Stiamo sollecitando chiunque si interessi di filosofia delle scienze della vita (biologia, medicina, ma anche antropologia, dati & tecnologia, conservazione ecc) a iscriversi al nostro network di PIPoLS. L’iscrizione è ovviamente gratuita e permette di rimanere aggiornat sulle attività del network.

PIPoLS: People of the Italian Philosophy of Life Sciences@pipols-italy.bsky.social · 4w ago

Se sei interessat* a partecipare, compila questo form e verrai inserit* nella mailing list 😊 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

📣 CfP: Teaching Philosophy in the Age of AI: Labor, Judgment, and Resistance We're inviting interactive Teaching Hub sessions for the 2027 APA Eastern Meeting in Boston on how generative AI is reshaping the work of philosophy educators. Deadline: 08/01/26 www.apaonline.org/page/Teachin...

Science coverage of this open letter with quotes from @bayesianboy.bsky.social @cailinmeister.bsky.social Craig Callender, Matthew Liao @naomioreskes.bsky.social and me. Journals, the ball is in your court now.

Philosophers call for their journals to require conflict of interest disclosures

A new petition urges greater transparency amid growing ties to AI and other companies

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Anna Alexandrova@annaalexandrova.bsky.social · last mo.

Signed as soon as I read it. True, some philosophers will cheerlead for free (due to their tech optimism or with the expectation of funding later) and such behaviour is not covered by the proposed policy. But it would still be useful to be able to detect some cheerleading worth discounting.

Today I defended my PhD! 🎓 I’m so grateful to Alisa, Miguel, and Adrian for their incredible support, and thoughtful feedback. My graduate school journey at BU has been truly formative, shaping my research and the person I am. Thank you for believing in me every step of the way!

Alisa Bokulich@alisabokulich.bsky.social · last mo.

Congrats to the newly minted ✨Dr. Carrera✨ (@matildecarrera.bsky.social) who successfully defended her brilliant dissertation "Turning Data Into Evidence in Human Origins Research" today with flying colors!! Woo-hoo 🙌 🎉🎉🎓 #PhDone Thanks to @adrian-currie.bsky.social for serving as external #philsci

And it’s out - our homage to the inimitable John Dupré, a giant of contemporary philosophy, from his loving colleagues and a stellar cast of contributors link.springer.com/book/10.1007... : #philsci

Life Beyond Human Boundaries: John Dupré’s Philosophy and the Interdisciplinary Study of the Life Sciences

This open access book is self-standing as the only substantive anthology of writings centered on John Dupre’s work.

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As philosophy rushes to claim expertise on AI, AI companies rush to control the philosophical narrative. Unlike other disciplines, philosophy has no standards for reporting conflicts of interest. This petition endeavors to change that: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Open Letter about Industry Funding and Disclosure in Philosophy

*For full list of signatories, updated every few hours, please click here.* In recent years, philosophical writing on areas such as climate change, technology, misinformation, and artificial intellige...

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🔥Call for PIPoLS Workshop!🔥 📆17-18 dicembre 2026 Il primo workshop PIPoLS è all'orizzonte! 🗒️In occasione del nostro primo evento in presenza, invitiamo dottorande/i e studentesse/i di laurea magistrale a inviare una proposta per un flash talk, un poster o un breve video da presentare all’incontro.

Importanti novità per la filosofia della scienza in Italia (e non solo)!

PIPoLS: People of the Italian Philosophy of Life Sciences@pipols-italy.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📣Nasce #PIPoLS, People of the Italian Philosophy of Life Sciences!📣In questo e nei prossimi thread vi racconteremo chi siamo, i nostri obiettivi e i valori che condividiamo. Seguiteci e condividete per restare aggiornati sulle nostre attività! ⏭️ #philsky #philbio #philmed #philcogsci #evosky

Happy to welcome Dr. Mason Majszak as visiting researcher to our Phi-Geo Research Group this term! He's currently working on a Swiss National Science Foundation/NYU project "Understanding risk perception & decision-making for climate change adaptation under uncertainty" www.masonmajszak.com #philsci

Writing is a big part of being a researcher, but grad students are rarely trained to do it well. Three researchers who double as writing instructors share their strategies for making the process more productive than painful: spklr.io/633238aIlD #AcademicSky #SciWri #AcademicWriting

Three tips for scientific writing: a guide for graduate students

Do you struggle with the blank page? These strategies could help.

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New on the Archive: Bocchi, Federica and Currie, Adrian (2026) Ecologies of the Past. [Preprint] https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27880/

Registration is open for this event 16-17 March @royalsociety.org with programme (titles and abstracts) available online: royalsociety.org/science-even.... In person and online.

Science as a global public good? From the right to participate in science to science governance | Royal Society

Science+ meeting organised by Professor Geoffrey Boulton FRS and Professor Michela Massimi FRSE

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The Royal Society@royalsociety.org · 7mo ago

The role of science for democratic societies has never been more important. Register for our upcoming scientific meeting on 16-17 March 2026 and explore the theoretical and practical consequences of treating science as a global public good: https://bit.ly/3Y42i4F

Thanks to generous funding from the @sloanfoundation.bsky.social, John Basl and I are thrilled to be running the AI and Data Ethics summer school in 2026! ~12 graduate students, $10k stipend, 9 weeks to learn about scientific and ethical issues raised by AI. Please apply! aidesummer.org

AIDE Summer

AI + Data Ethics (AIDE) Summer is intended for graduate students with advanced training in applied ethics, ethical theory, philosophy of science, metascience, epistemology, or other areas with potenti...

