Lucia C. Neco (Luba)
@luciacneco.bsky.social
Philosopher of Science at Universidad de Murcia 🇪🇸
Co-Director at PEiPL/Eurekamp Oz! 🇦🇺
More here: luciacneco.weebly.com 🇧🇷
Co-Director at PEiPL/Eurekamp Oz! 🇦🇺
More here: luciacneco.weebly.com 🇧🇷
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Beyond Dichotomies: Embracing an Integrated Approach to Social Relationships | Philosophy of Science | Cambridge Core
Beyond Dichotomies: Embracing an Integrated Approach to Social Relationships
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[NEW PAPER] In "Beyond Dichotomies", I challenge the false dichotomy between subjectivity and objectivity in human social relationships. I show how they are both biological and social, using kinship research as an example. I’d love to hear your thoughts!
#PhilSci #Anthropology #PhilSky
#PhilSci #Anthropology #PhilSky
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Luis Favela and I just finished editing a special issue on dynamical cognitive science for topiCS. The great contributors of the issue talk a little bit about what happened in the last 30 years, where we are now, and where we are heading to.
Here's the intro (open access): doi.org/10.1111/tops...
Here's the intro (open access): doi.org/10.1111/tops...
Dynamical Cognitive Science! Wherefore Art Thou?
How has dynamical systems theory—especially the dynamical hypothesis—influenced the cognitive sciences since the 1990s? This topic brings together informatics, linguistics, neuroscience, philosophy, ...
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February 17, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Luis Favela and I just finished editing a special issue on dynamical cognitive science for topiCS. The great contributors of the issue talk a little bit about what happened in the last 30 years, where we are now, and where we are heading to.
Here's the intro (open access): doi.org/10.1111/tops...
Here's the intro (open access): doi.org/10.1111/tops...
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Final days to submit an abstract to #PBCS2026! If you are an early-career scholar looking for a supportive environment to discuss your work & meet international peers, consider applying! Another plus this year: The workshop will be in Madrid! sites.google.com/view/xivpbcs... #HPbio #philsci #philsky
January 31, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Final days to submit an abstract to #PBCS2026! If you are an early-career scholar looking for a supportive environment to discuss your work & meet international peers, consider applying! Another plus this year: The workshop will be in Madrid! sites.google.com/view/xivpbcs... #HPbio #philsci #philsky
It was a pleasure to have you here (even if virtually!). We hope to see you again soon! 🍀
Last November, I gave an online talk at the MINT Lab in Murcia about my dissertation project. You can read about it in this nice blog post: www.um.es/mintlab/inde...
Thanks @luciacneco.bsky.social for the invitation and thanks to the group for their interesting questions and comments! 😊🌱
#HPBio
Thanks @luciacneco.bsky.social for the invitation and thanks to the group for their interesting questions and comments! 😊🌱
#HPBio
January 30, 2026 at 7:44 AM
It was a pleasure to have you here (even if virtually!). We hope to see you again soon! 🍀
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Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out.
As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class.
Here's what happened:
As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class.
Here's what happened:
January 22, 2026 at 11:36 PM
Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out.
As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class.
Here's what happened:
As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class.
Here's what happened:
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Dia 10.02, Pedro (@93pedrobravo.bsky.social) e eu estaremos organizando um book symposium sobre o livro Transformative Transdisciplinarity, de D. Ludwig ( @davidludwig.bsky.social) e C. El-Hani. O livro é maravilhoso. Não deixem de se inscrever pelo link: bit.ly/4jtM3rD.
January 20, 2026 at 4:53 PM
Dia 10.02, Pedro (@93pedrobravo.bsky.social) e eu estaremos organizando um book symposium sobre o livro Transformative Transdisciplinarity, de D. Ludwig ( @davidludwig.bsky.social) e C. El-Hani. O livro é maravilhoso. Não deixem de se inscrever pelo link: bit.ly/4jtM3rD.
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Our new paper (with @biotay.bsky.social) is out and on the cover story of @currentbiology.bsky.social !!!! Veronika, a Carinthian mountain cow flexibly uses a “multi-purpose tool” to scratch herself. A video and more information will follow in the comments.
www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.cell.com/current-biol...
