Kate Nave

Book cover with a green gradient background for "The Organism–Environment Pairing: A Historical and Philosophical Reappraisal" by Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda (MIT Press, 2026). The book series label “The Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology” appears at the top. The title is set in large, bold lettering using three colors: white (“The” and “Pairing”), warm yellow (“Organism–”), and bright green (“Environment”). The subtitle appears below in smaller white text, and the author’s name is printed at the bottom. In the lower right, a monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) rests on clusters of pink milkweed flowers. Behind it, a large pale-green butterfly silhouette fills the background; its outline follows the shape of a red lacewing butterfly (Cethosia biblis). The layered butterflies visually echo the book’s central idea of an organism–environment pairing.

What a joy to finally share the cover of The Organism–Environment Pairing (@mitpress.bsky.social)! The 📗 will be out on May 12 📆! I look forward to the conversations it sparks among scientists, philosophers & historians! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205282... #evosky #histsci #philsci #philsky #booksky 🌱🐋

Philosophy has this journal and the papers in it are so good that they have to lock them up in a place called the ‘philosophy documentation center’ so that no one can read them.

First 24 hours of embryonic development in 9 different animal species: (From left to right) Zebrafish, Sea urchin, Black widow spider, Tardigrade, Sea squirt, Comb jelly, Parchment tube worm, Roundworm, Slipper snail. Credit to @tessamontague.bsky.social & Zuzka Vavrušová. #ZebrafishZunday #devbio 🧪

Collective dynamical regimes predict invasion success and impacts in microbial communities - Nature Ecology & Evolution Predicting invasion outcomes in microbial communities is challenging. Here the authors demonstrate that these outcomes in both theoretical and experimental microbial communities can be predicted based...

Incredible! The ultimate experiment. If we could only do something like this for brains, it would go *so far* toward understanding brain and mental conditions.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Finally ! My book on metaphysics/biology soon out
And open access #philsci #kant #histbio #organism

www.routledge.com/When-Metaphy...

Many Minds podcast – Listener survey A brief survey for listeners of the Many Minds podcast.

Happy 6th anniversary to us!! 🎉🎉

Thanks for spending time with us, old friends and new! As we celebrate this milestone, we've launched a short audience survey to get your thoughts on the show (and its future).

We would be most grateful for your participation!

Link: forms.gle/AnJSopuX8Cho...

1/ New paper! “Gender and retention patterns among U.S. faculty” w/ N Laberge KH Wapman @samzhang AC Morgan M Galesic BK Fosdick @danlarremore @aaronclauset: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A systematic study of gendered rates & reasons for faculty attrition in US academia 🧵

so pleased that *Romantic Empiricism* is now out in Paperback for a much more reasonable price!

*And it is slightly revised - with some important additions of reference to works that appeared in the last few years*

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I love that, despite blue whales being principally known for their size, we're still unable to talk about them without specifically emphasising how huge they are.

I'll be speaking there as well, about rewilding all the things.

Incredibly excited to be there!

Call for abstracts: Rewilding the Web: diversity and resilience in digital infrastructure This workshop will bring together ecologists, philosophers, cultural theorists, and technologists to discuss how contemporary insights from theoretical biology and ecology can provide a richer understanding of what makes for a thriving biosphere, and how this might provide inspiration for cultivating sociotechnical infrastructure that is more resilient against co-option by monopolising tendencies.

@kathrynnave.bsky.social and Dave Ward are organising a workshop in Edinburgh on rewilding the web at the end of May! I'll be speaking about https://anil.recoil.org/papers/2025-internet-ecology there, and I hope to see some of you there too!

Super excited to announce our big annual conference! 🥳

"Caring for Non-Humans: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Care among Animals, the Environment, and AI"

📍Prague, October 12-14

Organized by @johndorsch.bsky.social & yours truly 😇

Please share widely! 🙏

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This PhD studentship will look at how concepts in ethics and political philosophy might give us new perspectives in philosophy of science about concepts of idealization, representation and model use.

Find out more & apply by 16 March 👇
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Screen shot of a news article, headline reads: “California condors are very rare, but 10% of them are trashing this woman’s house” Additional text: “Only about 200 of the birds live in the wild — and 20 of them are outside of Cinda Mikols’ home” From May 11th, 2021 Photo of birds trashing a deck

Yes I found this on the “sounds like a Mountain Goats lyric” group

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Applications for the 2026 Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI) are now open!!

