Celso Neto
@celsoneto.bsky.social
Philosopher of science and race. Associate Professor, Centre for the Study of the Life Sciences, University of Exeter. He/him
The #SPSP organising committee just announced that the next conference will be in Bogota, Colombia! Fantastic city I had the pleasure to visit last year - see you all there for more philosophy of science in practice in 2028 😊🦋 #philsci philosophy-science-practice.org
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Excited to be in London for this, hopefully no heatwave 😬
Centre for Culture and Evolution@brunelcce.bsky.social · 3w ago1/ 🧬⚖️ New Brunel CCE/CCN Shared Horizons talk: When is a methodological choice an ethical problem? @celsoneto.bsky.social joins @brunelpsy.bsky.social to unpack ancestry, racial stigma and human population genetics Wed 29th July, 2-4pm | ESGW Beldam | also online via Teams 🔗👇
Why do commendable scientific recommendations in genetics often not receive much uptake? @yashaddad.bsky.social and I address this issue in the paper below. #popgen #STS #HPBio #philsky
Yasmin Haddad@yashaddad.bsky.social · 3w ago@celsoneto.bsky.social and I have a new paper out in @philscijournal.bsky.social 🥳 We discuss the role of values in scientific recommendations and expert committees. It was such a pleasure working on this together! #PhilSci #PhilBio doi.org/10.1017/psa....
Numerous talks coming up this month on the topics of race, eugenics, and genetic diversity! #philsky #STS #philsci hugera.org/2026/07/08/j...
July Talks - HUGERA
It is conference season! Talks by members of HUGERA this month: July 15th, “The ‘Muslim Genome’: From Eugenic Pasts to Genomic Futures” by Tayyaba Jiwani (HSS, Edinburgh, UK) July 16th, “Signal and No...
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Looking for a current assessment of process philosophy, pluralism, and other themes of John Dupré’s philosophy? This open access volume brings together biologists, philosophers, and social scientists to do just that. #philsky #HPBio #philsci
Springer@springer.springernature.com · last mo.💙📚 'Life Beyond Human Boundaries: John Dupré’s Philosophy and the Interdisciplinary Study of the Life Sciences,' an #OpenAccess book, is self-standing as the only substantive anthology of writings centered on John Dupre’s work. bit.ly/4f2gkNl #PhilSci 🗃️
Centre for Culture and Evolution@brunelcce.bsky.social · 2mo ago1/ 🧬⚖️ New Brunel CCE/CCN Shared Horizons talk: When is a methodological choice an ethical problem? @celsoneto.bsky.social joins @brunelpsy.bsky.social to unpack ancestry, racial stigma and human population genetics Wed 24th June, 2-4pm | ESGW Beldam | also online via Teams 🔗👇
Recommending this important work by @olesyabondarenko.bsky.social #philsci
PhilSci-Archive@philsci-archive.bsky.social · 3mo agoNew on the Archive: Bondarenko, Olesya (2026) Credibility and trustworthiness: the promises of sociogenomic integration and research on gene-environment interaction. [Preprint] https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/29679/
Interested in the economy of Eugenic movements? Join us for Steve Sturdy’s talk! #philsky #HPBio #STS
HUGERA@hugeraproject.bsky.social · 3mo agoProf. Steve Sturdy continues our spring speaker series with the talk “Eugenics and Bioeconomic Value” on June 2nd. You can register to attend via zoom here: hugera.org/lecture-seri...
It was a pleasure to co-write a chapter with @celsoneto.bsky.social for this amazing #openaccess volume on Science & Values. We wrote about the influence of values in human genomics (chapter 41). So many great contributions in this volume! #philsci #philbio www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...
The Routledge Handbook of Values and Science | Kevin C. Elliott, Ted R
This is the first-ever handbook to cover the vibrant philosophical literature on values and science. Its 45 chapters—appearing in print here for the first
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Extended deadline for 4S!
HUGERA@hugeraproject.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe deadline has been extended to May 5th to submit to Our project's symposium "Panel #106: Human Genomics in the Global Economy" at the next 4S Conference, in Toronto (Oct 7 – 10). Please consider submitting your abstract! More information can be found here: hugera.org/2026/04/15/j...
