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Data Shadows
Sabina Leonelli, Brian Rappert, Gail DaviesAuthor Biographies
Sabina Leonelli is an associate professor in philosophy and history of science and codirector of the Exeter Centre for the Study of the Life Sciences, where she leads the Data Studies research strand (www.datastudies.eu). Her research focuses on the philosophy, history, and sociology of biology and data-intensive science, especially the research processes, scientific outputs, and social embedding of open science, open data, and big data. She published widely in philosophical, science and technology studies, and biology journals and is the author of Data-centric Biology: A Philosophical Study (2016).
Brian Rappert is a professor of science, technology, and public affairs at the University of Exeter. His long-term interest has been the examination of the strategic management of information, particularly in the relation to armed conflict. His books include Controlling the Weapons of War: Politics, Persuasion, and the Prohibition of Inhumanity; Biotechnology, Security and the Search for Limits; and Education and Ethics in the Life Science. More recently, he has been interested in the social, ethical, and political issues associated with researching and writing about secrets, as in his book Experimental Secrets (2009) and How to Look Good in a War (2012).
Gail Davies is a professor in human geography at the University of Exeter. Her research charts the changing geographies of laboratory animal science and seeks to develop innovative ways of supporting policy and engaging publics with complex issues in science and technology. She is currently interested in how the experimental practices of collaboration and inter disciplinarity, across diverse bodies from the UK Animals in Science Committee to the artist group The Office of Experiments, bring different issues to light and shade.
Special Issue Articles
How Archaeological Evidence Bites Back
Alison WylieAuthor Biography
Alison Wylie is a professor of philosophy at the University of Washington (Seattle) and Durham University (UK). As a philosopher of the social and historical sciences, her primary interest is in understanding how we know what (we think) we know, especially in archaeology and feminist social science. Her publications on archaeological practice include Thinking from Things (2002) and, most recently, Material Evidence (2015) and Evidential Reasoning in Archaeology (2016), coauthored with archaeologist Bob Chapman. She is a contributor to Value-free Science? (2007), Agnotology (2008), How Well do ‘Facts’ Travel? (2010), Evidence, Inference and Enquiry (2011), and Objectivity in Science (2015) and has published widely on feminist standpoint theory and on normative issues raised by an ethic of stewardship and collaborative practice in archaeology.
Citizen Seismology, Stalinist Science, and Vladimir Mannar’s Cold Wars
Elena AronovaAuthor Biography
Elena Aronova is an assistant professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara. She published numerous articles on the history of science in the cold war, history of evolutionary biology, and environmental data collection. Most recently, she has coedited Science Studies during the Cold War and Beyond: Paradigms Defected (Palgrave, 2016) and Osiris volume on “Data Histories” (2017).
The Elusive Rentier Rich
Linsey McGoeyAuthor Biography
Linsey McGoey is a senior lecturer in sociology at the University of Essex. She is the coeditor (with Matthias Gross) of the International Routledge Handbook of Ignorance Studies (2015) and the author of No Such Thing as a Free Gift: The Gates Foundation and the Price of Philanthropy (Verso, 2015).
How Does One “Open” Science? Questions of Value in Biological Research
Nadine Levin, Sabina LeonelliAuthor Biographies
Nadine Levin is an NSF postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Society and Genetics at UCLA, with a DPhil in Social Anthropology from the University of Oxford and a BSc in Biology from the University of Chicago. Her research and publications focus on how the rise of data, bioinformatics, and statistics is impacting how researchers think about metabolism, and develop metabolic diagnostics and therapies. Her book Metabolizing Data is currently under review.
Sabina Leonelli is an associate professor in philosophy and history of science and codirector of the Exeter Centre for the Study of the Life Sciences, where she coordinates the Data Studies research strand (www.datastudies.eu). She is the Open Science lead for the Global Young Academy and a member of the Open Science Policy Platform of the European Commission. She has published widely in philosophical, STS, and biology journals, and is the author of Data-centric Biology: A Philosophical Study (2016, Chicago University Press).
Special Issue Commentaries
Bringing Data Out of the Shadows
Rachel A. AnkenyAuthor Biography
Rachel A. Ankeny is professor in the School of Humanities and associate Dean Research and Deputy Dean in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Adelaide. Her research interests include history and philosophy of the biological sciences.
Shadow Values and the Politics of Extrapolation
Brian BalmerAuthor Biography
Brian Balmer is professor of Science Policy Studies, Department of Science and Technology Studies, University College London. He has undertaken extensive research on the history of biological and chemical warfare and the nature of secrecy. His books include Britain and Biological Warfare: Expert Advice and Science Policy 1930-1965 and Secrecy and Science: A Historical Sociology of Biological and Chemical Warfare.
Targets in the Cloud
Carlo CaduffAuthor Biography
Carlo Caduff is a senior lecturer in the Department of Global Health & Social Medicine at King’s College London. He is the author of The Pandemic Perhaps: Dramatic Events in a Public Culture of Danger published by the University of California Press in 2015.
Making Policies for Open Data
Sally WyattAuthor Biography
Sally Wyatt is a professor of Digital Cultures in Development in the Department of Science, Technology and Society Studies at Maastricht University, and senior research fellow at the Huygens Institute of Netherlands History. Her recent book, CyberGenetics, Health Genetics and New Media, written together with Anna Harris and Susan Kelly, was published by Routledge in 2016. Wyatt has been director of WTMC, the Netherlands Graduate Research School of Science, Technology and Modern Culture since 2011.
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