Breaking #job news: #Egenis @UofESPA is recruiting a Philosophy of Science faculty position (lecturer)! Deadline for applications is 21/02; there will be a social science post appearing soon, too; please help us spread the word and consider applying! https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DFR195/lecturer-in-philosophy-of-science-education-and-research
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A comment on how Large Language Models affect the future of Higher Education, and important steps that institutions can take to avoid serious trouble ahead, co-authored with my brilliant colleague Silvia Milano this week in @Nature Machine Intelligence: rdcu.be/c8RHY #LLM #Egenis #chatgpt
Looks like last working day before striking again. Sigh. Fingers triple crossed for negotiation outcomes, meanwhile I am hosting amazing colleague Joseph Rouse at #Egenis so wonderful to talk philosophy for hours on end! Today we’ll discuss power and normativity at our #OpenScience team meeting.. if curious, you can watch video of his talk yesterday, where he summarised his forthcoming book (Egenis YT channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLe8vyktlR0b33ceOlTFOiapbJi9G6CdzT)
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If you are interested in plant cognition, minimal cognition...: Me and wonderful Ric Sims wrote this paper that is published last month. 🌿
Stigmergic coordination and minimal cognition in plants https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/10597123221150817?journalCode=adba
#PlantPhenomeProject 🌱 #Egenis #UniversityofExeter
#plantcognition #minimalcognition #coordination
FRIDAY BOOK LAUNCH 🎉🌱🥂! We are hosting a 1-hour online presentation of our new volume “Towards Responsible Plant Data Linkage”, featuring many brilliant contributors - join us by registering here https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-towards-responsible-plant-data-linkage-tickets-438886159317 and if in Exeter, come for a drink at 4 in Byrne House! #Egenis #plantscience #data #linkage
Book launch: "Towards Responsible Plant Data Linkage"

"Towards Responsible Plant Data Linkage: Data Challenges for Agricultural Research and Development", Hugh F. Williamson and Sabina Leonelli

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Today the #Egenis seminar will feature Rachel Elliott, who is visiting us at @UofESPA, with a timely talk on confronting Climate Trauma and the Virtues of Cooperation. Anybody interested, join us here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/climate-trauma-and-the-virtue-of-cooperation-tickets-460829091217 and/or follow our YouTube channel to catch up on this and lots of other fascinating talks! https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLe8vyktlR0b33ceOlTFOiapbJi9G6CdzT&cbrd=1
Climate Trauma and the Virtue of Cooperation

Egenis seminar (hybrid) "Climate Trauma and the Virtue of Cooperation" with Dr Rachel Elliott (visiting researcher University of Exeter)

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Happy to be back home in the U.K. (COVID-free so far 🤞🤞🤞) and tomorrow chairing an #Egenis seminar featuring Caterina Schuerch from @LMU_Muenchen, who is visiting us until January to work on her project „Acquiring Biological Information From Practice“ - if you want to attend, register here https://www.exeter.ac.uk/news/events/details/index.php?event=12295 (most of our seminars are also available later on the #Egenis YouTube channel)
Egenis, the Centre for the Study of Life Sciences : Seminars : EGENIS seminar: "Give me a phenomenon to observe, and an intervention precise enough, and I can find the mechanism", Caterina Schürch (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich) :

Hello, 🙂 I am a philosopher of biology. I have two PhDs: one in #biology and one in #philosophy I did postdocs in biology (plant physiology) and philosophy. In last 3 years, I was a Marie Curie Fellow with my project #PlantPhenome at #Egenis University of Exeter. The papers of the project are coming soon! Now I am based in Stockholm. (I am looking for a job!)
I also like theatre, films, and hiking!
New week starts and a thousands things to do before jetting off to the Philosophy of Science Association meeting in Pittsburgh… today we are hosting Mark Ereshefsky on values in science at #Egenis, meeting open to all as usual, link here: https://www.exeter.ac.uk/news/events/details/index.php?event=12294 #philsci #histodons #sts