One of my intellectual idols passed away yesterday. Nobody has managed to integrate the history and philosophy of biology as effectively and as elegantly as Evelyn Fox Keller. Her work from the 90s/00s is unrivalled and has long served as a model and inspiration for my own. RIP.

PI gives lab meeting on data they have generated

Pope Francis cites Donna Haraway in #LaudateDeum: "the entire world is a 'contact zone.'" In When Species Meet (2008), contact zones are places where we encounter other species as strangers & significant others (not tools), inviting us to cooperate, play, & collaborate with them.

Very much looking forward to this--workshop on #Causality in Minds and Machines. 🧠🤖 The website has a link for poster presentation sign-ups and the workshop is free to attend. Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute Health and AI Lab | Samantha Kleinberg UCI Social Sciences PSA-DEI Caucus Indiana University The BJPS Center for PhilSci UC Irvine

New issue of BioSystems entirely dedicated to explore the contemporary variations on the theme of autopoiesis: how the concept has been received, modified, implemented and operationalized from its original formulation in the early 1980s sciencedirect.com/journal/biosys…

I have to agree with Rorty on this one.

📗 New book out! Properties of Life: Toward a Theory of Organismic Biology by Bernd Rosslenbroich The latest addition to the Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology from the MIT Press: kli.ac.at/en/the_kli/new…

Deeply deeply agree! Thank you Richard Rorty!

Alok Srivastava New in paperback G. Marchetti (ed), The Ethics Epistemology and Politics of Richard Rorty, Routledge, 2023 20% Discount enter the code EFL02 at checkout* of the following link routledge.com/The-Ethics-Epi…

With 1,400 innocents dead, Israel must hold Hamas accountable for the horror it perpetrated. But an endless ground war that destabilizes the region & imperils the lives of millions of Gazans & 360,000 Israeli soldiers is not the way to achieve that goal.🧵

This is a must see. Rachel Goldberg, mother of Hersh, at the UN yesterday.

New book review in Journal for General Philosophy of Science (JGPS)! Juan Mayoral (Universidad Zaragoza) provides a careful reading of “The Last Writings of Thomas S. Kuhn” (edited by Bojana Mladenovic UChicagoPress) & offers many interpretive keys for understanding Kuhn’s late work 👇 📚link.springer.com/article/10.100… #philsci #HOPOS

New paper w Dani S. Bassett on "Causation in neuroscience: keeping mechanism meaningful" in Nature Reviews Neuroscience Nature Rev Neurosci We explore different meanings of mechanism in the field, the challenges this presents & how to move forward. 🧠 U.S. National Science Foundation nature.com/articles/s4158…

Is this still true? Does anyone know an example of growth without organization, ie an organism enlarging just by accumulation of disorganized biomass?

The neonatal brain is so pretty doi.org/10.1523/JNEURO…

I’m thinking of organizing ECogS 2025 on the theme of “agency across scales”. In your mind, who would be the most exciting speaker to invite? Anyone who you think has been under recognized?

CALL FOR ART! Mirrors of the Mind 13 invites artworks for its 13th year, open to LACPA mbrs & non-mbrs, psychologists, psychotherapists, psychoanalysts, clinical & research psychology professors/instructors, & psychotherapy graduate students globally. lacpamirrors.com/register 🎨

Join us for Lacra Bintu's seminar entitled, "Distilling the rules of transcriptional activators and repressors using high-throughput and single-cell methods" at 12pm, 1.21.25, GCIS W301. bintulab.com UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering UChicago Biological Sciences UChiPhysicalSciences

"The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time." Remembering Mary Oliver, who left us 5 years ago today, with her abiding wisdom on creativity

It's one year since the open-access medical humanities special issue 'The Pathological Body' was published. Take a look if you're interested in literature, languages, bodies, and the global impact of C19th European medicine that shaped modern life. olh.openlibhums.org/collections/44…