New OA paper @royalsocietypublishing.org: What can we learn from bonobos and bottlenose dolphins about the evolution of between-group cooperation? royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article... Lovely collab with @lirsamuni.bsky.social Martin Surbeck and Richard Connor.

We are starting the second day with a talk by David Ludwig on pluralism as transgression! @roto-rub.bsky.social #philbio #hps 🦫🌿🦠🪴

BREAKING: The blackout in Spain and Portugal in April 2025 did NOT happen because of renewables. The final ENTSO-E report on last year's Iberian blackout is out — and it's essential reading for anyone working on the energy transition. www.entsoe.eu/news/2026/03...

So great to see my new book How Plague Got Rats: Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic, published OA @hopkinspress.bsky.social next May, has got a cover! www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

A brilliant article by Caroline Mburu on Bureaucracy and Biopolitics of Multispecies Relations in South-Central Tanzania www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I'm already very excited to read it!!

Super excited to announce our big annual conference! 🥳 "Caring for Non-Humans: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Care among Animals, the Environment, and AI" 📍Prague, October 12-14 Organized by @johndorsch.bsky.social & yours truly 😇 Please share widely! 🙏 cetep.eu/news/cfa-car...

Do non-human animals represent time? New Element in the #PhilBio series by Angelica Kaufmann—free to download until March 16! Kaufmann argues that temporal cognition is widespread across many animal species & advances comparative analyses 👇📕 www.cambridge.org/core/element... #evosky #HPS #cogsci

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

Just starting and you can attend remotely! #philsky #philsci

New piece out today in #Sagacity Magazine! I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Chris Letheby at #UWA about his work in the #Philosophy of #Psychedelics. I had a lot of fun with this one, and I hope you enjoy reading it too. Part II (with more questions!) is coming soon ✨ #philsky #philsci

New piece out today in #Sagacity Magazine! I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Chris Letheby at #UWA about his work in the #Philosophy of #Psychedelics. I had a lot of fun with this one, and I hope you enjoy reading it too. Part II (with more questions!) is coming soon ✨ #philsky #philsci

Chimpanzees have culture. Do they also have cultural heritage worthy of protection? @simonfitzpatrick.bsky.social and I argue they do in our new paper, because their cultural practices create value. link.springer.com/epdf/10.3758...

”Xenophobia is, then, spiritually speaking, an illness, a failure to see people as God does, to treat them as God demands they be treated.” CC: Purportedly Christian politicians everywhere.

My new paper is out! lnkd.in/d7QhdqVD Publishing on racism against people racialised as Eastern Europeans and its impact on health is not easy. I’m deeply grateful to everyone who supported me throughout this process. #philsci #racism #health

The CFP for #AusSTS2026 is now live! This year’s theme is ‘Antipodean Interruptions’. We invite submissions for presentations, written workshop papers, meet-ups, and Making and Doing sessions. Deadline is Friday 3 April (11:59pm NZST). Full details on our ✨NEW WEBSITE✨ aussts.org/aussts2026

Luis Favela and I just finished editing a special issue on dynamical cognitive science for topiCS. The great contributors of the issue talk a little bit about what happened in the last 30 years, where we are now, and where we are heading to. Here's the intro (open access): doi.org/10.1111/tops...

If you had to teach just one philosophy of biology class to general philosophy students, what would you focus on? What reading would you assign? #philsci #philbio #hps #philsky

Final days to submit an abstract to #PBCS2026! If you are an early-career scholar looking for a supportive environment to discuss your work & meet international peers, consider applying! Another plus this year: The workshop will be in Madrid! sites.google.com/view/xivpbcs... #HPbio #philsci #philsky

It was a pleasure to have you here (even if virtually!). We hope to see you again soon! 🍀

Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out. As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class. Here's what happened:

Dia 10.02, Pedro (@93pedrobravo.bsky.social) e eu estaremos organizando um book symposium sobre o livro Transformative Transdisciplinarity, de D. Ludwig ( @davidludwig.bsky.social) e C. El-Hani. O livro é maravilhoso. Não deixem de se inscrever pelo link: bit.ly/4jtM3rD.

Our new paper (with @biotay.bsky.social) is out and on the cover story of @currentbiology.bsky.social !!!! Veronika, a Carinthian mountain cow flexibly uses a “multi-purpose tool” to scratch herself. A video and more information will follow in the comments. www.cell.com/current-biol...

📢CALL FOR PROPOSALS: CSSM Conference 2026 We are excited to invite submissions for the CSSM conference, taking place in Helsinki, Finland, 19-22 October 2026 as an in-person gathering! 📅Submission deadline: 30 Jan 2026 🦠More information on the conference website: blogs.helsinki.fi/cssm-confere...

🚨XIV PBCS: DEADLINE EXTENDED! 🔗More info: sites.google.com/view/xivpbcs...

