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Philosophers and humanities scholars: Are you interested in effective public engagement, especially when it is inhibited by other professional duties? Come to our Zoom webinar on Friday (10/23, 11:30 to 1:30 pm ET, DM me for details, not posting publicly for security reasons)

Are you interested in yet another talk about race and racialization in contemporary science? This Tuesday (5pm BST), Jonathan Khan is giving on on-line talk on the weaponization of racialized DNA. To register, follow the link below. #philsky #STS #HPBio

Here is a new issue of PTPBio! Free, open access journal of philosophy in biology. If you are looking for provocative papers on sex, genetic determinism, and the hype about purpose/agency in nature, check it out! #philsky #STS

Season 2 of our online talk series starts this Tuesday! #philsci #philsky #STS #HPBio

We have published an open letter to the University of Exeter Executive Board expressing our concerns about proposed redundancies. Read it here: www.thebsps.org/news/open-le...

The #SPSP organising committee just announced that the next conference will be in Bogota, Colombia! Fantastic city I had the pleasure to visit last year - see you all there for more philosophy of science in practice in 2028 😊🦋 #philsci philosophy-science-practice.org

Excited to be in London for this, hopefully no heatwave 😬

Why do commendable scientific recommendations in genetics often not receive much uptake? @yashaddad.bsky.social and I address this issue in the paper below. #popgen #STS #HPBio #philsky

Numerous talks coming up this month on the topics of race, eugenics, and genetic diversity! #philsky #STS #philsci hugera.org/2026/07/08/j...

The next ISH is coming up!!!

Looking for a current assessment of process philosophy, pluralism, and other themes of John Dupré’s philosophy? This open access volume brings together biologists, philosophers, and social scientists to do just that. #philsky #HPBio #philsci

#DefendExeterUni www.bbc.com/news/article...

#philsky #STS #popgen

Interested in the economy of Eugenic movements? Join us for Steve Sturdy’s talk! #philsky #HPBio #STS

It was a pleasure to co-write a chapter with @celsoneto.bsky.social for this amazing #openaccess volume on Science & Values. We wrote about the influence of values in human genomics (chapter 41). So many great contributions in this volume! #philsci #philbio www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...

Extended deadline for 4S!

📣 We're #Hiring! #ERC Consolidator Project BOTLEG at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de is recruiting: - 1 PostDoc ➡️ jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/9... - 2 PhDs ➡️ jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/c... 📅 Deadline: 25 May 2026 #PhDSky #HistSci #PhilSci #HPBio #EnvHist #DigitalHumanities #AcademicSky

"Women also know philosophy" 🇧🇷👩‍🎓 A fantastic initiative: a new database of Brazilian women philosophers! Please share this with your networks—I know many of you know brilliant scholars who belong on this list. #phil #philsky #philsci #HPS #philbio #WomenInPhilosophy

Interest in the relationship between human genomics and the global economy? Submit your abstract to our open panel symposium at the next 4S conference, Oct 7-10. More info at: hugera.org/blog/ #STS #HPS #4S

🚨 A 4 years postdoc on philosophy of science and AI? Come to Exeter! #philsci #philsky

I have a new paper out in Biology & Philosophy where I explore the overlap between the philosophy of measurement and ancestry in human population genetics. Very grateful to the philosophers & scientists who encouraged me to write this up! doi.org/10.1007/s105... #philsci #philbio

Dr. Phila M. Msimang continues our spring speaker series with the talk “Is diversity higher? Against the superficial inclusion of racial and ethnic groups in biomedical and clinical research” on April 5th. You can register to attend via zoom here: hugera.org/lecture-seri...

Come and work with my very excellent #philsci colleagues for a couple of years! For a better sense of what we get up to at Egenis, take a look around our website: www.exeter.ac.uk/research/cen...

Vol 17, Iss 3 (2025) has dropped! Worth the wait, w/articles on sex/gender, ecology in context, Darwinizing Gaia, and theories in physiology. We love the diversity of articles that are sent to us—keep them coming! PTPBio is, as always, diamond #OpenAccess: completely free for authors and readers!

