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Prof in Philosophy and History of Science & Technology, Technical University of Munich | scientific director Ethical Data Initiative & Public Science Lab | http://opensciencestudies.eu | President ISHPSSB | loves almost all forms of life .. more

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Sabina Leonelli is a philosopher of science and professor at the Technische Universität München, Germany. She is well known for her work on scientific practices, data-centric science, and open science policies. She was awarded the 2018 Lakatos Award for her book Data-Centric Biology: A Philosophical Study (2016). .. more

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Sabina Leonelli @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social · Mar 1

Just in case my work-related posts may be misunderstood: I am not living this moment as if it were business-as-usual. It’s everything but, and all efforts and energy go into organising resistance. What are the tools at my disposal? #philsci #savedemocracy

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PLOS @plos.org · 1d

What can real-world examples teach us about tracking the progress of #OpenScience? Join us for the next webinar in our Open 2.0 series.

📅 Oct 31, 2.30 PM CEST
📝 Register: plos.io/4o6uyhU

Featured speakers include @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social, @ismaelrafols.bsky.social and Antónia Correia.

Promotional graphic for PLOS Webinar titled 'Open 2.0', featuring a butterfly on a monochromatic flower on the left and colorful abstract shapes on the right, discussing the progress of open science through case studies.

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Sabina Leonelli @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social · 11d

Last call for #OpenScience Conference FOR2026 ⏰ ‼️ The deadline for submissions is tomorrow night - all who practice, study or govern Open Research, please send an abstract and join us in Munich in May 2026 to foster equitable open research. All details: opensciencestudies.eu/for-2026-con...

FOR 2026 Conference – A Philosophy of Open Science for Diverse Research Environments

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Sabina Leonelli @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social · 17d

Even just the cost of a coffee would help us enormously! And a bigger donation gets you a really lovely T-shirt or sweater 😊

Help us to build a better world from the bottom up 🌍🌳🐝 - via collaborations across #philsci, #sts, civic society, tech, public admin and all who want to contribute!

Sabina Leonelli @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social · 17d

Italians and beyond: this week we launch Pianeta Lab in Modena and Bologna, an experimental space to give people a voice in developing technology & policies that affect our everyday lives. We need your help to get this off the ground! Please consider donating: www.ideaginger.it/progetti/pia...

Pianeta Lab: Soluzioni Concrete per le Sfide Socio-Ambientali

Pianeta Lab è il laboratorio dove nascono idee e diventano azioni. Un luogo aperto che unisce attivistə, cittadinə, imprese, artistə e istituzioni per affrontare insieme le grandi sfide sociali e ambi...

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Sabina Leonelli @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social · 28d

For intellectual background, you can read: hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/mx9vpa0b... and journals.publishing.umich.edu/ptpbio/artic.... One of the two posts is part of the super-exciting TransforM Cluster - Munich Center for Transformative Technologies and Societal Change taking off next year!

Environmental Intelligence: Redefining the Philosophical Premises of AI

Forthcoming. Now Available: Just Accepted Version.

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Reposted by Michela Massimi, Alan Richardson, Dolly Jørgensen , and 2 more Michela Massimi, Alan Richardson, Dolly Jørgensen, Massimiliano Simons, Jeroen Van Bouwel

Sabina Leonelli @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social · 28d

JOB AD: If you research philosophy, history or social studies of biology, with interest in agroecology, crop science or environmental intelligence, consider applying for 3-year postdoctoral fellowship in Munich! Deadline for applications: 31/10, details www.sts.sot.tum.de/en/sts/arbei... #philsci

Jobs

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Sabina Leonelli @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social · 28d

A quick reminder to all those who care about open research to consider joining us for the FOR2026 Conference in the Future of Open Research at the Technical University of Munich in May 4-6, 2026! Deadline for paper and poster proposals: 30 September

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FOR 2026 Conference – A Philosophy of Open Science for Diverse Research Environments

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Reposted by Steven French, Lesley A. Hall, John Wilkins

Sabina Leonelli @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social · Sep 8

The new @ishpssb.bsky.social account is live! ISH (as we affectionately call it) is my intellectual home & the most welcoming international society i ever encountered - Follow for news & dialogue on the history, philosophy and social studies of biology #philsci #histsci 🧪 🧬 🐙 🌳 🌱 🦠 🐘 🐟 🌺

ISHPSSB @ishpssb.bsky.social · Sep 7

We’re excited to launch the official BlueSky profile of ISHPSSB! Founded in 1998, we connect researchers in philosophy, history, and social studies of biology and medicine worldwide. Follow us for updates and events! #PhilosophyOfBiology, #HistoryOfScience, #STS, #Biology, #Medicine

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Reposted by Sabina Leonelli, Lesley A. Hall, Rebecca Sear , and 2 more Sabina Leonelli, Lesley A. Hall, Rebecca Sear, John Wilkins, Massimiliano Simons

ISHPSSB @ishpssb.bsky.social · Sep 7

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Sabina Leonelli @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social · Sep 7

The Teams link is here! www.dmi.unict.it/fois2025/?pa... Great if you can connect Dmitry

FOIS 2025 All Tracks – 15TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FORMAL ONTOLOGY IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS Catania, September 8-12, 2025

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Sabina Leonelli @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social · Sep 6

Next week I keynote t international conf. Formal Ontology for Information Systems. I remain enchanted by possibilities & challenges of comp. ontologies & worry about disregard 4 crucial semantics in the wake of genAI. Note: virtual participation is FREE! www.dmi.unict.it/fois2025/?pa... #philsci 🧪

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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Horizons Magazine @horizons-en.bsky.social · Sep 3

Political attacks, natural risks, computer obsolescence... 🙊🌊
Scientific data is under threat. We provide details of a struggle for its preservation and for #OpenScience with Jürgen Enge, @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social, @rrrrrok.bsky.social und Frank Oliver Glöckner.

www.horizons-mag.ch

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Sabina Leonelli @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social · Aug 30

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Sabina Leonelli @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social · Aug 30

Thanks so much Anna, that is so kind of you and yes I am really taken with this work… I can’t believe you and @samuelmoore.org managed to find this preprint! I cross fingers referees will like it too 😅

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Sabina Leonelli @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social · Aug 28

Too bad indeed Juliette, come see us in Munich!

