Microbiome research and race in the 'Local South'

Aline had the honor to receive the Faculty Innovation Award 2025 🏆 from Johannes Kepler University #jku for her paper "Different kinds of data: samples and the relational framework" link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philbio 🐋🌱 Congrats! 🎉 www.jku.at/en/institut-...

We meet today Oct.21 at 15:30 CET to discuss chapter 3 of Roberta Raffaetà's book "Metagenomic Futures". Join us @utrechthps.bsky.social or online teams.microsoft.com/meet/3742983... 🦠🧫🔬

New semester, new lecture series! This time with the fantastic @federicabocchi.bsky.social, @rossbrooks.co.uk, @drandyflack.bsky.social and others. Join us online on Mondays at 4pm (CET). Just click here to register: www.pe.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/philosophie/... #HPBio #HistSci #PhilSci

Starting the writeshop "From Ethos to Bios: Overcoming Epistemic and Ethical Hurdles in Exp some and Microbiome Research" @isvw.bsky.social with @utrechthps.bsky.social and friends! With the support of the Descartes Center @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social 🌲🌳🌲

We are all impressed by models that integrate tens of thousands of biological variables. But here is the awkward question: if cancer research has so much data and such sophisticated models, why are we still so limited in predicting individual risk?

This semester's Colloquium of History & Philosophy of Science will start in 2 weeks! We have 9 amazing speakers and great topics, so come around to room GA 1/128 at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de and join us for great talks and interesting discussions! 🤗 #HistSci #PhilSci #HPBio #HPS

So happy to be in Prague participating in the interdisciplinary event "Perspectives on microbiome" organized by Martin Zach @utrechthps.bsky.social

After a workshop in March in Milan, we are meeting next week in the woods of Leusden (ISVW) to continue our discussion of the epistemic and ethical challenges in microbiome and exposome research! Thanks to the Descartes Centre's Seed Money, this collaborative work can thrive! #hpbio #philbio 🐋🌱

One ancient alerce tree supported more than 300 unique fungal species beneath its roots. Now imagine the invisible extinctions caused by cutting half the forest.

A very belated repost and thanks for a great conference! Keep an eye out for next year’s. 🌱🐋

#hpbio

A great paper about Lovelock and Margulis’ Gaia and its first formulation in Tellus 50 years ago. Where do we stand now ? Who are the Gaians and what do they do ? By Tim Lenton and Sebastien Dutreuil In Tellus #geoscience #philsci #philbio #ecology storage.googleapis.com/jnl-su-j-tad...

📣Interested in studying history and philosophy of science and/or logic? Come around to learn more about our HPS+Logic M.A. program at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de on Thurs, 11/06, 12:00 (CET)! In person and zoom: ruhr-uni-bochum.zoom-x.de/j/6842065321... More info: www.hpsplus.org #PhilSci #HistSci #HPS #STS

It was lovely meeting you in Venice @drsueishaq.bsky.social! We hope to continue this conversation 🦠💗#Philbio #HPB

We are super happy to be in Venice as part of the event "Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Data in Microbiome Research and Post genomics". Warm and sunny day with exciting talks and lovely colleagues

5 days left to apply for PhD and Postdoc positions in a cool project about herbaria, plants and digitization!🌿😎 Postdoc: jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/9... PhD: jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/c... More info: cordis.europa.eu/project/id/1... #Jobs #HPBio #HistSci #DigitalHumanities #PhilSci

We are so much looking forward to reading this book! #HPS #HPBio Congratulations @alejandrofabregastejeda.com 🌱🦠🙌🎉

From the new issue: Biological Mistakes – David Oderberg, Jonathan Hill, Christopher Austin, Ingo Bojak, François Cinotti & Jonathan M Gibbins Abstract in alt text or read it here (open access): www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #philsci #hpbio #philsky

New study challenges common view that some Ediacaran fossils are traces of complex worm-like animals, saying they are assemblages of bacteria and algae. If true, this would suggest that the Cambrian Explosion may have marked a more major transition than had recently been thought. 🧪🌱🐋 #EvoBio

