Marine Science Studies

Talks

Recorded Talks
Invited Talks
  • International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology – ‘Mini-Plenary: Discovering the Sea in history, philosophy and social studies of science‘ – with Samantha Muka (July 2025, Porto, Portugal).
  • Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research Colloquium – ‘The Epistemic Red Queen Hypothesis: are we making the world harder to understand?‘ (April 2025, Klosterneuburg, Austria; and online)
  • University of Vienna Interaction and Evolution of Organisms Seminar Series – ‘What is Normal? Shifting Baselines in Biology‘ – (March 2025, Vienna, Austria)
  • UK Experimental Philosophy Online Seminar Series – ‘The problem of baselining: philosophy, history, and coral reef science’ (Dec 2025, Online).
  • Institut de Cancérologie Gustave Roussy Departmental Seminar – ‘Oceans, metabolism, and cancer: reflections, connections, and speculation’ (14th Oct 2024, Paris, France).
  • International Association for Society and Natural Resources Conference – ‘Between the intrinsic and the instrumental: value relations between corals, reefs, and scientists’. Invited by panel organisers to speak as part of the conference session ‘Villains, victims and superstars: Re-configuring human-wildlife relationships in changing seas’ (23rd-27th June, Cairns, Australia; and online).
  • Mount Allison University Phoenix Colloquium – ‘Philosophy of Marine Science? Coral reefs and ocean metabolism’ (December 2023, Sackville, Canada).
  • Departmental Seminar, Department for the History, Philosophy, and Ethics of Medicine, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf – ‘Science as Niche Construction: The Case of Coral Reef Science’ (October 2023, Dusseldorf, Germany)
  • Royal Society of Edinburgh Research Network “Ocean and Us” Inaugural Online Workshop – ‘Integrating non-human perspectives into scientific processes: the case of coral reef bioacoustics’ (October 2023, online)
  • Perspectives on Scientific Practice Workshop – ‘Coral Reefs and the Ecological Dimensions of Science’ (March 2023, Egenis Centre for the Study of Life Sciences, University of Exeter, UK).
  • Marine Biological Laboratory and Arizona State University History of Biology Seminar – ‘Coral reefs, regeneration and baselines‘, part of ecology session (May 2022, Woods Hole, MA, USA).
  • Exeter-Duke Contesting Care Conference – ‘Environmental care in coral science’ (July 2021, Exeter/online)
General Talks
  • Institut d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Technique ‘In Relation to Life Conference: Biological Relationality in Contemporary Science, Theory, and Politics’ – ‘Relational values in science: lessons from coral reefs’ (2024, Paris, France).
  • European Molecular Biology Organisation Workshop: the molecular and cellular basis of regeneration and tissue repair – ‘Does the shifting baseline problem apply in the case of organism regeneration?’ (Oct 2024, Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, France).
  • Vienna Natural History Museum Seminar – ‘Philosophical Reflections on the Coral Reef Crisis – Ecological Baselines and the Role of History in the Life Sciences’ (Sept 2024, Vienna)
  • Finnish Society for Science and Technology Studies Symposium – ‘Conceptualising the epistemic value of ecosystems: the case of coral reefs’ (June 2024, Helsinki, Finland).
  • Centre for the Social Studies of Microbes Seminar Series – ‘Reframing the concept of metabolism: insights from ocean biogeochemistry’ (June 2024, Helsinki, Finland)
  • Dalhousie Biology Department FISH Seminar – ‘What is Ocean Metabolism? Philosophical Perspectives on Biogeochemistry’ (February 2024, Halifax, Canada).
  • Dalhousie Philosophy Seminar – ‘Making Sense of Ocean Metabolism – A Philosophical Analysis of an Oceanographic Concept’ (January 2024, Halifax, Canada).   
  • International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB) Conference – ‘Coral Reefs and the Ecological Dimensions of Science’ (July 2023, Toronto, Canada).
  • International Workshop – Values at sea: Science Studies meets Marine Biology – ‘Beyond shifts: Sources of variation in the baselining process’ (April 2023, University of Exeter/online).
  • International Conference on Engaging Ethics and Epistemology in Science – ‘What role does value play in socio-ecological accounts of science?’ (Sept 2022, Hannover, Germany)
  • European Association for the Study of Science and Technology Conference – ‘Corals as service providers: ecosystem services and value relations between coral scientists and corals’ (July 2022, Madrid, Spain)
  • International Coral Reef Society Conference – ‘Variation, Value and Baselines in Coral Reef Systems’ (July 2022, Bremen, Germany)
  • Society for the Philosophy of Science in Practice Conference – ‘Perspectivism and multi-species epistemology: the case of coral reefs’ (July 2022, Ghent, Belgium)
  • Egenis Research Exchange – ‘Reframing the idea of ecological value: Lessons from coral reef research’ (Nov 2021, Egenis Centre for the Study of Life Sciences, Exeter, UK/online)
  • Environmentalism, Religion, and Theology: Themes related to COP26 – ‘Reframing the idea of ecological value: Lessons from coral reef research’ (Oct 2021, Exeter University Theology Department, Exeter, UK/online)
  • Philosophy of Science Association Conference – ‘The role of value attribution in coral regeneration’. Part of Regeneration Across Scales ISHPSSB Cognate session. (Nov 2020, postponed to Nov 2021, online).
  • Society for Social Studies of Science Conference – ‘Corals as Service Providers: Ecosystem Services and Value Relations Between Coral Scientists and Corals’ (Oct 2021, Toronto, Canada/online)
  • European Philosophy of Science Association Conference – ‘Reframing the idea of ecological value: Lessons from coral reef research’ (Sept 2021, Turin, Italy/online)
  • UK Association for Studies of Innovation, Science and Technology Conference – ‘Corals as Service Providers: Ecosystem Services and Value Relations Between Coral Scientists and Corals’ (Sept 2021, online)
  • International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology Conference – ‘Hearing Coral – multimodal and multispecies communication and value’ (July 2021, Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory/online).
  • International Coral Reef Society Conference – ‘What does it mean to say corals have value?’ (July 2021, online).
  • Great Western Four (GW4) Climate Symposium – ‘Reframing the idea of ecological value: lessons from coral reef research’. Best Abstract winner – ‘Valuing, managing, adapting: past and current approaches to environmental sustainability’ theme. (June 2021, online).
  • Marine Biological Association Postgraduate Conference – ‘What does it mean to say corals have value?’ (April 2021, online)
  • Exeter Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology Postgraduate Virtual Seminar Series – ‘Distinguishing regeneration from degradation in coral: the role of value’ (July 2020, online).
  • Egenis Research Exchange – ‘Distinguishing regeneration from degradation in coral: the role of value’ (June 2020, online).
  • PhilInBioMed Second International Meeting – ‘Supercorals and coral regeneration strategies’ (Nov 2019, Bordeaux, France)
  • International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology Conference – ‘Engineering regeneration in corals’ (July 2019, Oslo, Norway).