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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

This chapter by Ian Hacking has stood the test of time. Worth revisiting at a time when we doubt the reality of long COVID, fight culture wars over gender identity, and get exercised over the question if neurodivergence is becoming more common.

First page of Making up People by Ian Hacking.

Cover of the volume in which the chapter was published, Reconstructing Individualism (1986)

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Kate Nave @kathrynnave.eurosky.social · 29/07/2026

My postdoc is coming to an end, so I'm looking for work! Let me know if you, or anyone you know, wants to hire a philosopher of biology/cognition with a knack for cross-disciplinary work, a focus on autonomy + agency, and experience writing for the broader public (10+ yrs in sci/tech journalism).

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Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼‍♀🎶🥾 @cepaea.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I'm very psyched to have an interview with me about my book on Aldo Leopold's land ethic, _The Land Is Our Community_, appear in the @ishpssb.bsky.social newsletter! 🌎 🐋🌱 📗 I just wanted to add that my book is open access—downloadable for free here:

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The Land Is Our Community: Aldo Leopold’s Environmental Ethic for the New Millennium

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Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼‍♀🎶🥾 @cepaea.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Here I spread the word about facts and values in discussions of CA wolves — my letter to the editor responding to a recent study done by some UC Davis researchers, published in today's San Francisco Chronicle. Alas, they didn't print my plug for _The Land Is Our Community_, but what can you do? 😁

Cohabitate with wolves

Regarding “Study reveals what California wolves are eating. And it’s not good” (California, SFChronicle.com, July 8): Facts and values are important, but sometimes one masquerades as the other.

The study described appears to be purely fact-based, indicating that two California wolf packs primarily eat cattle.

But values are there, too, hiding until unstated assumptions are uncovered, along with questions not asked.

The study states, “Systematic extirpation resulted in (wolves) near-complete elimination from the contiguous United States by the mid-1900s.”

Translation: There was a deliberate, federally funded campaign to eliminate wolves in the U.S. in the early 1900s. That attitude — seeing wolves as interlopers to be destroyed — forms the backdrop for today's attitudes about wolves.

It is not surprising to learn that the study was funded by rangeland and cattle money.

Are the public lands that host cattle being put to their best use? Can we reduce our reliance on cattle for food and find better strategies for living with wolves?

We treat wolves as intruders rather than members of our community when we focus only on their actions and not our own.

I have no quarrel with the facts of the study, but its values deserve a second look.

Roberta Millstein, Davis

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Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com · 12/05/2026

It is publication day for The Organism-Environment Pairing (@mitpress.bsky.social)! This 📗 has been deeply formative for me as a scholar, and it owes so much to so many wonderful people. I truly hope it finds many readers! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205282... #booksky #philsci #histsci #philsky #evosky

Photograph of the book The Organism–Environment Pairing: A Historical and Philosophical Reappraisal (MIT Press, 2026) displayed on a small wooden easel. The green cover features multicolored title text and an image of a monarch butterfly resting on pink milkweed flowers, layered over a larger pale-green butterfly silhouette. The spine, visible at an angle, repeats the title and author’s name, Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda. Softly blurred purple-and-white flowers appear in the background.

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Sabina Leonelli @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

As a big conference week opens tomorrow in the UK, with our session on the history of openness first up tomorrow at #HSS in Edinburgh and various sessions later in Cambridge for #SPSP, we opened the call for the 2027 ISHPSSB meeting in Buenos Aires - congressin.com/e/ishpssb202... #HPS #philsci

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ASAB @asab.org · 09/07/2026

We are sponsoring an interdisciplinary workshop at UCL on the topic of agency! Registration for attending in person is limited so sign up soon. Deadline for the ECR elevator pitch session is Aug 7. More info here: www.animalinventiveness.com/post/interna...

Workshop. "Agency between Biology and Philosophy" 22-23 September 2026 University College London London Uk and online. Organisers Mathilde Tahar and Alecia Carter. Supported by UCL, Leverhulme trust, ASAB. Picture of two monkeys fighting.

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BSHS @bshsnews.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The ESHS/HSS Joint Meeting in Edinburgh 2026 is approaching fast! Check out the final programme and see you all in beautiful Scotland next week! #HistSTEMEdinburgh26 bshs.org.uk/final-progra...

