#sciencestudies — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #sciencestudies, aggregated by home.social.
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Quand les catégories fabriquent le réel
Les classifications ne se contentent pas de décrire le monde : elles peuvent aussi fabriquer les types de personnes qu’elles nomment. C’est une idée clé chez Ian Hacking, et elle change notre façon de penser le savoir, les normes et les identités. #Philosophy #ScienceStudies #SocialTheory #Categories Ian Hacking a montré une idée décisive : certaines classifications ne se contentent pas de nommer des choses déjà là, elles…
https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2026/06/12/quand-les-categories-fabriquent-le-reel/
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Is anyone else here going to attend the #FOR2026 „The Future of Open Research. Reliable, Equitable, Responsible“ Conference in Munich? The program looks very interesting. A lot of #OpenScience practitioners and visionaries but also critics, accounts from the #ScienceStudies etc.
I am already getting hyped.
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Although we have been a little quiet here during the semester break, we are still publishing regularly on our podcast feed. So check out our recent episodes, especially if you are interested in biobanks, the M87* Black Hole or the competing imaginaries of research literature.
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In case you missed last December's jour fixe on "The (anti)social replication of replication: exploring how replication moves across epistemic communities" by S. Bartscherer, S. Ulpts, B. Penders & S. Field you can listen to the excellent talk on our #podcast feed.
https://blogs.hu-berlin.de/scienceworks/2026/01/07/31-science-works-jour-fixe-the-antisocial-replication-of-replication-exploring-how-replication-moves-across-epistemic-communities/
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In our new podcast episode Chérifa Boukacem-Zeghmouri (UCBL, France) and Jie Xu (Wuhan University, China) present their work on early career researchers in China and France. The role of social media in the changing socialization of academics might be especially interesting!
https://blogs.hu-berlin.de/scienceworks/2025/11/26/29-science-works-jour-fixe-the-big-transformation-early-career-researchers-as-they-race-in-the-open-scholarly-world-perspectives-from-france-and-china/ #science #sciencestudies #podcast -
In der aktuellen Folge "Science Works" spricht @JulianHamann1 über die Situation von Postdocs in einem durch Wettbewerb geprägten Wissenschaftssystem.
https://blogs.hu-berlin.de/scienceworks/2025/10/01/25-science-wokrs-jour-fixe-orientierung-und-ueberlastung-postdocs-im-multiplen-wettbewerb/#blog
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Check out our latest #podcast episode with @devezer "Claims about scientific rigour require rigour" https://blogs.hu-berlin.de/scienceworks/2025/07/16/23-science-works-jour-fixe-claims-about-scientific-rigour-require-rigour/
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Our Jour Fixe with Monika Krause starts in an hour, you're welcome to join as always.
https://hu-berlin.zoom-x.de/j/66137712462?pwd=bTF4VG9Ca1BxMkFqOE9xTFZxYldWQT09 #sciencestudies #sociology -
Interested in how the AfD talks about science? Why not listen to our new podcast episode "Defining science for and in ‘Eastern Germany’ in right-wing populism" with Stefan Skupien (Berlin University Alliance).
https://blogs.hu-berlin.de/scienceworks/2025/04/23/16-science-works-jour-fixe-defining-science-for-and-in-eastern-germany-in-right-wing-populism/
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What happens when someone with a background in science studies and an interest in patient experience has to stay in hospital?
Some passing thoughts on illness as a boundary object following my recent stay in hospital with a broken leg.
(seemed a good way to revive my blog)
#healthCare #hospitals #ScienceStudies #Patients #STS #scicomm #sciencecommunication
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Last week's talk "Challenges of closed vs opportunities of open: A data feminist reflection on the bibliometrics community’s shift to open infrastructure" by @stefhaustein (U Ottawa) is now up on our podcast feed
https://blogs.hu-berlin.de/scienceworks/2025/03/27/14-science-works-jour-fixe-challenges-of-closed-vs-opportunities-of-open-a-data-feminist-reflection-on-the-bibliometrics-communitys-shift-to-open-infrastructure/#blog
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In unserer aktuellen Folge sprechen
@MartinReinhart und C. Schendzielorz darüber, was sich anhand der Organisation großer Forschungskooperationen über die Regierung und Selbstregierung von Wissenschaft lernen lässt. https://blogs.hu-berlin.de/scienceworks/2025/03/19/13-science-works-jour-fixe-the-role-of-research-collaborations-in-the-governance-of-science-vortrag-auf-deutsch/#blog
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Neu im Science Works Podcast: Holger Straßheim (Uni Bielefeld) skizziert Gemeinsamkeiten zwischen verschiedenen Zugängen zur politischen Epistemologie und denkt über Konfliktdynamiken im Verhältnis von Wissenschaft und Politik unter den Bedingungen der Weltgesellschaft nach.
