Type of event: News

Sabina Leonelli discussed the ongoing work of the PHIL_OS project, as well as related new initiatives, such as the Ethical Data Initiative and the Public Science Lab in Munich, as part of a panel on the future of the philosophy of science. The panel, featuring also Heather Douglas and Holly Andersen, was organised and hosted by Alan Love as part of a major conference at the University of Minnesota in October 2024. Watch the video here: Round Table: Themes and Approaches 

Paola Castaño and Sabina Leonelli, in their recent publication, Interrogating and Monitoring Equitable Open Science, examine insights from four sessions held at the 2024 EASST/4S conference, mainly focusing on the challenges and proposed solutions in Open Science’s equity and inclusivity. 

In May 2024 PHIL_OS, and particularly Hugh Williamson presenting joint work with Sabina Leonelli, participated in a major meeting on data interoperability and making agricultural research “AI-ready” in equitable and responsible days – see the summary and videos of sessions here:

https://www.hdigitag.fr/evenements/phenoharmonis-workshop-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.

On 9–12 September, Emma Cavazzoni will be a participant at the 7^th European Advanced School in the Philosophy of the Life Sciences (EASPLS), on the theme of ‘Evidence in Biology and Medicine’. This summer school takes place at the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research (KLI) near Vienna, Austria.

• Emma Cavazzoni was invited to give a talk ‘Data-Intensive Pest-Plant Interaction. Studies Across the Lab and the Field: Philosophical Perspectives’, at the Centenary Conference of the Society for Experimental Biology (Edinburgh, 4–7 July 2023).
  

Emma Cavazzoni will give a talk “Sharing Data, Sharing Technologies: Data-Technology Communities in Haly.Id”, at the Forum on Philosophy, Engineering, and Technology (fPET), which takes place 17–19 September at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

This week’s HPS Podcast features Sabina Leonelli discussing The Philosophy of Open Science and questions of inclusivity, access and communication in research: https://thehpspodcast.buzzsprout.com/2180146/15140154-s3-ep-12-sabina-leonelli-on-the-philosophy-of-open-science

The Royal Society report “Science in the Age of AI”, for which Sabina Leonelli worked as a member of the Working Group, is now available: https://royalsociety.org/news-resources/projects/science-in-the-age-of-ai/ It contains key recommendations on the future development and deployment of AI, including around how it should be adapted to diverse research environments and various levels of openness.