David Ludwig
@davidludwig.bsky.social
Philosopher of science, mostly busy with transdisciplinary action research on environment/food/society. Assoc prof at Wageningen University, Netherlands. More here: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=LCzGlYMAAAAJ&hl=en
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David Ludwig
@davidludwig.bsky.social
· Sep 10
“Transformative Transdisciplinarity. An Introduction to Community-Based Philosophy” is out with Oxford University Press! I’m actually pretty proud of this book. It’s Open Access, so feel free to share fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/...
The journal Plants, People, Planet launched the "Thomas Reviews" format and invited me to contribute with an article on Transdisciplinary Plant Sciences. It's been fun to think about transformations of the plant sciences from such a broad perspective.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Transdisciplinary plant sciences: A review
Socio-ecological crises such as biodiversity loss, climate change, and food insecurity require academic expertise and also the inclusion of diverse actors outside of academia such as farmers, policym...
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:56 PM
The journal Plants, People, Planet launched the "Thomas Reviews" format and invited me to contribute with an article on Transdisciplinary Plant Sciences. It's been fun to think about transformations of the plant sciences from such a broad perspective.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
The open access pdf has been out for a while but so much more exciting to hold the physical book in my hands!
October 20, 2025 at 9:23 AM
The open access pdf has been out for a while but so much more exciting to hold the physical book in my hands!
There are still a few days to submit an abstract to this great @tapuya.org Special Issue on "Transdisciplinary research for socio-environmental challenges" that grew out of our Global Epistemologies and Ontologies (GEOS) Project.
October 10, 2025 at 11:52 AM
There are still a few days to submit an abstract to this great @tapuya.org Special Issue on "Transdisciplinary research for socio-environmental challenges" that grew out of our Global Epistemologies and Ontologies (GEOS) Project.
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Absolutely intellectually spoiled these past 2 days! At ‘A New Odyssey for Public Engagement’ in London, leading thinkers in science, diplomacy & public engagement from 4 continents came together to explore how the ODESSI framework (doi.org/10.5281/zeno...) can guide global dialogues on science 🌍✨
October 1, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Absolutely intellectually spoiled these past 2 days! At ‘A New Odyssey for Public Engagement’ in London, leading thinkers in science, diplomacy & public engagement from 4 continents came together to explore how the ODESSI framework (doi.org/10.5281/zeno...) can guide global dialogues on science 🌍✨
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From epistemology to ontology to politics, community-based approaches reveal that knowledge is not singular. Partial overlaps, not binaries, guide how communities understand and act. Transformative Transdisciplinarity argues for a philosophy of science rooted in agency and diversity: bit.ly/4gswVsU
September 15, 2025 at 2:11 PM
From epistemology to ontology to politics, community-based approaches reveal that knowledge is not singular. Partial overlaps, not binaries, guide how communities understand and act. Transformative Transdisciplinarity argues for a philosophy of science rooted in agency and diversity: bit.ly/4gswVsU
“Transformative Transdisciplinarity. An Introduction to Community-Based Philosophy” is out with Oxford University Press! I’m actually pretty proud of this book. It’s Open Access, so feel free to share fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/...
September 10, 2025 at 1:23 PM
“Transformative Transdisciplinarity. An Introduction to Community-Based Philosophy” is out with Oxford University Press! I’m actually pretty proud of this book. It’s Open Access, so feel free to share fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/...
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Cheeky title, lively examples & points.
E.g. on epistemic justice and it's relationship with 3 dimensions of social justice- distribution, recognition & representation. Epistemic extraction. Not reductionism to economic inequality!
by David Ludwig @davidludwig.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1080/0269...
E.g. on epistemic justice and it's relationship with 3 dimensions of social justice- distribution, recognition & representation. Epistemic extraction. Not reductionism to economic inequality!
by David Ludwig @davidludwig.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1080/0269...
It’s a Shame That You Can’t Afford Rent, But We Can Offer Epistemic Compensation. On Relating Epistemic and Social Justice
Reflecting on the rapid growth of epistemic injustice scholarship, this article proposes an ‘active alignment account’ for relating epistemic and social justice. The account contains both critical ...
doi.org
June 10, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Cheeky title, lively examples & points.
E.g. on epistemic justice and it's relationship with 3 dimensions of social justice- distribution, recognition & representation. Epistemic extraction. Not reductionism to economic inequality!
by David Ludwig @davidludwig.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1080/0269...
E.g. on epistemic justice and it's relationship with 3 dimensions of social justice- distribution, recognition & representation. Epistemic extraction. Not reductionism to economic inequality!
by David Ludwig @davidludwig.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1080/0269...
