@valeriaramirez
Chasing the stories behind numbers. Researcher at the University of Cambridge 🇲🇽🇬🇧🇪🇸🇫🇷 #IfM #Innovation #DigitalMeasurement #ImpactEvaluation #ScienceTechnology&Society #STS Sociologist of Science & Tech in Engineering @cam.ac.uk https://valeriaramirez.org/
What a wonderful conversation about metrics - I specially enjoyed going through our shared fieldwork experiences on metrics co-production. Many open and challenging questions remain - what makes it all the more exciting fileld to explore. Thanks again for the invitation @markfabian.bsky.social!
So well deserved! 👏🏼👏🏼
Any wedding dress? We booked the Jane Austin’s room in Bath’s Guildhall, and now I am feeling the pressure.
The illusion of choice
Very much looking forward to this event. Great presenters, and @samuelmoore.org's book is maybe the best thing I've ever read about Open Access publishing.
The next conference of the Society for the Study of Measurement will take place at Edinburgh on 22-25 June.
Call for papers and symposia opens Nov 15 and closes Jan 15.
Submissions via app.oxfordabstracts.com/auth?redirec...
El 20 de noviembre en la Casa de las Humanidades (en Coyoacán) presentaremos este directorio ¡¡acompáñennos!!!
New OnlineFirst article: "Agencements and Qualculations: Fukushima, Knowledge-Making, and Radiation Contamination" by Louise Elstow #radiation #knowledgeproduction #qualculation #agencement #Fukushima journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
#DiaDeMuertos in Cambridge
A scientist in a red lab coat works in a laboratory, pipetting a red liquid. Text: "Celebrating National Chemistry Week."
Did you know it's National Chemistry Week? 🧪
Chemistry isn't just about test tubes and microscopes. It's about the building blocks that make up the food we eat, the air we breathe and the things we make.
This week we welcome Prof. Steven Shapin to the pod!🎙️
We explore his journey through interdisciplinary spaces, revisit Leviathan and the Air-Pump 40 years on, and explore how credibility, trust and expertise are shaped by the fragmentation of expertise and (recent) political & cultural challenges
“These rankings, built on selected quantitative indicators amalgamated into a single score, are not designed to evaluate research nor reflect the breadth and depth of the missions of research and higher education institutions.”
#Postdoc at Technische Universität Berlin in digital humanities & history/philosophy/sociology of science #philsci #STS. ERC project investigates digital communication within the ATLAS collaboration at CERN
Deadline: October 13, 2025
www.jobs.tu-berlin.de/en/job-posti...
#PhilJobs
Found this cute snail in a Zen Monastery in France after finishing a silent retreat there. There were amazing buildings and gardens but this little mate got me mesmerised. Glad I got a picture to remind me of it now that the busy days are back.
Printed in a gradient of dark blue-green at the bottom through dark blue to light blue at the top, this is my 9.25” x 12.5” portrait of Japanese geochemist in the lab adjusting a round bottomed flask with other posts and an array of chemical glassware in the foreground. In the background are carved ocean waves so the top looks like sky over wavy ocean
Day 13 #SciArtSeptember prompt bottleneck, I’m interpreting literally with Japanese #geochemist Katsuko Saruhashi (1920-2007) 🧪🐡👩🏻🔬 #histsci who created tools that allowed her to make 1st measurements of CO2 in seawater, raised the alarm about nuclear fallout, tracing it in oceans & researched 🧵
And yes, that is why trusted third parties and institutions like the International Organization for Standardization need to exist.
Beside the entrance to the Greenwich Royal Observatory is a set of imperial length gauges by instrument makers Troughton & Simms. Troughton & Simms was a British scientific instrument firm formed in 1826.
We try to maintain routines that work for as long as they do, but need to stay alert to changing situations, partners, and priorities, and remain open to reviewing standards when they no longer reflect the landscape faithfully.
Someone just asked: “How often do we need to change standards?” In my view, the trickiest aspect of temporality is balancing metrics stability with dynamic changes. It’s a matter of awareness: we cannot fix standards any more than we can capture time in an hourglass.
🍀 luck not look 👀
Same here (not in such good company, though). Best of look and good vibes for yours!
Thread text Hear me out: a dark academia murder book that opens at a department beginning-of-the-year celebration on a boat (I know a department that does this and a professor goes overboard. The intrepid department chair must figure out who did it. Everyone is a suspect, including the chair herself. August 29, 2025 at 9:24 PM Everybody can reply 19 reposts 10 quotes 179 likes Tarquin 'Howling Mad' Holmes @tarquinhh... • 14h Title: Ship of Fools (with an obligatory early Foucault scolar among the cast). • • Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social • 14h I was actually thinking about the "types" that we'd need for the characters. Obviously these would be humanities profs. Obviously. Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social • 14h Having the investigating chair also suspecting herself probably means she's a Lacan scholar
Laughed out loud at this thread and now the others in the room want to know why. I could never explain.
@caiuscollege.bsky.social looking like a fairy tale castle this afternoon.
Let me guess, is a translation from French. (Vatin?) - one keeps trying to find the translation from ‘valoriser’ which is not ‘valorising’
Two post-doc positions in CNRS on international projects in Paris, for 17 & 24 months on #STS. The first one on #openscience monitoring, the second one on #opendata in research evaluation. emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
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Just finished listening to this episode and it’s so great! I’m teaching a course on the social structure of science and values in science to undergraduates in Iceland this fall and this will be super useful to give to the students.
Really saddened by the passing of Michel Callon. From the scallops of Saint-Brieuc to market interactions, his work revealed multiple hues where I once saw only black and white. I like to think that he’ll be somewhere, assembling the world along with Bruno Latour and Trevor Pinch.
When market valuation takes priority over job creation:
‘For the tech industry, revenue per employee has become a prized performance metric.´
(Not every day you see the top comment in the FT calling for a new tax - an AI tax, with over 450 upvotes!)
on.ft.com/41seluz
#metrics #KPIs #Performance
We're hiring an Associate Professor/Professor at Cambridge Digital Humanities. Specialisms include Digital History/Mapping, Critical Data Studies, Archive and Memory Studies, Digital Media Arts, Environmental Humanities, AI/Digital Visual Culture.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOD837/a...
Screenshot of a conversation between Socrates and Phaedrus: ‘I cannot help feeling, Phaedrus, that writing is unfortunately like painting; for the creations of the painter have the attitude of life, and yet if you ask them a question they preserve a solemn silence. And the same may be said of speeches. You would imagine that they had intelligence, but if you want to know anything and put a question to one of them, the speaker always gives one unvarying answer. And when they have been once written down they are tumbled about anywhere among those who may or may not understand them, and know not to whom they should reply, to whom not: and, if they are maltreated or abused, they have no parent to protect them; and they cannot protect or defend themselves.
This conversation between Socrates and Phaedrus feels oddly modern.
Ever get that feeling of giving up on AI because it keeps offering the most obvious answers?
- And the same may be said for #LLM’s -