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Sabina Leonelli @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social · Aug 28

Attending the beautiful #EPSA25 session in memory of the extraordinary Helen de Cruz, and still in disbelief that such a session needs to happen without her - what an irreparable loss for #phil #philsci

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Sabina Leonelli @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social · Aug 28

Thanks Massimiliano 😊, I’m almost in Groningen so until soon!

Sabina Leonelli @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social · Aug 28

Big day at #EPSA25 for my group: first presenting joint paper with Emma Cavazzoni on data models & AI for pest monitoring, then symposium with Richard Williams on the role of philosophy in policy, my own paper on the case of Environmental Intelligence - details: philsci.eu/EPSA25/Progr... #philsci

European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA) - EPSA25 - Programme

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Sabina Leonelli @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social · Aug 27

Today I am in ever-gorgeous, lively Torino to keynote the Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy #SIFA25, discussing empiricism and grateful to be to catching up with the latest philosophical research in my home country - programme fully in English: sifaphilosophy.eu/eventi_sifa/... #philsci

27-29 August 2025 - Sifa Philosophy

[...]Leggi di più... from 27-29 August 2025

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Sabina Leonelli @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social · Aug 9

Thanks so much Tim, very kind and glad it resonates! I feel very strongly about this set of issues as you can imagine

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Sabina Leonelli @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social · Aug 7

It’s Open Access!! If not available today, it should be by tomorrow - definitely don’t pay that money 😊

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Sabina Leonelli @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social · Aug 7

Just out /2: condensing years of thinking, my philosophical examination of “Environmental Intelligence” as framing for foundations of #AI is on @harvarddataverse.bsky.social ! Officially published with commentaries in October, but sneak preview here: hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/mx9vpa0b... #philsci 🧪

Environmental Intelligence: Redefining the Philosophical Premises of AI

Forthcoming. Now Available: Just Accepted Version.

hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu

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Sabina Leonelli @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social · Aug 7

Just out / 1: “methods in philosophy of science”, #OA heroically assembled by Adrian Currie & Sophie Veigl. Comments welcome on mine & @Rachel Ankeny’s “Research design for philosophy of science in practice”, topic close to our hearts & constant source of questions! mitpress.mit.edu/978026255224...

Methods in the Philosophy of Science

The last twenty years have seen multiple methodological revolutions in the philosophy of science: There has been increased diversity concerning the questions...

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Nathanael Sheehan @nathanaelsheehan.bsky.social · Dec 12

New paper by me and @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social : Reconciling data actionability and accountability in global health research: The case of SARS-CoV-2 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#openscience #data #ethics

Reconciling data actionability and accountability in global health research: The case of SARS-CoV-2

The requirements for actionability and accountability in data infrastructures are often viewed as incompatible, creating a trade-off where enhancing one diminishes the other. Through a comparative ...

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Sabina Leonelli @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social · Dec 16

On Jan 16 join us for the Munich launch of the art film Data Shadows - born of a collaboration with Jacob van der Beugel & Oliver Page, it explores the lives of data in ways that I find magical ✨

info & trailers: opensciencestudies.eu/datashadowsf...

To register: tumthinktank.de/event/data-s...

Data Shadows – A Philosophy of Open Science for Diverse Research Environments

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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · Apr 2

Lecturer in Philosophy (Artificial Intelligence and Data) (Education and Research)- University of Exeter - Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DML775/l...

Lecturer in Philosophy (Artificial Intelligence and Data) (Education and Research) at University of Exeter

An academic position as a Lecturer in Philosophy (Artificial Intelligence and Data) (Education and Research) is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional ac...

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Research Data Alliance (RDA) @researchdataall.bsky.social · May 14

🌍🤝RDA and the @edinitiative.bsky.social join forces towards global responsible data sharing.

We pleased to announce that the Research Data Alliance (RDA) and the Ethical Data Initiative (EDI) are collaborating to promote responsible, inclusive, and ethical data practices worldwide.

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Matt Haber @profmatthaber.bsky.social · Jul 1

Excited to share that "Scaffolding: Selected Contributions of James R. Griesemer to History, Philosophy, and Biology" is out. I introduce Jim's chapter on formalization. (My original title, "Undermining Dichotomies and the Friends You Make Along the Way."

doi.org/10.1007/978-...

Introduction to “Formalization and the Meaning of ‘Theory’ in the Inexact Biological Sciences”

Jim Griesemer papers are typically rich, creative, and challenging. One of my favorite things about a Griesemer paper is that some of the best bits are doing double duty as framing. That is well on di...

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Sabina Leonelli @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social · Jul 24

Soooooooo delighted with Paola Castaño winning Interdisciplinary Session Prize & @elisj.bsky.social winning Callebaut Prize at @ishpssb2025.bsky.social!! Esp given the huge role that Werner Callebaut played in my own journey as a philosopher of biology. So well-deserved for both

Sabina Leonelli @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social · Jul 22

Another fantastic mini-plenary, this time on the pros and cons of ecological restoration featuring @alkistiseg.bsky.social and Banu Subramaniam, to conclude a tremendous second day at @ishpssb2025.bsky.social #ishpssb25

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