Lucia C. Neco (Luba)
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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 🇧🇷
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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
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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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...
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
If you had to teach just one philosophy of biology class to general philosophy students, what would you focus on? What reading would you assign? #philsci #philbio #hps #philsky
February 17, 2026 at 9:04 AM
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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
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
January 30, 2026 at 7:44 AM
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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:
January 22, 2026 at 11:36 PM
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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
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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...
January 19, 2026 at 4:07 PM
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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...
December 16, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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🚨XIV PBCS: DEADLINE EXTENDED!
🔗More info: sites.google.com/view/xivpbcs...
January 13, 2026 at 2:30 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
January 15, 2026 at 4:24 PM
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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
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
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
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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
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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...

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December 1, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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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...
December 1, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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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
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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
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
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Next week is the Workshop on Minimal Cognition at the University of Valencia.
November 18, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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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
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November 18, 2025 at 9:17 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
November 17, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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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...
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
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
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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
November 10, 2025 at 12:41 PM