PhD student in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. Former developmental biologist๐ , amateur beekeeper๐
Cassandra Yang
another poster I designed ๐โจ
Some posters I designed for the Cambridge Lectures in the History of Medicine. Always glad to have a creative outlet in academic setting!
Reading group alert!๐ This term, our History and Philosophy of Biology reading group will be reading ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฏ๐ต๐ฐ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐บ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ฏ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ (2000) by Susan Oyama. Online participants welcome! More details here: www.hps.cam.ac.uk/news-events/...
Many thanks to my wonderful collaborators, @yoshinariyoshida.bsky.social and Patrick Ferree, for making it such a joy to be part of our fantastic organised session on developmental time๐ซโณโฐ
#ISHPSSB2025
Porto is beautiful. Met wonderful people, had engaging conversations, and shared some single-sourced honey with friends old and new ๐๐ฏ
How should models across scales be connected and evaluated? Who gets explanatory priority โ 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:
The workshop explores the epistemic functions of multi-scale research in contemporary life sciences. It takes place on 14 July, the day before SPSP. More information and registration via link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1987542606...
A really thoughtful and inciteful review of my book "Evolution Evolving" by @cassandrazieyang.bsky.social in Bioscience.
"By taking into account the structure of development, we can begin to envision how the system of evolution will itself be evolving."
See BioScience doi.org/10.1093/bios...
a one-day philosophy of biology workshop before SPSP
