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Hanna Lucia Worliczek @hworliczek.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

A philosopher and a historian meet in a Geisterbahn... ...and give no ibids. At #Prater with @beccajackson.bsky.social #Vienna #Wienliebe

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Hanna Lucia Worliczek @hworliczek.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Don't miss this exciting talk by @beccajackson.bsky.social in beautiful Vienna, organized by the Chair of History of Medicine and the Biosciences! #HistMed #HPS #HistSTM 2/2

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Fraser Riddell @fraserriddell.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

🎚️[Turns excitement-level up to 11] My brilliant colleague Dr Rebecca Jackson @beccajackson.bsky.social is co-editing this collection on the philosophical, historical and cultural dynamics of measurement. Do consider submitting a chapter proposal! 🎚️

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Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

In March we hosted ‘Measurement Heretics: Being, Meaning and Measuring Well’. Organiser @beccajackson.bsky.social reviews of this international workshop which brought together researchers to rewrite the story of what it means to measure 📏 ⚖️ Read the recap 👇

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95 Measurement Theses: A Creative Output of the Measurement Heretics Workshop

Rebecca Jackson recaps the three-day workshop Measurement Heretics: Being, Meaning and Measuring Well.

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Will Thomas @williamthomas.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

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

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“Why would you expect me to remember that?” Thomas Kuhn and the uses of oral history

AIP History Weekly Edition: April 3, 2026

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Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

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...

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The drop and the metric system: how an unruly unit survived revolutions

A recently published paper co-authored by PDRA Rebecca Jackson has won the Trevor Levere Best Paper Prize.

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Max Planck Institute for the History of Science @mpiwg.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

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

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)

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Ustindorff @ustinoff.eurosky.social · 02/03/2026

"Is there any “middle-way” between rigor and relevance, or is one always at the expense of the other?"

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Coreen McGuire @coreenanne.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

This is going to be brilliant. I can't wait to discuss all things measurement with this incredible line up of speakers!!

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Igor Grossmann, PhD @igi.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

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. 🧠 🧵👇

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Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

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...

1960s clipboard with Apgar Timer and paper showing Apgar measures.

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Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

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...

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Welcoming Rebecca Jackson: New Postdoctoral Research Associate

Read our interview with Rebecca Jackson, previously a Bridging Fellow and now a PDRA in the Affective Experience and the Measurement Lab.

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Yasmin Haddad @yashaddad.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

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

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Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

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!

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Miguel Ohnesorge @miguelohn.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

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

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Rebecca Jackson, PhD @beccajackson.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

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.

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Jan R. Boehnke @jrboehnke.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

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

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Jan R. Boehnke @jrboehnke.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Getting ready for @beccajackson.bsky.social 's talk at our School. Activating all the brain cells ☕😅 #Cofaidh #Coffee #PhilSky #Psychometrics #Measurement

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Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

🏆 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

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

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

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Federica Rocky Bocchi @federicabocchi.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

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".

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AssemblingLife @assemblinglife.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

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

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Jan R. Boehnke @jrboehnke.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

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

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.

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Jan R. Boehnke @jrboehnke.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

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

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.

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Jan R. Boehnke @jrboehnke.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

6/x @ricksawatzky.bsky.social's recorded input focused on #Exchangeablility and discussed how the term #PatientCentered measurement may relate to ideographic and nomothetic methods. You can find out more about Rick's work here: healthyqol.com/about-ephm #PhilSky #ISOQOL

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Jan R. Boehnke @jrboehnke.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

4/x One of the core ideas for me is the notion of aiming for an #EpistemicDialogue as an approach to understand and meaningfully integrate the positions of different stakeholders, enabling us to "foreground and examine our own assumptions and values." #Measurement #Gadamer #PatientCentered #PhilSky

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Expecting discussions about values and assumptions, offers the opportunity for constructive failure.

Identifying limits of the solution one is working on:
Building a dialogue with the goal of "understanding (3rd mode)" will not result in 100% agreement on content, purposes, use cases etc for an instrument, but a tool with a clearly defined purpose, context of use, and limitations.

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Jan R. Boehnke @jrboehnke.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

3/x Sebastian Rodriguez Duque (McGill U) discussed "ongoing coordination", i.e. the process how we establish a link btw our instruments and the constructs they purport to measure. One of the points of modern validity theory is, that this process essentially never ends. #Measurement #HRQL #PhilSky

Speaker behind a lectern and in front of a screen showing a slide with the title "Ongoing Coordination" making four points:

To ground our inferences about how to interpret and use measures we need to coordinate instruments with the constructs we are trying to understand.

Coordination is the activity of establishing the link between our instruments and the constructs they purport to measure.

In measurement, it is an inherently circular activity: we can only test our understanding of a property, like temperature, through the very instruments we designed based on that understanding – thermometers.

How can we make the circle virtuous rather than vicious if our values and assumptions are inherently mixed in?

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Jan R. Boehnke @jrboehnke.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

8/x The last chapter focuses on the contexts of use of #HRQL measures (e.g., #FDA, agencies, #PatientCentered initiatives). Kevin Weinfurt (👇) and Rebecca Jackson discussed how even the often ignored response options reflect assumptions of how we want to represent what we are measuring! #PhilSky

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Jan R. Boehnke @jrboehnke.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

5/x Alessandra Basso (LSE) highlighted hermeneutic marginalisation and misrepresentation as injustices 👇 An important question the book raises is how to elicit and integrate all voices and still recognising that all positions are fallible. #Epistemology #Measurement #HRQL #PhilSky #PatientCentered

Someone standing behind a lectern and presenting a slide titled "Two injustices", which presents two flow charts next to each other.

The one on the left focuses on "Hermeneutic marginalization" when people's testimony is not taken seriously and integrated into the development of an instrument.

The one on the right focuses on "Misrepresentation", when instruments are presented as voicing patients' / people's concerns and views, but they were not included, which leads to an even stronger silencing of those voices/ positions.

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Jan R. Boehnke @jrboehnke.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

1/x It was great fun to co-organise the #ISOQOL discussion of Leah McClimans' book " #PatientCentered #Measurement: Perspectives from philosophy and health-related quality of life" global.oup.com/academic/pro... You can read the book review by Sebastian Rodriguez Duque here: rdcu.be/dXACh #HRQL

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Rebecca Jackson, PhD @beccajackson.bsky.social · 26/10/2023

A great perk of #ISOQOL2023 being in Calgary: proximity to Banff National Park

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