Rose Trappes
@rosetrappes.bsky.social
Postdoc in philosophy of science at @vitenskapsteori.bsky.social, University of Bergen, Norway.
philosophy of biology, sometimes feminist philosophy, mostly animals and stuff. she/her
philosophy of biology, sometimes feminist philosophy, mostly animals and stuff. she/her
We got the PhilPapers feminist philosophy of science category philpapers.org/browse/femin... moved up from "miscellaneous" to "general philosophy of science" proper 🎉 Combatting disciplinary marginalisation and recognising the strength of feminist work on sciences! #philsky
PhilPapers
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December 12, 2025 at 9:06 AM
We got the PhilPapers feminist philosophy of science category philpapers.org/browse/femin... moved up from "miscellaneous" to "general philosophy of science" proper 🎉 Combatting disciplinary marginalisation and recognising the strength of feminist work on sciences! #philsky
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@erc.europa.eu has decided to fund my research on how AI is transforming scientific problem-solving! #erc www.helsinki.fi/en/news/life...
December 9, 2025 at 4:06 PM
@erc.europa.eu has decided to fund my research on how AI is transforming scientific problem-solving! #erc www.helsinki.fi/en/news/life...
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The European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (ENPOSS) invites submissions to its 15th Conference at the University of Helsinki, 26-28 August 2026. blogs.helsinki.fi/enposshel/
European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (ENPOSS) 2026
blogs.helsinki.fi
December 9, 2025 at 3:13 PM
The European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (ENPOSS) invites submissions to its 15th Conference at the University of Helsinki, 26-28 August 2026. blogs.helsinki.fi/enposshel/
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More evidence of the benefits of lottery elements in funding.
'The new procedure required applicants to submit only an expression of interest...before 500 were selected, via lottery, to submit a full proposal for peer review....the number of female applicants increased 10 per cent, while the number of funded projects by women rose by 23 per cent.' 2/2
Lottery before peer review is associated with increased female representation and reduced estimated economic cost in a German funding line - Nature Communications
The authors show evidence from a German funding line that a lottery-first approach followed by peer review is accompanied by increased female representation both at the submission stage and among fund...
www.nature.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:19 AM
More evidence of the benefits of lottery elements in funding.
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Despite Prepublication Peer Review being a core part of science, training materials for it are sparse. This open source guide is very valuable for ECRs!
ecr-reviewers.gitlab.io/guide/
ecr-reviewers.gitlab.io/guide/
ECR Reviewers Platform
ecr-reviewers.gitlab.io
December 4, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Despite Prepublication Peer Review being a core part of science, training materials for it are sparse. This open source guide is very valuable for ECRs!
ecr-reviewers.gitlab.io/guide/
ecr-reviewers.gitlab.io/guide/
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Are you an evolutionary biologist? Would you like to support your society journal? We are looking for new editorial board members across the field of evolutionary biology:
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Learn more and find out how to apply: jevbio.net/call-for-edi...
DEADLINE 19th January 2026 📣
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Learn more and find out how to apply: jevbio.net/call-for-edi...
DEADLINE 19th January 2026 📣
December 4, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Are you an evolutionary biologist? Would you like to support your society journal? We are looking for new editorial board members across the field of evolutionary biology:
🧬🌿🪰🐀🦀🔬🧫🦠🐟🐦🧑💻🪸🦎
Learn more and find out how to apply: jevbio.net/call-for-edi...
DEADLINE 19th January 2026 📣
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Learn more and find out how to apply: jevbio.net/call-for-edi...
DEADLINE 19th January 2026 📣
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📢 Hello #STSers!
The @4sweb.bsky.social Backchannels blog is seeking new Assistant Editors (Global South).
Find out more here: 4sonline.org/news_manager...
Send your expression of interest by December 15. Feel free to DM me if you’d like more info!
The @4sweb.bsky.social Backchannels blog is seeking new Assistant Editors (Global South).
Find out more here: 4sonline.org/news_manager...
Send your expression of interest by December 15. Feel free to DM me if you’d like more info!
Call for Assistant Editors for 4S Backchannels (Global South)
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December 4, 2025 at 2:00 PM
📢 Hello #STSers!
The @4sweb.bsky.social Backchannels blog is seeking new Assistant Editors (Global South).
Find out more here: 4sonline.org/news_manager...
Send your expression of interest by December 15. Feel free to DM me if you’d like more info!
The @4sweb.bsky.social Backchannels blog is seeking new Assistant Editors (Global South).
Find out more here: 4sonline.org/news_manager...
Send your expression of interest by December 15. Feel free to DM me if you’d like more info!
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Tomorrow 6 November is the first of three meetings of the PSA Around the World! A fantastic online program with plenary panel and parallel sessions. All welcome! Note: time zone is 3pm CET.
Check out the program in the thread! 🥳
The PSA Around the World 2025 is coming soon: Nov 6, 14 & 22 (online)!
Hosted by @philsci.bsky.social and @eenphilsci.bsky.social it highlights #philsci from, about, and connected to Central and Eastern Europe.
Great lineup, still time to register!
www.philsci.org/psa_around_t...
