Symbolic Capital or Social Glue? Recognition in Collaborative High-Energy Physics Research [0.03%]
符号资本，还是社会黏合剂？合作高能物理研究中的认同感
Helene Sorgner
Helene Sorgner
A trend towards more and larger research collaborations in the sciences raises questions about how individual scientists who work primarily in collaborations receive recognition. Experimental high-energy physics is known for exceptionally l...
David Armstrong
David Armstrong
Medicine has undergone a major shift in its dominant mode of clinical reasoning, a Kuhnian paradigm change centred on diagnostic method rather than disease theory. Until the mid-20th century, clinical practice followed an experience-based m...
Toward Differentiated Biological Citizenship: Genetic Controversies and the Creation of Taiwan's Collective Informed Consent Law for Indigenous Peoples [0.03%]
走向差异化的生物公民身份：基因争议与台湾原住民集体知情同意法的形成
Yu-Yueh Tsai
Yu-Yueh Tsai
Since the 1990s, Taiwan has promoted genomics as part of its shift to a knowledge economy. However, controversies concerning Indigenous genetics and genomics extend into political, sociocultural, and historical dynamics. This has prompted a...
Beyond Balance: An Ethnography of Validity and Engagement in Citizen Science Practice [0.03%]
超越平衡：公民科学实践中的有效性和参与的民族志研究
Eran N Schwarzfuchs
Eran N Schwarzfuchs
Citizen science (CS) is often characterized as involving inherent trade-offs between scientific validity and public engagement. While existing literature has documented these competing imperatives, less is known about the concrete organizat...
Dominik Hofmann
Dominik Hofmann
This article tracks the origins, developments, and current usages of the concept of actionability in precision medicine. Originally a label for highlighting 'incidental' findings from genetic research, over time this concept became ascribed...
Making Microplastics Matter: Classification, Politics and the Lives of Microplastics as Environmental Objects [0.03%]
微塑料的建构、政治及生态影响生命——以分类为基础的分析
Noah Münster,Ulrike Felt
Noah Münster
How do emerging environmental phenomena become actionable amid scientific uncertainty and public urgency? This article argues that to understand how microplastics become governable, we must study classification as a central site where matte...
Reframing Trust in Citizen Science: Comparative Insights From Two German Initiatives [0.03%]
公民科学中信任的重构——来自两个德国倡议的洞见比较分析
Jakob Meyer,Konstantin S Kiprijanov,Silke Voigt-Heucke et al.
Jakob Meyer et al.
Citizen science (CS) is met with a range of expectations regarding trust-building that originate in policy frameworks and academic studies. These tend to understand trust as an outcome of participatory research. Adopting a different approac...
Ferran Pons-Raga,Pablo Alonso González
Ferran Pons-Raga
Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) is widely promoted as a humane technique for managing free-roaming cats. Yet its legitimacy remains fiercely disputed. Drawing on four months of participant observation and two years of follow-up fieldwork in Teneri...
Janet Vertesi,David Reinecke
Janet Vertesi
Accounts of scientific work at the lab bench largely overlook or sideline the considerable time and effort that scientists devote to the acquisition, management, and dispersal of funding. While multiple studies explore the subject of scient...
Sarah R Davies,Miller Díaz-Valderrama
Sarah R Davies
This research note reflects on, and responds to, Lee and Ribes discussion of 'computational universalism', setting this in dialogue with Suchman's account of 'The uncontroversial "thingness" of AI' and with wider STS literature. In discussi...