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Greg Rupik @gregoryrupik.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

My heart's full after having attended the launch party for Orbital Studies No.0. It's a beautiful artifact that pulled a fascinating community into its orbit. Looking forward to thinking & working towards a more beautiful scientific culture with y'all! And, of course, #Goethe made a cameo! @wxs.ca

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Greg Rupik @gregoryrupik.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

I got to welcome @saraseager.bsky.social—one of the world's leading astrobiologists—to my St. Mike's course: Aliens & The Heavens! My students drove a lively Q&A about exoplanets, funding, and definitions of life.👽🌌 #astrobiology #academicsky #hps 🐋🌱 @utoronto.ca @ustmikes.bsky.social

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Greg Rupik @gregoryrupik.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

This term I'm teaching "Aliens & the Heavens: Christian Encounters with Cosmic Pluralism," a St. Mike's First Year Foundations course in the University of Toronto's Faculty of Arts & Science. So wonderful to be back in the classroom introducing students to #HPS & disciplines like #astrobiology! 👽✝️🌍🔭

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Greg Rupik @gregoryrupik.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Next in Dialectical Biology Today: @hylomorphic.bsky.social weaves together historical threads from Hegel, Engels, & others to illustrate how Lewontin's dialectical biology critiques an anti-revolutionary, conservative ideology at the heart of population genetics & evolutionary ecology 🌱🐋

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Greg Rupik @gregoryrupik.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther kicks off day 2 of Dialectical Biology Today, exploring Lewontin's avoidance of "synthesis," identifying the tension between anthropocentric ethics and deep ecology, and wondering how the Ocean might open up a new dialectic in a refreshed Naturphilosophie 🐋🌱

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Greg Rupik @gregoryrupik.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Amazing to have Elliott Sober delivering his keynote "Richard Lewontin - Biologist, Philosopher, and Marxist" at the Dialectical Biology Today Conference! 🌱🐋 @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social

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Greg Rupik @gregoryrupik.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

First up at Dialectical Biology Today: Sonia Sultan illustrates—with great experimental & naturalistic examples—the interpenetration of organisms and environments; identifies three major challenges that emerge for biologists from this datum; and gives us a good reason to eat our broccoli! 🥦 🐋🌱

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Greg Rupik @gregoryrupik.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

The "Dialectical Biology Today" Conference is...Today! Here's @jonothingeb.bsky.social welcoming participants to this gathering considering the legacies of Richard Lewontin. 🌱🐋 @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social You can see the schedule & join on Zoom here! ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/diale...

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Greg Rupik @gregoryrupik.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther's *When Maps Become the World* profoundly inspired my philosophical approach in my book, especially his notions of countermapping, pernicious reification, and contextual objectivity. I'm so grateful for his enthusiastic support of my project to Romanticize evolution! 🐋🌱

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Greg Rupik @gregoryrupik.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

An awesome hybrid conference on the legacies of Richard Lewontin is coming to Toronto. Elliott Sober is the keynote! "Dialectical Biology Today" runs from October 10-12. Learn more and register below! #philbio 🐋🌱 @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/diale...

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Greg Rupik @gregoryrupik.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Happy Name Day to all the great Gregorys out there! #Greg #Gregory

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Greg Rupik @gregoryrupik.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Despite being a major antagonist in the early chapters of my book, Michael Ruse provided a gracious and supportive peer review of my book before publication, and penned this early review. Remapping Biology with Goethe, Schelling, and Herder is now available in paperback. Check it out! #philbio #hps

The written early review of remapping biology with Goethe Schelling and Herder, which is available via the link

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Greg Rupik @gregoryrupik.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

DOUBLE #hpbio job alert! The @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social has 2 postings for full-time tenure stream positions in the #Philosophy of Science and/or Tech at the Assistant and Associate prof levels (general #philsci or phil. of race/indigenous knowledge/non-western sci). 🐋🌱

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Greg Rupik @gregoryrupik.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Wishing a very #Goethe birthday to this guy. (Engraving by James Posselwhite)

