Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda

Book cover of "The Riddle of Organismal Agency: New Historical and Philosophical Reflections" (Routledge, 2024). The book belongs to the "History and Philosophy of Biology" series. The editors are Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda, Jan Baedke, Guido I. Prieto, and Gregory Radick. The design features a geometric pattern of interlocking, multicolored triangles in shades of red, yellow, teal, white, and pink. The Routledge logo appears in the lower right corner.

Organismal agency is one of today's liveliest debates in the life sciences. Our volume—published a year ago—brings historians, philosophers & scientists into the conversation, offering the kind of nuanced treatment this complex issue deserves 👇 www.routledge.com/The-Riddle-o... #HPS #evosky #philsky

Time to register for PSA AW 2025 with three online dates in November. Look forward to seeing many of you there! 👇

Against AI welfare: Care practices should prioritize living beings over AI In this Comment, we critique the growing “AI welfare” movement and propose a novel guideline, the Precarity Guideline, to determine care entitlement. In contrast to approaches that emphasize potentia...

📰 We highlight a gap between us and AI not tied to anthropocentric biases. The physics of a metabolic organism, like you or I, is radically different from current AI-chips. This precariousness offers an operational means for assessing welfare entitlement.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Exciting to see the next volume of the Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science series moving along the publication process. It will be free to read online upon publication. Available Spring 2026.

Would you like to be the Node’s new Community Manager?

If you're interested in #SciComm and passionate about #DevBio, apply to join the @dev-journal.bsky.social & @biologists.bsky.social team.

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EvoDevo Papers' improved website and Bluesky support - Bruno C. Vellutini The newest version of EvoDevo Papers is online, and it's the biggest update since the last codebase refactoring. I've made several additions and improvements

📑 EvoDevo Papers is now on Bluesky @evodevo-papers.bsky.social, posting research papers in the field of evolutionary developmental biology (or #EvoDevo).

There's also a new website: evodevo.brunovellutini.com. Read more on brunovellutini.com/posts/evodev...

Postdoctoral Researcher on Aquatic Science and Technology Studies and More-than-human relations Postdoctoral Researcher on Aquatic Science and Technology Studies and More-than-human relations

Looking for a #postdoc in Aquatic #STS! MARBLOOM analyses algal blooms from a social scientific perspective with emphasis on the changing relationship between humans and the environment. Position for 3+ years. Deadline 14.08.25. Link to #opencall: tinyurl.com/49wn7vzh

It's been over a month since our conference on the realism debate, held at the @unibe.ch and supported by the @snsf.ch. The recordings are now available online!😁

The image and audio quality, I'm afraid, is mixed despite editing, but here they are:

www.philosophie.unibe.ch/research/pro...

#philsci

¡Primer día de congreso!

It just came out! The new #UNAM #bioethics journal, Bioética UNAM. It publishes in Spanish or English. Check it out!
revista.bioetica.unam.mx/index.php/pub

People who are interested can now find a book symposium on my Cambridge Element, Logical Empiricism as Scientific Philosophy here: link.springer.com/collections/...

Thanks to Elisabeth Nemeth, James Pearson, and @audreysh.bsky.social for participating!

#philsci
#philsky

The first reads: "Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. Career. We're hiring.“ The second image shows Visiting Senior Research Fellow Dora Vargha on stage during our MPIWG Publication Slam in March 2025. The third shows a group of people at the institute's courtyard. Second image by MPIWG/Anna Ruhnow, 2025. Third image by MPIWG, 2017.

We're looking to hire a Web Editing and Public Relations Assistant!

💻 Edit & maintain our website
📫 Advance our newsletter, social media & print portfolio
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🗓️ Deadline: Sep 15, 2025
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#HistSci #SciComm #WissKomm

Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium: A Beautiful Digital Edition of the Poet’s Pressed Plants & Flowers Is Now Online So many writers have been gardeners and have written about gardens that it might be easier to make a list of those who didn’t. But even in this crowded company, Emily Dickinson stands out.

Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium: A Beautiful Digital Edition of the Poet’s Pressed Plants & Flowers Is Now Online

Book cover of "The Riddle of Organismal Agency: New Historical and Philosophical Reflections" (Routledge, 2024). The book belongs to the "History and Philosophy of Biology" series. The editors are Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda, Jan Baedke, Guido I. Prieto, and Gregory Radick. The design features a geometric pattern of interlocking, multicolored triangles in shades of red, yellow, teal, white, and pink. The Routledge logo appears in the lower right corner.

Organismal agency is one of today's liveliest debates in the life sciences. Our volume—published a year ago—brings historians, philosophers & scientists into the conversation, offering the kind of nuanced treatment this complex issue deserves 👇 www.routledge.com/The-Riddle-o... #HPS #evosky #philsky

Candidates must have expertise and research interests in an area of philosophy and a demonstrable ability to conduct research that has a substantial connection to Artificial Intelligence (AI). We interpret a substantial connection to AI broadly to include, for example, the intersection of AI and philosophy of science, AI and logic/formal methods, AI and moral and political philosophy, and/or AI and philosophy of law. Candidates must be willing and able to make a substantial research-led contribution to the Department’s core teaching provision. (More information about our courses can be found here.)

