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modeltransfer.bsky.social MODEL TRANSFER ERC Project @modeltransfer.bsky.social · 9h
We are pleased to announce a Call for Papers for the Topical Collection “Scientific Progress via Model Transfer: Conditions, Limits, and Failures”, to be published in the European Journal for Philosophy of Science.
Guest Editors: Karim Baraghith and Edoardo Peruzzi
Submission deadline: 30 June 2027
November 3, 2026 at 3:50 PM
alejandrofabregastejeda.com
#HPbio #histsci #evosky
October 28, 2026 at 10:56 AM
msuarez.bsky.social
Beyond sad. RIP. www.thetimes.com/world/europe...

#philsci #philbio #hpbio
Days after Spain crash, Cambridge professor’s family learn she died
Relatives of Marta Shahbazi say she ‘lived for science and her kids’. Now she is among at least 69 killed in a train disaster enraging the nation
www.thetimes.com
November 1, 2026 at 12:35 AM
dsbrooks.bsky.social
Please consider applying to this if you're interested in theory in biology, including where philosophy can have lasting impacts in biological reasoning! These meetings have been among the most rigorous and intellectually rewarding venues I've ever visited. #hpbio #philsci #evodevo
veniceevodevo.bsky.social Venice Summer School in Evolutionary Systems Biology @veniceevodevo.bsky.social · 8d
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN!

Venice Evo Devo Summer School 2027:

Biological organization and the evolution of form

August 22-27, 2027
Centro Cultural Don Orione Artigianelli, Venice

Register at:
meetings.embo.org/event/27-bio...

Deadline is March 15, 2027.

#VeniceEvoDevo
November 2, 2026 at 4:49 PM
alejandrofabregastejeda.com
#HPBio #philsci #philjobs
 pierrickbourrat.bsky.social @pierrickbourrat.bsky.social · 9d
Come work with us! Paul Griffiths, David Raubnheimer, and I are hiring a three-year Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Philosophy of Biology at Macquarie University, working at the intersection of Philosophy of Biology, evolutionary medicine, and theoretical biology.
October 26, 2026 at 8:09 AM
clpskuleuven.bsky.social
If you are interested in these topics, take a look at the two manuscripts that will be presented:

Selfishness is Not the Reason Evolutionary AI is Dangerous philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/30...

The Matrix Account of Niche Construction
philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/30...

#HPbio #HPS
philsci-archive.pitt.edu
October 29, 2026 at 11:53 PM
dsbrooks.bsky.social
I'm pleased to announce that Wimsatt's Festschrift SI at Acta Biotheoretica has several new contributions to peruse! One is by @plutynski.bsky.social and Ge Fang looking at Bill's (and others') work on scaffolding: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsci #philbio #hpbio
October 28, 2026 at 12:07 PM
dsbrooks.bsky.social
Ugh! Sorry Morgan, that was totally my bad! Here is (again!) the right link, just to be sure: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Also & again: This is an excellent paper on robustness, drawing on Donald Campbell's archival materials (!!) to track Campbell's influence on Bill Wimsatt. #hpbio #philsci
William Wimsatt, Donald Campbell, and the Idea of Robustness - Acta Biotheoretica
In this paper, I chart the influence of social scientist Donald Campbell’s work on William Wimsatt’s ideas of robustness reasoning. One reason is that Campbell’s work is less familiar in the broader p...
link.springer.com
October 29, 2026 at 8:23 AM
alejandrofabregastejeda.com
Today is the deadline to submit your abstracts for our minisymposium, 'Life As It Could Be: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on #ALife'! So wrap up those abstracts and come join us! It's going to be a fun event! 🦠🖥️

🔗 hiw.kuleuven.be/clps/events/...

#HPBio #philsci #philsky #academicsky #AI #evosky 🧪
Poster for “Life As It Could Be: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Artificial Life,” a mini-symposium at KU Leuven on 7–8 December 2026. The design features 3D-rendered zebrafish embryos from Bart Smeets’s lab, with blue and coral-colored cells nestled within pale, rounded embryonic structures. The poster lists six invited speakers and five organizers, including researchers from KU Leuven and other international universities. The event takes place at the Bioscience Center, KU Leuven, with free admission. A QR code links to the symposium website and call for abstracts.
October 23, 2026 at 9:20 AM
celsoneto.bsky.social
Are you interested in yet another talk about race and racialization in contemporary science?

This Tuesday (5pm BST), Jonathan Khan is giving on on-line talk on the weaponization of racialized DNA.

To register, follow the link below.

