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Federico Boem
@federicoboem.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Università Niccolò Cusano

Philosophy of the life sciences (esp. microbiome research and molecular biology), replication crisis and science correction, political philosophy of science.
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Submitted abstracts will be selected to appear in an interdisciplinary OA special issue in the South African Journal of Science! sajs.co.za 🙌 Deadline: August 18th. Early career scholars accepted can request travel support to our writeshop in Cape Town!
#hps #phibio #microbiome #philsci 🦠
August 8, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Reposted by Federico Boem
We got great news! @ishpssb2025.bsky.social gave us funding to support early career travel to our event in October! Deadline for abstract submission is extended until Aug 18. Don't miss this chance! #phibio #hps #microbiome #philsci 🦠
July 30, 2025 at 7:54 AM
#ISHPSSB is over. I presented my preliminary work on hype, distortion and reproducibility in #microbiome science. This work would never have been possible without my collaboration with scientists from various labs and my participation in the @nanobubbles.bsky.social project on science correction.
July 29, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Today it's my turn!

For those who want to follow the programme, here's the link:
lnkd.in/dpZFnXAE

#ISHPSSB2025
July 23, 2025 at 11:29 AM
It's great to be in Porto at ISHPSSB with so many friends and colleagues!
July 21, 2025 at 2:37 PM
It took almost a year, but this is finally out, written together with my colleagues and friends Gabriele Ferretti and Silvano Zipoli Caiani.

It extends the framework of Evolutionary Embodied Cognition, by combining it with the Endurance Running Hypothesis.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Embodied cognition, endurance running and evolution - Biology & Philosophy
Embodied Cognition suggests that cognitive processes are deeply rooted into our bodily morphology and its sensorimotor interactions with the environment. Evolutionary Embodied Cognition suggests that ...
link.springer.com
July 17, 2025 at 7:21 AM
"C'est une Révolte?"
"Non, Sire, c'est une Révolution."
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(probable) dialogue between Louis XVI and the Duke of La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt on hearing the news of the fall of the Bastille

#14Juillet
July 14, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Reposted by Federico Boem
honored to join this @historyofscience.bsky.social roundtable @kathrynolesko.bsky.social's invitation. my contribution "Make Silicon Valley Boring Again!" argues that today's broligarchs aren't just aberrant relative to you & me, but even relative to the history of Silicon Valley...
June 20, 2025 at 2:23 PM
The @nanobubbles.bsky.social podcast on science correction and its problems.

Listen now!
🎧 Get your headphones ready 👂

We are proud to announce that our podcast "Science in the Gray Zone"’ is out!

In this first season we talk about the obstacles to the self-correction of science in academia and industry from Science and Technology Studies standpoint.

open.spotify.com/show/2AuVl4w...
Science in the Gray Zone
Podcast · Nanobubbles ERC Project - Chakalaka Medialab · Science and Technology
open.spotify.com
May 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I am delighted to see this paper, written with Ingrid Lamminpää e Amedeo Amedei, published in the European Journal of Immunology. This is also provocative, with the specific aim of sparking debate since many aspects need to be further explored and clarified.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Updating the Discontinuity Theory to the Extended Immunity: The Symmunobiome Concept
The evolution of the concept of the immune system from a set of composed cells and tissue that defend the host from exogenous agents into a system that has regulatory and homeostatic functions determ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 22, 2025 at 11:23 AM
It's so nice to be here together. Talking about questionable practices in science and joyfully shouting ‘monorail’!
escaping the chaos for a day to go to Wuppertal to ride the Schwebebahn. oh, & to discuss happier things (scientific fraud & Questionable Research Practices!) w/ my @nanobubbles.bsky.social & IZWT colleagues
April 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Today!
4 pm (Central Europe Time).
You can register here: rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture... to join the discussion!
Next week, we welcome @lisaonaga.bsky.social in our ROTO Lecture Series. She will speak about "Cocoon Cultures: Disentangling Silk and Biology in Japan". Join the online talk and discussion by registering via this link: rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture...
#PhilSci #HPBio #HistSci
December 16, 2024 at 8:50 AM
On Thursday 29 and Friday 29 (2024) here at the Ruhr University Bochum, there will be this very interesting workshop on the philosophy and history of plants.

You van follow it also online and you can still register!
You can still register for online participation in our ROTO workshop on plants this Thu and Fri, 9am - 5pm (CET)! Just send a message via the contact form on our workshop website: rotoworkshop2024.wixsite.com/flora/contac...
We look forward to great talks and discussions! 🌱🤓
#HPBio #HistSci #PhilSci
We are very happy to announce our 11th ROTO Workshop, entitled "Flora in Focus". 🌱🌴 It will be held on November 28 & 29 in Bochum. We have a great line-up of speakers and everybody is welcome to join - online or in person.
rotoworkshop2024.wixsite.com/flora
#HPBio
#PhilSci
#HistSci
November 25, 2024 at 6:22 PM
Reposted by Federico Boem
New from the BJPS Review of Books:

Why Human Nature Matters
by Matteo Mameli (@matteomameli.bsky.social)
&
The Quest for Human Nature
by Marco Nathan

—Reviewed by Tim Lewens

#philsky #philsci #hpbio

www.thebsps.org/reviewofbook...
Matteo Mameli, Why Human Nature Matters & Marco J Nathan, The Quest for Human Nature | BJPS Review of Books
Tim Lewens reviews Why Human Nature Matters, by Matteo Mameli, and The Quest for Human Nature, by Marco J Nathan
www.thebsps.org
November 19, 2024 at 11:46 AM
Reposted by Federico Boem
1. Twenty-some years ago, as the embers of the intelligent design movement were dying out, a loose band of thinkers known as the New Atheists made a name for themselves by confusing materialist methodology with materialist metaphysics and going on the offensive against all of organized religion.
November 19, 2024 at 5:27 AM
Reposted by Federico Boem
You can still register for today's talk in our ROTO Lecture Series! Lisa Gannett (Saint Mary's University) will talk about socially constructed populations in human genetics and genomics. Just click on the link and join the talk and discussion! rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture... #PhilSci #HPBio
November 18, 2024 at 10:23 AM
Reposted by Federico Boem
We are very happy to announce our 11th ROTO Workshop, entitled "Flora in Focus". 🌱🌴 It will be held on November 28 & 29 in Bochum. We have a great line-up of speakers and everybody is welcome to join - online or in person.
rotoworkshop2024.wixsite.com/flora
#HPBio
#PhilSci
#HistSci
October 28, 2024 at 5:49 PM