November 2023 – ROTO Colloquium Series, Ruhr Universität Bochum. Title of Paper: Prediction in the wild (invited speaker)
October 2023 - Integrating the History and Philosophy of Biodiversity: Narratives of Diversity, Extinction, Conflict and Value - Invited Keynote Speaker. Title of Paper: The Meta-Research Toolkit for Ecology and Conservation Biology
August 2023 - Behaviour 2023 (organised by the Faculty of Biology at Bielefeld University). Title of Paper: Re-examining Meta-Analysis in Biological Research (refereed presentation).
June 2023 - Gordon Research Conference on Predictive Ecology Stonehill College, MA USA - Title of Paper: What is the point of Prediction?
March 2023 - Workshop of the Research Group: The Epistemology of Evidence-based Policy: How Philosophy Can Facilitate the Science-policy interface - Invited Speaker. Title of Paper: Philosophy to the Rescue! The case of model complexity in fisheries science.
January 2023 - Laboratory of Philosophy, Ethics, Policy and Communication of Science and Technology Colloquium, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece - Invited Speaker. Title of Paper: What are General Models about?
May 2021 - GRK 2073 Research Colloquium - Leibniz Universität Hannover, Hannover, Germany (via Zoom). Title of Paper: Meta-Analysis in Biology
Oct 2020 - FraMEPhys Idealized Models Workshop - University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK (via Zoom). Title of Paper: “What are General Models About?” (invited speaker)
April 2020 - KLI Colloquia, Konrad Lorenz Institute, Vienna, Austria (via Zoom). Title of Paper: “Optimal Model Complexity in Sustainability Science” (invited speaker)
February 2020 - Are Climate Impacts Environmental Impacts? Court Review of Complex Environmental Knowledge and Impacts, Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science (HELSUS) Seminar, Helsinki, Finland. Title of Paper: Prediction in the Wild (invited speaker)
August 2019 - Philosophy of Biology on Dolphin Beach 13, Moruya, Australia. Title of Paper: Prediction in the Wild (invited speaker)
July 2019 - Philosophical Perspectives on the Niche, Münster, Germany. Title of Paper: “Niche concepts, Species Distribution Models and Biological Invasions” (invited speaker)
July 2019 - International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology, Oslo, Norway. Title of Paper: “Meta-analysis as a Predictive Tool for Invasion Biology”, in the Symposium “Tackling Bioinvasions 60 years on: lessons from the trenches”. (refereed presentation)
June 2019 - Charles University. Idealization Across the Sciences Workshop, Prague, Czech Republic. Title of Paper: Agreeing to Disagree: Pluralism about Optimal Model Complexity (invited speaker)
July 2018 - Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Modeling Reality Workshop, Jerusalem, Israel. Title of Paper: What are General Models about? (invited speaker)
June 2018 - Center for Science and Thought, University of Bonn, Workshop in honour of George Ellis: 'How Can Physics Underlie the Mind: Top-Down Causation in the Human Context', Bonn, Germany. Title of paper: 'Levels in Ecological Modelling' (invited speaker)
February 2018 - University of Gothenburg, Research Seminar in Practical Philosophy and Political Theory, Gothenburg, Sweden. Title of paper: 'When Qualitative Predictions are enough' (invited speaker)
October 2017 - TINT workshop 'What to make of highly unrealistic models?', Helsinki, Finland. Title of paper: "When and how do general models apply to the world?" (refereed presentation)
October 2017 - 9th Bethe Center Workshop 'Computational Sciences and Reality', Bonn Germany. Title of paper: "When and how do general models apply to the world?" (invited speaker)
September 2017 - European Philosophy of Science Association, Exeter, UK. Title of paper: Re-examining the value of Qualitative predictions for Problem-Based Science (refereed presentation)
May 2017 - Workshop on Sustainability and Philosophy: ‘Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals: Philosophical and Scientific Perspectives’, Trondheim, Norway. Title of Paper: "One size fits none: the importance of model diversity in sustainability research" (invited speaker)
January 2017 - Interdisciplinary Futures: Open the Social Sciences 20 years later, Lisbon, Portugal. Title of Paper: "Walking the Line: When Disciplinary Boundaries are good for Interdisciplinarity" (refereed presentation)
November 2016 - Philosophy of Science Association, Biennial Meeting, Atlanta, USA. Title of paper: "Generalizability and Interdependence in Ecological Research", in the Symposium "Causality and Interdependence in Ecology" (refereed presentation)
May 2016 - Models and Simulations 7, Barcelona, Spain. Title of paper: "The Danger of Over-Generalization in Ecological Modelling" (refereed presentation)
April 2016 - University of Calgary, Philosophy of Ecology Workshop, Calgary, Canada. Title of paper: "Two Kinds of Ecological Generality" (invited speaker)
July 2015 - International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology, Montréal, Canada. Title of paper: "Causal Heterogeneity Constrains Predictive Power in Ecology", in the Symposium "Heterogeneity and the Problem of Ecological Prediction".
May 2015 - University of Pennsylvania, Spring Workshop in HPS, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Title of paper: "Varieties of Prediction" (invited keynote speaker)
March 2015 - Oakland University Colloquium Series, Michigan, USA. Title of paper: "Does greater Unification lead to better Predictions? The case of Invasion Biology" (invited speaker) - abstract
September 2014 - Calgary Summit of Philosophy of Science, Future Approaches for Philosophy of Biology, Calgary, Canada. Title of poster: "Can there be a unified theory of Invasion Biology?" (refereed poster session)
August 2014 - 8th Philosophy of Biology on Dolphin Beach Workshop, Moruya, Australia. Title of paper: “Can there be a Unified Theory of Invasion Biology?”
July 2013 - International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology, Montpellier, France. Title of paper: “What is the Target of a Generalized Model?”
November 2012 - Philosophy of Science Association, Biennial Meeting, San Diego, USA. Title of paper: “Abstract and Complete” (refereed presentation)
March 2012 - Explanatory Styles in the Life Sciences Workshop, Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem, Israel. Title of paper: “Targets of Population Ecology” (invited presentation)
August 2011 5th Philosophy of Biology on Dolphin Beach Workshop, Moruya, Australia. Title of paper: "Models provide solutions to the problems of Invasion Biology"
July 2011 - International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology Salt Lake City, USA. Title of paper: “Abstraction and Conceptualization in Invasive Species Research”
October 2010 - Integrating Complexity, ISHPSSB off-year workshop, London, ON, Canada. Title of paper: "Is Ecological Inheritance necessary for Niche Construction?"
July 2009 - International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology Brisbane, Australia. Title of paper: "Why early humans did not think deductively"