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Simon Lohse Apr 5, 2025

Happy to be part of the brand new *Radboud Research on Science Alliance* (RROSA) See halffman.org/rrosa/ for more info and updates... #metascience #phil #STS #socsci #libsci

RROSA

RROSA

Who is RROSA?RROSA connects teams from all over the Radboud University campus interested in how the sciences operate and are organised. We are social scientists, philosophers, historians, and libra…

Willem Halffman

Fabienne Gallaire Mar 25, 2025

"Sur le rôle de l’expérience, est-ce que vous connaissez un texte que j’adore, qui est la controverse entre le mathématicien René Thom (médaille Fields en 1958) et le physicien Anatole Abragam, à l’Académie ? Cette controverse a été extraordinaire.
(...) Thom avait publié [en 1984] un article d'une demi-page dans Le Monde, dans lequel il trouvait que l’on dépensait beaucoup trop d'argent dans la recherche expérimentale. Il avait pris deux exemples. Le premier était l'exemple de l'ADN. Il disait qu'il suffisait de réfléchir pour voir qu'il n'y avait besoin de faire des expériences pour comprendre sa structure. Le deuxième exemple était celui de la physique des particules. Il disait qu’il suffisait de regarder comment sont les équations et qu’il n’était pas utile de dépenser autant dans les accélérateurs. Cela avait fait scandale. Le Bureau de l’Académie avait organisé un débat public Abragam-Thom sur le rôle de l’expérience en sciences."
Roger Balian
#histsci #phisci #socsci
https://journals.openedition.org/hrc/10577

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Marta Cecilia Bustamante et Emanuel Bertrand (MCB et EB). Commençons cet entretien en partant de votre parcours de vie. Est-ce que vous pourriez nous retracer votre formation scolaire et étudiante,...

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Mario Angst Feb 28, 2025

And here's is a list of journals in my field(s) that don't suck, based on my (own, possibly evolving) criteria. I hope it grows over time, it's still pretty bleak.
https://marioangst.com/en/blog/posts/journals-list/

- #sustainability Science
- Policy Studies / Political science #polsci
- #networkscience
- #digitalization research
- #socsci methods

Please, if you know of other journals in those fields that don't suck, let me know. And if you are involved with one of the journals on these lists, thanks so much for your work, you rock. And if you need reviewing or anything I can help with, let me know.

List of journals that don’t suck – Mario Angst

Abie Nov 23, 2024

18 research chemists discuss their Eureka moments:
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acscentsci.4c00802
#socsci #histsci

Raghav Agrawal Jan 5, 2024

Anyone come across a typology of social practices based on max-neef's needs & satisfiers for software?

Like a list of various types of routinized activities for different sorts of needs, purposes "satisfied" by software? #design #ixd #ux #socsci

Slightly to the left Jan 1, 2024

Looking for a #Mastodon instance focusing on #humanities etc. Basically #learning / #education with a humanities & #socialsciences slant, especially about #books & ideas

I found zirk.us. Scrolled a bit and it's not as "let's all learn, all the time" as I was perhaps hoping (as unrealistic as that may be), but #zirkus does look promising.

Anyone know a better instance? Maybe humanities / #socsci #academics?

#religioustudies #reading #sociology #psychology #nonfiction #philosophy #history

profgoldberg Jul 4, 2023

So, by way of introduction:

I'm Associate Professor and Director of Education @ the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

I'm trained as an attorney, a historian of medicine & public health, and a public health ethicist. My background is in the humanities but I live in a #socsci world. #Interdisciplinary

Outside of work, I'm a brown belt in jiujitsu (10 years), and love coffee, Batman, and Star Wars. Glad to be here!