I was interviewed for this Science Magazine piece on industry funding, philosophy of AI, and conflict of interest disclosures. www.science.org/content/arti...

Philosophers call for their journals to require conflict of interest disclosures

A new petition urges greater transparency amid growing ties to AI and other companies

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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:

A 30-pt swing in South Carolina in November makes me a Senator and retires Lindsey Graham. 🇺🇸

My Centre is a unique place to do a PhD in Philosophy, because you can be in constant contact with experts in veterinary medicine, psychology, zoology and policy and be part of a team united by a shared interest in animal minds. We now have our 1st ever PhD scholarship: www.lse.ac.uk/sentience/phd

PhD Scholarship

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MLK was only 39 when he was killed. Growing up, I thought that was old. But I’m 43 now and I’m stunned by the burden he shouldered at such a young age. I’m also a lot more aware of how hard it is, at any age, to carry the hopes and dreams of an oppressed people on your shoulders, as so many do.

Copenhagen town hall square, Denmark right now. Massive solidarity with Greenland demonstrations. Source: dr.dk

Chemistry of Combustion and Illumination, a diagram from Edward Livingston Youmans' Chemical Atlas; or, The Chemistry of Familiar Objects (1856). ⠀ ⠀ Order as a print here: https://publicdomainreview.org/product/chemistry-of-combustion-and-illumination

Lots of great content in the latest newsletter from the Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (SPSP is so good at fostering community). If you scroll all the way to the last feature I pour my heart out in the Proust Questionnaire. So good of Saana Jukola to give me the opportunity 🙏

Uljana Feest@ufeest.bsky.social · 9mo ago

ok, so I'm in serious procrastination mode, which led me to read the SPSP-newletter cover to cover, enjoying the interview with @annaalexandrova.bsky.social (among other things)! sway.cloud.microsoft/Et71m6wUBR3w... Over and out Please call me out if you see me on here again today #SPSP

🎄 Day 4 of the 24 Days of Development ✨🧬 In 1984, Drosophila homeotic genes were found to be conserved across animals, including humans 🧬🐸. This article highlights a shared genetic toolkit for embryonic development 🔬🌟🎁  doi.org/10.1016/j.yd...

'Here, we present a multi-organ single-cell atlas encompassing 23 fetal and adult organs, integrating scRNA-seq & scTCR-seq fm over 2.8 million immune cells across 15 second-trimester fetal & 4 adult donors.' #Immunology

Systemic immune activity occurs during human immune system maturation

Profiling of immune cells from consecutive developmental time points in second-trimester fetuses and adults reveals that immune activation, immune tolerance, and hematopoiesis occur in a systemic way ...

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If you’re interested in practicing the philosophy of science in practice why not come along to an online workshop “the philosophy of science in practice - in practice”? #philsci

Very saddened to hear of John Gurdon’s passing. I’ve been lucky enough to interact with him at multiple points through my career - from undergrad lectures, through his position as former Chair of @biologists.bsky.social’s Board of Directors, and as an author at @dev-journal.bsky.social.

Nobel Laureate Professor Sir John Gurdon dies aged 92

It is with great sadness that the University shares the news of the death of Professor Sir John Gurdon, founder of the Gurdon Institute.

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'What happened during those reviews remains confidential, hidden behind the ethics panel’s closed doors. But the financial ties between the drugmaker and its ethics panel highlight how private-equity investors are transforming this obscure but vital corner of American health care'

How Private Equity Oversees the Ethics of Drug Research

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PhD position in philosophy of medicine uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/451...

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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'(...) the troubling question of who is actually making sense of such a cortical roadmap. Is there a tiny executive homunculus watching the visual, acoustic, somatosensory, and other sensory maps and sending out instructions to muscles in accordance with the picture of the world it is receiving?'

Wider Than the Sky: An Alternative to “Mapping” the World Onto the Brain

Challenging the topographic paradigm: The olfactory system's dynamic organization and phenomena like representational drift challenge traditional spatial mapping models, advocating for flexible, r...