January 19, 2026 at 4:07 PM
Our new paper (with @biotay.bsky.social) is out and on the cover story of @currentbiology.bsky.social !!!! Veronika, a Carinthian mountain cow flexibly uses a “multi-purpose tool” to scratch herself. A video and more information will follow in the comments.
www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.cell.com/current-biol...
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📢CALL FOR PROPOSALS: CSSM Conference 2026
We are excited to invite submissions for the CSSM conference, taking place in Helsinki, Finland, 19-22 October 2026 as an in-person gathering!
📅Submission deadline: 30 Jan 2026
🦠More information on the conference website: blogs.helsinki.fi/cssm-confere...
We are excited to invite submissions for the CSSM conference, taking place in Helsinki, Finland, 19-22 October 2026 as an in-person gathering!
📅Submission deadline: 30 Jan 2026
🦠More information on the conference website: blogs.helsinki.fi/cssm-confere...
December 16, 2025 at 10:00 AM
📢CALL FOR PROPOSALS: CSSM Conference 2026
We are excited to invite submissions for the CSSM conference, taking place in Helsinki, Finland, 19-22 October 2026 as an in-person gathering!
📅Submission deadline: 30 Jan 2026
🦠More information on the conference website: blogs.helsinki.fi/cssm-confere...
We are excited to invite submissions for the CSSM conference, taking place in Helsinki, Finland, 19-22 October 2026 as an in-person gathering!
📅Submission deadline: 30 Jan 2026
🦠More information on the conference website: blogs.helsinki.fi/cssm-confere...
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🚨XIV PBCS: DEADLINE EXTENDED!
🔗More info: sites.google.com/view/xivpbcs...
🔗More info: sites.google.com/view/xivpbcs...
January 13, 2026 at 2:30 PM
🚨XIV PBCS: DEADLINE EXTENDED!
🔗More info: sites.google.com/view/xivpbcs...
🔗More info: sites.google.com/view/xivpbcs...
I had a really amazing time in Santiago de Compostela for "Philosophy of Agency in a More-than-human World", organized by Xavier de Donato and Pablo Seoane from USC. I presented a work I am just starting to write, got great feedback, and learned A LOT. #philsci #philsky #morethanhuman
January 15, 2026 at 4:24 PM
I had a really amazing time in Santiago de Compostela for "Philosophy of Agency in a More-than-human World", organized by Xavier de Donato and Pablo Seoane from USC. I presented a work I am just starting to write, got great feedback, and learned A LOT. #philsci #philsky #morethanhuman
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Reminder 📢 We are advertising a postdoctoral position in #philbio or #philphysics to work on an interdisciplinary project that adopts the lens of self-organization & active matter to explore the boundary between living and nonliving systems👇 www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... #philjobs #philsci #evosky
January 13, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Reminder 📢 We are advertising a postdoctoral position in #philbio or #philphysics to work on an interdisciplinary project that adopts the lens of self-organization & active matter to explore the boundary between living and nonliving systems👇 www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... #philjobs #philsci #evosky
I think England really likes me. Look at this sunny blue sky, on the eve of the December solstice. Or maybe she’s just deceiving me…
December 20, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I think England really likes me. Look at this sunny blue sky, on the eve of the December solstice. Or maybe she’s just deceiving me…
Happy to have taken part in the founding of the Iberoamerican Society for Embodied and Situated Cognition (SICCS) in Granada. Excited to see this interdisciplinary community grow. ✨👩🏽💻 #EmbodiedCognition #SICCS #philsky #philsci
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December 18, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Happy to have taken part in the founding of the Iberoamerican Society for Embodied and Situated Cognition (SICCS) in Granada. Excited to see this interdisciplinary community grow. ✨👩🏽💻 #EmbodiedCognition #SICCS #philsky #philsci
wpd.ugr.es/~filolab/wor...
wpd.ugr.es/~filolab/wor...
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Thank you @luciacneco.bsky.social for your time and expertise in discussing “Multispecies social relationships, kinship, and environmental care” at our most recent International Postdoc Forum event earlier this month. Recording available:
International Post-Doc Forum for the Philosophy of Science
The effects of COVID-19 and associated economic downturn have had a disproportionate effect on recent PhDs and emerging scholars without tenured positions ac...
