Martin Zach

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"Immunology Meets Philosophy vol. 2" focuses on host-microbe interactions while highlighting a variety of conceptual approaches and phenomena, from infectious diseases to evolutionary and metabolic perspectives. #ImmunoSky #philbio #philsci
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Pokračování mého "blogu", tentokrát stručně představuji obor filosofie vědy a k čemu je dobrý.
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New book by Maël Lemoine in CUP. Very cool stuff! And surely provocative to many in philosophy of medicine. #philmed #philsci

Zabili filosofii, parchanti! - Médium.cz Filosofie je prý mrtvá, protože neudržela krok s moderní vědou. Jaký má ale filosofie vztah k vědě? Ačkoli určitá část filosofie opravdu zaspala dobu, obecně je filosofie mnohem pestřejší, než by se m...

Jak čas dovolí, formou krátkých příspěvků zkusím širšímu publiku představit obor filosofie vědy, včetně kontroverzních témat jako třeba ideologie ve vědě aj. První příspěvek je obecnější o vztahu filosofie a vědy, k čemuž se nejspíš občas vrátím. Za sdílení budu rád. medium.seznam.cz/clanek/marti...

Reinventing type 2 immunity in cancer - Nature This Review addresses the roles of type 2 immunity in cancer and the potential for cancer immunotherapies targeting this pathway.

"unlike type 1 immune responses, type 2 immunity is perceived as a potential promoter of tumorigenesis. Emerging evidence challenges this perspective, painting a more nuanced picture in which type 2 immunity might protect against or even actively suppress tumour growth and progression." #ImmunoSky

It's scary swimming in the great depths where darkness lurks.

Go follow @philinbiomed.bsky.social if you are interested in keeping track of events on conceptual questions in medicine and biology. #mediky #immunosky #philsci

Meaning and understanding in large language models - Synthese Can a machine understand the meanings of natural language? Recent developments in the generative large language models (LLMs) of artificial intelligence have led to the belief that traditional philoso...

My colleague, Vladimir Havlik, just published a paper in Synthese on meaning and understanding in LLMs - a controversial topic! Holiday reading for those interested. #AI #LLM #philsci

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One of the coolest places to do a degree in #philsci #philbio #philmed The training takes place in an immunology lab but welcomes applications from all fields of biology and medicine, and is open to those considering a career in science and/or philosophy.

SPSP Newsletter # 22 November 2024

Check out the new SPSP Newsletter #22, covering biomedical validation, philosophy of science for and with astrophysics, "evolving evolution", Uni of Valpareiso highlights, ... #philsci #philbio #philmed

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I am one of those who has no clue what process ontology ultimatrly is despite reading about it and talking to process ontologists. No problem with processes and ptocessual thinking, but with "process ontology". 🤷‍♂️

Published on #WorldPhilosophyDay out of all the days in existence as @elenapopaphi.bsky.social noted 🙂 #philosophy #PhilSky

How Technical Advances Changed the Concept of Antibodies Shaped by advances in scientific instrumentation and experimental techniques, the concept of antibody has undergone profound transformations throughout the history of immunology. Serological assays, ...

How did we arrive at our current notion of antibodies? With colleagues we show that the concept of antibodies has been the result of numerous shifts (progressive yet discontinuous conceptual changes in 100+ years) driven also by technology. #philsci #immunosky
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Here's a CFP for workshop on AI & consciousness that @tmarvan.bsky.social and I are co-organizing in Prague.

Science of Science: Understanding the Foundations and Limits of Science from an Interdisciplinary Perspective Abstract. How do we drive new knowledge and science? What are their present boundaries? And how can we improve science? We still do not understand these es

Glad to see this book in print by Alex Krauss. I read and commented on the draft. Now here's the final product in open access at OUP #philsci academic.oup.com/book/58964

YouTube video by Mezinárodní festival dokumentárních filmů Ji.hlava IF: Nové pojetí imunity / Revoluce v poznání o fungování našeho těla

Last week I was invited to give a public lecture on the conceptual changes regarding the understanding of immunity #immunosky, followed by an interview on the role of philosophy of science #philsci in such efforts. It's in Czech though .
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqeK...

Thanks! Unfortunately I am skipping PSA yet again, but fingres crossed I can make it to EPSA.

Hello blue sky-ers! Long time no see. Looks like this platform may be coming to life after all, or is it? Feels like other social media I am on have become dull. I even set up IG: @martinzach.ig only to realize I don't know what to do there. Is there any hope for blue sky, or also a ghost platform?

Towards Comparative Philosophy of Science (Special Issue of the Journal for General Philosophy of Science) CALL FOR PAPERS: Towards Comparative Philosophy of Science (Special Issue of the Journal for General Philosophy of Science) Guest editors: Simon Lohse (Nijmegen) & Karim Bschir (St....

📢 2nd CFP for a Special Issue of the *Journal for General Philosophy of Science*

"Towards Comparative Philosophy of Science"

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#philsci #philsky #HPS @jgps.bsky.social @philsci.bsky.social

Sometimes I can be literally a crybaby: I see a new juicy edited volume on modeling and many other related topics on which I have published as well, I enthusiastically read through it and... and find out I am not being cited a single time. 🤷‍♂️Well, I will grow up one day (COPIUM). #philsci

Professor Shimon Sakaguchi, a legend in contemporary immunology and the discoverer of a special type of white blood cells, was a guest at the Institute of Ph... Prof. Shimon Sakaguchi (Osaka University): Immune Tolerance and Regulatory T-cells, 20. 6. 2024

Recording of Shimon Sakaguchi's talk in Prague. #ImmunoSky The opening includes my remarks on the philosophical flavour of immunology, followed by
Dominik Filipp's speech and the Garnet Immunoglobulin award ceremony.
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Thrilled to have received the Otto Wichterle Award
"to stimulate and encourage selected, exceptionally outstanding, promising young scientists at the Czech Academy of Sciences for their remarkable contributions to the advancement of scientific knowledge in a given area of science." Ok then!

I am thrilled to be hosting one of the world's most recognized immunologists, Shimon Sakaguchi, in Prague, continuing the dialogue between immunology and philosophy, as also a part of my research project. #immunosky #philsci #philbio

The latest issue of the PhilInBioMed newsletter includes a short piece describing my project "Immunity and biological resilience: a conceptual framework" funded by #GACR. It's a collab between myself and an immunologist Dominik Filipp.

Read: www.philinbiomed.org/wp-content/u...
#philsci #ImmunoSky

I'll have to do more good deeds now to balance the scales.

I suppose as I could name several of those reasons as I am still there as well. But the content there has shifted considerably for me over a short period of time.

A question to ponder on Saturday: Am I a bad person for continuous engagement on twitter? Any serious and less serious thoughts?

I am safe at home with covid. It's indeed my alma mater (though not where I work). I am relived to say that some of the people I know are safe, but 15+ dead as of now and dozens severely injured...

Thanks! It also brings some much needed guarantee that whatever else may happen, I won't be out of job by the end of this year.