Philosopher & Historian of Biology and Neuroscience
Associate editor for Acta Biotheoretica (https://link.springer.com/journal/10441)
https://www.danielsbrooks.com/
Daniel S. Brooks
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Another excellent article by @zvihb.bsky.social (who I have yet to meet in person!)
Conferencia virtual:
Campos interdisciplinarios, estándares y exclusión: el rol de la paleontología en la biología evolutiva tras la Síntesis Moderna.
María Alejandra Petino Zappala
1 de junio, 11am (hora arg)
Para asistir a la conferencia por favor inscribase aquí:
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This discussion has tremendous implications.
A fantastic talk is coming up next week, definitely consider dropping by! I've had a sneak peek of the content and it's looking to be amazing! (details for joining in thread) #hps #philsci #histbio
¿Qué porqué la Capibara es mi animal espiritual? Sound On.
gracias a @grupoanfibio.bsky.social por la invitación y la discusión!
#HPS
Looking forward to presenting at this wonderful meeting in Cambridge, organized by @cassandrazieyang.bsky.social, @yoshinariyoshida.bsky.social , and Patrick Ferree! This will be during the week of the SPSP too, so hopefully you can make it! #philbio #philsci
A big thanks to @petinozappala.bsky.social who gave a fascinating talk in our lecture series last week about the history of the concepts of canalization and stabilizing selection. Thank you also to the live and online audiences for the lively discussion afterwards!
#HistSci #PhilSci #HPBio
New open-access book: The Organism–Environment Pairing: A Historical and Philosophical Reappraisal, by @alejandrofabregastejeda.com. Download it via our Environment & Society Portal!
#envhist #histsci #envphil
Daniel S. Brooks
The final version of our paper (w/ @nheinzelmann.bsky.social) on the ethics and moral psychology of HPV vaccination is out! #ethics #bioethics #Xphi
This is an observational study on parents living in 🇩🇪🇬🇧🇺🇸 who have not (yet) vaccinated their kids against HPV
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Daniel S. Brooks
In this first systematic book-length examination of the organism-environment relationship in the life sciences, Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda addresses a crucial gap in our understanding of a foundational...
How should models across scales be connected and evaluated? Who gets explanatory priority — the tissue or the cell? What challenges do imaging and sequencing techniques bring to data alignment? We are hosting a one-day philosophy of biology workshop in Cambridge to address exactly these questions:
M. Alejandra Petino Zappala
M. Alejandra Petino Zappala
ROTO Research Group
Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society
Les dejamos por acá la conferencia de María Alejandra Petino Zappala: "Campos interdisciplinarios, estándares y exclusión" sobre su artículo "Gatekeeping in interdisciplinary fields: the case of paleontology after the Modern Synthesis" publicado en Synthese.
youtu.be/eu30uAsve_Y
Vaccine hesitancy is a major threat to public health worldwide. Debates about vaccines are often moralized; however, how ethics and ethical judgments …
Two great events next week! Reading group on Monday with a paper on Soviet plant philosophy by Isabel Jacobs: crmep.co.uk/articles/jac...
And on Thursday, we welcome @petinozappala.bsky.social in our Lecture Series who will talk about canalization in #HPBio.
#HistSci #PhilSci
My latest article, “Formalization does not entail neutrality” is now published at @biologicaltheory.bsky.social
You can read it here:
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ROTO Research Group
With @remyfurrer.bsky.social, a new piece in Nature Human Behavior. The standard description of a polygenic score as a "genetic predisposition" essentializes a statistical construct. It's not language policing: PGS are a new kind of entity; now is the time to think carefully about what they are.
Nature Human Behaviour - Polygenic risk scores are not genetic predispositions
Model makers often find themselves in the following situation: in order for the model to be able to represent the dynamics of the target system, they have to make certain assumptions that pertain to t...
