"Women also know philosophy" 🇧🇷👩🎓
A fantastic initiative: a new database of Brazilian women philosophers! Please share this with your networks—I know many of you know brilliant scholars who belong on this list.
#phil #philsky #philsci #HPS #philbio #WomenInPhilosophy
Interest in the relationship between human genomics and the global economy?
Submit your abstract to our open panel symposium at the next 4S conference, Oct 7-10.
More info at:
hugera.org/blog/
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I have a new paper out in Biology & Philosophy where I explore the overlap between the philosophy of measurement and ancestry in human population genetics. Very grateful to the philosophers & scientists who encouraged me to write this up!
doi.org/10.1007/s105...
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Dr. Phila M. Msimang continues our spring speaker series with the talk “Is diversity higher? Against the superficial inclusion of racial and ethnic groups in biomedical and clinical research” on April 5th. You can register to attend via zoom here: hugera.org/lecture-seri...
Come and work with my very excellent #philsci colleagues for a couple of years! For a better sense of what we get up to at Egenis, take a look around our website: www.exeter.ac.uk/research/cen...
Volume 17 • Issue 3 • 2025 Research Articles Are There Two Sexes? Yes and No, But Mostly No (and Gender is Something Else Anyway – More or Less) Letitia Meynell 2026-03-02 Volume 17 • Issue 3 • 2025 • Article 9 Ecology in Context: A Conceptual Model for Analyzing the Significance of Context in Ecological Research Robert Frühstückl 2026-03-02 Volume 17 • Issue 3 • 2025 • Article 11 Does Gaia Need to Be Darwinized? Rudy Arthur and David M. Wilkinson 2026-03-02 Volume 17 • Issue 3 • 2025 • Article 12 Biological Theories in the Domain of Physiology: Stability and Transformation as Two Governing Principles Nelson D. Horseman 2026-03-02 Volume 17 • Issue 3 • 2025 • Article 10
Vol 17, Iss 3 (2025) has dropped! Worth the wait, w/articles on sex/gender, ecology in context, Darwinizing Gaia, and theories in physiology. We love the diversity of articles that are sent to us—keep them coming!
PTPBio is, as always, diamond #OpenAccess: completely free for authors and readers!
Workshop on genetics, eugenics and scientific racism next week! #Philsci #Philosophy #Ethics #HPS #Sociology #AcademicSky
We will be conducting hybrid sessions, you can find the zoom link at www.imseam.uni-heidelberg.de/en/heinzelma...
Today!
Reminder that the HUGERA online lecture series continues on March 3rd with the talk "Lessons from Stateville: Race, Genetics, and the Biological Search for a Social Kind". You can register to attend via zoom: hugera.org/lecture-seri...
Interested in how race, ethnicity, and ancestry get used and misused in genetics? This talk is for you!
Register at www.hugera.org
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How is Racialization leveraged and reproduced in genomics labs?
Register to Duana Fullwiley’s online talk (Tuesday Feb 3, 18:00 GMT) to figure it out.
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Reminder that Prof. Duana Fullwiley (Stanford University) kicks off our spring speaker series with the talk “Into the Lab: Racial World Building and its Discontents” on February 3rd. You can register to attend via zoom here:https://hugera.org/lecture-series/
@hugeraproject.bsky.social is back with its Online Talks!
This Tuesday, Feb 3rd, Duana Fullwiley (Stanford) presents on Racial World Building.
Registration at HUGERA.org
#genomics #popgen #STS #philsky
How is current genomics impacted by social, political, and ethical assumptions?
