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Nicholas Weller @nichweller.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Anyway, check out my colleague @zpirtle.bsky.social's write up of a recent CSPO workshop on social sciences in NSF. 4/n cspo.org/wp-content/u...

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Nicholas Weller @nichweller.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Nice commentary about social sciences in NSF in this. My hunch is that since the debate about NSF's funding, social science has always been seen--in some way--as connected to programs to address social challenges. (1/n) www.macroscience.org/p/what-weve-...

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Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 09/02/2024

Great insights into how (science) policy is actually done inside NASA - with a good dose of space ethics - from the always engaging philosopher-engineer, @zpirtle.bsky.social. issues.org/science-poli...

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Science Policy IRL: Zach Pirtle Explores Ethics for Mars Landings

Zach Pirtle explains how he came to work on the ethical and societal implications of living in space in this episode of Science Policy IRL.

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SN Désirée Cha @sndesireecha.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

“Integrate SBE without reducing social science to a service role. Social and behavioral researchers should help frame problems and produce knowledge, not merely translate findings from projects and other technical fields.”

“Despite random assignment and required advocacy, the groups identified ways in which social and behavioral research can
benefit society while deploying it more ambitiously. Embedding researchers throughout government may deepen integration, but distributed projects do not by themselves maintain disciplinary communities. As was commented and affirmed by multiple participants, social science cannot simply be sprinkled across technical programs and expected to reproduce the knowledge base which SBE funding currently enables.”

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Zachary Gallagher Pirtle, Ph.D. @zpirtle.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

How the U.S. organizes and funds Social, Behavioral, and Economic (SBE) Sciences matters for getting good science policy outcomes. The recent President’s Budget proposed eliminating NSF’s SBE directorate/budget See a new memo by me on implications and key design goals: cspo.org/research/sbe...

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Design Choices for the Future of Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences at the National Science Foundation and Beyond - CSPO

Memorandum: Design Choices for the Future of Social and Behavioral Sciences at NSF and Beyond On July 13th 2026, CSPO brought together participants from a variety of policy, scientific, and institutio...

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Zachary Gallagher Pirtle, Ph.D. @zpirtle.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I posted about the recent OSTP call for major science agencies to create metascience units, and with colleagues I offer perspectives on how to get this work to have greater societal impact and public value: engineeringoutcomes.substack.com/p/metascienc...

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Metascience for Public Missions: Principles for Agency Implementation

Abstract: Some federal agencies have until October 19th to propose how to implement new metascience units, meant to help improve the benefits of science for the American people.

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Zachary Gallagher Pirtle, Ph.D. @zpirtle.bsky.social · 18/12/2023

Very excited this podcast of me is out!

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Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 16/12/2023

Had a great conversation with NASA’s @zpirtle.bsky.social this week prompted by his great work on the Artemis, Ethics and Society initiative and my analysis of it for CIGIOnline. Looking forward to more ethical reflection at NASA. www.cigionline.org/articles/nas...

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NASA Begins Charting Ethical Trajectories for the Moon and Mars

Despite decades of ethical challenges to its programs, NASA has failed to develop internal capacity to address fundamental moral questions about space exploration.

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Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 14/12/2023

Artemis, Ethics & Society workshop and report explained. @zpirtle.bsky.social of NASA’s Office of Technology, Society and Policy on the Small Steps, Giant Leaps podcast. appel.nasa.gov/podcast/epis...

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EPISODE 121: THE ARTEMIS AND ETHICS REPORT EXPLAINED | APPEL Knowledge Services

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Zachary Gallagher Pirtle, Ph.D. @zpirtle.bsky.social · 17/11/2023

First sky post I was an aspiring philosopher of science who got hired as an aerospace engineer 13 yrs ago I still try to combine the two fields! I'm very proud that I recently got to first-author a report on the ethics of exploring the Moon and Mars, available here: www.nasa.gov/organization...

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New NASA Report Looks at Societal Considerations for Artemis - NASA

NASA’s Artemis missions have far-reaching scientific and exploratory goals, and a new report seeks to foster discussion about how the agency can

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