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Nicole C. Nelson @nicolecnelson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Aw, good memories and so many good folks around that table!

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Nicole C. Nelson @nicolecnelson.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

This is a good reminder to me to think about writing up that talk into a little paper!

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Nicole C. Nelson @nicolecnelson.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

This was such a good workshop... great to see you!

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Nicole C. Nelson @nicolecnelson.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

New bit of work out today... A programmatic piece calling for more research on what replication work looks like in different fields ⬇️

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Nicole C. Nelson @nicolecnelson.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

#STS #HSTM #HPS folks who are studying AI in use in scientific contexts...please check out this call! You can apply to get feedback on your work in progress or get 💵 to provide feedback on others' work. I will be workshopping some of my own stuff on cloud labs. datasociety.net/announcement...

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The Craft of Science with AI: Evidence, Judgment, and Practice

We invite researchers and practitioners to join us in examining how scientific reasoning and imagination are being reconfigured as AI systems become a part of the everyday practice of science. Learn m...

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Nicole C. Nelson @nicolecnelson.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

We're hiring in history of science at UW Madison! TT Assistant Professorship with a focus on water. Joint appointment between the History and Integrated Liberal Studies depts, and part of a university-wide hiring cluster on earth/sustainability science. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/profess... #STS #HSMT

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Professor of History - Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...

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Nicole C. Nelson @nicolecnelson.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Yep, Harald has taken up both bike watching and sourdough making over the past few years... middle age comes for us all 😂

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UW-Madison Medical History & Bioethics @mhbuwmad.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

We are co-sponsoring this event - make sure to attend! Saving Hearts and Killing Rats: Karl Paul Link and the Discovery of Warfarin Friends of the Libraries 2025 Annual Schewe Lecture Thursday, September 25, 2025 | 5:00 – 7:00 PM Steenbock Library uwmadison.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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Nicole C. Nelson @nicolecnelson.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Happy to... I will get in touch over email!

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Nicole C. Nelson @nicolecnelson.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

I am happy to help with building a repository of oral histories, if folks are interested! I have an open human subjects protocol they could be collected under. @stuartbuck.bsky.social's post is also a good example of a self-archiving model for personal histories: bit.ly/4oESiL5

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Sabina Leonelli @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Job Opening at the Chair of Philosophy and History of Science and Technology at TUM! Research Fellow for 3 years (renewable). Preferably philosopher w interest in plant, crop & agricultural research (& their history and social studies) All details: www.sts.sot.tum.de/en/sts/arbei... #philsci #sts

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Nicole C. Nelson @nicolecnelson.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

I had the pleasure of talking with @lucileveissier.bsky.social at #metascience2025 about what metascience is, how reproducibility problems rose to public attention, and more!

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Nicole C. Nelson @nicolecnelson.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Really sorry to have missed your panel... unfortunately my talk was scheduled at the same time!

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Nicole C. Nelson @nicolecnelson.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

We Canadians should all find each other for Canada day drinks!

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Sabina Leonelli @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

#OpenScience lobbyists, skeptics and everything in between: consider coming to Munich in May 2026 (gorgeous time to visit..) to discuss the future of Open Research! FOR2026 is open for submissions: opensciencestudies.eu/for-2026-con... pls help spread the word 🙏 #philsci #sts #methods #policy 🧪

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FOR 2026 Conference – A Philosophy of Open Science for Diverse Research Environments

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Nicole C. Nelson @nicolecnelson.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

This depressing thought is perhaps my sign to now get off social media and go to the gym! 😂

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Nicole C. Nelson @nicolecnelson.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Maybe @briannosek.bsky.social is right that we just have to embrace the chaos, but I find myself leaning more towards @avastmachine.bsky.social 's view that "hypertransparency" could be paralyzing for the scientific system as it currently exists (and which I very much want to survive!)

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Nicole C. Nelson @nicolecnelson.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

I am with you in worry ❤️ And to argue against myself @avastmachine.bsky.social's work on climate science shows at least a few hopeful case where adversarial data collection/reanalysis does at least somewhat quell disputes between skeptics and mainstreamers: www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...

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Knowledge infrastructures under siege | 2 | Climate data as memory, tr

Both trust in climate knowledge and the truth it delivers descend from the organizational routines and truces necessary to share and maintain climate data.

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Nicole C. Nelson @nicolecnelson.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Oh, I definitely don't think that restricted access is the right solution, but I also don't think that data no longer matters. I've been really convinced by Becky Mansfield's analysis of the first Trump EPA, curious to hear what you think of it! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Deregulatory science: Chemical risk analysis in Trump’s EPA - Becky Mansfield, 2021

While critics cast the Trump administration as anti-science, requiring in response vigorous defense of science, analysis of the Trump EPA reveals instead a stra...

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Nicole C. Nelson @nicolecnelson.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

I don't disagree with you... EOs like this could be used to exclude! But the historian in me sees a longer pattern where commentators tend to point out the "shutting down" risks and not their inverse. @naomioreskes.bsky.social's 2018 piece is another example: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Beware: transparency rule is a Trojan Horse

Like tobacco lobbyists and climate-change deniers, the US Environmental Protection Agency is co-opting scientific trappings to sow doubt, warns Naomi Oreskes.

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Nicole C. Nelson @nicolecnelson.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Yep, I agree... IMHO it's expedient but unprincipled to try to shut down policy debates by excluding studies or people from the debate, but I have deep worries about what we do with the chaos that could ensue from that kind of true openness.