Hosted by @philsci.bsky.social and @eenphilsci.bsky.social it highlights #philsci from, about, and connected to Central and Eastern Europe.
Great lineup, still time to register!
www.philsci.org/psa_around_t...
November 5, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Tomorrow 6 November is the first of three meetings of the PSA Around the World! A fantastic online program with plenary panel and parallel sessions. All welcome! Note: time zone is 3pm CET.
Lots of citizen science is gamified: points, scores, leader boards, and even levels. But what does this do to citizen science and its participants? Tomorrow I'll be talking about this online, at the PSA Around the World conference www.philsci.org/psa_around_t...
PSA Around the World 2025 - Philosophy of Science Association
www.philsci.org
November 5, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Lots of citizen science is gamified: points, scores, leader boards, and even levels. But what does this do to citizen science and its participants? Tomorrow I'll be talking about this online, at the PSA Around the World conference www.philsci.org/psa_around_t...
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How to conceptualise research environments for transdisciplinary work? How do researchers negotiate such spaces, and with which implications for knowledge produced? @rosetrappes.bsky.social and I answered by proposing the idea of "multiplex research environments"! See: rdcu.be/eN8ie #philsci
Research in the multiplex: navigating tensions and opportunities in transdisciplinary environments
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November 4, 2025 at 9:51 AM
How to conceptualise research environments for transdisciplinary work? How do researchers negotiate such spaces, and with which implications for knowledge produced? @rosetrappes.bsky.social and I answered by proposing the idea of "multiplex research environments"! See: rdcu.be/eN8ie #philsci
Is #citizenscience exploitative? I gave a talk on this the other week and now you can check it out online. And hopefully soon I'll get around to writing the paper :)
Our latest International PostDoc Forum recording is on our YouTube channel now. In this episode, @rosetrappes.bsky.social discusses whether or not citizen science is exploitative. 17 videos in this playlist if you want to do a deep dive.
#philsci
#philsci
IPDF Autumn 2025. Rose Trappes, University of Bergen Basic
Is Citizen Science Exploitative?
24 Sept 2025
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October 23, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Is #citizenscience exploitative? I gave a talk on this the other week and now you can check it out online. And hopefully soon I'll get around to writing the paper :)
Up in the arctic circle for a conference on feminist philosophy. Spaces like these with institutional visibility and support are crucial for feminist research, especially today. uit.no/tavla/artikk...
Conference on Feminist Philosophies and Methods | UiT
Velkommen til UiT, bli bedre kjent med studiehverdagen ved UiT Norges arktiske universitet!
uit.no
October 23, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Up in the arctic circle for a conference on feminist philosophy. Spaces like these with institutional visibility and support are crucial for feminist research, especially today. uit.no/tavla/artikk...
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If you’re interested in practicing the philosophy of science in practice why not come along to an online workshop “the philosophy of science in practice - in practice”? #philsci
October 8, 2025 at 1:01 PM
If you’re interested in practicing the philosophy of science in practice why not come along to an online workshop “the philosophy of science in practice - in practice”? #philsci
In #citizenscience, members of the public are doing menial scientific labour for free. Does this make it exploitative? Find out in my online talk tomorrow evening (European time) at @mcps-philsci.bsky.social
Our International Postdoc Forum is a virtual seminar series for early career researchers to share their work w/commentary by MCPS community members. Excited to welcome @rosetrappes.bsky.social (University of Bergen, Norway) at 1215 CT Wed 24 Sept. Sign up for Zoom link. buff.ly/MSAXLgY
September 23, 2025 at 12:07 PM
In #citizenscience, members of the public are doing menial scientific labour for free. Does this make it exploitative? Find out in my online talk tomorrow evening (European time) at @mcps-philsci.bsky.social
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Book launch for “Methods in the Philosophy of Science: a user’s guide”. Ftf in Exeter and online on the 29th of Sept feat Sophie Veigl, Kerry McKenzie, Hasok Chang, and me. It should be fun! (the book will be open access in July, contact me in the meantime) www.exeter.ac.uk/events/detai... #philsci
September 22, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Book launch for “Methods in the Philosophy of Science: a user’s guide”. Ftf in Exeter and online on the 29th of Sept feat Sophie Veigl, Kerry McKenzie, Hasok Chang, and me. It should be fun! (the book will be open access in July, contact me in the meantime) www.exeter.ac.uk/events/detai... #philsci
The new Society for the Philosophy of Science in Practice Newsletter is out! #philsci sway.cloud.microsoft/JS1vkVhu2qDA...
SPSP Newsletter # 23
June 2025
sway.cloud.microsoft
June 23, 2025 at 11:42 AM
The new Society for the Philosophy of Science in Practice Newsletter is out! #philsci sway.cloud.microsoft/JS1vkVhu2qDA...
