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I am so honored to be speaking at this event! Giving a talk Center for Philosophy & History of Science @ BU has been a dream of mine since the beginning of grad school and now I get to present my dissertation research alongside some of my philosophical role models 🙂 Thanks Alisa Bokulich ➡️ 🦋🌤️ for organizing!

We have a new essay out today! This one is about two attempts to use MARS to better understand Earth. Come for the Martian canal craze of the early 20th C, stay for the comparative planetology! (I'm very excited about this one...) extinctblog.org/extinct/2023/2…

Fun Phi-Geo Research Group fieldtrip behind the scenes at Harvard mineralogy collection today! (Thanks @2jdong!) bokulich.org/%cf%86-geo-gro…

Our growing Phi-Geo Research Group

So proud to see @Federica_Bocchi receive two competitive grad student awards from BU Humanities Center today!

Amazing Phi-Geo fieldtrip led by wonderful Ethan F. Baxter (TY!) covering 500 million yrs of Earth history, incl Squantum Tilite, Roxbury Conglomerate, Nahant's Teichichnus trace fossils & early Cambrian shelly fossils, ending with Jurassic rift & pano view Boston Basin 😍

🥳🎉🍾🥂Congratulations Dr. ⁦Aja Watkins⁩ on successful defense of your PhD dissertation!!🎉🎊🍾🥂 (passing w/ flying colors of course). Special thanks to ⁦Fulweiler Lab⁩ for reaching across departments & Wendy Parker as external member for being on her committee! 🙏

It was a pleasure to present my work in progress on how different types of information are turned into explanatory evidence at the #cshps 2023. Thanks also to @cshpsnews for the organizing a hybrid event, giving to many of us the possibility to participate!

Very excited to announce our latest essay! This one comes from Joe Wilson of the University of Colorado and concerns the nature of proxies (what makes a proxy a proxy). It also narrates some fascinating historical developments in paleoclimatology extinctblog.org/extinct/2023/5…

Since it's been 6 months since the Extinct blog has been re-active, I thought it would be fun to mark the anniversary with a rundown of our content. Please check it out! We've done a lot since January... extinctblog.org/extinct/2023/6…

Heading to ISHPSSB conf 7/9? Check out talks by Phi-Geo Research Group members: * @Federica_Bocchi : Turning Biodiversity Data into Evidence * Aja Watkins: Sex Eliminativism * Matilde Carrera : Which Metaphysics for a Science of Cultural Evolution?site.pheedloop.com/event/ISHPSSB2…

New on the BJPS Review of Books: Science on a Mission — Naomi Oreskes (NaomiOreskes) Reviewed by Aja Watkins (Aja Watkins) & Miguel Ohnesorge (@Miguel0hnsrg) Read here: thebsps.org/reviewofbooks/… #philsci

🎉🌟Congratulations to my PhD student Leticia Castillo Brache on successfully defending her dissertation prospectus today! She will be writing on "Hidden Narratives in Geoscientific Research: Toward Developing More Ethical Scientific Practices". Woot--ABD! 🎉🌟 bokulich.org/%cf%86-geo-gro…

Many many warm congratulations to all the amazing ISHPSSB prize winners 2023!! Vera Straetmanns for Poster Flash Talk; Marina Di Marco, Kyra Hoerr, Aja Watkins for Interdisciplinary Organised Session (and the fab runner-up session on plant biology!)….

We have a new essay today from T.J. Perkins (University of Utah). This one examines the “ripening” of scientific research, and argues that cultural readiness is an important factor in understanding scientific discovery and progress... extinctblog.org/extinct/2023/7…

Thrilled about our upcoming BU Grad Student Conference on "Valuing Research and Researching Values: How to Bring the Gaps between Ethics and Science". Keynote address by Kevin C. Elliott! Check out all the information here: philevents.org/event/show/114…