Francesca Bellazzi
@frabellazzi.bsky.social
Philosopher thinking about functions at the molecular scale (and much more) as Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow x @DurhamUniveristy @AssemblingLife and @UCL 🧬 Writer @Jargonium; @ChemistryWorld 🖋️ θαυμάζειν.
https://www.francescabellazzi.com
https://www.francescabellazzi.com
I was in Rome for the Emergence in Philosophy&Science summer school and workshop. I gave an overview lecture on emergence in biochemical contexts and a new talk on #AlphaFold and the implications of using AI in science for reductionism.
Thanks to the organisers!
#FunMo @leverhulme.ac.uk
Thanks to the organisers!
#FunMo @leverhulme.ac.uk
September 25, 2025 at 5:52 AM
I was in Rome for the Emergence in Philosophy&Science summer school and workshop. I gave an overview lecture on emergence in biochemical contexts and a new talk on #AlphaFold and the implications of using AI in science for reductionism.
Thanks to the organisers!
#FunMo @leverhulme.ac.uk
Thanks to the organisers!
#FunMo @leverhulme.ac.uk
Thanks to everyone at #EPSA25 in Groningen. I talked during the AssemblingLife symposium, where we presented the results of the first year of the ERC Project AssemblingLife. Congrats to the organisers of this event for the fantastic experience! @assemblinglife.bsky.social @epsaphilsci.bsky.social
August 30, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Thanks to everyone at #EPSA25 in Groningen. I talked during the AssemblingLife symposium, where we presented the results of the first year of the ERC Project AssemblingLife. Congrats to the organisers of this event for the fantastic experience! @assemblinglife.bsky.social @epsaphilsci.bsky.social
I had a terrific time at #BSPS25 and all the talks were amazing. I am grateful to my fellow symposium speakers in “Functions across scientific contexts”, where I presented on molecular functionality in nutrition. #FunMo 🧬 @leverhulme.ac.uk #philsky
Full program here: www.thebsps.org/news/2025-gl...
Full program here: www.thebsps.org/news/2025-gl...
July 22, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I had a terrific time at #BSPS25 and all the talks were amazing. I am grateful to my fellow symposium speakers in “Functions across scientific contexts”, where I presented on molecular functionality in nutrition. #FunMo 🧬 @leverhulme.ac.uk #philsky
Full program here: www.thebsps.org/news/2025-gl...
Full program here: www.thebsps.org/news/2025-gl...
One of my favourite (now yearly) appointment is with the Master in Reproductive Technologies at #UniPv where I am lecturing today about infertility and pregnancy from a philosophical perspective. @leverhulme.ac.uk @durham-university.bsky.social
July 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
One of my favourite (now yearly) appointment is with the Master in Reproductive Technologies at #UniPv where I am lecturing today about infertility and pregnancy from a philosophical perspective. @leverhulme.ac.uk @durham-university.bsky.social
Today I presented a short talk on #AlphaFold and biochemical functionality at the Turing Tables of the London AI and Humanities Project at the Institute of Philosophy ~ learning so many things in this program! #philsky #philAI #FunMo🧬
May 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Today I presented a short talk on #AlphaFold and biochemical functionality at the Turing Tables of the London AI and Humanities Project at the Institute of Philosophy ~ learning so many things in this program! #philsky #philAI #FunMo🧬
Kicking off today with a super cool conference on responsable AI, program below ⤵️
#responsabileAI
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#responsabileAI
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May 19, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Kicking off today with a super cool conference on responsable AI, program below ⤵️
#responsabileAI
www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
#responsabileAI
www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
My Leverhulme Trust project #FunMo: functions at the molecular scale is officially up and running at the Department of Philosophy at Durham University 🧬 @durham-university.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk #philsky #leverhulmetrust (1/2)
May 15, 2025 at 5:07 PM
