Citations are evidence. Fabricating citations is fabricating evidence, which is just as bad as fabricating data (because data, like citations, is evidence).
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Citations are evidence. Fabricating citations is fabricating evidence, which is just as bad as fabricating data (because data, like citations, is evidence).
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In 1938, the American sociologist RK Merton (at Columbia University) drew attention to political attacks on scientific institutions. He went on to ask “How should scientists respond”...
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Donna Haraway, elder intellectual white woman, speaking before a tight group of people with save science signs amidst the redwoods at UCSC.
Donna Haraway leading #StandUpForScience at #UCSC. Situating science in helping us live together in better ways. She's giving deets on cuts to science, incl #Indigenous science, ag, USAID, medicine, dangers to farm workers, dangers of data loss. Donna's a master at connecting all the relations. ❤️
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If you haven’t read it already, take a skim over Merton’s 1938 ‘Science and Social Order’. I stumbled across it again last semester when preparing a lecture on science funding and priority setting.
A bit dated now, but my students tend to enjoy ‘An Introduction to Science and Technology Studies’ by Sergio Sismondo www.wiley.com/en-gb/An+Int...
Steve Yearley’s ‘Making Sense of Science’ is also a lovely read and also goes down well. sk.sagepub.com/book/mono/ma...
Love the "It doesn't work like that" theme. It would also work very nicely for a special issue examining common misconceptions about science...
What a welcome!
Ah great, can I join?
But also just a little over an hour since my first grant rejection since returning to academia. Funders should contemplate consolation lollipops #metascience
Five years to the day since Edinburgh University gave me a lollipop for handing in my thesis. @stis-uoe.bsky.social
I’ve been asked a lot about my decision to return to academia, so I've tried explaining it
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Perhaps useful to read my reasons for leaving, if interested
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~10 months into the new job
#academicsky #sts
Pleasantly surprised that this place isn’t awful
Bem-AI, just what science needs…
