(For Spanish-speaking PhD students in philosophy) 📢🚨 Call for abstrats para aquellxs que estéis haciendo un doctorado en filosofía de la ciencia, epistemología, filosofía de la mente, filosofía del lenguaje, metafísica analítica, lógica o áreas afines. (Hilo🧵⬇️)