Reposted by Leticia Castillo BracheAline Ghilardi @alinemghilardi.bsky.social · 06/09/2026This is why respecting another country’s fossil legislation requires accepting that another society may have a fundamentally different understanding of what heritage is, whom it belongs to, and what kinds of things should remain outside private appropriation. 1272
Leticia Castillo Brache @leticiacastillo.bsky.social · 08/04/2025This entire thread‼️ #IrritatorBelongstoBR 1145
Reposted by Leticia Castillo BracheAlisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Congratulations to Dr. Castillo Brache @leticiacastillo.bsky.social on successfully defending her PhD dissertation this morning!!! Woo-hoo!!! 🙌🎓🌟 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 Thank you to Profs. Samia Hesni, @rachelankeny.bsky.social, & @miguelohn.bsky.social for serving on her committee 🙏 #philsci #phigeo 1403
Leticia Castillo Brache @leticiacastillo.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Very much looking forward to this! 030
Reposted by Leticia Castillo BracheAlisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 28/02/2025A nice Phi-Geo group trip to @harvardmuseums.bsky.social to see exhibit Measuring Difference & hear a wonderful presentation by @chattyprofessor.bsky.social, artist Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez & #histmed Pablo Gómez, who spoke about roots of medical data about bodies in Atlantic slave trade. #philsci 0193
Leticia Castillo Brache @leticiacastillo.bsky.social · 18/01/2025So many geoethical issues in this ongoing case in my homeland. Barrick Gold must do better! #geoethics #mining #extraction #goldjacobin.comThe Canadian Mining Company Dominicans Call “Worse Than Columbus”We traveled to the Dominican Republic to talk to rural farmers and workers battling a Canadian mining company. “We had no concept of what the devil was until Barrick Gold came to our lands,” one perso... 052
Reposted by Leticia Castillo BracheAl Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 08/01/2025Identity politics has become a defining buzzword in US politics. But how does the far-right employ identity politics? We discuss on #TheTake podcast with @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social. 521366
Reposted by Leticia Castillo BracheAndrew B. Watkins @windjunky.bsky.social · 09/12/2024Prepare the letter! (written by a different Andy, but i'm happy with the co-incidence) 414756
Reposted by Leticia Castillo BracheRodrigo Pérez Ortega @rpocisv.bsky.social · 05/12/2024'Apex' the Stegosaur, the most expensive dinosaur fossil ever sold, will be on display and available to research at the AMNH. My latest for @science.org.science.orgApex the Stegosaur, the most expensive dinosaur fossil ever sold, heads to a museumThe American Museum of Natural History will host one of the most complete Stegosaurus specimens for the next 4 years 4599
Reposted by Leticia Castillo BracheAlisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 03/12/2024It was great having some of the Phi-Geo grads give short presentations of some relevant material from their research to my "Gender, Race, & Science" class today (Thank you @mattbrewer.bsky.social @matildecarrera.bsky.social & @leticiacastillo.bsky.social!!!) 0213
Reposted by Leticia Castillo BracheAlisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Thank you for your awesome work on CARE data principles, which my PhD student @leticiacastillo.bsky.social & I have cited in this handbook chapter on philosophical issues in data ⤵️ www.taylorfrancis.com/reader/downl... ⚒️ #philsci 0111
Leticia Castillo Brache @leticiacastillo.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Great talk by my advisor @alisabokulich.bsky.social on “Pierce, Abduction, & Inverse Problems in the Geosciences” at #PSA24 0100
Leticia Castillo Brache @leticiacastillo.bsky.social · 16/11/2024So glad to have had the opportunity to highlight a widespread harmful practice in paleontology and share potential solutions to such a receptive audience 🙌🏼 Thank you #PSA24 0131
Reposted by Leticia Castillo BracheAlisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Some of the Boston University #PSA24 group out on Bourbon St. 1583
Reposted by Leticia Castillo BracheAlisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 16/11/2024A lovely Phi-Geo & friends dinner @ #PSA24: @rachellaudan.bsky.social Aja W, @miguelohn.bsky.social @terumiyake.bsky.social @mattbrewer.bsky.social AndrewZ @leticiacastillo.bsky.social Kailyn S @federicabocchi.bsky.social @matildecarrera.bsky.social Carlos S, Katherine V @cristianlarph.bsky.social 0433
Leticia Castillo Brache @leticiacastillo.bsky.social · 13/11/2024Catch me at the PSA presenting one of my dissertation chapters! Looking forward to a great discussion 🥳 180
Reposted by Leticia Castillo BracheAlisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 08/11/2024The Philosophy of Geosciences Research Group at BU, Φ-Geo, is dedicated to exploring topics in the philosophy of the geosciences (historical & current Earth sciences), broadly understood. We have a big group heading to #PSA24 ⚒️ next week--check out our upcoming talks bokulich.org/%cf%86-geo-g... 🧵 ⬇️ 14512
Leticia Castillo Brache @leticiacastillo.bsky.social · 03/10/2024Thank you, Alisa! I’m very honored to receive the award 🥳 080
Reposted by Leticia Castillo BracheAlisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 18/09/2024I've worked on many of the topics in this volume, but the one invited to write is "Models, Data Models, & Big Data", which was co-authored with my fabulous PhD student Leticia Castillo Brache @leticiacastillo.bsky.social #philsci #metasci 🧪 1279
Reposted by Leticia Castillo BracheAlisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 28/05/2024Congrats to Phi-Geo grad @leticiacastillo.bsky.social on also having her contributed paper "Parachute Science in Paleontology as Distributive Epistemic Injustice" accepted for #PSA24! 🎉 Excited the entire Phi-Geo group will be presenting at the upcoming @philsci.bsky.social mtg! 🎉 #philsci #philsky 1143
Reposted by Leticia Castillo BracheAlisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 18/05/2024Sorry to be missing the Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (#SPSP2024) conference this year, but happy to get a few highlights about the great presentations from grad members of our Phi-Geo group: 🙌 @matildecarrera.bsky.social @mattbrewer.bsky.social & @leticiacastillo.bsky.social 0163
Reposted by Leticia Castillo BracheAlisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 16/03/2024I am so proud of awesome projects the grads in our Phi-Geo group have been working on: @leticiacastillo.bsky.social "Parachute Science in Paleontology as Distributive Epistemic Injustice" on Brazilian dino fossil Irritator challengeri & shows how parachute harms are distributive epistemic injusticebokulich.orgΦ-Geo GroupΦ-Geo is a research group dedicated to exploring topics in the philosophy of the geosciences (historical and current Earth sciences), broadly understood. Areas of research pursued by Phi-Geo members ... 1186
Reposted by Leticia Castillo BracheAlisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 16/10/2023My wonderful PhD student @leticiacastillo.bsky.social is giving a (in person) talk on this important theme Friday. 0144
Reposted by Leticia Castillo BracheProf Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 22/09/2023Fascinating read in AGU EOS about scientific colonialism and the specific case of the fossil, Irritator challengeri 🧪 🦕 ⚒️ Again, I’m buoyed by the energy and bravery of the scientists taking on this fight, many of whom are early career and/or from the global south. eos.org/articles/ill...eos.orgIllegal Fossil Export Is More Than an Irritator to the Global South - EosMore than 2,000 researchers have signed an open letter requesting the repatriation of a dinosaur fossil to Brazil. Some say the case highlights a pattern of scientific colonialism in paleontology. 15321