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Vera Straetmanns
@yavannakemi.bsky.social
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PhD student working on plant philosophy and its history 🌱 recent paper: "The Lady and the Plants: Two Notions of Teleology in Agnes Arber’s Philosophy of Plants"; read it here: https://rdcu.be/d5xPI | fan of Tolkien and board games | she/her
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yavannakemi.bsky.social
I'm very much looking forward to @cshambaugh.bsky.social finally explaining once and for all what the f*** dialectical biology is! 😃
#HPBio #PhilSci #HistSci
roto-rub.bsky.social ROTO Research Group @roto-rub.bsky.social · 9d
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 20, 2025 at 11:58 AM
yavannakemi.bsky.social
This week, we celebrate Democracy Week in the GA building of @ruhr-uni-bochum.de. Come around, if you're on campus! We've put together a really great program: uni.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/sites/uni.ru...
Let's stand together against any queer- and democracy-hostile tendencies! 🏳️‍🌈
Header of the program for the Democracy Week saying "Democracy Week in building GA - an initiative of the Mittelbau. All events are open for interested members of all faculties."
November 17, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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oxfordbiologylgbtq.bsky.social
LGBTQ+ Journal Club is turning 1! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈To celebrate, here's a bit about what we've been up to over the past year: a thread of interesting papers in queer biology (1/n) ⬇️🧵
November 11, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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ennofischer.bsky.social
Apply to join a team of wonderful colleagues at Philosophy at TU Dresden. I am advertising a 2-year PostDoc position in philosophy of science/philosophy of physics as part of the DFG project 'Progress through Principles', deadline 03.11.2025.
Details: tinyurl.com/493dffby
#philsci #philsky
At the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Science, Institute of Philosophy, the Junior Professorship in Philosophy of Science (Jun.-Prof. Dr. Enno Fischer) offers a position as Research Associate / PostDoc (m/f/x) in Philosophy of Science / Philosophy of Physics (subject to personal qualification employees are remunerated according to salary group E 13 TV-L) starting at the earliest possible date. The position is limited to 2 years. The period of employment is governed by the Fixed Term Research Contracts Act (Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz - WissZeitVG). The position offers the chance to obtain further academic qualification (usually preparation of habilitation thesis). The position is part of the DFG project "Progress through Principles: An Epistemology of Foundational Assumptions Guiding Contemporary Physics" which examines the heuristic role of guiding principles in foundational physics. Further information about the project is available at https://tu-dresden.de/gsw/phil/iphil/phisci/forschung.
October 20, 2025 at 9:24 AM
yavannakemi.bsky.social
Even on a grey and rainy day in October (or especially then?), the botanical garden at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de is just magical 🤩🍂
A tiny tiny snail on a green-yellow Gingko leaf Some tall, slim birches and conifers. A beautiful tree with green, yellow and red leaves Some tiny tiny clover leaves with water drops on them.
October 16, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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roto-rub.bsky.social
A big thanks to @celsoneto.bsky.social who gave an inspiring talk on race reification in human genomics research yesterday! Thank you also to everyone who joined the talk and the great discussion afterwards!
#HPBio #PhilSci #PhilMed
Screenshot from zoom showing the title slide of the talk by Celso Neto, entitled "Race Reification and Population Descriptors in Human Genomics" as well as the speaker. Screenshot from zoom showing a slide on recommended population descriptors for genomics studies and some of the participants. Screenshot from zoom showing participants during the discussion.