#philsky #STS #HPBio
hugeraproject.bsky.social HUGERA @hugeraproject.bsky.social · 15d
Tomorrow Prof. Jonathan Kahn (Northeastern University) will continue our Fall speaker series with the talk “The Legal Weaponization of Racialized DNA" on October 20th @ 5 PM BST. You can register to attend via zoom here: hugera.org/lecture-seri...
Jonathan Kahn (JD, PhD, Professor of Law and Biology at Northeastern University) gives a talk titled "The Legal Weaponization of Racialized DNA." Abstract: A White man in Washington State tries to use the results of his DNA ancestry test to claim access to minority set-aside contracts. A conservative federal Circuit Court judge in Texas invokes the work of an anti-racist evolutionary biologist to argue that since race is not genetic then racial categories are arbitrary and cannot be used as legitimate legal classifications for affirmative action programs. In these cases, and others, genetic knowledge is increasingly being weaponized to make legal and political claims to racial identity in ways that have profound implications for race and the law. New genetic technologies do not resolve these legal and political issues. They become, rather, a terrain upon which long-standing debates are carried out in new ways. Or perhaps they are better understood as both already shaped by and in turn shaping these arguments. The scientific impetus to explore the relation between race and genetics cannot be understood apart from evolving understandings of race itself as a means to order social relations and allocate power.
October 19, 2026 at 6:28 PM
andrameneganzin.bsky.social
Entra anche tu a far parte della rete PIPoLS! La nostra raccolta contatti è sempre aperta.

Ti aspettiamo 😉

#filosofiadellascienza #philsky #lifesciences #hpbio #evosky
pipols-italy.bsky.social PIPoLS: People of the Italian Philosophy of Life Sciences @pipols-italy.bsky.social · 18d
🔗🤝🚀C'è sempre tempo per entrare nella rete Pipols! 🌿🧫🧪

Se sei interessat* alle nostre attività, vuoi restare aggiornat* sugli eventi della community o semplicemente sei curios* di conoscerci, compila il form e verrai inserit* nella mailing list 👇

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Raccolta contatti - diventa membro di PIPoLS!
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October 16, 2026 at 9:37 AM
theramseylab.bsky.social
We’re happy to announce that @lljschoenmakers.bsky.social has joined the Ramsey Lab! ludoschoenmakers.nl

Ludo will work at the intersection of philosophy, computational biology & empirical research as part of our Boundaries of Life project: research.kuleuven.be/portal/en/pr...

#philsci #HPbio 🧪
Photograph of Ludo L.J. Schoenmakers.
October 13, 2026 at 5:30 PM
alisabokulich.bsky.social
The submission deadline for the International Society for the History, Philosophy & Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB) 2027 conference in Argentina has been extended to *October 29th, 2026*
#HPS #STS #HPBio #EvoBio
congressin.com/e/ishpssb202...
October 11, 2026 at 4:07 PM
alejandrofabregastejeda.com
Last week, my dear colleague Guido I. Prieto gave a talk on our joint work on model organisms & scientific representation.

📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWUG...

For those interested, I’ve linked the 📃s below 👇

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#philsci #HPbio 🧪
CEFISES Seminar, Guido Prieto: Are model organisms models?
YouTube video by CEFISES at UCLouvain
www.youtube.com
October 9, 2026 at 2:53 PM
marshall0i.bsky.social
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liamtaylor.bsky.social Liam U. Taylor @liamtaylor.bsky.social · Oct 3
Thread for bangers from The Dialectical Biologist
October 6, 2026 at 8:19 PM
roto-rub.bsky.social
New semester, new lecture series! This time with the fantastic @federicabocchi.bsky.social, @rossbrooks.co.uk, @drandyflack.bsky.social and others. Join us online on Mondays at 4pm (CET). Just click here to register: www.pe.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/philosophie/...
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Poster for the RUB Lecture Series of the Chair of History and Philosophy of Science. Find all talks here: https://www.pe.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/philosophie/i/wtwg/colloquium/hpls.html.de We also have additional reading group meetings on 19 October, 30 November and 18 January. To participate, just write an e-mail to jan.baedke[at]rub.de
October 6, 2026 at 2:18 PM
alejandrofabregastejeda.com
#HPBio #philsci #philsky #evobio
October 3, 2026 at 3:52 PM
roto-rub.bsky.social
New paper on why we we are still so limited in predicting cancer risk. By @sergeishevchenko.bsky.social
#hps #philsci #hpbio
sergeishevchenko.bsky.social Sergei Shevchenko @sergeishevchenko.bsky.social · Oct 2
We are all impressed by models that integrate tens of thousands of biological variables. But here is the awkward question: if cancer research has so much data and such sophisticated models, why are we still so limited in predicting individual risk?
October 2, 2026 at 2:19 PM
theramseylab.bsky.social
It is widely held that fitness is affected by population size, 'n.' But Grant Ramsey shows, in a new #openaccess paper in @jrnlofphil.bsky.social, that this familiar claim rests on both mathematical and conceptual mistakes.🔥

👇📃 doi.org/10.5840/jphi...

