This is exactly the issue I analyse in my article, including through the example of people racialised as Eastern European.

It means a great deal to see these questions receiving such direct editorial attention 💜

Color and health inequities - Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy -

The editorial reflects on persistent health inequities in relation to structural and historical #racism, and it addresses the methodological problem of treating "White" as a neutral and homogeneous reference group in #health research.
doi.org/10.1007/s110...

White by default: conceptual and methodological limits of binary white logic in global health equity research - Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy - This article examines the conceptual and methodological limitations of how the category “White” is interpreted and used in health equity research....

A very nice surprise: the new editorial by Henk ten Have and Bert Gordijn in Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy engages directly with the broader issue at the centre of my recent paper, "White by Default" doi.org/10.1007/s110...

Sign the Petition Stop the hiring of Nathan Cofnas at Ghent University

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> In these venues he has repeatedly advanced claims about the supposed cognitive inferiority of Black people , along with broader arguments about the “feminization” of academia and suggestions that eugenic ideas deserve renewed scientific consideration.

Rector Petra De Sutter stands firm on UGent decision to host 'race realist' philosopher "I understand the outrage and concern and take it seriously," she said. "The statements referred to are hurtful and disturbing to many people. They affect me as well."

race realists are so insidious... how can he even be getting jobs and not laughed out of the room?

> Cofnas is not conducting legitimate academic research into race and intelligence but instead spreading pseudoscience.

www.brusselstimes.com/2020013/ughe...

No worries! Things like this happen all the time ;)

Another great news - @davideserpico.bsky.social, Valentina Petrolini, and I just published a commentary for a brilliant article "Autism and the Pseudoscience of Mind", written by @travislacroix.bsky.social

I'm so glad I can finally read your reply!
It has a lot of potential for further discussion (not to mention the very great target article)!
BTW, my name is misspelled (it is Malinowska, not Malinkowska ;)

Daniel Kostić, PhD What is your current role and how did you get here? I am currently an Associate Professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences (IFIS PAN). This is a purely...

In the new @eenphilsci.bsky.social blog I tell my origin story, my current projects, and some of my struggles. eenps.weebly.com/blog/daniel-...

Thank you @annaalexandrova.bsky.social and @gabrieltarziu.bsky.social for inviting me to share it.

#philsci

Borut Trpin What is your current role and how did you get here? I am currently an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana, with affiliation also at the University of Maribor. My path...

I recently added an entry on the @eenphilsci.bsky.social blog: a bit of my story from early international experiences to my current work on coherence and reasoning, and what it’s like building philosophy of science here in Central & Eastern Europe.
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Blog What is your current role and how did you get here? I am currently an Associate Professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences (IFIS PAN). This is a purely...

📢 New EENPS blog posts on philosophy of science in the CEE region!

Daniel Kostić reflects on topological explanation, explanatory pragmatics & structural bias in academia.

Borut Trpin writes on coherence, modelling & building philosophy of science in Slovenia.

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Four years of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
I argue that when we assess the health consequences of this war as a form of colonial and imperial aggression, we also need to look at what happens after displacement.

#philsci #health #racism

Full paper:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

White by default: conceptual and methodological limits of binary white logic in global health equity research - Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy - This article examines the conceptual and methodological limitations of how the category “White” is interpreted and used in health equity research....

direct link:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Oh, this is a canonical lecture ❤️

My new paper is out!

lnkd.in/d7QhdqVD

Publishing on racism against people racialised as Eastern Europeans and its impact on health is not easy. I’m deeply grateful to everyone who supported me throughout this process.

#philsci #racism #health

Peter Thiel is unleashing a neocolonial billionaire fantasy in Honduras Tech billionaires want to create their own city-states. Hondurans pay the price.

...and another one:
therealnews.com/peter-thiel-...

The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...

Racist billionaires backing eugenics projects: no surprise. After the Epstein files dropped, I wanted to check them for ties to the racist eugenics network. No time though – I’m writing about how it infiltrates academia and passes itself off as "science"😉

www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

Third time’s a charm? 🤞 @ncn.gov.pl

There are 10 days left to submit a proposal for the 6th Biennial EENPS Conference (Bucharest, 18–19 September 2026).

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Talks and symposia across all areas of philosophy of science are welcome ☀️
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The EENPS 2026 call for papers & symposia is now open! 🔥🔥🔥

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Conference: 18–19 Sept 2026, Bucharest 😉

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Milan prosecutors investigate alleged ‘sniper tourism’ during Bosnian war Groups from Italy and elsewhere alleged to have paid Serb soldiers to shoot Sarajevo residents during siege

I’ve spent years researching racism and discrimination, including racism against people racialised as Eastern Europeans.
And, unfortunately, this case only confirms how easily violence and dehumanisation are tolerated when directed at certain groups.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

The PSA Around the World 2025 series begins this Thursday, 6 Nov! 🔥🌈🎉

Join us online for sessions highlighting philosophy of science from and about Eastern & Central Europe.

Registration still open — fee waivers available!
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German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds Normalisation of far-right stances likely to affect success of such parties at ballot boxes across Europe, say researchers

NEW RESEARCH confirms:

Countering far-right messaging by repeating it mainstreams extremist ideas and amplifying extremist terminology cedes the framing of the issues to the right.

(I’ll add that social media “dunking” only serves to spread undesired content.)

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

The PSA Around the World 2025 is coming soon: Nov 6, 14 & 22 (online)!

Hosted by @philsci.bsky.social and @eenphilsci.bsky.social it highlights #philsci from, about, and connected to Central and Eastern Europe.

Great lineup, still time to register!
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Thanks to @tmarvan.bsky.social @magdalenamalecka.bsky.social for curating. Great to see on the program @mmilkowski.bsky.social @olesyabondarenko.bsky.social @danielkostic.bsky.social @malinowska.bsky.social @boruttrpin.bsky.social @apotochnik.bsky.social @elenapopaphi.bsky.social and many others

I’m so glad you found it interesting – it really means a lot ☺️

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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Thank you :)
I was actually going to write to you about this SI. I think you might find a few other articles interesting, as they address the use of racial categories in Germany:
freijournals.ub.uni-freiburg.de/behemoth/en/...

And here’s the abstract:

Full text:
freidok.uni-freiburg.de/files/271749...

The article appears in the special issue "National identities, biopolitics, and human diversity in contemporary European life sciences", edited by Andrea Zur Nieden, Nils Ellebrecht & Tino Plümecke and published in Behemoth ❤️

See the whole SI here:
freijournals.ub.uni-freiburg.de/behemoth/en/...