Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda

It is publication day for The Organism-Environment Pairing (@mitpress.bsky.social)! This 📗 has been deeply formative for me as a scholar, and it owes so much to so many wonderful people. I truly hope it finds many readers! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205282... #booksky #philsci #histsci #philsky #evosky

Do you need to know what you think before you start writing? Not necessarily, argues historian Lynn Hunt. In a 2010 #AHAPerspectives essay, Hunt explores how the act of writing itself generates new ideas and why getting words on the page is essential to the thinking process.

Philosophers: we’re hiring! Permanent lectureship in modern/early modern philosophy in St Andrews. Spread the word, apply, come to Edgecliffe, have philosophical fun with us. Details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DTJ343/l...

Did you know that postdoctoral fellow Bo Schuman runs a YouTube channel on #logic, its #philosophy & its history? His videos cover a wide range of topics, helping students find their feet in the subject and, with luck, getting even the experts to think differently: 📺 www.youtube.com/@LogicwithBo...

"We were not pretending to convert established scientists to developmental biology, we were thinking of the new generations." An inspiring interview with Professor Roberto Mayor on his effort to bring #devbio education to Latin America. 👏👏 www.sdbonline.org/resource?Res... @socdevbio.bsky.social

⏳ Reminder: Proposals for the XII Conference of the Spanish Society for Logic, Methodology & Philosophy of Science @slmfce.bsky.social close on October 31st! Submissions are accepted in English or Spanish. It takes place in Murcia, 4–7 May 2027. #SLMFCE solofici12.sciencesconf.org

The Giant Epistemologist is back! Two postdocs are needed for the research project “the Epistemic Significance of Concepts.” Both positions are 4 years! More info here: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki... #PhilJobs #philsky #philosophy #epistemology #psychology #CogSci #linguistics #postdoc

Stories from The Philosophy Garden: The Fawn and the Mountain Lion. "Doing #philosophy hones those skills that improve our capacity to exercise our epistemic agency, that is, the capacity to acquire, produce, share, and use knowledge" lisatpg.substack.com... #philsky #edusky #epistemicinjustice

Workshop CFA - The 11th BiSoBer Normativity Workshop will take place in Southampton, 21-22 June. Keynotes: Jessica Brown (St Andrews), David Owens (Oxford). Submit your abstracts! Deadline: 15 Jan 2027. Full details: philevents.org/event/show/1...

Nominations are now open for the Dobzhansky Prize, which recognizes the accomplishments and future promise of an outstanding early-career evolutionary biologist. The award includes $5000 and an award talk at the in-person Evolution meeting. Deadline: December 1. shorturl.at/p70wY

Is this really great news? As long as the total budget stays the same, this just limits probability of funding to an impossible 5% and showcases the impasse of the European research system: desperate post-docs spending their best years planning projects.

Submissions are invited for the Society's 2027 First Book and Early Career Article Prizes - covering monographs and articles published in 2026 bit.ly/4z45bD8 The closing date for submissions is 14 December 2026. Judging begins in early 2027 with winners announced next July #Skystorians

A couple of weeks ago, a piece of slop I created went viral (well, a little bit) ... now I've followed it up with a new paper: "What is AI Slop? An Explication" - open access at www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... - feel free to circulate! #philsky #AIslop

🕷️💤 New paper in time for 🎃! Do #spiders really sleep? In our new study on #Portia fimbriata we tested all behavioural criteria of #sleep and found evidence for regulated, two-stage sleep with recurring REM-like stages. Out in @pnas.org! @roesslerdaniela.bsky.social 📄 tinyurl.com/3fky8ze7 🧵1/9

I'm very happy that this paper has just been published in History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences! It's an improved version, thanks to the feedback of the anonymous reviewers! Available in open access here: doi.org/10.1007/s406...

We are hiring! Come and join our department Two Positions: 1) One Lectureship in Early Modern/Modern Philosophy www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DTJ343/l... 2) One Associate Lectureship (Education Focused) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DTJ093/a...

A citation analysis reveals that the connection between the two fields is real and gaining momentum. But it’s also narrow and tool-heavy; we need to find ways to widen it, writes @rcfduarte.bsky.social. @cnc-uc.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/computationa...

Three years ago, I was checking out the reading clubs in Leuven; turns out there was no sciency one discussing societal topics. So, I started one myself. It grew into a steady community, and now I finally gave it a home online as well feminist-reading-club.com

Save the date: The next conference of the Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice SPSP 2028 will take place from June 28 to July 1 at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. 🇨🇴 #philsci

On Thursday, we welcome Lara Keuck from University Bielefeld in our Colloquium of History & Philosophy of Science. Lara will talk about the regulatory ethos in science. Come around at 6pm, room GA 1/128 and join us for dinner afterwards 🤗 #HPS #HistSci #PhilSci

Here's my take on Dawkins's The Selfish Gene. Enjoy!

Director emerita Lorraine Daston in conversation with @histphilosophy.bsky.social​ on the first episode of “Pages of History.” They discuss the surprising parallels between #Philology & #Astronomy, & why philology is one of humanity’s oldest empirical sciences. 📜 🔗 https://bit.ly/4k4GP7K #HistSci

#HPBio #philsci #philjobs

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The Formal Epistemology Workshop (FEW2027) will take place 18th-20th June in Hong Kong next year! Submission deadline: 31st December 2026. Notification of decisions: 15th February 2027. Please submit your papers and encourage others who might be interested! Thanks to Boris Babic for organising!

