Yasmin Haddad

Huge congratulations to my dear & brilliant friend Sebastian on his thesis defence today, "Values in psychosocial measurement". It's been a privilege to be a part of this journey, Dr. Duque! 🤍 #philsci @erantal.bsky.social

We got great news! @ishpssb2025.bsky.social gave us funding to support early career travel to our event in October! Deadline for abstract submission is extended until Aug 18. Don't miss this chance! #phibio #hps #microbiome #philsci 🦠

This week @universitypress.cambridge.org has granted free access to all titles in the collection of Cambridge Elements in the Philosophy of Biology, edited by Grant Ramsey. There are many options to choose from! Happy reading! 📕👇 www.cambridge.org/core/publica... #philsci #HPbio #evosky #ISHPSSB2025

Hello, Porto! #ishpssb25

see you at the lovely ISH conference!

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 so lucky to be a collaborator in this amazing project! congrats my friend!!

Looking forward to our co-organized symposium on Monday "Values, bias and controversies in human genomics" with @celsoneto.bsky.social. Porto here we come! @ishpssb2025.bsky.social #philbio #philsci #ishpssb25

Not long now until #ISHPSSB2025! Safe travels, All!
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🚨Reaging Group🚨

This Wednesday, July 9, 16:00 BST, I will join the online “Reading Decoloniality” Group (Warwick, UK) to discuss how biological race continues to be a misguided idea.

To join the discussion, just register at readingdecoloniality.warwick.ac.uk/join/

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#evosky

See you soon, Porto!

I look forward to reading your paper (or a draft)!

thank you!!

The value-ladenness of ancestry Clustering humans based on their genetic ancestry is a common practice in human genomics. Genetically similar populations can be seen as statistical c…

I have a new paper out in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 🥳 it is my 1st attempt to understand how "ancestry" is used in scientific practice, borrowing insights from science & values @fondsrechercheqc.bsky.social #philsci #philbio #hps

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Philosophy of Biology - Closer To Truth Philosophy of Biology has two sides: the process of science and the content of biology. We address key questions. What is the nature of life? How does evolution work and what… video Why Philosophy of ...

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Poster for a workshop titled "The Philosophy of Biological Lineages", held on May 15–16 at the Department of Philosophy, El Milán. The schedule includes talks by philosophers and biologists across two days. Day 1 (Thursday) features presentations by Javier Suárez, Matt Haber, Ronald Jenner, Elisabeth Lloyd, Alba G. Padrós, and Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda. Day 2 (Friday) includes talks by Sophie Veigl, Celso Neto, Carlos R. Landa, Adrian Stencel, and Gaëlle Pontarotti, ending with a final discussion. The venue for all sessions is the Sala de Juntas.

Today @alejandrofabregastejeda.com will present work-in-progress from our lab at the workshop on philosophy of biological lineages, organized by @javiersuarez.bsky.social and @albap93.bsky.social. If you're in Oviedo, come around! There will be many great speakers! #philsci #HPBio #evobio

Looking forward to reading it! 🤓🦠🐋🌱
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Sortuda aproveita!!!

Nueva fecha límite para envío de trabajos.

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Maravilha ver esse projeto tão relevante publicado!

Check out amazing work by my friend @93pedrobravo.bsky.social working on such a socially relevant topic in #philsci
Parabéns querido!

Looking forward to the Pragmatism and Measurement conference this coming weekend at the University of Pittsburgh, where I will be presenting some of my recent work on the concept of ancestry and how it is measured. #philsci #philbio @center4philsci.bsky.social

Promotional p;icture with the abstract of the article “Demystifying Downward Causation” by Yasmin Haddad, published in the Journal for General Philosophy of Science (JGPS).

The concept of 'downward causation' has faced many strong critiques. In her recent 📄 @yashaddad.bsky.social argues that, when adopting an interventionist view of causation and a levels of organization framework, we can explanatorily use the notion 👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsci #hpbio

thanks for the highlight! 🤩

looking forward too! 🥳

Happy to share that the double session on values in genomics I am part of has been accepted for ISHPSSB. Thank you @celsoneto.bsky.social and @yashaddad.bsky.social for organising the session, and I look forward to seeing many fellow scholars of biology in Porto in July!

Views from my latest runs 🤍 que saudade que eu tava do meu Brasil!

@grupoanfibio.bsky.social has created a starter pack of philosophers of science (and #philsci groups & societies) in/from Ibero-America. Please share widely and self-nominate if your name is missing!

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I have a new paper out in @ptpbio.bsky.social 🥳

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sem dúvida alguma dos melhores pontos gastronômicos da cidade maravilhosa!