Poster for the 12th RUB Workshop on the History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, entitled "Diversity in Motion: New Challenges across the Sciences" For more information on speakers and program, see: rotoworkshop2026.wixsite.com/diversity

12th RUB Workshop on the History and Philosophy of the Life Science is coming up!
Topic: Diversity in Motion - New Challenges across the Sciences
Date: March 26-27, 2026
Location: Bochum, Germany and online
Registration (free for all!): rotoworkshop2026.wixsite.com/diversity
#HPBio #HistSci #PhilSci

📃 Our paper "Towards More Robust Nanobioscience: Launching the NanoBubbles Replication Initiative" is out!

🔗 To read: doi.org/10.1002/anie...

🎆 Huge congratulations to our Paris team Maha Said, Mustafa Gharib and Raphaël Lévy!

@raphavisses.bsky.social @mustafagharib.bsky.social

reminder that Miles Macleod, @federicoboem.bsky.social @yjerden.bsky.social & I have a call for papers out for a special issue on scientific "bubbles" with Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. nominal deadline July 15, plus or minus.

www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Towards More Robust Nanobioscience: Launching the NanoBubbles Replication Initiative The NanoBubbles Reproducibility Initiative investigates the robustness of highly cited articles in nanobioscience. Here, we document the process of setting up the initiative from corpus creation to p...

Congrats to my former colleagues Maha Said, Mustafa Gharib, @Raphaël Lévy at @nanobubbles.bsky.social for this crucial achievement!

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Today and tomorrow I am in Verona, at the meeting of ITRN - Italian Reproducibility Network!

I am delighted to see familiar faces and to make new acquaintances with colleagues and scholars who are conducting research on these issues.

#ITRN2026

📣 We are looking for others to replicate our work!

🔗 More information: nanobubbles.hypotheses.org/replication-...

I highly recommend this job advertisement.
Working at @nanobubbles.bsky.social is a unique experience!

We ran high-level US civil war simulations. Minnesota is exactly how they start | Claire Finkelstein Developments in Minnesota closely mirror a scenario explored in a 2024 exercise conducted at the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law at the University of Pennsylvania, which I direct

Ironic (also grotesque and worrying) that the rhetoric of the “minutemen”, the slogans in defence of the Second Amendment, the bogeyman of the federal government “coming to get you” are now becoming real because being implemented by the very same political side

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We (Miles MacLeod, YJ Erden, @ccmmody.bsky.social and me w/ editorial contributions by Yagmur Ozturk) are putting on a special issue!

In Studies in History & Philosophy of Science!
Ab/ scientific @nanobubbles.bsky.social

Deadline July 15 - spread the word!

www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

📣 Interested in 🫧 and AI?

➡️ AISB 2026 Symposium titled Hype, Promise, and Speculation: AI Bubbles and the Replication Crisis in Computer Science will take place on 1-2 July 2026 in Sussex, UK.

🕐 Deadline for submissions is 6 March 2026
🔗 For more information aisb.org.uk/aisb-2026-sy...

📣 We are happy to announce the special issue “Scientific bubbles: definitions, context, and approaches” in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science with guest editors from Nanobubbles.

⏰ Deadline: 15th of July 2026!

🔗 More information in www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

We (Miles MacLeod, YJ Erden, @ccmmody.bsky.social and me w/ editorial contributions by Yagmur Ozturk) are putting on a special issue!

In Studies in History & Philosophy of Science!
Ab/ scientific @nanobubbles.bsky.social

Deadline July 15 - spread the word!

www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

We (Miles MacLeod, YJ Erden, @federicoboem.bsky.social & me w/ editorial contributions by Yagmur Ozturk) are putting on a special issue! In Studies in History & Philosophy of Science! Ab/ scientific @nanobubbles.bsky.social! Deadline July 15 - spread the word.

www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Cultures of Trial and Error: Field-specific Barriers to Performing Replications In this piece, we call for more comparative research on field-specific replication dynamics.

new blog post at Journal of Trial & Error in series co-sponsored by @nanobubbles.bsky.social by Candida Sánchez Burmester, Maha Said, Martin Bush, myself & @nicolecnelson.bsky.social on "Field-Specific Barriers to Performing Replications" 1/x

blog.trialanderror.org/cultures-of-...