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Nicole C. Nelson @nicolecnelson.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Yeah, the so-called Shelby amendment, which made access to research data produced with federal funding available via FOIA request, is named after Alabama Republican Senator Richard Shelby. It was a response to Harvard's refusal to give access to an important data set. An uncomfortable history :-/

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Nicole C. Nelson @nicolecnelson.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Yep, in the preprint linked about we talk about access to two key studies (Harvard's Six Cities study and the American Cancer Society's CPS-II study) that have been the subject of decades long access disputes and the basis for important PM2.5 air pollution regulation

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Nicole C. Nelson @nicolecnelson.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

You can read more here about this history and my take (along with my excellent students @bennettmcintosh.com and Kelsey Ichikawa) on why adjudicating between competing analyses is likely to be difficult, time consuming work: osf.io/preprints/me...

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Nicole C. Nelson @nicolecnelson.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Calling the Trump EO "fool's gold" and the like may feel like a pithy way of maintaining a preserve of "genuine" open science advocacy, but this boundary making is exactly the kind of exclusionary practice that has galvanized dissident scientists and motivated them to keep showing up.

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Nicole C. Nelson @nicolecnelson.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

The difference is important because access to data is increasing with or without the specific laws/policies that Republicans have championed. Adversarial reanalysis is likely to become more of a feature of our scientific/political landscape, and we don't have great tools to deal with it.

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Nicole C. Nelson @nicolecnelson.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

*That* is what conservative advocacy for open science is about... enabling the production of "deregulatory science", as Becky Mansfield calls it, rather than enabling the exclusion of existing science. The end goal (deregulation) may be the same, but the mechanism is importantly different.

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Nicole C. Nelson @nicolecnelson.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

For 30 some years, Republicans have recognized that they are under-gunned when it comes to regulatory science disputes because they don't have access to the large scale, longitudinal studies with which good science is made. And so they've been trying to pry open that can to get access to that data.

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Nicole C. Nelson @nicolecnelson.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Seeing lots in my feed today referencing the @cos.io statement and @theguardian.com op-ed on gold standard science, and IMHO most people are worrying about the wrong thing -- it's not *closing down* the flow of science into policy that worries me, it's a radical *opening up* of data for reanalysis

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Nicole C. Nelson @nicolecnelson.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

OMG, I very much want to go visit this giant flamingo!

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Nicole C. Nelson @nicolecnelson.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Very bittersweet to see this article popping up on the same day I heard of Mario's passing :-/ It is a good article... definitely recommend! ishtip.org/mario-biagio...

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Mario Biagioli (1955-2025) – ISHTIP.org

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Society for Social Studies of Science, 4S @4sonline.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

4S is scoping out the level interest in creating a mutual support network for scholars of all stages w/ HSS and SHOT for “Cultivating Community Among International Scholars in Uncertain Times.” Please fill in the following survey (takes <5 mins): forms.gle/FD63QKGjXNJk...

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Cultivating Community Among International Scholars in Uncertain Times—4S / HSS / SHOT Mutual Support Network Survey

At the recent meeting of the American Council of Learned Societies, the presidents of the Society for Social Studies of Science, History of Science Society, and Society for History of Technology began...

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Call for collaborators! We are launching the Replicability Project: Health Behavior (RPHB) to replicate a sample of findings relevant to public health, epidemiology, health policy, and behavioral science. Teams receive funding for conducting replication studies. Details: www.cos.io/rphb

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Replicability Project: Health Behavior (RPHB)

The Center for Open Science (COS) is launching the Replicability Project: Health Behavior (RPHB), which is a large-scale, multi-team effort to help support a transparent and trustworthy foundation in ...

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Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

It's that season once again 🍂 ☀️ ❄️ 🌱 so please spread the word: Science, Technology, & Human Values are pleased to announce that we are taking proposals for Special Issues of the journal 📬 ⏰ The call closes 21 June 2025 - and you can find details in the form: forms.gle/6uYdQim9J1z5...

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Nicole C. Nelson @nicolecnelson.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Our semester is also now 2/3rds of the way through the term, changed to align with the local school district break. Which makes all kinds of sense, but man am I c.r.a.w.l.i.n.g towards that break.

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Nicole C. Nelson @nicolecnelson.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I'm going to buy this Seven Deadly Sins one now, though!

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Nicole C. Nelson @nicolecnelson.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I've read this one... it's much less about reproducibility/replication than it looks from the cover; it's more a conceptual critique of priming research. I suppose it does fit with the others in the sense that it is calling for reform, but of a very different kind (towards holism/humanism).

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Nicole C. Nelson @nicolecnelson.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Pretty interested to read this one... you should do a multi-book review of this along with Rigor Mortis and that other psychology one whose name escapes me at the moment!

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Nicole C. Nelson @nicolecnelson.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

My experience has been that undergrads mostly don't know what "liberal arts" means. We tend towards "STEM and society" language because even though that is irksome from an STS theory perspective, we've found it to be the most understandable.

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Nicole C. Nelson @nicolecnelson.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

The thing that I've always most enjoyed using social media for is posting photos of all my little projects, so in an effort to wean myself off of meta I'll start posting here. A 1:14 scale model of my sewing room, in progress!

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Nicole C. Nelson @nicolecnelson.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Don't have a team of potential editors already in mind, but would like to be part of the team that leads @estsjournal.bsky.social ? Send me an email! I am collecting up names and hold a Zoom call in a few weeks to introduce folks to each other and answer questions.

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Journal of Engaging Science, Technology, and Society (ESTS) @estsjournal.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Expression of Interest: Next editorial team for our diamond open access journal— Engaging Science, Technology, and Society (ESTS) More on the call here: www.4sonline.org/engaging_sci... And for enquiries contact our Editor-in-Chief: estsjournal.org/index.php/es...

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