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We (Miles MacLeod, YJ Erden, @ccmmody.bsky.social and me w/ editorial contributions by Yagmur Ozturk) are putting on a special issue! In Studies in History & Philosophy of Science! Ab/ scientific @nanobubbles.bsky.social Deadline July 15 - spread the word! www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

In his forthcoming 📃 in @jrnlofphil.bsky.social, Grant Ramsey shows that a long-standing thesis held by philosophers of biology & evolutionary biologists—that fitness depends on population size, n—is based on conceptual & mathematical errors 👇 philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27701/ #philsky #HPBio #evosky

➡️New article out⬅️ The Fate of Behavioral Modernity by Andra Meneganzin @andrameneganzin.bsky.social Free reading link: rdcu.be/eUOUH

The next conference of the Society for the Study of Measurement will take place at Edinburgh on 22-25 June. Call for papers and symposia opens Nov 15 and closes Jan 15. Submissions via app.oxfordabstracts.com/auth?redirec...

Still time to sign up for the talk tomorrow! #philsky #philsci #STS #humangenetics #sciencesky #HPBio

HUGERA@hugeraproject.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Prof. Katharina Schramm (Universität Bayreuth) kicks off our speaker series with the talk “We are all Africans! Antiracist projects and racializing practices in South Africa post-apartheid genomics” on October 21st. You can register to attend via zoom here: hugera.org/lecture-seri...

I’m thrilled to share that I’ll be spending a few months as a visiting PhD at Egenis, the Centre for the Study of Life Sciences at the university of Exeter. I am joining prof. @celsoneto.bsky.social’s ERC-funded project HUGERA (Human Genomics Without Racism) hugera.org

Home - HUGERA

The Human Genomics without Racism (HUGERA) project brings together geneticists, philosophers, and social scientists to create tools for an ethically sound science of human variation. Latest News Homep...

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New History & Philosophy of Physics network in Boston! Join us: open to locals and visitors. Check out the inaugural colloquium program & sign up to our mailing list and register for the inaugural lecture given by Peter Galison: www.bu.edu/cphs/boston-... #philsci #histsci #philsky

My paper "Models and Analogies in the Reconstruction of Extinct Life" is also out now in this volume dedicated to Hesse ⬇️ #HPS #PaleoSky #Philsky ⚒️ link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Models and Analogies in the Reconstruction of Extinct Life

How can we reconstruct what long extinct animals, such as dinosaurs, looked like, how fast they moved, and what ecological role they played in their paleoenvironment? These features are not preserved ...

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Paul L. Franco@loadofbunk.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Looks like this volume on Mary Hesse edited by Pietro Gori is now published! If you were at #HOPOS in Vienna and went to the various talks and symposium on Hesse, you'll recognize some chapters. I wrote one on Hesse's early work (1952-1961) on scientific language. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

In Groningen for #EPSA25. I am extreamely happy of being part of the symposium on “Race in Genomics” organized by @celsoneto.bsky.social. Very engaging, detailed and thought provoking talks on the use and misuse of race and ancestry labels in genomics studies. #philsci

Congratulations to @matildecarrera.bsky.social on her superb defense today of a fantastic dissertation prospectus! She is now officially ABD! 🎉 #philsci #phigeo

Coming out of my dissertation project, I propose to distinguish population concepts according to the different stages of the modeling process and that this highlights epistemic and ethical challenges in inferring human ancestry and past demographic histories.

Alisa Bokulich@alisabokulich.bsky.social · last yr.

Great talk by our #PhiGeo member @matildecarrera.bsky.social on "Ancestry & Populations: Clarifying concepts for inferences about human demographic histories" at @ishpssb2025.bsky.social #philsci #ISHPSSB2025

Coming *very* soon #philsci

Frequently, geneticists defend the objectivity of “ancestry” over the subjective and loaded notion of “race.” This framing of the opposition is very misleading, however. Below, collaborator @yashaddad.bsky.social explores how values and biases can shape ancestry. #popgen #evobio #STS #philsky

Yasmin Haddad@yashaddad.bsky.social · last yr.

I have a new paper out in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 🥳 it is my 1st attempt to understand how "ancestry" is used in scientific practice, borrowing insights from science & values @fondsrechercheqc.bsky.social #philsci #philbio #hps www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

In the last two days, I had the opportunity to learn about science policy and advocacy and put it into practice visiting Capitol Hill as part of the @aaas.org Case Workshop. Working alongside the delegation of fellow PhD students from BU, UMass Amherst and MIT was truly inspiring. #MakingOurCase

Starter pack for @aaas.org Catalyzing Advocacy in Science and Engineering (CASE) Workshop, where #STEM students are learning tools for effective science communication and civic engagement. Just ask @hannaherf.bsky.social or comment to be added! #MakingOurCASE #DefendResearch go.bsky.app/GMNpSh3

Congrats to Phi-Geo grad Matilde Carrera @matildecarrera.bsky.social for being accepted to the competitive AI & Data Ethics Summer Institute at Northeastern this summer, as well as accepted to the upcoming AAAS Workshop: Catalyzing Advocacy in Science & Engineering, April 6-9 in D.C. 🙌 #philsci

New publication OA #philsci — where I discuss the epistemic nature of three possible varieties of ‘local knowledges’ and defend their importance for fulfilling human rights — from the right to participate in science to the right to food and right to clean water www.cambridge.org/core/journal...