Interview with Peter Galison: On Method

Galison, Peter; Newman, Winifred E.

doi:10.1080/24751448.2021.1863659

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“…For example, the four imaging teams in the Event Horizon Telescope project worked in isolation. They each used a different method to develop imaging algorithms, trained their algorithms against test data sets, and finally, produced their own images of the target black hole from real data before convening to compare images (Galison & Newman, 2021). By producing similar images in isolation, they increased their confidence in these images, in part because they limited the possibility that social influence would spread mistakes between the groups.…”

Section: Mechanisms For Transient Diversitymentioning

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How should we promote transient diversity in science?

O’Connor

2023

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Diversity of practice is widely recognized as crucial to scientific progress. If all scientists perform the same tests in their research, they might miss important insights that other tests would yield. If all scientists adhere to the same theories, they might fail to explore other options which, in turn, might be superior. But the mechanisms that lead to this sort of diversity can also generate epistemic harms when scientific communities fail to reach swift consensus on successful theories. In this paper, we draw on extant literature using network models to investigate diversity in science. We evaluate different mechanisms from the modeling literature that can promote transient diversity of practice, keeping in mind ethical and practical constraints posed by real epistemic communities. We ask: what are the best ways to promote an appropriate amount of diversity of practice in scientific communities?

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Section: Mechanisms For Transient Diversitymentioning

confidence: 99%

How should we promote transient diversity in science?

O’Connor

2023

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“…For high stakes frontier research where it is important to be correct, it may be warranted to temporarily limit communication between team members. For instance, the limited communications between the imaging teams at the EHT may have epistemically benefited the final results [142,146]. 21 Moreover, there already is evidence regarding the benefits of including groups traditionally excluded from knowledge production; some local and Indigenous communities on EHT's sites would have relevant scientific knowledge that other team members do not (see [147] for collaboration with Indigenous communities).…”

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The Next Generation Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration: History, Philosophy, and Culture

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“…Commenting on the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory, divided between a “multistory Central laboratory” and a “host of specialized buildings planned for the periphery,” they argue, “The center would secure participation in the group identity; at the periphery a subsidiary individuation could be sustained. This ‘center of thought’ would combine office spaces, small laboratories, a library, and the theoretical group” (Galison and Jones, 1999: 501). The expectations of the Halley VI center correspond in part to this older center-periphery dynamic, the social module acting as what the architects call a “social heart” that might cohere the group of inhabitants as a vibrant community, against which the outer modules, with bedrooms, small offices, specific laboratory spaces, a quiet reading room, and work stations for various kinds of on-base labor offer a degree of individuation, situating inhabitants into various roles and giving them spaces to psychically reproduce themselves with a degree of autonomy.…”

Section: Networked Labor and The Proletarianization Of Knowledge Workmentioning

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Imaginaries of planetary inhabitance: Polar futurism and the labors of climate science

Adams

2022

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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An emergent polar futurism characterizes the contemporary built space of climate science in Antarctica, inaugurated in large part by the British Antarctic Survey's cutting-edge Halley VI research base. This article analyzes the spatial form, design, and use of Halley VI as well as the rhetoric surrounding it, seeing in Halley VI an expression of a particular “socio-technical imaginary” that implicitly gestures toward a tendential integration of climate science and global logistics. Alongside claims toward fostering a comfortable, communal life among its inhabitants, the imaginary embedded in Halley VI is one where climate research is subsumed within capital's broader aims to facilitate stable logistical movements and infrastructural durability amid chaotic, volatile conditions, a subsumption that bears in particular on the knowledge workers who inhabit the base. What a reading of the base's layout, interior, and lived-in uses exposes, the paper claims, is an implicit portending of a growing proletarianization of sensual experience and knowledge work among residents at the base, increasingly displaced as they are from the subjective core of the base's operations. This reading both extends and complicates recent calls in polar geographies to attend to speculative figurations of Antarctic futures, channeling Halley VI's polar futurism through structural determinants drawn out of literatures critically dealing with design, the history of systems sciences, and theorizations of ongoing restructurings of contemporary labor. The article suggests then that imaginaries of Anthropocenic futures such as those embedded in Halley VI's polar futurism might serve at once as speculative-projective tools and implicit sites for carrying out critiques of tensions and pernicious trends that underlie such Anthropocenic speculation.

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Interview with Peter Galison: On Method

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How should we promote transient diversity in science?

How should we promote transient diversity in science?

The Next Generation Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration: History, Philosophy, and Culture

Imaginaries of planetary inhabitance: Polar futurism and the labors of climate science

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