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.

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/

Happy to kick off the summer with the news that I'll be presenting papers next week and over the coming months at: - VI SLMFCE Graduate Conference (@slmfce.bsky.social) - EPSA 25 (@epsaphilsci.bsky.social) - XI SEFA 2025 (@sefa2025.bsky.social) - PSA Around the World 2025 (@philsci.bsky.social)

👋✨Our PhD students, Losner Briones (@losnerbriones.com), Laura Delgado-Verges, and Ignasi Gil (@ignasigil.bsky.social), will be giving talks at the upcoming VI SLMFCE Graduate Conference, which will be held at UNED (Madrid) from the 23rd to the 25th.

✦ 1. ¿Alguna vez te has preguntado si el tiempo es ilusorio? ¿O si el futuro está abierto? Mi #HiloTesis explora si la biología puede ayudarnos en estas disputas metafísicas sobre la naturaleza del tiempo. @crueuniversidades.bsky.social @filarramendi.bsky.social ky.social @uneduniv.bsky.social

Every biological entity is unique; no two are exactly alike. Is this a trivial observation, or a profound metaphysical claim about the living world? Read my new paper & find out! It deals with Mayr's "Population Thinking"; one of the most familiar yet tragically misunderstood ideas in all of biology

📣Próximo seminario de doctorandos BioKoinos-METIS con Irene Adán Sánchez-Infantes (UCM): «Deepfakes, social kinds y epistemología feminista: Repensando la IA generativa». Más info aquí ➡️https://blogs.uned.es/metis/irene-adan-sanchez-infantes/

Encantado de haber presentado mi trabajo sobre el uso de la IA en la comunicación animal para el programa de Carne Cruda junto con @isanchezmoreno.bsky.social y @susanamonso.com Pocas cosas tan emocionantes como hacer sonar a los cachalotes en directo! 🌊🐋🌌

1/ Last week, @isanchezmoreno.bsky.social and I presented our posters at ARED in Stirling. We were lucky to exchange ideas with brilliant philosophers working on animal communication, like @giuliapalazzolo.bsky.social, Mike Dacey or Luca Di Vincenzo

👋🏽 On Tuesday, June 10, 2025, at 11:30 AM (CEST), join us for the talk "Quantum Logics Beyond Physics" by José Alejandro Fernández Cuesta, Michele Piazzai & Umberto Rivieccio. More info here ➡️https://blogs.uned.es/metis/seminar/fdez-cuesta-piazzai-rivieccio/

The 6th Postgraduate Conference of the SLMFCE will take place on June 24-25 (hybrid format). Registration and more info below ⤵️

👋Our colleague Ignacio Sánchez-Moreno has just published a paper in Mètode titled "Ethics and Pets: Home Beyond Species"🐕More info here➡️https://turia.uv.es/index.php/Metode/article/view/28372

📣Miguel Borrajo Reinaldo (UAM) and Ignacio Sánchez-Moreno (UNED) will present their work on the philosophy of animal communication at the Rational Animal (ARED) conference, held at the Stirling University ➡️https://ared-conference.stir.ac.uk/

👋🏽 On Tuesday, May 13, 2025, at 11:30 AM (CEST), join us for Orsola Stancampiano's talk titled "A Chance to Create Photographic Metaphor". More info here ➡️https://blogs.uned.es/metis/seminar/orsola-stancampiano/