#hpBio
Next Monday, we welcome @cshambaugh.bsky.social from the University of Oregon in our ROTO Lecture Series who will talk about dialectical biology. Just register via the link and join the talk and discussion at 4pm (CET): rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture...
#HPBio #PhilSci #HistSci
November 17, 2025 at 2:43 PM
How is this possible?

This ant can lay eggs of two different species, birthed by the same mother
November 19, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Next Monday, we'll have our first reading group session in this semester. We'll discuss "The epistemic superiority of experiment to simulation" by Sherrilyn Roush: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Wanna join the discussion at 4pm CET? Just write an e-mail to jan.baedke[at]rub.de!
#HPBio #PhilSci
November 10, 2025 at 3:07 PM
How did hominins became human? And what is the fate of the "behavioural modernity" concept? Preprint 👇📄

#hpbio #paleosky #philsci
Much of the empirical & theoretical landscape on #behaviouralmodernity has changed, and many think it’s high time we ditched the concept altogether. Here’s a minority voice in the choir: I’m skeptical that eliminativism is the panacea it’s often made out to be. 🔜 in Biol Theory

#philsky #evosky🧪🏺
The Fate of Behavioral Modernity - PhilSci-Archive
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November 8, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Defining non-human #ToolUse remains contested, complicating scientific generalization & inspiring the concept of “tooling.” Our new 📄 @philscijournal.bsky.social proposes a synthetic framework to advance research on 🔧 use & tooling 👇 www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #philsci #cogsci #evosky #HPbio
November 10, 2025 at 2:15 PM
"The Riddle of Organismal Agency" is now available as a paperback version! Edited by @alejandrofabregastejeda.com, Jan Baedke, Guido Prieto and Gregory Radick, the volume puts together reflections from #HistSci and #PhilSci on the topic of organismal agency.
#HPBio
www.routledge.com/The-Riddle-o...
November 5, 2025 at 2:37 PM
For anyone interested, new paperback of The Riddle of Organismal Agency, eds. Fábregas-Tejeda, Baedke, Prieto, Radick, is $11 less at Routledge than at Amazon, bn.com, has free shipping, and looks like it will arrive sooner. Don't know about other Routledge books. #hpbio.
November 3, 2025 at 4:01 AM
50 years ago, King & Wilson published a foundational paper that underlies the cis-regulatory paradigm (CRP) of #DevoEvo #EvoDevo, i.e., that *almost* all morphological evolution is driven by mutations in regulatory elements, rather than proteins, and it all arose from simple misunderstanding 🧪 🧵
October 29, 2025 at 2:05 AM
🚨TALK 🚨 Should Genomics change our personal conceptions of race?

Join us online for this talk by Sarah Abel on Nov 4th. Registration link below.

#humangenomics #philsky #philsci #STS #HPBio #STEM
Prof. Sarah Abel (Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas, UNAM) continues our online speaker series with the talk "Should genomic knowledge change our personal conceptions of race? (And, if so, how?)" on November 4th. You can Register to attend via zoom: hugera.org/lecture-seri...
October 28, 2025 at 5:50 PM
A big thanks to @cmarin.bsky.social who talked about plant holobionts and gave a great insight into the fascinating world of mycorrhizal fungi in our lecture series yesterday. 🍄 Thank you also to everyone who joined the talk and the discussion afterwards!
#HPBio #PhilSci
October 28, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Come around this afternoon to our online Lecture Series! César Marín will talk about plant holobionts and how we can better understand them through complexity science.🌴 You can still register for the talk by clicking this link 👉https://rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture-series/
#PhilSci #HPBio
October 27, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Little reminder that you can still register for the next talk in our online ROTO Lecture Series!
Just click the link and join the talk and discussion on Monday 🤗
rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture...
#PhilSci #HPBio
Next week, we welcome @cmarin.bsky.social in our ROTO Lecture Series. César will speak about understanding plant holobionts through complexity science. 🌿 Just register here to participate 👉 rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture...
#HPBio #PhilSci #PlantScience
October 23, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Next week, we welcome @cmarin.bsky.social in our ROTO Lecture Series. César will speak about understanding plant holobionts through complexity science. 🌿 Just register here to participate 👉 rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture...
#HPBio #PhilSci #PlantScience
October 20, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Still time to sign up for the talk tomorrow!