@yashaddad.bsky.social and I had the pleasure of presenting this issue in our newest work (link below)
#popgen #STS #STEM #philsky #HPbio
Topics Please see below for a non-exhaustive list of suggested topics; we particularly welcome contributions that make contact with this year's conference theme: Ground Truth and Validity. While the notion of measurement validity is comparatively familiar, ground truth may need more of an introduction. The concept of ground truth has origins in remote sensing, where it is used to contrast the outcomes of a near or ground level measurement with outcomes of a remotely sensed measurement. From these origins, the concept has now moved to a wider use, particularly in machine learning contexts, where it denotes data assumed to be true, which can then be used to calibrate and validate machine learning data. The time seems ripe for a more careful investigation from a measurement perspective of the concept of ground truth-both in its original understanding and in its more metaphorical use. Measurement and Simulation • Connections between measuring and simulating • Can simulation substitute for measurement? Measurement and Data Science
Measurement and Data Science • Measurement and data quality • Measurement and data analysis • Measurement and Al Models in Measurement • The role of models in measurement • The role of models in justifying measurement results • Models, intersubjectivity, objectivity, validation Models of Measurement • The general structure of the measurement process • The structure of measurement in social and human sciences • Transduction and calibration in measurement • History of the conception of the structure of measurement History, Philosophy and Sociology of Measurement
The structure of measurement in social and human sciences • Transduction and calibration in measurement • History of the conception of the structure of measurement History, Philosophy and Sociology of Measurement • Exploration across sciences with diverse philosophical perspectives • New quantification and measurement approaches • Epistemological and metaphysical approaches to measurement Measurement Applications and their conceptual foundations in any area of science • Life & Health Sciences
CFP: Society for the Study of Measurement will be held at the University of Edinburgh
June 22-25, 2026. Submit proposals for papers, symposia, & poster on any topics in the theory, history, philosophy, & application of measurement by January 15, 2026 app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/80364...
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Biology & Philosophy
What is social constructionism about race? This #OpenAccess article reframes SCR as a shared investigative practice, not just a metaphysical claim—responding directly to Adam Hochman’s critique. bit.ly/49eivup @celsoneto.bsky.social #philsky #STS
I am so happy for you!!!! Congratulations 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Tomorrow!
Great conversation Luke! We look forward to engage with the rare genetics team!
Are you interested in messy, imprecise concepts in science with huge social implications?
Join us online on Tuesday, Dec 2nd, for Yasmin’s talk. Register here: hugera.org/lecture-seri...
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About this Journal Philosophy, Theory, and Practice in Biology (PTPBio) is a peer-reviewed, open-access, online journal that aims to publish work from philosophers of science and theoretically-inclined biologists, and to encourage interactions across disciplinary boundaries. Our goal is to foster a broader conception of what it means to reflect on and analyze biological theory and method, both scientifically and philosophically. Volume 17 • Issue 2 • 2025 Research Articles Dissecting Stochasticity in Translation: Time in Start Codon Selection as a Case-Study Marco Casali, Francesca Merlin and Alberto Vianelli 2025-11-19 Volume 17 • Issue 2 • 2025 • Article 6 ‘Biologically Degenerate, Ecologically Marginal’: Parasites as a Case Study in Societal Values Impacting Ecological Research Meghan Barrett, Thomas Raffel and Bob Fischer 2025-11-19 Volume 17 • Issue 2 • 2025 • Article 8 Life Spirals: A Critique of Life Cycle Diagrams Maja Dorota Sidzinska, Jacqueline Mae Wallis and Kate Nicole Hoffman 2025-11-19 Volume 17 • Issue 2 • 2025 • Article 7
A new issue of PTPBio has dropped with articles from Marco Casali, Francesca Merlin & Alberto Vianelli; Meghan Barrett, Thomas Raffel & Bob Fischer; and Maja Dorota Sidzinska, Jacqueline Mae Wallis & Kate Nicole Hoffman.
Always fully #OpenAccess: free for authors and readers.
ptpbio.org
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The call for applications for 2026 European Advanced School in Philosophy of Life Sciences is now open! Deadline 15 Jan 2026, theme will be “philosophy of biology for a healthy planet”, all info here: www.kli.ac.at/en/events/ev... graduate students &early postdocs, do consider joining us! #philsci
The rumours are true: Leeds is hosting BSPS 2026! Make sure you put the date in your calendars (21-23 July) and, while you're at it, consider submitting a symposium proposal (CFS closes on 14th January 2026)! www.thebsps.org/news/bsps-an...
This Tuesday, 17:00 GMT. Join us online!
Thanks Anna! It would be lovely to attend the conference
Anna, just to confirm, is the deadline for papers/panels December 1st or December 15?
