Screenshot from zoom showing the title slide of the talk by Banu Subramaniam, entitled "Migrant Ecologies: Plant Worlds & the Afterlives of Empire", as well as the speaker.

Screenshot from zoom showing a slide on Linné's nomenclature of plant parts as well as the speaker.

Screenshot from zoom showing participants during the discussion.

A big thanks to Banu Subramaniam who gave an inspiring talk about botany, colonialism, sexuality, migration, conservation and much more in our first lecture of this semester yesterday!
Thank you also to everyone who joined the talk and the great discussion afterwards!
#HPBio #PhilSci #HistSci

You can still register for today's talk in the ROTO Lecture Series! Just click the link and join us on zoom at 4pm (CET)! 🌻
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Poster for the talk by Banu Subramaniam (University of Massachusetts Amherst), entitled "Migrant Ecologies: Plant Worlds and the Afterlives of Empire". It will take place on Monday, 20 April 2026, at 4 pm (CET) via Zoom.

Next Monday, we will kick off this semester's lecture series with the talk by Banu Subramaniam. Banu will talk about migrant ecologies, plants, and the afterlives of Empire.
Just register for the talk via the link and join us on Zoom!🤗 rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture...
#HPBio #HistSci #PhilSci

First session - 20th May 2026 This session of the seminar will feature: 15:00 - 16:00 (CET) Valeriya Chasova (Utrecht University), Deborinians and mechanists per se and as precursors to Western philosophers of science PRESENTATION ABSTRACT From mid-20th century on up to the recent times Western philosophers of science have been concentrating in particular on two questions: the choice between ordinary or scientific sources for metaphysics, and the emergence or reduction among branches of science (and their objects). It turns out that on either question they were preceded by the two groups of Soviet philosophers of science, dialectics or deborinians and mechanists. Their discussions date back already to the early 20th century, when the Western research was dominated by the anti-metaphysical Vienna Circle. Moreover, the Soviet debate also has its own originality which might be inspiring for philosophers of today. In the talk will be presented the context in which these now less-known groups of philosophers were existing, their own debate, and its comparison with modern ones.

📣 *Epistemic Diversity in European Philosophy of Science (2nd edition)*

20th May 2026, with Valeriya Chasova (Utrecht University):

Deborinians and mechanists per se and as precursors to Western philosophers of science

More info: philsci.eu/Epistemic-Di...

#philsci #diversity #HOPOS #HPS

Poster for the talk by Banu Subramaniam (University of Massachusetts Amherst), entitled "Migrant Ecologies: Plant Worlds and the Afterlives of Empire". It will take place on Monday, 20 April 2026, at 4 pm (CET) via Zoom.

Next Monday, we will kick off this semester's lecture series with the talk by Banu Subramaniam. Banu will talk about migrant ecologies, plants, and the afterlives of Empire.
Just register for the talk via the link and join us on Zoom!🤗 rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture...
#HPBio #HistSci #PhilSci

We're very much looking forward to the talks by @petinozappala.bsky.social and @ltdandreas.bsky.social! And of course also to those of the speakers that are not on bluesky 😜

New semester, new lecture series 🎉Starting next week, we welcome amazing scholars to give online talks in the history and philosophy of life sciences. Find all dates and registration links here: rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture...
We look forward to seeing you there 🤗
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Join us at the LS2 #Theory #across #Biology chalk talk symposium! 12 June 2026 in Bern, CH. @lifesciswitzerland.bsky.social

No movies that fail, no Mac to PC issues. Only the best ideas and exchange across biology from evolution and ecology to physics of life.

meetings.ls2.ch/theory-acros...

Maria Sibylla Merian:17th Century Artist, Entomologist, Explorer and Proto-Ecologist! Biological classification took a while to figure itself out. For centuries, it was a mish-mash of Aristotelian sentiments and cabinets of Unnatural Curiosities whose only organizing principle was a R...

Maria Merian was born 379 ago today. An entomologist who founded the ecological approach to taxonomy, she traveled by herself to Surinam in 1599 to document the insect life there, then published her findings with her own lush illustrations.

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#WomenInSTEM #HistSci #BugSky 🐛🌱

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...

Black and red journal logo with the paper title and abstract.

In the latest #HOPOS, Jamie Shaw, Kevin C. Elliott, and Deivide Garcia da S. Oliveira provide a transcription and critical overview of Paul Feyerabend’s unpublished manuscript “On the Responsibility of Scientists.”

