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Valeria Ramirez, PhD @valeriaramirez.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

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!

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Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

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.

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Michela Massimi @michelamassimi.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

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...

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Events – The Society for the Study of Measurement

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ángeles @angeleserana.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

El 20 de noviembre en la Casa de las Humanidades (en Coyoacán) presentaremos este directorio ¡¡acompáñennos!!!

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Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

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...

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Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Cambridge @ceb.cam.ac.uk · 19/10/2025

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.

A scientist in a red lab coat works in a laboratory, pipetting a red liquid. Text: "Celebrating National Chemistry Week."

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Thomas Spiteri @tespiteri.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

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

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S5 E11 - Steven Shapin on the Social Life of Scientific Knowledge

Podcast Episode · The HPS Podcast - Conversations from History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science · 19/10/2025 · 50m

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 09/10/2025

“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.”

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Why Sorbonne pulled out of university ranking

France’s Sorbonne University plans to leave the Times Higher Education (THE) Rankings, adding its name to a growing number of universities rejecting lists that play one institution off against another...

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

#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

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Job Posting I-390/25: Research Associate - salary grade E13 TV-L Berliner Hochschulen – Job Postings at Technische Universität Berlin

Faculty I - Humanities and Educational Sciences, Institute of History and Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Literature / History and Philosophy of Modern Science

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Valeria Ramirez, PhD @valeriaramirez.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

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.

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

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 🧵

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

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Valeria Ramirez, PhD @valeriaramirez.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

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.

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Valeria Ramirez, PhD @valeriaramirez.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Laughed out loud at this thread and now the others in the room want to know why. I could never explain.

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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.
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Tarquin 'Howling Mad' Holmes @tarquinhh... • 14h
Title: Ship of Fools (with an obligatory early Foucault scolar among the cast).
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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

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polecopub @polecopub.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

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... emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

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Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - 17 months Postdoc for international ANR project M/F

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Oscar @oscarw.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

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.

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Valeria Ramirez, PhD @valeriaramirez.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

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.

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Valeria Ramirez, PhD @valeriaramirez.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

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

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The AI job cuts are accelerating

Companies are preparing for a time where there might be less work for their employees

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 01/08/2025

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...

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Associate Professor/Professor in Cambridge Digital Humanities at University of Cambridge

An academic position as a Associate Professor/Professor in Cambridge Digital Humanities is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunit...

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Valeria Ramirez, PhD @valeriaramirez.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

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 -

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.

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National Humanities Center @natlhumanities.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

@asanewsonline.bsky.social The National Humanities Center welcomes applications from scholars engaged in advanced humanities research for the 2026–27 academic year. The deadline to apply is October 2, 2025. Please help us spread the word about this opportunity.

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Scholarly Programs | National Humanities Center

The National Humanities Center provides scholars with an environment and resources conducive to generating new knowledge and furthering understanding of the human experience.

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Valeria Ramirez, PhD @valeriaramirez.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

I screenshotted this post to discourage clickbait journalism. As @waiterich.bsky.social puts it, these metrics are flawed but interesting when seen as language: not for accuracy, but for how they convey arguments. Numbers strengthen the claim, regardless. Trusting them is sometimes an act of faith.

A repost of a CNN news. Photo of two hot dogs.

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Valeria Ramirez, PhD @valeriaramirez.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Have you ever thought of data evidence as music? Sounds (numbers) are as important as silence. Silence gives rhythm, shape, and space to listen. Some parts of the story can’t be captured in data — and that’s okay. We need the pauses to reflect, to notice change, and to grasp what truly matters.

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Valeria Ramirez, PhD @valeriaramirez.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

And now some philanthropic organisations are rushing to use AI to assess funding applications. And this is concerning. It reflects a bias toward scale and hype. We really need to come back to the basis: how this knowledge helps stakeholders? Why is that important. +Privilege quality over quantity.

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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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Angela Marques Filipe @angelaofthenorth.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

CIP’s 12 month Fellowship Program for emerging researchers with disabilities from LMICs to develop their own research projects based on their local contexts: inclusive-policy.org/fellowship/

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Fellowship | Center for Inclusive Policy

A policy, research, and training “think and do” tank building inclusive futures. Mentorship to develop the fellow’s work plan and achieve their deliverables.

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Job: Full professor in Science & Technology Studies at the University of Vienna. Deadline for applications is 17th September 2025. Contact Max Fochler or Sarah Davies (head and deputy head of the department) with enquiries about the role. #STS #HPS berufungsservice.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/us...

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Economics Observatory @econ-observatory.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

How much does the UK spend on welfare? 🇪🇺 Relatively little compared to Europe: just 10.8% of GDP in 2023 (including sickness & disability benefits, pensions, etc.). Meanwhile, 🇫🇮Finland spends 25.7% of GDP & 🇫🇷France 23.8%. #ChartOfTheDay #Welfare

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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

The UK needs to “protect and grow” basic research funding, even though it “doesn’t seem accessible” to the public and to parts of the government, science minister Patrick Vallance has said at #Metascience2025. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...

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Vallance: ‘We must protect and grow basic research funding’ - Research Professional News

Metascience 2025: Science minister warns against seeing curiosity-driven research as “easiest thing to cut”

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Valeria Ramirez, PhD @valeriaramirez.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Manufacturers are natural problem-solvers. They identify the cause and find the fix. But if we (outsiders) understood the process better, we could help propose even better solutions After all, we all share this manufactured world. Tim guided us wonderfully through their world in this talk(and book!)

