Biosemiotics

25/06/2024

The journal of Biosemiotics now has an impact factor of 2.1. Congratulations team! Keep submitting!

29/04/2024

The Special Issue The Biosemiotics of Waste is now complete and available for reading online:

With the symbolic shadow of colonial efficiency looming large on the semiotic landscape of all life, pollution occupies and influences the agency of (nearly) ...

21/04/2024

https://sites.google.com/nyu.edu/nydeclaration/background

Recent rapid advances The last ten years have been an exciting time for the science of animal cognition and behavior. Striking new results have hinted at surprisingly rich inner lives in a very wide range of other animals, including many invertebrates, driving renewed debate about animal

05/03/2024

Job Posting for Applied Biosemiotics:

We are seeking a dynamic, insightful and results-driven strategy consultant to join Luminous. As Consultant, you will play a pivotal role empowering organizations in the life sciences. You will drive project deliverables & client success around insights, strategies and capabilities that lead to better outcomes for patients, business, and society. This role requires a blend of project ex*****on, insight, foresight and strategic skills, and excellence in presentation and client management. We are looking for experience in life sciences and a demonstrated passion for serving as a trusted partner to clients. We are also seeking people who are genuine, courageous and able to drive business growth. In this role you will have the opportunity to shape thought leadership in healthcare and the life sciences, bringing transformative insights to drive health and business outcomes on behalf of manufacturers of therapies and devices. You will be part of a dynamic global team applying models from behavioral science, biosemiotics and systems thinking to identify how the ecosystem of care needs to change to improve patient lives.

For more about us and what we look for visit

Luminous is a consultancy that enables transformation in the life sciences industry through insights, strategies, and capabilities.

20/02/2024

24th GATHERINGS IN BIOSEMIOTICS: FINAL CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

Online and face-to-face

Held under the auspices of the International Society for Biosemiotic Studies, the 24th annual Gathering will take place at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, South Africa. As this Gathering will be held in the Global South, it might offer a good opportunity to consider the role of global geopolitical contexts in biosemiotics. As much as one would expect biology to be a study that does not need to consider context, or perhaps it does, ecosemiotics, the relationship between biosemiotics and culture, and the emergence of biosemiotics as a field of study itself may benefit from considering different contexts. Apart from the normal presentations related to biosemiotics, we therefore in particular welcome reflections on geopolitical, cultural, and social contexts in biosemiotics.

The Gatherings in Biosemiotics is the annual meeting for the study of sign processes in life processes. Researchers interested in the intersection of meaning-making and biology are the backbone of our
interdisciplinary undertaking, and we welcome thoughtful submissions from scholars in any discipline relevant to a deeper understanding of the role of signs in life.

The conference will take place from 17-21 June 2024.

We particularly welcome conference presentations in the following research areas:

Biosemiotic approaches to biology
Biosemiotics and ecosemiotics in the Global South
The implications of biosemiotics to philosophy and the humanities
History and epistemology of biosemiotics
Semiotic approaches in theoretical biology
Evolution and ontogeny of semiotic mechanisms
Modelling of semiosis and semiotic networks
Endosemiotics
Interspecies semiosis
Experimental biosemiotics
Ecosemiotics
Biosemiotics of health and disease
Umwelt studies and phenomenology
Cultural implications of biosemiotics
Abstracts should be 300-600 words, with your full name, email address and affiliation below the title, and submitted as single-space, single page files in the doc, docx, rtf, or odt formats (please do not send PDFs), with a maximum of three references permitted. All abstracts should be e-mailed to [email protected] no later than 4 March 2024. Please filename the document with your surname in capital letters, for example: SEBEOK.doc. Please also indicate if you will be attending online or in person.

The tentative notification of acceptance date will be early March 2024. Additional information about the Gathering can be found at https://www.ufs.ac.za/conferences/conference/gatherings-in-biosemiotics-2024

Looking forward to seeing you at the Gathering!

The Organizing Committee of the 24th Annual Gatherings in Biosemiotics

ISBS Official Webpage: www.biosemiotics.org
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The ISBS’s task is to promote biosemiotic research and strengthen the links of researchers across the world.

Biosemiotics is an interdisciplinary research agenda investigating the myriad forms of communication and signification found in and between living systems. It is thus the study of representation, meaning, sense, and the biological significance of codes and sign processes, from genetic code sequences...