I had a really amazing time in Santiago de Compostela for "Philosophy of Agency in a More-than-human World", organized by Xavier de Donato and Pablo Seoane from USC. I presented a work I am just starting to write, got great feedback, and learned A LOT. #philsci #philsky #morethanhuman

Reminder 📢 We are advertising a postdoctoral position in #philbio or #philphysics to work on an interdisciplinary project that adopts the lens of self-organization & active matter to explore the boundary between living and nonliving systems👇 www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... #philjobs #philsci #evosky

I think England really likes me. Look at this sunny blue sky, on the eve of the December solstice. Or maybe she’s just deceiving me…

Happy to have taken part in the founding of the Iberoamerican Society for Embodied and Situated Cognition (SICCS) in Granada. Excited to see this interdisciplinary community grow. ✨👩🏽‍💻 #EmbodiedCognition #SICCS #philsky #philsci wpd.ugr.es/~filolab/wor...

Thank you @luciacneco.bsky.social for your time and expertise in discussing “Multispecies social relationships, kinship, and environmental care” at our most recent International Postdoc Forum event earlier this month. Recording available:

Affective Atmospheres 18–19 Feb 2026, Glasgow Supported by Royal Institute of Philosophy In-person conference bringing together philosophy, anthropology, geography, art, architecture & psychology. Register forms.gle/Xv2ZXmbovtvK... More info placememory.net/affective-at... Art Jinjoon Lee ©2025

🚨CFA for the XIV PBCS that will be held at UNED (Madrid) 18-19 June 2026, where several of our METIS members are part of the organisation committee: Losner Briones (@losnerbriones.com), Jorge Ramos (@jsramos.bsky.social) and Cristian Saborido. More info: sites.google.com/view/xivpbcs...

The problem with accepting invites to conferences is that I then have to write papers for those conferences.

Dr. Yasmin Haddad (Postdoctoral Fellow at UQAM) continues our online speaker series with the talk "When imprecision is a bad thing: the case of ancestry" on December 2nd. You can register to attend via zoom here: hugera.org/lecture-seri...

On Dec 3–4, I’ll join the workshop “Knowing life forms and their contexts” at the University of Tübingen, organized by @matthiaskramm.bsky.social and Thomas Potthast. It explores how Western bioscience, Indigenous knowledge, and TEK understand living beings and their relations w the world. #philsci

Next week is the Workshop on Minimal Cognition at the University of Valencia.

Reminder: webinar tomorrow. International postdoc forum. "Interspecific Social Relationships, Kinship and Environmental Care" by Lucia C. Neco, University of Murcia, Spain. @luciacneco.bsky.social Wednesday, 19 November 2025, 12:15pm CST (UTC-6) Zoom webinar link: z.umn.edu/IPDF25-2

Excited to present a paper I’m working on at the @mcps-philsci.bsky.social Postdoc Forum, and I’d love your feedback! “Interspecific Social Relationships, Kinship and Environmental Care” 19 Nov 2025, 12:15pm CST(UTC-6) Commentator: Ben McMyler (MCPS) Let me know if you need a link! #philsci #philsky

If you know an undergrad that would like to spend the summer doing research in my philosophy of biology lab, encourage them to apply to the U’s SPUR program. Includes a $5,000 stipend and subsidized housing to work in my lab. Details and how to apply here: tinyurl.com/SPUR-PhilBio...

Just discovered an #ISHPSSB25 photo gallery! If you didn’t know about it, you’re welcome :) Here I’m having a great conversation with @profmatthaber.bsky.social and @rebeccacmann.bsky.social about individuality in social beings! #philsci #philsky ishpssb2025.icbas.up.pt/moments-from...

Join us for More-than-Human Sensory Worlds, the first in our hybrid 'More-than-Human/ities' seminar series, a new collaboration between UoB's CEH & EUC at York University, Toronto. Come explore the shared sensory worlds of human and nonhuman animals! 🦅🐇🌃 Wed 19th Nov 17:45–19:00 Online & in-person

Which animals do you co-construct behaviours with? Read our new paper and get inspired! @anthrofuentes.bsky.social Thank you to @carlsbergfondet.dk, @aiasdk.bsky.social and the John F. Templeton Foundation

Have you registered for #AAHPSSS2025 yet? The conference will be held in hybrid format at the University of Queensland, 3–5 December 2025. It’s a small community, which makes it a great opportunity for really good feedback and collaboration. #HPS #philsky #philsci More: @aahpsss.bsky.social

Snippets of Dr. Aditya Ponkshe explaining the ongoing experiments at #MintLab — sharing insights and setups with Dr. Hugh Desmond during his visit last week! 🌿 www.um.es/mintlab/inde...

"Spherical cows and bipedal goats: perspectives on mathematical models in biology". 13 and 14/11/2025 (Salle Jaurès, ENS-PSL, rue d'Ulm, Paris). More info about the event: montevil.org/talks/2025--...

PSA is in the process of launching a subdivision focused on postdoctoral scholars! Help shape its mission and priorities—take our 5-minute survey here, All interested PSA members are welcome to join the conversation!

This is just sooo enjoyable

Just a reminder that the @ishpssb.bsky.social 2026 Off-Year Workshops CFP is still OPEN! It’s a way to support community members to meet in smaller settings and expand the society’s reach. Apply below if you’re organizing a workshop before early 2027! #philsky #philsci #biology #hps #histsci #sts

@leedsprhs.bsky.social Our vacancy for a Lecturer or Associate Professor in Social Philosophy has now been advertised: jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx.... Please spread the word! The closing date for applications is 5 Nov 2025.

Starting now!