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I am incredibly honored to have been invited as one of the keynote speakers for the XIV PBCS! This long-standing initiative is very supportive of graduate students & early-career researchers, so I encourage everyone to submit their abstracts! See you in Madrid next year! #HPS #HPbio #cogsci #philsky
December 2, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I am incredibly honored to have been invited as one of the keynote speakers for the XIV PBCS! This long-standing initiative is very supportive of graduate students & early-career researchers, so I encourage everyone to submit their abstracts! See you in Madrid next year! #HPS #HPbio #cogsci #philsky
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PSA is in the process of launching a subdivision focused on postdoctoral scholars! Help shape its mission and priorities—take our 5-minute survey here, All interested PSA members are welcome to join the conversation!
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October 16, 2025 at 4:31 PM
PSA is in the process of launching a subdivision focused on postdoctoral scholars! Help shape its mission and priorities—take our 5-minute survey here, All interested PSA members are welcome to join the conversation!
Sometimes I get a bit despondent about academia, but then I meet people doing fascinating work and it lifts my Soul™. Met a mycologist doing amazing research, which reminded me why I love this field, and I was invited to a symposium on whether sex should stay central in mycology! (🤞its accepted)
a cartoon character is surrounded by different types of mushrooms including one that says i am a zhot
ALT: a cartoon character is surrounded by different types of mushrooms including one that says i am a zhot
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October 6, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Sometimes I get a bit despondent about academia, but then I meet people doing fascinating work and it lifts my Soul™. Met a mycologist doing amazing research, which reminded me why I love this field, and I was invited to a symposium on whether sex should stay central in mycology! (🤞its accepted)
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there is a Jane Goodall special on Netflix right now that is absolutely wonderful. it’s a nice day to watch it. ❤️🦍🦧
October 5, 2025 at 9:57 PM
there is a Jane Goodall special on Netflix right now that is absolutely wonderful. it’s a nice day to watch it. ❤️🦍🦧
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪
Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students.
I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:
Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students.
I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:
September 24, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪
Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students.
I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:
Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students.
I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:
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I am quite excited to share a new preprint on the prospects for a 'metaphilosophy of science'—a second-order inquiry into the concepts, assumptions, aims, and methods that underpin philosophy of science itself. 👇📃 philsci-archive.pitt.edu/26661/ 1/3 #philsci #philsky #HPS #HPbio #metaphilosophy
Toward a Metaphilosophy of Science - PhilSci-Archive
philsci-archive.pitt.edu
September 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I am quite excited to share a new preprint on the prospects for a 'metaphilosophy of science'—a second-order inquiry into the concepts, assumptions, aims, and methods that underpin philosophy of science itself. 👇📃 philsci-archive.pitt.edu/26661/ 1/3 #philsci #philsky #HPS #HPbio #metaphilosophy
Ive been reading public facing books around my research topic lately. I enjoyed this provocatively titled book (Bitch by Lucy Cooke). Butters, my rabbit, also gave it a 5/5… by trying to eat it. 🐇📚
August 18, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Ive been reading public facing books around my research topic lately. I enjoyed this provocatively titled book (Bitch by Lucy Cooke). Butters, my rabbit, also gave it a 5/5… by trying to eat it. 🐇📚
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What happens when the old contract between science and society no longer fits?
This week, Prof. Heather Douglas unpacks the legacy of the value-free ideal, examines research ethics & funding — and proposes a new social contract for science. This was an illuminating conversation.
Listen now! 🎧
This week, Prof. Heather Douglas unpacks the legacy of the value-free ideal, examines research ethics & funding — and proposes a new social contract for science. This was an illuminating conversation.
Listen now! 🎧
S5 E4 - Heather Douglas on Rethinking Science’s Social Contract
The HPS Podcast - Conversations from History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science · Episode
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August 7, 2025 at 9:13 PM
What happens when the old contract between science and society no longer fits?
