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How Private Equity Oversees the Ethics of Drug Research

'What happened during those reviews remains confidential, hidden behind the ethics panel’s closed doors. But the financial ties between the drugmaker and its ethics panel highlight how private-equity investors are transforming this obscure but vital corner of American health care'

Doctoral Researcher in Philosophy of the Medical S... The History and Philosophy of Medicine Group, led by Prof. Lara Keuck, is looking for a highly motivated candidate for a three-year PhD project in phi...

PhD position in philosophy of medicine

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Wider Than the Sky: An Alternative to “Mapping” the World Onto the Brain Challenging the topographic paradigm: The olfactory system's dynamic organization and phenomena like representational drift challenge traditional spatial mapping models, advocating for flexible, r...

'(...) the troubling question of who is actually making sense of such a cortical roadmap. Is there a tiny executive homunculus watching the visual, acoustic, somatosensory, and other sensory maps and sending out instructions to muscles in accordance with the picture of the world it is receiving?'

PhD Project in Philosophy of Science: Philosophical Perspectives on Animal Models in Translational Neuroscience

PhD project in philosophy of science in practice. The main PI is Sara Green. Check it out!

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A new #HOPOS paper from Tivadar Vervoort on the relations between Georg Lukács and the Frankfurt School and the French epistemologists including Michel Foucault.

“Nous Sommes Tous Néokantiens”: Foucault, Lukács, and the Critique of Social Forms

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Post-doc position in History and Philosophy of Science

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PhD position in History and Philosophy of Science

PhD and postdoc positions available in HPS at the University of Copenhagen. The project is “Human Variables in Biodiversity Assessment” with Joeri Witteveen.

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Two tenure track/ tenured positions--one Assist Prof & one Assoc Prof in Philosophy of Science &/or Technology at @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social

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Areas include phil of social science, Native American philo, phil of race
#philsci #philtech #philjobs

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 ⤵️

Integrating and interpreting brain maps | doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...

Imaging and recording technologies make it possible to map multiple biological features of the brain. How can these features be conceptually integrated into a coherent understanding of brain structure and function? ⤵️

Postdoc in Public Engagement around Personalized Medicine (Let's Get Personal)

STS postdoc position open at Medical Museion

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RIP #histsci Margaret Rossiter, who coined term Matilda Effect
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#philsci #feministsky

We already know that overselling findings and “story over substance” are a threat to scientific knowledge production.

I’m extremely worried that the massive restructuring of science funding will reproduce the same hype-dependent dynamic for research.

Different disciplines handle the division of labor between theory and experiment. Some fields have dedicated theoreticians who hardly ever do experiments (and vice versa). Others divide it less strongly or not at all.

Why is this?

The Catch in Catching Cancer Early New blood tests promise to detect malignancies before they’ve spread. But proving that these tests actually improve outcomes remains a stubborn challenge.

'To determine whether a screening truly works, we have to measure not survival time but mortality. Did fewer people die of cancer in the screened group? This is the outcome that really matters. Yet demonstrating such a benefit is slow, arduous work (...) you must wait for the final end point: death'

The plenary talk by Philip Ball, 24 July, #ISHPSSB2025, focusing on new biology - full house!
#hpbio #philsci #histstm #histsci #philbio #hbio #sts

A cardboard sheet with 18 tins of foreign bodies attached to it 1. - 12.: Halfpennies 13. Shilling 14. Florin 15. Button 16. Whistle 17. Chicken bone 18. Flakes of enamel.

This collection of foreign bodies removed from the oesophagus was donated to the museum in 1928.

Single-cell spatial mapping reveals reproducible cell type organization and spatially-dependent gene expression in gastruloids Gastruloids are three-dimensional stem-cell-based models that recapitulate key aspects of mammalian gastrulation, including formation of an anterior-posterior (AP) axis. However, we do not have detail...

Very excited to share our new work on gastruloids by the incredible Cat Triandafillou! We mapped gene expression across 26 individual gastruloids at single-cell resolution and discovered some pretty amazing patterns about how these "mini-embryos" organize themselves.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A Medical-History Museum Contends with Its Collection of Human Remains Supporters saw the Mütter’s preserved fetuses, skulls, and “Soap Lady” as a celebration of human difference. New management saw an ethical and a political minefield.

A Museum Contends with Its Collection of Human Remains www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

So sorry that Helen de Cruz has died. I have never met her in person, and don't know her work well. But during Covid, she suggested that we play music together (lute and voice). We only had a few online sessions but they made me appreciate what a brilliant and warm person she is. R.I.P. #philosophy

Alisa Bokulich & Wendy Parker, Understanding Data Uncertainty - PhilArchive Scientific data without uncertainty estimates are increasingly seen as incomplete. Recent discussions in the philosophy of data, however, have given little attention to the nature of uncertainty estim...

📣 My latest coauthored paper with Wendy Parker "Understanding Data Uncertainty" is finally forthcoming in /Studies in History & Philosophy of Science/:
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#philsci #philsky 🧪 #Data

Cell death and cancer: Metabolic interconnections www.cell.com/cell-report...

Book by Haig N Najariah called "Sex Lives of Animals without Backbones"

trying to understand my ex better

Lecture room as seen from the door window.

📣The #ISHPSSB2025 program has been released! Check it out here ➡️ ishpssb2025.icbas.up.pt/program/
#hpbio #philsci #histstm #histsci #philbio #hbio #sts

James DiFrisco (Crick Institute, UK) on "Moving beyond conceptual analysis: conceptual methodology for philosophy 'in' science"

The subfornical organ is a nucleus for gut-derived T cells that regulate behaviour - Nature A distinct population of CD4 T cells resides in specific regions of the steady-state brain, and these T cells are programmed in the periphery by the microbiome to coordinate adaptive behaviour.

Am I missing something here or does this paper report finding large clonal T cell populations shared across diverse tissues in humans using random T cells and sparse sampling (10x)? That surprises the hell out of me... CMV-reactive? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It is fun to make fun of, but I think that the "epistemic" bonanza gets at least something right: way more things are knowledge-production-related than we used to think.

One of my biggest fears is that people get the impression that I'm interested in technology

I just had a fascinating conversation with a stem-cell biologist about organoids.
SCB: These cells are trying as hard as they can to make the organ.
Me: I’m interested that you put it so agentially. So they are trying and failing?
SCB: Yes, clearly.
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