@kathrynnave.bsky.social
° Leverhulme Trust research fellow at EdinburghUni ° Book: A Drive to Survive http://bit.ly/3CQP9EZ ° Purposiveness, autonomy, agency ° CogSci, Philosophy, and Theoretical Biology ° Former science & technology journalist
🔥My first paper is out in Synthese — open access:
“From simulating to duplicating the brain”🔥
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Abstract below.
Would love to hear what you think (and especially any objections / counterexamples).
@springernature.com
Delighted to see this volume out and open access with lots of interesting chapters related to the human right to science. My chapter explores the notion of ‘epistemic jurisdictions’ as a way of better understanding the interlacing of local knowledge and scientific knowledge under this human right.
And if you want to understand why this is so, in many, many cases, watch the Channel 4 series about Sandi Toksvig restoring a woodland. Fly tipping, vandalism, ground torn up by motorbike and 4WD 'offroaders'.
39 Sudanese Chevening Scholarship finalists ejected this week from consideration for the scheme, for being Sudanese.
In episode 886, I talk with Dr. Randall Beer about autopoiesis, enactivism, dynamical systems, and evo-devo approaches in Biology. #Science
youtu.be/1YcSgczYqKk
1st McKinley Lab grad student’s 1st preprint!
@claireang.bsky.social studied how the uterus safely excises massive amounts of tissue during menstruation and pregnancy.
Come for her GORGEOUS images, stay for her incredible discoveries.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
w/ @akelleher1017.bsky.social
I'm co-organising this workshop on the idea of rewilding digital infrastructure in Edinburgh on the 28/29th May - and am somewhat overawed by all the incredible people who've agreed to speak.
And you could be one of them... If you submit an abstract by the (new deadline) of the 31 March.
The just-announced Open Source Endowment is now on Bluesky, and we're open to your ideas on how to identify critical OSS projects 🙏
CFP: Dialectics and Life (Marxism & Sciences, Issue 10)
Main topics: organism–environment coupling, critical 4E cognition, social metabolism, dialectical approaches to modeling.
Abstracts due 1 June 2026
👉 www.dialecticalsystems.eu/events/cfp-d...
Our fantastic podcast conversation with the inimitable philosopher and physicist Michel Bitbol has just dropped. Check it out for a wide ranging discussion of physics, reality, and consciousness. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Z0N...
Applications close on Monday (16 March) for this fully-funded PhD studentship in the Ethics of AI and Philosophy of Science!
Supervised by our CTMF Co-Director Dr Emily Sullivan, this studentship is part of the @erc.europa.eu project TOY: Machine learning in Science and Society: A dangerous toy?
NEW: for @nytimes.com, I wrote about a new study showing that queen bumblebees can breathe underwater, surviving submerged for a week
the “remarkable” study stems from a lab snafu, when a co-author thought she accidentally drowned several bees—but later found that they were alive 🧪
gift link 🎁
Confirmed :) We've extended it to allow a bit more time for submissions.
We're open to submissions from all disciplines, including, but not limited to: ecology and systems theory, theoretical biology, science and technology studies, computer science, economics, and of course, philosophy...
I'm co-organising this workshop on the idea of rewilding digital infrastructure in Edinburgh on the 28/29th May - and am somewhat overawed by all the incredible people who've agreed to speak.
And you could be one of them... If you submit an abstract by the (new deadline) of the 31 March.
Indeterminism means pervasive indefiniteness, not determinism-plus-randomness. Henry Potter, @wiringthebrain.bsky.social & George Ellis explain why this is so and what it implies for the free will debate in their new paper in my Topical Collection, see link.springer.com/article/10.1... #FreeWill
Are we really about to talk to whales?
Join us TODAY for a fascinating talk by Luke Rendell, who has a number of seminal papers on human and animal social learning. Dont miss this! See you at 11am:
New paper: The origins of meaning: From pragmatic control signals to semantic representations
philosophymindscience.org/index.php/ph...
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 🧪
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...
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*
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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!