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🦋✨ Welcome back to #PollinatorWeek! We explore how #PollinatorsWeaveConnections across ecosystems, economies, and our everyday lives. Spoiler: the links are deeper than you think! 🌍🐝💚
#FutureForPollinators #ProjectButterfly #pollinators
🦋✨ Welcome back to #PollinatorWeek! We explore how #PollinatorsWeaveConnections across ecosystems, economies, and our everyday lives. Spoiler: the links are deeper than you think! 🌍🐝💚
#FutureForPollinators #ProjectButterfly #pollinators
June 18, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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🦋✨ Welcome back to #PollinatorWeek! We explore how #PollinatorsWeaveConnections across ecosystems, economies, and our everyday lives. Spoiler: the links are deeper than you think! 🌍🐝💚
#FutureForPollinators #ProjectButterfly #pollinators
🦋✨ Welcome back to #PollinatorWeek! We explore how #PollinatorsWeaveConnections across ecosystems, economies, and our everyday lives. Spoiler: the links are deeper than you think! 🌍🐝💚
#FutureForPollinators #ProjectButterfly #pollinators
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I for one welcome our cockatoo overlords.
Cockatoos start sipping from Sydney’s drinking fountains after mastering series of complex moves
Experts think the clever birds learned the technique by watching people and then trying it themselves
www.theguardian.com
June 4, 2025 at 5:25 AM
I for one welcome our cockatoo overlords.
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Reminder: Submit proposals for the 2025 SORTEE Conference by June 2nd. The online event will be October 15-16. Details and submissions at https://www.sortee.org/upcoming. Join for free! #conference
Upcoming events
Upcoming conference by Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary biology (SORTEE)
www.sortee.org
May 29, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Reminder: Submit proposals for the 2025 SORTEE Conference by June 2nd. The online event will be October 15-16. Details and submissions at https://www.sortee.org/upcoming. Join for free! #conference
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Sometimes it feels like people think Douglas invented the science and values debate ex nihilo in 2009
May 26, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Sometimes it feels like people think Douglas invented the science and values debate ex nihilo in 2009
Feminist work is often marginalised in academia - but not always. Today I'm giving a talk about how feminist philosophy of science has become mainstreamed, and what's been left behind in the process. Today I'm giving a talk about this the 25th anniversary of @uibgender.bsky.social.
May 26, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Feminist work is often marginalised in academia - but not always. Today I'm giving a talk about how feminist philosophy of science has become mainstreamed, and what's been left behind in the process. Today I'm giving a talk about this the 25th anniversary of @uibgender.bsky.social.
Is citizen science good science? (surprise! yes it is!) I'll be walking through some of ways mistakes and biases affect #citizenscience and why it's not bad after all. All using resources from #philsci.
Our postdoctoral fellow, @rosetrappes.bsky.social, will kick off this free @pintsworld.bsky.social Norway event Monday 19 May at 19 with a thought-provoking talk on #citizenscience: Is citizen science good science? Come to Litteraturhuset i Bergen to find out! First-come, first-served🧪 #pint25
Bergen, Learning from nature
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May 15, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Is citizen science good science? (surprise! yes it is!) I'll be walking through some of ways mistakes and biases affect #citizenscience and why it's not bad after all. All using resources from #philsci.
Today in the reading group I run with @nathanaelsheehan.bsky.social, we discussed how undersea internet cables track and replicate colonialism, based on this paper: Mwema & Birhane, A. (2024). First Monday, 29(4). doi.org/10.5210/fm.v...
Undersea cables in Africa: The new frontiers of digital colonialism
| First Monday
doi.org
April 11, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Today in the reading group I run with @nathanaelsheehan.bsky.social, we discussed how undersea internet cables track and replicate colonialism, based on this paper: Mwema & Birhane, A. (2024). First Monday, 29(4). doi.org/10.5210/fm.v...
Sandra Harding's work was some of the first I read in philosophy of science. She opened up a world for me, and I'm sure she'll continue to do so for generations to come.
A dear feminist science studies mentor passed on March 5. Have a good journey Sandra Harding. ❤️
Harding was UCLA Distinguished Professor Emerita of Education and Gender Studies, former Director of the Center for the Study of Women.
Link is an oral history interview with Sandra on her career.
Harding was UCLA Distinguished Professor Emerita of Education and Gender Studies, former Director of the Center for the Study of Women.
Link is an oral history interview with Sandra on her career.
Oral history interview with Sandra Harding
Sandra Harding was born in San Francisco, California, the first of five children born to Lloyd and Constance Harding. Her father's struggle to find work during the Great Depression led the family to L...
digital.sciencehistory.org
March 7, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Sandra Harding's work was some of the first I read in philosophy of science. She opened up a world for me, and I'm sure she'll continue to do so for generations to come.
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New #PHIL_OS paper out! From @rosetrappes.bsky.social and me, an analysis of what insights biological niche concepts (and philosophy thereof) can inspire towards understanding research environments doi.org/10.1007/s131... #philsci
Conceptualising research environments using biological niche concepts - European Journal for Philosophy of Science
Several philosophers of science have taken inspiration from biological research on niches to conceptualise scientific practice. We systematise and extend three niche-based theories of scientific pract...
doi.org
March 1, 2025 at 8:48 AM
New #PHIL_OS paper out! From @rosetrappes.bsky.social and me, an analysis of what insights biological niche concepts (and philosophy thereof) can inspire towards understanding research environments doi.org/10.1007/s131... #philsci