New Extinct Blog @NewExtinctBlog
The (Re-Launched) Philosophy of Palaeontology Blog extinctblog.org Joined January 2023-
Tweets138
-
Followers111
-
Following113
-
Likes46
New essay! The goal? To use a pair of fictional geologists— Lyell's "amphibious being" and Suess's "extraterrestrial observer"— to learn about the relationship between the two most important geologists of the 19th C. (It's fun, really!) extinctblog.org/extinct/2024/3…
I do not like the Facts vs Opinions dichotomy and I think people should stop peddling it. In this blog post I link to some detailed objections I find persuasive, and also outline my big picture objection. sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2024/03/facts-…
There's a new article in Aeon about the role that (human) prehistory plays in making sense of the present (specifically, the nuclear age). It's a decent read but I'm still grumpy about it! Find the link and the grumpiness below extinctblog.org/palaeonews/202…
When you want to better understand when scientific controversies bear fruit, what do you do? Examine angiosperms of course! Here the talented Katherine Valde looks at the case of angiosperm origins to understand the pitfalls of epistemic peer disagreement extinctblog.org/extinct/2024/3…
Read (for free!) James DiFrisco's BJPS Popper Prize-winning paper here 👇
@TheBJPS The prize-winning article, "Toward a Theory of Homology: Development and the De-coupling of Morphological and Molecular Evolution," is FREE to read for a limited time: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.108…
@geosociety @KathyBenison sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
The Holocene continues... Read all about it (arguments for and against the Anthropocene, "the philosophy of the Golden Spike," the meaning of deep time) on Extinct extinctblog.org/palaeonews/202…
Forget the Oscars, the winner of the 2023 𝐁𝐉𝐏𝐒 𝐏𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐳𝐞 has been announced… thebsps.org/auxhyp/bjps-po… #philsci
Join us at #ScienceinStorytelling for our 'Prehistoric Planet: Where Science Drives the Story' panel! Dr Darren Naish & PP team discuss their style of working together to create the Apple TV+ series, Prehistoric Planet. events.wildscreen.org/products/scien…
William Whewell died on this date in 1866. What better way to honor him than to revisit our essay on Whewell's philosophy of palaetiology? extinctblog.org/extinct/2023/1…
March 6, 1866, died #OTD, philosopher & historian of #science William Whewell. He coined many concepts in #geology & was especially interested in mineralogy. The mineral gallery of the Sedgwick Museum (and the mineral Whewellite) is named after him 💎 sedgwickmuseum.cam.ac.uk/?page=whewell-…
New on Extinct: the talented Marilynn Johnson of UCSD shares an edited excerpt of her recent book, Adorning Bodies (Bloomsbury, 2022)! extinctblog.org/extinct/2024/3…
Some new news items (so, just news items): First, an upcoming conference: extinctblog.org/palaeonews/202… And a little piece on dinosaur names: extinctblog.org/palaeonews/202…
New #book 📚 Gísli Pálsson (April 2024): The Last of Its Kind. In 1858, two ornithologists set out to find the great auk. Gísli Pálsson’s intriguing account of their failed quest argues it may have shaped modern ideas about extinction and conservation press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…
There will be a conference on the philosophy of the paleosciences, hosted by Adrian Currie of the University of Exeter, Aug 12–24. The conference will take place in Exeter with a retreat along the Jurassic Coast. Travel costs for speakers will be covered. extinctblog.org/palaeonews/202…
New on Extinct: the talented Kelle Dhein revisits George Simpson's posthumously published sci-fi novella, and asks what it tells us about his philosophy of evolution. Also: "tiny reptilian brains," "citizenship schools," and American exceptionalism... extinctblog.org/extinct/2024/2…
Oh I worked hard on this one y'all. So I have a REQUEST. If you only read one essay this year on why James Hall didn't *really* leave mountains out of his theory of mountain building, please make it this one! (You'll like it. I promise) extinctblog.org/extinct/2023/1…
Extinct has now been re-launched for a whole year! Thanks for reading, and here is a little rundown of the past six months of scintillating niche-academic webloggery extinctblog.org/extinct/2024/1…
To coincide with the 200th anniversary of the naming of the first dinosaur, Megalosaurus bucklandii, five of our key dinosaur Monographs of the Palaeontographical Society are FREE to access until the end of Feb! tandfonline.com/journals/tmps2… #dinosaurs #Megalosaurus
Bruce Lieberman and I discuss Steve’s use of Galton’s polyhedron—renaming it Gould’s Polyhedron—in our forthcoming book “Macroevolutionaries” @Trilolight
🧵🪸📖 1/ A brief thread to one of the most useful metaphors in evolutionary biology [Galton’s polyhedron] using quotes from chapter 5 of Gould’s “The Structure of Evolutionary Theory” #evolution
Publius @1788_Publius
24 Followers 174 Following • Aspiring Geophysicist • Bach Enthusiast • Latin Enjoyer • Mediocre Chess Player • Neo-Federalist • Counter-Revolutionary •
Bill C. White @hexheadtn
1K Followers 2K Following Pioneer in social distancing. Retired (disability) Systems software specialist. Google Scholar: https://t.co/sOUete1DYc… No pronouns!
