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Happy that you like it :))

Damn, you raised some expectations there ;) But pondering the question also sounds great :D

I'm very much looking forward to @cshambaugh.bsky.social finally explaining once and for all what the f*** dialectical biology is! 😃
#HPBio #PhilSci #HistSci

Header of the program for the Democracy Week saying "Democracy Week in building GA - an initiative of the Mittelbau. All events are open for interested members of all faculties."

This week, we celebrate Democracy Week in the GA building of @ruhr-uni-bochum.de. Come around, if you're on campus! We've put together a really great program: uni.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/sites/uni.ru...
Let's stand together against any queer- and democracy-hostile tendencies! 🏳️‍🌈

LGBTQ+ Journal Club is turning 1! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈To celebrate, here's a bit about what we've been up to over the past year: a thread of interesting papers in queer biology (1/n) ⬇️🧵

At the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Science, Institute of Philosophy, the Junior Professorship in Philosophy of Science (Jun.-Prof. Dr. Enno Fischer) offers a position as Research Associate / PostDoc (m/f/x) in Philosophy of Science / Philosophy of Physics (subject to personal qualification employees are remunerated according to salary group E 13 TV-L) starting at the earliest possible date. The position is limited to 2 years. The period of employment is governed by the Fixed Term Research Contracts Act (Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz - WissZeitVG). The position offers the chance to obtain further academic qualification (usually preparation of habilitation thesis). The position is part of the DFG project "Progress through Principles: An Epistemology of Foundational Assumptions Guiding Contemporary Physics" which examines the heuristic role of guiding principles in foundational physics. Further information about the project is available at https://tu-dresden.de/gsw/phil/iphil/phisci/forschung.

Apply to join a team of wonderful colleagues at Philosophy at TU Dresden. I am advertising a 2-year PostDoc position in philosophy of science/philosophy of physics as part of the DFG project 'Progress through Principles', deadline 03.11.2025.
Details: tinyurl.com/493dffby
#philsci #philsky

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A tiny tiny snail on a green-yellow Gingko leaf

Some tall, slim birches and conifers.

A beautiful tree with green, yellow and red leaves

Some tiny tiny clover leaves with water drops on them.

Even on a grey and rainy day in October (or especially then?), the botanical garden at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de is just magical 🤩🍂

Screenshot from zoom showing the title slide of the talk by Celso Neto, entitled "Race Reification and Population Descriptors in Human Genomics" as well as the speaker.

Screenshot from zoom showing a slide on recommended population descriptors for genomics studies and some of the participants.

Screenshot from zoom showing participants during the discussion.

A big thanks to @celsoneto.bsky.social who gave an inspiring talk on race reification in human genomics research yesterday! Thank you also to everyone who joined the talk and the great discussion afterwards!
#HPBio #PhilSci #PhilMed

Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology on Simons Foundation

Postdoc Opportunity - Interested in plant scaling, quantitative botany, or theoretical plant biology? join our group to explore how plant form, function & scaling principles connect across levels of organization
www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-postdoctoral-fellowships-in-plant-biology🧪🌾🌐

I'm very much looking forward to the BPC conference tomorrow and on Friday at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de! Everyone is welcome to attend and you can also watch the stream on zoom. I will give a talk at 4pm about early 20th century concepts of plant agency (featuring Arber, Ungerer and Francé). 🌿

Gruppenfoto der Teilnehmenden der GWMT-Jahrestagung 2025 in Dresden

Nach drei anregenden Tagen ist die Jahrestagung #gwmt2025 schon wieder vorbei.
Wir danken dem lokalen Organisationsteam für die tolle Vorbereitung!
Allen Teilnehmenden eine gute und sichere Heimreise und wir sehen uns 2026 in Prag!

Photo of the botanical garden in Dresden that we visited yesterday.

Photo of the Frauenkirche in Dresden

Photo of a cupboard full of coloring agents in glass bottles that we were shown during a tour through the historical color collection at the TU Dresden.

Photo of local organiser Gisela Hürlimann during her welcome address at the opening session of the conference.

Happy to be in Dresden for my 3rd conference this year: the annual meeting of the German Society for the History of Science, Medicine and Technology. Looking forward to learning a lot about animal history after already talking about plant history at the FoGeL meeting yesterday. 🦉🌳
#PhDSky #HistSci

I am quite excited to share a new preprint on the prospects for a 'metaphilosophy of science'—a second-order inquiry into the concepts, assumptions, aims, and methods that underpin philosophy of science itself. 👇📃 philsci-archive.pitt.edu/26661/ 1/3 #philsci #philsky #HPS #HPbio #metaphilosophy

We have some really great talks lined up for this semester 🤩

Basic Principles of Cognition 1st Basic Principles of Cognition Conference. October 9-10 , Bochum, Germany.

