Talks

4S annual meeting, Oct 2021

4S annual meeting, Oct 2021

I’ll be participating in several events at 4S 2021, including giving a paper titled “Unequal Power Relations in Uncertain Situations: Graduate Student Experiences of Irreproducibility” in the session “Mass-Produced Uncertainties,” participating in a roundtable discussion titled “Metascience, mess and misalignments,” and commenting on a session titled “Oceans of Abundance? Biomaterial Extraction between Ecological & Human…

University of Helsinki, April 2021

Communicating complexity and uncertainty in behavioral researchAnimal behaviorists have a variety of communicative techniques for reminding themselves and their colleagues about the limitations of studying behavior through animal models. But when it comes to communicating with non-scientists, these strategies often break down. This talk will explore some common pitfalls in communicating complexity and uncertainty in…

University of Minnesota, Nov 2019

I’ll be speaking in the Colloquium for the History and Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Medicine at the University of Minnesota on November 15, 2019 The methodologists: following the scientists who make tools, not facts Much work in science and technology studies (STS) has focused on the production of scientific facts, and the scientists who…