MaaDuum مَعْدُ�... @Maa_Duum
1 Followers 105 Following ھر وہ جانور پرندہ چیز ی کلچر یا تہذیب جو اس زمین پر سے ختم یا معدوم ھوگیی📣
🐋🌳gian 🦕🦭 @gianprogress
407 Followers 1K Following 🦑🐝🦣anthropology & STS grad student @UCSanDiego researching cultural relationships to fossils 🦛 alt: @ambul0cetus🐋(white, settler, transmasc, pro-palestine)
Deborah Beale @MrsTad
90K Followers 95K Following BOOKS, baby, BOOKS. Publisher, writer/Mother of Business/Mother of 4/SF & fantasy freak. @tadwilliams https://t.co/Mw3k2qRteq #OrdinaryFarm
The PalAss @ThePalAss
12K Followers 3K Following Official Twitter account of the Palaeontological Association: https://t.co/wUu2EEI1Tc. Re-posts of jobs and other events do not mean endorsement
Conservation Paleobio... @CnsrvPaleoNetwk
959 Followers 670 Following Promoting the use of paleo and historical data for conservation and management. See new posts where the skies are blue - you can now find us as cnsrvpaleonetwk
Louis @Louis_AsInKing_
821 Followers 654 Following Just your typical & atypical ape-descendant. Book-devourer. Allegedly part of the problem. Don't anthropomorphize me.
Paul Saproza @paulsaproza
4K Followers 775 Following Political Theory / Democratic Innovations Luiss University, Roma
Félix Andueza Araque... @FelixAndueza
271 Followers 2K Following PhD (c) | Researcher on Logics, Phil of AI, Political Phil, & China | Studies in International Relations, Philosophy, Theology, & 💻Sci | #TEA #AACC
Jackie @mohgmaxxing
120 Followers 7K Following 21 | “There is nothing to do and there is nowhere to go. There is nothing to be and there is no-one to know.”
Sergey Astakhov @S_Astakhov_
22 Followers 166 Following PhD in Social Theory, UX Researcher. Professional overthinker. Proud owner of a gloriously chaotic dog.
PhilosophyPaperboy @thephilpaperboy
4K Followers 6K Following Check our webpage for daily updates on philosophy papers published in more than 500 journals around the world.
Emily @neigh005
0 Followers 3 Following
Joel Duff @NaturalHistoria
742 Followers 452 Following R. Joel Duff, author https://t.co/OnixRczEua blog, father of 5, biology professor, photographer (https://t.co/p3vjQiQHxV), into reformed theology and chess.
Asaf Shtull-Trauring @asaf_st
82 Followers 536 Following Editor for Science and Technology @Harvard_Press. Former founding editor of https://t.co/QHjd8LZcgI.
Epoch Clothing @epochcloths
56 Followers 162 Following Art history on a tee: Impressionist raptors to surrealist mammoths 🦖🎨🐘 Where extinct beasts meet timeless techniques | Free US shipping
Roger Leventhal @LeventhalRoger
44 Followers 315 Following Flood engineering with expertise in natuere based shoreline approaches and beenficial reuse of dredge sediments
Sue S NAFO Associate ... @suestroud
12K Followers 13K Following What we wish for ourselves, we desire for all. -JSWoodsworth she/her
Andrew Alden @aboutgeology
7K Followers 220 Following Geology writer, science omnivore. Author "Deep Oakland: How Geology Shaped a City" On a round Earth every place is at the center. I like to RT yer best posts.
