Environmental valuation and knowledge production in Swedish marine and water management [0.03%]
瑞典海洋和水资源管理中的环境评估和知识生产
Maria Paulsson,Christopher Kullenberg,Lena Eriksson
Maria Paulsson
This article explores how environmental valuation and knowledge production shape Swedish marine and water management through the case of the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management (SwAM). Tasked with conserving, restoring, and susta...
"Addicted" rats? Epistemic challenges in modeling addiction with laboratory animals [0.03%]
“上瘾”的大鼠?用实验动物建立成瘾模型的认知挑战
Héloïse Athéa
Héloïse Athéa
In contemporary biology laboratories, animal models have become essential scientific tools. From modeling psychiatric disorders to investigating embryonic development and genetic diseases, they facilitate research across various fields. Alt...
Brackish knowledge: exploring the material, epistemic, and institutional entanglements of numerical modelling of the Dutch coast [0.03%]
含盐知识:探索荷兰海岸数值模拟的物质、认识和制度纠缠
Jacqueline Ashkin,Sarah de Rijcke
Jacqueline Ashkin
Estuaries, the dynamic transitional zones where rivers converge with oceans, represent complex ecosystems characterized by the mixing of fresh and saltwater, resulting in what is known as brackish water. These coastal interfaces, along with...
Shani Inbar,Eva Jablonka,Simona Ginsburg et al.
Shani Inbar et al.
In modern English, common sense refers to an intuitive capacity to grasp self-evident truths and make judgments that require no special training or expertise. Although often treated as universal and ahistorical, its standing as an epistemic...
Social construction of algorithmic success: between good science and political feasibility in marine conservation planning [0.03%]
基于社会建构的算法成功:在海洋保护规划中的科学性和政治可行性的平衡点
Matt P Lukacz
Matt P Lukacz
In the decade between the mid-1980s and mid-1990s, critical voices within the conservation biology community argued that site selection for protected areas was most often done in a way that was unscientific. Conservation practitioners, many...
The Apgar score and race: why healthy babies are supposed to be "pink" [0.03%]
阿普加评分与种族:为什么健康的婴儿应该是“粉红色”的
Rebecca L Jackson
Rebecca L Jackson
Outlining the Apgar Score's use throughout the latter half of the twentieth century, I propose that the historical abuse of this score for newborn wellness does not only come from the obviously white-centered assessment criteria for "color"...
Marine constraints as philosophical opportunities: the Krogh principle and the benefits of philosophical engagement with the sea [0.03%]
海洋约束下的哲学机遇:克罗格原理与海的哲学思考之益处
Elis Jones,Vincent Cuypers
Elis Jones
This paper shows how cases drawn from the marine sciences can be particularly fruitful for philosophical reflection about the nature of science. We offer a meta-philosophical adaptation of a heuristic (the Krogh Principle) taken from compar...
Robert J Asher
Robert J Asher
Ronald Aylmer Fisher (1890-1962) was a pioneer of evolutionary biology who founded modern statistics. He has often been associated with a gene-centric conception of natural selection, but he did not discount the importance of factors operat...
Interactions at sea: on the microbiome life-cycle and biogeochemical processes [0.03%]
海洋中的相互作用:从微生物组生命周期到生物地球化学过程
Tamar Schneider
Tamar Schneider
The marine phycosphere is a microscale mucosal region of microbiomes surrounding a phytoplankton cell. The phycosphere (analogous to the terrestrial rhizosphere) is where microbial interactions navigate the biochemistry of the sea. The stud...