Can medical humanities coursework build compassionate care skills? New research from our faculty says yes. A multimodal elective on suffering & social justice showed meaningful improvements across all outcomes measured. Read more in WMJ. #MedicalHumanities #MedEd wmjonline.org/125no1/babal/
This was such a good workshop... great to see you!
New bit of work out today... A programmatic piece calling for more research on what replication work looks like in different fields ⬇️
#STS #HSTM #HPS folks who are studying AI in use in scientific contexts...please check out this call! You can apply to get feedback on your work in progress or get 💵 to provide feedback on others' work. I will be workshopping some of my own stuff on cloud labs. datasociety.net/announcement...
Amen to that!
We're hiring in history of science at UW Madison! TT Assistant Professorship with a focus on water. Joint appointment between the History and Integrated Liberal Studies depts, and part of a university-wide hiring cluster on earth/sustainability science. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/profess... #STS #HSMT
Yep, Harald has taken up both bike watching and sourdough making over the past few years... middle age comes for us all 😂
We are co-sponsoring this event - make sure to attend!
Saving Hearts and Killing Rats: Karl Paul Link and the Discovery of Warfarin
Friends of the Libraries 2025 Annual Schewe Lecture
Thursday, September 25, 2025 | 5:00 – 7:00 PM
Steenbock Library
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Happy to... I will get in touch over email!
I am happy to help with building a repository of oral histories, if folks are interested! I have an open human subjects protocol they could be collected under. @stuartbuck.bsky.social's post is also a good example of a self-archiving model for personal histories: bit.ly/4oESiL5
Thanks for the shout out @scurry.bsky.social!
Job Opening at the Chair of Philosophy and History of Science and Technology at TUM! Research Fellow for 3 years (renewable). Preferably philosopher w interest in plant, crop & agricultural research (& their history and social studies)
All details: www.sts.sot.tum.de/en/sts/arbei... #philsci #sts
I had the pleasure of talking with @lucileveissier.bsky.social at #metascience2025 about what metascience is, how reproducibility problems rose to public attention, and more!
Really sorry to have missed your panel... unfortunately my talk was scheduled at the same time!
Her talk was 🔥🔥🔥
We Canadians should all find each other for Canada day drinks!
#OpenScience lobbyists, skeptics and everything in between: consider coming to Munich in May 2026 (gorgeous time to visit..) to discuss the future of Open Research!
FOR2026 is open for submissions: opensciencestudies.eu/for-2026-con... pls help spread the word 🙏 #philsci #sts #methods #policy 🧪
Wanaka Suzuki has a nice article on Japanese practices around research animals in SSS! journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
This depressing thought is perhaps my sign to now get off social media and go to the gym! 😂
Maybe @briannosek.bsky.social is right that we just have to embrace the chaos, but I find myself leaning more towards @avastmachine.bsky.social 's view that "hypertransparency" could be paralyzing for the scientific system as it currently exists (and which I very much want to survive!)
I am with you in worry ❤️ And to argue against myself @avastmachine.bsky.social's work on climate science shows at least a few hopeful case where adversarial data collection/reanalysis does at least somewhat quell disputes between skeptics and mainstreamers: www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...
Oh, I definitely don't think that restricted access is the right solution, but I also don't think that data no longer matters. I've been really convinced by Becky Mansfield's analysis of the first Trump EPA, curious to hear what you think of it! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
I don't disagree with you... EOs like this could be used to exclude! But the historian in me sees a longer pattern where commentators tend to point out the "shutting down" risks and not their inverse. @naomioreskes.bsky.social's 2018 piece is another example: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Yep, I agree... IMHO it's expedient but unprincipled to try to shut down policy debates by excluding studies or people from the debate, but I have deep worries about what we do with the chaos that could ensue from that kind of true openness.
Yeah, the so-called Shelby amendment, which made access to research data produced with federal funding available via FOIA request, is named after Alabama Republican Senator Richard Shelby. It was a response to Harvard's refusal to give access to an important data set. An uncomfortable history :-/
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Yep, in the preprint linked about we talk about access to two key studies (Harvard's Six Cities study and the American Cancer Society's CPS-II study) that have been the subject of decades long access disputes and the basis for important PM2.5 air pollution regulation
You can read more here about this history and my take (along with my excellent students @bennettmcintosh.com and Kelsey Ichikawa) on why adjudicating between competing analyses is likely to be difficult, time consuming work: osf.io/preprints/me...
Calling the Trump EO "fool's gold" and the like may feel like a pithy way of maintaining a preserve of "genuine" open science advocacy, but this boundary making is exactly the kind of exclusionary practice that has galvanized dissident scientists and motivated them to keep showing up.
The difference is important because access to data is increasing with or without the specific laws/policies that Republicans have championed. Adversarial reanalysis is likely to become more of a feature of our scientific/political landscape, and we don't have great tools to deal with it.