Review of string theory book from 2004 brings up interesting questions regarding age-period-cohort effects in the #SociologyOfScience https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/02/08/review-of-string-theory-book-from-2004/
Review of string theory book from 2004 brings up interesting questions regarding age-period-cohort effects in the sociology of science | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

Workshop: Large Language Models for the History, Philosophy & Sociology of Science
April 2–4, 2025
TU Berlin, Germany & Online
Exploring how LLMs can address challenges in HPSS research
Keynotes by Iryna Gurevych, Nina Tahmasebi & Pierluigi Cassotti
16 contributed talks on LLM use cases & implications

Free and open to the public—registration encouraged! More info: https://www.tu.berlin/hps-mod-sci/workshop-llms-for-hpss](https://www.tu.berlin/hps-mod-sci/workshop-llms-for-hpss
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Workshop "LLMs for HPSS" - TU Berlin

Differences in Social Science Reporting | Serendipities. Journal for the Sociology and History of the Social Sciences

1/3📄🚨 Our new preprint on #ScienceMapping is out on @SocArXivBot: "Mapping Knowledge Topic Analysis of Science Locates Researchers in Disciplinary Landscape". We decompose disciplinary classification into three principles of epistemological distinction - Culture-Nature, Life-Non-life, and Materials-Methods - and replace the categorical system of disciplines with a continuous measure of topic orientations of individual researchers. #ScienceOfScience #SociologyOfScience
🔗 https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/94jd5
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To make science work, scientists must trust each other. How does this change with Open Science?

Submit an abstract to our Panel “A.2 Trust within (open) science” at STS Graz until 02.02.2024!
https://stsconf.tugraz.at/calls/sessions-in-open-science/

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Sessions in: Open Science – STS Conf Graz

Happy to see that the article “Institutional Arrangements in the Absence of Disciplinary Definitions: Digital Humanities in Switzerland” is out now!

https://doi.org/10.2478/sjs-2023-0025

Written in collaboration with @maxkemman for the Swiss Journal of Sociology’s special issue on “Digital Academia.”

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Institutional Arrangements in the Absence of Disciplinary...

The digitalization of research practices in the humanities has led to the emergence of the field of digital humanities (DH). DH has made...

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New article from me:

“The replication crisis is less of a ‘crisis’ in the Lakatosian approach than it is in the Popperian and naïve methodological falsificationism approaches”

Substack: https://markrubin.substack.com/p/popper-lakatos-and-the-replication-crisis

Preprint: https://doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/2dz9s

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The Replication Crisis is Less of a “Crisis” in the Lakatosian Approach than it is in the Popperian and Naïve Methodological Falsificationism Approaches

I consider Lakatos’ criticisms of Popperian theory testing, and conclude the Popper’s approach may have accentuated the sense of a replication “crisis.”

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How does the science reform movement align with broader changes in the academic landscape? Tom Hostler tackles this question in a new article on “Scientific reform, post-academic research, and academic identity”: https://markrubin.substack.com/p/scientific-reform-post-academic-research
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Scientific reform, post-academic research, and academic identity

A long-read guest essay by Tom Hostler on how the scientific reform movement aligns with John Ziman's concept of "post academic research".

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"Discretion in research practice should perhaps not be seen as a weakness or a fault in the scientific method, but rather an integral part of it."

New preprint: https://osf.io/preprints/metaarxiv/7dh3t/

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