Are you interested in intelligence, mind, and cognition in all its forms? Early-career scholars from any discipline—and storytellers in any medium—are encouraged to apply!

More info: disi.org

Computational Neuroscience 3 Weeks, 6-24 July 20206

Applications are open for #CompNeuro, a live, intensive online course. Participants learn to combine modern #MachineLearning and causality frameworks with advanced modeling approaches to tackle real #neuroscience questions.

neuromatch.io/computationa...

Book cover of “Temporal Cognition in Animals” by Angelica Kaufmann in the Cambridge Elements: The Philosophy of Biology series. Against a black background, the title is surrounded by Ernst Haeckel’s illustrations of marine organisms—radial, symmetrical forms in vivid blues, oranges, reds, and greens.

Do non-human animals represent time? New Element in the #PhilBio series by Angelica Kaufmann—free to download until March 16! Kaufmann argues that temporal cognition is widespread across many animal species & advances comparative analyses 👇📕 www.cambridge.org/core/element... #evosky #HPS #cogsci

Portrait of Bill Wimsatt

I’m excited to finally announce a Festschrift SI at Acta Biotheoretica honoring the work of Bill Wimsatt with the SI’s first publication by @consume.red and @philosofir.bsky.social! The editors (@caitlinmace.bsky.social and I) are delighted! #philsci #hpbio link.springer.com/article/10.1...

This Wednesday, 16:00 — @cperistianis.bsky.social

How do you farm land patrolled by soldiers?

Since 1974, Greek Cypriot farmers have cultivated fields inside the Buffer Zone — alongside military forces and UN peacekeepers.

In person & online.
Register forms.gle/5rSrXr1TyDW8...

Our Critical Data Studies group at @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social has a few talks this semester:

March 27th: Jonathan Gray: Public Data Cultures

April 1st: Amelia Acker: Archiving Machines: A Material History of Data Storage

April 29th: Sophie Bishop: Influencer Creep

See eventbrites below

Chapter 1 of Moby Dick, page 1 The phrase ‘Call me Ishmael’, the first sentence of the book, is highlighted in blue, with careful highlighting on the very big C at the start. Above this, written in ballpoint pen ‘His name’

Love the glimpse into the beautiful mind that notated this used copy of Moby Dick I got

Poster for the call. All relevant information is in thread

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Excited to share the call for posters & registration for the 2nd XSCAPE Workshop: "Varieties of Externalism" !

📅 Friday, April 10th, 2026 — Gallery Room, Bramber House, University of Sussex

Registration is free but places are limited. 🧵

I'll count this hilarious @bergerandwyse cartoon as a map 😉 🗺️ 🐦️

Consciousness researchers need Spinoza <p><em>The mind-matter problem still haunts us to this day. The question of how and why consciousness and the physical world interact and influence one another remains a mystery. In response to this p...

Philosopher Jordi Galiano-Landeira here argues that Spinoza’s philosophy is panpsychist – matter contains mind – and that integrated-information theory can help solve some of the remaining problems with panpsychism. iai.tv/articles/con... #Spinoza #consciousness #IIT #philsky #PhilosophySky

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Incredibly excited to be working with PHaR on this conference! I attended their conference last year and had an absolute blast.

Please do apply to present if you can!

New paper by @gjseverino.bsky.social!
(HE'S ON THE MARKET, JUST SAYIN'...)

"Social contingency in embodied neural networks relies on co-constructed dynamical mechanisms"
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B @royalsociety.org

OA: royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...

British Society for the Philosophy of Science Doctoral Scholarships Doctoral scholarships awarded by the BSPS for doctoral work in the philosophy of science undertaken at any UK university

We are now accepting applications for the 2026 Doctoral Scholarship Competition! (The Competition closes at noon on Friday 27 March.) www.thebsps.org/funding/doct...
#philsci #philosophyofscience #phdfunding

Epstein’s ugly world of science As with Peter Mandelson, so in the science world: the Epstein files are not telling us anything that most ordinary punters didn’t already know, but are revealing the full, rotten, appalling extent …

Just added this to my WordPress site, so it's free to read.
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YouTube video by The Dissenter #1215 Mauricio Suárez - Inference and Representation: A Study in Modeling Science

New episode (1215), with Dr. Mauricio Suárez (@msuarez.bsky.social). We talk about his great book, Inference and Representation: A Study in Modeling Science. #Philosophy #Science

YouTube: youtu.be/jMSVX0fQJYo
Podcast: bit.ly/4rKRRQb