Philosophy, Theory, and Practice in Biology is a peer-reviewed, free-to-authors, CC:BY, open-access journal, edited by academics and published by @M_Publishing
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Vol 16, no 1 of PTPBio has dropped, with articles from Karen Kovaka and Rose Novick, François Papale and W. Ford Doolittle, Rose Trappes, and Cristóbal Unwin Holzapfel, plus a book review from Michael R. Dietrich. Check it out!
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From Martha Whitehead: "#OpenAccess increases research use & reuse, helps readers find & read the research they need & helps authors maximize their audience & impact. It…decreases [costs] & by exposing research to more people from more perspectives, increases trust in research."
New policy guidelines from the @WHOSTP45 on publicly-funded research are a win for #OpenAccess. More research will be available freely and immediately, making scholarly communication more equitable. Read more from our library leaders: library.harvard.edu/about/ne…
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Another pattern: these methods books quickly brush off qualitative replication as just a category mistake.
I love this paper by @philosofir which not only talks through how to make sense of qualitative replication, but does an ethnography replication: doi.org/10.3998/ptpbio.16039…
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A chance seating next to Rona Aviram at #ESBR lead to discussion of the clock metaphor and her brilliant article on the topic. A Metaphor That Keeps on Ticking: The ‘Clock’ as a Driving Force in the History of Chronobiology Research doi.org/10.3998/ptpbio.16039…
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That paper is part of a special issue featuring papers from that and related workshops. The meeting report is here:
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And the Table of contents for the @PTPBio special issue is here:
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A few years ago I helped make this online learning module after hosting my workshop "Species in the Age of Discordance." Today my son was assigned it in his 9th grade biology class! So cool. Plus, I can actually help him with his homework. :)
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Looking for a more robust concept of sex in bio research? We’re excited to roll out our educational materials for Sarah Richardson’s 2022 paper “Sex Contextualism” journals.publishing.umich.ed… A resource thread for practicing scientists, philosophers, & feminist science scholars. 🧵
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This is a good read, folks. And open access. #sexcontextualism #binarysexessentialism
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Well, this was a ton of fun to write! I really love this Journal, too!
New! "Phyloreferences: Tree-Native, Reproducible, and Machine-Interpretable Taxon Concepts" by Nico Cellinese, Stijn Conix, and Hilmar Lapp (@ncellinese, @hlapp) #openaccess → doi.org/10.3998/ptpbio.2101
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Interesting article on ethnographic laboratory studies 40yr after “Laboratory Life” and the replicability of ethnographic results. This is an important context for considering the situatedness of labs and the potential generalizability of the findings. doi.org/10.3998/ptpbio.16039…
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Check out this on the power of metaphors in biology by Rona Aviram @rona_av and Gal Manella @GalManella quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/tex…
A timely thread on "slave" vs. "master" circadian clocks. ;) Conductor/orchestra and mother/daughter can substitute. Pubmed shows "slave" falling out of favor since ~2013, but why and to what end? @rona_av & @GalManella have thoughts on this.
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A great read replete with quotes from scientists & poets. I will use this when teaching the history of biological clocks and the power of metaphors in experimental design. I’ll also consider this when i search for alternatives for “master” clock when discussing the SCN.
New! “A Metaphor That Keeps on Ticking: The ‘Clock’ as a Driving Force in the History of Chronobiology Research” by Rona Aviram and Gal Manella → doi.org/10.3998/ptpbio.16039…
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One of the smartest historical studies on the role of metaphors in science I've read in a long time
New! “A Metaphor That Keeps on Ticking: The ‘Clock’ as a Driving Force in the History of Chronobiology Research” by Rona Aviram and Gal Manella → doi.org/10.3998/ptpbio.16039…
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We’d like our models to be maximally precise, realistic, and general. But philosophical accounts often overemphasize precision. This piece explores how in some cases, sacrificing precision can increase generality and realism, making qualitative models superior for some purposes.
Just published: “The Value of Imprecise Prediction” by
Alkistis Elliott-Graves. Are imprecise predictions merely a stepping stone to more precise ones? Does imprecision make disciplines less scientific? → dx.doi.org/10.3998/ptpbio.16…
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Peter Godfrey Smith presents a compelling case here that efference (or reafference) copies can form the basis for subjective experience quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/tex…
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Finally! Holobiont Evolution: Mathematical Model with Vertical vs. Horizontal Microbiome Transmission dx.doi.org/10.3998/ptpbio.16…
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Another (otherwise good) article built on the false assumption that all or most #openaccess journals charge APCs. Could have been more precise and limited the argument to APC-based OA journals.
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PTPBio excitedly welcomes Joyce C. Havstad (Oakland Univ, USA) to PTPBio as a new Editor! Her areas of expertise include paleontology, mechanisms, homology, macroevolutionary theory, specimen collection, cloning, science+values, and other areas. See joycehavstad.com/
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I just pulled these numbers from the @DOAJplus for a colleague and thought I'd share them here. Today DOAJ lists 13,628 peer-reviewed #openaccess journals. 3,633 charge APCs (26.6%). 9,942 do not charge APCs (72.9%). 53 don't say enough for DOAJ to tell (0.4%).
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If we were to reimagine how scholarly communications are disseminated, would we come up with the current system? Never. @BoyanaKonforti #alaac19