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Chris Lean @chleansaidlane.bsky.social · 8d

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Chris Lean @chleansaidlane.bsky.social · 8d

Sorry to say Cambridge lost their own password to zoom and have ‘postponed’ the talk.

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Chris Lean @chleansaidlane.bsky.social · 15d

I am giving a short online overview of my recent paper, next week. Expect me to be unimpressed with new conservation, compassionate conservation, the multispecies justice movement, and others defending invasive species. Register here:

cassyni.com/events/GXDbo...

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ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology @arccoesb.bsky.social · 14d

Last month our Centre's Ethics node at Macquarie University hosted the CoESB 2025 Annual Workshop for Capabilities 2: Industrial Translation and 3: Social Dimensions.

The workshop focused on risk, climate change and synthetic biology, and transitions to the bioeconomy.

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CoESB 2025 Annual Workshop for Capabilities 2 and 3 - ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology

Last month the ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology Ethics node at Macquarie University hosted the CoESB 2025 Annual Workshop for Capabilities 2: Industrial Translation and 3: Social Dimensio...

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Chris Lean @chleansaidlane.bsky.social · 15d

I am giving a short online overview of my recent paper, next week. Expect me to be unimpressed with new conservation, compassionate conservation, the multispecies justice movement, and others defending invasive species. Register here:

cassyni.com/events/GXDbo...

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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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Chris Lean @chleansaidlane.bsky.social · Aug 29

Cool paper on ecological function from Clark. I find it plausible there is some consilience between the entities identified by function theories, whether these ground a unified normativity I am unsure but will be interested to see how the literature moves from this point. philpapers.org/rec/CLAWTL-2

Colby J. Clark, Why the Liberality Criterion Is Dysfunctional for Theories of Ecological Function - PhilPapers

Theories of ecological function often appeal to the liberality criterion to evaluate a theory’s adequacy. The liberality criterion requires that a functional description successfully differentiates be...

philpapers.org

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Chris Lean @chleansaidlane.bsky.social · Aug 28

Being an academic vagrant (post doc) means spending too much time struggling to access academic journals. Each time a change of Uni, a new email and no access to the old one. I probably get a heap of paper sent to review that I never see.

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Chris Lean @chleansaidlane.bsky.social · Jul 25

#ishpssb next session (11-12.30) room BLB5. Jay Odenbaugh, Mark Bedau, and me as the last talk. Stacked session on issues in ecology and synthetic biology. You will regret not seeing it.

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John Alroy @johnalroy.bsky.social · Jul 24

Shannon's H, Simpson's D, and Pielou's J are useless in ecology. Fitting data with a compound abundance distribution based on the geometric series is a better way to quantify variation – and to estimate species richness. New paper in Ecology Letters.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Chris Lean @chleansaidlane.bsky.social · Jul 18

Arrived in Lisbon after 24 hours from lift off in Sydney. Tomorrow in Porto for #ISHPSSB2025. Looking forward to catching up with everyone and seeing what is new in Phil bio.

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · Jul 16

3-year Postdoc in philosophy of biology w/ @lucielaplane.bsky.social in Paris on cell lineages; interdisciplinary project w/ mathematicians & biologists. Conceptually-minded historians & social scientists also welcome to apply. Project start in early 2026. Application opens soon #HPS #hpbio #STS

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Chris Lean @chleansaidlane.bsky.social · Jul 16

The main focus on the talk is are their reasons to maintain a value asymmetry between preserving and creating biodiversity.

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Chris Lean @chleansaidlane.bsky.social · Jul 16

New #ISHPSSB schedule out. I am now speaking on the Friday in the second session: ‘Scientific, Social, and Ethical Facets of Complex Biological Systems’.

virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/73530/...

OA Virtual conferences

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Chris Lean @chleansaidlane.bsky.social · Jul 3

Those type of terms are getting more used by activists and academics. I have been criticising them. My follow up paper (someday) will be showing how they type are recreating the arguments for colonial release of species.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Open border ecosystems: Against globalised laissez-faire conservation | Cambridge Prisms: Extinction | Cambridge Core

Open border ecosystems: Against globalised laissez-faire conservation - Volume 3

www.cambridge.org

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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · Jun 19

A powerful, persuasive, emotional & evidence-based rebuttal to Wallach & Lundgren’s claims, from Professor John Woinarski.

