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Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda
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Mexican Historian & Philosopher of Biology • Postdoctoral Fellow at @theramseylab.bsky.social (@clpskuleuven.bsky.social‬) • Book Reviews Editor for @jgps.bsky.social • https://www.alejandrofabregastejeda.com • #PhilSci #HistSTM #philsky • Escribo y edito
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Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com · Sep 23
I am quite excited to share a new preprint on the prospects for a 'metaphilosophy of science'—a second-order inquiry into the concepts, assumptions, aims, and methods that underpin philosophy of science itself. 👇📃 philsci-archive.pitt.edu/26661/ 1/3 #philsci #philsky #HPS #HPbio #metaphilosophy
Toward a Metaphilosophy of Science - PhilSci-Archive
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emmiemalone.bsky.social
just a reminder that the application deadline to join our very fun and cool and exciting department is Monday! philjobs.org/job/show/30090
Assistant Professor in Philosophy of Technology, San Jose State University - PhilJobs:JFP Assistant Professor in Philosophy of Technology, San Jose State University
An international database of jobs for philosophers
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November 29, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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New issue is out! With writing on Tanizaki, Hadot, Wittgenstein, Duns Scotus, and Carnap. Get in it. #Philosophy #Philsky

epochemagazine.org/issues/86/
November 2025 | Epoché Magazine
A free online philosophy magazine, delivered monthly
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November 28, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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clpskuleuven.bsky.social
Whither academic writing in the age of #AI? Sylvia Wenmackers reminds us that essays are trials in the search for better texts—their existence is a victory over the temptation not to try. Instead of giving in with LLMs, let's keep trying! www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... #philsky #AcademicSky
Screenshot of an article header titled "Computer generation keeps on writing" by Sylvia Wenmackers. Description: "Even the philosopher Leibniz, who dreamt of an automaton that could settle disputes in court or in science, could never have imagined that we would one day be able to pose questions to a calculator phrased in natural language, and certainly not that it would answer us in full sentences. While the inner workings of text generators continue to fascinate her, Sylvia Wenmackers has firm reservations about many aspects of generative artificial intelligence."
November 29, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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triphilosophy.bsky.social
📢 Final call for entries to our 2025 Philosophy Essay Prize!

⏰ Make sure you submit your essay in good time - the deadline is Sunday 30 November at 23:59 GMT.

Best of luck to everyone submitting. ✨

#philosophy #essay #competition
November 29, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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palmblad.bsky.social
Not sure if obvious or a provocation, but an environment is not a place. It is often used synonymously to "natural place," whatever that is, but it really is the world relative to an organism, or that which environs an organism. To think relationally in concrete terms, we must be organismocentric.
November 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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santiginno.bsky.social
Nuevo artículo en Investigações em Ensino de Ciências: «Endosimbiosis versus selección natural: un falso dilema en la educación».
Se analiza el origen de esta oposición y sus consecuencias para la enseñanza de la biología.
Acceso abierto aquí 👉 ienci.if.ufrgs.br/index.php/ie...
Endosimbiosis versus selección natural: un falso dilema en la educación | Investigações em Ensino de Ciências
ienci.if.ufrgs.br
November 29, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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davidludwig.bsky.social
The journal Plants, People, Planet launched the "Thomas Reviews" format and invited me to contribute with an article on Transdisciplinary Plant Sciences. It's been fun to think about transformations of the plant sciences from such a broad perspective.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Transdisciplinary plant sciences: A review
Socio-ecological crises such as biodiversity loss, climate change, and food insecurity require academic expertise and also the inclusion of diverse actors outside of academia such as farmers, policym...
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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darwinsbulldog.bsky.social
New and recent Darwin and evolution books ~ thedispersalofdarwin.wordpress.com/2025/11/28/n...