This week, Prof. Heather Douglas unpacks the legacy of the value-free ideal, examines research ethics & funding — and proposes a new social contract for science. This was an illuminating conversation.
Listen now! 🎧
This week, Prof. Heather Douglas unpacks the legacy of the value-free ideal, examines research ethics & funding — and proposes a new social contract for science. This was an illuminating conversation.
Listen now! 🎧
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🐙 This Octopus shifts from deep to active rest while "dreaming" for #MicroscopyMonday. REM‑like sleep (color bursts and twitches) filmed in real time by Horst Obenhaus @octoscience.bsky.social, currently a 2025 Whitman Fellow at @mblscience.bsky.social. #NESM
#Octopus #Neuro #SleepScience #MBL
#Octopus #Neuro #SleepScience #MBL
July 21, 2025 at 11:53 AM
🐙 This Octopus shifts from deep to active rest while "dreaming" for #MicroscopyMonday. REM‑like sleep (color bursts and twitches) filmed in real time by Horst Obenhaus @octoscience.bsky.social, currently a 2025 Whitman Fellow at @mblscience.bsky.social. #NESM
#Octopus #Neuro #SleepScience #MBL
#Octopus #Neuro #SleepScience #MBL
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Read all Elements in The Philosophy of Biology series for FREE during the ISHPSSB conference 20 - 25 July. You can find all of these Elements free to download and read here: cup.org/4kEgivL
Philosophy of Biology
Welcome to Cambridge Core
cup.org
July 20, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Not at ISH this year sadly, but my disembodied Zoom face will live on explaining why Marc Ereshefsky’s species eliminativism changed how I think about pluralism and classification, May 23rd! Really happy I was able to talk about it. Check it out if you can! #ISHPSSB2025 #EliminationDomination
July 18, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Not at ISH this year sadly, but my disembodied Zoom face will live on explaining why Marc Ereshefsky’s species eliminativism changed how I think about pluralism and classification, May 23rd! Really happy I was able to talk about it. Check it out if you can! #ISHPSSB2025 #EliminationDomination
Hi folks! I’ll be graduating soon and wrapping up my time at UC Davis in September. I’m currently looking for work, so if you know of any openings or leads I’d be grateful if you passed them my way. Especially if it's in research, writing, editing, or policy work. Thanks so much!
July 8, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Hi folks! I’ll be graduating soon and wrapping up my time at UC Davis in September. I’m currently looking for work, so if you know of any openings or leads I’d be grateful if you passed them my way. Especially if it's in research, writing, editing, or policy work. Thanks so much!
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"The fight for the freedom of Palestine, and the fight against anti-Semitism, go hand in hand, because injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." -- philosophy student Mohsen Mahdawi, who was abducted by ICE Monday during a citizenship interview.
Philosophy Major Snatched by ICE During Citizenship Interview - Daily Nous
Mohsen Mahdawi, a philosophy major at Columbia University who is due to graduate later this semester, was attending a US citizenship application interview in Vermont when he was taken by Immigration a...
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April 15, 2025 at 12:40 PM
"The fight for the freedom of Palestine, and the fight against anti-Semitism, go hand in hand, because injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." -- philosophy student Mohsen Mahdawi, who was abducted by ICE Monday during a citizenship interview.
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It's out! And my wonderful co-author Chike Jeffers already has his copies. You can order it here:
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April 6, 2025 at 3:03 AM
It's out! And my wonderful co-author Chike Jeffers already has his copies. You can order it here:
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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I got a chemo drug today, taxol, named after its plant Taxus brevifolia, or the pacific yew tree. It was used by Native Americans for various medicinal purposes. western scientists in the 20th century isolated its chemical compound and in 1990 it was approved as a cancer drug in 1993 1/
April 10, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I got a chemo drug today, taxol, named after its plant Taxus brevifolia, or the pacific yew tree. It was used by Native Americans for various medicinal purposes. western scientists in the 20th century isolated its chemical compound and in 1990 it was approved as a cancer drug in 1993 1/
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Synthese has a cfp for a collection on Feminist Logic, edited by Sara Ayhan
link.springer.com/collections/...
link.springer.com/collections/...
