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Victor Luque

@victorluque.bsky.social
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Associate Professor at University of València. Philosophy of biology and evolutionary theory & Philosophy of science in general. vicjolu.blogs.uv.es

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Saúl Pérez-González @saulpg.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Our paper “The Catalogue of Mechanisms in Analytical Sociology” (with @mjbuedo.bsky.social) has been published in Philosophy of the Social Sciences. We analyse, operationalise, and assess the project of the catalogue of mechanisms. #PhilSci journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Victor Luque @victorluque.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
How do species interact when there is trait evolution? In our new article (doi.org/10.1016/j.jt...), we analyze a model of two competing species whose quantitative traits evolve under stabilizing selection. #EvoBio
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Victor Luque @victorluque.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Last week was the first workshop of our New Approaches to Evidence project (natevidence.blogs.uv.es/project/). We're very grateful to all the participants. See you next year. #philsci
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Valencia Philosophy Lab @vlc-lab.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
🎯 Guillermo Marín Penella: Benefit and safety assessments of anti-ageing medicines in the European Union: regulatory obstacles and pluralistic alternatives #NewApproachestoEvidencePerspectivesonEvidentialPluralism
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Valencia Philosophy Lab @vlc-lab.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
🎯 Aida Roige: Towards a mechanistic understanding of special science kinds #NewApproachestoEvidencePerspectivesonEvidentialPluralism
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Valencia Philosophy Lab @vlc-lab.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
🎯 Alexandra Trofimov: Artificial Intelligence, Evidential Pluralism, and Law #NewApproachestoEvidencePerspectivesonEvidentialPluralism #VLCColloquium
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Valencia Philosophy Lab @vlc-lab.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
🎯María Jiménez-Buedo & Saúl Pérez-González: The Catalogue of Mechanisms in Analytical Sociology #NewApproachestoEvidencePerspectivesonEvidentialPluralism
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Valencia Philosophy Lab @vlc-lab.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
🎯Till Grüne-Yanoff: Rational Evidence Disregard – A Guide to Policymakers #NewApproachestoEvidencePerspectivesonEvidentialPluralism
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Valencia Philosophy Lab @vlc-lab.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
🎯Jesús Zamora-Bonilla: Looking for evidence in the persuasion game #NewApproachestoEvidencePerspectivesonEvidentialPluralism
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Valencia Philosophy Lab @vlc-lab.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
🎯Jon Williamson: A flexible approach to mechanism-informed evidence review #NewApproachestoEvidencePerspectivesonEvidentialPluralism
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Valencia Philosophy Lab @vlc-lab.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
🎯Saúl Pérez-González: Evaluating evidence of mechanisms in the social sciences #NewApproachestoEvidencePerspectivesonEvidentialPluralism
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Valencia Philosophy Lab @vlc-lab.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
🎯Federica Russo: Evidential Pluralism as an Evidence Regime #NewApproachestoEvidencePerspectivesonEvidentialPluralism
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Valencia Philosophy Lab @vlc-lab.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
🚨 «Workshop: New Approaches to Evidence: Perspectives on Evidential Pluralism». 📅 23-24 April, 2026. 🏛️ Faculty of Philosophy and Education Sciences: Salón de Grados. 🔗More info at: vlclab.blogs.uv.es/event/new-ap...
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Saúl Pérez-González @saulpg.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
The workshop New Approaches to Evidence: Perspectives on Evidential Pluralism starts today at @uv.es More info available at natevidence.blogs.uv.es/new-approach... #philsci
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Brad Duthie @bradduthie.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/11/2025
Ecology and Evolution publication now out on the Foundations of Ecological and Evolutionary Change. Victor Luque and I found an equation from which the fundamental equations of ecology and evolution can be derived, formally tying the two together. Our starting point is the interaction between […]
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Metatheoria @metatheoria.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Reseña de Pérez-González, S., Luque, V. y J. Gimeno-Simó (eds.), Karl Popper: Herencia y actualidad, Valencia: Universitat de València, 2024, 282 pp. Ignacio Madroñal doi.org/10.48160/185...
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Victor Luque @victorluque.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
We got published in Ecology&Evolution! We propose an equation from which we derive the fundamental equations of population ecology and evolutionary biology (the Price equation). #evobio #philbio onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Foundations of Ecological and Evolutionary Change
We link the fundamental equations of population ecology and evolution with an equation that sums how individual characteristics interact with individual fitness in a population. From this equation, w....
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Victor Luque @victorluque.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Remember. This is today 😊
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Victor Luque @victorluque.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Join us tomorrow Friday at 10 am (room BLB7) for our talk "Darwin's Dream: Unifying Ecological and Evolutionary Change" #ISHPSSB2025
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Dio D. Vicen @diovicen.bsky.social · 02/04/2024
We've published a Cambridge Elements in Ecological Psychology! 🥳 @segundo-ortin.bsky.social and I have tried to provide a short, but all-encompassing introduction. We hope it's useful both for getting familiar with the field & for teaching. It's free for 14 days! doi.org/10.1017/9781...
