Yasmin Haddad
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Yasmin Haddad
@yashaddad.bsky.social
・@FRQSC Postdoctoral Fellow @UQAM
・Philosophy of science; philosophy of biology; bioethics; data ethics.
・Runner, amateur tango dancer, vinyl collector, nature lover.
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I have a new paper out in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 🥳 it is my 1st attempt to understand how "ancestry" is used in scientific practice, borrowing insights from science & values @fondsrechercheqc.bsky.social #philsci #philbio #hps

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The value-ladenness of ancestry
Clustering humans based on their genetic ancestry is a common practice in human genomics. Genetically similar populations can be seen as statistical c…
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#OnThisDay in 1859, Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species was first published.

Much of the original manuscript was used as scrap paper by Darwin's children. On the back of this painting of a house is an original manuscript page from Origin!

#CambridgeUniversityLibrary (DAR 185)
November 24, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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This Tuesday, 17:00 GMT. Join us online!
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...
November 3, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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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 9:02 AM
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Hello BLue-Sky, are you interested in the study of the social implications of genomics? Our project brings together philosophers, social scientists, and geneticists to address this question. Follow us here and sign-up for our mailing list at Hugera.org/contact/ #philsky #STS #metascience
Contact - HUGERA
The HUGERA team welcomes new collaborators and partners, within and outside academia. Most of our activities, such as lectures and workshops, are open. To know more about our activities, join our mail...
Hugera.org
October 2, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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Next Monday, @celsoneto.bsky.social will speak in our lecture series on race reification and population descriptors in human genomics. Come around!
Register here: rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture...
#PhilSci #PhilMed #race
October 9, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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New semester, new lecture series 🎉Starting next month, we welcome amazing scholars to give online talks in the history and philosophy of life sciences. Find all dates and registration links here: rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture...
We look forward to seeing you there 🤗
#PhilSci #HistSci #HPBio
September 10, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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🚨Paper🚨 What is social constructionism about race?

Philosophers of race usually treat constructionism as a theory about what exists. This misses something important: race constructionism is a practice - a way to investigate human activities.

#philsky #STS

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What is social constructionism about race? A reply to Hochman - Biology & Philosophy
This paper reconceptualizes social constructionism about race (hereafter SCR). While SCR is considered a hegemonic view in philosophy and academia more broadly, Hochman (2022) argues that this hegemon...
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September 10, 2025 at 11:15 AM
So great to see this published! Congrats!! 🥳
September 15, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Our International Postdoc Forum is a virtual seminar series for early career researchers to share their work w/commentary by MCPS community members. Excited to welcome @rosetrappes.bsky.social (University of Bergen, Norway) at 1215 CT Wed 24 Sept. Sign up for Zoom link. buff.ly/MSAXLgY
September 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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I am pleased to announce that the book "Transformative Transdisciplinarity: An Introduction to Community-Based Philosophy", written by David Ludwig and Charbel N. El-Hani, has just been published by Oxford University Press.https://academic.oup.com/book/60871
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August 31, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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With great joy—and a touch of nervousness—I’m thrilled to share that my first academic monograph will be published by @mitpress.bsky.social in May 2026! It examines the organism–environment relationship in biology from an integrated #HPS perspective: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205282... #evosky #philsky
The Organism-Environment Pairing
In this first systematic book-length examination of the organism-environment relationship in the life sciences, Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda addresses a crucia...
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August 21, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Congrats dear @alejandrofabregastejeda.com ! I can't wait to read it! 👏🏼🤸🏽🥳
August 21, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Huge congratulations to my dear & brilliant friend Sebastian on his thesis defence today, "Values in psychosocial measurement". It's been a privilege to be a part of this journey, Dr. Duque! 🤍 #philsci @erantal.bsky.social
August 11, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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We got great news! @ishpssb2025.bsky.social gave us funding to support early career travel to our event in October! Deadline for abstract submission is extended until Aug 18. Don't miss this chance! #phibio #hps #microbiome #philsci 🦠
July 30, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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This week @universitypress.cambridge.org has granted free access to all titles in the collection of Cambridge Elements in the Philosophy of Biology, edited by Grant Ramsey. There are many options to choose from! Happy reading! 📕👇 www.cambridge.org/core/publica... #philsci #HPbio #evosky #ISHPSSB2025
July 22, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Hello, Porto! #ishpssb25
July 20, 2025 at 2:58 PM
see you at the lovely ISH conference!
July 20, 2025 at 7:59 AM
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 so lucky to be a collaborator in this amazing project! congrats my friend!!
July 18, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Looking forward to our co-organized symposium on Monday "Values, bias and controversies in human genomics" with @celsoneto.bsky.social. Porto here we come! @ishpssb2025.bsky.social #philbio #philsci #ishpssb25
July 18, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Not long now until #ISHPSSB2025! Safe travels, All!
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July 16, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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🚨Reaging Group🚨

This Wednesday, July 9, 16:00 BST, I will join the online “Reading Decoloniality” Group (Warwick, UK) to discuss how biological race continues to be a misguided idea.

To join the discussion, just register at readingdecoloniality.warwick.ac.uk/join/

#philsci
#STS
#evosky
Join a reading group – Reading decoloniality
readingdecoloniality.warwick.ac.uk
July 7, 2025 at 4:12 PM
See you soon, Porto!
In two weeks, #ISHPSSB2025 is about to start 😊
Please note registration closes 10 July and for the conference/celebration dinner on 11 July!
#hpbio #philsci #histstm #histsci #philbio #hbio #sts
July 7, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I look forward to reading your paper (or a draft)!
June 26, 2025 at 1:13 PM
thank you!!
June 25, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I have a new paper out in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 🥳 it is my 1st attempt to understand how "ancestry" is used in scientific practice, borrowing insights from science & values @fondsrechercheqc.bsky.social #philsci #philbio #hps

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The value-ladenness of ancestry
Clustering humans based on their genetic ancestry is a common practice in human genomics. Genetically similar populations can be seen as statistical c…
www.sciencedirect.com
June 23, 2025 at 2:40 PM