I got to welcome @saraseager.bsky.social—one of the world's leading astrobiologists—to my St. Mike's course: Aliens & The Heavens! My students drove a lively Q&A about exoplanets, funding, and definitions of life.👽🌌 #astrobiology #academicsky #hps 🐋🌱 @utoronto.ca @ustmikes.bsky.social

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775-1854) 1849-Sketch of Schelling in Berlin. #Schelling
@gregoryrupik.bsky.social @kylabruff.bsky.social @marcelagr.bsky.social @dalianassar.bsky.social @tbheinze.bsky.social @benjaminnorris.bsky.social

Here's philosopher of bio Denis Walsh's endorsement of my book as an integrated HPS project. Remapping Biology with Goethe, Schelling, and Herder is shipping in paperback (finally!) on July 30th! Link below. #booksky #philsky #histbio #philbio #ihps #agency #evolution #biosky

This term I'm teaching "Aliens & the Heavens: Christian Encounters with Cosmic Pluralism," a St. Mike's First Year Foundations course in the University of Toronto's Faculty of Arts & Science. So wonderful to be back in the classroom introducing students to #HPS & disciplines like #astrobiology!
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🐋🌱 #hpbio #philbio

What Makes Goethe So Special? The German poet’s dauntingly eclectic accomplishments were founded on a tireless interrogation of how a life should be lived.

A review of Matthew Bell's Goethe: A Life in Ideas in the New Yorker
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Secondary to start (I want more of an overview) but any interesting primary sources—especially earlier ones—would be great, too!

Any historians of #astrobiology, #xenobiology, and/or #exobiology out there? I'm designing a course and would love to add some readings about the field and its history. Point me in the right direction! #histbio #hpbio

A biologist at the American Museum of Natural History, Jonathan Coddington, cataloged a new genus of South American spiders in 1986.

Two things about the spider were unique:
they lived in caves & laid cubic eggs.

So he called them genus 'Plato', and that's the nerdiest thing I have read all year.

It was no “mere” metaphor: “plants do not … possess nerves or a central nervous system; and we may infer that with animals such structures serve only for the more perfect transmission of impressions, and for the more complete intercommunication of the several parts."

🧪🌱🐋 #philsci #HistSTM 🦋🦫

PSA Office Hour - Philosophy of Science Association The PSA Office Hour aims to facilitate interactions between our graduate student membership and prominent philosophers of science, and in a more controlled, accessible, and carbon-conscious setting…

Two weeks until the Philosophy of Science Association’s next office hours! @michelamassimi.bsky.social and Mazviita Chirimuuta on “New approaches to realism.”
Sign up and more information:

I can’t think of a better way to celebrate my 2nd year in Germany than keynoting the German Society for Women in Philosophy - join us in Ulm to discuss openness & democracy on Thursday 13 November: www.uni-ulm.de/einrichtunge... #philsci

Appreciate the mention!

Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time after record heat Previously the country was one of the world's only mosquito-free zones.

Proof that climate change is real and horrible:

www.bbc.com/news/article...

He looked *great*!

I am excited to share with you all another episode of #TheYoungIdealist Series featuring @dalianassar.bsky.social
who navigates the viewers through her exciting philosophical work & discussing important issues like Knowledge, Aesthetics, Ethics, Nature & Ecology.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPur...

#HPBio #histsci #histSTM #evobio #HPS

Next in Dialectical Biology Today: @hylomorphic.bsky.social weaves together historical threads from Hegel, Engels, & others to illustrate how Lewontin's dialectical biology critiques an anti-revolutionary, conservative ideology at the heart of population genetics & evolutionary ecology 🌱🐋

Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther kicks off day 2 of Dialectical Biology Today, exploring Lewontin's avoidance of "synthesis," identifying the tension between anthropocentric ethics and deep ecology, and wondering how the Ocean might open up a new dialectic in a refreshed Naturphilosophie 🐋🌱

I’m doing the hand symbol for dialectics

Amazing to have Elliott Sober delivering his keynote "Richard Lewontin - Biologist, Philosopher, and Marxist" at the Dialectical Biology Today Conference! 🌱🐋 @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social

First up at Dialectical Biology Today: Sonia Sultan illustrates—with great experimental & naturalistic examples—the interpenetration of organisms and environments; identifies three major challenges that emerge for biologists from this datum; and gives us a good reason to eat our broccoli! 🥦 🐋🌱

The "Dialectical Biology Today" Conference is...Today! Here's @jonothingeb.bsky.social welcoming participants to this gathering considering the legacies of Richard Lewontin. 🌱🐋 @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social
You can see the schedule & join on Zoom here! ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/diale...

Join us for this great conference on the legacies of Lewontin and Dialectical Biology! 🌱🐋 #philbio #evolution #histbio

Virality Vitality is now a paperback! Discount code: SNPF25.

How do viral phenomena undermine basic concepts of the life sciences and philosophy, including the body, immunity, self-reproduction, and species? How does this affect synthetic biology’s attempts to control life?

An awesome hybrid conference on the legacies of Richard Lewontin is coming to Toronto. Elliott Sober is the keynote! "Dialectical Biology Today" runs from October 10-12. Learn more and register below! #philbio 🐋🌱
@ihpst-uoft.bsky.social

ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/diale...

Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther's *When Maps Become the World* profoundly inspired my philosophical approach in my book, especially his notions of countermapping, pernicious reification, and contextual objectivity. I'm so grateful for his enthusiastic support of my project to Romanticize evolution! 🐋🌱

Join us for this great conference on the legacies of Lewontin and Dialectical Biology! 🌱🐋 #philbio #evolution #histbio

Despite being a major antagonist in the early chapters of my book, Michael Ruse provided a gracious and supportive peer review of my book before publication, and penned this early review. Remapping Biology with Goethe, Schelling, and Herder is now available in paperback. Check it out!
#philbio #hps

Cover of General System Theory.

Ludwig von Bertalanffy—the architect of “General System Theory”—was born OTD in 1901.

Mechanism “provides us with no grasp of … organic 'wholeness,’ … of organic 'teleology,’ or of the historical character of organisms.…”

🌱🐋🦫🦋 #HistSTM #PhilSci #evolbio #STS 🧪