Selected talks, keynotes and invited round tables
2024 (Q1, January–March)
Keynote, Ethics of Science Conference, Hannover, March 14-15 (online): “Open Science and the Ethics of Research: A Troubled Relationship”.
Invited seminar, Events series on Research Culture, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge, March 12: “Towards Equitable and Cross-Disciplinary Open Science: A Philosophical Analysis” (online) https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/41416/#description
Invited seminar, Center for Science and Philosophy, University of Bristol, February 28: “A Reformed Empiricism for 21st Century Research”.
Invited speaker and scribe, Lorenz Workshop “Facts, Fakes and Fiction: An Interdisciplinary Workshop”, Snellius, Leiden, February 5-9: “Introductory Remarks: Science for the Public Good?”; “Scientific Quality Criteria: Why the Fuss?” https://www.lorentzcenter.nl/fact-fake-and-fiction.html
Invited Speaker at Virtual Analytic Exchange, Office of Analytic Outreach in the Bureau of Intelligence & Research (INR) at the U.S. Department of State, January 31: “Biological Data Journeys and Governance” (>140 attendees)
Invited Panelist at Webinar Plantae, 26 January: “The Role of AI in Plant Science” (>600 attendees) https://plantae.org/plantaepresents-artificial-intelligence-and-machine-learning-in-plant-science/
Public Dialogue with Edward Humpherson, UK National Statistics Regulator, University of Exeter, January 15: “Data Science and Statistics for the Public Good?”
Invited talk, Evidence-Gathering Expert Workshop “Successful and timely uptake of Artificial Intelligence in science in the EU” , European Commission’s Scientific Advice Mechanism (SAM), Brussels, January 10: “What is responsible and timely AI uptake in science in the EU?”.
2023
Invited talk, Evidence-Gathering Expert Workshop “Successful and timely uptake of Artificial Intelligence in science in the EU” , European Commission’s Scientific Advice Mechanism (SAM), December 7: “Changing research environments in the context of AI and open science”
Invited talk, University of Bochum, 24 November: “Extractive epistemologies and the sustainability of data environments”.
Invited talk, Royal Institute for Philosophy Series, University of Oxford, 15 November: “Empiricism for 21st Century Research”.
Keynote, “Science for Policy – Challenges and Opportunities” Conference, Permanent Representation of Estonia to the EU, Brussels, November 8: “Open Science for Policy”
Invited panelist, “Panel Discussion: Citizen science as a way towards patient-oriented research”, Conference Open Innovation in Life Sciences, October 26-27, Zurich and online: https://oils23.b2match.io/
Keynote, Launch event of the Regional Digital Innovation Hub ER2Digit, Bologna, 19 October: “Aprire il Digitale per il Bene Comune” (“Opening up the Digital for the Common Good”). https://www.er2digit.it/eventi/save-date-emilia-romagna-ecosistema-regionale-di-innovazione-digitale
Invited panelist, “Future-Proofing the Code of Practice for Statistics: Data Ethics and AI”, UK Office for National Statistics Regulation, online event, October 18: “Data Ethics and AI: Challenges to Statistical Practice” URL: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/futureproofing-the-code-of-practice-for-statistics-data-ethics-and-ai-tickets-711099125627?aff=oddtdtcreator ;
Invited talk, Symposium “Ocean and Us”, University of Edinburgh (online), 11 October: “Ocean data governance and the challenge of fair exchange in marine research”.
Invited Seminar, CLIMASAT conference, Barcelona, October 6: “Open or Closed? Reflections on Data Circulation Across Diverse Research Environments” .
Invited talk, Department of Anthropology, Leiden University, 28 September: “Open Science and Ethnographic Methods”
Keynote, STI2023 The 27th International Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators, University of Leiden, September 27-28: “Telling Research Like It Is: Openness, Transparency and the Quest for Trustworthy Assessment”
Contributed talk, “Il Ritorno del Sociale: Quarto Convegno Italiano di Antropologia Culturale”, Rome La Sapienza, September 22: “Which Integration for Health? Comparing Epidemiological Approaches” (with Stefano Canali, presenting). https://www.siacantropologia.it/prodotti/il-ritorno-del-sociale-quarto-convegno-nazionale-siac-3/
Contributed talk, EPSA23 Belgrade, September 21: “Using Ecological Niche Theories to Understand Research Environments” (with Rose Trappes). https://philsci.eu/EPSA23/Programme
Contributed talk, EPSA23 Belgrade, September 22: “Research in the Multiplex: When Scientific Practice Inhabits Multiple Research Environments” (with Rose Trappes). https://philsci.eu/EPSA23/Programme
Invited talk, International Conference on Open and FAIR Data Ecosystem: Principles, Policies, and Platforms, India, September 11-13: “The Importance of Data Ethics: Introducing the Ethical Data Initiative” (with Suchith Anand, presenting, and Kathryn Bailey). https://www.pkc.org.in/openfairdataconf/
Invited lecture, Methods conference, University of Exeter, September 6: “How to Design ‘Philosophy of Science in Practice’ Research?” (with Rachel Ankeny).