#philsky #philsci #STS #humangenetics #sciencesky #HPBio
Prof. Katharina Schramm (Universität Bayreuth) kicks off our speaker series with the talk “We are all Africans! Antiracist projects and racializing practices in South Africa post-apartheid genomics” on October 21st. You can register to attend via zoom here: hugera.org/lecture-seri...
October 20, 2025 at 1:02 PM
So bad even political science (and philosophy) professors are showing up. With @daniellethomsen.bsky.social 🇺🇸
Here for democracy, science and #noKings #philsky #philsci #STS #sciencesky #HPBio
October 20, 2025 at 2:19 PM
We are excited to share our latest paper contributing to the debate on the representational status of model organisms! Drawing on and refining the DEKI account of scientific representation, we argue that MOs are best understood as 'model carriers' 👇📃 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsci #HPBio
October 16, 2025 at 3:03 PM
A big thanks to @celsoneto.bsky.social who gave an inspiring talk on race reification in human genomics research yesterday! Thank you also to everyone who joined the talk and the great discussion afterwards!
#HPBio #PhilSci #PhilMed
October 14, 2025 at 1:09 PM
The Quarterly Review of Biology turns 100! We are celebrating our anniversary with free-to-read articles from the archives, through 2026. Learn more: ow.ly/xXli50X7Z5B
The Quarterly Review of Biology: QRB 100th Anniversary
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October 13, 2025 at 2:38 PM
You can still register for today's online ROTO lecture by Celso Neto! Looking forward to seeing many of you at 4pm (CET) on zoom! 🤗
Click here to register: rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture...
#HPBio #PhilSci #PhilMed
October 13, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Insightful new article by Stefan Bernhardt-Radu in the Journal of the History of Biology about Julian Huxley's biological views. 🧬🗃️ #openaccess

link.springer.com/article/10.1... #histbio #hpbio #philbio #histsci #hps @hpsleeds.bsky.social
“Helping to Bridge the Gap Between Genetics and Development:ˮ Julian Huxley, Early 20th Century Oxford Biology, and the Epigenetic Origins of Animal Characters - Journal of the History of Biology
Julian Huxley is remembered as the author of his landmark 1942 Evolution: The Modern Synthesis. Nowadays, however, he is criticized for having reduced biology to the selection of genes. Some have nevertheless suggested that Huxley’s biological views were more expansive—including rather than excluding issues regarding development or environment. In this paper, using hitherto unexamined sources, I show that Huxley’s developmental understanding of animal characters was rooted in his education at Oxford in the early 20th century. From embryologically and physiologically trained Oxford teachers, he learned to see characters as things that could not be predicted from the cell’s physico-chemical properties. Characters arose anew through dynamic interactions between parts. Huxley and his teachers labeled these as “epigenetic” processes that integrated multiple cross-pollinating causes such as heredity and development. After briefly exploring Huxley’s understanding of character development, I show how we can get to grips with Huxley’s biological views by exploring the context of his education at Oxford from 1906 to 1909. I then show how Huxley received and used these ideas, before I illustrate how they played an important role in his academic and socio-political work.
link.springer.com
October 8, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Starting the evo unit in intro bio next week and my first lecture is all about the history of evo bio, from Aristotle to Darwin. I like that topic, but ultimately I'm giving that lecture reflexively, bc that's how evo is always taught. Why is THAT tho? (1/2)
October 4, 2025 at 6:06 PM
New Cambridge Element in the Philosophy of Biology series—fully #openaccess! @thomasreydon.bsky.social explores how evolutionary theory crosses over from biology into other fields, showing how these crossovers embody a broader style of reasoning: 'evolutionary thinking' bit.ly/48z3h36 #HPbio #evosky
October 3, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Interested in the social implications of genomics and its philosophical aspects?

Our project has numerous activities coming up! Follow the blusky account to stay up-to-date.

#philsky #STS #popgen #metascience #philsci #HPbio
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October 2, 2025 at 2:44 PM