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PhD project in philosophy of science in practice. The main PI is Sara Green. Check it out! employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...

PhD Project in Philosophy of Science: Philosophical Perspectives on Animal Models in Translational Neuroscience

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A new #HOPOS paper from Tivadar Vervoort on the relations between Georg Lukács and the Frankfurt School and the French epistemologists including Michel Foucault. “Nous Sommes Tous Néokantiens”: Foucault, Lukács, and the Critique of Social Forms www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

PhD and postdoc positions available in HPS at the University of Copenhagen. The project is “Human Variables in Biodiversity Assessment” with Joeri Witteveen. employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...

PhD position in History and Philosophy of Science

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Two tenure track/ tenured positions--one Assist Prof & one Assoc Prof in Philosophy of Science &/or Technology at @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social philjobs.org/job/show/29502 philjobs.org/job/show/29506 Areas include phil of social science, Native American philo, phil of race #philsci #philtech #philjobs

CFA The Human Diversity Dilemma: Navigating the intersection of microbes, ethics & society ISHPSSB Off-Year Workshop Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa October 1-3, 2025 Abstracts due Aug.18 Organizers @abigailnd.bsky.social & @msimang.bsky.social #philsci #STS 🦠 More info ⤵️

Integrating and interpreting brain maps | doi.org/10.1016/j.ti... Imaging and recording technologies make it possible to map multiple biological features of the brain. How can these features be conceptually integrated into a coherent understanding of brain structure and function? ⤵️

STS postdoc position open at Medical Museion employment.ku.dk/all-vacancie...

Postdoc in Public Engagement around Personalized Medicine (Let's Get Personal)

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RIP #histsci Margaret Rossiter, who coined term Matilda Effect en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margare... #philsci #feministsky

Ben Gross@bhgross144.bsky.social · last yr.

Margaret Rossiter, whose #histsci scholarship revealed structural inequalities affecting #WomenInSTEM, has passed away. Dr. Rossiter was co-founder of @historyscience.bsky.social’s Women’s Caucus & namesake of a prize honoring work on the history of women in science. May her memory be a blessing.

We already know that overselling findings and “story over substance” are a threat to scientific knowledge production. I’m extremely worried that the massive restructuring of science funding will reproduce the same hype-dependent dynamic for research.

Different disciplines handle the division of labor between theory and experiment. Some fields have dedicated theoreticians who hardly ever do experiments (and vice versa). Others divide it less strongly or not at all. Why is this?

'To determine whether a screening truly works, we have to measure not survival time but mortality. Did fewer people die of cancer in the screened group? This is the outcome that really matters. Yet demonstrating such a benefit is slow, arduous work (...) you must wait for the final end point: death'

The Catch in Catching Cancer Early

New blood tests promise to detect malignancies before they’ve spread. But proving that these tests actually improve outcomes remains a stubborn challenge.

newyorker.com

The plenary talk by Philip Ball, 24 July, #ISHPSSB2025, focusing on new biology - full house! #hpbio #philsci #histstm #histsci #philbio #hbio #sts

This collection of foreign bodies removed from the oesophagus was donated to the museum in 1928.

Very excited to share our new work on gastruloids by the incredible Cat Triandafillou! We mapped gene expression across 26 individual gastruloids at single-cell resolution and discovered some pretty amazing patterns about how these "mini-embryos" organize themselves. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Single-cell spatial mapping reveals reproducible cell type organization and spatially-dependent gene expression in gastruloids

Gastruloids are three-dimensional stem-cell-based models that recapitulate key aspects of mammalian gastrulation, including formation of an anterior-posterior (AP) axis. However, we do not have detail...

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A Museum Contends with Its Collection of Human Remains www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

A Medical-History Museum Contends with Its Collection of Human Remains

Supporters saw the Mütter’s preserved fetuses, skulls, and “Soap Lady” as a celebration of human difference. New management saw an ethical and a political minefield.

newyorker.com