My Leverhulme Trust project #FunMo: functions at the molecular scale is officially up and running at the Department of Philosophy at Durham University 🧬 @durham-university.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk #philsky #leverhulmetrust (1/2)
Saying goodbye to Oslo for now, I had a fantastic time and will bring everything with me into my next adventure. Very grateful I will keep on collaborating with @assemblinglife.bsky.social as part of my Leverhulme project. The fjord will always be in my heart 💙🇳🇴 #philsky #lovenorway
April 15, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Saying goodbye to Oslo for now, I had a fantastic time and will bring everything with me into my next adventure. Very grateful I will keep on collaborating with @assemblinglife.bsky.social as part of my Leverhulme project. The fjord will always be in my heart 💙🇳🇴 #philsky #lovenorway
One year ago we started a small online reading group on functions and now we have our first workshop on biological functions! Proud of the growing functions in philosophy network 💙 thanks to best co-organiser @harrif.bsky.social and @assemblinglife.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk #philsky
April 11, 2025 at 6:49 AM
One year ago we started a small online reading group on functions and now we have our first workshop on biological functions! Proud of the growing functions in philosophy network 💙 thanks to best co-organiser @harrif.bsky.social and @assemblinglife.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk #philsky
Super excited to officially share that I will start a new job as Assistant Professor and Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at Durham University from 1/05! I will be running my *dream project* “FunMo: functions at the molecular scale”🤓 🧬 @leverhulme.ac.uk @durhamuniversity.bsky.social
April 7, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Super excited to officially share that I will start a new job as Assistant Professor and Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at Durham University from 1/05! I will be running my *dream project* “FunMo: functions at the molecular scale”🤓 🧬 @leverhulme.ac.uk @durhamuniversity.bsky.social
Had a lot of fun giving this seminar on complexity and functions in biochemistry for the biomedical phd students of #UniCampus! Great exchange between philosophy and biomedicine 🧬 #AssemblingLife @erc.europa.eu
February 18, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Had a lot of fun giving this seminar on complexity and functions in biochemistry for the biomedical phd students of #UniCampus! Great exchange between philosophy and biomedicine 🧬 #AssemblingLife @erc.europa.eu
Off to Roma for a week visiting at #CampusBiomedico to work with my dear colleague Marta Bertolaso and teach a seminar on the philosophy of molecular functionality and complexity to medicine and bioscience PhD students 🤓 #philsky
February 17, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Off to Roma for a week visiting at #CampusBiomedico to work with my dear colleague Marta Bertolaso and teach a seminar on the philosophy of molecular functionality and complexity to medicine and bioscience PhD students 🤓 #philsky
The functions in philosophy reading group is back! We are meeting next Wednesday at 15.00GMT on zoom to discuss “Sterner, Beckett & Cusimano, Samuel (2019). Integrative pluralism for biological function. Biology and Philosophy 34 (6):1-21”. 📖 Get in touch if you want to attend 🤓
January 29, 2025 at 2:28 PM
The functions in philosophy reading group is back! We are meeting next Wednesday at 15.00GMT on zoom to discuss “Sterner, Beckett & Cusimano, Samuel (2019). Integrative pluralism for biological function. Biology and Philosophy 34 (6):1-21”. 📖 Get in touch if you want to attend 🤓
Had a fantastic time at the workshop on comparative philosophy of science organised by @simonlohse.bsky.social and @karimbschir.bsky.social for the @uio.no #CPS. It was a great chance to put philosophy at work and brainstorm ideas 💡
www.hf.uio.no/english/rese...
www.hf.uio.no/english/rese...
January 27, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Had a fantastic time at the workshop on comparative philosophy of science organised by @simonlohse.bsky.social and @karimbschir.bsky.social for the @uio.no #CPS. It was a great chance to put philosophy at work and brainstorm ideas 💡
www.hf.uio.no/english/rese...
www.hf.uio.no/english/rese...