16/10/2023

Perhaps of interest for MA scholars

CALL FOR PhD Studies Opportunity – Deadline December 1, 2023
The Department of Anthropology in the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Media, Art, and Performance (MAP) at the University of Regina (Saskatchewan, Canada) seek a PhD student to research nonverbal interspecies communication in the Circumpolar North, specifically the Inuvialuit Settlement Region within the Northwest Territories (NT), Canada. The research process and outcomes of the successful applicant will be affiliated with the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) funded interdisciplinary project, Sensory Acts: More Than Human Communication in the Circumpolar North (SACTS), overseen by Dr. Alex Oehler and Dr. Sarah Abbott.

The successful candidate will conduct approximately 11 months of embedded, collaborative ethnographic fieldwork alongside Inuvialuit hunters, trappers, herders, mushers, and/or gatherers on the Land and in communities of the Inuvialuit Settlement Region. Research and/or outcomes may be arts-based. Funding for the successful applicant is available in the form of 60,000 CAD over 3 along with travel, per diem, and fieldwork costs. Additional funding may be available through internal and external sources. One position is available. The application deadline is December 1, 2023. Commencement of study will be Fall 2024.

More information about the position and application process is available here or at www.sensoryacts.ca

https://www.sensoryacts.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/SACTS-PhD-2024-Call-for-Applications.pdf

14/10/2023

New article: Interview with Gerd B. Müller on Theoretical Biology by Kalevi Kull

The topics discussed in the interview cover the development and activities of the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research as one of the most important theoretical biology centers in the world, the reasons for its inspiring atmosphere, as well as the development of the interests....

25/07/2023

The first article from the Biosemiotics of Waste special issue now published, Signs of Life and Death: The Semiotic Self-Destruction of the Biosphere by Alf Hornborg

This article applies some conceptual tools from semiotics to better understand the disastrous impacts of the world economy on global ecology. It traces the accelerating production of material disorder and waste to the logic of the money sign, as economic production processes simultaneously increase....

27/04/2023

Morton Tønnessen and Carlo Brentari will be guest-editing a special issue of Biosemiotics on "Umwelt theory and phenomenology."
See the Call for Papers here. Abstracts are due June 15th.

PDF | This is a call for papers for a special issue of Biosemiotics, on Umwelt theory and phenomenology. Abstracts are due by June 15th 2023. | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

20/04/2023

Tomorrow, along with some great luminaries of (bio)semiotics, we'll discuss some of the thorniest aspects of what it means to incorporate the biological and ecological world into our everyday human sensemaking (and sensetaking) apparatus.

I am thrilled that Semiofest has been able to convene such luminaries as Paul Cobley Malcolm Evans Natasha Delliston And Yogi H. on the panel to discuss bio-semiotics hosted by our very own Lucia Laurent-Neva and convened by Joshua Glenn.

Semiofest Session No 16
BIOSEMIOTICS - WHAT'S NEXT?
This session will run on Friday, 21st April 2023 at 14.00 hrs (UK time). Please register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/semiofest-session-16-biosemiotics-whats-next-tickets-605286537327

As always, it will be a stimulating, human interaction. We invite all interested academics and applied semioticians to come and join us so we can exchange ideas on this most important of topics. Chris

Biosemiotics is a field of semiotics (or vice versa, it could be argued) that analyzes the production of signs and codes in the biological

21/03/2023

Last days to submit your abstract to the ISBS in Copenhagen this year!

https://www.biosemiotics.org/gatherings-in-biosemiotics-2023/

Due 23 March, 2023

We are pleased to announce that this year’s Gatherings will be held in the same room and building that the inaugural Gatherings in Biosemiotics was held in 2001: Auditorium 1 in what is now the University of Copenhagen’s Social Sciences Faculty Library, Gothersgade 140, Copenhagen 1123.

04/01/2023

Happy New Year's!

New articles up on the Biosemiotics journal website, including Heidi Campana Piva's "Semiotically Mediated Human-Bee Communication in the Practice of Brazilian Meliponiculture."

Stingless bees are among the most dominant pollinators in the south tropics. As such, the rational beekeeping of stingless bee species, called meliponiculture, is an ancient and relevant activity, related to sustainable agricultural development, and which connects traditional knowledge to innovation...

28/11/2022

Tonight is the deadline for the Biosemiotics of Waste special issue in the summer 2023 issue of Biosemiotics, co-edited by Tyler James Bennett and Yogi Hendlin.

We already have some great abstracts and paper plans from some of our favorite authors, but are still open to more submissions!

Please submit your abstracts today.

