Joana Formosinho
@jformosinho.bsky.social
Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh #STS #Interdisciplinary. Mobilising biological and social knowledges towards flourishing of #multispecies #morethanhuman societies. #Holobiont #Microbiomes #Artscience #HPbio #stssky
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Joana Formosinho
@jformosinho.bsky.social
· Nov 29
Hello bluesky. I've migrated over and finding my way into communities interested in #sts, #hps, #artscience #holobionts, social dimensions of #microbiomes and #gaia. Also the joys and troubles of #multispecies societies. Will be posting about interdisciplinary research, engaged STS— and holobionts.
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Postdoctoral Position in Science, Technology and Society (STS)
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November 17, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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It was no “mere” metaphor: “plants do not … possess nerves or a central nervous system; and we may infer that with animals such structures serve only for the more perfect transmission of impressions, and for the more complete intercommunication of the several parts."
🧪🌱🐋 #philsci #HistSTM 🦋🦫
🧪🌱🐋 #philsci #HistSTM 🦋🦫
November 6, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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A new review paper from our lab courtesy of @jazzsynbio.bsky.social is published in Trends in Biotechnology
In this review, we look at the many opportunities for synthetic biology to be used in the research and applications of Holobionts.
In this review, we look at the many opportunities for synthetic biology to be used in the research and applications of Holobionts.
October 23, 2025 at 10:09 AM
A new review paper from our lab courtesy of @jazzsynbio.bsky.social is published in Trends in Biotechnology
In this review, we look at the many opportunities for synthetic biology to be used in the research and applications of Holobionts.
In this review, we look at the many opportunities for synthetic biology to be used in the research and applications of Holobionts.
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Gut microbial topography across can be significant in wild fish, too! 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.fi...
#SymbioSky #MicroSky #microbiomesky #symbiosis @microbiomevif.bsky.social @superbugs.bsky.social @hostmicrobelit.bsky.social #phylosymbiosis #holobiont @marinemicrobiome.bsky.social
#SymbioSky #MicroSky #microbiomesky #symbiosis @microbiomevif.bsky.social @superbugs.bsky.social @hostmicrobelit.bsky.social #phylosymbiosis #holobiont @marinemicrobiome.bsky.social
Localized gut tissue and digesta bacterial communities of five pelagic fish species from the Atlantic Ocean: Insights from 16S rRNA gene diversity
Gut microbes are now considered inseparable from their hosts. Compared to farmed fish, gut microorganisms of wild-living fish are largely understudied…
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November 15, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Gut microbial topography across can be significant in wild fish, too! 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.fi...
#SymbioSky #MicroSky #microbiomesky #symbiosis @microbiomevif.bsky.social @superbugs.bsky.social @hostmicrobelit.bsky.social #phylosymbiosis #holobiont @marinemicrobiome.bsky.social
#SymbioSky #MicroSky #microbiomesky #symbiosis @microbiomevif.bsky.social @superbugs.bsky.social @hostmicrobelit.bsky.social #phylosymbiosis #holobiont @marinemicrobiome.bsky.social
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This is a fascinating exhibition showing at Edinburgh's Fruitmarket Gallery (@fruitmarket.bsky.social) until February 2026 www.fruitmarket.co.uk/jaune-quick-...
Jaune Quick-to-See SmithWilding - Fruitmarket
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November 10, 2025 at 9:55 PM
This is a fascinating exhibition showing at Edinburgh's Fruitmarket Gallery (@fruitmarket.bsky.social) until February 2026 www.fruitmarket.co.uk/jaune-quick-...
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At the #Rudolphina editorial desk, we're quite excited about Sarah Davies' new #STS book on strategies for living in a technoscience world.
Enjoy our interview-- and learn more about her recommended reads for this summer! #RudolphinaReads
Enjoy our interview-- and learn more about her recommended reads for this summer! #RudolphinaReads
#Technologies & scientific knowledge are all around us. In her recent book, Sarah Davies suggests a #toolkit to navigate this increasingly complex world. The most important strategy: to understand that the way that #technoscience develops is not inevitable, but the result of human choices. ⤵️🥼🧪
Rudolphina Reads | Science Societies by Sarah Davies
Technologies and scientific knowledge are all around us. In her recent book, Sarah Davies suggests a toolkit to navigate this increasingly complex world. The most important strategy: to understand tha...
rudolphina.univie.ac.at
July 14, 2025 at 12:05 PM
At the #Rudolphina editorial desk, we're quite excited about Sarah Davies' new #STS book on strategies for living in a technoscience world.