James Posselwhite's engraving portrait of Goethe

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Greg Rupik @gregoryrupik.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Officially on the office door. So lucky to be serving such an amazing set of students, faculty, librarians, staff, alumni/ae, and governors! #highereducation #chiefofstaff #canadianpse @ustmikes.bsky.social

A photo of a door sign stating Greg's title chief of staff and university Secretary with open door to his office to the right

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Greg Rupik @gregoryrupik.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Here's philosopher of bio Denis Walsh's endorsement of my book as an integrated HPS project. Remapping Biology with Goethe, Schelling, and Herder is shipping in paperback (finally!) on July 30th! Link below. #booksky #philsky #histbio #philbio #ihps #agency #evolution #biosky

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Greg Rupik @gregoryrupik.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

The conversations at ISH didn't end with the closing of the last session! Wonderful to connect with so many in this wonderful society, including Sidney Carls-Diamante! @ishpssb2025.bsky.social

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Greg Rupik @gregoryrupik.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Enjoyed being part of a *packed* final session of @ishpssb2025.bsky.social where we all witnessed @asmeincke.bsky.social make a compelling case to @kevinlala.bsky.social (in the room!) as to why he should explicitly adopt a process ontology for the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis! 🌱🐋

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Greg Rupik @gregoryrupik.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Susan Hanisch here presenting on her empirical findings—that agency is NOT too complex for high school students—in a dense and rich session on the educational implications of the New Biology at @ishpssb2025.bsky.social.

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Greg Rupik @gregoryrupik.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Beautiful people and rich conversations (in a stunning venue) at yesterday evening's @ishpssb2025.bsky.social final reception in the Palacio da Bolsa!

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Greg Rupik @gregoryrupik.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Andrea Gentili exploring the diverse "tones" of animal subjects' experiences in their Umwelten, and how von Uexküll's idea of nature resists a solipsistic monadology. @ishpssb2025.bsky.social 🐋🌱

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Greg Rupik @gregoryrupik.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Campbell Rider confirming eloquently that we need more Schelling at ISH! @campbellrider.bsky.social makes a compelling case that Schelling provides more resources to contemporary biology than Kant does, and that Schelling can be thought of as an 'organicist' 🌱🐋 @ishpssb2025.bsky.social

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Greg Rupik @gregoryrupik.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Christoph Hueck summarizing how Aristotle can help us to illuminate the blind spot faced when cognizing life here on the last day of @ishpssb2025.bsky.social! 🐋🌱

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Greg Rupik @gregoryrupik.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Polly Winsor—historian of biology extraordinaire and Emerita Professor of the University of Toronto's IHPST—is the winner of the ISHPSSB's 2025 Hull Prize, the society's highest honour! Polly is the *first Canadian* winner of the prize, and its second female recipient. 🇨🇦 🌱🐋 @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social

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Greg Rupik @gregoryrupik.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Philip Ball, in the plenary address for @ishpssb2025.bsky.social, calls for a philosophy of biology connected to the lab bench talk of practicing scientists AND that keeps the beauty and uniqueness of organisms in view. I'm on board! @philipcball.bsky.social

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Greg Rupik @gregoryrupik.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

The KLI is a wonderful place with wonderful people! Glad to have reconnected in Porto with Lumila, Flavia, Alejandro, and Christina! 🍷 🐋🌱

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Greg Rupik @gregoryrupik.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Walked around Porto this morning and interacted with some "Intertidal Ontology." #ISHPSSB2025

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Greg Rupik @gregoryrupik.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Denis Walsh defending a Lewontin-inspired "Intertidal Ontology,"concluding a fascinating @ishpssb2025.bsky.social session entitled "Dialectical Biology Today: Legacies of Richard Lewontin, the Triple Helix, and Marxist Science." Great presentations from Stuart Newman and Chair Jonathan Basile. 🐋🌱

Denis in front of his ontological intertidal slide

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Greg Rupik @gregoryrupik.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Starting session #2 on Evelyn Fox Keller's legacy with Helen Longino inquiring whether Keller had a formulated philosophy of nature. Thierry Hoquet, Maria Kronfeldner, and Chair Francesca Merlin also contributing to the session here at @ishpssb2025.bsky.social. #ISHPSSB2025 🌱🐋

