Cassandra Yang
PhD student in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. Former developmental biologist🐠, amateur beekeeper🐝
- Some posters I designed for the Cambridge Lectures in the History of Medicine. Always glad to have a creative outlet in academic setting!
- Reading group alert!🔔 This term, our History and Philosophy of Biology reading group will be reading 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘯𝘵𝘰𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 (2000) by Susan Oyama. Online participants welcome! More details here: www.hps.cam.ac.uk/news-events/...
- #ISHPSSB2025 Porto is beautiful. Met wonderful people, had engaging conversations, and shared some single-sourced honey with friends old and new 🐝🍯
- Many thanks to my wonderful collaborators, @yoshinariyoshida.bsky.social and Patrick Ferree, for making it such a joy to be part of our fantastic organised session on developmental time🫀⏳⏰
- Reposted by Cassandra YangFascinating historical review of Lala et al's "Evolution Evolving" book by @cassandrazieyang.bsky.social See BioScience doi.org/10.1093/bios... #evolution
- Reposted by Cassandra YangA really thoughtful and inciteful review of my book "Evolution Evolving" by @cassandrazieyang.bsky.social in Bioscience. "By taking into account the structure of development, we can begin to envision how the system of evolution will itself be evolving." See BioScience doi.org/10.1093/bios...