Ressources for the science of science
Although everything is published and linked everywhere these days, there are some interesting side shows in dicussing science on science related things. Here are some blogs and podcasts I enjoy from time to time. Living list, of course (13.01.2024)
Blogs and reads
- Retraction Watch About cases of fraud, plagiarism and retractions in general
- LeidenMadtrics about research evaluation and the bibliometric community
- The Bibliomagican with ideas for better research evaluation
- the rather well-known dataColada about data practices in general (and some insightful thoughts on meta-analyses)
- Aaron Tay’s musings about librarianship
- Front Matter Company/blog by Martin Fenner that also hosts the The Rogue Scholar blog which is a science-blog aggregator.
- Blogs on Metascience and related issues: statmodeling; Marc Rubin (Metascience), Björn Brembs (Metascience),
- History and philosophy of science by Thomas Hapke (history of science)
- Holm Gero Hümler who is a German sceptic and blogs mostly about pseudoscience. Often against the background of homeopathic treatments, he often discusses epistemic quality criteria for science in an insightful way
- Check also this NY Times article from 1981: “A fraud that shook the world of science” about one of the first bigger or at least more public fraud cases. Great recommendation from one of my interviewees!
Podcasts
Often you can find interesting and relevant episodes in many science podcasts even if they don’t focus ‘science on science’ in particular. Maybe I’ll tag individual episodes here in the future as well.
- Healthcare Triage about the medical sciences. Good overview over much that goes wrong.
- Der Streit and Soziopod are very interesting Sociology podcasts. Regularly, you can find some sociology of science there as well. Combing from Philosophy, their episodes on Berger/Luckmann, Foucault, Bourdieu, and of courseLuhmann were good intros to sociological thinking. Listening to sociologists discussing Popper was very insightful, too!
- I love some (German) podcasts about topics in the natural sciences in general. First and foremost Methodisch Inkorrekt is a big recommendation. Also interesting is Forschergeist and NDR Synapsen. While these do general scicomm, there are some science of science episode, e.g. about publish or perish. As a honorable mention, there is the famous German podcast “Geschichten aus der Geschichte” with occasionally relevant episodes, for example about Ludwig Fleck.
- About quantitative science studies with Ludo Waltman.
Video
- An Interview with Eugene Garfield “50 Years of Citation Indexing: A visit with Dr. Eugene Garfield”
- My favourite science video on YT that I watch regularly: Paul Hoyningen-Huene about Paul Feyerabend “Wissenschaftsphilosophie und Postmoderne”
- On being a scientist is a short movie produced by Leiden University
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Other ressources
- a great aggregation of almost everything on Actor-Network Theory “The Actor Network Ressource”