We are organising the 1st Basic Principles of Cognition conference at RUB, Germany, 9-10 October 2025. Save the date! #MinimalCognition #BasalCognition #CognitiveScience #CogSci #Philosophy #Mind #Life #Organism #Evolution basicprinciplesofcognition.wordpress.com

#EPSA25 #ESPP #GAP12 #KogWiss

We’re taking a short mid-season break, but we’ll be back next week with more great conversations!

In the meantime, why not catch up on some of our earlier episodes? They’re well worth a listen.

www.hpsunimelb.org/the-hps-podc...

#HPS #philsci #histsci #sts

Hi, #evosky #EvoDevo #paleosky hivemind! I have a Q: Have there been any studies that build theoretical or empirical morphospaces that include and/or compare organisms from different kingdoms? I am looking for instances of research that meet that condition (regardless of their focus). Thanks a lot!

View over a bridge to some nice houses and a rainbow-colored crosswalk.

Sergei Shevchenko next to his slide in front of the audience at EPSA 2025.

People sitting at white tables in a church with white walls.

View of the city center of Groningen from the roof of a building.

#EPSA2025 was a really great experience! Thank you to @epsaphilsci.bsky.social and all the local organizers for creating this beautiful event! Inspiring talks, friendly people, interesting posters and dinner in a church - what else could you ask for?! 😀
#PhDSky #PhilSci

I'm a big fan of "The Natural Philosophy of Plant Form" and also "The Mind and the Eye" (do you mean this as her book on pragmatism?).

Yay, a fellow Arber fan 😊🙌

James Posselwhite's engraving portrait of Goethe

Wishing a very #Goethe birthday to this guy.

(Engraving by James Posselwhite)

Wall of a pompous room hanging full of portraits of Dutch professors.

This is a wall of the room I'm sitting in right now

Yes, the Academiegebouw in Groningen really has crazy rooms! I almost feel aristocratic being here :D

Photo of me standing next to a screen with a slide from my talk that shows an AI generated drawing of Ungerer, Arber and Francé working in a plant lab together.

Gave my talk today at the @epsaphilsci.bsky.social meeting, speaking about plant agency in Agnes Arber, Emil Ungerer and Raoul Francé. 🌳🤓 Thank you to everyone who attended, it was a really great session and an engaged audience! 🤩
#PhDSky #HistSci #PhilSci

Photo of the aula where the keynote talk today took place

Photo of the inside of my bunk bed.

Photo of my delicious vegan Poké bowl

Photo of the gorgeous Chinese garden in the botanical garden of Groningen.

Happy to be at the meeting of @epsaphilsci.bsky.social in Groningen! Already had a great day yesterday visiting the amazing botanical garden, having a great Poké-Bowl for dinner and chilling in my hostel bunk bed 😃
#PhDSky #PhilSci

Department of Botany and Plant Pathology at Oregon State University is hiring a Directory of the Herbarium

The Department of Botany and Plant Pathology at Oregon State University is Hiring!

We are searching for a Director of the Oregon State University Herbarium and applications are welcomed at the ranks of assistant, associate, or full professor.

Agnes Arber, née Robertson (1879–1960): Fragments of her Life, Including her Place in Biology and in Women's Studies Abstract. Born in London into a learned and artistic middle-class family, Agnes Arber, née Robertson (23 Feb. 1879–22 Mar. 1960), was a renowned plant morp

Rereading Rudi Schmid's paper on Agnes Arber from 2001 (academic.oup.com/aob/article-...) and appreciating all the hours of work he must have put into this meticulously researched piece! So valuable!!

Biological Flora Associate Editor - British Ecological Society Join the editorial board on Journal of Ecology in this journal-unique role! Apply by 26 Sep 2025.

🔎 We are looking for new associate editors to join our Biological Flora team!🌷
🌲Do you have expert knowledge of one or more aspects of diverse species of vascular plants either in Britain and Ireland or in other regions globally?🌺
👉 More info: buff.ly/rmzadTG

Museum Specialist (Natural Science), IS-1016-09 Job Opening: Museum Specialist (Natural Science), IS-1016-09 at National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC.

The NMNH Department of Botany is looking for a Museum Specialist. Please spread the word!