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Greg Rupik @gregoryrupik.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

A great way to start the morning with a double-session on "Evelyn Fox Keller’s Legacy in History and Philosophy of Biology and Gender and Science Studies." Chair Francesca Merlin, here, discussing that legacy with Angela N. H. Creager, Greg Radick, & Snaït B. Gissis. 🐋🌱 @ishpssb2025.bsky.social

Four panelists with image of Evelyn Fox Keller in the background

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Greg Rupik @gregoryrupik.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

also glad Alex didn't use the spray bottle on me when I went over by a few mins

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Greg Rupik @gregoryrupik.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Just presented "The Romantic Empiricism of Massimi's Perspectival Realism" at #ISHPSSB2025! Thanks for the great questions, to Alex Aylward for chairing the session, and to Shani Inbar and Laura Perini for their great presentations! 🐋🌱

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Greg Rupik @gregoryrupik.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

My talk, "Goethe and the Challenge of Representing Metamorphosis" is up next, at 12:00 CEST! 🌱🐋 Watch it live, here: www.clc2025.de

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Greg Rupik @gregoryrupik.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Matthew Segall and Dalia Nassar kicking off Day 3 of the Cognizing Life conference here in Tübingen! 🐋🌱 www.clc2025.de

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Greg Rupik @gregoryrupik.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Day #2 of the "Cognizing Life" conference finishing up, with a guided tour of a beautiful Goethean exhibit about "seeing ideas" by Christoph Hueck here in Tübingen. 🌱🐋

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Greg Rupik @gregoryrupik.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Starting out strong with great initial sessions from Denis Walsh, Ulrich Schlösser, and Joan Steigerwald at the "Cognizing Life Conference" here in Tübingen. (And with a Goethean good omen!) Follow along live and check out the program here: www.clc2025.de 🐋🌱

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Greg Rupik @gregoryrupik.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

In Paris on Bastille Day!🇫🇷 Putting finishing touches on presentations to be delivered in Tübingen ("Cognizing Life" Conference) and Porto (#ISHPSSB25)

Greg in front of the Monument à la République in Paris

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Greg Rupik @gregoryrupik.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Our St. Mike's students and their families couldn't have asked for a more beautiful day to Convocate from U of T! #smc #uoft #convocation @ustmikes.bsky.social @uoft.bsky.social

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Greg Rupik @gregoryrupik.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Awesome to have been explicitly thanked by Nahlah Ayed on CBC Ideas for helping to organize this great event promoting peace with Ukrainian Catholic Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk for the University of St. Michael's College. @uoft.bsky.social @ustmikes.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/...

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Greg Rupik @gregoryrupik.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Hey, Merlin! I've been failing to identify birds here in Playa Del Carmen in Mexico. Who's this little buddy (a woodpecker)? @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social

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Greg Rupik @gregoryrupik.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I'm coming, Porto! My submission "The Romantic Empiricism of Massimi's Perspectival Realism" has been accepted for @ishpssb2025.bsky.social. Looking forward to seeing many of you in Portugal this summer! @michelamassimi.bsky.social

A screenshot of acceptance email for my paper to ISH

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Greg Rupik @gregoryrupik.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

It suggests a strategy that I've already found to be quite effective in my role as university board secretary: taking the best lessons from the classroom—from pedagogy to ethos—and weaving them into the very fabric of board decision-making and structure. 'Macrocosm reflecting microcosm!'

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Greg Rupik @gregoryrupik.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

So many intriguing, exciting, expansive images to help reimagine university governance in this chapter of @drjessicariddell.bsky.social's Hope Circuits: infinite game, corporeal-and-corporate, a forum for truth-tellers. As a university governance professional, this is my jam.

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Greg Rupik @gregoryrupik.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

I made a chocolate babka wreath

Chocolate babka wreath in front of a Christmas tree

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Greg Rupik @gregoryrupik.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Trixie is the adorable cosmic horror at the centre of our ARCS universe

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