Cambridge Elements in Ecological Psychology
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Kal @kkale.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
My Cambridge Element is out now and free to download until January 2!
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Metaphysics of Race
Cambridge Core - Epistemology and Metaphysics - Metaphysics of Race
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Lorenzo Baravalle @lorebar80.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
The Price equation provides a comprehensive representation of evolutionary processes. However, there is no consensus on the explanatory power of the equation. In this article we aim to clarify its place within modern evolutionary theory: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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The Value of Price - Biological Theory
The Price equation provides a comprehensive representation of evolutionary processes. Since its original formulation by George Price, it has been used to model a variety of phenomena in quantitative g...
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Santiago Ginnobili @santiginno.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
🎉 New: The Value of Price We explore the role of the Price equation in evolutionary biology. We argue that, like Galilean kinematics, it is a phenomenological framework that unifies diverse fields by formalizing a shared explanandum. 🖋️ Baravalle, Roffé, Luque & Ginnobili. doi.org/10.1007/s137...
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The Value of Price - Biological Theory
The Price equation provides a comprehensive representation of evolutionary processes. Since its original formulation by George Price, it has been used to model a variety of phenomena in quantitative g...
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Victor Luque @victorluque.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
What's the role of the Price equation within evolutionary theory? Is it a tautology? In our new article we argue that its role is analogous to that of Galilean kinematics in classical mechanics. #evolution #Priceequation #philsci #philbio link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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The Value of Price - Biological Theory
The Price equation provides a comprehensive representation of evolutionary processes. Since its original formulation by George Price, it has been used to model a variety of phenomena in quantitative g...
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Leonardo Bich @leonardobich.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
My Element on "BIological Organization" is finally out! And it is open access! @dialecticalsys.bsky.social #philbio www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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Biological Organization
Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - Biological Organization
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Victor Luque @victorluque.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Nice conversation with @naomioreskes.bsky.social @hpspodcast.bsky.social #hps #philsci www.buzzsprout.com/2180146/epis...
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S4 Ep 7 - Naomi Oreskes on 'Writing on Ignorance' - The HPS Podcast - Conversations from History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science
"In response to that article, I was getting hate mail. I was getting attacked. I thought, these people have a script. This is a story that people need to understand. This isn't just something of acade...
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Victor Luque @victorluque.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
So reptiles are cool after all #evolution #reptiles #biology www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) Reptiles: Misunderstood, maligned and mistreated Enrique Font
PDF | Enrique is a professor at the University of Valencia (Spain), where he heads the Ethology Lab, Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on Rese...
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The HPS Podcast @hpspodcast.bsky.social · 14/04/2024
This week's ep features Kirsten Walsh, philosophy lecturer at @uniofexeter.bsky.social, on the topic of 'Rethinking Newton through his Archive' Kirsten takes us into newly digitised documents & how they can better illuminate Newton's research interests & everyday practices #hps #histsci #philsci 🧪
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S3 Ep 6 - Kirsten Walsh on 'Rethinking Isaac Newton through his Archive' - The HPS Podcast - Conversations from History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science
Today's guest is Dr Kirsten Walsh, a philosophy lecturer at the University of Exeter.Kirsten’s research primarily focuses on Isaac Newton and his methodology, but she is careful to consider philosophi...
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 25/10/2024
Academics in their forties
guy pointing at himself in the mirror meme, saying "you are still an early career scholar"
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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
One equation to rule them all ? A unifying formal equation for eco-evolutionary change ✨ Check out the last publication of our #CESAB & #sDiv synthesis group #UNICOP by @victorluque.bsky.social & @bradduthie.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2409.10766 🧪 🌍 #evolution #ecology #popgen
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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Even transparency can be overused, especially when it replaces trust of local practitioners by forcing them invent publicly scrutinisable reasons for their actions. Here’s Thi Nguyen articulating this idea by Onora O’Neil’s #scipol
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Transparency is Surveillance
In her BBC Reith Lectures on Trust, Onora O’Neill offers a short, but biting, criticism of transparency. People think that trust and transparency go together but in reality, says O'Neill, they are de...
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Victor Luque @victorluque.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Is there an equation that unifies ecological and evolutionary change? In a new preprint Brad Duthie and I show that actually there is. From this equation we derive the two fundamental equations of population ecology and evolution (the Price equation). #evolution #ecology arxiv.org/abs/2409.10766
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Foundations of ecological and evolutionary change
Biological evolution is realised through the same mechanisms of birth and death that underlie change in population density. The deep interdependence between ecology and evolution is well-established, ...
