CAUSEMED closes with Pitt's Jonathan Fuller about the problems of of extrapolation in epidemiological medicine ! Thank you @elenapopaphi.bsky.social, Cristina Gomez, Matthieu Fontaine & Quentin Ruyant for organizing such a great conference...
Nicolae Morar
@nmorar.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Environmental Studies & Philosophy, University of Oregon
Naja Hulvej Rod (Copenhagen Health Complexity Center) launches us into our second day at CAUSEMED Seville... Thank you @elenapopaphi.bsky.social and the organizers for such a great conference !
The Spain tour with Jacob Neal continues! We’re thrilled to be heading to Seville for another presentation at the Causation in Medicine conference.Really looking forward to a great conference ! philevents.org/event/show/1... #PhilosophyOfMedicine #Causation #Philosophy #Medicine #Seville
Causality and Causal Inference in Medicine
Interactions between the philosophy of causality and investigations of inferential practices in the sciences, particularly medicine, have yielded key developments across disciplines. One such example ...
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Does the gut microbiome cause mental disorders, or do we just tell causal stories about correlations? Jacob Neal & I present "Beyond correlation: rethinking causal inference in microbiome research," using anorexia nervosa as our case study.
During my sabbatical in BCN, I always followed the @prbb.org events list with interest and went to so many amazing talks, thanks to @mireiavallesc.bsky.social . Today I'm one of the speakers, with my colleague Jacob Neal, and couldn't be prouder! Thank you Mireia and Amelie for hosting us !
The Microbiome Stewardship special collection is open at Sustainable Microbiology! The Stewardship of Microbiomes in Human and Environmental Systems special collection is open at Sustainable Microbiology! The collection is led by senior editor, and principal investigator of the Microbiome…
The Microbiome Stewardship special collection is open at Sustainable Microbiology!
The Stewardship of Microbiomes in Human and Environmental Systems special collection is open at Sustainable Microbiology! The collection is led by senior editor, and principal investigator of the Microbiome Stewardship group, Dr. Kieran O’Doherty, and will feature invited contributions. Starting with the foundational framework paper, the collection establishes clear guiding principles, premises, core responsibilities, and case studies for preserving microbial biodiversity across diverse habitats.
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Perspective is critical. Eukaryocentrism and humancentric views are so limiting.
Fresh in @AmJBioeth: Hatherley @ colleagues introduce the concept of federation opacity (FO)—a valuable framework for understanding the ethical challenges of federated learning beyond privacy alone. Our commentary discusses the epistemic & ethical uniqueness of FO! urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
Federated Learning is Still Machine Learning! Epistemic vs. Ethical Issues Common Across Medical ML Models
Published in The American Journal of Bioethics (Vol. 26, No. 8, 2026)
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IABI (The International Academy for Bioethical Inquiry) is such a great community — scholars working across all kinds of topics, and this week we're at the beautiful Palazzola in Rome digging into the relationship between biology & culture. Love being part of it !
A few years back, Gus Skorburg & I argued for the #extended #health hypothesis in KIEJ: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... Now, with Jacob Neal & in conversation with Petersen & co, we argue dementia dyads look like extension—but aren't genuinely dyadic: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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In conversation with @salloch.bsky.social in AJOB on planetary health research ethics: J. Beever & I argue for a conception of health beyond the human-health-centric frame. Ad Planetam per Aspera! 🌍 #researchethics #environmentalbioethics #bioethics #health www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Ad Planetam per Aspera: Beyond Human Health Extensionism
Published in The American Journal of Bioethics (Vol. 26, No. 6, 2026)
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In a special issue of The Pluralist (Vol. 21, No. 2), Rebekah Sinclair and @nmorar.bsky.social (@liberalartsosu.bsky.social) advocate for a culturally and epistemically pluralist approach to understanding genetic causation. 📄 on @projectmuse.bsky.social: muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/artic...
One of the joys of collaboration is being pushed to think differently—to expand your imagination, reconsider your assumptions, and tell new stories… in our case about land, clay and genetic causation. That's what we tried to do in our new paper with Rebekah Sinclair. muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/artic...
Feeling grateful to have wrapped up my research visit at @upf.edu Many thanks to Camil Ungureanu for his generous support and hospitality. It was also such a pleasure to catch up with Amélie Baud & @mireiavallesc.bsky.social. Thank you all for making this such a rewarding visit!
