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Vera Straetmanns
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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
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
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
November 20, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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! 🏳️‍🌈
November 17, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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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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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
October 20, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Even on a grey and rainy day in October (or especially then?), the botanical garden at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de is just magical 🤩🍂
October 16, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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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
October 14, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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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
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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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!
September 26, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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
September 24, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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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
We have some really great talks lined up for this semester 🤩
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 19, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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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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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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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
#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
September 1, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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Wishing a very #Goethe birthday to this guy.

(Engraving by James Posselwhite)
August 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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
August 27, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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
August 27, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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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.
August 6, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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
academic.oup.com
August 19, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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🔎 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.
buff.ly
August 18, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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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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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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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