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...

Today!

Reminder that the HUGERA online lecture series continues on March 3rd with the talk "Lessons from Stateville: Race, Genetics, and the Biological Search for a Social Kind". You can register to attend via zoom: hugera.org/lecture-seri...

Interested in how race, ethnicity, and ancestry get used and misused in genetics? This talk is for you! Register at www.hugera.org #philsky #philsci #STS #HPbio #popgen

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Looking forward to this! #HPBio #popgen #STS

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🚨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. #philsci #philsky #STS #HPbio

Reminder that Prof. Duana Fullwiley (Stanford University) kicks off our spring speaker series with the talk “Into the Lab: Racial World Building and its Discontents” on February 3rd. You can register to attend via zoom here:https://hugera.org/lecture-series/

@hugeraproject.bsky.social is back with its Online Talks! This Tuesday, Feb 3rd, Duana Fullwiley (Stanford) presents on Racial World Building. Registration at HUGERA.org #genomics #popgen #STS #philsky

How is current genomics impacted by social, political, and ethical assumptions? @yashaddad.bsky.social and I had the pleasure of presenting this issue in our newest work (link below) #popgen #STS #STEM #philsky #HPbio

CFP: Society for the Study of Measurement will be held at the University of Edinburgh June 22-25, 2026. Submit proposals for papers, symposia, & poster on any topics in the theory, history, philosophy, & application of measurement by January 15, 2026 app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/80364... #HPS

What is social constructionism about race? This #OpenAccess article reframes SCR as a shared investigative practice, not just a metaphysical claim—responding directly to Adam Hochman’s critique. bit.ly/49eivup @celsoneto.bsky.social #philsky #STS

Tomorrow!

Are you interested in messy, imprecise concepts in science with huge social implications? Join us online on Tuesday, Dec 2nd, for Yasmin’s talk. Register here: hugera.org/lecture-seri... #philsci #STS #popgen #HPbio

A new issue of PTPBio has dropped with articles from Marco Casali, Francesca Merlin & Alberto Vianelli; Meghan Barrett, Thomas Raffel & Bob Fischer; and Maja Dorota Sidzinska, Jacqueline Mae Wallis & Kate Nicole Hoffman. Always fully #OpenAccess: free for authors and readers. ptpbio.org 🐋🌱

The call for applications for 2026 European Advanced School in Philosophy of Life Sciences is now open! Deadline 15 Jan 2026, theme will be “philosophy of biology for a healthy planet”, all info here: www.kli.ac.at/en/events/ev... graduate students &early postdocs, do consider joining us! #philsci

The rumours are true: Leeds is hosting BSPS 2026! Make sure you put the date in your calendars (21-23 July) and, while you're at it, consider submitting a symposium proposal (CFS closes on 14th January 2026)! www.thebsps.org/news/bsps-an...

This Tuesday, 17:00 GMT. Join us online!

🚨TALK 🚨 Should Genomics change our personal conceptions of race? Join us online for this talk by Sarah Abel on Nov 4th. Registration link below. #humangenomics #philsky #philsci #STS #HPBio #STEM

In the next week's Perspectives on Science Seminar on Monday, October 27th, Abigail Nieves Delgado (Utrecht University) will give an online talk titled “Beyond Race: Rethinking Population Descriptors in Microbiome Research”. More here: tint-helsinki.fi/2025/10/21/2... #philsky #philsci

Still time to sign up for the talk tomorrow! #philsky #philsci #STS #humangenetics #sciencesky #HPBio

🚨TALK🚨Interesting in Antiracism and Genomics in South Africa? Katharina Schramm gives an online talk on the topic, on Oct 21st 17:00 (UK). Follow the link below for registration. #philsky #STS #HPBio #STEM #popgen #philsci #HPS #race

‪ Next Monday, @celsoneto.bsky.social will speak in our lecture series on race reification and population descriptors in human genomics. Come around! Register here: rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture... #PhilSci #PhilMed #race

If you’re interested in practicing the philosophy of science in practice why not come along to an online workshop “the philosophy of science in practice - in practice”? #philsci