In today's AIP History Weekly Edition @janpotters.bsky.social looks at Tom Kuhn's frustrations interviewing ~100 physicists for the landmark Sources for History of Quantum Physics project. An important lesson in what we want from oral history and what it can give us.
📷Niels Bohr & Homer Dodge #HPS
How big is a ‘drop’? 💧 @beccajackson.bsky.social, Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Measurement Lab and the Affective Experience Lab, recently co-authored a prize-winning paper on the story of the non-standard unit of a 'drop'.
Read the paper:
medhumsplatform.org/the-drop-and...
Annie Maunder at the telescope ahead of the 1900 Total Solar Eclipse, Source: Maunder 1901 p.61 (full title of the book: The Total Solar Eclipse, 1900: Report of the Expeditions Organized by the British Astronomical Association to Observe the Total Solar Eclipse of 1900, May 28)
Researcher Meg Briers participates in Brewing Minds in Vagabund Brauerei Kesselhaus! "Women Who Chased The Sun" deals with hidden & forgotten figures of 19th-century astronomical expeditions.
🗓️ Mar 18 (18:30–21:30)
📍 Oudenarder Str. 16–20 (Berlin)
🔗 bit.ly/4u3ASd
🎫 10.90–45.00€
#HistSci #Astronomy
"Is there any “middle-way” between rigor and relevance, or is one always at the expense of the other?"
Yeh I love how confidently I stated that when I barely knew what a philosopher was 😂
Still stuck on measurement, after 11 years haha! I fondly remember working at the BSU honors college front desk with you. Look what I found the other day:
This is going to be brilliant. I can't wait to discuss all things measurement with this incredible line up of speakers!!
Excited to host the Measurement Heretics Workshop: Being Meaning and Measuring Well on March 11-13, at the Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham University. The keynote will be hybrid so register for this free event!
@durhamimh.bsky.social
#histsci #histmed #hps #philsci #medhums #histtech #sts
OUT NOW: The highly controversial issue of Psychological Inquiry (Vol. 36, Issue 4) is live!
Are we rethinking everything we know about autism? In our newest target article, @travislacroix.bsky.social argues that the "Theory of Mind" paradigm in #autism research is actually pseudoscience. 🧠 🧵👇
1960s clipboard with Apgar Timer and paper showing Apgar measures.
New publication! Our v. own @beccajackson.bsky.social discusses the racial history of the Apgar Score – a score assigned to infants one minute after birth. Find out more: medhumsplatform.org/the-apgar-sc...
Congratulations Megan!!!!
Welcome and congratulations to @beccajackson.bsky.social, who joins us as a Postdoctoral Research Associate 🥳 Rebecca was previously a Bridging Fellow, and we are excited to continue working with her.
Read about her upcoming work in this written interview 👇
medhumsplatform.org/welcoming-re...
Huge congratulations to my dear & brilliant friend Sebastian on his thesis defence today, "Values in psychosocial measurement". It's been a privilege to be a part of this journey, Dr. Duque! 🤍 #philsci @erantal.bsky.social
Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the Nineteenth Century cover
Weighing in at 827 pages and 2 1/4 inches, our Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the 19th Century is HERE! Huge thanks to @oupphilosophy.bsky.social and our 50+ authors. Restoring women to the philosophical canon is a matter of justice, but it is also better scholarship!
I’m interested!
Join us for this free online event to discuss the meaning, limits, and prospects of assigning numbers to the social and natural world. All online with free registration. #philsci #philsky #histsci #sts #histtech #sociology
Thanks Alisa!!
Do you love socio-material approaches to reproductive history? Come check out the special issue of Bulletin of the History of Medicine I’m in. My paper is on the history of centimeters as a unit for measuring cervical dilation.
Very borb. Much bun. 😍
💛💛💛 I can’t believe you remember that!! I still remember the first talk you gave at the department. We were so excited when we found out you were coming to IU. They are lucky to have you!
Preparing next week in our interdisciplinary #ProfDoc programme:
"...without being completely obsolete, the qualitative versus quantitative binary is largely overrated and does not deserve to organise curricula, research programmes, and academic fields in such an extensive way"
#DundeeUni #RD62001
Beyond well-deserved!!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Congratulations Kevin!!! Well-deserved and important work.
Getting ready for @beccajackson.bsky.social 's talk at our School. Activating all the brain cells ☕😅
#Cofaidh #Coffee #PhilSky #Psychometrics #Measurement
Text logo for IUHPST: International Union of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology.
🏆 Delighted to share that Measurement Lab researcher @beccajackson.bsky.social & co-author Michele Luchetti have been named IUHPST Essay Prize runners-up for their essay on 'History & Philosophy of Measurement: Past, Present & Future Integrations'!
Find out more: t.co/7ikOij78Qb
Congratulations to Dubian Cañas & runners-up Rebecca Jackson @beccajackson.bsky.social and Michele Luchetti for their essay “History and Philosophy of Measurement: Past, Present, and Future Integrations.” #HPS
Thanks, @frabellazzi.bsky.social, for co-organizing a great multidisciplinary workshop on Scale and Measurement at the Center for Philosophy and the Sciences at the University of Oslo. Here's a picture from @beccajackson.bsky.social 's talk on the Apgar Score and "Construct Realization".
Last week us&CPS organised a great workshop on “ScaM: scales and measurement in the sciences”. We kicked off with some group work and ended up with a panel discussion. Thanks to all the attendees and speakers! @federicabocchi.bsky.social @beccajackson.bsky.social @uio.no
Speaker at a lectern in front of a screen showing a slide with the title "Range: Philosophical Considerations" Scale range is: Normative (sets the stage for what is “normal,” versus in need of intervention) Ethically consequential (for participants, for society, for policy) Determining range (including avoiding ceiling effects and floor effects) is not just a neutral exercise in statistical due-diligence. We must think about the impacts of this choice.
9/x Rebecca Jackson honed in on the problem of the meaning of measurement "units" in #SocialSciences.
Although not dissimilar to other areas of measurement, it is important to remember how many steps are necessary to establish that the units can be meaningfully interpreted.
#PhilSky #Validity
Person talking in front of a slide that shows the heading "Time: No Gold Standard" and describes under it in some brief texts and pictures of atomic clocks how processes of ongoing coordination could be seen in this space.
7/x Leah took the last straw the audience was holding on to:
No, even when thinking about clocks and time, ongoing coordination is an issue. There is no #GoldStandard for time, its #measurement is under constant development.
#PhilSky #ISOQOL