John at Evolving Thoughts
@evolvingthoughts.bsky.social
Philosopher, historian, snarky cynic, of science.
Substack and blog at evolvingthoughts.net
Mastodon at https://fediscience.org/@jswilkins
Substack and blog at evolvingthoughts.net
Mastodon at https://fediscience.org/@jswilkins
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Hey, fellow evolutionary biologists:
If you support trans rights, like, comment, or repost this. I want to show that transphobes like Richard Dawkins are a loud minority that does not represent our community
If you support trans rights, like, comment, or repost this. I want to show that transphobes like Richard Dawkins are a loud minority that does not represent our community
And that’s a follow.
Actually I do have a question if you have a sec.
Without exception the most transphobic group of scientists I’ve run into online are evolutionary biologists. Every single one of them has expressed the same opinion: transness cannot be anything other than social contagion. Why?
Actually I do have a question if you have a sec.
Without exception the most transphobic group of scientists I’ve run into online are evolutionary biologists. Every single one of them has expressed the same opinion: transness cannot be anything other than social contagion. Why?
December 22, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Hey, fellow evolutionary biologists:
If you support trans rights, like, comment, or repost this. I want to show that transphobes like Richard Dawkins are a loud minority that does not represent our community
If you support trans rights, like, comment, or repost this. I want to show that transphobes like Richard Dawkins are a loud minority that does not represent our community
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Shame on all these people: Alan Dershowitz and Steven Pinker, American evolutionary biologist Robert Trivers, Larry Summers and Martin Nowak.
Gross
November 16, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Shame on all these people: Alan Dershowitz and Steven Pinker, American evolutionary biologist Robert Trivers, Larry Summers and Martin Nowak.
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Our latest issue features work on the 'pregnancy problem' in Descartes, Peano & cardinality, Cassirer & relativity, Rose Rand's academic career, the Bernays-Müller debate, Whewell on natural kinds, hypothetical explanations, & critique of 'German physics'.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/hopos/20...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/hopos/20...
HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science | Vol 13, No 2
www.journals.uchicago.edu
April 22, 2024 at 6:22 PM
Our latest issue features work on the 'pregnancy problem' in Descartes, Peano & cardinality, Cassirer & relativity, Rose Rand's academic career, the Bernays-Müller debate, Whewell on natural kinds, hypothetical explanations, & critique of 'German physics'.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/hopos/20...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/hopos/20...
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who first used the distinction between the negative and positive program in experimental philosophy?
April 1, 2024 at 3:45 PM
who first used the distinction between the negative and positive program in experimental philosophy?
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This paper argues for a view I share, but always thought was hard to establish without opening up many related debates. I'll be curious to see responses. #philsci #philsky
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Are Mathematical Explanations Causal Explanations in Disguise? | Philosophy of Science | Cambridge Core
Are Mathematical Explanations Causal Explanations in Disguise?
www.cambridge.org
April 1, 2024 at 7:07 PM
This paper argues for a view I share, but always thought was hard to establish without opening up many related debates. I'll be curious to see responses. #philsci #philsky
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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3 PhD Positions in History and Philosophy of Physics, Biology and Science @UtrechtHPS.
ERC Project on Niels Bohr, collab. with ROTO.
www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
#HPS #histsci
ERC Project on Niels Bohr, collab. with ROTO.
www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
#HPS #histsci
March 28, 2024 at 9:05 AM
3 PhD Positions in History and Philosophy of Physics, Biology and Science @UtrechtHPS.
ERC Project on Niels Bohr, collab. with ROTO.
www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
#HPS #histsci
ERC Project on Niels Bohr, collab. with ROTO.
www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
#HPS #histsci
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If you were fascinated the first time you saw Hooke’s Micrographia or Arber’s seaweed cyanotypes, check out Tal Danino’s new book Beautiful Bacteria.
🧪🌱🐋🐡 #HistSci
🧪🌱🐋🐡 #HistSci
Glorious Germs, Ready for Their Close-Up
The micro becomes macro in Tal Danino’s surreal, mesmerizing photographs of bacteria.
www.nytimes.com
March 29, 2024 at 9:00 PM
If you were fascinated the first time you saw Hooke’s Micrographia or Arber’s seaweed cyanotypes, check out Tal Danino’s new book Beautiful Bacteria.
🧪🌱🐋🐡 #HistSci
🧪🌱🐋🐡 #HistSci
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New genome-scale phylogeny of birds! Lots to chew on here, including increased confidence in mostly post-Cretaceous diversification of Neoaves and Mirandornithes as the sister group to other neoavians. The hoatzin is still a problem... www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🪶🧪 (📷Stiller et al.)
April 1, 2024 at 9:24 PM
New genome-scale phylogeny of birds! Lots to chew on here, including increased confidence in mostly post-Cretaceous diversification of Neoaves and Mirandornithes as the sister group to other neoavians. The hoatzin is still a problem... www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🪶🧪 (📷Stiller et al.)
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Newly published: Science and the Public. In this Element, I explore the relationship between science and the public with resources from philosophy of science. Details in thread below. Volume is free online until 4/9. t.co/mKYvwSls3c
#philsci #philsky #histsci #STS #metasci #SciComm
#philsci #philsky #histsci #STS #metasci #SciComm
March 26, 2024 at 2:20 PM
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I finally found time this afternoon to take a good look at Greg Radick’s Disputed Inheritance. What a magnificent book.
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Disputed Inheritance
A root-and-branch rethinking of how history has shaped the science of genetics. In 1900, almost no one had heard of Gregor Mendel. Ten years later, he was famous as the father of a new science of here...
press.uchicago.edu
November 17, 2023 at 5:33 PM
I finally found time this afternoon to take a good look at Greg Radick’s Disputed Inheritance. What a magnificent book.
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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The Biggest Questions: Is it possible to really understand someone else’s mind? by Grace Huckins www.technologyreview.com/2023/11/15/1...
The Biggest Questions: Is it possible to really understand someone else’s mind?
How we think, feel and experience the world is a mystery to everyone but us. But technology may be starting to help us understand the minds of others.
www.technologyreview.com
November 18, 2023 at 7:03 PM
The Biggest Questions: Is it possible to really understand someone else’s mind? by Grace Huckins www.technologyreview.com/2023/11/15/1...
So, what's good about BlueSky over Mastadon, @jdagg.bsky.social ?
November 19, 2023 at 12:23 AM
So, what's good about BlueSky over Mastadon, @jdagg.bsky.social ?