Take a sneak peak at The Paradox of the Organism at Google books books.google.com/books?hl=sv&...

Don’t forget to pre-order!

This post reminds me that a few of us (@davidadger.bsky.social, @thelabandfield.bsky.social, @gilespalaeo.bsky.social & @erinma.bsky.social) wrote a letter to @natecoevo.nature.com taking them to task for omitting his sexuality when celebrating the scientist 🧪

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The @scilifelab.se ancient DNA unit is looking for an bioinformatician placed at Uppsala University. This is a great way to be part of diverse #aDNA research projects as a staff scientist with permanent (!!) employment:

www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Here's your chance to download not only my book 'Slime Mould and Philosophy' , but download ALL the books in Cambridge Elements Philosophy of Biology series from the 20th to the 25th of July for FREE! I highly recommend Jan Baedke's (2025) book 'The Organism'.
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#ISHPSSB #philosophy

Tactical deception in cephalopods: a new framework for understanding cognition www.cell.com/trends/ecolo... 🦑🧪

Academische vrijheid staat onder druk en moet beter worden beschermd. Die conclusie lees je vandaag in dit KNAW-rapport: www.knaw.nl/nieuws/knaw-... Aanbevelingen o.m.: meer vrijheid van onderzoek, bescherming tegen intimidatie en minder inhoudelijke overheidsbemoeienis.

Nieuws | Wetenschappers aan bijna alle Nederlandse universiteiten worden direct geraakt door de regering Trump: financiering verdwijnt, data-sets worden gewist en onderzoekers durven niet meer naar de VS, ism @nu.nl @groene.nl ‪@hopersbureau.bsky.social‬

New paper: “The clonality window: relatedness and the group covariance effect in the evolution of division of labour”, with @kztwyman.bsky.social #OpenAccess

doi.org/10.1093/evol...

@journal-evo.bsky.social #Image: #ChatGPT #Evolution #OA

Fantastic thread by @patricepottier.bsky.social summarizing their team's work on climate threats to amphibians. Over 100 species already at thermal limits, & many more will be. Extreme heat really important, including at hourly level, & conserving microclimate refuge vital.
Read the thread! 🐸 🧪 🌎

Do animals have the ability to reason? What we can learn from alligators that lure birds with twigs 🧪

New LGBTQ+ science resources! Today, we’re excited to share our PRIDE Guidelines for LGBTQ+ inclusive field work at inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/pride. Please share widely and see the thread below for more details 🧪🌍🌐

Imagine this: you go diving every day in the same spot in the ocean. Pretty soon, fish turn up to swim with you. But they don't just follow anyone. It's you they recognize.

A first-ever study of human recognition in wild fish @royalsocietypublishing.org
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royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Friday morning 🥰

🚨In Nature🚨
Meta is dropping fact-checking to avoid anti-conservative bias- but is there actually evidence of bias?
We this test empirically & find that conservatives
* ARE suspended more
* BUT share more misinfo
So suspension isn't necessarily evidence of bias www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New book "Explanation in Biology" with Cambridge University Press is out & open access!

Covers (1) causal explanation & (2) non-causal/mathematical explanation in life sciences--bio, neuro, etc 🌿🧬🧠

Introduction to philosophical work on scientific explanation!

www.cambridge.org/core/element...

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

We might feel that our experience of the world is somehow “correct,” but our vision, hearing, and sensitivity to magnetism are bested by those of other animals. How do our fellow Earthlings experience the world? We're “Coming to our Animal Senses” on @bipisci.bsky.social https://buff.ly/4jI7THh 🧪