📣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

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

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🧵⬇️)

Well said.

🔴Medidas del Gobierno contra el genocidio: -Embargo total de armas a Israel. -Prohibición de acceso de barcos desde Israel. -Espacio aéreo cerrado a aviación israelí. -Prohibido acceso personas participantes en el genocidio. (SIGUE)

If you are curious about vitamins or natural kinds in history of science check out my new paper: “What is it about vitamins? Vitamins as investigative kinds” in Philosophy of Science 🎉 www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @philscijournal.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk @assemblinglife.bsky.social

Can cellular life be created in the lab? We are not yet there, but clearly getting closer! Check this paper where a new scenario for protocell replication is presented by Job Boekhoven and co-workers @manlius.bsky.social www.cell.com/chem/pdf/S24...

Today I'm discussing randomised controlled trials and pilot studies. How do these designs assess redistributive policies, such as basic income? We'll find out!

You deserve rest 💙 #art #comics

A lot of the continued confusions about what can and cannot be autopoietic/autonomous, whether this is unique to life, whether machines could qualify, the status of computational simulations etc. stem from precisely the issues and ambiguities she identifies.

Did you know that chemosensitive motile E. coli can efficiently explore nontrivial mazes in times much shorter than a no-memory (Markovian) walk would predict, and can collectively escape from a fractal topology? Now you do. Amazing! #ComplexSystems 🦠🧪🌐💡 journals.aps.org/prx/abstract...

This summer's raging wildfires in Spain are the red spike in this graph. atmosphere.copernicus.eu/copernicus-i...

Cerramos el curso con alegría y muchas razones para celebrar. Gracias a todas las personas que hacen posible METIS, chin chin y larga vida! ✨ ¡Seguimos!

📣Here is the schedule of talks for the SLMFCE. Remember that you can find more information at the following link ➡️ https://solofici.org/vi-congreso-de-postgrado-de-la-slmfce-2/