Please come along to the launch of Adrian Currie's new book, The Science of Lost Worlds (published by BSPS Open). Details here: www.exeter.ac.uk/events/resea...

Download your Open Access copy here: ucp.manifoldapp.org/projects/978...

For more BSPS Open info go to: www.thebsps.org/bsps-open/

New episode of Nullius in Verba! We discuss the 1959 Rede Lecture "The Two Cultures" by C. P. Snow. We reflect on whether there is still a divide between the humanities and the sciences, and how important it is to be educated in both. Enjoy! nulliusinverba.podbean.com/e/episode-85...

Post-Gettier #epistemology may have yielded a picture of #knowledge that is both historiographically & philosophically misleading—or so Maria Rosa Antognazza argued in her posthumous book. Check out postdoctoral fellow Boaz Schuman’s review of the📘! 👇 philarchive.org/rec/SCHHIL-3

#philsky #HPS

A Review in Nature Reviews Biodiversity summarizes the positive, negative and indirect ways that insects affect vertebrates, and discusses data gaps that hinder understanding of these relationships and the consequences of insect declines. go.nature.com/4hB6Vwk 🌎🧪

Two butterflies, n.d., by #CorneliaDeRijck (Dutch, 1653-1726), who was born #otd, Oct 11. Held by the Royal Swedish Academy; source, @rkdnl.bsky.social / the Netherlands Institute for Art History, rkd.nl/en/explore/i... #artherstory #womenartists #hernaturalhistory

The submission deadline for the International Society for the History, Philosophy & Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB) 2027 conference in Argentina has been extended to *October 29th, 2026*
#HPS #STS #HPBio #EvoBio
congressin.com/e/ishpssb202...

Open Rank Tenure / Tenure Track Position in the philosophy department as part of a university cluster hire

AOS Bioethics or Philosophy of Science

AOC One of (1) Philosophy of Science, (2) Philosophy, Politics, or Economics, or (3) Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence

philjobs.org/job/show/32533

Qué alegría descubrir que mi libro de cuentos, Entelequia de sueños, está entre las recomendaciones de Librotea (@eldiariocultura.bsky.social/Grupo Milenio): librotea.com/americas/lib...

Si a alguien le interesa, se puede adquirir aquí: latintadelsilencio.com/tienda/entel...

#literatura #BookSky

Call for Papers: 2027 Congress for Logic, Methodology, & Philosophy of Science & Technology (CLMPST) in Kobe, Japan 🇯🇵, August 23-28, 2027
Deadline: November 15, 2026
#HPS
clmpst2027.org/call-for-pap...

From @harrycroft.bsky.social about the Augsburg conference on uncharismatic animals:
#envhum #envhist

I recently was interviewed by Celine Leboeuf for Why Philosophy? I reflected on my approach to the discipline, and my personal history celineleboeuf.substack.com/p/marilynn-johnson

Last week, my dear colleague Guido I. Prieto gave a talk on our joint work on model organisms & scientific representation.

📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWUG...

For those interested, I’ve linked the 📃s below 👇

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#philsci #HPbio 🧪

Ciprian Jeler (@ciprianjeler.bsky.social)’s lecture from last year, "The meaning and explanatory roles of selective mechanisms in evolutionary biology", is available on Anfibio’s YouTube channel: youtu.be/WXKoV-kAOKk

The talk is based on his recently published article: doi.org/10.1016/j.sh...

Five new Darwin books: thedispersalofdarwin.wordpress.com/2026/10/09/f...

#HPS #histsci

@princetonupress.bsky.social @upittpress.bsky.social @yalepress.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social

In the mid 1900s, not everyone even believed that genes played a significant role in development. C.H. Waddington’s iconic epigenetic landscapes helped to change that. New data both confirms and complicates his ideas. www.quantamagazine.org/how-does-lif...

Great work coming out from my former PhD student now TT faculty at U Calgary & #PhiGeo member @federicabocchi.bsky.social 💫

The Science of Lost Worlds is out! OA! illustrations by the magnificent Jim Robins, audiobook feat the amazing Boo Jackson as Prof Ichthy. Delicious paleontological #philsci for your reading/listening pleasure. So many people helped me make this - much greatful ucp.manifoldapp.org/projects/978...

Please enjoy this new offering from the lab: we discover that #excavates - ancient flagellate lineages with a voracious appetite for bacteria - change their behaviour depending on the availability of said prey!

Preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

#protistsonsky

Last week, my dear colleague Guido I. Prieto gave a talk on our joint work on model organisms & scientific representation.

📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWUG...

For those interested, I’ve linked the 📃s below 👇

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#philsci #HPbio 🧪