"'The people of Techiman eat Teporo': migrant farming and epistemic pluralism in Forikrom, Ghana" - our new article explores knowledge diversity beyond the simple divide of scientific vs. local knowledge. Unfortunately not OA yet but happy to share the paper. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
“The people of Techiman eat Teporo”: migrant farming and epistemic pluralism in Forikrom, Ghana - Agriculture and Human Values
Local knowledges of farmers often remain marginalized in wider agricultural development interventions. Scholars, practitioners and non-profit organisations have stressed the importance of including fa...
link.springer.com
April 11, 2025 at 11:37 AM
"'The people of Techiman eat Teporo': migrant farming and epistemic pluralism in Forikrom, Ghana" - our new article explores knowledge diversity beyond the simple divide of scientific vs. local knowledge. Unfortunately not OA yet but happy to share the paper. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Exciting times for philosophy of economics
April 4, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Exciting times for philosophy of economics
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Defended my doctoral dissertation on grand challenges and research policy yesterday. Such a wonderful day! Big thanks to opponent @davidludwig.bsky.social and custos @ustagan10.bsky.social & all who joined! 🌸🌷💖
April 2, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Defended my doctoral dissertation on grand challenges and research policy yesterday. Such a wonderful day! Big thanks to opponent @davidludwig.bsky.social and custos @ustagan10.bsky.social & all who joined! 🌸🌷💖
"It’s a shame that you can’t afford rent, but we can offer epistemic compensation." - my paper on relating epistemic and social justice is out. Mostly written as self-therapy, struggling with my own scholarship. But we also need a broader discussion on ways forward in "epistemic injustice" debates.
It’s a Shame That You Can’t Afford Rent, But We Can Offer Epistemic Compensation. On Relating Epistemic and Social Justice
Reflecting on the rapid growth of epistemic injustice scholarship, this article proposes an ‘active alignment account’ for relating epistemic and social justice. The account contains both critical ...
www.tandfonline.com
March 25, 2025 at 3:07 PM
"It’s a shame that you can’t afford rent, but we can offer epistemic compensation." - my paper on relating epistemic and social justice is out. Mostly written as self-therapy, struggling with my own scholarship. But we also need a broader discussion on ways forward in "epistemic injustice" debates.
Join us in Newcastle for the "Understanding Science Co-Creation in Climate and Environmental Research" conference 19-20 June!
March 21, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Join us in Newcastle for the "Understanding Science Co-Creation in Climate and Environmental Research" conference 19-20 June!
If you're in the Netherlands, join us for this little "political economy/ecology meets political epistemology/ontology" event next Monday afternoon, 24 Feb
February 18, 2025 at 9:25 PM
If you're in the Netherlands, join us for this little "political economy/ecology meets political epistemology/ontology" event next Monday afternoon, 24 Feb
Epistemic diversity is great but often becomes reduced to a superficial management & mainstreaming tool. Excited that the lovely magazine _Science for the People_ published our little article "Reclaiming Epistemic Diversity. Between Community Struggles and Corporate Capture"
Reclaiming Epistemic Diversity • SftP Magazine
Similar to Cabral’s and Freire’s strategies, the Zapatista attempt was to mobilize Indigenous and scientific knowledge together for liberation purposes. The goal was, in other words, to build an allia...
magazine.scienceforthepeople.org
January 21, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Epistemic diversity is great but often becomes reduced to a superficial management & mainstreaming tool. Excited that the lovely magazine _Science for the People_ published our little article "Reclaiming Epistemic Diversity. Between Community Struggles and Corporate Capture"
German Research Foundation DFG closing its Twitter account and landing here. Every day, bluesky seems to become a little bit more attractive & useful. At least as a nerdy hangout for academics.
Hallo Bluesky!
Wir sind die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. #DFG Als Selbstverwaltungsorganisation der #Wissenschaft in Deutschland fördern wir erkenntnisgeleitete #Forschung. Hier erhaltet Ihr Infos u.a. zu Förderangeboten, Ausschreibungen und Anträgen. Wir freuen uns auf den Austausch!
Wir sind die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. #DFG Als Selbstverwaltungsorganisation der #Wissenschaft in Deutschland fördern wir erkenntnisgeleitete #Forschung. Hier erhaltet Ihr Infos u.a. zu Förderangeboten, Ausschreibungen und Anträgen. Wir freuen uns auf den Austausch!
January 14, 2025 at 2:36 PM
German Research Foundation DFG closing its Twitter account and landing here. Every day, bluesky seems to become a little bit more attractive & useful. At least as a nerdy hangout for academics.
If you're in Belgium, join us for this nice seminar with David Azupogo (Millar Insitute, Ghana) on "Doing Development. Epistemic Justice and the Integration of Indigenous and Local Knowledge in Research and development." in Ghent on Jan 9.
