Vera Straetmanns
PhD student in history and philosophy of plants 🌱 recent paper: "The Lady and the Plants: Two Notions of Teleology in Agnes
Arber’s Philosophy of Plants"; read it here: rdcu.be/d5xPI | fan of Tolkien and board games | she/her
- Such great talks at the "Thinking with Plants & Fungi" conference yesterday! Of course, I was especially looking forward to @jacobjerickson.bsky.social's talk about Agnes Arber and I wasn't disappointed! 😊 Looking forward to days 2 and 3! 🌻🍄 cswr.hds.harvard.edu/research-pro... #HPBio #PhilSci
- My first paper is published!🤩 In it, I analyze how 20th century plant morphologist Agnes Arber understood teleology in plants.🪴 Spoiler: I think that she had two different notions of teleology and only liked one of them. Read more here: rdcu.be/d5xPI or in the following thread! 🧵 (1/5) 🌱🐋 #HistSci
- Reposted by Vera Straetmanns📣Apply now for the HPS+Logic M.A. at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de! The program includes courses on science and its history, logic and topics on culture, ethics & technology. Find all info here: www.hpsplus.org Application deadline for the summer term: - 15 January (Non-EU students) - 15 March (EU students)
- Great workshop last week in Bochum - the first one I co-organized 😎 Such great talks and all of them about plants!! 😍🌿 Also happy about my talk on early plant psychologists - something I will keep on working in the future. #PhDSky #HPBio #HistSci
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- Had a great first day at the annual HSS meeting yesterday. Looking forward to many more interesting talks and a great time in Mérida 🙂🌴
- First HPS book chapter that I have been involved in is out now 😊🤩
- A lot of cool talks this semester 😍
- On my way back from Vienna after 4 days of talks, discussions and meeting great people at #EASPLS. I can really recommend it to any PhD in #HPBio! Thanks to @leonardobich.bsky.social, Matteo Mossio and Lucie Laplane for organizing! Also great to spend time with ROTO guests Mariano and Joan 😊 #PhDSky
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- I feel very blessed and honored to have been part of the extraordinary conference "The organic and the normative". Such a lovely, "deliberately heterogenous" group of people! Thanks to @sebastjanvoros.bsky.social and his group for organizing this and welcoming us in beautiful Ljubljana! 💚
- Today, I learned about the Tartary Lamb - a creature that was believed to be half plant, half animal. 🌱🐑 Fascinating text by @fabribald.bsky.social! 🤓 www.jhiblog.org/2021/12/22/t...
- Yesterday, I gave a talk about Agnes Arber and her understanding of teleology in plants at the #HOPOS2024 - my first talk at a scientific conference ever 🤓 Very happy that it went so well and that I was in such a great session about the philosophy of biology! #HPBio #PhD
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- Looking forward to our next Reading Group meeting with a super interesting and eye opening paper on #PlantSexuality and #PlantPhilosophy! 🌷
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- Springtime in Bochum ☀️😍🪻
- Great to hear a bit about Don Opitz´ research on women´s education in horticulture and agriculture during the 19th century. 🌱👩🎓 Looking forward to the reading the book! soundcloud.com/user-2871209... (also available on Spotify and all the other places) #HistSci #HPBio #Botany
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- This is amazing! 🤩 I also love the physics winner 💃 Now I´m thinking about how to turn the philosophy of plants into dance 🍃 #PhDSky #STEM #Science www.science.org/content/arti...
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- Yay, plants! 😍🌻🤓
- I´m in love with this interactive poster on the evolution of plants!! 🤩🌿 madland.science/greening.php
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- Fascinating talk today by Michael Levin in the basal cognition lecture series. I will probably dream of three-headed planaria tonight 🙈🪱 Thanks to @tobiasschlicht.bsky.social, Caroline and Matt for organizing this great series! 🤩
- Study finds that plants, fungi, and microorganisms are underrepresented in the available emojis on social media. But diversity has been increasing over the past years. I would love to see emojis for mosses, slime molds, gingkos and lichen in the future! #PhilSky #FungiFriends #Plants #Botany
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- Autumn walk in Bochum's botanical garden 🍂
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- Agnes Arber fact #5: Arber was not only a researcher and writer, she also was a very skilled draftsperson and illustrated most of her books and articles herself. Both her father and her sister were painters and her father started giving Agnes art lessons in the age of three. #histsci #philsci #HPbio
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- Agnes Arber fact #3: Arber had a lifelong interest in Goethe. She called him "a botanist of genius" and drew on his concepts in her writings. She already came into contact with his work during college and published a translation of his “Metamorphosis of Plants” in 1946. #histsci #philsci #HPbio
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- Agnes Arber fact #2: Arber was born in London and lived at Primrose Hill between 1890 and 1909. A blue plaque of the English Heritage marks the house in which she lived. #histsci #philsci #HPbio
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