Keynote, Symposium “Open to Complexity: Symposium on Open Science in the Social Sciences and Humanities”, University of Tilburg, 5 September: “Telling Research Like It Is? Openness, Transparency and the Potential of Social Science and Humanities as Models of Best Practice” https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/current/events/open-complexity
Invited talk, Department of Philosophy, University of Tilburg, 4 September: “Empiricism for 21st Century Research”.
Invited seminar, Crop Research Insitute, CSIR, Ghana, August 29: “Open Science, Data Linkage and Cassava Research”.
Invited panelist, “ChatGPT and the Future of Society”, IDSAI Panel Discussion, University of Exeter, July 18. https://www.exeter.ac.uk/news/events/details/index.php?event=13086
Contributed talk, ISHPSSB 2023 Symposium “Coordination In and Beyond the Lab”, University of Toronto, Canada, July 12: “Themes and variations in the ‘precision’ sciences: On the relation between regimes and repertoires” (with Rachel Ankeny).
Contributed talk, ISHPSSB 2023 Symposium “Conceptualising Environments in and for Research”, University of Toronto, Canada, July 13: “What can be learnt about research environments from niche concepts?” (with Rose Trappes)
Invited plenary chair and organiser, Session “Creating, communicating and evaluating science in the 21st century”, BSPS Annual Conference 2023, University of Bristol, July 7. https://www.thebsps.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/BSPS2023v8.pdf
Invited lecture, Society for Experimental Biology Centenary Conference 2023, Session “Big Data in Biology” University of Edinburgh, July 6: “Philosophical perspectives on data-intensive pest-plant interaction studies across the lab and the field”(with Emma Cavazzoni, presenting). https://www.sebiology.org/events/seb-centenary-conference-2023/sessions/cell.html
Keynote, “PSI2023: Current Debates in Philosophy of Science”, First Annual Conference of the PhilSci India group, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, June 21-23: “Rethinking Empiricism for 21st Century Research”. https://www.philsciindia.com/apply-psi23
Public discussion, Giunchiglia Community Centre, Nonantola, June 7: “Big Data: Cosa Sono?” (with Emma Cavazzoni). https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=588480403419023
Invited talk, virtual conference on Global Health Data, University of Edinburgh, June 2: “Data Actionability versus Accountability? An Avoidable Trade-Off” (with N. Sheehan)
Invited lecture, Science Europe Working Group for Open Science and Research Culture, Brussels, May 10: “Fostering Cultures of Open Science”
Invited Introductory Remarks, ‘The Reproducibility Crisis for Machine Learning-Based Science”, Royal Society Virtual Seminar, April 27: “The Many Faces of Reproducibility”
Keynote, Precision Toxicology Consortium, University of Birmingham, April 25-26: “Precision science across domains”. https://precisiontox.org/project/
Invited lecture, Launch of the Exeter Health Data Analytics Network, University of Exeter, 24 April: “Is data science transforming health research?”
Invited panelist, Public Debate “Can We Trust Science?”, Agile Rabbit, Phoenix Centre Exeter, March 30.
Introduction, PHIL_OS Conference, Exeter Central Library, March 30. http://www.exeter.ac.uk/news/events/details/index.php?event=12681
Contributed talk, Workshop “Community Engagement as Scientific Practice”, Exeter, March 28: “Turning Prospecting into Participation: Data Sharing and Inequity within Scientific Knowledge Production” http://www.exeter.ac.uk/news/events/details/index.php?event=12716
Invited opening, Book Presentation “Towards Responsible Plant Data Linkage”, University of Trento, March 27 (online).