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

Interested in herbaria, plants and digitization? Come work with us! 3 PhD & Postdoc Positions in History & Phil. of Biology & Digital Humanities! #ERC Project BOTLEG; @ruhr-uni-bochum.de! Deadline: 25 May '26 #HistSci #PhilSci #HPBio #EnvHist #DigitalHumanities #AcademicSky #PhDSky Details below 👇

We are thrilled to see our paper "The limits of diversity in science" published in the "The Routledge Handbook of Values and Science", ed. Kevin Elliot and Ted Richards. with @roto-rub.bsky.social @acfischer.bsky.social and @abigailnd.bsky.social. Check it out! www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...

New from the BJPS Review of Books The Units of Life – Ellen Clarke Reviewed by John Dupré www.thebsps.org/reviewofbook... #phisci #hpbio #philsky

To celebrate #InternationalEarthDay, discover some of our book series on our environment and sustainability list #OurPowerOurPlanet: 'Palgrave Studies in Environmental Transformation, Transition and Accountability'—edited by Siddharth Sareen and Tor Håkon Jackson Inderberg. bit.ly/3Qka6Pf 💙📚

¡Gran oportunidad de participar en un proyecto de investigación super interesante! Checa el link abajo 👇Great opportunity to do exciting research! Check the call below! 👇 #HistSci #PhilSci #HPBio 💗🌱

REMINDER nominations for the Hempel Award are due April 30! Check the thread for more details 👇

💙📚 A timely and important #OpenAccess book that transcends the simplistic boundaries between “right” and “left” science and revises the internally contradictory impact of racialist/racial thinking on knowledge about humanity. bit.ly/4siVxIN #Blumenbach #PhilSci 🏺

Very cool line-up! @roto-rub.bsky.social #HPBio #HistSci #PhilSci 🦠🌱🐋

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...

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

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

look at this baby beaver and feel better briefly (@ wildheartrescue on TT)

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... #philbio #hpbio

Very exciting workshop happening this week on diversity in science! Check it out! 👇 #hpbio #Philbio #PhilSci

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! #HPBio #PhDSky

"We also describe why most POB* is of little use to biologists due to deficits of biological knowledge on the part of the philosophers and because most work is tied to philosophical traditions that are irrelevant to biology." 🔥🔥🔥🔥 *Philosophy of Biology academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

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/... #philsci #philsky #hpbio

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

🎧 Herbals, Their Origin and Evolution: A Chapter in the History of Botany by Agnes Arber ★★★½ 3.5/5 Reviewed by Sarah Chen https://audiobooksoul.com/reviews/herbals-their-origin-and-evolution-a-chapter-in-the-history-of-botany #audiobook #bookreview #audiobookreview

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

Our History and Philosophy of Biology @utrechthps.bsky.social course was awarded as the best evaluated in Biology year 3 🎉@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social #philbio #hps 🌿🦠🦫

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

Please join us for our next reading group meeting on April first (no joke!) at 15:30 CET. Reading TBA, if you have any suggestions, be sure to let us know!🪴🌳 Join the meeting here: teams.microsoft.com/meet/3738493... #philbio

New on the Archive: Meza, José (2026) Relational ontology of sex, gender, and identity: a proposal from the philosophy of biology. [Preprint] https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/28488/

Very much looking forward to reading this! 🦠🌱🐋

I'm looking forward to celebrating the achievements of historian of science Dan Kevles in Oxford next week. I'll be talking about the mercurial associations between the pursuit of eugenics through the 20th century and ideas about sex selection. #histbio #histsci #sts @oxmedhum.bsky.social 🗃️

On 26 February 2026, the UPF-Centre for Animal Ethics hosted the talk Animal Welfare in China: Current Realities and Emerging Voices by Chinese animal activist Shao Ran, with the collaboration and translation of Eric Li.

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 #HPBio #HistSci #PhilSci #STS

Day11 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: US economist and pacifist Emily Greene Balch! Balch rethought economic justice for immigrants and working women. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946 for rethinking international law and leading the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. #herstory