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Final Programme Released for the 2026 ESHS/HSS Joint Meeting – BSHS – The British Society for the History of Science

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Os Keyes @okeyes.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Visiting my university’s new, expensively-refurbished space for startup incubators and senior management and cannot imagine a better illustration of the American university at this moment in time than a breathlessly press-released “collaboration room” featuring a single desk and chair.

A room labelled “collaboration room” featuring a single desk and chair.

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Sabina Leonelli @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

And it’s out - our homage to the inimitable John Dupré, a giant of contemporary philosophy, from his loving colleagues and a stellar cast of contributors link.springer.com/book/10.1007... : #philsci

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Life Beyond Human Boundaries: John Dupré’s Philosophy and the Interdisciplinary Study of the Life Sciences

This open access book is self-standing as the only substantive anthology of writings centered on John Dupre’s work.

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Max Planck Institute for the History of Science @mpiwg.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

#CfA: New fellowships in Dept. "Knowledge Systems and Collective Life" for researchers working on 📊 politics and practices of #Data, 📚️ histories of #Knowledge and collective life in Africa, or 🍂 #Environmental knowledge in times of crisis 🗓️ Deadline: Sep 15, 2026 🔗 tinyurl.com/mu5tend3 #HistSci

ALT: Collage of three images. The first reads: “Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. Career. We’re hiring.” The second image shows a two people holding a thread. Image by: Mattheus Vaz (2022). The third image shows a scholar giving a talk at the MPIWG library. Image by: Anna Ruhnow (2025)

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Adrienne Williams Boyarin @aboyarin.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

UVic Humanities is hiring a Research Chair in AI and Cultural Change — focused on justice-centered, critical, humanist approaches to AI and related technologies. Check it out and distribute widely (deadline Aug 28). www.uvic.ca/faculty-staf...

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HUMS 250-110 - Faculty & staff - University of Victoria

Inspired by and honouring place, we are a community-minded, globally engaged university where we transform ideas into meaningful impact.

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Celso Neto @celsoneto.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Looking for a current assessment of process philosophy, pluralism, and other themes of John Dupré’s philosophy? This open access volume brings together biologists, philosophers, and social scientists to do just that. #philsky #HPBio #philsci

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easst.bsky.social @easst.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Attending EASST2026? Join the Centre for the Social Study of Microbes meet-up! 🦠✨Whether you study AMR, fermentation, or are just microbially curious—come find camaraderie & cross-pollination. (📷Monique Horstmann) Details: buff.ly/PkOLi3l

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Introducing the Centre for the Social Study of Microbes: a slime-mouldian approach to research

by Maya Hey, Jose A. Cañada, Alicia Ng

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

2 #HPS faculty positions @ U of Sydney "We are particularly interested in candidates working in areas of early modern science, or science or medicine in Asia, or Indigenous knowledge systems. Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in History & Philosophy of Science" Sept 1st deadline #PhilJobs

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Oxford Medical Humanities @oxmedhum.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Our ECR/DPhil workshop tomorrow (Thursday18)+Friday19 June. Keynote by Helene Scott-Fordsmand (UCL) on Friday morning: Fat tissue and the collapse of the subject-object divide in anatomical dissection practices torch.ox.ac.uk/event/object... @uehiro.ox.ac.uk @torchoxford.bsky.social

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Objectivity and Subjectivity in Medicine

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Save 30% on #NewBook "Feminist Making, Doing, and Sensing" by editors Lauren Guilmette and Ada S. Jaarsma, which rethinks feminist philosophical practice and disciplinarity by arguing for arts-based and experimental ways of doing philosophy. #WomensStudies #Philosophy #FeministArt buff.ly/3ws6xdA

Cover of Feminist Making, Doing, and Sensing: Experiments in Philosophy edited by Lauren Guilmette and Ada S. Jaarsma. The cover is white with a light pink spray painted area at the top with the title written in white. Below, there are five hands in different art styles all reaching towards a central heart sculpture that is made from cut out hands. There are fuchsia lines radiating from it. The subtitle is written in the bottom right corner in black italics. The editors’ names appear in the bottom left corner.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Getting licked by a bee is strange and adorable

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I was trying my level best to turn each talk into comics but I am already exhausted after 3 talks 😅

A 4 panel comic about Karen visick, who is a bacterial geneticist (panel 1, showing Karen next to a bacterial cell with hand tools doodled around DNA) working throughout her career on biofilm formation (panel 2). She’s playing with a new tool, and testing the to for luminescence in a luminometer (panel 3) and in squid (panel 4)