#philsci #HPbio #evobio #philsky #HPS 🧪
Promotional black-and-white image announcing the publication of an article in The Journal of Philosophy. The text displays the journal title, the article title "Much Ado About ‘N'othing," and the author’s name, Grant Ramsey, in a minimalist layout.
October 2, 2026 at 3:28 PM
yavannakemi.bsky.social
I'm finally reading Denis Walsh's "Organisms, agency, and evolution" (2015) and some footnotes are just hilarious! 😆
#HPBio #PhilSci #PhDSky
Screenshot from one of the pages of the book. In the main text, it says "Cilia are an adaptive response only to the way that paramecia experience the viscosity of the water, and a caudal peduncle is a response only to the way that a porpoise experiences it. A caudal peduncle on a paramecium would be about as adaptive as cilia on a porpoise." The corresponding footnote reads "I chose an example that sounds cilia on porpoise.". I laughed out loud on the train when reading this :D
October 2, 2026 at 11:40 AM
thebjps.bsky.social
Just accepted:

The Identity of Stem Cell Kinds
– Guglielmo Militello, Louis Paré, Eve Gazave & Lucie Laplane

Abstract in alt text or read it here:
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

#philsci #philsky #hpbio
ABSTRACT. Although they share a same function and definition, there is a wide diversity across stem cells, reflected by the fact that stem cells are categorized into various types and subtypes. This diversity among stem cells raises a key philosophical question: do stem cells belong to a natural kind? Claims and arguments made by biologists and philosophers, far from converging toward a consensual response, highlight the need for more (interdisciplinary) investigation to advance this question. In response to this challenge, we explore the hypothesis that a phylogenetic approach may offer a productive framework for addressing these conceptual tensions. After describing the strengths and limitations of such a strategy, we discuss how it can advance fields like regenerative medicine and cancer therapies by clarifying stem cell diversity and improving therapeutic strategies.
October 2, 2026 at 9:45 AM
roto-rub.bsky.social
This semester's Colloquium of History & Philosophy of Science will start in 2 weeks! We have 9 amazing speakers and great topics, so come around to room GA 1/128 at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de and join us for great talks and interesting discussions! 🤗
#HistSci #PhilSci #HPBio #HPS
Poster for the Colloquium of History & Philosophy of Science. It takes place on Thursdays at 6pm CET in GA 1/128 at Ruhr University Bochum. Two of the talks will be hybrid talks and will be streamed online via zoom. The Colloquium is organized by Prof. Dr. Jan Baedke, Sen. Prof. Dr. Helmut Pulte and PD Dr. Rudolf Meer.
October 1, 2026 at 3:27 PM
hscottfordsmand.bsky.social
Some exciting stuff happening in Oxford this term 👀

AI and death and dying | understanding cancer | prosthetics, the human and the monstrous - all relevant for #philmed #philsci #hpbio folks
(I may be biased for the prosthetics workshop 🦾🦿🫀🦴)
oxmedhum.bsky.social Oxford Medical Humanities @oxmedhum.bsky.social · Sep 30
Our term card for Michaelmas '26 is ready. A few details still missing, but please check our website for relevant updates.

@torchoxford.bsky.social @uehiro.ox.ac.uk
September 30, 2026 at 5:34 PM
localmicrobes.bsky.social
After a workshop in March in Milan, we are meeting next week in the woods of Leusden (ISVW) to continue our discussion of the epistemic and ethical challenges in microbiome and exposome research!
Thanks to the Descartes Centre's Seed Money, this collaborative work can thrive!
#hpbio #philbio 🐋🌱
September 28, 2026 at 11:25 AM
alisabokulich.bsky.social
“People tend to think about biology in terms of on & off...But her work showed that altho 2 identical cells might have same levels of a protein in single snapshot, that measurement doesn’t show whether protein is rising or falling—& the timing & rhythm of those patterns matter more"
#process #hpbio
How Cancer Cells Decide Their Fate
magazine.hms.harvard.edu
September 25, 2026 at 11:36 AM