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Call for Applications: Summer Institute, "Practices of Individuation
and Classification in Science," 18 June to 1 July 2017, Banff,
Alberta, Canada. Junior scholars, especially graduate students and
post-doctoral fellows, are encouraged to apply. Accepted participants
will receive generous stipends to offset expenses associated with
travel and attendance. Deadline: 15 February 2017.
goo.gl/NgBIJ0
Call for Applications: Summer Program, "Philosophy of Science for
Underrepresented Groups," 10-14 July 2017, University of Pittsburgh.
Housing, meals, and transportation costs will be covered, and all
course materials provided. Open to undergraduates and North American
students only. Deadline: 15 March 2017.
goo.gl/G4gBuE
Postdoc: 3-year postdoctoral position in applied ethics or
history/philosophy of science, University of Tübingen, starting 1
April 2017 or the earliest possible date thereafter. To apply, send
your application (CV and usual materials), including a short research
proposal for an independent research project (2-3 pp.), to Prof. Dr.
Thomas Potthast. Deadline: 28 February 2017.
Postdoc & PhD Positions: "The role of the immune system in the
maintenance and construction of the organism," beginning in
September/October 2017, under the supervision of Thomas Pradeu, CNRS
in Bordeaux. Deadline: 25 April 2017.
goo.gl/pLGR9w [postdoc] / goo.gl/XS2yX0 [PhD]
Cover Design: Help design a new cover for *Biology and Philosophy*!
Submit any appropriate work that you have created and which you think
appropriately captures the journal to editor Michael Weisberg at
[log in to unmask] The winner will receive a year free
subscription to the journal and several books from Springer Nature.
Deadline: 1 March 2017.
Prize: The first recipient of the Everett Mendelssohn Prize from the
*Journal of the History of Biology* is Rachel Mason Dentinger, for her
article "Patterns of Infection and Patterns of Evolution: How a
Malaria Parasite Brought 'Monkeys and Man' Closer Together in the
1960s." It is freely available online at goo.gl/qQEajU
goo.gl/f6uxDR
New Translation: The British Society for the History of Science is
delighted to announce the publication online of a new translation with
commentary of Gregor Mendel's landmark 1866 paper "Experiments on
Plant Hybrids." The new translation and commentary are the work of Dr.
Staffan Mueller-Wille (Exeter) and Dr. Kersten Hall (Leeds), in
collaboration with Michel Durinx from Centimedia.
goo.gl/ad0Mcl
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