Contributed talk, Workshop “Perspectives on Scientific Practice”, University of Exeter, March 14: “Niche-based theories of scientific practice: A scoping survey” (with Rose Trappes) http://www.exeter.ac.uk/news/events/details/index.php?event=12723
Invited lecture at “Global Engagement on Human Germline Genome Editing” workshop, Senate House, London, March 9: “From Portal to Analysis: Data Governance Models for SARS-COV-2 Sequencing Data” (with Nathanael Sheehan, presenter).
Invited webinar for the Collaborative Research Centre “Virtual Lifeworlds”, Seminar Series “Across the Layers: Scientific Knowledge Production, Planetary Resources, and Data Centres”, University of Bochum, March 3: “The conceptual architecture of data sustainability: Examples from crop science” https://rustlab.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/across_layers/
Invited talk, HALY-ID Conference, University of Perugia, February 13-14: “I viaggi dei dati e le sfide della Scienza Aperta: Un’introduzione al progetto PHIL_OS” https://www.haly-id.eu/workshop-2023/
Invited lecture, HPS Department Seminar Series “50 Years of HPS”, University of Cambridge, January 19: “Against Presence Empiricism” https://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/news-events/seminars-reading-groups/departmental
2022
Invited lecture, Conference “Objectivité, Big Data et Médecine / Objectivité Graphique en Sciences”, Université de Strasbourg, December 14-15: “How do Big Data affect understandings of biomedical evidence?” (remote)
Invited Roundtable Speaker “Openness in Science from an Intersectional Perspective”, Series on “Transnational feminist dialogues in science and technology”, Margherita von Brentano Centre for Gender Studies, Berlin, December 14 (online). https://www.mvbz.fu-berlin.de/forschung/veranstaltungsreihen/transnational-feminist-dialogues/tfd-on-science-technology-and-society/index.html ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS4xlz-4clw&list=PLqiyv4YjL2YIa1sj70CdTZzfST4G0vQoI
Invited seminar, History and Philosophy of Biology Teaching Lab, University of Bahia, Brasil, November 22: “Beyond ‘indigenous knowledge’: Situated data governance as an answer to resourcist understandings of biodiversity”
Contributed talk, PhiInBioMed, Pittsburgh, November 14-15: “COVID-19 Data Representativeness versus Actionability: An Avoidable Trade-Off?” (with Nathanael Sheehan). https://www.philinbiomed.org/event/philinbiomed-at-psa-pittsburgh/
Contributed talk, Symposium “Scientific Medicine”, PSA 2022, November 10-13: “Is Data Science Transforming Medicine? The Case of COVID-19” https://psa2022.dryfta.com/program-schedule
Keynote, BMBF Conference on Quantitative Science Studies, online event, 4 November: “Is Open Science compatible with quantitative research assessments?”
Invited Roundtable Speaker, “The Forest Multiple” Symposium, University of Cambridge, 27 October: “The Challenges of Datafying Plants”. https://smartforests.net/the-forest-multiple ; podcast on https://atlas.smartforests.net/en/radio/
Keynote, International Conference “Beyond Quantity”, Paris, October 21-22: “The Qualitative Side of Automation: Lessons from the Reproducibility Debate”. https://howisaichangingscience.eu/conference-beyond-quantity/
Invited talk, Les jeudis de l’histoire et de la philosophie de la science, Paris, October 20: “Globalising local knowledge beyond extractive epistemologies: Lessons from crop data science” https://www.ens.psl.eu/agenda/les-jeudis-de-l-histoire-et-de-la-philosophie-des-sciences-jhps-2022-2023/2022-09-22t160000
Invited talk, International Workshop “Scientific Knowledge Across Jurisdictions: Traceability, Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS), and Scientific Policy in a Multicultural World”, University of Edinburgh, October 11: “Whither transnational science? Moving research data across communities and borders” https://www.skaje.uk/events/
Invited talk, Technische Universität Munich, October 5: “Datafication, Openness and Overwhelming Inequity: Reframing Scientific Discovery in the 21st Century”.
Keynote, International Conference “Engaging Ethics and Epistemology of Science” (EES 2022), University of Hannover, September 28-29: ‘The Ethics of Empiricism’ https://grk2073.org/eesconference2022/schedule/
Invited talk, Workshop “Science and its Others: Histories of ethno-science from the 18th century to the present-day”, University of Cambridge, September 19-20: “Globalising local plant knowledge: Cassava research in 21th century crop science”.