27/10/2022

Call for papers: Special Issue on the Biosemiotics of Waste

Abstracts due 28 Nov, 2022

05/10/2022

We would like to congratulate Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen and Majid D. Beni for winning the 2021 Biosemiotics Achiecement Award for their paper "Active Inference and Abduction" https://rdcu.be/cWX9i

Special thanks also go to our selection committee, Alin Olteanu Vinicius Romanini for serving in this capacity and writing up the reasoning behind their selection of this paper.
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The Annual Biosemiotic Achievement Award was established at the annual meeting of the International Society for Biosemiotic Studies (ISBS) in 2014, in conjunction with Springer and Biosemiotics. It seeks to recognize papers published in the journal that present novel and potentially important contri...

01/09/2022

New Special Issue of Biosemiotics out on Agency and (the Built) Enviornment, edited by Tim Ireland and Paul Cobley

https://link.springer.com/journal/12304/volumes-and-issues/15-2

Volume 15, issue 2 articles listing for Biosemiotics

05/07/2022

03/07/2022

The livestream recordings of the entire conference are available here, on the Palacký University Biosemiotics YouTube channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuHOl-WMgaLo4__HLMAh6Ew

The official channel for the 20th Gatherings in Biosemiotics.

01/07/2022

Join us for the final day https://youtu.be/37No_WbDq_M

Fifth and final day of the Gatherings in Biosemiotics 2022

30/06/2022

Join us on the live stream for day 4

https://youtu.be/EDfb8dZX8P0

Fourth day of the Gatherings in Biosemiotics 2022

29/06/2022

Join us for day three, on the live stream:

https://youtu.be/8z3kgKdUR_Y

Third day of the Gatherings in Biosemiotics 2022

28/06/2022

Join us now on the live stream:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWYdDZzZ-jM

Second day of the Gatherings in Biosemiotics 2022

28/06/2022

Join us now on the live stream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWYdDZzZ-jM

Second day of the Gatherings in Biosemiotics 2022

26/06/2022

From tomorrow (June 27th) starting at 10:00 CET you may watch the proceedings of Gatherings in Biosemiotics 22 from the live stream available on the Palacký University biosemiotics YouTube channel, here:

https://youtu.be/1mYG0ep2_JQ

19/06/2022

here is the latest draft of the program for the Gatherings in Biosemiotics 22, starting in one week

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Y0dt6_xvEncrFJQytXQ5ESYTm7qZYrRI/view?usp=sharing

12/06/2022

and here is the plan for the pre-gathering seminar, happening on the 25th and 26th of June https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eHpxpIACVE27YPlhlYd23rXtoakqSaVq/view?usp=sharing

06/06/2022

We are interested in new contributions to the Biosemiotics Glossary Project. Please contact the EiCs if you would like to write one.

10/05/2022

Several new commentaries online today on Kalevi's target article.
https://www.springer.com/journal/12304

About the journal Biosemiotics is dedicated to building a bridge between biology, philosophy, linguistics, and the communication sciences. Biosemiotic ...

06/05/2022

GATHERINGS IN BIOSEMIOTICS 2022 - REVEAL OF SPEAKERS 🤓🤩

As you probably already know, this year's gathering is taking place in Olomouc! 🇨🇿

Preparations for the conference are in full swing 🤯💪 and we would like to reveal speakers you can look forward to. 🥳

👉First of our speakers is Arran Emrys Gare, an Australian philosopher known mainly for his work in environmental philosophy, philosophy of science, philosophy of culture, and the metaphysics of process philosophy. He currently holds the position of Associate Professor in the Faculty of Life and Social Sciences at the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia.

Gare's work is mainly in environmental philosophy, the history, and philosophy of science and mathematics, philosophy of culture, and the metaphysics of process philosophy. In more recent work Gare has published in the fields of narratology, hermeneutics, semiotics, complexity theory, theoretical biology, human ecology, and philosophical anthropology, Schelling's philosophy, Chinese philosophy, and Christopher Alexander's theories of architecture, biomathematics and biosemiotics, and called for a revival of the Radical Enlightenment as the true heir of the Renaissance struggle for democracy and for the creation of ecological civilization as a new world order based on a new relationship between humanity and nature.

10/04/2022

Kalevi Kull's Target Article "The Biosemiotic Fundamentals of Aesthetics: Beauty is the Perfect Semiotic Fitting" has just been published in Biosemiotics. Read it here: https://rdcu.be/cK30a
Commentaries on the article will be published soon.