Submitted abstracts will be selected to appear in an interdisciplinary OA special issue in the South African Journal of Science! sajs.co.za 🙌 Deadline: August 18th. Early career scholars accepted can request travel support to our writeshop in Cape Town!
#hps #phibio #microbiome #philsci 🦠

We got great news! @ishpssb2025.bsky.social gave us funding to support early career travel to our event in October! Deadline for abstract submission is extended until Aug 18. Don't miss this chance! #phibio #hps #microbiome #philsci 🦠

Merci! Without you guys, I wouldn't be where I am today. I hope to keep flying the flag high!

#ISHPSSB is over. I presented my preliminary work on hype, distortion and reproducibility in #microbiome science. This work would never have been possible without my collaboration with scientists from various labs and my participation in the @nanobubbles.bsky.social project on science correction.

Today it's my turn!

For those who want to follow the programme, here's the link:
lnkd.in/dpZFnXAE

#ISHPSSB2025

It's great to be in Porto at ISHPSSB with so many friends and colleagues!

Embodied cognition, endurance running and evolution - Biology & Philosophy Embodied Cognition suggests that cognitive processes are deeply rooted into our bodily morphology and its sensorimotor interactions with the environment. Evolutionary Embodied Cognition suggests that ...

It took almost a year, but this is finally out, written together with my colleagues and friends Gabriele Ferretti and Silvano Zipoli Caiani.

It extends the framework of Evolutionary Embodied Cognition, by combining it with the Endurance Running Hypothesis.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

"C'est une Révolte?"
"Non, Sire, c'est une Révolution."
________
(probable) dialogue between Louis XVI and the Duke of La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt on hearing the news of the fall of the Bastille

#14Juillet

honored to join this @historyofscience.bsky.social roundtable @kathrynolesko.bsky.social's invitation. my contribution "Make Silicon Valley Boring Again!" argues that today's broligarchs aren't just aberrant relative to you & me, but even relative to the history of Silicon Valley...

The @nanobubbles.bsky.social podcast on science correction and its problems.

Listen now!

Updating the Discontinuity Theory to the Extended Immunity: The Symmunobiome Concept The evolution of the concept of the immune system from a set of composed cells and tissue that defend the host from exogenous agents into a system that has regulatory and homeostatic functions determ...

I am delighted to see this paper, written with Ingrid Lamminpää e Amedeo Amedei, published in the European Journal of Immunology. This is also provocative, with the specific aim of sparking debate since many aspects need to be further explored and clarified.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

It's so nice to be here together. Talking about questionable practices in science and joyfully shouting ‘monorail’!

Today!
4 pm (Central Europe Time).
You can register here: rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture... to join the discussion!

On Thursday 29 and Friday 29 (2024) here at the Ruhr University Bochum, there will be this very interesting workshop on the philosophy and history of plants.

You van follow it also online and you can still register!

Matteo Mameli, Why Human Nature Matters & Marco J Nathan, The Quest for Human Nature | BJPS Review of Books Tim Lewens reviews Why Human Nature Matters, by Matteo Mameli, and The Quest for Human Nature, by Marco J Nathan

New from the BJPS Review of Books:

Why Human Nature Matters
by Matteo Mameli (@matteomameli.bsky.social)
&
The Quest for Human Nature
by Marco Nathan

—Reviewed by Tim Lewens

#philsky #philsci #hpbio

www.thebsps.org/reviewofbook...

1. Twenty-some years ago, as the embers of the intelligent design movement were dying out, a loose band of thinkers known as the New Atheists made a name for themselves by confusing materialist methodology with materialist metaphysics and going on the offensive against all of organized religion.