My own view, it’s essential for science to challenge dogma, but if this is not done in a robust way, using weight of evidence, it is reckless & potentially harmful. #ICCB2025

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The HPS Podcast @hpspodcast.bsky.social · Jun 17

Very excited about the Call for Papers for the upcoming 2025 conference for the Australasian Association for History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science.

Come join us in sunny Brisbane QLD this December!! It is always a wonderful event.

#hps #histSTM #philsci #STS #metasci 🧪

AAHPSSS @aahpsss.bsky.social · Jun 12

Call for Papers - AAHPSSS Conference 2025

The 2025 AAHPSSS conference will be held in a hybrid format at the University of Queensland from Wednesday 3rd December to Friday 5th December.

Further details, including on submissions, can be found on our website:
aahpsss.net.au/conference/2...

2025 Conference

We are pleased to announce that the 2025 conference of the Australasian Association for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (AAHPSSS) will be held in a hybrid format at the Univer…

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Philosophy, Theory, and Practice in Biology (PTPBio) @ptpbio.bsky.social · Jun 14

Check out our latest issue with some outstanding papers from outstanding authors! As always, we are fully #openaccess, free for both authors and readers.

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journals.publishing.umich.edu/ptpbio/issue...

Research Articles
The Price Equation Since Price: An Accessible Account and a Generalization to Categorical Variables

Stephen Francis Mann

2025-06-11 Volume 17 • Issue 1 • 2025 • Article 1
Plant Individuality: A Physiological Approach

Özlem Yilmaz and John Dupré

2025-06-11 Volume 17 • Issue 1 • 2025 • Article 2
Sex and the Riddle of Variability

Sarah S. Richardson

2025-06-11 Volume 17 • Issue 1 • 2025 • Article 3
Generalized Selected Effects Functions and Ecology

Antoine C. Dussault and Frédéric Bouchard

2025-06-11 Volume 17 • Issue 1 • 2025 • Article 4
Debiasing Collection in Field Biology

Derek Halm and Carlos Santana

2025-06-11 Volume 17 • Issue 1 • 2025 • Article 5

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Chris Lean @chleansaidlane.bsky.social · Jun 13

C) climate change over conservation. Climate change will require translocations and they should be employed judiciously. But some extrapolate out that translocations should be done always and without guidance. Some have used climate change as a tool of fatalism undercutting preserving the good.

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Chris Lean @chleansaidlane.bsky.social · Jun 13

Funny timing. My paper on this topic is just out too. It is a follow up to my 2021 paper on why invasive species don’t increase biodiversity.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Open Border Ecosystems: Against Globalised Laissez-Faire Conservation | Cambridge Prisms: Extinction | Cambridge Core

Open Border Ecosystems: Against Globalised Laissez-Faire Conservation

www.cambridge.org

Chris Lean @chleansaidlane.bsky.social · Jun 13

B) ecosystem services and the anthropocentric push. With less emphasis on more intrinsic or aesthetic values of nature the economic metaphors have dominated conservation leading to this slippage.

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Chris Lean @chleansaidlane.bsky.social · Jun 13

Why has there been a turn to the free market metaphor in conservation? A) the influx of humanities and social science commentators on conservation. They don’t have the science background so reach for a ready to hand metaphor.

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Chris Lean @chleansaidlane.bsky.social · Jun 13

It was uncomfortable watching the tariffs be put out as I wait for this paper to get through review. The whole point of the paper is you cannot read how ecosystems should be designed from economics. But no one could reasonably think that these are good developments for the world.

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Chris Lean @chleansaidlane.bsky.social · Jun 13

I have been presenting this paper for over 5 years (as ecological neoliberalism) so I am happy to finally have written it and had it get through (still preprint). I will add some thoughts below.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Open Border Ecosystems: Against Globalised Laissez-Faire Conservation | Cambridge Prisms: Extinction | Cambridge Core

Open Border Ecosystems: Against Globalised Laissez-Faire Conservation

www.cambridge.org

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Rachael Brown @rachaelbrown.bsky.social · Jun 2

New piece just out - Who benefits? Are smartphones parasites? theconversation.com/your-smartph...

Your smartphone is a parasite, according to evolution

Many of us are hostage to our phones – and it’s not unlike having head lice.

theconversation.com

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