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I Support People Protesting in Support of Palestinian Action @srdfrench.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
My review of Duncan and Janssen’s ‘magisterial’ two-volume history, Constructing Quantum Mechanics (OUP, 2019/2023) is now available in FirstView at the British Journal for the History of Science: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Charting the hybrid architectural style of quantum theory | The British Journal for the History of Science | Cambridge Core
Charting the hybrid architectural style of quantum theory
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DB Krupp @dbkrupp.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Looking for social evolution theory on Bsky? I’ve put together a starter pack, but would love to fill it out. If you study social evolution theory, or know someone who does, please let me know go.bsky.app/DYKVUm5
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 01/07/2024
Mindscape 281 | Samir Okasha on the Philosophy of Agency and Evolution. #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2024...
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281 | Samir Okasha on the Philosophy of Agency and Evolution – Sean Carroll
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Keith Frankish @keithfrankish.com · 22/04/2024
Some words about my intellectual hero and dear friend, Dan Dennett iai.tv/articles/dan...
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Daniel Dennett: The man who saw reality's patterns
<p><em>With the passing of Daniel Dennett, Keith Frankish reflects on his life and the power of his thought. Daniel Dennett was one of the greatest philosophers of our age, his clarity of thinking bro...
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Mauricio González-Forero @mauriciogforero.bsky.social · 15/12/2023
Paper in final form (open access): “A mathematical framework for evo-devo dynamics”. #evolution #development #evodevo #math   If you have questions or thoughts about this, or would like a hand to use it, do let me know!   www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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A mathematical framework for evo-devo dynamics
Natural selection acts on phenotypes constructed over development, which raises the question of how development affects evolution. Classic evolutionar…
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Victor Luque @victorluque.bsky.social · 01/01/2024
One of my favourite podcasts with one of my favourite researchers.
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Fabrizio Baldassarri @fabribald.bsky.social · 27/10/2023
Spontaneous Revolutions Darwin’s Diagrams of Plant Movement Natalie Lawrence delves into Charles Darwin's system for making botanic motion visible to the naked eye, a lesser-known, but inspiring, chapter of the naturalist’s research with plants! #plantstudies #histbio #histsci #manipulatinflora
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“Spontaneous Revolutions”: Darwin’s Diagrams of Plant Movement
After weeks of watching young tendrils slowly corkscrew their way toward the sun, Charles Darwin set about inventing a system for making botanic motion visible to the naked eye. Natalie Lawrence delve...
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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 23/09/2023
Very sad news: Evelyn Fox Keller has passed away. She was a remarkable person and a very influential scholar. In her illustrious career she made important contributions to history and philosophy of biology and feminist philosophy of science. RIP.
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Cameron Buckner @cameronbuckner.bsky.social · 02/09/2023
They told me my content is needed here
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Victor Luque @victorluque.bsky.social · 21/09/2023
Advertise your account with just one image
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Michael Landis @landismj.bsky.social · 21/09/2023
Hello to all the evolutionary biologists that just joined in the past 2-3 weeks! Connect with your people through the Evolutionary Biology feed: bsky.app/profile/did:... It tracks posts with #evosky #evolsky #evolution #evobio #phylo #popgen #ecoevo #evodevo #molevol #paleobio #systematics
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Greg Priest @gregpriest.bsky.social · 15/09/2023
OTD in 1835, HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin aboard, reached the Galapagos Archipelago. “I frequently got on their [tortoise’s] backs, and then giving a few raps on the hinder parts of their shells, they would rise up and walk away; – but I found it very difficult to keep my balance.” 🧪#histsci
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David Spurrett @doctorspurt.bsky.social · 31/07/2023
Starting my cool non-fiction reading thread with Galen Cranz's (1998) "The Chair". Great stuff. (Part of my ongoing investigation of embodied cognition that pays attention to actual bodies.) wwnorton.com/books/9780393319552
Cover of Galen Cranz's book "The Chair".
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Victor Luque @victorluque.bsky.social · 10/09/2023
A hopeful hybrid/monster
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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 10/09/2023
Important conceptual article which calls for a broadening the views on the nature of the evolutionary process, by explaining generalised concept of adaptation, which includes not only genetic changes, but also the influence of epigenetics, niche construction, and habitat choice.
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Victor Luque @victorluque.bsky.social · 10/09/2023
Is natural selection the only possible driver of adaptive evolution? Check out our generalised approach to the study and understanding of adaptive evolution (Biological Reviews, open access) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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A generalised approach to the study and understanding of adaptive evolution
Evolutionary theory has made large impacts on our understanding and management of the world, in part because it has been able to incorporate new data and new insights successfully. Nonetheless, there....
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Victor Luque @victorluque.bsky.social · 10/09/2023
I’m a Philosopher of Science, specializing in the philosophy of the biological sciences. I mainly work on the structure of evolutionary theory, its mathematical models (especially the Price equation) , and the causes of evolution.
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Victor Luque @victorluque.bsky.social · 10/09/2023
Hello everyone!
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