Carly Rae Jeppson's M... @ange1obear
33 Followers 639 Following
Katherine Hunt @Katheri79728063
0 Followers 11 Following
Juan L. Cantalapiedra @singerstone
859 Followers 576 Following Evolutionary paleobiologist interested in Cenozoic large terrestrial herbivorous mammals | scientist @mncn_csic @CSIC | co-IP @MammalMacroEvo
jay odenbaugh @jodenbaugh
582 Followers 1K Following
Casey Peters @caseybpeters
258 Followers 1K Following IB Science teacher. Plant ecologist. Natural history enthusiast. Deep time tourist. Science educator.
Arturo Saez @Arturo_saez
370 Followers 1K Following Physical Anthropologist / Human Biologist (UCH, UBCN, UAB), Ciclista Urbano y Ladrón de Luces LED Filosofía de la Ciencia, Evolución y Ciclismo
Eliot Richardson @fitzcavendish
197 Followers 2K Following A Liberal for Freedom of Expression. Sex realist. Assigned Irish at birth.
Thomas L Schmidt @GrndCtrl2_DrTom
480 Followers 646 Following Lecturer and DECRA Fellow at the University of Sydney I lead the PGoDA lab (Population Genomics of Dispersal and Adaptation).
Emily Casanova, PhD @EmLyWill
2K Followers 1K Following Scientist, zebra, #ActuallyAutistic, #genetics #evolution #NeanderthalDNA #EhlersDanlos -- Asst Prof/Basic Scientist @ St. Louis University. Tweets = mine.
Pedro Ravelo R. @PedroRaveloR
101 Followers 810 Following Master’s in Psychological Research. Studying the evolution of cooperation and altruism, as well as bee behavior and learning. 🐝🤝
Gerardo Bettinotti @GBettinotti
297 Followers 4K Following
Andrés Cuervo | amcu... @amcuervo
4K Followers 1K Following Director & Curator National Bird Collection of Colombia @ICNUNAL | Associate Professor @UNALOficial | #evolution #ecology #conservation #ornithology🧬🪶🐦⬛🇨🇴
Paul Nolan @PaulNolandhm
457 Followers 922 Following Husband and father, writer, musician, left social-democrat. Writes on theory of history at https://t.co/UJ61OGO9TH
Cameron Weadick @__cameronw
140 Followers 387 Following Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow and Evolutionary Biologist at the University of Exeter — 🇨🇦 in 🇬🇧
Aparna Lajmi @AparnaLajmi
1K Followers 1K Following Mom | Evolutionary biologist | 🐜🦎🐍🐊🐢🐛🐝🐞🕷️🦂🦋🪲🪳🦗🐟🦉
Roberto Toro r3rt0@ms... @R3RT0
4K Followers 4K Following Into brains (+open science, procedural art, genomics, music...)
Rebecca Strauch @RJStrauch
39 Followers 230 Following Paleontologist. Philosopher. Whale enthusiast. Birder. Geology PhD student @GeorgeMasonU
Tuomas Pernu @TuomasPernu
3K Followers 4K Following PhD and all that. Lecturer in Philosophy of Science and Research Ethics @UniEastFinland. Also here: https://t.co/T3ITXb8Xsw
Luke Larter @larterretral
286 Followers 1K Following Voss Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society. I study calling strategies in frogs and their social and physiological drivers.
Baran Karapunar @BaranKarapunar
466 Followers 410 Following Dr. rer. nat. in Palaeontology, research fellow @UniversityLeeds, marine food webs 🦈, gastropods 🐚, bivalves 🦪, Permian-Triassic mass extinction 🌋 He/him
Roland Jansson @HRJ67U
74 Followers 417 Following Inhabitant of planet Earth researching how climate change has shaped biodiversity patterns and how river ecosystems can be restored to conserve their species.
Nabi Eullmann @Nabi_Eullmann
617 Followers 2K Following Democratic Dalai-Lama and Possessor of the Future. COYS.
Nick Matzke @NickJMatzke
2K Followers 2K Following I dig evolution of: biogeography, complex adaptations (carnivorous plants, flagella), creationist/ID silliness. Twitter=hellsite so blocks/mute/inactive at will
Palaeontographical So... @Palaeonto_Soc
2K Followers 250 Following The oldest society in the world devoted to palaeontology. We focus on British fossils, publishing monographs, funding research, supporting projects.