https://blogs.hu-berlin.de/scienceworks/2025/03/05/12-science-works-jour-fixe-politische-epistemologie/ #science #sciencestudies #podcast #epistemology -
The talk "Opening up science as a work: An international comparison of openness to society and openness of publication." by Marianne Noel and Lucile Ottolini is now available on our podcast feed!
https://blogs.hu-berlin.de/scienceworks/2025/02/19/science-works-jour-fixe-opening-up-science-as-a-work-an-international-comparison-of-openness-to-society-and-openness-of-publication/
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New podcast episode: Olof Hallonsten (Lund University) makes a historical-sociological argument for stopping the evaluation of science, concluding that the current ubiquity of performance evaluation in science is mostly pointless and counterproductive.
https://blogs.hu-berlin.de/scienceworks/2025/01/22/7-science-works-jour-fixe-jour-fixe-stop-evaluating-science-a-historical-sociological-argument/
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In this week's episode Dimity Stephen (DZHW) and @metacramer (HU) talk about how debates on predatory publishing lack empirical substantiation and ignore geopolitical inequalities as well as researchers’ motivations.
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New Episode! In this week's RMZ #podcast Marta Wróblewska speaks about policy-making in the area of research impact evaluation in UK, Poland and Norway: from centre to (semi-)periphery.
https://blogs.hu-berlin.de/scienceworks/2025/01/08/5-science-works-jour-fixe-from-centre-to-semiperiphery-policy-making-in-the-area-of-research-impact-evaluation-in-uk-poland-and-norway/#blog
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A fresh episode of "Science Works" to tide you over the holiday season: Georgia Samaras (TU Munich) talks about the "crucial yet ambivalent bridge between basic research and clinical application" in epigenetic research on mental health #science #sciencestudies #podcast https://blogs.hu-berlin.de/scienceworks/2024/12/12/4-science-works-jour-fixe-whats-it-got-to-do-with-the-brain-challenges-in-doing-clinical-relevance-in-epigenetic-research-on-mental-health/
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In last week's podcast episode @nicole_c_nelson speaks about reproducibility reforms in American biomedicine and the diffusion of the “regulatory ethos”. https://blogs.hu-berlin.de/scienceworks/2024/12/10/3-science-works-jour-fixe-reproducibility-reforms-in-american-biomedicine-and-the-diffusion-of-the-regulatory-ethos/
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We also have a podcast!
At RMZ, we regularly invite guests to speak about their work and are now releasing a podcast with recordings of our guests' talk on discussions, positions and developments in the field of #sciencestudies
RSS: https://blogs.hu-berlin.de/scienceworks/feed/rss/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2dUjTTUtytDJHWI4skfXDW
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rmz-science-works/id1782308687 -
I thought there’s something interesting in this concept (from this working paper) I need to explore in relation to my argument that generative AI constitutes a machinery for rendering tacit knowledge explicit, at least if you are inclined to use it in intellectually robust and reliable ways:
Complex configurations of tacit expectations, often undocumented preferences, and differences in the logic of discovery and justification within a field form epistemic cultures (Knorr-Cetina 2009) that we call socio-epistemic bubbles. We append “socio” to “epistemic” because they are socially constituted and reinforced, and label them bubbles because they are often localized rather than universal and remain invisible to those inside and outside them. Scientific practices circulate within these bubbles through scientific habitus (Bourdieu 1975) to precisely shape bio-science experiments, beyond that which is documented in a research paper or protocol.
file:///Users/user/Downloads/Socio-Epistemic_Bubble_and_Tacit_Confidence_in_RCT_SocArxiv.pdf
#epistemicCultures #generativeAI #metascience #scienceStudies #STS
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#ScienceStudies, #Metascience or #bibliometrics are small fields but I wonder whether we neglect science communication way too much. The complicated, uncertain, boring, troublesome or failed things that happen in research labs around the world are almost never told by those who have championed science communication. I am not against positivism but a modern, educated and “knowledge-based”-society should always strive for nuance and complexity.