Enjoy our interview-- and learn more about her recommended reads for this summer! #RudolphinaReads
Enjoy our interview-- and learn more about her recommended reads for this summer! #RudolphinaReads
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Jane Goodall's work insisting, with evidence from her brilliant and tenacious fieldwork, that we were not so separate from animals, and they were much more like us than the Eurocentric theorists asserted, was so important.
October 1, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Jane Goodall's work insisting, with evidence from her brilliant and tenacious fieldwork, that we were not so separate from animals, and they were much more like us than the Eurocentric theorists asserted, was so important.
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Our department (Berkeley PMB) is hiring an asst. prof. in Plant Resilience to Climate Change! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05049
Assistant Professor - Plant Resilience to Climate Change - Department of Plant and Microbial Biology
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu
September 2, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Our department (Berkeley PMB) is hiring an asst. prof. in Plant Resilience to Climate Change! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05049
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DOUBLE #hpbio job alert! The @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social has 2 postings for full-time tenure stream positions in the #Philosophy of Science and/or Tech at the Assistant and Associate prof levels (general #philsci or phil. of race/indigenous knowledge/non-western sci).
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August 28, 2025 at 11:03 AM
DOUBLE #hpbio job alert! The @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social has 2 postings for full-time tenure stream positions in the #Philosophy of Science and/or Tech at the Assistant and Associate prof levels (general #philsci or phil. of race/indigenous knowledge/non-western sci).
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What can slime moulds teach us about biological memory? Quite a bit, it turns out. Matthew Sims (@philosobio.bsky.social) dives into this question in a wonderfully engaging piece for @aeon.co. Give it a read—before it slips your mind! 👇 aeon.co/essays/what-... #HPS #philsky #HPbio #evobio #neurosky
What can slime mould teach us about biological memory? | Aeon Essays
Certain slime moulds can make decisions, solve mazes and remember things. What can we learn from the blob?
aeon.co
July 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
What can slime moulds teach us about biological memory? Quite a bit, it turns out. Matthew Sims (@philosobio.bsky.social) dives into this question in a wonderfully engaging piece for @aeon.co. Give it a read—before it slips your mind! 👇 aeon.co/essays/what-... #HPS #philsky #HPbio #evobio #neurosky
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Positive cascades of social change are needed to address climate crisis, says tipping point expert Tim Lenton.
My fifth and final interview for the Guardian series, Tipping Points: On the Edge.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
My fifth and final interview for the Guardian series, Tipping Points: On the Edge.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Positive cascades could help accelerate change’: social tipping points expert on fixing climate crisis
The world has been too optimistic about the risk to humanity and planet – but devastation can still be avoided, says Timothy Lenton
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June 28, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Positive cascades of social change are needed to address climate crisis, says tipping point expert Tim Lenton.
My fifth and final interview for the Guardian series, Tipping Points: On the Edge.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
My fifth and final interview for the Guardian series, Tipping Points: On the Edge.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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1/ 📣 Big news! For the next 5 years I’ll be working with this amazing team @evahaifa.bsky.social Alasdair Cochrane & Bob McKay on the @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded Multispecies Mutualisms project wellcome.org/grant-fundin...
February 27, 2025 at 11:49 AM
1/ 📣 Big news! For the next 5 years I’ll be working with this amazing team @evahaifa.bsky.social Alasdair Cochrane & Bob McKay on the @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded Multispecies Mutualisms project wellcome.org/grant-fundin...
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My interview for *The Philosopher's Zone* podcast on Feminism and Primatology is out now!
I managed to scrounge up the courage to listen and I'm quite proud 🙃
You can listen to the ep via the ABC website or in the usual podcast places
#hps #sts #histsci #PhilSci #feminism #primatology
I managed to scrounge up the courage to listen and I'm quite proud 🙃
You can listen to the ep via the ABC website or in the usual podcast places
#hps #sts #histsci #PhilSci #feminism #primatology
May 9, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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🚨JOBS
Interested in #STS research on pharmaceutical innovation and microbial biopolitics?
2 position available @stsvienna.bsky.social to work with me on my @erc.europa.eu ERC Project #ALTERBIOTIC:
PhD: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/PhD-posi...
POSTDOC: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Postdoc-...
Interested in #STS research on pharmaceutical innovation and microbial biopolitics?
2 position available @stsvienna.bsky.social to work with me on my @erc.europa.eu ERC Project #ALTERBIOTIC:
PhD: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/PhD-posi...
POSTDOC: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Postdoc-...
Postdoc position for the ERC project ALTERBIOTIC
Postdoc position for the ERC project ALTERBIOTIC
jobs.univie.ac.at
May 12, 2025 at 11:31 AM
🚨JOBS
Interested in #STS research on pharmaceutical innovation and microbial biopolitics?