Milena Ivanova 💙�... @milena_ivanova_
2K Followers 526 Following Philosopher of Science @LeverhulmeCFI @Cambridge_ICE @FitzwilliamColl @Newnham_College @Cambridge_Uni Erdös 4
Tyler Austin Harper @Tyler_A_Harper
55K Followers 3K Following Staff writer @TheAtlantic. Co-host of the Time To Say Goodbye podcast (@ttsgpod). Gone fishing.
Division of History o... @iuhpst_dhst
3K Followers 2K Following Twitter page for International Union of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology - Division History of Science and Technology
Auguste Nahas @AugusteNahas
1K Followers 539 Following PhD candidate @UofT_IHPST. Research in History and Philosophy of Biology. Editor @dialectical_sys.
Nadia Ruiz, PhD @NadiaRuiz26
1K Followers 1K Following Philosopher of Econ & Social Science. 1st Gen Latina. From Cd Juárez/ El Paso. Postdoc at @CELLSHannover working on @MAPSProject_Luh. I Love Señor (my dog).
Cambridge HPS @CambridgeHPS
6K Followers 77 Following The Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. Follow us on Bluesky, Instagram or LinkedIn.
Kostas Kampourakis @KampourakisK
1K Followers 536 Following Author and editor of books intended to help non-experts understand science. Interested in anything about evolution, development, heredity and nature of science.
Ken Caldeira @KenCaldeira
26K Followers 5K Following Senior scientist (@CarnegieScience, Gates Ventures). https://t.co/QGOxUXjRGG https://t.co/VOz2cjIDHj #NotZeroSum
Harvard, Department o... @HarvardHistSci
3K Followers 137 Following History of Science Department at Harvard University.
KLI: A Home to Theory... @KLIAustria
3K Followers 1K Following The KLI is an institute of advanced studies in the life & sustainability sciences. Join the #KLife! Subscribe to our KLife newsletter: https://t.co/YG6FoEG1HD
Andra Meneganzin @AndraMeneganzin
699 Followers 876 Following Philosopher of biology working on human evolution 💀 🧬Postdoc @KU_Leuven. Ph.D @DiBio_UniPD Scicomm (@_MicroMega_) Find me on 🦋
Marilynn Johnson @marilynnjohnsn
866 Followers 890 Following Associate Professor of Philosophy @uofsandiego | Author of Adorning Bodies w/@BloomsburyPhilo
Emily G Mitchell @EGMitchell
3K Followers 4K Following Deep-time Ecologist and Palaeontologist. Asst. Prof @CamZoology & Invertebrate Curator @ZoologyMuseum PI: @DeepTimeEcology She/Her
Dr. Laura J. Snyder @LauraJSnyder
1K Followers 911 Following Writing #OliverSacks #biography @AAKnopf Philosophical Breakfast Club. Eye of the Beholder. NEH Public Scholar, Sloan/Leon Levy Fellow. Proud mom @UChicago ’26
New Scientist @newscientist
4.3M Followers 278 Following The best place to find out what’s new in science – and why it matters.
Nature Geoscience @NatureGeosci
121K Followers 302 Following A monthly journal collating top-quality research across the Earth and planetary sciences. Bluesky: https://t.co/jpJH7aejPs Site notice: https://t.co/33f68FcEDQ
Javier Ortega Hernán... @InvertebratePal
2K Followers 1K Following Invertebrate paleobiologist working on the Cambrian Explosion, animal evolution, phylogeny & evo-devo. Assoc. Prof @HarvardOEB & curator @MCZHarvard he/him 🇲🇽
Javier Suárez HPSB @HpsbJavier
1K Followers 801 Following Assistant Professor @uniovi_info, studying the metaphysical foundations of the life sciences, with special interest in evolution
Deep Time Ecology @DeepTimeEcology
814 Followers 373 Following Deep time ecology group @CamZoology looking at how ecology impacts evolution from the first animals to our modern oceans. PI @EGMitchell
Bruce S. Lieberman @Trilolight
839 Followers 684 Following I am a paleontologist and professor at the University of Kansas studying macroevolution, paleobiology, trilobites, and more.
