🍃BioKoinos Research Group begins a new academic year with new members, ongoing research stays, seminar series, and more. Thank you to everyone who follows and supports us. Keep up with our activities on this account and at biokoinos.org @filosofiaucm.bsky.social

Turad Miguel Turad, PhD student at Biokoinos, is starting a three-month research stay on the project "Spins to Birds to Traders: Model Adaptation in the Study of Critical Behavior" (MACBeh), funded by the European Research Council, at the University of Salzburg (PLUS). @unisalzburg.bsky.social

Carolina Cuadrado Bastos, PhD student at Biokoinos, is starting a three-month research stay at the Epistemology of Climate Change centre in Switzerland. The group investigates the philosophy of science and the ethical/normative dimensions of climate and environmental challenges. philoclimate.ch

🌱 We’re beginning the week with some good news! Laura Menatti @lauramenatti.bsky.social has joined Biokoinos Research Group. Welcome, Laura!

¡Próximo BioKoinos Research Seminar! El próximo lunes, 5 de octubre, David Ricote Hernández presentará "El Genotipo extendido: una interpretación integradora". 📍11:00 a 13:00h en el Seminario 30 (Facultad de Filosofía, Edificio A, 3ª Planta, UCM)

¡Enhorabuena al premiado y a los finalistas del TFM premiado por la SLMFCE 2024-2025!

Juan Jacobo Ibarra, estudiante de doctorado de BioKoinos defenderá su tesis doctoral "Los giros pragmatista y perspectivista en el debate sobre el realismo científico: hacia una reconfiguración del problema de la relación entre ciencia, realidad y verdad" este próximo 23 de septiembre🍀

Last monday, we had the pleasure of welcoming Halley Caro Fernández (@maxplanck.de) to the Biokoinos Research Seminar! Halley talked to us about “monstrous” lizards 🦎, development and how we might rethink biological variation.

Last week, Vanessa Triviño Alonso (URJC, BioKoinos) took part in the workshop ‘From Life to Mind: The Return of Hylomorphism in Embodied Cognition’ to speak on ‘Metaphysical tools for explaining the priority of organisms: anchoring and hylomorphism’.

¡Empezamos el curso con un nuevo BioKoinos Research Seminar! El próximo lunes, 14 de septiembre, Halley Caro Fernández presentará "¿Lagartijas monstruosas? Estudiar el desarrollo para (re)pensar la variación". 📍12:00 a 14:00h en el Seminario 36 (Facultad de Filosofía, Edificio A, 3ª Planta, UCM)

Many months of hard work have come to an end 🎉Last week we were at #ECAP12, supporting the organisation. Several PhD students from our group presented their research internationally, exchanging knowledge and experiences with researchers from around the world 🌍🎓 @ecap12th.bsky.social

❇️ El seminario está abierto a doctorandos y doctorandas de cualquier institución, con o sin afiliación a grupos de investigación. 👉 Para más información, no dudéis en escribir a los coordinadores: 🔹Irene @irene-adansi.bsky.social: ireadan@ucm.es 🔹Josep @josepgasol.com: josep.gasol@upce.cz

📢 Abierta la convocatoria para participar en el Seminario de Doctorandos BioKoinos–METIS 26/27, un espacio para presentar y discutir trabajos en un entorno colaborativo y constructivo. 📅 Fecha límite para enviar propuestas: 13/09/26 Formulario de inscripción: forms.gle/FsJ9L4ED33EA...

PHD Seminar BioKoinos-METIS 2026-2027

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Lucia C. Neco (UM): The prospect of plant sociality #XIVPBCS

Carlos Esteban-Jiménez (UCM): The cognitive dimension of experimental niche construction: an epistemological problem? #XVIPBCS

⭐️Keynote speaker season⭐️ José Antonio Pérez-Escobar (UNED/ @metisuned.bsky.social) Mathematical explanations in biology: A Neo-Aristotelian proposal

Tommaso Zorzini (UniMi): Reciprocal causation in EES is still unidirectional and diachronic #XIVPBCS

Elias Cohen (EHESS/Jean-Nicod Paris): Situating mental representation: Perry’s “Thoght without representation” in an enactivist context #XIVPBCS

David Sánchez (UGR): Teleology without representation: meaning and function in ecological physiology #XIVPBCS

Benedetta Cogo (UOW): Keeping it rational in the philosophy of psychiatry #XIVPBCS

Miguel Gramage (UV/ @vlc-lab.bsky.social ): Specification in use: a modal account of ecological information #XIVPBCS

Ainhoa Rodríguez-Muguruza (EHU): Menstrual health as rhythmic plasticity #XIVPBCS

There's something about hanging posters ye olde way that sparks a little charm. Remember! The XIV Philosophy of Biology and Cognitive Sciences Workshop #xivpbcs is this week! #hps #philbio #cogsci #hpbio

Astrid Reng (LMU Munich): Mental health and options for mental action #XIVPBCS

James Turner (Umeå): Low mood, proper function and dysfunction: the case against depression as a natural kind #XIVPBCS

⭐️Keynote Speaker season⭐️ Enara García (SDU): The Path-dependent Mind: Individuation, vulnerability, and the ontogeneis of mental disorder #XIVPBCS

Andreas T. Pommer (KU): Population-level representations and computations afford causal explanations #XIVPBCS

📣 The XIV PBCS (Philosophy of Biology and Cognitive Sciences) Workshop is next week!!! #philbio #cogsci #hps 🗓️ 18-19 June 2026, at UNED (Madrid). Don't miss it! ℹ️ More info: sites.google.com/view/xivpbcs #pbcs #xivpbcs #14pbcs

Last week, students from the BioKoinos group, Leyre Celada-Marcén (PhD student) & Emaus Torralba (Master's student), attended the Bordeaux Summer School: Philosophy in Biology and Medicine. Here are a few photos to mark the occasion, with Scott Gilbert 📷✨ Many thanks to @philinbiomed.bsky.social