Leticia Castillo Brache

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So grateful to have had your advice all along! Thank you Alisa 🩷

Leticia smiling & giving brief overview of dissertation. Slide says Boston University | April 2025 HIDDEN NARRATIVES IN GEOSCIENTIFIC RESEARCH: TOWARD DEVELOPING MORE ETHICAL SCIENTIFIC PRACTICES Leticia A. Castillo Brache Dissertation Defense

Alisa & Leticia smiling at successful conclusion of defense with a vase flowers & zoom screen with some remote audience & committee members.

Congratulations to Dr. Castillo Brache @leticiacastillo.bsky.social on successfully defending her PhD dissertation this morning!!! Woo-hoo!!! 🙌🎓🌟 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Thank you to Profs. Samia Hesni, @rachelankeny.bsky.social, & @miguelohn.bsky.social for serving on her committee 🙏
#philsci #phigeo

Very much looking forward to this!

Alisa, Leticia, Matilde & Matt standing in front of Mexico's standard of length the Castilian vara brass bar. Sign says Measuring Difference. This vara was seized during the 1847 U.S. invasion of Mexico City by an army engineer.

Gabriela Soto Laveaga | Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez | Pablo Gómez sitting on stage in conversation

Three grad students next to display with Humboldt's famous Mount Chimborazo elevation diagram.

A nice Phi-Geo group trip to @harvardmuseums.bsky.social to see exhibit Measuring Difference & hear a wonderful presentation by @chattyprofessor.bsky.social, artist Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez & #histmed Pablo Gómez, who spoke about roots of medical data about bodies in Atlantic slave trade. #philsci

The Canadian Mining Company Dominicans Call “Worse Than Columbus” We traveled to the Dominican Republic to talk to rural farmers and workers battling a Canadian mining company. “We had no concept of what the devil was until Barrick Gold came to our lands,” one perso...

So many geoethical issues in this ongoing case in my homeland. Barrick Gold must do better!
#geoethics #mining #extraction #gold

Identity politics has become a defining buzzword in US politics. But how does the far-right employ identity politics? We discuss on #TheTake podcast with @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social.

Prepare the letter! (written by a different Andy, but i'm happy with the co-incidence)

Apex the Stegosaur, the most expensive dinosaur fossil ever sold, heads to a museum The American Museum of Natural History will host one of the most complete Stegosaurus specimens for the next 4 years

'Apex' the Stegosaur, the most expensive dinosaur fossil ever sold, will be on display and available to research at the AMNH. My latest for @science.org.

Leticia in front of screen "incorering Hidden Narratives in the Use of Unethical Geoscientific Research Practices"

Matt in front os screen text ""Women's Work" in Science Two Cases: The "Hobbyist" and the "Computer" Matt Brewer brewer@bu.edu PH 436/636 December 3 BOSTON UNIVERSITY BU PHILOSOPHY OF THE GEOSCIENCES

Matilde in front of chalkboard. & screen "Debunking Racial Thoughts in Population Genetics"

It was great having some of the Phi-Geo grads give short presentations of some relevant material from their research to my "Gender, Race, & Science" class today (Thank you @mattbrewer.bsky.social @matildecarrera.bsky.social & @leticiacastillo.bsky.social!!!)

Thank you for your awesome work on CARE data principles, which my PhD student @leticiacastillo.bsky.social & I have cited in this handbook chapter on philosophical issues in data ⤵️
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Great talk by my advisor @alisabokulich.bsky.social on “Pierce, Abduction, & Inverse Problems in the Geosciences” at #PSA24

So glad to have had the opportunity to highlight a widespread harmful practice in paleontology and share potential solutions to such a receptive audience 🙌🏼 Thank you #PSA24

6 people standing on Bourbon St. from left: Matt, Federica, Kailyn, Alisa, Leticia, Matilde

Some of the Boston University #PSA24 group out on Bourbon St.

14 people sitting around a table in restaurant

A lovely Phi-Geo & friends dinner @ #PSA24: @rachellaudan.bsky.social Aja W, @miguelohn.bsky.social @terumiyake.bsky.social @mattbrewer.bsky.social AndrewZ @leticiacastillo.bsky.social Kailyn S @federicabocchi.bsky.social @matildecarrera.bsky.social Carlos S, Katherine V @cristianlarph.bsky.social

Catch me at the PSA presenting one of my dissertation chapters! Looking forward to a great discussion 🥳

BU Phi Geo logo designed as ellipsoid Earth stylized as Greek letter Phi. Text "PHILOSOPHY OF THE GEOSCIENCES RESEARCH GROUP"

The Philosophy of Geosciences Research Group at BU, Φ-Geo, is dedicated to exploring topics in the philosophy of the geosciences (historical & current Earth sciences), broadly understood. We have a big group heading to #PSA24 ⚒️ next week--check out our upcoming talks
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Thank you, Alisa! I’m very honored to receive the award 🥳

I've worked on many of the topics in this volume, but the one invited to write is "Models, Data Models, & Big Data", which was co-authored with my fabulous PhD student Leticia Castillo Brache @leticiacastillo.bsky.social #philsci #metasci 🧪

Very excited to be presenting this chapter of my dissertation at #PSA24! Can’t wait to hear everyone’s input 🤩

Parachute Science in Paleontology as Distributive Epistemic Injustice by Leticia Castillo Brache Abstract: Paleontology is facing an ethical crisis related to its long history of extractive practices, including a practice now referred to as ‘parachute science.’ In this paper, I provide diagnostic criteria for identifying parachute science and illustrate them using the high-profile example of a Brazilian dinosaur fossil, Irritator challengeri, acquired by a German museum under dubious conditions. I use this case study to identify three types of harm resulting from parachute science, showing how they can be understood as a case of distributive epistemic injustice. I conclude by using this framework to point toward more ethical paleontological practices.

Congrats to Phi-Geo grad @leticiacastillo.bsky.social on also having her contributed paper "Parachute Science in Paleontology as Distributive Epistemic Injustice" accepted for #PSA24! 🎉 Excited the entire Phi-Geo group will be presenting at the upcoming @philsci.bsky.social mtg! 🎉
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Sorry to be missing the Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (#SPSP2024) conference this year, but happy to get a few highlights about the great presentations from grad members of our Phi-Geo group: 🙌 @matildecarrera.bsky.social @mattbrewer.bsky.social & @leticiacastillo.bsky.social

Φ-Geo Group Φ-Geo is a research group dedicated to exploring topics in the philosophy of the geosciences (historical and current Earth sciences), broadly understood.  Areas of research pursued by Phi-Geo members ...

I am so proud of awesome projects the grads in our Phi-Geo group have been working on:
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"Parachute Science in Paleontology as Distributive Epistemic Injustice" on Brazilian dino fossil Irritator challengeri & shows how parachute harms are distributive epistemic injustice

Parachute Science & the Legacy of Scientific Colonialism Today: Exploring Harmful Hidden Narratives by Leticia Castillo Brache Poster announcement.

My wonderful PhD student @leticiacastillo.bsky.social is giving a (in person) talk on this important theme Friday.

Illegal Fossil Export Is More Than an Irritator to the Global South - Eos More than 2,000 researchers have signed an open letter requesting the repatriation of a dinosaur fossil to Brazil. Some say the case highlights a pattern of scientific colonialism in paleontology.

Fascinating read in AGU EOS about scientific colonialism and the specific case of the fossil, Irritator challengeri 🧪 🦕 ⚒️

Again, I’m buoyed by the energy and bravery of the scientists taking on this fight, many of whom are early career and/or from the global south.

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Thank you for the introduction Alisa! Happy to join the #philsci community here