We now have a brand new youtube channel, where we'll be sharing BJPS Short Reads (new episodes as they are released; back catalogue whenever we can...). And we're starting with a banger...
youtu.be/VTE87PDMNuc

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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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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....
teams.microsoft.com/meet/3738493...
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Very exciting workshop happening this week on diversity in science! Check it out! 👇
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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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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

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

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/...

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

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!
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ABSTRACT. Work on the evolutionary origins of morality emphasizes one individual helping another without external pressure, threat or enticement, since external pressure can be dismissed as self-interested. This focus, we maintain, limits the range of moral theories under consideration and stacks the evidential deck in favour of theories that characterize morality as a kind of niceness, usually based on emotional capacities such as empathy. We argue that demand sharing—in which animals share after solicitation, request, or demand—should be seen as central in the evolution of morality. The resulting research programme would be more theoretically open-ended. It may shift the literature towards second-personal moral theories that take conflict to be central. It may also shift the literature towards moral psychologies that recognize the complexity of mixed, conflicting moral emotions. The question then is how conflict gave rise to demands that create moral interaction.

Just accepted:

Demand Sharing and the Evolution of Morality
– Mike Dacey & Paul Schofield

Abstract in alt text or read it here:
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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Poster for this semester's reading group. We meet every first Wednesday at 4:15pm (CET) at Ruhr University Bochum (room NDEF04/346). If you need more information (abstract of the book, topics of the individual dates, information about the moodle course etc.), please e-mail me! vera.straetmanns[at]rub.de

This semester, we will be reading selected chapters from "Everything flows", edited by @djnicholson.bsky.social and John Dupré in our Reading Group. All interested are welcome to join us at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de (room NDEF04/346). If needed, we can also arrange hybrid meetings.
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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
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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...

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Interested in how race, ethnicity, and ancestry get used and misused in genetics? This talk is for you!

Register at www.hugera.org

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Birds That Don't Exist: Niche Pre‐Emption as a Constraint on Morphological Evolution in the Passeroidea We use topological data analysis to reveal a persistent morphological gap in a major group of songbirds (superfamily Passeroidea). The gap remained unoccupied for millions of years, even though nearb....

This looks like it might be particularly interesting to folks in #hpbio e.g. interested in niche concepts or some of Lewontin's arguments. "Birds That Don't Exist: Niche Pre-­Emption as a Constraint on Morphological Evolution in the Passeroidea" by Chia et al. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Elucidations Podcast

Last weekend I enjoyed recording two episodes for @bufordrat.bsky.social's excellent Elucidations podcast (elucidations.vercel.app). One episode was on ideas from my book, Evolution and the Machinery of Chance (press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...). #evosky, #hpbio.

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...
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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
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Looking forward to this!

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The Field of Human Evolution: Critical Perspectives from History and Epistemology This book explores critical perspectives on human evolution through history, epistemology, and inclusive scientific approaches.

A very interesting volume edited by Mathilde Lequin (@pacea.bsky.social) & Juan Manuel Rodríguez Caso examining historical & epistemological dimensions of human evolutionary research. A much welcome contribution to the growing field of the philosophy of paleoanthropology.

#hpbio #paleosky #philsky

I am elated & humbled that my upcoming monograph (mitpress.mit.edu/978026205282...) was chosen as one of the #openaccess titles for Spring 2026. Thanks to @mitpress.bsky.social's Direct to Open (D2O) model & the hundreds of participating libraries that make it possible! #philsky #HPS #evosky #HPbio

#philsci #HPbio #cogsci #evosky #neuroskyence

🚨TALK 🚨

How is Racialization leveraged and reproduced in genomics labs?

Register to Duana Fullwiley’s online talk (Tuesday Feb 3, 18:00 GMT) to figure it out.

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