ROTO Research Group

Thanks a lot!

Thanks Auguste! 😊

Thanks so much Celso!

Gracias Alejandra!

Stay tuned in this space for CfA for postdocs and PhDs coming live soon! #HPS #PhilSci #HPBio #STS #DigitalHumanities #DH

Many thanks!

Thanks!

A History and Philosophy of Plant Collections Rund 400 Millionen Pflanzenexemplare sind in Herbarien weltweit konserviert – ein wahrer Schatz, der lange vernachlässigt wurde. Heute werden die Pflanzen…

We are very excited! Jan Baedke received an @erc.europa.eu Consolidator Grant for his project “Botanical Legacies: Towards a New History and Philosophy of Virtual Herbaria”, linking the history of local plant knowers with current digitation trends & biodiversity issues.
#ERCCoG #HPS #PhilSci #HPBio

Yeahhh! Jan Baedke got an @erc.europa.eu Consolidator Grant! Thanks to everyone who supported this long process! #ERCCoG

Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium: A Forgotten Treasure at the Intersection of Science and Poetry An elegy for time and the mortality of beauty, composed with passionate patience and a sensuous cadence.

Emily Dickinson's herbarium – a forgotten treasure at the intersection of poetry and science www.themarginalian.org/2017/05/23/e...

Assistant Professor in Philosophy of the Life Sciences Are you seeking a challenging role in a nurturing and collegial setting that supports rigorous philosophical teaching and research as well as opportunities for productive collaborations with social an...

Philosophy group at Wageningen University is hiring an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy of the Life Sciences. Position is in the Philosophy (PHI) group led by @rachelankeny.bsky.social Deadline is 12 January 2026
www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/a...
#philsci #philjobs #philsky #hpbio

Come work with us! We are looking for a postdoc in #philbio or #philphysics to work on an interdisciplinary project that adopts the lens of self-organization & active matter to explore the boundary between living & nonliving systems www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... #academicsky #philjobs #HPS #evosky

Applications open for Ischia Summer School!

Confirmed faculty: Daryn Lehoux (Queen’s), Dániel Margócsy (Cambridge), He Bian (Princeton), Patrick Anthony (Uppsala), Alison Bashford (UNSW), Hannah Landecker (UCLA), Edna Suárez-Díaz (UNAM), Sabina Leonelli (TUM) #STS #HPS

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Biological Theory is now on Bluesky!

We have a new team of editors and a new editorial board.

We will soon be posting about all our articles.

Find out more about the journal at link.springer.com/journal/13752

Little reminder that you can still register for the next talk in our online ROTO Lecture Series!
Just click the link and join the talk and discussion on Monday 🤗
rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture...
#PhilSci #HPBio

Colourful cover of the book METHODS IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE A User's Guide EDITED BY SOPHIE J. VEIGL AND ADRIAN CURRIE

Delighted to receive my own copy! Here is the press site where eventually the volume will be available as open access mitpress.mit.edu/978026255224... well done again @adrian-currie.bsky.social @phieveigl.bsky.social

Shifting Values and Shifting Risks: Debates on the New Biology in Germany and the United States Before and After Asilomar (1960–1980) - Journal of the History of Biology This article argues that while the 1975 Asilomar Conference on Recombinant Molecules gave rise to new developments in science policy, the subsequent debates about genetic engineering should not be vie...

Christina Brandt's article, "Shifting Values and Shifting Risks: Debates on the New Biology in Germany and the United States Before and After Asilomar (1960–1980)", has just been published in the latest issue of Journal of the History of Biology: link.springer.com/article/10.1.... In Open Access!

