Marshall Abrams
@marshall0i.bsky.social
Philosopher of science, occasional scientist. Phil of: ev biol, probability, modeling, stat inference. Book: Evolution and the Machinery of Chance. Activity here as private citizen, not as rep of nor supported by employer. https://marshallalmostsurely.com
A great summer school opportunity with Lorraine Daston, Dave Kaiser & Erika Milam #HPS #STS 👇
Erika Milam@emilam.bsky.social · 2h agoPlease circulate: www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/news/call-ap... Seeking 10 Early Career Fellows to participate in 2 summer academies to be held in Berlin June 14–18, 2027 & June 26–30, 2028: SCIENCE IMAGINES ITS FUTURE. How have scholars deliberated about investing scarce resources in an uncertain future?
Dear evolutionary biologists Does anyone ever discuss Maturana's evolution by natural drift? If so, what do they say (I never see anything), and if not, why not? @gregpriest.bsky.social #hpbio
This is possibly the first time that (world-class) seismologists will join philosophers of science to discuss progress in seismology. Very proud of having co-organized this with @miguelohn.bsky.social and Teru Miyake #philsci #PSA26 #histci #seismology #earthquakes
Planning to go to #PSA26? Open to add something to that trip? Consider joining us just before PSA (17 Nov) at Caltech for a one-day workshop on Progress in Seismology: between theory and observation. See details here: philevents.org/event/show/1... #philsci
Observation, Theory, and Progress in Seismology
Detailed description:The workshop “Observation, Theory, and Progress in Seismology” will bring together researchers from seismology and from history and philosophy of science to address th...
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Our executive MA program geared to industry leaders and entrepreneurs is an accelerated 1 year program focusing on #philosophy and digital culture through a broad historical and social lens. #philsci #sts #hps humanities.tau.ac.il/Psdc
Are wasps feeling the heat this summer? Be kind to wasps at your picnic this summer: share your meal & tell us what they're after. Is it Ham (protein-rich)? or Jam (sugary) @uclnews.bsky.social @theconversation.com @femi-benny.bsky.social @cintiaoi.bsky.social theconversation.com/where-have-a...
Where have all the wasps gone this summer?
And why you should let them share your picnic ham and jam.
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Journal of Math. Phil. is not just philosophy of math, but "philosophical work that draws on formal and mathematical methods, together with philosophical inquiry into those methods and their foundations."
Borut Trpin@boruttrpin.bsky.social · 5d agoThe Journal of Mathematical Philosophy is now open for submissions! It is fully open access, with no fees for authors or readers. Please help spread the word, and do consider sending us your work. Very happy to be part of the inaugural editorial board. mathematicalphilosophy.org/mathphil
Philosophers, spread the word! The next Special Issue of The Philosophical Quarterly will be 'Philosophy and Climate Change' - Guest Editor Stephen Gardiner, call for papers here: academic.oup.com/pq/pages/cal...
Philosophers of the PSA #philsci @philsci.bsky.social: 2 reminders of deadlines on August 1st from the PSA Outreach and Engagement Committee! PSA Outreach & Engagement Prize, and AAAS | SciLine Workshop!... 1/4
Emanuele Ratti@emratti.bsky.social · last wk.Happy this is out! Edited by Alan Love @mcps-philsci.bsky.social and Chris Donohue, this is a gem in history, philosophy, and sociology of the life sciences #philsci. The workshop supporting this volume was the most exciting intellectual event I have ever participated in. Honored to be in it!
Rosalind Franklin was born OTD in 1920. Her X-ray crystallography was key to discovering DNA’s structure (her student Raymond Gosling took photo 51). She also studied viruses. After her untimely death, a colleague Aaron Klug continued her work and won a Nobel. 🌱🐋🧪 #EvoBio #HistSTM #WomeninSTEM
Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2w ago1. We—@eduede.bsky.social, @mjcrockett.bsky.social, Kevin Gross, and I—have a new preprint on the arXiv today, based on ideas that emerged during an @sfiscience.bsky.social workshop in November 2024: The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science.
Check out this diamond #openaccess press of very high scholarly quality. Consider it for your #philsci monographs and check out the excellent books they already published
BSPS Open - BSPS
World-class philosophy of science monographs published Open Access at no cost to authors: a collaboration between the BSPS and University of Calgary Press.
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Read the @philsci.bsky.social reply to the US Office of Management and Budget’s May 29 proposed revisions to the Guidance for Federal Financial Assistance. Signed by President Craig Callender, President-Elect Alan Love and yours truly (Past President): www.regulations.gov/comment/OMB-...