Feminist Logic
Feminist Logic examines intersections of formal logic and feminist philosophy. As such it challenges
traditional conceptions both of feminism and of logic. ...
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March 25, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Synthese has a cfp for a collection on Feminist Logic, edited by Sara Ayhan
link.springer.com/collections/...
link.springer.com/collections/...
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Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
March 22, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
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Lynn Margulis was born OTD in 1938. At 29, she published her theory that eukaryotes had evolved via endosymbiosis, after having it rejected by at least 15 other journals.
#HPBio #Complexity #HistSTM 🧪#EvoBio #WomeninSTEM
#HPBio #Complexity #HistSTM 🧪#EvoBio #WomeninSTEM
On the origin of mitosing cells
A theory of the origin of eukaryotic cells (“higher” cells which divide by classical mitosis) is presented. By hypothesis, three fundamental organelle…
www.sciencedirect.com
March 5, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Lynn Margulis was born OTD in 1938. At 29, she published her theory that eukaryotes had evolved via endosymbiosis, after having it rejected by at least 15 other journals.
#HPBio #Complexity #HistSTM 🧪#EvoBio #WomeninSTEM
#HPBio #Complexity #HistSTM 🧪#EvoBio #WomeninSTEM
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I think it’s important to draw attention to small acts of courage and dissent (like this NYT ad and the message from the VT ski resort social media manager) that remind people of the range of possibilities for standing up, speaking out, and fighting back.
A guy was so horrified by what Trump did that he bought a full-page ad in the front section of the national Sunday New York Times — which costs somewhere north of USD $100,000 — asking him to resign
March 2, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I think it’s important to draw attention to small acts of courage and dissent (like this NYT ad and the message from the VT ski resort social media manager) that remind people of the range of possibilities for standing up, speaking out, and fighting back.
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Ah, Target. I remember when you considered yourself to be a progressive Minnesota business. Be more like Costco.
Discount store chain Target said Friday that it would join rival Walmart and a number of other prominent American brands in scaling back diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives that have come under attack from conservative activists and, as of this week, the White House.
Target says it is ending its DEI goals and programs, citing an 'evolving external landscape'
Discount store chain Target said Friday that it would join rival Walmart and a number of other prominent American brands in scaling back diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives that have come…
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January 25, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Ah, Target. I remember when you considered yourself to be a progressive Minnesota business. Be more like Costco.
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I was interviewed by @msjpauly.bsky.social for @motherjones.com regarding that awful gamete size "sex" executive order. A bit of an explainer here of why the science is so bad, and why that's dangerous:
Trump’s definitions of "male" and "female" are nonsense science with staggering ramifications
"How can you so fully misunderstand basic human biology, and then legislate about it?"
www.motherjones.com
January 23, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I was interviewed by @msjpauly.bsky.social for @motherjones.com regarding that awful gamete size "sex" executive order. A bit of an explainer here of why the science is so bad, and why that's dangerous:
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Yes, there have long been discussions about sex as a spectrum, not a binary. This is not new. Here's my review of a book about the medieval debate. www.academia.edu/83211724/Rev...
January 21, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Yes, there have long been discussions about sex as a spectrum, not a binary. This is not new. Here's my review of a book about the medieval debate. www.academia.edu/83211724/Rev...
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This Thursday!! (Jan 23, 6:30 PM)
For my followers in the Davis, California area, mark your calendars for one month from today for a free author event for my book, _The Land Is Our Community: Aldo Leopold’s Environmental Ethic for the New Millennium_ at our local bookstore, the Avid Reader!
January 21, 2025 at 5:09 PM
This Thursday!! (Jan 23, 6:30 PM)