#HPS #histsci
New and recent Darwin and evolution books
With the holidays now on us, here are a few gift-giving ideas for those Darwin, evolution, and history of science lovers in your life: Darwin’s Savages: Science, Race and the Conquest of Pata…
thedispersalofdarwin.wordpress.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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vandenberglab.bsky.social
Hi everyone! We are the Evolutionary Modelling Group!
We are interested in many topics, from the evolution of microbial mutational robustness to the evolution of language and culture in humans. We rely on a variety of methods, both computational (evolutionary simulations) and mathematical.
November 28, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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samulireijula.net
A funded PhD position in philosophy of science: AI in scientific problem solving. At @helsinki.fi @tint-philosophy.bsky.social #philsci jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
Doctoral Researcher, Philosophy of science: AI in scientific problem solving
Doctoral Researcher, Philosophy of science: AI in scientific problem solving
jobs.helsinki.fi
November 28, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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metasciencejournal.bsky.social
We are excited to announce the publication of Volume 34, Issue 3 of Metascience!

Access the full issue here: link.springer.com/journal/1101...

Access the Table of Contents here: hpsleeds.wordpress.com/2025/11/28/m...
November 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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ecoevodevolab.bsky.social
Our new paper in @plosbiology.org reveals that life history evolution is at the core of an eco-evolutionary feedback that promotes diversity.
Do you want to know how? read more in: plos.io/4p7YT0a
November 13, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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knowledgecrisis.bsky.social
📣 Call for participation! 4&5 Dec

Hybrid Workshop: Analogies, External Validity and the Future of Experimental Modeling Across Sciences.

Addressing science questions from an interdisciplinary perspective!

✅ Register Now! buff.ly/mwhmV9s
@unisalzburg.bsky.social
@univie.ac.at
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Salzburg-Vienna Workshop: Analogies, external validity and the future of experimental modelling across sciences
Visit the post for more.
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November 27, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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sschellenberg.bsky.social
Excellent new paper by Jordan Scott forthcoming in AJP. This paper was a core chapter of his recently defended dissertation. philpapers.org/rec/SCOTRM-2
Jordan Scott, The Rational Method - PhilPapers
Performances, epistemic and practical, can be understood as having aims and methods which jointly determine whether the performance was successful. In this paper, I advance a novel, structural account...
philpapers.org
November 27, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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journalphp.bsky.social
Call for papers: Philosophy through Art, Games, and Fiction think.taylorandfranc... Guest editor: Lisa Bortolotti. Deadline: 31 July 2026. Submit your work! #philsky #philpsy
Philosophy through Art, Games, and Fiction
Can we do philosophy by writing fiction, drawing, designing a game, or telling a story? Submit work to this special issue honouring the legacy of Helen De Cruz.
think.taylorandfrancis.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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theramseylab.bsky.social
The surprising crab-trap–pulling behavior is described in this article: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

We recently published a paper on how animal tool use is conceptualized, offering a framework to make sense of its different forms 👇📃 www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #evosky #philsci
November 27, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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lsephilosophy.bsky.social
Tomorrow! Join us in-person or online!
lsephilosophy.bsky.social LSE Philosophy @lsephilosophy.bsky.social · 23d
📣Save the date for the Lakatos Award Lecture 2025 by Mazviita Chirimuuta!

🗓️ Friday 28 November, 6pm (London time)
📍 LSE campus and online

More: www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/e...
Lakatos Award Lecture 2025 by Mazviita Chirimuuta
www.lse.ac.uk
November 27, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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clpskuleuven.bsky.social
If you are familiar with decision theory and microeconomics, you have probably heard of 'two-stage lotteries'—lotteries whose prizes are themselves one-stage lotteries. But how should their value be assessed? Come tomorrow to the next CLPS seminar to hear Luc Lauwers’s answer! #philsky #econsky
Screenshot of a KU Leuven Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science event page titled ‘CLPS Seminar: Luc Lauwers, Great expectations.’ The page lists the date (November 28, 2025, 2–4 PM), location (HIW1 01.20, room N), and organizer (Jan Heylen). It includes information about the speaker, Luc Lauwers (Faculty of Economics and Business, KU Leuven), and an abstract describing a talk on two-stage lotteries, backward expectation, and the evaluation of multi-stage lotteries
November 27, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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eugeniakulakova.bsky.social
🥁 Exciting news! Our research project "The Therapeutic Game” that works on the philosophy of language of psychotherapy has just published a new paper. It provides a comprehensive overview of conversational scorekeeping, that is the way speech and context interact in the course of a conversation.
Conversational Scorekeeping
Recent philosophy of language has seen a growing interest in what is often called the dynamics of conversation or conversational scorekeeping, that is, the ways in which speech and context mutually i...
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 6, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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hugeraproject.bsky.social
Dr. Yasmin Haddad (Postdoctoral Fellow at UQAM) continues our online speaker series with the talk "When imprecision is a bad thing: the case of ancestry" on December 2nd. You can register to attend via zoom here: hugera.org/lecture-seri...
November 26, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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giadapadovani.bsky.social
Polar bears live on seal fat and never get heart disease.
We can’t say the same for humans — but why?

This project is about to launch and will make the first-ever ATAC-seq on polar bears possible.

Every like or share counts!! Thank you 💚

experiment.com/that-amazing...
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How do polar bears stay healthy on the world's worst diet?
Polar bears survive almost entirely on seal fat. Yet unlike humans who eat high-fat diets, polar bears never develop diabetes, or heart disease. We will use genomics to identify the gene regulatory sw...
experiment.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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alejandrofabregastejeda.com
In her new 📃, Marina DiMarco analyzes the NIH’s Sex as a Biological Variable (SABV) policy in the context of exploratory inquiry & confirmatory experimentation, arguing that it offers important reflections on pursuitworthiness judgments 👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsci #HPbio #HPS
Screenshot of the header of a journal article from the European Journal for Philosophy of Science (2025), article 15:71. The article is categorized under “Paper in the Philosophy of the Biomedical Sciences” and is titled “Sex as a biological variable and the pursuitworthiness of exploratory inquiry,” authored by Marina DiMarco, with an ORCID icon beside the name.
November 25, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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sanjasreckovic.bsky.social
✨️Call for abstracts✨️
Excited to be organizing together with @leonarddung.bsky.social, @birchlse.bsky.social and Albert Newen the RUB-LSE joint workshop
"Animal Minds: New Theories and New Observations"
Bochum 9-10 Feb 2026

Join us! 🦧🐦🐙🐀🐬🦀🐜
Abstracts due 1 Dec 2025
philevents.org/event/show/1...
Ruhr-University Bochum & London School of Economics joint workshop “Animal Minds: New Theories and New Observations”
The following speakers are confirmed: Colin Allen, Kristin Andrews, Jonathan Birch, Tomer Czaczkes, Rebecca Dreier, Leonard Dung, Albert Newen, Simone Pika, Sanja Sreckovic, and Daria Zakharova.
philevents.org
November 27, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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socphilneuro.bsky.social
If you would like to volunteer as a mentor for the SPAN Mentorship Program, you can fill out a form on our website. We cannot guarantee that volunteers will be paired with mentees, but we will consider you when pairings are made.

Mentors suggested on an app do NOT need to fill out the form.
Mentorship Program | SPAN
www.philandneuro.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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mvandyck.bsky.social
You have been wondering about the argument for Bas van Fraassen’s constructive empiricism? In this paper forthcoming in the HOPOS journal, I provide some answers!
#philsci #hps
Maarten Van Dyck, Defending constructive empiricism - PhilPapers
Bas van Fraassen’s constructive empiricism has significantly shaped the debate on scientific realism. However, many commentators have been puzzled by the precise nature of the argument for this positi...
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November 26, 2025 at 3:42 PM