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Teun Joshua Brandt
@teunjoshua.bsky.social
Interfaculty PhD / Literature and Science, Cultures of Science

https://www.rug.nl/staff/t.j.brandt/
fascinating research via @projectceti.bsky.social
CETI scientists have discovered vowel and diphthong-like patterns in sperm whale communication! Read: bit.ly/3WSn9rc

By: @begus.bsky.social, Ronald Sprouse, Andrej Leban, Miles Silva & Shane Gero.
@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social, @umich.edu, @carleton.ca, @csail.mit.edu
Animation: Meghan Fenske
November 18, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Cities turn vast amounts of food into waste—but when does food actually become waste, and for whom? Our upcoming EHN talk + discussion with Arabist, historian, and mealworm farmer Willem Flinterman!

For online participation, please send us an e-mail at [email protected]
November 12, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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On the 22nd of October, Jackson Tamunosaki Jack will give our next EHN talk+discussion.

His talk, based on ethnographic research in Nigeria’s Niger Delta, reimagines crude oil not just as a capitalist commodity, but as a force deeply woven into local spirituality, ritual, and identity.
October 15, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Very happy to get this in the mail today! Looks nice! 😀📖
#philsci #HPS #hpbio
September 1, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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🐋 1 month left! CFP for #EASLCE2026 – Join the Orca Uprising! (14–17 April, Utrecht University).
Deadline for abstracts: 15 Sept 2025.
Keynotes: Greg Garrard, Kate Rigby, Eva Meijer.
Full details here: easlce2026.sites.uu.nl
@easlce.bsky.social
@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social
August 15, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Out now: Seeing the unseen: problematic narratives and the microbial worlds of the deep-sea. HPLS 47, 32 (2025). doi.org/10.1007/s406...
Though written some time ago, it feels more relevant than ever, especially now, as Trump sidesteps international jurisdiction to fast-track deep-sea mining.
Seeing the unseen: problematic narratives and the microbial worlds of the deep-sea - History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
Microbes emerge as the protagonists of new scientific narratives of the deep-sea, functioning as life-givers in biological communities or central actors in geochemical cycles essential to the function...
doi.org
July 2, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Out now:
Brandt, T. J. (2025). Forms of life: A literary formalist view on biological individuality. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 47(2), 24. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Forms of life: a literary formalist view on biological individuality - History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
This article argues for a formalist approach to biological individuality, bridging formalist ways of reading in cultural and literary studies with contemporary debates in the philosophy of biology. Ce...
link.springer.com
June 17, 2025 at 9:27 AM