Poster for the XIV Workshop on Philosophy of Biology and Cognitive Sciences. The background is dark green with large yellow text and decorative abstract flower illustrations in red, yellow, and green at the corners. Dates ‘18–19 June’ appear at the top right, along with the venue: UNED, Edificio de Humanidades, Paseo de la Senda del Rey 7, Madrid. The keynote speakers are Enara García (SDU), Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda (KU Leuven), and José Antonio Pérez-Escobar (UNED). A bold yellow banner reads ‘Call for Abstracts,’ with a deadline of 15 January. At the bottom is a contact email: xivpbcs@gmail.com

I am incredibly honored to have been invited as one of the keynote speakers for the XIV PBCS! This long-standing initiative is very supportive of graduate students & early-career researchers, so I encourage everyone to submit their abstracts! See you in Madrid next year! #HPS #HPbio #cogsci #philsky

Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written fully by AI Controversy has erupted after 21% of manuscript reviews for an international AI conference were found to be generated by artificial intelligence.

#philsci
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Poster for the talk by Rebecca Sear, entitled "21st century eugenics, scientific racism and the role of academia in promoting political ideology". It will take place on Monday, 8 December 2025 at 4 pm (CET) via Zoom.

Next week, we welcome @rebeccasear.bsky.social in our Lecture Series. Rebecca will talk about 21st century eugenics, scientific racism and the role of academia in promoting political ideology. Just register here to participate 👉 rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture...
#PhilSci #HPBio

The question what excites you about microbiome research? is at the center, a whale and indigenous knowledge, three laughing faces, mushroom, snails and microbes.

We invite you to submit a proposal for our special issue "The Human Diversity Dilemma: Navigating the Intersection of Microbiomes, Ethics and Society in Africa" to appear at the South African Journal of Science. Find the call here 👉 sajs.co.za/call-human-d... #philsci #philsky #HPS #hpbio #histsci 🦠

B/W photo of Christine Ladd-Franklin

Logician, psychologist and expert for colour vision, Christine Ladd Franklin, who fought against prejudice against women in academia her whole life, was born 1 December 1847 #histsci

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Screenshot from zoom showing a slide on the problems of intercultural translation and two proposals on how to deal with them as well as the speaker Charbel El-Hani.

Screenshot from zoom showing online participants and some of the live audience.

A big thanks to @charbelelhani.bsky.social who gave a great hybrid talk in our lecture series yesterday! He gave insights into his work with communities in Brazil and talked about pragmatist explanations for partial overlaps between knowledge systems.
#HPBio #PhilSci

You can still register for the hybrid talk in our Lecture Series today: rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture...
See your at 6pm (CET) at RUB or in zoom 🤗
#PhilSci

Dr. Yasmin Haddad (Postdoctoral Fellow at UQAM) continues our online speaker series with the talk "When imprecision is a bad thing: the case of ancestry" on December 2nd. You can register to attend via zoom here: hugera.org/lecture-seri...

Screenshot from zoom showing the title slide of the talk by Christopher Shambaugh, entitled "What is Dialectical Biology?" as well as the speaker.

Screenshot from zoom showing a slide with the roadmap of the talk microbiology as well as the participants.

Participants in Zoom.

A big thanks to @cshambaugh.bsky.social who took us on a deep dive into the history of dialectical biology yesterday! Thank you also to everyone who joined the talk and discussion!

You can still register for today's talk in our lecture series!
rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture...
#HPBio #PhilSci #HistSci

The incredible takahē story Thought to be extinct not once but twice, the takahē's remarkable story of survival and rediscovery is a testament to the resilience of nature.

After being declared extinct twice(!), it was on this day in 1948 that the Takahē (Porphyrio hochstetteri) was rediscovered again. Thanks to intensive conservation work there are now more than 500. www.doc.govt.nz/our-work/tak...

Poster for the hybrid talk by Charbel El-Hani (Federal University of Bahia), entitled "Learning from Partial Overlaps Between Knowledge Systems". It will take place on Thursday, 27 November, at 6pm (CET) in GA 3/143, Ruhr University Bochum, as well as online via zoom.

Next week, we have two talks in the ROTO Lecture Series! On Thursday(!), we welcome @charbelelhani.bsky.social for a hybrid talk on partial overlaps between knowledge systems. If you're at RUB, come to GA 3/143 at 6pm, otherwise register here to join online 👉 rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture...

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