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Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda
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Mexican Historian & Philosopher of Biology • Postdoctoral Fellow at @theramseylab.bsky.social (@clpskuleuven.bsky.social‬) • Book Reviews Editor for @jgps.bsky.social • https://www.alejandrofabregastejeda.com • #PhilSci #HistSTM #philsky • Escribo y edito
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Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com · Oct 16
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
Screenshot of a journal article header from Synthese titled “Representing with model organisms: a refined DEKI account” by Guido I. Prieto and Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda. The article is marked as Original Research, published in 2025 (volume 206, article 209), with DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-025-05267-1
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andrejpaleo.bsky.social
Interesting meta-scientific take on the development of theories, as exemplified by the case of paleontology in the Modern Synthesis and the specific Late Turkana mollusk study of the punctuated equilibria.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
🧪 ⚒️ #EvoBio #Paleobio #philsci
Summary of the interaction between the Modern Synthesis and paleontology
November 18, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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andrewrichmond.bsky.social
Awkward news for us empirically-minded philosophers of science: it turns out that wildly unrealistic thought experiments are good, actually. If you want an excuse to stop scrolling for a bit, I just had a paper published on Swampman & co. — link below!

#philsci #philosophy #philmind
November 20, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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augustenahas.bsky.social
My latest paper, The Case for Pluralism About Teleological Explanation, is now available @philscijournal.bsky.social!

#philsci #HPbio #HPS
The Case for Pluralism About Teleological Explanation | Philosophy of Science | Cambridge Core
The Case for Pluralism About Teleological Explanation
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November 25, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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susanamonso.com
Lovely review of Playing Possum by Travis Timmerman, published in Ethics. Above all I'm thrilled that the extremely silly word "jepperfication" (made up by @richardmoore.bsky.social to help me translate the also made up "jontrinfuncación") has made it into such a posh journal.
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November 25, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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tonychemero.bsky.social
Call for abstracts for the first conference of our new Center for Humanities and Technology. Please share!

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2026 Conference
Call for Papers: Science and Technology in the Anthropocene April 2 – 3, 2026 A conference about human experience in a world with non-biological intelligent systems and the environmental prob…
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November 25, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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annaalexandrova.bsky.social
Lots of great content in the latest newsletter from the Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (SPSP is so good at fostering community). If you scroll all the way to the last feature I pour my heart out in the Proust Questionnaire. So good of Saana Jukola to give me the opportunity 🙏
ufeest.bsky.social Uljana Feest @ufeest.bsky.social · 15h
ok, so I'm in serious procrastination mode, which led me to read the SPSP-newletter cover to cover, enjoying the interview with @annaalexandrova.bsky.social (among other things)!
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Over and out
Please call me out if you see me on here again today
#SPSP
SPSP Newsletter # 24
November 2025
sway.cloud.microsoft
November 25, 2025 at 7:08 PM
alejandrofabregastejeda.com
In her new 📃, Marina DiMarco analyzes the NIH’s Sex as a Biological Variable (SABV) policy in the context of exploratory inquiry & confirmatory experimentation, arguing that it offers important reflections on pursuitworthiness judgments 👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsci #HPbio #HPS
Screenshot of the header of a journal article from the European Journal for Philosophy of Science (2025), article 15:71. The article is categorized under “Paper in the Philosophy of the Biomedical Sciences” and is titled “Sex as a biological variable and the pursuitworthiness of exploratory inquiry,” authored by Marina DiMarco, with an ORCID icon beside the name.
November 25, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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modeltransfer.bsky.social
⏰DEADLINE APPROACHING

Our team member Edoardo Peruzzi organizes a workshop together with @karimbaraghith.bsky.social:

"Scientific Progress via Model Transfer? The Case of Cultural Evolution"

📍 Leibniz Universität Hannover
📅 April 9–10, 2026

Below you’ll find more information about CfP 👇
November 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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alisabokulich.bsky.social
Paleo folks: Please recommend researchers (incl yourselves) interested in phylogenetic reconstruction in deep time, molecular clocks (discord w/ fossil clocks), foundational/methodological issues in phylo/paleo-reconstruction & who'd be interested in hanging w/ historians & philosophers of science ⚒️
November 24, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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thebjps.bsky.social
New from the BJPS Review of Books

Fruitfulness: Science, Metaphor, and the Puzzle of Promise
– Chris Haufe

Reviewed by Samuel Schindler & Patrick Duerr

www.thebsps.org/reviewofbook...