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An unsere #Hannover-Locals: Am 21. März (17–19 Uhr) veranstaltet @OSCHannover das mittlerweile 4. #OpenScience Meetup!
Neben u.a. @i_vinodh und @Lambo wird auch #AndreasDaniel vom #DZHW (wo das Ganze übrigens stattfindet) dabei sein. Er wird über das Thema "#FAIR #ResearchData for Higher Education Research and #ScienceStudies” sprechen.Mehr dazu: https://events.tib.eu/opensciencehannover
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Eventually managed to read #AyselSultan's @sts review in @sts_journal of Prasad Amit's (2023) #ScienceStudies Meets #Colonialism. Very helpful for my take on #STS as the review discusses how the book critically discusses #ANT #ActorNetworkTheory and #PostColonialSTS https://sciencetechnologystudies.journal.fi/article/view/136097
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#AcademicJob / #PhDStudentship
Two Interdisciplinary PhD positions @ Young Academy Groningen 2024 for the project "Academia in a bind: Data surveillance practices in scholarly publishing."
Deadline: 20/03/2024
https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/192803
#LibraryScience #InformationManagement #PoliticalEconomy #CriticalBusinessStudies #PoliticalTheory #Publishing #MediaIndustries #DataScience #MediaManagement #ScienceStudies #TechnologyStudies #ethics #Anthropology #DigitalHumanities
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now listening to "maladies of empire: how colonialism, slavery, and war transformed medicine" by jim downs.
from the intro:
"doctors responded to medical crises that erupted from the international slave trade, colonial expansion, and warfare. in treating the populations that were created by these conditions, military and colonial doctors developed theories about the cause, spread, and prevention of disease. the process of centralizing & analyzing medical information about the health of large populations unfolded during the same period that governments in the west were developing mechanisms to wield authority over populations based on new understandings of biology.
'maladies of empire' reveals how slavery, colonialism, and war - often treated separately in scholarly studies - had common features from the vantage point of medical professionals.
these episodes produced large, captive populations. slaveships, plantations, and battlefields created social arrangements and built environments that allowed physicians to observe how disease spread, and prompted them to investigate the social conditions that led to the outbreak of disease.
the increased appearance of these settings around the world between 1756 and 1866 gave way to a proliferation of medical studies that contributed to the emergence of epidemiology."
people say "colonialism is over! slavery is over!" but EVEN IF that were true, we *still live* in the world created by colonialism and slavery. ignoring this fact won't make it go away.
#empire #colonialism #history #MedicalHistory #medicine #slavery #books #STS #ScienceStudies #CulturalStudies #CulturalAnthropology
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on a personal note, back when i worked at "PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases" (a scholarly journal for neglected tropical diseases), i learned that one of the main institutions for the study of tropical diseases was the london school of hygiene and tropical medicine. "that sounds like a kinda weird school name", one might think. and to this american's ears it certainly sounded strange... but once you know the history it's not so strange.
the school has that name because for physicians in england, they were dealing with soldiers & sailors who were getting stuff like malaria while out conquering the world. so that's why there's a whole field of "tropical medicine."
i absolutely do not mean to disparage anyone who is affiliated with tropical medicine or LSHTM. i worked with scientists who worked there and i deeply respect their work and commitment. my only point is that it's important to remember that almost all of us are still living in the house that colonialism, empire, and slavery built, and to act accordingly.
(as a footnote, LSHTM has a very detailed timeline of their history on their website: https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/research-action/lshtm-120/historical-timeline fun fact: the "hygiene" part of the name was added later! it started out as the london school of tropical medicine.)
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📣 #JobAlert - das @RRC_wisskomm sucht:
➡️ wiss. Mitarbeiter:in für Konzeption, Erstellung und Betreuung des „Living Handbook of #ScienceCommunication & #ScienceStudies“
➡️ RRC-Standort: KWI Essen @kwi_essen
➡️ 13 TV-L, 100%
➡️ Bewerbungsfrist: 21.12.23
➡️ Mehr Infos: https://rhine-ruhr-research.de/stellenangebot-wisssenschaftlicher-mitarbeiterin-fur-das-living-handbook-of-science-communication-and-science-studies-gesucht/