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Natasha Haddal @natashasnature.bsky.social · 2d

Spoiler alert: I won’t have a clear answer, like a good philosopher, but I will be giving options. I’ll unpack the implications of each view, sprinkle in a few cautionary notes, and let the complexity *shine*. Fingers crossed it happens as I’m excited. Mycology is very kewl.

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Natasha Haddal @natashasnature.bsky.social · 2d

Sometimes I get a bit despondent about academia, but then I meet people doing fascinating work and it lifts my Soul™. Met a mycologist doing amazing research, which reminded me why I love this field, and I was invited to a symposium on whether sex should stay central in mycology! (🤞its accepted)

a cartoon character is surrounded by different types of mushrooms including one that says i am a zhot

ALT: a cartoon character is surrounded by different types of mushrooms including one that says i am a zhot

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🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹 @okaydaniellle.bsky.social · 3d

there is a Jane Goodall special on Netflix right now that is absolutely wonderful. it’s a nice day to watch it. ❤️🦍🦧

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Natasha Haddal @natashasnature.bsky.social · 7d

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Elise Cutts @elisecutts.bsky.social · 14d

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪

Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students.

I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:

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Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com · 15d

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

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Natasha Haddal @natashasnature.bsky.social · Aug 18

Ive been reading public facing books around my research topic lately. I enjoyed this provocatively titled book (Bitch by Lucy Cooke). Butters, my rabbit, also gave it a 5/5… by trying to eat it. 🐇📚

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The HPS Podcast @hpspodcast.bsky.social · Aug 7

What happens when the old contract between science and society no longer fits?

This week, Prof. Heather Douglas unpacks the legacy of the value-free ideal, examines research ethics & funding — and proposes a new social contract for science. This was an illuminating conversation.

Listen now! 🎧

S5 E4 - Heather Douglas on Rethinking Science’s Social Contract

The HPS Podcast - Conversations from History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science · Episode

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Animal Flix @animalflix.bsky.social · Jul 25

This is an uninterrupted minute of Maruay the rescued tiger with his beloved ball..🥰😇 #bluesky

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New England Society for Microscopy @nesmicroscopy.bsky.social · Jul 21

🐙 This Octopus shifts from deep to active rest while "dreaming" for #MicroscopyMonday. REM‑like sleep (color bursts and twitches) filmed in real time by Horst Obenhaus @octoscience.bsky.social‬, currently a 2025 Whitman Fellow at @mblscience.bsky.social. #NESM

#Octopus #Neuro #SleepScience #MBL

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · Jul 20

#HPS #hpbio #evobio

Lynn Chiu @drlynnchiu.bsky.social · Jul 20

Read all Elements in The Philosophy of Biology series for FREE during the ISHPSSB conference 20 - 25 July. You can find all of these Elements free to download and read here: cup.org/4kEgivL

Philosophy of Biology

Welcome to Cambridge Core

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Natasha Haddal @natashasnature.bsky.social · Jul 18

Not at ISH this year sadly, but my disembodied Zoom face will live on explaining why Marc Ereshefsky’s species eliminativism changed how I think about pluralism and classification, May 23rd! Really happy I was able to talk about it. Check it out if you can! #ISHPSSB2025 #EliminationDomination

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Natasha Haddal @natashasnature.bsky.social · Jul 8

Hi folks! I’ll be graduating soon and wrapping up my time at UC Davis in September. I’m currently looking for work, so if you know of any openings or leads I’d be grateful if you passed them my way. Especially if it's in research, writing, editing, or policy work. Thanks so much!

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Justin Weinberg @dailynous.com · Apr 15

"The fight for the freedom of Palestine, and the fight against anti-Semitism, go hand in hand, because injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." -- philosophy student Mohsen Mahdawi, who was abducted by ICE Monday during a citizenship interview.

Philosophy Major Snatched by ICE During Citizenship Interview - Daily Nous

Mohsen Mahdawi, a philosophy major at Columbia University who is due to graduate later this semester, was attending a US citizenship application interview in Vermont when he was taken by Immigration a...

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Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social · Apr 6

It's out! And my wonderful co-author Chike Jeffers already has his copies. You can order it here:

global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Helen De Cruz @helendecruz.net · Apr 10

I got a chemo drug today, taxol, named after its plant Taxus brevifolia, or the pacific yew tree. It was used by Native Americans for various medicinal purposes. western scientists in the 20th century isolated its chemical compound and in 1990 it was approved as a cancer drug in 1993 1/

A Pacific yew tree. It has needles for leaves and very red berries pictured here in the tree

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Shawn Standefer @standefer.bsky.social · Mar 25

Synthese has a cfp for a collection on Feminist Logic, edited by Sara Ayhan

link.springer.com/collections/...

Feminist Logic

Feminist Logic examines intersections of formal logic and feminist philosophy. As such it challenges traditional conceptions both of feminism and of logic. ...

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Natasha Haddal @natashasnature.bsky.social · Mar 29

Ah, really cool course! “Should we trust science?” Might flow more smoothly if it’s aligned centered?? Maybe…

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Rebecca Fielding-Miller @rebeccafieldingmiller.com · Mar 22

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.

More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.

I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

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Greg Priest @gregpriest.bsky.social · Mar 5

Lynn Margulis was born OTD in 1938. At 29, she published her theory that eukaryotes had evolved via endosymbiosis, after having it rejected by at least 15 other journals.

#HPBio #Complexity #HistSTM 🧪#EvoBio #WomeninSTEM

On the origin of mitosing cells

A theory of the origin of eukaryotic cells (“higher” cells which divide by classical mitosis) is presented. By hypothesis, three fundamental organelle…

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · Mar 2

I think it’s important to draw attention to small acts of courage and dissent (like this NYT ad and the message from the VT ski resort social media manager) that remind people of the range of possibilities for standing up, speaking out, and fighting back.

Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · Mar 2

A guy was so horrified by what Trump did that he bought a full-page ad in the front section of the national Sunday New York Times — which costs somewhere north of USD $100,000 — asking him to resign

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Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼‍♀🎶🥾 @cepaea.bsky.social · Jan 25

Ah, Target. I remember when you considered yourself to be a progressive Minnesota business. Be more like Costco.

PBS News @pbsnews.org · Jan 25

Discount store chain Target said Friday that it would join rival Walmart and a number of other prominent American brands in scaling back diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives that have come under attack from conservative activists and, as of this week, the White House.

Target says it is ending its DEI goals and programs, citing an 'evolving external landscape'

Discount store chain Target said Friday that it would join rival Walmart and a number of other prominent American brands in scaling back diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives that have come…

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Natasha Haddal @natashasnature.bsky.social · Jan 25

Guess I’m hard quitting now

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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · Jan 23

I was interviewed by @msjpauly.bsky.social for @motherjones.com regarding that awful gamete size "sex" executive order. A bit of an explainer here of why the science is so bad, and why that's dangerous:

Trump’s definitions of "male" and "female" are nonsense science with staggering ramifications

"How can you so fully misunderstand basic human biology, and then legislate about it?"

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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · Jan 21

Yes, there have long been discussions about sex as a spectrum, not a binary. This is not new. Here's my review of a book about the medieval debate. www.academia.edu/83211724/Rev...

The opening of a review of the 1986 book, Robert Reisert, Die siebenkammerige Uterus: Studien zur mittelalterlichen Wirkungsgeschichte und Entfaltung eines embryologischen Gebärmuttermodells ("The Seven-Celled Uterus: Studies on the Medieval Influence and Development of an Embryological Model of the Womb"). Link in post.

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