October 14, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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bjenquist.bsky.social
Postdoc Opportunity - Interested in plant scaling, quantitative botany, or theoretical plant biology? join our group to explore how plant form, function & scaling principles connect across levels of organization
www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-postdoctoral-fellowships-in-plant-biology🧪🌾🌐
Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology
Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology on Simons Foundation
www.simonsfoundation.org
October 14, 2025 at 12:27 PM
yavannakemi.bsky.social
I'm very much looking forward to the BPC conference tomorrow and on Friday at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de! Everyone is welcome to attend and you can also watch the stream on zoom. I will give a talk at 4pm about early 20th century concepts of plant agency (featuring Arber, Ungerer and Francé). 🌿
October 8, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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gwmt.bsky.social
Nach drei anregenden Tagen ist die Jahrestagung #gwmt2025 schon wieder vorbei.
Wir danken dem lokalen Organisationsteam für die tolle Vorbereitung!
Allen Teilnehmenden eine gute und sichere Heimreise und wir sehen uns 2026 in Prag!
Gruppenfoto der Teilnehmenden der GWMT-Jahrestagung 2025 in Dresden
September 26, 2025 at 12:02 PM
yavannakemi.bsky.social
Happy to be in Dresden for my 3rd conference this year: the annual meeting of the German Society for the History of Science, Medicine and Technology. Looking forward to learning a lot about animal history after already talking about plant history at the FoGeL meeting yesterday. 🦉🌳
#PhDSky #HistSci
Photo of the botanical garden in Dresden that we visited yesterday. Photo of the Frauenkirche in Dresden Photo of a cupboard full of coloring agents in glass bottles that we were shown during a tour through the historical color collection at the TU Dresden. Photo of local organiser Gisela Hürlimann during her welcome address at the opening session of the conference.
September 24, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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alejandrofabregastejeda.com
I am quite excited to share a new preprint on the prospects for a 'metaphilosophy of science'—a second-order inquiry into the concepts, assumptions, aims, and methods that underpin philosophy of science itself. 👇📃 philsci-archive.pitt.edu/26661/ 1/3 #philsci #philsky #HPS #HPbio #metaphilosophy
Toward a Metaphilosophy of Science - PhilSci-Archive
philsci-archive.pitt.edu
September 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
yavannakemi.bsky.social
We have some really great talks lined up for this semester 🤩
roto-rub.bsky.social ROTO Research Group @roto-rub.bsky.social · Sep 10
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
Overview of the ROTO Lecture Series in the winter semester 2025/2026. The talks will be: - "Race Reification and Population Descriptors in Human Genomics" by Celso Neto (University of Exeter) - "Understanding plant holobionts through complexity science" by César Marín (Universidad Santo Tomás) - "What is Dialectical Biology?" by Chris Shambaugh (University of Oregon) - "Learning from Partial Overlaps Between Knowledge Systems" by Charbel El-Hani (Federal University of Bahia) - "21st century eugenics, scientific racism and the role of academia in promoting political ideology" by Rebecca Sear (Brunel University London) - "The Organism and the System: Boundary Crossings in 20th Century Science" by Libby O’Neil (Mississippi State University)
September 19, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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bartoszradomski.bsky.social
We are organising the 1st Basic Principles of Cognition conference at RUB, Germany, 9-10 October 2025. Save the date! #MinimalCognition #BasalCognition #CognitiveScience #CogSci #Philosophy #Mind #Life #Organism #Evolution basicprinciplesofcognition.wordpress.com