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December 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Thank you @luciacneco.bsky.social for your time and expertise in discussing “Multispecies social relationships, kinship, and environmental care” at our most recent International Postdoc Forum event earlier this month. Recording available:
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Affective Atmospheres
18–19 Feb 2026, Glasgow
Supported by Royal Institute of Philosophy
In-person conference bringing together philosophy, anthropology, geography, art, architecture & psychology.
Register forms.gle/Xv2ZXmbovtvK...
More info placememory.net/affective-at...
Art Jinjoon Lee ©2025
18–19 Feb 2026, Glasgow
Supported by Royal Institute of Philosophy
In-person conference bringing together philosophy, anthropology, geography, art, architecture & psychology.
Register forms.gle/Xv2ZXmbovtvK...
More info placememory.net/affective-at...
Art Jinjoon Lee ©2025
December 1, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Affective Atmospheres
18–19 Feb 2026, Glasgow
Supported by Royal Institute of Philosophy
In-person conference bringing together philosophy, anthropology, geography, art, architecture & psychology.
Register forms.gle/Xv2ZXmbovtvK...
More info placememory.net/affective-at...
Art Jinjoon Lee ©2025
18–19 Feb 2026, Glasgow
Supported by Royal Institute of Philosophy
In-person conference bringing together philosophy, anthropology, geography, art, architecture & psychology.
Register forms.gle/Xv2ZXmbovtvK...
More info placememory.net/affective-at...
Art Jinjoon Lee ©2025
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🚨CFA for the XIV PBCS that will be held at UNED (Madrid) 18-19 June 2026, where several of our METIS members are part of the organisation committee: Losner Briones (@losnerbriones.com), Jorge Ramos (@jsramos.bsky.social) and Cristian Saborido.
More info: sites.google.com/view/xivpbcs...
More info: sites.google.com/view/xivpbcs...
December 1, 2025 at 10:22 AM
🚨CFA for the XIV PBCS that will be held at UNED (Madrid) 18-19 June 2026, where several of our METIS members are part of the organisation committee: Losner Briones (@losnerbriones.com), Jorge Ramos (@jsramos.bsky.social) and Cristian Saborido.
More info: sites.google.com/view/xivpbcs...
More info: sites.google.com/view/xivpbcs...
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The problem with accepting invites to conferences is that I then have to write papers for those conferences.
November 28, 2025 at 4:26 PM
The problem with accepting invites to conferences is that I then have to write papers for those conferences.
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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
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...
On Dec 3–4, I’ll join the workshop “Knowing life forms and their contexts” at the University of Tübingen, organized by @matthiaskramm.bsky.social and Thomas Potthast. It explores how Western bioscience, Indigenous knowledge, and TEK understand living beings and their relations w the world. #philsci
November 26, 2025 at 12:47 PM
On Dec 3–4, I’ll join the workshop “Knowing life forms and their contexts” at the University of Tübingen, organized by @matthiaskramm.bsky.social and Thomas Potthast. It explores how Western bioscience, Indigenous knowledge, and TEK understand living beings and their relations w the world. #philsci
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Next week is the Workshop on Minimal Cognition at the University of Valencia.
November 18, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Next week is the Workshop on Minimal Cognition at the University of Valencia.
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Reminder: webinar tomorrow. International postdoc forum.
"Interspecific Social Relationships, Kinship and Environmental Care" by Lucia C. Neco, University of Murcia, Spain. @luciacneco.bsky.social
Wednesday, 19 November 2025, 12:15pm CST (UTC-6)
Zoom webinar link: z.umn.edu/IPDF25-2
"Interspecific Social Relationships, Kinship and Environmental Care" by Lucia C. Neco, University of Murcia, Spain. @luciacneco.bsky.social
Wednesday, 19 November 2025, 12:15pm CST (UTC-6)
Zoom webinar link: z.umn.edu/IPDF25-2
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November 18, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Reminder: webinar tomorrow. International postdoc forum.
