I’m very happy to be organising this workshop with @terezahendl.bsky.social. Bringing the health concerns of Europe’s East – understood in a broad, transregional sense – into global health debates is especially important to me. Join us in Berlin or online (apply by 9 October)!

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RUTA founder Dr Tereza Hendl and RUTA member Dr Joanna Karolina Malinowska have been awarded a GLOHRA grant to organise a workshop examining the European East-West health gap, co-organised with Prof. Kerem Böge and Dr Solveig Kemna (Charité).

“Most scholars have relegated eugenics to the trash heap of science history. But much like its original incarnation, its current rise is tangled up in politics, ideology, and an insidious desire to divide people. And on the unfounded notion that biology is the be-all and end-all of a person’s worth”

The Return of a Discredited Pseudoscience

The Return of a Discredited Pseudoscience: Eugenics is rearing its ugly head again in today’s crucible of politics and culture

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We have a new post on the EENPS blog! 🔥🎉📝 This time, Silviu-Constantin Federovici shares his journey into the philosophy of mathematics, reflecting on doing research from Romania and building connections across Central and Eastern Europe. You can read it here: eenps.weebly.com/blog

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Doing Research in Philosophy of Mathematics from Romania - Contribution to the EENPS Blog Silviu-Constantin Federovici PhD Student in Philosophy Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași Between...

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If you are interested in neurodiversity in philosophy of science, academia, research, teaching, accessibility, inclusion, or related topics, we would be delighted to have you join us. To join please fill in: docs.google.com/forms/d/1pSQ...

🚀 New on the EENPS blog! We’re launching a new section dedicated to research centres and institutions across the CEE region. 🔗 eenps.weebly.com/research-centres.html We start strong with our first entries:

Join us for the workshop “Process Philosophy in Practice”! Keynote: John Dupré Speakers: Dominika Włoch-Salamon & Joanna Karolina Malinowska Online participation — DM or email: malinowska[at]amu.edu.pl More info: fb.me/e/9S5IxvRjd

Our 36th newsletter is out, featuring new publications from across the network 🎉 Take a look and see what colleagues have been working on 📝 P.S. If you have a recent paper, feel free to send it in – we’ll be happy to share it in the next round! eenps.weebly.com/members-publ...

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A very nice surprise: the new editorial by Henk ten Have and Bert Gordijn in Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy engages directly with the broader issue at the centre of my recent paper, "White by Default" doi.org/10.1007/s110...

White by default: conceptual and methodological limits of binary white logic in global health equity research - Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy

Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy - This article examines the conceptual and methodological limitations of how the category “White” is interpreted and used in health equity research....

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anw sign here: www.change.org/p/stop-the-h... > In these venues he has repeatedly advanced claims about the supposed cognitive inferiority of Black people , along with broader arguments about the “feminization” of academia and suggestions that eugenic ideas deserve renewed scientific consideration.

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Stop the hiring of Nathan Cofnas at Ghent University

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race realists are so insidious... how can he even be getting jobs and not laughed out of the room? > Cofnas is not conducting legitimate academic research into race and intelligence but instead spreading pseudoscience. www.brusselstimes.com/2020013/ughe...

Rector Petra De Sutter stands firm on UGent decision to host 'race realist' philosopher

"I understand the outrage and concern and take it seriously," she said. "The statements referred to are hurtful and disturbing to many people. They affect me as well."

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Another great news - @davideserpico.bsky.social, Valentina Petrolini, and I just published a commentary for a brilliant article "Autism and the Pseudoscience of Mind", written by @travislacroix.bsky.social

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Extending my critique, @malinowska.bsky.social et al. argue the persistence of the ToM paradigm in autism research is driven by underdetermination, epistemic-network dynamics, and the institutional payoff of standardization, rather than by its empirical strength. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

In the new @eenphilsci.bsky.social blog I tell my origin story, my current projects, and some of my struggles. eenps.weebly.com/blog/daniel-... Thank you @annaalexandrova.bsky.social and @gabrieltarziu.bsky.social for inviting me to share it. #philsci

Daniel Kostić, PhD

What is your current role and how did you get here? I am currently an Associate Professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences (IFIS PAN). This is a purely...

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I recently added an entry on the @eenphilsci.bsky.social blog: a bit of my story from early international experiences to my current work on coherence and reasoning, and what it’s like building philosophy of science here in Central & Eastern Europe. eenps.weebly.com/blog/borut-t... #philsci

Borut Trpin

What is your current role and how did you get here? I am currently an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana, with affiliation also at the University of Maribor. My path...

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📢 New EENPS blog posts on philosophy of science in the CEE region! Daniel Kostić reflects on topological explanation, explanatory pragmatics & structural bias in academia. Borut Trpin writes on coherence, modelling & building philosophy of science in Slovenia. 👉 eenps.weebly.com/blog #philsci

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What is your current role and how did you get here? I am currently an Associate Professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences (IFIS PAN). This is a purely...

