The PHIL_OS project (2021–2025) aims to develop an empirically grounded philosophy of Open Science [OS] that emphasises the diversity of research environments around the world and articulates the conditions under which OS can leverage such diversity to promote good research practice.
We are based at Egenis, the Exeter Centre for the Study of the Life Sciences of the University of Exeter (UK).
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Emma Cavazzoni gave a talk “Sharing Data, Sharing Technologies: Data-Technology Communities in Haly.Id” at the Forum on Philosophy, Engineering, and Technology (fPET) (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 17–19 September 2024).
Emma Cavazzoni was chosen as a participant of the 7th European Advanced School in the Philosophy of the Life Sciences (EASPLS), on the theme of Evidence in Biology and Medicine (Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, 9–12 September 2024)
Sabina Leonelli was the Kluge Chair in Technology and Society, at the US Library of Congress from 1 May to 31 July 2024, and will therefore be temporarily based in Washington to work on “Openness, Democracy and Technologies of Evidence”.
The University of Bologna has released a position paper which Sabina advised on, following the “Back to fundamentals of research - Reliability, Transparency and Reproducibility” workshop which Sabina keynoted on 20 May 2024.
Our postdoc Rose Trappes has moved to the University of Bergen in Norway, where she will do a postdoc exploring citizen science and its implications for epistemic diversity in ecology.
Paola Castaño and Sabina Leonelli convened two Sessions on Interrogating Openness and Equity in the Data-Centric Life Sciences in the joint meeting of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) and the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) (Amsterdam, 16–19 July 2024).