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I'm very psyched to have an interview with me about my book on Aldo Leopold's land ethic, _The Land Is Our Community_, appear in the @ishpssb.bsky.social newsletter! 🌎 🐋🌱 📗 I just wanted to add that my book is open access—downloadable for free here:
The Land Is Our Community: Aldo Leopold’s Environmental Ethic for the New Millennium
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ISHPSSB@ishpssb.bsky.social · 3w agoThe ISHPSSB June 2026 Newsletter is now available! 👉https://www.ishpssb.org/news/newsletters/336-newsletter-volume-37-no-1-issue-70-june-2026
U.S. science is once again subject to a basic confusion between the *observation* of how values shape science versus the *improper influence* of values on science. Federal grant agencies have banned research mentioning gender, equity, and many other politicized topics... 1/ #philsci #scicomm 🧪
Awareness of Our Biases Is Essential to Good Science
Ideological, social and political values have always influenced research
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International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology July 18-23, 2027: ISHPSSB conference in Buenos Aires Argentina 🇦🇷 💃🏻 October 15, 2026: Submissions deadline / Fecha límite para el envío de propuestas #HPS #evobio #paleosky #STS
Maria Strecht Almeida@mstrechtalmeida.bsky.social · 4w agocongressin.com/e/ishpssb2027/ #hpbio #philsci #histstm #histsci #philbio #hbio #sts
Numerous talks coming up this month on the topics of race, eugenics, and genetic diversity! #philsky #STS #philsci hugera.org/2026/07/08/j...
July Talks - HUGERA
It is conference season! Talks by members of HUGERA this month: July 15th, “The ‘Muslim Genome’: From Eugenic Pasts to Genomic Futures” by Tayyaba Jiwani (HSS, Edinburgh, UK) July 16th, “Signal and No...
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Linnéa Gyllingberg@gyllingberg.bsky.social · 3mo agoWhat is the minimal machinery needed for complex, cognition-like behavior? With @lostintheswarm.bsky.social, we show how self-sustained calcium oscillations, diffusion, and mechanics may be enough to coordinate behavior across a single cell with no nervous system. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/
If the genome is not a blueprint, what is it? My attempt to unravel this particularly knotty question, in @quantamagazine.bsky.social www.quantamagazine.org/why-the-huma...
Why the Human Genome’s Tangled Physicality May Confound AI | Quanta Magazine
Our genetic heritage is not a blueprint or an algorithm, as many biologists have imagined, but something else entirely.
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Well now, this is worth a deep dive into #EvMed #PetosParadox #DevoEvo www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Indirect genomic effects shape cancer risk across species
Tumour prevalence varies dramatically throughout the animal kingdom despite broadly conserved cellular and developmental processes, raising the question of how evolution has shaped susceptibility 1,2....
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Summer reading recommendation! This new book by Elana Shever is fantastic. It's an ethnography of dinosaur science in the spirit of Latour and Woolgar's Laboratory Life. Historians and philosophers of paleo, this is a must read. #Philpaleo #philsci www.ucpress.edu/books/making...
Making Our Beasts by Elana Shever - Hardcover
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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Submit your recently published work on philosophy of science & race or nominate a colleague's work ‼️TODAY‼️(deadline July 1st Anywhere on Earth). Prize is $500. It is super easy to nominate a work here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #HPS
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PSA UPSS Initiative@psa-upss.bsky.social · last mo.⏰ Today is last day to submit entries for Philosophy of Science & Race Prize for best recent (w/in 5 yrs) published work on #philosophy of science & race, history/critiques of scientific racism (incl. medical/techno racism, etc.) #HPS #philsci More info 👇 philsci.org/psa_prize_in...
It is out and OPEN ACCESS: "The Senses: Perception and Experience" (Cambridge University Press, Elements: Philosophy of Mind, ed. by @keithfrankish.com) #PhilSky #booksky #HPBio #philosophy #cogsci www.cambridge.org/core/element...
The Senses
Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - The Senses
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Springer@springer.springernature.com · last mo.💙📚 'Life Beyond Human Boundaries: John Dupré’s Philosophy and the Interdisciplinary Study of the Life Sciences,' an #OpenAccess book, is self-standing as the only substantive anthology of writings centered on John Dupre’s work. bit.ly/4f2gkNl #PhilSci 🗃️
Truly bizarre story of how two papers from the 1940s by physics pioneer Max Planck have been "retracted" from Naturwissenschaften, potentially by an algorithm, for anachronistic "plagiarism" issues, leaving the current editor baffled (but it is Springer Nature so.... www.science.org/content/arti...
Why have papers by one of history’s most famous physicists been retracted?
Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck. A bot may be to blame
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I am heartbroken by University of Exeter’s decision to endanger the majority of staff in philosophy and qualitative social science, including #Egenis @exeterspspa.bsky.social No warning, no consultations, just an email dropped into inboxes announcing redundancy. c.org/zKbPJFDwBq #philsci #sts #hps
This seems like something that a few #philbio folks might be interested in.
Michaela Müller-McNicoll@mixmue.bsky.social · 2mo agoHow can a splicing factor bind to thousands of exons but regulate only a few of them? In our new preprint, we show that SRSF6 resolves this paradox through two distinct binding modes. @lab-nmr.bsky.social & @julianvonehr.bsky.social. Check it out: www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-9...
⏰ 5 days left to submit your recently published work for PSA UPSS Philosophy of Science & Race Prize! #HPS
PSA UPSS Initiative@psa-upss.bsky.social · 2mo agoDue June 15! Nominations/submissions for Philosophy of Science & Race Prize: best book or article by PSA member integrating #philsci w/ race/ethnicity, or critiques of scientific racism published 2021-2026. $500 cash prize at PSA mtg in CA #HPS philsci.org/psa_prize_in...