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Four years of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. I argue that when we assess the health consequences of this war as a form of colonial and imperial aggression, we also need to look at what happens after displacement. #philsci #health #racism Full paper: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

My new paper is out! lnkd.in/d7QhdqVD Publishing on racism against people racialised as Eastern Europeans and its impact on health is not easy. I’m deeply grateful to everyone who supported me throughout this process. #philsci #racism #health

Racist billionaires backing eugenics projects: no surprise. After the Epstein files dropped, I wanted to check them for ties to the racist eugenics network. No time though – I’m writing about how it infiltrates academia and passes itself off as "science"😉 www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science

Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...

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Third time’s a charm? 🤞 @ncn.gov.pl

There are 10 days left to submit a proposal for the 6th Biennial EENPS Conference (Bucharest, 18–19 September 2026). Submission deadline: 15 February! Talks and symposia across all areas of philosophy of science are welcome ☀️ eenps2026.sciencesconf.org #philsci

The EENPS 2026 call for papers & symposia is now open! 🔥🔥🔥 🗓 Submission deadline: 15 Feb 2026 Conference: 18–19 Sept 2026, Bucharest 😉 See the conference website for full details! eenps2026.sciencesconf.org

I’ve spent years researching racism and discrimination, including racism against people racialised as Eastern Europeans. And, unfortunately, this case only confirms how easily violence and dehumanisation are tolerated when directed at certain groups. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Milan prosecutors investigate alleged ‘sniper tourism’ during Bosnian war

Groups from Italy and elsewhere alleged to have paid Serb soldiers to shoot Sarajevo residents during siege

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The PSA Around the World 2025 series begins this Thursday, 6 Nov! 🔥🌈🎉 Join us online for sessions highlighting philosophy of science from and about Eastern & Central Europe. Registration still open — fee waivers available! 👉 www.philsci.org/psa_around_t... #philsci

NEW RESEARCH confirms: Countering far-right messaging by repeating it mainstreams extremist ideas and amplifying extremist terminology cedes the framing of the issues to the right. (I’ll add that social media “dunking” only serves to spread undesired content.) www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds

Normalisation of far-right stances likely to affect success of such parties at ballot boxes across Europe, say researchers

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The PSA Around the World 2025 is coming soon: Nov 6, 14 & 22 (online)! Hosted by @philsci.bsky.social and @eenphilsci.bsky.social it highlights #philsci from, about, and connected to Central and Eastern Europe. Great lineup, still time to register! www.philsci.org/psa_around_t...

Thanks to @tmarvan.bsky.social @magdalenamalecka.bsky.social for curating. Great to see on the program @mmilkowski.bsky.social @olesyabondarenko.bsky.social @danielkostic.bsky.social @malinowska.bsky.social @boruttrpin.bsky.social @apotochnik.bsky.social @elenapopaphi.bsky.social and many others

#Job #PhilSci #HPS Fully funded PhD-position at Bielefeld University, Philosophy of the Biomedical Sciences), deadline Oct 30, 2025 Job ad: uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/451... On the program: blogs.uni-bielefeld.de/blog/isosnew...

Doctoral Researcher in Philosophy of the Medical S...

The History and Philosophy of Medicine Group, led by Prof. Lara Keuck, is looking for a highly motivated candidate for a three-year PhD project in phi...

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Oops!… I did it again 😉 My new article: "Oops!… you are doing it again: pharmacogenomics and the biologisation of ethnoracial categories on drug labels" is out! #philsci Link to pdf (OA): freidok.uni-freiburg.de/files/271749... And a little teaser:

Please consider signing a petition to increase the spending on science in Poland / List otwarty w sprawie finansowania nauki, w tym @ncn.gov.pl www.petycjeonline.com/list_otwarty...

List otwarty do Prezydenta RP, Marszałka Sejmu RP, Marszałka Senatu RP,  Prezesa Rady Ministrów oraz Wiceprezesów Rady Ministrów w sprawie finansowania nauki, w tym zwłaszcza Narodowego Centrum Nauki

Szanowni Państwo, W niniejszej petycji prezentujemy List otwarty, który będzie wysłany do Kancelarii Prezydenta, Marszałków Sejmu i Senatu, Prezesa Rady Ministr&oacut...

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I'm really appreciating the applied turn in philosophy of race over the past few years, toward examining concrete *institutional* effects of particular conceptions of race. Here @malinowska.bsky.social showing off great glasses & talking about distortions in European health outcome research

When the far right weaponises the suffering of Ukrainian refugees, it exposes what populism really is: not about ‘security’ or ‘values’, but about racism, fear-mongering, and dismantling solidarity. kyivindependent.com/how-the-righ...

How the right wing in US, Europe is weaponizing murders of Ukrainian refugees

Iryna Zarutska and her family fled Ukraine in 2022 to escape the threat of Russia’s full-scale war against her homeland, seeking safety and the promise of a new life in the United States. But that hop...

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