2 position available @stsvienna.bsky.social to work with me on my @erc.europa.eu ERC Project #ALTERBIOTIC:
PhD: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/PhD-posi...
POSTDOC: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Postdoc-...
Interested in #STS research on pharmaceutical innovation and microbial biopolitics?
2 position available @stsvienna.bsky.social to work with me on my @erc.europa.eu ERC Project #ALTERBIOTIC:
PhD: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/PhD-posi...
POSTDOC: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Postdoc-...
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Registrations for #ISHPSSB2025 are open!
Check here ➡️ ishpssb2025.icbas.up.pt/registration...
#hpbio #philsci #histstm #histsci #philbio #hbio #sts
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#hpbio #philsci #histstm #histsci #philbio #hbio #sts
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May 16, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Registrations for #ISHPSSB2025 are open!
Check here ➡️ ishpssb2025.icbas.up.pt/registration...
#hpbio #philsci #histstm #histsci #philbio #hbio #sts
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#hpbio #philsci #histstm #histsci #philbio #hbio #sts
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April 24, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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We have an exciting new interdisciplinary program in critical perspectives on the relation between science, technology, and sustainability
The program is a track in the globally unique two year master in philosophy and social studies of science, technology and society at the university of Twente.
The program is a track in the globally unique two year master in philosophy and social studies of science, technology and society at the university of Twente.
April 24, 2025 at 8:06 PM
We have an exciting new interdisciplinary program in critical perspectives on the relation between science, technology, and sustainability
The program is a track in the globally unique two year master in philosophy and social studies of science, technology and society at the university of Twente.
The program is a track in the globally unique two year master in philosophy and social studies of science, technology and society at the university of Twente.
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We are excited to announce the appointment of our new Lecturer in Medicine, Health and Society, Dr Helene Scott-Fordsmand @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social, who will join STS from 1st September 2025.
April 16, 2025 at 9:15 AM
We are excited to announce the appointment of our new Lecturer in Medicine, Health and Society, Dr Helene Scott-Fordsmand @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social, who will join STS from 1st September 2025.
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If you write scientific papers, then you also revise them post-review. And the most important part of that? Arguably NOT the revision, it's the Response letter that goes along. scientistseessquirre...
The most important part of your revision isn’t your revision
Writing is absolutely critical to a career in science, which is why most of us spend so much time on it, and why I’ve written a book about doing it and another about teaching and mentoring it. And …
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April 8, 2025 at 1:46 PM
If you write scientific papers, then you also revise them post-review. And the most important part of that? Arguably NOT the revision, it's the Response letter that goes along. scientistseessquirre...
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So, I have created a starter pack for people interested in #metaphor. I bet I left a lot of people out. Please let me know if you want to be added. go.bsky.app/DvxejFX
November 17, 2024 at 11:46 AM
So, I have created a starter pack for people interested in #metaphor. I bet I left a lot of people out. Please let me know if you want to be added. go.bsky.app/DvxejFX
Gutscapes: an experiment in #STS #artscience, with artists Baum & Leahy. Thank you @beinghumanfest.bsky.social for inviting us to write this case study in public engagement. #microbiome #holobiont #scicomm
www.beinghumanfestival.org/resources/ca...
www.beinghumanfestival.org/resources/ca...
Creative collaboration - 'Gutscapes'
Joana and Baum & Leahy let us know some top tips for artist-researcher collaborations.
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April 11, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Gutscapes: an experiment in #STS #artscience, with artists Baum & Leahy. Thank you @beinghumanfest.bsky.social for inviting us to write this case study in public engagement. #microbiome #holobiont #scicomm
www.beinghumanfestival.org/resources/ca...
www.beinghumanfestival.org/resources/ca...
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If you're interested in philosophy of biology—particularly its intersections with #evolution, #paleosky, and comparative studies of #behavior, #cognition, and #culture —consider following @theramseylab.bsky.social! We're a cool group of philosophers with a broad range of expertise! #philsci #HPbio
April 10, 2025 at 6:34 PM
If you're interested in philosophy of biology—particularly its intersections with #evolution, #paleosky, and comparative studies of #behavior, #cognition, and #culture —consider following @theramseylab.bsky.social! We're a cool group of philosophers with a broad range of expertise! #philsci #HPbio
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Send us your big ideas STS-niks!
It's that season once again 🍂 ☀️ ❄️ 🌱 so please spread the word: Science, Technology, & Human Values are pleased to announce that we are taking proposals for Special Issues of the journal 📬 ⏰ The call closes 21 June 2025 - and you can find details in the form: forms.gle/6uYdQim9J1z5...
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April 9, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Send us your big ideas STS-niks!
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April 2, 2025 at 7:28 PM