A huge thank you to everyone who took part in the Multiscale Workshop and made it such a lively and rewarding day! We are also very grateful to @hpscambridge.bsky.social and @camphilsoc.bsky.social for their generous support. We hope this is only the beginning of many more conversations to come!
Cassandra Yang
@cassandrazieyang.bsky.social
PhD student in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. Former developmental biologist🐠, amateur beekeeper🐝
Happening tomorrow! If you are joining us online, you can do so via this link: teams.microsoft.com/meet/3453882... The workshop programme is available here: drive.google.com/file/d/1Mkuz...
another poster I designed 🐛✨
Our 30th Rausing Lecture takes place on 4 June. Join Dr Stephanie Dick from Simon Fraser University, at St John's College, Cambridge, to hear her discuss 'Looking for Intelligence in Minds, Machines and Mathematics'. 📆4 June 2026 🕞15:30-17:00 Book your place: www.hps.cam.ac.uk/news-events/...
How should models across scales be connected and evaluated? Who gets explanatory priority — the tissue or the cell? What challenges do imaging and sequencing techniques bring to data alignment? We are hosting a one-day philosophy of biology workshop in Cambridge to address exactly these questions:
Some posters I designed for the Cambridge Lectures in the History of Medicine. Always glad to have a creative outlet in academic setting!
Reading group alert!🔔 This term, our History and Philosophy of Biology reading group will be reading 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘯𝘵𝘰𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 (2000) by Susan Oyama. Online participants welcome! More details here: www.hps.cam.ac.uk/news-events/...
#ISHPSSB2025 Porto is beautiful. Met wonderful people, had engaging conversations, and shared some single-sourced honey with friends old and new 🐝🍯
Fascinating historical review of Lala et al's "Evolution Evolving" book by @cassandrazieyang.bsky.social See BioScience doi.org/10.1093/bios... #evolution
The causal role of constructive development in evolution
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A really thoughtful and inciteful review of my book "Evolution Evolving" by @cassandrazieyang.bsky.social in Bioscience. "By taking into account the structure of development, we can begin to envision how the system of evolution will itself be evolving." See BioScience doi.org/10.1093/bios...