📣 We're #Hiring! #ERC Consolidator Project BOTLEG at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de is recruiting: - 1 PostDoc ➡️ jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/9... - 2 PhDs ➡️ jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/c... 📅 Deadline: 25 May 2026 #PhDSky #HistSci #PhilSci #HPBio #EnvHist #DigitalHumanities #AcademicSky
"Women also know philosophy" 🇧🇷👩🎓 A fantastic initiative: a new database of Brazilian women philosophers! Please share this with your networks—I know many of you know brilliant scholars who belong on this list. #phil #philsky #philsci #HPS #philbio #WomenInPhilosophy
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Interest in the relationship between human genomics and the global economy? Submit your abstract to our open panel symposium at the next 4S conference, Oct 7-10. More info at: hugera.org/blog/ #STS #HPS #4S
🚨 A 4 years postdoc on philosophy of science and AI? Come to Exeter! #philsci #philsky
Angela Cassidy@angecass.bsky.social · 4mo agoSounding another Egenis job klaxon! My excellent colleague Stefan Guttinger is looking for a #philsci postdoc to think through #AI agents and trustworthy knowledge in the biosciences. 4 year post! #HPS #STS
I have a new paper out in Biology & Philosophy where I explore the overlap between the philosophy of measurement and ancestry in human population genetics. Very grateful to the philosophers & scientists who encouraged me to write this up! doi.org/10.1007/s105... #philsci #philbio
Measuring ancestry - Biology & Philosophy
Biology & Philosophy - In the past decades, there has been a significant shift in the labels used to describe human populations in large-scale genomic studies. Such labels are known as...
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Dr. Phila M. Msimang continues our spring speaker series with the talk “Is diversity higher? Against the superficial inclusion of racial and ethnic groups in biomedical and clinical research” on April 5th. You can register to attend via zoom here: hugera.org/lecture-seri...
Come and work with my very excellent #philsci colleagues for a couple of years! For a better sense of what we get up to at Egenis, take a look around our website: www.exeter.ac.uk/research/cen...
Egenis, Centre for the Study of Life Sciences | Egenis, Centre for the study of Life Sciences | University of Exeter
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Adrian Currie@adrian-currie.bsky.social · 4mo agoExeter’s got a two-year teaching stint for someone into philosophy of data and related - the job’s pretty plush as far as non-permanent ones go - and Exeter is an amazing place to do this kind of philosophy - please pass around! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQZ094/l... #philsci
Vol 17, Iss 3 (2025) has dropped! Worth the wait, w/articles on sex/gender, ecology in context, Darwinizing Gaia, and theories in physiology. We love the diversity of articles that are sent to us—keep them coming! PTPBio is, as always, diamond #OpenAccess: completely free for authors and readers!
Workshop on genetics, eugenics and scientific racism next week! #Philsci #Philosophy #Ethics #HPS #Sociology #AcademicSky We will be conducting hybrid sessions, you can find the zoom link at www.imseam.uni-heidelberg.de/en/heinzelma...
Reminder that the HUGERA online lecture series continues on March 3rd with the talk "Lessons from Stateville: Race, Genetics, and the Biological Search for a Social Kind". You can register to attend via zoom: hugera.org/lecture-seri...
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Reflections on the Human Genome Diversity Project: a conversation with Marcus W. Feldman, Henry T. Greely, and Mary-Claire King
Abstract. The Human Genome Diversity Project (HGDP) began in 1991 as an initiative to study genetic variation from human populations worldwide. In 2002, th
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Reminder that Prof. Duana Fullwiley (Stanford University) kicks off our spring speaker series with the talk “Into the Lab: Racial World Building and its Discontents” on February 3rd. You can register to attend via zoom here:https://hugera.org/lecture-series/
@hugeraproject.bsky.social is back with its Online Talks! This Tuesday, Feb 3rd, Duana Fullwiley (Stanford) presents on Racial World Building. Registration at HUGERA.org #genomics #popgen #STS #philsky