Link: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Now on the GHIL #podcast!

Listen to our lecture in cooperation with @royalhistsoc.org given by Vinita Damodaran (@sussex.ac.uk) on 'Decolonising the Natural History Collections of Empire'. 🌏
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Thanks @philosobio.bsky.social for this careful read and review! Food for thought!

NTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin NTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin is an international journal for history of science, technology, and medicine across all ...

📣 #NTM issue 34:1 is out now, and contains articles about the beginnings of endocrinological sex development research and about anatomy in mid-20th Vienna, as well as review articles about sex and gender in clinical medicine and nursing history.
link.springer.com/journal/48/v...

#histsci #histmed

📣 *EPSA25: selected papers from the biennial conference in Groningen*

Submission deadline: 15 June 2026

link.springer.com/collections/...

#philsci #HPS

Sergei Shevchenko during his talk about long term research on plankton diversity.

Tina Heger during her talk about the EcoWeaver Project.

Participants of the workshop during the final discussion.

Group picture of the workshop participants.

After a great final discussion, we ended our workshop this afternoon. Before that, we heard two last talks about plankton diversity research and about the EcoWeaver project (ecoweaver.hi-knowledge.org). A big thanks to all speakers and participants who made this such a nice and inspiring event! 🤗

Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content “In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

David during his talk about diversity in Philosophy of Science.

Dunja during the Q&A after her talk about expert judgement and epistemic trespassing.

Abraham Tobi giving his talk about medical epistemic occlusion via zoom.

Participants during Q&A after the talk by Abraham.

Day 2 of our workshop is on! 😎 @davidludwig.bsky.social made a great start with an his analysis of the current state of diversity in #PhilSci, followed by Dunja Šešelja who talked about expert judgement and epistemic trespassing. Abraham Tobi concluded the morning talking about epistemic occlusion.

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

On the Unfairness of the ‘Fair-share Principle’ for Health Research Abstract. How ought scarce health research resources be allocated, where health research spans basic, translational, clinical, health systems and public he

📚📝 I've published a new paper that thinks through how scarce health research resources ought to be distributed when the aim is to counter health inequalities! #oa #philsky #philsci #SDH
academic.oup.com/phe/article/...

Participants of the workshop standing in front of a beautifully flowering magnolia.

Participants of the workshop in the tropical rain forest house.

Participants of the workshop in the desert house.

In between, we looked at diverse plants in the greenhouses and marveled at the diversity of the current weather conditions in Bochum 😅

Ann-Christin next to her title slide before her talk on endometriosis patients as epistemic agents.

Sophia giving her talk on hormones, drug reactions and diversity.

César giving his talk on soil biodiversity.

Raphael giving his talk on bio-social diversity in the Amazon region.

Sessions two and three also with very interesting talks on diverse topics (pun intended!): From endometriosis (@acfischer.bsky.social) and hormone research (@sophiawagemann.bsky.social) to soil biodiversity (@cmarin.bsky.social) and bio-social diversity in the Amazon region (@rbsuchoa.bsky.social).

Photo from the room and the audience during Abigail's talk.

Photo from the audience during the Q&A after Abigail's talk.

Screenshot from zoom showing Phila and his title slide.

Screenshot from zoom during the Q&A after Phila's talk.

We had a great first session at our hybrid workshop with talks by @abigailnd.bsky.social and @msimang.bsky.social. Next up: @acfischer.bsky.social with her talk on endometriosis patients as epistemic agents.
Check out the full program here: rotoworkshop2026.wixsite.com/diversity/pr...

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

Just published: "Improving scientific mentoring with history and philosophy of science" (open access)

With my good friends and colleagues Alan Love and Tobias Uller.

royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

The downfall of *Theory and Society* is a networked event. A nicely orchestrated campaign. Thread of some of the links. 1/

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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

HOPOS 2026 Early-bird registration is now open. To register for HOPOS 2026, navigate to the registration page by clicking here.The

Registration now open for HOPOS 2026, the 16th Biennial Congress of HOPOS (The International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science). Ohio State University, Columbus (OH)
22 to 25 June 2026
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Screenshot of the title and abstract of the paper "Critical reflections on sex eliminativism" by Siobhan Guerrero Mc Manus

Great new article by @siobhanfgm.bsky.social in Biology & Philosophy: "Critical reflections on sex eliminativism"
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Looking very much forward to our workshop this week! 🤩Registration for in-person participation closes this evening, online registration is possible until tomorrow!
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