Invited Enabling Openness in Australian Stem Cell Research (EOAR) seminar, University of Adelaide, September 14: “Big and Open Data: Mind the Gaps”. https://www.eoar.com.au/seminars
Invited talk, European Advanced School for Philosophy of the Life Sciences, University of Bordeaux, September 5-9: “Handling biological, social and scientific complexity: Reflections on crop science”
Keynote & Anchor Teacher, WTMC Summer School 2022 “Opening Up Diversity”, August 22-26: Five lectures delivered under the school theme. https://www.wtmc.eu/events/wtmc-phd-summer-school-22-26-august-2022/
Invited talk, Joint PHIL_OS/ISEED Roundtable “Good Science Across Diversity of Research Environments”, Università Cà Foscari, Venice, July 7: “Citizen Science, Openness and the Diversity of Research Environments”
Contributed talk, Society for the Philosophy of Science in Practice 2021, University of Ghent, July 2-4: “Openness as Disruption: Epistemic Injustice in Crop Data Linkage”
Invited talk, University of Hannover, 17-18 June: “Does Open Science Need Philosophy?”
Invited talk, Technische Universität Berlin, 13 June: “Data Absence and the Failures of Big Data Empiricism”
Invited talk, International Conference “The Philosophy of Data Science: Data Science Governance”, Centre for Human and Machine Intelligence, University of Frankfurt, 10-11 June: “Governing Data Circulation: An Underrated Concern for Scientific Inquiry” https://dgphil.de/veranstaltungen/veranstaltungsankuendigungen/lesen/?tx_ttnews%5Byear%5D=2022&tx_ttnews%5Bmonth%5D=01&tx_ttnews%5Bday%5D=31&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=5719&cHash=af6346c2ba32c4f57c69c737eaa0d02a
Keynote, Reproducibility Conference, Belgian Royal Academy of Science, Brussels, June 1: “The Many Faces of Reproducibility”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxlVk-4Llu8 ; : https://kvab.be/en/events/final-symposium-reproducibility-and-replicability-science
Invited talk, Department of Philosophy, Freie Universität Berlin, 18 May: “Datafication and Scientific Discovery: From Presence to Absence”
Keynote, STS Conference Graz 2022 “Critical Issues in Science, Technology and Society Studies”, May 2-4: “Open Science Beyond ‘Sharing’” https://sts-conference.isds.tugraz.at/event/15/ ; video: https://stsconf.tugraz.at/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/STS2022-Keynote-3.m4v
Invited seminar, Digital Humanities Centre Series, Freie Universität Berlin, April 27: “Datafication and the Practice of Discovery” https://www.fu-berlin.de/sites/dhc/programme/termine/dhcl-leonelli.html (cancelled due to surgery)
Invited lecture, Seminar Series “Taming the Machines”, Research Group “Ethics in IT”, University of Hamburg, April 6: “Trouble in the (big) data house” https://www.inf.uni-hamburg.de/en/inst/ab/eit/taming-the-machines/summer22.html
Invited seminar, Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS), University of Michigan, April 4: “Beyond Access: Framing the Use of Big and Open Data for Research” https://midas.umich.edu/calendar/?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D157180820
Invited seminar, Deutsche Zentrum für Hochschul- und Wissenschaftforschung (DZHW), 30 March: “What is the Trouble with Open Science?” https://www.dzhw.eu/veranstaltungen/kolloquien/index_html
Keynote, International Conference “Development Counts: Data Skills for International Development Careers”, 16 March: “Big and open data for development: Mind the gaps” https://uniofglos.blog/dataskills/2022/02/18/registration-for-development-counts-dissemination-event-on-16th-march-2022-now-open/
Invited seminar, Colloquium Series of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, March 15: “Wither Open Science?” https://www.wiko-berlin.de/en/events/calendar-of-events/2022-03-15-whither-open-science
Invited talk, Westminster Higher Education Forum Policy Conference ‘Next steps for the Research Excellence Framework’, March 11: “Open Science from Theory to Practice”. https://www.westminsterforumprojects.co.uk/conference/WHEF-REF-22
Invited speaker, DivSeek Annual General Meeting, January 19: “Globalising Plant Knowledge through Transnational Data Management” (with Hugh Williamson, presenting). https://divseekintl.org/divseek-2022-agm-and-roundtable/
Panelist on The Vision for Data Spaces, High Level Panel on Future Data Space, FAIR Digital Objects Forum, January 19. http://Fairdo.org (400 audience)
Invited speaker, KLI seminar “Seeing Through COVID-19”, Austria (remote), January 13: “Responses to the pandemic within history and philosophy of biology”.