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I’ve been live-drawing the science being presented at Squid Vibrio 2026 as comics during the talks. Today’s keynote from @symbiosisrox.bsky.social was super cool, all about bacterial symbionts in cold seep and hydrothermal vent animals. Here’s the comic! Page 1

Panel1: “horizontal transfer of symbionts is risky, so why do this?” With pics of a deep sea mussel, tube worm, and bobtail squid.
Panel 2: a bobtail squid has a suitcase and the words say “picking up symbionts when moving to a new place may get you locally adapted bacteria” the squid says “you from around here? To a bacterium

Panel 3: a hydrothermal vent scene with tb words “hydrothermal vent animals and cold seep animals go far from their parents. A crab says “good luck kid!” To plankton

Panel 4: a shrimp knocks on mussels saying “knock knock who’s there?” And two mussels are labeled from Mexico and from Atlantic. Two bacterial cells say “we’re different. The words above say “so deep sea cold seep mussels host different strains of symbionts across locations?

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Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery @naturerecovery.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Jenny McCallum will be hosting a plant sensing expedition at the Nature Festival on 22nd June, helping you connect with plants! 🌱🌷 Register for this event and many more at thenaturefestival.org @morethanadodo.bsky.social @ecioxford.bsky.social @bbowt.bsky.social @biodivoxford.bsky.social

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Anne Knowlton @anneknowlton.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Our beautiful special issue on plant evolution is out @currentbiology.bsky.social ! www.cell.com/issue/S0960-...

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Seth Bordenstein @symbionticism.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

We tend to oversimplify explanations in biology. But life teaches otherwise. This message and others comprise one of the best podcast episodes on holobiont biology with @markowenmartin.bsky.social interviewing the brilliant @kevindkohl.bsky.social, once postdoc in the B lab youtu.be/gH7q8C32JIQ?...

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Matters Microbial #130: The Holobiont — Animals, Microbes, and Ecology

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Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

A very important preprint to check out: The holobiont is not a useful model for most host-microbiome interactions By Gavin M Douglas an S. Andrew Inkpen ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

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The holobiont is not a useful model for most host-microbiome interactions

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Jake Robinson @jake1.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

What happens when people learn that humans are not standalone organisms, but walking ecosystems? Our new paper explored whether learning about the #holobiont concept – humans are symbiotic assemblages of a host & trillions of microbes – influences nature connectedness. 1/

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

See also: "organisms are machines".

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Lars Chittka @larschittka.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

At the BLOOM science and music festival in Copenhagen, there are giant tardigrades and I guess that’s all I need to say about just how magnificent the event is 😊

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Jon Agar @jonagar.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Please help spread the news far and wide! We have a new, full-time, permanent Lecturer in Global History of Science job @stsucl.bsky.social Don't be fooled by the application of deadline of only 9 June 2026. This is an open search #histsci #skystorians www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

TWO great jobs in History and Philosophy of Science at Sydney! Rank from Lecturer (Assistant Prof) to Assoc Prof. Particularly interested in candidates working in the areas of early modern science, or science or medicine in Asia, or Indigenous knowledge systems... #HPS #STS #histstm #histsci

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Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor to the School of History and Philosophy of Science - Camperdown, Australia job with UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY | 410910

Build your research and apply your expertise by contributing as a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor to the School of History and Philos...

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Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I'll be chatting informally about bioethics for the planet this Thursday at Sydney Health Ethics, 12-1. In person and zoom: uni-sydney.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Yadvinder Malhi @ymalhi.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

This Friday we are hosting the inspirational David Abrams, about intimate understanding of our place on this Earth

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Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com · 28/04/2026

The Organism-Environment Pairing will be published in exactly two weeks by @mitpress.bsky.social ! I am so excited to share it with everyone! If you spot copies in the wild, please do let me know, as I would love to see them! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205282... #philsky #HPS #evosky #boosky #histsci 🌱🐋

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Shane Mulligan @shanem-editor.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

My mind is blown that this book was even written. Looking forward to learning and thinking about this! "A historical and philosophical exploration of the organism-environment relationship and its role in shaping biological thought."

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Tom Sharpe @tomsharperocks.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

As well as the wonderful contemporary art in the exhibition, the geological highlight is undoubtedly one of the famous Hutton 'Lost Drawings', the original artwork by John Clark of Eldin of Hutton's section on Salisbury Crags demonstrating the intrusion of igneous rocks into sedimentary strata.