#philsci #philsky
Chris Haufe, Fruitfulness | BJPS Review of Books
Samuel Schindler and Patrick Duerr review Fruitfulness, by Chris Haufe
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November 25, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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vmywang.bsky.social
It's been three (!) years since I last posted something on my blog, but you still gotta love cells, as they say... so here's a little piece discussing philosopher Talbot Brewer's talk/essay "What Good Are the Humanities?"
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#philsky 💙📚
What Good Are the Humanities?
This is the title of a recorded talk (2017) and essay by Talbot Brewer, professor of philosophy at the University of Virginia. He proceeds to answer this question by first elucidating what the huma…
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November 25, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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bshsnews.bsky.social
Nominations are open for the BSHS Pickstone Prize 2026, recognising the best scholarly English-language book in the history of science.
📆 Deadline: 31 Jan 2026.
Anyone may nominate (self-nominations welcome).
Submit via our online form on the BSHS website www.bshs.org.uk/the-bshs-pic...
November 19, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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erantal.bsky.social
🚨We're hiring! A tenure track position at McGill University in the area of #bioethics and / or philosophy of science, with a special focus on the ethics of medical technologies. Please share widely. #philsky #ethics #philsci philjobs.org/job/show/30402
Assistant Professor (Tenure Track), Department of Equity, Ethics, and Policy and Department of Philosophy, McGill University - PhilJobs:JFP Assistant Professor (Tenure Track), Department of Equity...
An international database of jobs for philosophers
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November 25, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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angeleserana.bsky.social
Ayer, #DíaMundialDeLaFilosofía, hicimos público un primer corte del directorio de Filósofas mexicanas o que trabajan en México: mujeres-filosofas.com/directorio/

Si no estás ahí aún, regístrate: forms.gle/8mgwoiymqKwz...
forms.gle
November 22, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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sse-evolution.bsky.social
Submit your proposal now for the Research Synthesis Working Groups at #Evol2026. Selected groups will present a symposium, collaborate on a publication, and establish a lasting research network. Proposals due January 6! shorturl.at/2JNeG
Text: Society for the Study of Evolution Call for Proposals: Research Synthesis Working Groups. Deadline: January 6.
November 20, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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tobysvoboda.bsky.social
A new book by Zach Vereb, Kant and Environmental Philosophy. I read a draft and highly recommend it. #philsky www.cambridge.org/us/universit...
Kant and Environmental Philosophy | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
www.cambridge.org
November 24, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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jeroenvanbouwel.bsky.social
Latest #PhilSci publication: “Democratizing Explanatory Practice in the Social Sciences (with John Dewey)” in the volume “Pragmatism and Philosophy of Science” edited by Roberto Gronda, Marianne Janack, and, Giancarlo Marchetti. Here’s the link: www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi... 1/7 🧵
Democratizing Explanatory Practice in the Social Sciences (with John D
Philosophers have tried to develop a general account of what scientific explanations (should) look like, presenting, e.g., a deductive-nomological, causal, or
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November 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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sse-evolution.bsky.social
Nominations are due January 15 for the Gould Prize, which recognizes an individual who has advanced public understanding of evolutionary science and its importance. The awardee will present a public lecture at #Evol2026 in Cleveland in June. shorturl.at/jornc
Text: Society for the Study of Evolution Gould Prize to recognize individuals who have increased public understanding of evolutionary biology. Nominations due January 15.
November 19, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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roto-rub.bsky.social
You can still register for today's talk in our lecture series!
rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture...
#HPBio #PhilSci #HistSci
roto-rub.bsky.social ROTO Research Group @roto-rub.bsky.social · 8d
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
Poster for the talk by Chris Shambaugh, entitled "What is Dialectical Biology?". It will take place on Monday, 24 November 2025 at 4 pm (CET) via Zoom.
November 24, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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hoposjournal.bsky.social
In the latest issue of #HOPOS Jacob McDowell notes the surprising fact that Thomas Kuhn endorses "aspects of the causal theory [of reference] in several later essays while maintaining the possibility of incommensurability".

Link to the article: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
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November 24, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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socphilneuro.bsky.social
🗣️ With the support of the @danafoundation.bsky.social, we are very excited to announce the Philosophy & Neuroscience Collaborative Mentorship Program! 🧠

For more details & submission requirements, visit: philandneuro.com/mentorship

(This is 1/2 announcements we will make over the next 1-2 weeks.)
November 23, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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thebjps.bsky.social
New on the BJPS Review of Books:

A Drive to Survive
– Kathryn Nave

Reviewed by Matteo Colombo

#philsci #philsky

www.thebsps.org/reviewofbook...
Kathryn Nave, A Drive to Survive | BJPS Review of Books
Matteo Colombo reviews A Drive to Survive, by Kathryn Nave
www.thebsps.org
November 18, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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braininspired.bsky.social
Henk's @henkderegt.bsky.social book Understanding Scientific Understanding (2017) helped elevate understanding in phil of sci, distinct from what it means to explain something.

We discuss where his ideas have taken him since, like how to assess machine understanding.

braininspired.co/podcast/225/
November 21, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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clpskuleuven.bsky.social
In their new 📃, @elisj.bsky.social & Vincent Cuypers argue that the marine sciences, with their extreme environmental constraints, offer revealing cases for #philsci that can sharpen our understanding of scientific generalization & the role of values 🌊🪸👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #HPBio #HPS
Screenshot of the header of a journal article from History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences (2025), volume 47, article 43. The paper is titled “Marine constraints as philosophical opportunities: the Krogh principle and the benefits of philosophical engagement with the sea.” The authors listed are Elis Jones and Vincent Cuypers.
November 22, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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princetonupress.bsky.social
@leuvenup.bsky.social discusses teaming up for scholarship and why university presses matter more than ever: lup.be/2025/11/how-...

#TeamUP #UPWeek

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How do university presses around the world #TeamUP in the work they do every day?  | Leuven University Press
The annual University Press Week for 2025 will take place from 10 to 14 November. This year’s theme, #TeamUP, highlights the many ways University Presses give voice to scholarship and bolster the…
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November 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM