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Daniel S. Brooks

@dsbrooks.bsky.social

Philosopher & Historian of Biology and Neuroscience Associate editor for Acta Biotheoretica (https://link.springer.com/journal/10441) https://www.danielsbrooks.com/

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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society@carsoncenter.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New open-access book: The Organism–Environment Pairing: A Historical and Philosophical Reappraisal, by @alejandrofabregastejeda.com. Download it via our Environment & Society Portal! #envhist #histsci #envphil

The Organism–Environment Pairing: A Historical and Philosophical Reappraisal

In this first systematic book-length examination of the organism-environment relationship in the life sciences, Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda addresses a crucial gap in our understanding of a foundational...

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M. Alejandra Petino Zappala@petinozappala.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The final version of our paper (w/ @nheinzelmann.bsky.social) on the ethics and moral psychology of HPV vaccination is out! #ethics #bioethics #Xphi This is an observational study on parents living in 🇩🇪🇬🇧🇺🇸 who have not (yet) vaccinated their kids against HPV www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The ethics and moral psychology of HPV vaccination: Evidence from a cross-cultural study

Vaccine hesitancy is a major threat to public health worldwide. Debates about vaccines are often moralized; however, how ethics and ethical judgments …

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Daniel S. Brooks@dsbrooks.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Looking forward to presenting at this wonderful meeting in Cambridge, organized by @cassandrazieyang.bsky.social, @yoshinariyoshida.bsky.social , and Patrick Ferree! This will be during the week of the SPSP too, so hopefully you can make it! #philbio #philsci

Cassandra Yang@cassandrazieyang.bsky.social · 3mo ago

How should models across scales be connected and evaluated? Who gets explanatory priority — the tissue or the cell? What challenges do imaging and sequencing techniques bring to data alignment? We are hosting a one-day philosophy of biology workshop in Cambridge to address exactly these questions:

Daniel S. Brooks@dsbrooks.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A fantastic talk is coming up next week, definitely consider dropping by! I've had a sneak peek of the content and it's looking to be amazing! (details for joining in thread) #hps #philsci #histbio

ROTO Research Group@roto-rub.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Two great events next week! Reading group on Monday with a paper on Soviet plant philosophy by Isabel Jacobs: crmep.co.uk/articles/jac... And on Thursday, we welcome @petinozappala.bsky.social in our Lecture Series who will talk about canalization in #HPBio. #HistSci #PhilSci

Poster for the talk by Alejandra Petino Zappala (Ruhr-University Bochum), entitled "Canalization, Stabilizing Selection and Evolution: A Case of Conceptual Gatekeeping in 20th Century Evolutionary Biology?". It will take place on Thursday, 30 April 2026, at 6 pm (CET) in GA 3/143 and will be streamed via Zoom.
M. Alejandra Petino Zappala@petinozappala.bsky.social · 5mo ago

so... they took over to make the journal "more scientific, less political" (?) and now they're publishing papers that rant against... *check notes* suicidal empathy, the progressive thought police, and parasitic ideas that will destroy the West. they should have renamed it X.

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Bird account@dialecticbio.bsky.social · 5mo ago

A quick look at the editorial board of this journal reveals how this slop got published: it's filled with the Quillette freak crowd, including Cory Clark, Steven Pinker, and (lol) Colin Wright link.springer.com/journal/1118...

Dr. Aaron Thierry@thierryaaron.bsky.social · 5mo ago

1/ Paul Ehrlich died this week at 93. The takes split into hagiography and dismissal. But the interesting question isn't whether he got it right, he didn't, it's why he got it wrong, and who was asking the right questions instead 🧵

Biologist Paul Ehrlich speaking at the University of San Diego circa 1972
Uljana Feest@ufeest.bsky.social · 5mo ago

as a student in Frankfurt, I had the privilege of attending some classes taught by Habermas in the late 1980s and early 1990s. I would be lying if a claimed that I understood the content or significance of his theory, but to me he personifies the German post-war public intellectual. End of an era.

Daniel S. Brooks@dsbrooks.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Imagine a world where _all_ our public utilities were maintained with such passion and caring presence.

NE Ohio Regional Sewer District@neorsd.org · 5mo ago

good night, sewers. good night, streams. good night, operations and maintenance teams. good night, settling tanks. good night, stream banks. good night, engineers, scientists, crews, managers, inspectors, analysts too. a good night for us means serving with care. good night, sewers, everywhere.

overlooking a series of circular water filled tanks of a sewage treatment plant at night. lights line a long brick building on the horizon as a blue-black sky is stark behind a veil of thin puffy clouds in the distance.
Mark Rubin@markrubin.bsky.social · 5mo ago

#STS #PhilSci #HistSci

Mess and Method - Acta Biotheoretica

Acta Biotheoretica - Bill Wimsatt and Mark Wilson are each the author of a body of work whose fruitfulness is rivaled only by its forbiddingness. Despite deep sympathies between their approaches...

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surrogate corpse@consume.red · 5mo ago

I wrote a paper with @philosofir.bsky.social about the relationship between the work of Bill Wimsatt & Mark Wilson. We talk about their shared interest in knowing how limited beings know a complex world, and explore the deep sympathies between the answers they find. You can read it here :^

Margarida Cardoso Moreira@margaridamcm.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Our internal organs are evolutionary marvels. New technologies are transforming our understanding of the evolution of vertebrate organs. You can find more by reading here: rdcu.be/e5EgU #EvoBio #EvoDevo 🐟🦎🐢🦇🐊🦜

The molecular evolution of vertebrate organs

Nature Ecology & Evolution - This Review discusses recent advances in the molecular evolution of vertebrate organs, including rates of evolution of organs and cell types, molecular mechanisms...

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Daniel S. Brooks@dsbrooks.bsky.social · 5mo ago

In case you're interested in the history of the philosophical engagement (or lack thereof) with biological organization, HOPOS has provided me with a link to download my forthcoming paper (limit of 50) at the following link: www.journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/RGWQP... #hpbio #philbio #philsci

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Daniel S. Brooks@dsbrooks.bsky.social · last yr.

My paper on the history of biological organization was accepted at HOPOS! The paper looks at organicist efforts in the first half of the 20th century to elevate organization in biology as a central practical and theoretical notion. #hpbio #philbio #histbio www.researchgate.net/publication/...