REMINDER nominations for the Hempel Award are due April 30! Check the thread for more details 👇

A photo of two copies of the book held out by the author. Some nice garden flowers visible in the background

Blumenbach’s Racial Classification

💙📚 A timely and important #OpenAccess book that transcends the simplistic boundaries between “right” and “left” science and revises the internally contradictory impact of racialist/racial thinking on knowledge about humanity. bit.ly/4siVxIN #Blumenbach #PhilSci 🏺

Very cool line-up! @roto-rub.bsky.social
#HPBio #HistSci #PhilSci 🦠🌱🐋

Ethical design as a prerequisite for translational microbiome science - Microbiome Human microbiome research is expanding globally, yet remains dominated by samples, institutions, and leadership from the Global North. This imbalance undermines scientific validity, as microbiomes are...

So exciting to see this published! Thanks to Anna-Ursula Happel and Jo-Ann Passmore @mucosal-group.bsky.social for the invitation. Check it out! #hpbio, #histbio, #philbio link.springer.com/article/10.1...

We are starting the second day with a talk by David Ludwig on pluralism as transgression! @roto-rub.bsky.social #philbio #hps 🦫🌿🦠🪴

We are starting! Diversity in Motion with @roto-rub.bsky.social join us also online! #philbio #hps 🦠🌿🦫🪴

look at this baby beaver and feel better briefly

(@ wildheartrescue on TT)

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Our next reading group on April 1 at 15:30 CET! We will be reading: Wylie, Alison. “Humanizing Science and Philosophy of Science: George Sarton, Contextualist Philosophies of Science, and the Indigenous/Science Project.” doi.org/10.1017/can....
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#philbio #hpbio

Very exciting workshop happening this week on diversity in science! Check it out! 👇
#hpbio #Philbio #PhilSci

This has just been published in “Theory & Society” (formerly) considered THE top #sociology /theory journal, after Springer Nature redid the board, installing Steven Pinker among them. Shame shame shame

This semester our reading group reads selected chapters from "Everything flows", edited by @djnicholson.bsky.social l and John Dupré.
I was in charge of the poster design, while the amazing @yavannakemi.bsky.social was in charge of the content decisions!
#HPBio #PhDSky

Biology Needs Philosophy, But What Philosophy? Abstract. Philosophy of biology has the potential to contribute to biology by improving scientific reasoning. However, this potential is largely unrealized

"We also describe why most POB* is of little use to biologists due to deficits of biological knowledge on the part of the philosophers and because most work is tied to philosophical traditions that are irrelevant to biology." 🔥🔥🔥🔥

*Philosophy of Biology

academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

New season of BJPS Short Reads!

Death in Mind
– Susana Monsó and Laura Danón on what the opossum’s playing dead tells us about animal minds.

Read or listen here: www.thebsps.org/short-reads/...

#philsci #philsky #hpbio

It was a pleasure to talk to Phil for an hour and a half about the conceptual foundations of the life sciences as part of his New Biology project. It's an exciting time to be a philosopher of biology! #hpbio #philsci #philsky

🎧 Herbals, Their Origin and Evolution: A Chapter in the History of Botany - Audiobook Review By Agnes Arber • 3.5/5 stars

🎧 Herbals, Their Origin and Evolution: A Chapter in the History of Botany
by Agnes Arber

★★★½ 3.5/5
Reviewed by Sarah Chen

audiobooksoul.com/reviews/herbals-their-or...

#audiobook #bookreview #audiobookreview

Article header from the European Journal for Philosophy of Science (2026), showing the title “What makes big biology worth pursuing? New dimensions of scientific value,” by Parvathi Vijay and Ignazio Arrabito. A grey banner labels it “Paper in Philosophy of Science in Practice,” with DOI, submission dates, and a “Check for updates” icon on the right.

Big Biology strains common accounts of pursuitworthiness. @parvathi.bsky.social & Arrabito argue that these projects blend inquiry, infrastructure development & community platforms and propose a new framework to capture how scientists assess their value👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #HPBio #HPS

Our History and Philosophy of Biology @utrechthps.bsky.social course was awarded as the best evaluated in Biology year 3 🎉@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social #philbio #hps 🌿🦠🦫

We had a great day at Micropia in Amsterdam. We are convinced, microbes are the best! #hpbio #histbio #philbio 🦠 🔬@utrechthps.bsky.social

Join meeting on Teams

Please join us for our next reading group meeting on April first (no joke!) at 15:30 CET.
Reading TBA, if you have any suggestions, be sure to let us know!🪴🌳
Join the meeting here: teams.microsoft.com/meet/3738493...
#philbio

New on the Archive:

Meza, José (2026) Relational ontology of sex, gender, and identity: a proposal from the philosophy of biology. [Preprint]

https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/28488/

Very much looking forward to reading this! 🦠🌱🐋

I'm looking forward to celebrating the achievements of historian of science Dan Kevles in Oxford next week. I'll be talking about the mercurial associations between the pursuit of eugenics through the 20th century and ideas about sex selection.

#histbio #histsci #sts @oxmedhum.bsky.social 🗃️

On 26 February 2026, the UPF-Centre for Animal Ethics hosted the talk Animal Welfare in China: Current Realities and Emerging Voices by Chinese animal activist Shao Ran, with the collaboration and translation of Eric Li.

Still time to register for our workshop on diversity across the sciences on March 26-27! Everybody is welcome, participation is free and you can also join online.
All information here: rotoworkshop2026.wixsite.com/diversity
#HPBio #HistSci #PhilSci #STS

Day11 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: US economist and pacifist Emily Greene Balch!

Balch rethought economic justice for immigrants and working women. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946 for rethinking international law and leading the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.

#herstory

⚡Flash talks⚡
Thanks to all presenters for highlighting your posters in rapid fire! We already had some great discussions with you and we are looking forward to chat with you at your posters📈!

Portrait of Bill Wimsatt

I’m excited to finally announce a Festschrift SI at Acta Biotheoretica honoring the work of Bill Wimsatt with the SI’s first publication by @consume.red and @philosofir.bsky.social! The editors (@caitlinmace.bsky.social and I) are delighted! #philsci #hpbio link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🚀 Postdoc Alert! Are you passionate about social learning & cultural evolution? @dominikdeffner.bsky.social & I have a 3-year position with freedom to develop your research and work on cutting-edge multiplayer and immersive experiments. Apply by March 30! hmc-lab.com/SocialLearni... Pls share 🙏

Just starting! The workshop "Postgenomic Intersections: Epistemology and Ethical for the Exposome and Microbiome" with @stefanocanali.bsky.social and Thomas Bonnin @Politecnico di Milano. Check the program here: www.meta.polimi.it/workshop-pos...

It’s a small book but it is nice to hold it in my hands