Do you have a good book planned to read over your holidays? Why not one of these new books (that you can review for H-Environment)? #envhist #envhum #ecocrit #envphil #conservation #sustainability #climate #envtech #envhealth #plants 🌱🏜️🌋🏞️🛤️🐋☔🌞 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

My friend Patrick Prominski and I are working on an edited volume on how now-discredited ideas involving biology (widely construed) were used in scientific fiction from c. 1825-1925. If you have any ideas for anything even broadly along those lines, please pitch them, we'd love to see them!

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Call for a group leader in Evolutionary Biology The IGFL @igflyon.bsky.social in Lyon, France, is recruiting a group leader in Evolutionary Biology. An exciting place for exploring the interfaces of evolution with physiology and development. #EvolBiol #ecoevo #evodevo tinyurl.com/evolbiol

Nominations are due November 1st for speakers for the SSE Education and Outreach Symposium at #Evol2027: “Evolution in the Changing World.” Learn more and apply: www.evolutionsociety.org/news/display...

Today is the deadline to submit your abstracts for our minisymposium, 'Life As It Could Be: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on #ALife'! So wrap up those abstracts and come join us! It's going to be a fun event! 🦠🖥️ 🔗 hiw.kuleuven.be/clps/events/... #HPBio #philsci #philsky #academicsky #AI #evosky 🧪

Today is the deadline to submit your abstracts for our minisymposium, 'Life As It Could Be: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on #ALife'! So wrap up those abstracts and come join us! It's going to be a fun event! 🦠🖥️ 🔗 hiw.kuleuven.be/clps/events/... #HPBio #philsci #philsky #academicsky #AI #evosky 🧪

We have a new perspective out with @3xueying.bsky.social and @cauawest.bsky.social In @genomebiolevol.bsky.social academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...

We're on the cover of Nature! 🦋🥳 The tails in this 3D rendered animation show the forwards confusion and sideways confusion created by wing patterns. Stripping away these patterns reduces these confusing motion cues. doi.org/10.1038/s415... @uniexecec.bsky.social

What does it mean to say the organism is a SYSTEM? Can we make this concept precise and useful? Paul Weiss showed us how a century ago! In my new paper I recover his neglected systems view & use it to undermine four entrenched theses in biology: reductionism, genocentrism, determinism, & mechanicism

Applications are due Nov. 1st for the International Travel Stipends, which provide support for registration, travel, meals, and lodging at #Evol2027 in Puerto Rico next June for early-career researchers from eligible countries. www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci...

🌍 Our new review is out in *Global Change Biology*! How does climate change translate into the microclimates organisms actually experience? Huge thanks to the lead authors @linegreis.bsky.social, @evagril.bsky.social & Ilya Maclean for pushing this much-needed paper forward. doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

Fiction is as natural as children telling made-up stories, but it continues to puzzle contemporary philosophers. In this Roundtable, @thisishannahkim.bsky.social collects 7 scholars to think about fiction, and where the philosophy of fiction should be going. aestheticsforbirds.com/2026/10/21/d...

This paper provides a detailed argument in support of an interpretation of Peirce’s economy of research as being foremost about the pursuitworthiness of data that is obtained from observations, measurements, and experiments. @alisabokulich.bsky.social @mattbrewer.bsky.social #PhilSci

Ever see a snake do a barrel roll? Scientists disentangle the locomotor kinematics of this behavior in rolling snakes. Learn more in Current Biology: spkl.io/633287ntaA Yosuke Kojima & colleagues @currentbiology.bsky.social

My wonderful colleague @emilypawley.bsky.social co-edited A Historian's Handbook for Saving the World: Responding to the Global Climate Emergency with MIT Press. It'll be out in mid-November. Check out this timely work!

Hello, Bluesky! We’re the Ecosystem Resilience Group at Ulm University, Germany 🌿 What helps ecosystems withstand disturbance and recover? We’ll share our research, fieldwork, and questions about ecosystem resilience. We hope to connect with others exploring them! More from our team soon!

🌍 The latest issue of the BJHS is out! Guest-edited by Matthias Heymann and Dania Achermann, this special issue explores the epistemology and politics of climate science through 6 historical case studies. bshs.org.uk/bjhs-septemb... Stay tuned for our spotlight posts!

New paper in Synthese by IAS PhD researcher MikelAsteinza, with Hugo Viciana & Ivar Hannikainen 🦣 Promotional metaphors (“resurrection”) increase public misinformation about de-extinction without changing perceived rigor. #ExperimentalPhilosophy #Philosophy link.springer.com/article/10.1...

'Friendly Fire', a paper where I look at whether Margaret Macdonald contributed to the marginalistion of Susan Stebbing (her PhD advisor) from early history of analytic philosophy, is now open access onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Out now: the first episode of Students of SOCRATES! 🎙️ M.A. Philosophy of Science students talk with Kevin Elliott: should science communication persuade or empower? 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/3h4m... #SciComm #PhilSci #SOGRATESgroup #TrustInScience

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)

🎙️ In our latest episode of Ping Pong Philosophy, we talk to Gillian Russell, Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University, about non-descriptivism, and why doing philosophy itself might be the most important thing philosophers can do 👇