Sitting down to watch the greatest Easter movie of all time. Will you be watching too, @seanferrick.bsky.social @trekranks.com @gaghyogi49.bsky.social?

"Dios mío, ayudame".

Inscripción realizada por un detenido en uno de los calabozos del Centro Clandestino de Detención Pozo de Quilmes.

Autor: Enrique Shore (1984). CONADEP-ANM

NUNCA MAS

Argentina was the model of how to survive a dictatorship. Javier Milei is changing that | Jordana Timerman By questioning the scale of atrocities and deriding activists, Milei is dismantling the consensus over the country’s dirty war, says Jordana Timerman, a journalist based in Buenos Aires

Argentina was the model of how to survive a dictatorship. Javier Milei is changing that | Jordana Timerman

Ausencias Argentina (2006) - Gustavo Germano - Fotógrafo

Have a look at the series "Ausencias" where Gustavo Germano repeated several portraits with the people who remained alive. They are heartbreaking.
www.gustavogermano.com/portfolio/au...

so... they took over to make the journal "more scientific, less political" (?) and now they're publishing papers that rant against... *check notes* suicidal empathy, the progressive thought police, and parasitic ideas that will destroy the West.

they should have renamed it X.

Biologist Paul Ehrlich speaking at the University of San Diego circa 1972

1/ Paul Ehrlich died this week at 93.

The takes split into hagiography and dismissal. But the interesting question isn't whether he got it right, he didn't, it's why he got it wrong, and who was asking the right questions instead 🧵

Habermas and Democracy - Philosophy Talk Jürgen Habermas is regarded as one of the last great public intellectuals of Europe and a major contributor to the philosophy of democracy. A member of the Frankfurt School, Habermas argues that human...

RIP Jürgen Habermas.

Here is an episode of @philtalkradio.bsky.social we did on him a few years ago.

#PhilSky #Philosophy #Democracy #FrankfurtSchool

philosophytalk.org/shows/haberm...

as a student in Frankfurt, I had the privilege of attending some classes taught by Habermas in the late 1980s and early 1990s. I would be lying if a claimed that I understood the content or significance of his theory, but to me he personifies the German post-war public intellectual. End of an era.

This is a heartwarming story you didn't know you needed to hear right now (the name!! 🥰): bsky.app/profile/neor...

Imagine a world where _all_ our public utilities were maintained with such passion and caring presence.

Book cover with a green gradient background for "The Organism–Environment Pairing: A Historical and Philosophical Reappraisal" by Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda (MIT Press, 2026). The book series label “The Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology” appears at the top. The title is set in large, bold lettering using three colors: white (“The” and “Pairing”), warm yellow (“Organism–”), and bright green (“Environment”). The subtitle appears below in smaller white text, and the author’s name is printed at the bottom. In the lower right, a monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) rests on clusters of pink milkweed flowers. Behind it, a large pale-green butterfly silhouette fills the background; its outline follows the shape of a red lacewing butterfly (Cethosia biblis). The layered butterflies visually echo the book’s central idea of an organism–environment pairing.

What a joy to finally share the cover of The Organism–Environment Pairing (@mitpress.bsky.social)! The 📗 will be out on May 12 📆! I look forward to the conversations it sparks among scientists, philosophers & historians! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205282... #evosky #histsci #philsci #philsky #booksky 🌱🐋

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...

The Acta special issue will consist of ~20 papers representing a spectrum of contributors ranging from grad students to emeritae/-i. These will appear as they cycle through review. More are definitely on the way!

Participants of the Altenberg Workshop in 2018

Cover of the MIT book

I had the privilege of organizing in 2018 an Altenberg Workshop in Theoretical Biology with Bill and James DiFrisco on the topic of levels of organization in biology, which we followed up with in an edited volume published with MIT in 2021. direct.mit.edu/books/edited...

Bill and I at the Altenberg Workshop on levels.

Bill and me during my talk; credit to Markus I. Eronen

Bill has long been an inspiration and a mentor for my work. I definitely agree that ~“Wimsatt’s footnotes have inspired whole dissertations.” An interview with Bill with Bill Bechtel, Jim Griesemer, Jeffrey Schank, and the late Werner Callebaut can be read here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Bill’s papers anticipated later work on mechanistic explanation, perspectival realism, and pluralism, all mainstays in the current philosophy of science. His contributions to emergence, generative entrenchment, scaffolding, and levels of organization remain relevant and demand thorough attention.