A late 18th century drawing of two men (and a dog!) examining a rock section on Salisbury Crags in Edinburgh. Layers of sedimentary rocks are wedged apart by an intrusion of igneous rock at the base of the Salisbury Crags sill.

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Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery @naturerecovery.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

We're really looking forward to this term's Nature series of lectures. Open to everyone, they start up again next week, with a bonus talk on Tuesday! Online and in person, followed by a drinks reception. See you there! bookwhen.com/oxfordbiodiv... @ecioxford.bsky.social @biology.ox.ac.uk

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RUB History & Philosophy of Science @roto-rub.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

📣 We're #Hiring! #ERC Consolidator Project BOTLEG at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de is recruiting: - 1 PostDoc ➡️ jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/9... - 2 PhDs ➡️ jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/c... 📅 Deadline: 25 May 2026 #PhDSky #HistSci #PhilSci #HPBio #EnvHist #DigitalHumanities #AcademicSky

Local collector from Guatemala (left) and digitized herbarium specimen (right)

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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Tomorrow, Ralf Ludwig (Applied Physical Geography, LMU) will present on “Why Scenarios? Geographical Perspectives on #ClimateFutures Between #Utopia and #Dystopia.” The talk is open to anyone with an interest in environmental issues. 👉 www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/events_conf_...

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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

New Arcadia article by Eiko Honda: learn how the Japanese naturalist-polymath Minakata Kumagusu’s (1867–1941) fascination with slime mold shaped a multispecies onto-epistemology—and a fierce campaign to protect shrines and sacred forests. www.environmentandsociety.org/node/10086/ #envhum #envhist

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Harriet Fagerberg @harrif.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Cambridge Department of History and Philosophy of Science are now on Bluesky! 🔭📚 @hpscambridge.bsky.social

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RUB History & Philosophy of Science @roto-rub.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

A big thanks to Banu Subramaniam who gave an inspiring talk about botany, colonialism, sexuality, migration, conservation and much more in our first lecture of this semester yesterday! Thank you also to everyone who joined the talk and the great discussion afterwards! #HPBio #PhilSci #HistSci

Screenshot from zoom showing the title slide of the talk by Banu Subramaniam, entitled "Migrant Ecologies: Plant Worlds & the Afterlives of Empire", as well as the speaker.

Screenshot from zoom showing a slide on Linné's nomenclature of plant parts as well as the speaker.

Screenshot from zoom showing participants during the discussion.

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Amanda Heidt @scattercushion.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

🧪Hello all! I'm here with a #sourcerequest for @nature.com. I'm writing up a piece on low-tech lab tools. We place a lot of importance on technological innovation, but what are the simple things (DIY maybe?) that you find yourself turning to again and again? Please RT and let me know!

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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 14/04/2026

My old university NTNU in Trondheim is finally! recruiting a fully tenured associate professor in modern environmental history. This is a great opportunity for the right person. #envhist

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Associate Professor (297742) | NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Job title: Associate Professor (297742), Employer: NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Deadline: Sunday, May 3, 2026

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RUB History & Philosophy of Science @roto-rub.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Next Monday, we will kick off this semester's lecture series with the talk by Banu Subramaniam. Banu will talk about migrant ecologies, plants, and the afterlives of Empire. Just register for the talk via the link and join us on Zoom!🤗 rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture... #HPBio #HistSci #PhilSci

Poster for the talk by Banu Subramaniam (University of Massachusetts Amherst), entitled "Migrant Ecologies: Plant Worlds and the Afterlives of Empire". It will take place on Monday, 20 April 2026, at 4 pm (CET) via Zoom.

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Jose A. Cañada @joseacanada.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Last week to register!

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RUB History & Philosophy of Science @roto-rub.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

New semester, new lecture series 🎉Starting next week, we welcome amazing scholars to give online talks in the history and philosophy of life sciences. Find all dates and registration links here: rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture... We look forward to seeing you there 🤗 #HPBio #HistSci #PhilSci

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Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Some images of the geology/natural history/scientific instrument inspired installation - in place for the rest of the Edinburgh Science Festival, along with a range of activities linked to scientific instruments and #histsci

View of the grand gallery with voiles hanging down the sides. They have collaged images that evoke specimens and measures.

Sculpture evoking root forms. Upsidedown inscriptions on the base read Theodolite and Malaria.

Another sculpture with elements inspired by measures - the base reads Thermometer.

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