2021 (Q4, September–December)
Invited talk, Joint Centre for Environmental Intelligence Conference, University of Exeter, December 16-17: “Steps Towards Intelligent Openness”
Invited talk, GEOS Seminar, University of Wageningen, 9 December: “The Dilemmas of Openness: Sharing Knowledge Across Research Environments”
Invited speaker, Workshop on Interdisciplinarity in History and Philosophy of Science, University of Taipei, Taiwan, December 8: “The Future of Interdisciplinary Philosophy”.
Keynote, Conference on Statistics, Data and Scientific Integrity, Flemish Interuniversity Council, VUB Brussels, 29 November: “Research Integrity, Data Quality and Fair FAIR Data” https://www.vub.be/en/weekvandeethiek#programme-and-registration-ethics-week-2021
Invited panelist, High Level Workshop “Research Culture in the ERA: Ensuring the Attractiveness of the Research Sector for Current and Future Generations”, Science Europe, Luxemburg, 24 November: “Diversity and its Impact on Research Cultures”
Keynote, 1st International TRIPLE Conference “Empowering Discovery in Open Social Science and Humanities”, Polish Academy of Sciences, 22 November: “Openness in the social sciences and humanities: lessons to and from the natural sciences” https://project.gotriple.eu/triple-international-conference-2021/
Invited panelist, History of Science Society Conference (HSS 2021), Panel “The Future of Open Access in the History of Science, Technology and Society”, November 19. https://hssonline.org/meetings/2021-hss-annual-meeting/#program
Invited panelist, Three Cultures Forum “Living with Diversity”, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, November 18: “Diversity in Research”
Contributed talk, Symposium “Opening Up Open Science”, Philosophy of Science Association 2020 meeting in Baltimore, November 15: “Open Science and Epistemic Diversity: Friends or Foes?” (postponed from 2020) https://psa2020.philsci.org/program-schedule/sponsor-lounge
Invited seminar, College de France, November 12: “COVID research in a transnational perspective” https://republique-des-savoirs.fr/events/event/seminaire-les-temps-de-la-pandemie-2021-2022/
Invited talk at VolkswagenStiftung Symposium for Breakthroughs in the Social Science and Humanities (as a Winner in that category), Falling Walls Conference 2021, November 8: “Breaking Walls for Understanding Data” https://falling-walls.com/discover/videos/data-ethics-a-relational-approach-to-data/
Invited talk at Informal Advisory Group on Digital Sequence Information informing negotiations on the Global Biodiversity Framework (Convention for Biological Diversity COP 15), October 20: “Intelligent Data Sharing”
Invited Panelist for Ada Lovelace Institute Webinar Series “Data for the Public Good”, October 14: “Lessons Learnt from COVID-19: How should data usage during the pandemic shape the future?” https://www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/event/lessons-learned-from-covid-19-how-should-data-usage-during-the-pandemic-shape-the-future/ ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb83qe3VDL4
Invited Turing Seminar, Alan Turing Institute, 11 October: “The Evidence Base of Artificial Intelligence: Supporting Data Fairness to Enhance Research Quality”
Invited speaker, “Data Democratization”, Data Sharing Seminar Series for Societies, 1 October. https://zenodo.org/communities/data-sharing-seminar-series-for-societies/?page=1&size=20 ; video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTNEQudyZuc&t=3s
Invited seminar, History and Philosophy of Science Department at University of Indiana Bloomington, September 30: “Can – and should – philosophy help to “open” science?”
Keynote, Annual Conference (Jahresversammlung) of the Leopoldina “Biodiversität und die Zukunft der Vielfalt”, German National Academy of Sciences, Halle, September 23-24: “Reframing Biodiversity from the Data Up: Challenges from Plant Data Semantics” (postponed from 2020)
Invited talk, Symposium “Science Policies, Research Funding, and the Future of the University,” Biennial Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA 2021), Torino, September 18: “Research Excellence”.
Invited commentary, Symposium ‘Scientific Evidence and Expertise in the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond”, Biennial Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA 2021), Torino, September 17.
Keynote, UK Association for Studies of Innovation, Science and Technology (AsSIST-UK) 2021 Conference “Infrastructures, Institutions and Cultures: New Relations and New Challenges”, September 9-10: “The Open Data Challenge: Cultural, Institutional and Infrastructural Dilemmas of Data Sharing”
Keynote, Conference “Giornate di Epidemiologia Carlo Corchia”, University of Florence, September 9: “Open Science”