Federico Boem

Submitted abstracts will be selected to appear in an interdisciplinary OA special issue in the South African Journal of Science! sajs.co.za 🙌 Deadline: August 18th. Early career scholars accepted can request travel support to our writeshop in Cape Town!
#hps #phibio #microbiome #philsci 🦠

We got great news! @ishpssb2025.bsky.social gave us funding to support early career travel to our event in October! Deadline for abstract submission is extended until Aug 18. Don't miss this chance! #phibio #hps #microbiome #philsci 🦠

Merci! Without you guys, I wouldn't be where I am today. I hope to keep flying the flag high!

#ISHPSSB is over. I presented my preliminary work on hype, distortion and reproducibility in #microbiome science. This work would never have been possible without my collaboration with scientists from various labs and my participation in the @nanobubbles.bsky.social project on science correction.

Today it's my turn!

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

#ISHPSSB2025

It's great to be in Porto at ISHPSSB with so many friends and colleagues!

Embodied cognition, endurance running and evolution - Biology & Philosophy Embodied Cognition suggests that cognitive processes are deeply rooted into our bodily morphology and its sensorimotor interactions with the environment. Evolutionary Embodied Cognition suggests that ...

It took almost a year, but this is finally out, written together with my colleagues and friends Gabriele Ferretti and Silvano Zipoli Caiani.

It extends the framework of Evolutionary Embodied Cognition, by combining it with the Endurance Running Hypothesis.

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

"C'est une Révolte?"
"Non, Sire, c'est une Révolution."
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(probable) dialogue between Louis XVI and the Duke of La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt on hearing the news of the fall of the Bastille

#14Juillet

honored to join this @historyofscience.bsky.social roundtable @kathrynolesko.bsky.social's invitation. my contribution "Make Silicon Valley Boring Again!" argues that today's broligarchs aren't just aberrant relative to you & me, but even relative to the history of Silicon Valley...

The @nanobubbles.bsky.social podcast on science correction and its problems.

Listen now!

Updating the Discontinuity Theory to the Extended Immunity: The Symmunobiome Concept The evolution of the concept of the immune system from a set of composed cells and tissue that defend the host from exogenous agents into a system that has regulatory and homeostatic functions determ...

I am delighted to see this paper, written with Ingrid Lamminpää e Amedeo Amedei, published in the European Journal of Immunology. This is also provocative, with the specific aim of sparking debate since many aspects need to be further explored and clarified.

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

It's so nice to be here together. Talking about questionable practices in science and joyfully shouting ‘monorail’!

Today!
4 pm (Central Europe Time).
You can register here: rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture... to join the discussion!

On Thursday 29 and Friday 29 (2024) here at the Ruhr University Bochum, there will be this very interesting workshop on the philosophy and history of plants.

You van follow it also online and you can still register!

Matteo Mameli, Why Human Nature Matters & Marco J Nathan, The Quest for Human Nature | BJPS Review of Books Tim Lewens reviews Why Human Nature Matters, by Matteo Mameli, and The Quest for Human Nature, by Marco J Nathan

New from the BJPS Review of Books:

Why Human Nature Matters
by Matteo Mameli (@matteomameli.bsky.social)
&
The Quest for Human Nature
by Marco Nathan

—Reviewed by Tim Lewens

#philsky #philsci #hpbio

www.thebsps.org/reviewofbook...

1. Twenty-some years ago, as the embers of the intelligent design movement were dying out, a loose band of thinkers known as the New Atheists made a name for themselves by confusing materialist methodology with materialist metaphysics and going on the offensive against all of organized religion.

Poster for the talk by Lisa Gannett entitled "Are socially constructed populations a problem for human genetics and genomics?". It will take place on Monday, 18 November at 4pm (CET) via Zoom.

You can still register for today's talk in our ROTO Lecture Series! Lisa Gannett (Saint Mary's University) will talk about socially constructed populations in human genetics and genomics. Just click on the link and join the talk and discussion! rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture... #PhilSci #HPBio

Poster for the 11th RUB Workshop on the History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, entitled "Flora in focus: Tracing the roots of plants in history, philosophy and society". It will be held at Ruhr University Bochum on 28-29 November 2024. The speaker line-up and their abstracts can be found at https://rotoworkshop2024.wixsite.com/flora. The workshop is organized by Vera Straetmanns and Jan Baedke

We are very happy to announce our 11th ROTO Workshop, entitled "Flora in Focus". 🌱🌴 It will be held on November 28 & 29 in Bochum. We have a great line-up of speakers and everybody is welcome to join - online or in person.
rotoworkshop2024.wixsite.com/flora
#HPBio
#PhilSci
#HistSci