It was so nice to host @vanessaseifert.bsky.social at the #CPS bookclub to discuss her Cambridge Element “Chemistry’s metaphysics” and her writing process! Interviewed by @sanderoest.bsky.social
January 23, 2025 at 2:49 PM
It was so nice to host @vanessaseifert.bsky.social at the #CPS bookclub to discuss her Cambridge Element “Chemistry’s metaphysics” and her writing process! Interviewed by @sanderoest.bsky.social
“Writing at the end is just thinking” - Had a lot of fun interviewing Adam Toon (UniExeter and Director of Egenis) for the #CPS book club and asking him everything on how he wrote this fantastic book! @exeter.ac.uk #UniOslo
December 12, 2024 at 8:45 AM
“Writing at the end is just thinking” - Had a lot of fun interviewing Adam Toon (UniExeter and Director of Egenis) for the #CPS book club and asking him everything on how he wrote this fantastic book! @exeter.ac.uk #UniOslo
Today there is the Functions in Philosophy Network reading group! We are discussing Okasha’s paper “Function in the light of frequency dependent selection” (Australasian Phil Review, 6:4). Get in touch if you want to attend 🤓 #philsky #functions
December 4, 2024 at 12:54 PM
Today there is the Functions in Philosophy Network reading group! We are discussing Okasha’s paper “Function in the light of frequency dependent selection” (Australasian Phil Review, 6:4). Get in touch if you want to attend 🤓 #philsky #functions
Had an absolutely FANTASTIC time at #PSA24 - so much good philosophy and it has been great to connect with old and new friends and colleagues! Massive congrats to the organisers and thanks to #Assembling_Life and the Science Colloquium for sponsoring my attendance! @philsci.bsky.social
November 17, 2024 at 8:35 PM
Had an absolutely FANTASTIC time at #PSA24 - so much good philosophy and it has been great to connect with old and new friends and colleagues! Massive congrats to the organisers and thanks to #Assembling_Life and the Science Colloquium for sponsoring my attendance! @philsci.bsky.social
Last day of #PSA24 with the session on modelling epistemic diversity - I have learned so many interesting things 👀 @philsci.bsky.social
November 17, 2024 at 8:28 PM
Last day of #PSA24 with the session on modelling epistemic diversity - I have learned so many interesting things 👀 @philsci.bsky.social
Highlight of #PSA24 day3 is this great talk from Kal Kalewold on whether race is minimally biologically real - answer is no - at the philosophy of race afternoon session! @philsci.bsky.social
@kkale.bsky.social
@kkale.bsky.social
November 16, 2024 at 10:45 PM
Highlight of #PSA24 day3 is this great talk from Kal Kalewold on whether race is minimally biologically real - answer is no - at the philosophy of race afternoon session! @philsci.bsky.social
@kkale.bsky.social
@kkale.bsky.social
My very good friend and amazing colleague Lorenzo Lorenzetti presenting at the #PSA24 in the “Boundaries” session and arguing that reduction in terms of mathematical relations between models does not explain why establishing a given mapping qualifies as reduction. @philsci.bsky.social
November 16, 2024 at 7:28 PM
My very good friend and amazing colleague Lorenzo Lorenzetti presenting at the #PSA24 in the “Boundaries” session and arguing that reduction in terms of mathematical relations between models does not explain why establishing a given mapping qualifies as reduction. @philsci.bsky.social
Also #day2 at #PSA24 didn’t fall short of great sessions, including a fantastic one on the philosophy of psychiatry organised by Justin Garson and MA Khalidi (and others) followed by chairing the session on the philosophy of agriculture with Julia Bursten @philsci.bsky.social
November 16, 2024 at 2:03 PM
Also #day2 at #PSA24 didn’t fall short of great sessions, including a fantastic one on the philosophy of psychiatry organised by Justin Garson and MA Khalidi (and others) followed by chairing the session on the philosophy of agriculture with Julia Bursten @philsci.bsky.social
What are vitamins? Why and how can using the category vitamin be successful? Here at the poster session at #PSA24 I offer an account of vitamins as investigative kinds 🔍 #AssemblingLife @philsci.bsky.social
November 16, 2024 at 1:10 AM
What are vitamins? Why and how can using the category vitamin be successful? Here at the poster session at #PSA24 I offer an account of vitamins as investigative kinds 🔍 #AssemblingLife @philsci.bsky.social
Wrapping up day 1 of #PSA24 with a great public forum on disinformation, whether we can afford to know or not and information curation as disinformation at Joy Theatre in NOLA 💬 @philsci.bsky.social
November 15, 2024 at 1:31 PM
Wrapping up day 1 of #PSA24 with a great public forum on disinformation, whether we can afford to know or not and information curation as disinformation at Joy Theatre in NOLA 💬 @philsci.bsky.social
Very happy as I have won a mini grant to join the @CEFISES for their Visiting Researcher Program. I will visit @UCLeuven in December to research multiple realisability in chemistry and biochemistry with my colleague Pieter Thyssen and give a talk there on 15/12 🧬
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October 19, 2023 at 3:17 PM
Very happy as I have won a mini grant to join the @CEFISES for their Visiting Researcher Program. I will visit @UCLeuven in December to research multiple realisability in chemistry and biochemistry with my colleague Pieter Thyssen and give a talk there on 15/12 🧬
cefises.be/en/visiting-...
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