#Philosophie #Histoire 👨🦲 « #Foucault sans frontières » 🖥️ Les vidéos du colloque organisé par le Pr Didier Fassin, titulaire de la chaire Questions morales et enjeux politiques dans les sociétés contemporaines, sont disponibles. 👉 https://tinyurl.com/yh6k8e94
Congratulations to @danlor.bsky.social — The Foucauldian Mind is finally in the world ! A hundred years of Foucault's thought, gathered with such care into one living, breathing volume. www.routledge.com/The-Foucauld...
The Foucauldian Mind
Michel Foucault is one of the most influential, and controversial, thinkers of the twentieth century. His work has had a transformative effect on the study of the humanities and social sciences. His e...
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Somewhere in the quiet exchange between microbe and mind, memory takes shape — not carved alone, but woven by a community too small to see. @acabirol.bsky.social et al. show us that remembering may be a collective act, written in part by microbial hands. Deeply moved ! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
A defined community of core gut microbiota members promotes cognitive performance in honey bees | PNAS
Gut microbiota across animals have been shown to influence host cognition and behavior. However, it remains unclear whether these cognitive effects...
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Great piece by @kristymferraro.bsky.social and Ann C. Thresher in @pnas.org about why environmental scientists need ethics training more than ever before ! The reverse is also true... humanities folks would also benefit from additional training in environmental sciences. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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A microbial view of life pushes us to rethink our relationship to the smallest living things — and to be more thoughtful about how we harness microbiomes in the built environment. So proud to see this work in print! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Towards the responsible development of microbiome engineering in the built environment
This Perspective calls for a transdisciplinary framework for the responsible advancement of Microbiome Engineering of the Built Environment (MEoBE). Acknowledging MEoBE's potential to improve publi...
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Particularly proud to see this paper out as an important & new invitation to think about microbiome stewardship! academic.oup.com/sumbio/advan...
Microbiome Stewardship: Definition and Guiding Principles for Implementation
Abstract. Microbiomes are essential for ecosystem, plant, animal, and human health. There is accumulating evidence that changes to microbiomes from anthrop
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@adrian-currie.bsky.social provides us a beautiful example of what a book review should look like: careful, generous, sharp... and fragile, which makes it worth reading ! Itching now to get to Robert Northcutt's Science for a Fragile World. ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/scie...
Science for a Fragile World
Maybe the world is like an armillary sphere. Metallic balls representing celestial objects are placed just-so along spherical rings, tracing an at-first...
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Beyond ecstatic to be able to put together this lineup for our little workshop on the Philosophy of Computational Methods in Science. #philsci
Book tour! Come by and help brainstorm how to fight together to protect democracy and make the world more just. @dryan149.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social #booksky
Got back to Eugene (OR) after an AMAZING one-year sabbatical in Barcelona… and my Swiss friend, Romain, took me - as a welcome back party - to see the stoner rock/ metal band from Sweden-#DOZER! They played a small venue but- OMG -they still played like there was no tomorrow… what a great band !
The research group “Microbiome Researh and Race in ‘Local South’” investigates how categories of race and ethnicity are used in the production of local scientific knowledge in South Africa and Latin America Learn more about us here: www.uu.nl/en/research/... #hpbio 🦠🌱🐋@utrechthps
Microbiome Research and Race in the ‘Local South’
How can scientists in human microbiome ecology adopt epistemically fruitful, non-discriminatory, and locally relevant classification criteria of human diversity and race?
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Such a fun an intense time @ishpssb2025.bsky.social with @nmorar.bsky.social @utrechthps.bsky.social Thanks for the amazing discussion!
And the ‘tour de force’ on how to think about #humannature continued at #ISHPSSB2025 with @theramseylab.bsky.social (chair of the session), Maria Kronfeldner, @matteomameli.bsky.social and Subrena Smith ! Thank you ISH community for such a great conference ! See you - hopefully - next year !
An amazing festival on how to think about ‘human nature’ with @edouardmachery.bsky.social, @gillianrbrown1.bsky.social, and Aleksandra Knežević ! #ISHPSSB2025 totally rocks!
Continuing learning at #ISHPSSB2025 about values in ecology and conservation with @luciacneco.bsky.social and Alejandro Merlo ! Thank you for your great presentations !