Leticia Castillo Brac... @Leticiacbrache
142 Followers 101 Following Philosophy Ph.D. candidate at Boston University. She/her 🇩🇴
The HPS Podcast @TheHPSPodcast
680 Followers 538 Following Interviews on all things History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science. Produced by HPS@UniMelb, Hosted by @samarajg and @cjcontarino New eps for S4 every THURS
History_of_Geology @Geology_History
40K Followers 3 Following This channel on the #History of #Geology depends on support to survive https://t.co/IvWBlBONJb ⛰️🔨
Niles Eldredge @niles_eldredge
2K Followers 369 Following
Matilde Carrera @MatildeCarrera_
164 Followers 252 Following PhD Student at Boston University - Philosophy of science | Former trainee in cultural evolution @InstitutNicod | Alumna @scuolanormale & @Unipisa | 🌊🌒
Tamar Schneider @TamarSch06
232 Followers 261 Following she/they, Philosophy of biology, ecology, immunology; Feminist epistemology;Lecturer at Open University; former postdoc at @CohnInstitute; PhD @PhilosophyUCD
Haixin Dang @haicinnamon
1K Followers 1K Following "hi-SIN"; Assistant Professor @CWRU; philosophy of science, social epistemology
Philosophy of Science... @PhilSciJournal
3K Followers 29 Following The official journal of the Philosophy of Science Association. Dedicated to the furthering of studies and free discussion from diverse standpoints in PhilofSci.
Biological Theory @BiolTheory
2K Followers 707 Following Journal devoted to theoretical advances in the evolution & cognition fields w/ emphasis on the conceptual integration of #EvoDevo approaches. From @KLIAustria
PhilInBioMed @philinbiomed
2K Followers 493 Following Institute of Philosophy *in* Biology and Medicine at Bordeaux. International network of like-minded centers.
Michael Weisberg @weisbergm
1K Followers 618 Following @UPenn Phil & Deputy Director @perryworldhouse. Edit @Bio_and_Philo, direct @galapagosERA, biodiversity & global climate policy🇪🇨🇯🇲🇫🇯🇺🇳🐢🌋
NaomiOreskes @NaomiOreskes
33K Followers 2K Following #history #disinformation #neoliberalism #science #climatecrisis #feminism #skiing Writing @SciAm Working w/ @ErikMConway @NCSE @climscidefense @protectwinters
Daniel J. Nicholson @NicholsonHPBio
2K Followers 633 Following History, Philosophy, & Theory of Biology • Assistant Professor @GeorgeMasonU
Guardian Science @guardianscience
989K Followers 2K Following This account has been archived. Follow us on https://t.co/d51tzVvasA
The Paleontological S... @PaleoSoc
10K Followers 216 Following The official twitter account for the Paleontological Society - an international organization devoted to the advancement of the science of paleontology
Karen Kovaka @KKovaka
469 Followers 152 Following Assistant Professor of Philosophy, @ucsd Environmental philosophy, public participation in science, rock climbing, and other mountain things
Christopher Eliot @chreliot
445 Followers 702 Following Philosopher of science working on ecology | Associate Professor at Hofstra University | Editor at Philosophy, Theory, and Practice in Biology
Jonathan Birch @birchlse
18K Followers 1K Following Professor, LSE. Philosophy of science, animal consciousness, animal ethics. Director of The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience.
SVP @SVP_vertpaleo
8K Followers 201 Following Society of Vertebrate Paleontology: Scientific & education soc. for professionals, students, artists, preparators and others interested in vert. paleo.
Stathis Psillos @StathisPsillos
6K Followers 901 Following Professor of Philosophy of Science & Metaphysics, University of Athens, Greece. I tweet about philosophy, and occasionally politics
Emily Rayfield @jemilyr
4K Followers 662 Following Professor of Palaeobiology, University of Bristol, UK. Interested in the function, mechanics and evolution of organisms big and small. She/her. All views my own
The BJPS @TheBJPS
6K Followers 1K Following British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 🔸https://t.co/xCCyMKPUYK 🔸https://t.co/LB8qFDo6A3 🔸https://t.co/kJ7P9E0x6v
Eric Winsberg @ewinsberg
4K Followers 1K Following Et ses mains ourdiraient les entrailles du prêtre, Au défaut d’un cordon pour étrangler les rois.
Danielle Drabeck @DaniDrabeck
357 Followers 474 Following postdoc, evolutionary biologist, mom. @ University of Minnesota
Katherine Liu @KatherineELiu
452 Followers 304 Following Professional interdisciplinarian. Philosopher of biology. Biologist. Tweets about higher ed, HPS, food, science, gymnastics, life.
jay odenbaugh @jodenbaugh
582 Followers 1K FollowingTrends for United States
You might like