"Interspecific Social Relationships, Kinship and Environmental Care" by Lucia C. Neco, University of Murcia, Spain. @luciacneco.bsky.social
Wednesday, 19 November 2025, 12:15pm CST (UTC-6)
Zoom webinar link: z.umn.edu/IPDF25-2
"Interspecific Social Relationships, Kinship and Environmental Care" by Lucia C. Neco, University of Murcia, Spain. @luciacneco.bsky.social
Wednesday, 19 November 2025, 12:15pm CST (UTC-6)
Zoom webinar link: z.umn.edu/IPDF25-2
Excited to present a paper I’m working on at the @mcps-philsci.bsky.social Postdoc Forum, and I’d love your feedback!
“Interspecific Social Relationships, Kinship and Environmental Care”
19 Nov 2025, 12:15pm CST(UTC-6)
Commentator: Ben McMyler (MCPS)
Let me know if you need a link!
#philsci #philsky
“Interspecific Social Relationships, Kinship and Environmental Care”
19 Nov 2025, 12:15pm CST(UTC-6)
Commentator: Ben McMyler (MCPS)
Let me know if you need a link!
#philsci #philsky
November 17, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Excited to present a paper I’m working on at the @mcps-philsci.bsky.social Postdoc Forum, and I’d love your feedback!
“Interspecific Social Relationships, Kinship and Environmental Care”
19 Nov 2025, 12:15pm CST(UTC-6)
Commentator: Ben McMyler (MCPS)
Let me know if you need a link!
#philsci #philsky
“Interspecific Social Relationships, Kinship and Environmental Care”
19 Nov 2025, 12:15pm CST(UTC-6)
Commentator: Ben McMyler (MCPS)
Let me know if you need a link!
#philsci #philsky
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If you know an undergrad that would like to spend the summer doing research in my philosophy of biology lab, encourage them to apply to the U’s SPUR program. Includes a $5,000 stipend and subsidized housing to work in my lab.
Details and how to apply here:
tinyurl.com/SPUR-PhilBio...
Details and how to apply here:
tinyurl.com/SPUR-PhilBio...
The Philosophy of Biology Lab: Entangled Lineages, Classification, and Individuality - Office of Undergraduate Research
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November 6, 2025 at 8:13 PM
If you know an undergrad that would like to spend the summer doing research in my philosophy of biology lab, encourage them to apply to the U’s SPUR program. Includes a $5,000 stipend and subsidized housing to work in my lab.
Details and how to apply here:
tinyurl.com/SPUR-PhilBio...
Details and how to apply here:
tinyurl.com/SPUR-PhilBio...
Just discovered an #ISHPSSB25 photo gallery! If you didn’t know about it, you’re welcome :) Here I’m having a great conversation with @profmatthaber.bsky.social and @rebeccacmann.bsky.social about individuality in social beings! #philsci #philsky
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November 14, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Just discovered an #ISHPSSB25 photo gallery! If you didn’t know about it, you’re welcome :) Here I’m having a great conversation with @profmatthaber.bsky.social and @rebeccacmann.bsky.social about individuality in social beings! #philsci #philsky
ishpssb2025.icbas.up.pt/moments-from...
ishpssb2025.icbas.up.pt/moments-from...
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Join us for More-than-Human Sensory Worlds, the first in our hybrid 'More-than-Human/ities' seminar series, a new collaboration between UoB's CEH & EUC at York University, Toronto.
Come explore the shared sensory worlds of human and nonhuman animals! 🦅🐇🌃
Wed 19th Nov
17:45–19:00
Online & in-person
Come explore the shared sensory worlds of human and nonhuman animals! 🦅🐇🌃
Wed 19th Nov
17:45–19:00
Online & in-person
November 10, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Join us for More-than-Human Sensory Worlds, the first in our hybrid 'More-than-Human/ities' seminar series, a new collaboration between UoB's CEH & EUC at York University, Toronto.
Come explore the shared sensory worlds of human and nonhuman animals! 🦅🐇🌃
Wed 19th Nov
17:45–19:00
Online & in-person
Come explore the shared sensory worlds of human and nonhuman animals! 🦅🐇🌃
Wed 19th Nov
17:45–19:00
Online & in-person