Type of event: News

At the first Philosophy of Science India conference (21–23 June) in Bengaluru, Sabina will give keynote “Rethinking Empiricism for 21^st Century Research”.

PHIL_OS work covered by Nature magazine: Sabina Leonelli was interviewed for a Nature feature article on data sharing tips, particularly concerning questions of data accessibility across diverse research environments. The article was published on June 27, 2023, and can be found here.

Rose Trappes will give a talk “Niche-based theories of scientific practice: A scoping survey”, at the Perspectives on Scientific Practice workshop (15 March, at the University of Exeter).

In June, Rose Trappes will give a seminar on the philosophy of open science at the University of Oslo (7 June), and a talk on “The Challenges of Evaluating Citizen Science Data” at the inaugural Philosophy of Science India conference (21–23 June) in Bengaluru.

The Italian Open Science Society is organising a book launch and discussion round at the University of Trento on 27 March (hybrid: follow the link to get login details), to celebrate the publication of our Plant Data Linkage volume.

The December newsletter of the Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (SPSP) contains a report with participant feedback, on our SPSP2022 pre-conference workshop, Methods Matter: Empirical Research in Philosophy of Science in Practice.

Our new volume “Towards Responsible Plant Data Linkage”, featuring many brilliant contributors, will be launched on Friday 2 December! Join us by registering https://eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-towards-responsible-plant-data-linkage-tickets-438886159317 and if in Exeter, come for a drink at 4 at Byrne House!

Sabina Leonelli is working as a Lead Thinker, in the Thinkers Programme 2022 “Reproducibility and Replicability in Science” of the Royal Flemish Academy of Science and the Arts (KVAB). This work, conducted with Professor Stephan Lewandowsky (University of Bristol), aims to map the concerns and needs of research stakeholders from universities to policy-makers and industry, and assemble recommendations for how debates and evaluations of reproducibility should move forward.

Follow the link for more information.

Sabina Leonelli intervened in the Westminster Higher Education Forum Policy Conference “Next steps for the Research Excellence Framework” on March 11, with a talk on “Open Science from Theory to Practice”. Slides available here.