Candidates must have expertise and research interests in an area of philosophy that has a substantial research connection to sustainability. Candidates must be able to develop a new course in philosophy and sustainability, and be able to make a substantial, research-led contribution to the Department’s core teaching provision. (More information about our courses can be found here.) This role is fully based in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, but involves extensive collaboration with LSE’s new Global School of Sustainability (GSoS). Candidates are expected to be committed to this collaboration and willing to contribute to GSoS activities. We therefore particularly welcome candidates whose work bears on GSoS’s five research themes.

Two job ads for people in philosophy in my dept (www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOD999/a... and www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOD995/a...). Ever heard of this thing called AI? You probably haven't it's pretty niche. But if you have maybe apply? Also this even more niche thing (sustainability) so that too.

Associate Professor/Professor in Cambridge Digital Humanities at University of Cambridge An academic position as a Associate Professor/Professor in Cambridge Digital Humanities is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunit...

We're hiring an Associate Professor/Professor at Cambridge Digital Humanities. Specialisms include Digital History/Mapping, Critical Data Studies, Archive and Memory Studies, Digital Media Arts, Environmental Humanities, AI/Digital Visual Culture.

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOD837/a...

Methods in the Philosophy of Science The last twenty years have seen multiple methodological revolutions in the philosophy of science: There has been increased diversity concerning the questions...

Methods in the Philosophy of Science: A User's Guide is now a real, live book. My chapter offers an appraisal of philosophy of science in its engagement with applied mathematics. With immense gratitude for the vision and execution of @phieveigl.bsky.social and @adrian-currie.bsky.social sky.social.

The Department of Science and Technology Studies at the @univie.ac.at is now recruiting for a full professor in Science and Technology Studies!

📅 Deadline for Application 17 September 2025.

Please share widely with your colleagues and those who may be interested! #STS

Apply now: ⤵️

I love that the epigraph to this article is this real sentence still up there on the IEP website: ‘Authors who do not speak English as their primary language must have their articles revised by a native English speaker, or equivalent, prior to submission.’ 😂

Four copies of a book titled "Network Analysis for Book Historians"

Author copies arrived today! 😍🥳
#dh #bookhistory #medievalsky

It’s been a week since #ISHPSSB2025 in Porto, and I’m still thinking about the many amazing presentations and discussions. I also presented a new paper I'm working on: "Interspecific Social Relationships, Kinship, and Environmental Care." Thank you so much for the feedback and inspiration!

2025 Conference Submissions are now open and are due by August 8th. Abstracts can be submitted here. We are pleased to announce that the 2025 conference of the Australasian Association for the History, Phil…

Submissions for the AAHPSSS 2025 conference close on August 8th!

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 can be found on our website: aahpsss.net.au/conference/2...

The next Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (SPSP) conference will be held at the University of Cambridge, U.K, on 15-18 July 2026.
#philsci
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¡¡Ahí nos vemos la siguiente semana!!
www.filosoficas.unam.mx/sitio/jornad....

Western Canadian Philosophical Association Extended Deadline Poster. The new deadline is August 15, 2025. Submit via EasyChair portal, link accessible on the http://wcpaonline.ca/ site.

Dear all, we are extending the deadline for the WCPA Call for Papers. The new deadline is August 15, 2025. Please send your papers, and thanks for all the interest. With already a large number of submissions, this is going to be a great conference! #philosophy #conference #UniversistyOfAlberta

S5 E3 - Hans-Jörg Rheinberger on Epistemic Things The HPS Podcast - Conversations from History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science · Episode

It was a true privilege to have had the chance to interview Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, whose work has long influenced both my research interests and engagement with this discipline.

It's this week's episode of
The HPS Podcast – out now! 🎧

@hpspodcast.bsky.social

#hps #histsci #experiments

Perspectivism, Concrete and Abstract - Foundations of Physics Perspectivist positions have been proposed in physics, notably in order to address the interpretive difficulties of quantum mechanics. Recently, some versions of perspectivism have also been proposed ...

My article "Perspectivism, concrete and abstract" is now published (open access)!

This is a conceptual analysis of perspectivism *in general*, then applied to shed light on both quantum perspectivism, perspectival realism, and their differences.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#philsci #philsky

Cover of the book ‘The Victorians: A Botanical Perspective. Volume 1’, edited by Luís Manuel Mendonça de Carvalho and published by Springer.

📗 Luís Mendonça de Carvalho edited the book ‘The Victorians: A Botanical Perspective. Volume 1’ (Springer), which provides us with a 'unique re-evaluation of the Victorian Age and presents a new historiography based on plants'.
👉 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Applying multilevel selection to understand cancer evolution and progression Cancer is a prime example of multilevel selection. At an organismal level, natural selection has led to the evolution of diverse tumor suppression mechanisms, while at a cellular level, it favors trai...

New paper. Thank you Lucie Laplane and co-authors for inviting me to contribute to this paper. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Me standing in front of the title slide of my talk, entitled "The Historical Roots of Plant Agency: Lessons from Early 20th-Century Biology".

Group picture of people from the organized session "Pluralism, Epistemic Injustice, and Transdisciplinarity in the Life Sciences" plus guests.

Sunset over Porto

A picture made of tiles showing Jesus with a glass of wine in his hand and the words "Jesus bless portwine".

Back in the office after returning from Porto yesterday. I had a blast at #ISHPSSB2025! Thanks for all the great talks, the amazing community and a special thanks to everyone who came to my talk on the morning after the conference dinner to listen to me talking about the history of plant agency! 🥰🌳