#EPSA25 #ESPP #GAP12 #KogWiss
Basic Principles of Cognition
1st Basic Principles of Cognition Conference. October 9-10 , Bochum, Germany.
basicprinciplesofcognition.wordpress.com
August 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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hpspodcast.bsky.social
We’re taking a short mid-season break, but we’ll be back next week with more great conversations!

In the meantime, why not catch up on some of our earlier episodes? They’re well worth a listen.

www.hpsunimelb.org/the-hps-podc...

#HPS #philsci #histsci #sts
THE HPS PODCAST | HPS @UniMelb
www.hpsunimelb.org
September 4, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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alejandrofabregastejeda.com
Hi, #evosky #EvoDevo #paleosky hivemind! I have a Q: Have there been any studies that build theoretical or empirical morphospaces that include and/or compare organisms from different kingdoms? I am looking for instances of research that meet that condition (regardless of their focus). Thanks a lot!
September 2, 2025 at 6:42 PM
yavannakemi.bsky.social
#EPSA2025 was a really great experience! Thank you to @epsaphilsci.bsky.social and all the local organizers for creating this beautiful event! Inspiring talks, friendly people, interesting posters and dinner in a church - what else could you ask for?! 😀
#PhDSky #PhilSci
View over a bridge to some nice houses and a rainbow-colored crosswalk. Sergei Shevchenko next to his slide in front of the audience at EPSA 2025. People sitting at white tables in a church with white walls. View of the city center of Groningen from the roof of a building.
September 1, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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gregoryrupik.bsky.social
Wishing a very #Goethe birthday to this guy.

(Engraving by James Posselwhite)
James Posselwhite's engraving portrait of Goethe
August 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
yavannakemi.bsky.social
Gave my talk today at the @epsaphilsci.bsky.social meeting, speaking about plant agency in Agnes Arber, Emil Ungerer and Raoul Francé. 🌳🤓 Thank you to everyone who attended, it was a really great session and an engaged audience! 🤩
#PhDSky #HistSci #PhilSci
Photo of me standing next to a screen with a slide from my talk that shows an AI generated drawing of Ungerer, Arber and Francé working in a plant lab together.
August 27, 2025 at 7:58 PM
yavannakemi.bsky.social
Happy to be at the meeting of @epsaphilsci.bsky.social in Groningen! Already had a great day yesterday visiting the amazing botanical garden, having a great Poké-Bowl for dinner and chilling in my hostel bunk bed 😃
#PhDSky #PhilSci
Photo of the aula where the keynote talk today took place Photo of the inside of my bunk bed. Photo of my delicious vegan Poké bowl Photo of the gorgeous Chinese garden in the botanical garden of Groningen.
August 27, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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osubpp.bsky.social
The Department of Botany and Plant Pathology at Oregon State University is Hiring!

We are searching for a Director of the Oregon State University Herbarium and applications are welcomed at the ranks of assistant, associate, or full professor.
Department of Botany and Plant Pathology at Oregon State University is hiring a Directory of the Herbarium
August 6, 2025 at 4:58 PM
yavannakemi.bsky.social
Rereading Rudi Schmid's paper on Agnes Arber from 2001 (academic.oup.com/aob/article-...) and appreciating all the hours of work he must have put into this meticulously researched piece! So valuable!!
Agnes Arber, née Robertson (1879–1960): Fragments of her Life, Including her Place in Biology and in Women's Studies
Abstract. Born in London into a learned and artistic middle-class family, Agnes Arber, née Robertson (23 Feb. 1879–22 Mar. 1960), was a renowned plant morp
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August 19, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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journalofecology.bsky.social
🔎 We are looking for new associate editors to join our Biological Flora team!🌷
🌲Do you have expert knowledge of one or more aspects of diverse species of vascular plants either in Britain and Ireland or in other regions globally?🌺
👉 More info: buff.ly/rmzadTG
Biological Flora Associate Editor - British Ecological Society
Join the editorial board on Journal of Ecology in this journal-unique role! Apply by 26 Sep 2025.
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August 18, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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ferncurator.bsky.social
The NMNH Department of Botany is looking for a Museum Specialist. Please spread the word!
Museum Specialist (Natural Science), IS-1016-09
Job Opening: Museum Specialist (Natural Science), IS-1016-09 at National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC.
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August 7, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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oceanfilly.bsky.social
As requested - A Starter Pack of PIs in Biology (or related fields) who are recruiting PHD STUDENTS! If you would like to be added, feel free to ask! go.bsky.app/Bf4DRFm
July 18, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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batistaruan.bsky.social
I’m deeply inspired after attending my first ISHPSSB in Porto. I was excited by the diversity of problems and the openness of the community. I felt truly impressed and grateful for the responses to my work (on varieties of organicism and the metaphysics of phylogenetic systematics). Until next time!
July 27, 2025 at 8:09 PM