Leticia Castillo Brache
@leticiacastillo.bsky.social
Floating through space. Residing in Boston. PhD in Philosophy of science. She/her 🇩🇴
Congratulations to Dr. Castillo Brache @leticiacastillo.bsky.social on successfully defending her PhD dissertation this morning!!! Woo-hoo!!! 🙌🎓🌟 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 Thank you to Profs. Samia Hesni, @rachelankeny.bsky.social, & @miguelohn.bsky.social for serving on her committee 🙏 #philsci #phigeo
Very much looking forward to this!
This Friday Phi-Geo grad @leticiacastillo.bsky.social will be giving an invited lecture at Tufts University on "Hidden Narratives in Paleontology: Toward Ethical & Inclusive Practices". #philsci #STS #PhiGeo #philsky ⚒️
A nice Phi-Geo group trip to @harvardmuseums.bsky.social to see exhibit Measuring Difference & hear a wonderful presentation by @chattyprofessor.bsky.social, artist Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez & #histmed Pablo Gómez, who spoke about roots of medical data about bodies in Atlantic slave trade. #philsci
So many geoethical issues in this ongoing case in my homeland. Barrick Gold must do better! #geoethics #mining #extraction #gold
The Canadian Mining Company Dominicans Call “Worse Than Columbus”
We traveled to the Dominican Republic to talk to rural farmers and workers battling a Canadian mining company. “We had no concept of what the devil was until Barrick Gold came to our lands,” one perso...
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Identity politics has become a defining buzzword in US politics. But how does the far-right employ identity politics? We discuss on #TheTake podcast with @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social.
Prepare the letter! (written by a different Andy, but i'm happy with the co-incidence)
"We likely just lived through the warmest year on record. If that sounds familiar, it is because 2023 currently holds the title." — @drshepherd2013.bsky.social #YIR #BadNews www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...
'Apex' the Stegosaur, the most expensive dinosaur fossil ever sold, will be on display and available to research at the AMNH. My latest for @science.org.
Apex the Stegosaur, the most expensive dinosaur fossil ever sold, heads to a museum
The American Museum of Natural History will host one of the most complete Stegosaurus specimens for the next 4 years
science.org
It was great having some of the Phi-Geo grads give short presentations of some relevant material from their research to my "Gender, Race, & Science" class today (Thank you @mattbrewer.bsky.social @matildecarrera.bsky.social & @leticiacastillo.bsky.social!!!)
Thank you for your awesome work on CARE data principles, which my PhD student @leticiacastillo.bsky.social & I have cited in this handbook chapter on philosophical issues in data ⤵️ www.taylorfrancis.com/reader/downl... ⚒️ #philsci
For anyone attending #AGU2024, consider coming to our town hall on Wednesday the 11th 12:30-1:30 where we will be presenting about “A Community Effort: Publishing Guidelines for Indigenous Data Sovereignty and the CARE Principles.”
Great talk by my advisor @alisabokulich.bsky.social on “Pierce, Abduction, & Inverse Problems in the Geosciences” at #PSA24
So glad to have had the opportunity to highlight a widespread harmful practice in paleontology and share potential solutions to such a receptive audience 🙌🏼 Thank you #PSA24
A brilliant talk this afternoon by @leticiacastillo.bsky.social to a packed room on "Parachute Science in Paleontology as Distributive Epistemic Injustice" #PSA24 #philsci #philsky #paleosky
A lovely Phi-Geo & friends dinner @ #PSA24: @rachellaudan.bsky.social Aja W, @miguelohn.bsky.social @terumiyake.bsky.social @mattbrewer.bsky.social AndrewZ @leticiacastillo.bsky.social Kailyn S @federicabocchi.bsky.social @matildecarrera.bsky.social Carlos S, Katherine V @cristianlarph.bsky.social
Catch me at the PSA presenting one of my dissertation chapters! Looking forward to a great discussion 🥳
November 15, 2024 3:45 PM - 5:45 PM Values in Science I "Parachute Science in Paleontology as Distributive Epistemic Injustice" Leticia Castillo Brache @leticiacastillo.bsky.social
The Philosophy of Geosciences Research Group at BU, Φ-Geo, is dedicated to exploring topics in the philosophy of the geosciences (historical & current Earth sciences), broadly understood. We have a big group heading to #PSA24 ⚒️ next week--check out our upcoming talks bokulich.org/%cf%86-geo-g... 🧵 ⬇️
Thank you, Alisa! I’m very honored to receive the award 🥳
Congratulations to Phi-Geo grad @leticiacastillo.bsky.social who has been awarded the BU Institute for Global Sustainability 2024 Peter Fox-Penner Graduate Student Award (given for significant contributions to research or practice in sustainability & climate change &/or equity & justice)! 🎉 #philsci
I've worked on many of the topics in this volume, but the one invited to write is "Models, Data Models, & Big Data", which was co-authored with my fabulous PhD student Leticia Castillo Brache @leticiacastillo.bsky.social #philsci #metasci 🧪
The mammoth Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Scientific Modeling with so many fantastic contributors is now out--and open access! 🎉 #philsci 🧪 www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...
Congrats to Phi-Geo grad @leticiacastillo.bsky.social on also having her contributed paper "Parachute Science in Paleontology as Distributive Epistemic Injustice" accepted for #PSA24! 🎉 Excited the entire Phi-Geo group will be presenting at the upcoming @philsci.bsky.social mtg! 🎉 #philsci #philsky
Sorry to be missing the Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (#SPSP2024) conference this year, but happy to get a few highlights about the great presentations from grad members of our Phi-Geo group: 🙌 @matildecarrera.bsky.social @mattbrewer.bsky.social & @leticiacastillo.bsky.social
A great program for the upcoming Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (SPSP) conference, including a strong showing by members of our Phi-Geo group! philosophy-science-practice.org/images/downl...
I am so proud of awesome projects the grads in our Phi-Geo group have been working on: @leticiacastillo.bsky.social "Parachute Science in Paleontology as Distributive Epistemic Injustice" on Brazilian dino fossil Irritator challengeri & shows how parachute harms are distributive epistemic injustice
Φ-Geo Group
Φ-Geo is a research group dedicated to exploring topics in the philosophy of the geosciences (historical and current Earth sciences), broadly understood. Areas of research pursued by Phi-Geo members ...
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My wonderful PhD student @leticiacastillo.bsky.social is giving a (in person) talk on this important theme Friday.
Fascinating read in AGU EOS about scientific colonialism and the specific case of the fossil, Irritator challengeri 🧪 🦕 ⚒️ Again, I’m buoyed by the energy and bravery of the scientists taking on this fight, many of whom are early career and/or from the global south. eos.org/articles/ill...
Illegal Fossil Export Is More Than an Irritator to the Global South - Eos
More than 2,000 researchers have signed an open letter requesting the repatriation of a dinosaur fossil to Brazil. Some say the case highlights a pattern of scientific colonialism in paleontology.
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