Thematizing issues like biological complexity, robustness, the fallibility of human agents, and the “metabolism of error” in science, it is often said that his work is especially notable because his insights do not have an obvious shelf life. Returning to his papers always reaps new insight.

Philosophy and tinkering - Biology & Philosophy I characterize Wimsatt’s approach to philosophy of science as philosophy for science and then briefly consider a theme emerging from his work that informs just one of the many current developments in ...

Wimsatt’s work was not only foundational to institutional philosophy of biology, his themes (like those within his “philosophy for science” & “philosophy for limited beings”) endured with the maturation of the discipline. For a primer, check out Jim Griesemer’s link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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...

#STS #PhilSci #HistSci

The molecular evolution of vertebrate organs Nature Ecology & Evolution - This Review discusses recent advances in the molecular evolution of vertebrate organs, including rates of evolution of organs and cell types, molecular mechanisms...

Our internal organs are evolutionary marvels. New technologies are transforming our understanding of the evolution of vertebrate organs. You can find more by reading here:
rdcu.be/e5EgU
#EvoBio #EvoDevo 🐟🦎🐢🦇🐊🦜

Header and abstract page of an original research article in History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences (2026, volume 48, article 12) titled "Modeling versatility as the hallmark of model organisms," authored by Guido I. Prieto and Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda. Abstract In recent years, discussions on the epistemology of model organism-based research have emerged in the philosophy of science. A key topic of discussion is how the epistemic insights gained from model organisms differ from those gained through other experimental organisms used in laboratory and field research. Here, we argue that model organisms are epistemically special due to their nature as ontogenetically changeable, standardized, and evolved material model carriers. These characteristics afford six important kinds of modeling versatility that biologists marshal in their investigations: (i) synchronic target versatility; (ii) synchronic scope versatility; (iii) diachronic target versatility; (iv) diachronic scope versatility; (v) manipulation versatility; and (vi) discovery versatility. In presenting these dimensions of modeling versatility, we also clarify key notions such as ‘representational target,’ ‘representational scope,’ and ‘representational power’ as these apply to modeling practices that involve model organisms.

It has been argued that what sets model organisms apart from other experimental 🐋🌱 is their high representational power. In our latest 📃, we argue otherwise: the hallmark of MOs lies in the dimensions of modeling versatility they afford to scientists 👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsci #HPS

In case you're interested in the history of the philosophical engagement (or lack thereof) with biological organization, HOPOS has provided me with a link to download my forthcoming paper (limit of 50) at the following link: www.journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/RGWQP...
#hpbio #philbio #philsci

Join us for this workshop with @petinozappala.bsky.social
Details+registration: www.imseam.uni-heidelberg.de/en/heinzelma...
#Philosophy #philsci #ethics #politics

What Is Life? Revisited Cambridge Core - Philosophy of Science - What Is Life? Revisited

This short book by @djnicholson.bsky.social is extraordinarily good for understanding not just the genesis, message and myths of Schrödinger's book but also why molecular biology developed in the way it did (and what's problematic about that).
www.cambridge.org/core/element...

#philsci #psychology
Abstract and link to join here 👉 www.imseam.uni-heidelberg.de/en/heinzelma...

My biggest piece yet for the #Rudolphina research magazine of #UniVienna on Rupert Riedl and thread of meta-inquiry that led to the creation of marine biology, theoretical biology, electron microscopy and cognitive biology at the University of Vienna. rudolphina.univie.ac.at/en/the-intel... #evobio

Rupert Riedl's intellectual legacy at the University of Vienna An adventurer, a biologist, a maverick and philosopher. One hundred years after Rupert Riedl's birth, biologists at the University of Vienna reflect on how his systems theory of life contributed to ev...

An adventurer, a biologist, a maverick and philosopher. 100 years after Rupert Riedl's birth, biologists at #univie are reflecting on how his systems theory of life contributed to evolutionary biology. 🎂⤵️

An excellent paper by @petinozappala.bsky.social on gatekeeping between disciplines nominally expected to integrate! #PhilSci #HPBio #evobio

<i>What Is Life?</i> Revisited Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - <i>What Is Life?</i> Revisited

My little book on Schrödinger's famous classic 'What Is Life?' is out! Offering the most comprehensive analysis ever undertaken of the book's origins, reception, impact, and legacy, it uncovers Schrödinger's motivations in writing it, and shows how it has shaped our current understanding of the cell