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Valeria Ramirez, PhD @valeriaramirez.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

The chart shows not just sports results but legacy, pressure, and pride — each crew inherits the position from the previous year’s team. The bumpers (winners) get to pick green leaves from the Cam and row back with a green crown. The ‘bumpees’… well they do the bare headed ‘row of shame’ #MayBumps

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Valeria Ramirez, PhD @valeriaramirez.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

This chart shows college rankings in the #MayBumps from 1919 to 1931. Imagine being in the @caiuscollege.bsky.social crew that climbed 12 places between 1921–25 — or in the Trinity boat that dropped 11 between 1920–22. Every rower feels the weight of inherited position… and the drive to climb.🏆

beautifully hand-drawn “Bumps Chart” from Cambridge University, depicting the results of the May Bumps rowing races from 1919 to 1931. These charts are a tradition in Cambridge rowing, visually representing how college boat crews moved up or down in rank over the years.
• Vertical columns = the years (June races, 1919–1931).
• Horizontal rows = the crew rankings in each year (1st place at the top, lower ranks at the bottom).
• Coloured lines = the journey of each college’s boat across the years — they rise when a crew gains positions (by “bumping” the boat ahead), and fall when they lose ground.
• On the far left and right: the crew names at the beginning and end of the timeline.
• The note about 1920 shows that a third division was added that year due to an increase in participating teams.

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Valeria Ramirez, PhD @valeriaramirez.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

May Bumps are a @cam.ac.uk most curious traditions: 31 college teams quite literally bumping into each other. Mind you, it’s a serious competition — all about holding your place in the rankings. Personally I go for the tea :)🍰

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Valeria Ramirez, PhD @valeriaramirez.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Life in @cam.ac.uk can be stressful, particularly in exam times. But I love the little supportive things around to make it easier. Shoutout to the @eng.cam.ac.uk library and their 📚🛋️ pause with supplies to make motivational bracelets for yourself or for a friend who needs a boost during exam time♥️

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Valeria Ramirez, PhD @valeriaramirez.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

It was great to be part of this. Beautiful to be reminded that @ifmcambridge.bsky.social is full of people leading the industry and manufacturing world with a vision and a mission guided by values and grounded optimism. We’re getting ready for the next challenge.

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Helene Scott @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Celebrating traces of the CultureLab at @pdncambridge.bsky.social with a mini exhibition of images from the Living Science performance 🥂🧬🥼🔬✨ #sciart @anatoliikozlov.bsky.social

Man adjusting framed photo on yellow brick wall. Several photos with people writing and performing.

Sign with text:
Living science, workshops and event, March 2025
For the Cambridge festival, a group of PDN postdocs produced a live performance reflecting on life in the sciences and the role of trust and time - or lack thereof - in their day-ro-day. The performance came together by working as a group through a series of creative exercises facilitated by the CultureLab.

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Valeria Ramirez, PhD @valeriaramirez.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

When did avoiding confrontation and showing your vulnerabilities become radical thinking? I’m amazed by the reactions I get every time I share this. The rule seems to be: lawyer up and set policies. 1/2

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Kieron Flanagan @kieronflanagan.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

New report! #scipolicy in Europe has long considered internationalisation as a driver of excellence and soft power. Geopolitical tensions are changing this calculation. We examined #researchsecurity concerns and responses for 7 EU countries (CZ, FR, DE, NL, ES, IT, SE) Read more: bit.ly/4kLbXGt

An image of the cover page of the research report.

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Science and Technology Studies Unit @satsu-york.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

SATSU is having a couple of days in Edinburgh for the 2025 Assist-UK conference hosted by ISSTI at University of Edinburgh

Robin Williams from ISSTS welcomes participants to the conference

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 02/06/2025

I wrote about the 23-year-old crypto bro with effectively no relevant work experience, who @alondra.bsky.social revealed is sitting in meetings, not paying attention, and then giving the thumbs up/thumbs down on whether they can get their NSF grants...

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Jay Patel @infotainment.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

If you study the automation of peer review and critical appraisal, it seems like the stock disclaimer du jour is to say that you do not intend to replace humans. We all know it's there to counter the reflexive "Don't Replace My Job!" readers.

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AsSIST-UK @assist-uk.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

📢 AsSIST-UK is now on Bluesky! Just in time for our conference this Monday and Tuesday — and we’d love for you to be part of it. 📸 While you're at the conference: → Share your photos & highlights → Post reflections & key moments → Use the hashtag #AsSISTUK

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AsSIST-UK @assist-uk.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

📢 AsSIST-UK is now on Bluesky! 🌍 AsSIST-UK brings together scholars across the social sciences, humanities, and sciences to explore innovation, science, and technology in society. With 386+ members, we’re building a vibrant, transdisciplinary community.

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Valeria Ramirez, PhD @valeriaramirez.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Helpful guidance regarding #alcohol and #drugs use/misuse at work by @cam.ac.uk Includes advice for managers and colleagues (e.g invite them to share anything that may be affecting them and their behaviour, be supportive and non-judgmental) www.hr.admin.cam.ac.uk/policies-pro...

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Alcohol and Substance Misuse Guidance | Human Resources

Contents 1. Introduction 2. Definitions 3. Prescription medication 4. Risks and expectations 5. Social events and situations 6. Manager actions 7. Colleague actions 8. Support and treatment 9. Capabil...

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Arthur C. Clerk's Mysterious World @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

There are a great many programmes designed just to count things, managers being keen on numbers and graphs. Which is all well and good until you realise you’ve been counting the wrong things, but someone’s hard-coded the computer to only ever count the wrong things and it’s too expensive to change

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Valeria Ramirez, PhD @valeriaramirez.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Ikebana watching the world at West Cambridge go by. Flowers for those researchers working on an article on a Sunday morning, scientists dashing to the lab to check samples that know no weekend, and for the postdocs preparing yet another grant proposal. May all your efforts be blessed with success.

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