I’ll try to get there. The session I’m running is from 10.30-12 so it’ll be either before or just after that (have a 1pm train back to Leeds so it’s a flying visit!).

And bringing the session to an end is a cool-sounding paper from Andrea Núñez Casal, who is talking about “Re-embodying Resistance.” She’ll be bringing the concept of “microbiomisation” to bear on concepts of gender and class, via “more-than-human” studies #ISHPSSB2025

And lastly we have Maria Santesmases presenting work done with Isabel Rodriguez on “Plasmids and Gender: from Antimicrobial Resistances to Molecular Genetics, 1960s-1990s”.

*Adopting some modern terminology to make sense of what is philosophical project was.

(Otherwise it’s hard to situate him in the wider “modernisation”/“Westernisation” project of the Meiji Period.)

In this session, we now have Marta Velasco Martín, who is taking about “Rubella virus and women: gendered vulnerabilities and relationships” and joins us virtually. She begins with a striking global map about the distribution of endemic Rubella: Africa and S, E and SE Asia almost exclusively.

Honda highlights how Kumagusu foregrounded “wisdom-knowledge” (“science required for society to civilise”), which had to reflect key principles about human flourishing, knowing, and immersion in nature #ISHPSSB2025 #hps #philbio #histbio

Could not agree more - gender, race, politics: all enriched by centering the microbe in our thinking! #ISHPSSB2025

“From the co-construction of gendered hierarchies of laboratory work to that of human-microbe relationships and mutual resistances, the focus on gender provides renewed approaches to histories and cultures for a social microbiology.”

Sadly some technical troubles for the third talk, by Matt Brewer, who was all locked and ready to go for a comparative paper between biological and geological classification 😔 #ISHPSSB2025

A pleasure. Your paper stimulated some great discussion! Fascinated to see where the research leads.

Muka: marine historical research is not separate from, but integral to, broader histories of the sciences and can reveal more about transnational political, social, geographical issues.

And now Sam Muka is up, discussing the somewhat thin historiography of marine science. What value is there in a sub-field which foregrounds marine science, in contrast to terrestrial histories of science? #ISHPSSB2025

And first up @elisj.bsky.social kicks us off. Do we need a philosophy of marine science? He starts with the sense that there is no such thing as “marine science”… Whatever we take this to mean by that, do we need a specific philosophical approach/approaches to it?