January 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
If you're in Belgium, join us for this nice seminar with David Azupogo (Millar Insitute, Ghana) on "Doing Development. Epistemic Justice and the Integration of Indigenous and Local Knowledge in Research and development." in Ghent on Jan 9.
2025 is a great year to get into transdisciplinary & participatory action research. Reposting this starter pack I made a while a ago, full of awesome researchers
I made a starter pack for transdisciplinary & participatory action research. Please share and let me know who else to add (including yourself, maybe) go.bsky.app/DBBkc6g
January 4, 2025 at 12:31 PM
2025 is a great year to get into transdisciplinary & participatory action research. Reposting this starter pack I made a while a ago, full of awesome researchers
Back home in Berlin for the winter holidays and for evening walks at the Schlachtensee
December 27, 2024 at 5:11 PM
Back home in Berlin for the winter holidays and for evening walks at the Schlachtensee
My favorite news headline today. I'm imagining an investigative Bloomberg journalist unmasking the sinister union plot: "We'll make it look like an effort to improve labor conditions but what we truly desire is to disrupt Christmas! 🎄"
December 19, 2024 at 7:10 PM
My favorite news headline today. I'm imagining an investigative Bloomberg journalist unmasking the sinister union plot: "We'll make it look like an effort to improve labor conditions but what we truly desire is to disrupt Christmas! 🎄"
thegreatestbooks.org casually putting Hitler's Mein Kampf on Nr. 28 of the greatest German books of all time between Thomas Mann & Max Weber is not what I was looking for...
December 18, 2024 at 11:33 AM
thegreatestbooks.org casually putting Hitler's Mein Kampf on Nr. 28 of the greatest German books of all time between Thomas Mann & Max Weber is not what I was looking for...
Last academic workshop of the year took my to Edinburgh for the first time. What a beautiful place.
December 16, 2024 at 1:12 PM
Last academic workshop of the year took my to Edinburgh for the first time. What a beautiful place.
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🐠🛶🦀 Thrilled to share my new article in collaboration with new @davidludwig.bsky.social & @charbelelhani.bsky.social about the conceptual potential of more-than-human care in Siribinha, a fishing village in Brazil. 🌴 Read it here: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
The conceptual potential of ‘more‐than‐human care’: A reflection with an artisanal fishing village in Brazil
This article investigates the conceptual potential of more-than-human care as a transformative framework for biodiversity conservation; interplaying feminist and post-humanist care debates with empir...
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 11, 2024 at 2:53 PM
🐠🛶🦀 Thrilled to share my new article in collaboration with new @davidludwig.bsky.social & @charbelelhani.bsky.social about the conceptual potential of more-than-human care in Siribinha, a fishing village in Brazil. 🌴 Read it here: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
So encouraging to see many of my favorite academics arriving at bluesky. Here is Martin Kusch's first post - consider following him for philosophy of science & society + Vienna photography.
Warning: if you follow me, you'll see a lot of (my own) photos of Vienna. Some are of famous touristic sights, some are of motifs you can find anywhere. I personally prefer the latter. This one is a case in point.
November 30, 2024 at 1:44 PM
So encouraging to see many of my favorite academics arriving at bluesky. Here is Martin Kusch's first post - consider following him for philosophy of science & society + Vienna photography.
How can science & technology actually benefit people instead of enabling socio-environmental destruction & exploitation?
Philosophers on Bluesky: Let's play a game! Explain your current research project in one skeet. I'll start in the replies below.
(Please feel free to reskeet(?) or reply to this skeet as you see fit and hopefully this will help more of us to connect here).
(Please feel free to reskeet(?) or reply to this skeet as you see fit and hopefully this will help more of us to connect here).
November 26, 2024 at 7:50 PM
How can science & technology actually benefit people instead of enabling socio-environmental destruction & exploitation?
Tapuya, one of my favorite journals, is now on bluesky. Follow them for critical perspectives on the interface of science, technology, and society in Latin America & beyond!
📢Exciting News!
Tapuya is now on Bluesky! Find us at @tapuya.org and explore our Starter Pack designed to kick off a thriving Latin American STS community.📦
Join the conversation, connect with us, and let’s build this space together! go.bsky.app/JxBWBbS
🚀 #Bluesky #LatinAmericanSTS
Tapuya is now on Bluesky! Find us at @tapuya.org and explore our Starter Pack designed to kick off a thriving Latin American STS community.📦
Join the conversation, connect with us, and let’s build this space together! go.bsky.app/JxBWBbS
🚀 #Bluesky #LatinAmericanSTS
November 25, 2024 at 4:57 PM
Tapuya, one of my favorite journals, is now on bluesky. Follow them for critical perspectives on the interface of science, technology, and society in Latin America & beyond!