Hanna Douwes

Philosophy of Biology Welcome to Cambridge Core

Here's your chance to download not only my book 'Slime Mould and Philosophy' , but download ALL the books in Cambridge Elements Philosophy of Biology series from the 20th to the 25th of July for FREE! I highly recommend Jan Baedke's (2025) book 'The Organism'.
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Tactical deception in cephalopods: a new framework for understanding cognition Many animals rely on deception, including signalling misinformation, to gain advantages over others. While many deceptive strategies rely on deterministic patterns or conditioning, some taxa can flexi...

Tactical deception in cephalopods: a new framework for understanding cognition www.cell.com/trends/ecolo... 🦑🧪

Rapport KNAW: Academische vrijheid in Nederland

Academische vrijheid staat onder druk en moet beter worden beschermd. Die conclusie lees je vandaag in dit KNAW-rapport: www.knaw.nl/nieuws/knaw-... Aanbevelingen o.m.: meer vrijheid van onderzoek, bescherming tegen intimidatie en minder inhoudelijke overheidsbemoeienis.

Trumps sloopkogel door de wetenschap raakt ook Nederlandse wetenschappers | Investico Onderzoeksjournalisten Wetenschappers in heel Nederland worden geraakt door het beleid-Trump: hun onderzoeken liggen stil, ze kunnen niet meer samenwerken met Amerikaanse collega’s of zien belangrijke data verdwijnen.

Nieuws | Wetenschappers aan bijna alle Nederlandse universiteiten worden direct geraakt door de regering Trump: financiering verdwijnt, data-sets worden gewist en onderzoekers durven niet meer naar de VS, ism @nu.nl @groene.nl ‪@hopersbureau.bsky.social‬

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New paper: “The clonality window: relatedness and the group covariance effect in the evolution of division of labour”, with @kztwyman.bsky.social #OpenAccess

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@journal-evo.bsky.social #Image: #ChatGPT #Evolution #OA

Fantastic thread by @patricepottier.bsky.social summarizing their team's work on climate threats to amphibians. Over 100 species already at thermal limits, & many more will be. Extreme heat really important, including at hourly level, & conserving microclimate refuge vital.
Read the thread! 🐸 🧪 🌎

Animals Are More Rational Than You Think What we can learn from alligators that lure birds with twigs

Do animals have the ability to reason? What we can learn from alligators that lure birds with twigs 🧪

The progress flag in the shape of a shield against an outdoorsy background, titled "Pride guidelines: pointers for research that is inclusive, diverse, and equitable for LGBTQ+ fieldworkers"

New LGBTQ+ science resources! Today, we’re excited to share our PRIDE Guidelines for LGBTQ+ inclusive field work at inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/pride. Please share widely and see the thread below for more details 🧪🌍🌐

Agents and Goals in Evolution Abstract. In evolutionary biology, there is a mode of thinking which is quite common, and philosophically significant. This is ‘agential thinking’. In its

You could have a look at Okasha's Agents and Goals in Evolution: academic.oup.com/book/10322

Imagine this: you go diving every day in the same spot in the ocean. Pretty soon, fish turn up to swim with you. But they don't just follow anyone. It's you they recognize.

A first-ever study of human recognition in wild fish @royalsocietypublishing.org
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Friday morning 🥰

Differences in misinformation sharing can lead to politically asymmetric sanctions - Nature We find that conservatives tend to share more low-quality news through social media than liberals, and so even if technology companies enact politically neutral anti-misinformation policies, political...

🚨In Nature🚨
Meta is dropping fact-checking to avoid anti-conservative bias- but is there actually evidence of bias?
We this test empirically & find that conservatives
* ARE suspended more
* BUT share more misinfo
So suspension isn't necessarily evidence of bias www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New book "Explanation in Biology" with Cambridge University Press is out & open access!

Covers (1) causal explanation & (2) non-causal/mathematical explanation in life sciences--bio, neuro, etc 🌿🧬🧠

Introduction to philosophical work on scientific explanation!

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list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Photograph of the profile of a bamboo pit viper's head, with a golden eye and green and yellow scales.

We might feel that our experience of the world is somehow “correct,” but our vision, hearing, and sensitivity to magnetism are bested by those of other animals. How do our fellow Earthlings experience the world? We're “Coming to our Animal Senses” on @bipisci.bsky.social https://buff.ly/4jI7THh 🧪