Ann-Christin Fischer

For all my @ruhr-uni-bochum.de people: I am part of the organizers of this cool reading group since almost 2 years now. Feel free to join this amazing PhD safe space with great people!

Overview of the ROTO Lecture Series in the winter semester 2025/2026. The talks will be: - "Race Reification and Population Descriptors in Human Genomics" by Celso Neto (University of Exeter) - "Understanding plant holobionts through complexity science" by César Marín (Universidad Santo Tomás) - "What is Dialectical Biology?" by Chris Shambaugh (University of Oregon) - "Learning from Partial Overlaps Between Knowledge Systems" by Charbel El-Hani (Federal University of Bahia) - "21st century eugenics, scientific racism and the role of academia in promoting political ideology" by Rebecca Sear (Brunel University London) - "The Organism and the System: Boundary Crossings in 20th Century Science" by Libby O’Neil (Mississippi State University)

New semester, new lecture series 🎉Starting next month, we welcome amazing scholars to give online talks in the history and philosophy of life sciences. Find all dates and registration links here: rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture...
We look forward to seeing you there 🤗
#PhilSci #HistSci #HPBio

Yesterday we had an amazing Social Gathering for young scholars at #EPSA25. The view and the discussions were great! Thanks to the local organizers and the @epsaphilsci.bsky.social for the financial support.

Phase behavior of Cacio e Pepe sauce “Pasta alla Cacio e pepe” is a traditional Italian dish made with pasta, pecorino cheese, and pepper. Despite its simple ingredient list, achieving the perfect

🍝🍝I already am hungry and than🍝🍝 pubs.aip.org/aip/pof/arti...

Big day at #EPSA25 for my group: first presenting joint paper with Emma Cavazzoni on data models & AI for pest monitoring, then symposium with Richard Williams on the role of philosophy in policy, my own paper on the case of Environmental Intelligence - details: philsci.eu/EPSA25/Progr... #philsci

☝️EPSA 2025 in Groningen☝️
If you are a (self-identified) junior scholar join our
🥂Young Scholar Drinks🍻
tonight. All information in your inbox and on the flyer in the conference bag. I am very much looking forward to all of you 🎉
@epsaphilsci.bsky.social #epsa2025 #philsci

So excited for #EPSA25 at Groningen.
@epsaphilsci.bsky.social and the organizers has created a great program.

CFA The Human Diversity Dilemma: Navigating the intersection of microbes, ethics & society
ISHPSSB Off-Year Workshop
Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa
October 1-3, 2025
Abstracts due Aug.18
Organizers @abigailnd.bsky.social & @msimang.bsky.social
#philsci #STS 🦠
More info ⤵️

Needed to summarize my PhD Project in 3min and realized I am the interesting spot of being behind and before the schedule. Is this a collective experience?
#PhD #PhilSci #HPS

‘Worrying’ levels of screen time means young people losing confidence to socialise in person, minister warns – UK politics live Culture secretary Lisa Nandy says ‘majority of young people spend all, or almost all, of their free time alone in their bedrooms, online’

This is not caused primarily by "screen time".

It's been caused by the mass eradication of third places for young people in basically every city over the past three decades - and a society that's hostile to the concept of teens socialising in public spaces.

www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

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

This!

Such a fun an intense time @ishpssb2025.bsky.social with @nmorar.bsky.social @utrechthps.bsky.social Thanks for the amazing discussion!

Today it's my turn!

For those who want to follow the programme, here's the link:
lnkd.in/dpZFnXAE

#ISHPSSB2025

Thanks to everyone that made #ishpssb2025 possible! Especially all the students in tech support and all the invisible work done. Muito obrigada!

Pollinator Pathmaker Design and plant gardens for endangered bees, butterflies and other pollinators using the algorithmic tool - an artwork by Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg.

Amazing session this afternoon at #ISHPSSB2025 about "Reimagining gardens"! 🌷🌳 Go check out the project pollinator.art by Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg - it's really cool!

Got amazing feedback after my talk at #ISHPSSB2025 . Thanks for everyone attending the session on Epistemic Injustice and my talk on endometriosis and ignorance.

For more: Feel free to write me a mail!

This isn’t just accidental. It’s part of a long history of epistemic injustice and ignorance, where certain groups’ knowledge, body and experience are systematically devalued. We’re digging into that tomorrow through the lens of endometriosis, reproductive bias, and the politics of ignorance.

Men are often failed by health systems because of toxic masculinity — they’re discouraged from seeking help. But women are failed when they do seek help. Being “in the system” doesn’t help if the system doesn’t listen or lacks the science because women’s bodies haven’t been taken seriously.

Important questions — thank you for asking! Yes, women often live longer, but living longer doesn’t mean living better. The phrase “women live sicker” captures the brutal truth: women’s health concerns are dismissed, misdiagnosed, and under-researched for decades.

That is a great questions and points to issue related to feminism and toxic masculinity. The quick answer is that men die quicker and women live sicker. Women experience more neglect in the health care systems, men do not go. Social, biological, behavioral factors intersect in complex ways.

ROTO members Jan, Ann-Christin and Vera together with ROTO fellow Abigail on the bridge with the roofs of Porto in the background.

Accidental ROTO team meeting on the Ponte Dom Luís I. in Porto 😊
We're ready for #ISHPSSB2025!

That was such an interesting session and talk! It got me thinking about evidential standards in different sciences 🤔

Great talks from other scholars in this session too — come join us!
#philosophyofscience #feministSTS #womeninmedicine

Excited to speak tomorrow at #ISHPSSB2025 about the female health care gap, reproductive focus, and infantilization of women — using endometriosis as a case including Ignorance Studies and Epistemic Injustice.

🧠 Researchers of all genders are warmly invited — this conversation needs all!

New publication, in press 🚨Psychedelics Beyond Medicine: Treatment, Enhancement, Hype, Consent, and the Limits of Medicalization - led by @Katherine_Chg, Mina Caraccio, Sebastian Porsdam Mann, with @ExistWell @psychedelethics and others in @JournalPHP www.researchgate.net/publication/...

And ofc I wanna thank @marianomvillu.bsky.social for the great teamwork in organizing this event series!💐

🧑‍🤝‍🧑The @epsaphilsci.bsky.social online series for junior scholar came to and end yesterday and I wanna thank every speaker for spending their time and energy to provide support to junior scholars🎓
The PhilSci community is stronger together if we support each other! Thanks for showing up💐
#HPS #PhilSci