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@linda_a_burnett's workshop done, presentations attended, scholars met, and conversations had. What have I learned? Surprising things. Here's a partial reflection histories of scientific instructions, lists & colonial travel. @UU_University, @BookScribbler, @eayers0, @dominikhhh 
First off, not all lists are alike. Much can be learned by the order of items, especially when it comes to ethnographic observation. The order of observation tells us about the intellectual context from which the instruction arises. #listing #History #Science #KNOWLEDGE
But study of intellectual context takes us into other domains - of national experiences, of inter-imperial exchanges, of cross-cultural encounters and yes, so often, of violence and indifference to sufferings. #History #Empire #colonized #Violence #KnowledgeManagement
Happy Easter, to my humanist, Christian and other religious friends alike. Renewal, rebirth, eggs - affirmation of life and nature. Go well.
Eggs are a big part of developmental biology, my own field, and I worked with chicks and quails once upon a time. The technique we used was windowing, where you cut a small hole in the shell and cover it with sellotape, and observe development.
This was a technique used by the Polish Jewish scientist Robert Remak in the 19th C, who discovered one of the fundamental cornerstones of biology as a result: Cell Theory.
๐งต "Images as Social Agents and Historical Ledgers in Knowledge Systems"
Today's SFI Seminar by @JSMF Fellow @onuhgrrarrow (@ASU) on how the co-evolution of images and concepts has shaped human knowledge about biological entities like cells & biofilms ๐ฆ
Today's SFI Seminar by @JSMF Fellow @onuhgrrarrow (@ASU) on how the co-evolution of images and concepts has shaped human knowledge about biological entities like cells & biofilms ๐ฆ
"Scientific images are inseparable from the complex knowledge systems in which they emerge...images are intermediaries between researchers and their concepts."
- @onuhgrrarrow (@ASU), streaming now:
- @onuhgrrarrow (@ASU), streaming now:
"In the late 19th Century, the first biology textbooks were getting published. In them, all the images of cells were of *specific* cells. A little later the pictures are of slightly diagrammatic cells. Finally, fully diagrammatic."
- @onuhgrrarrow (@ASU):
- @onuhgrrarrow (@ASU):
I have been studying the future of science for 18 months now. In this thread, I will (slowly) list some of the insights gained thus far on the estimating of futures of science (EFS).
1. The goal of EFS is not so much to predict future discoveries and innovations as to (i) understand the structural features of the future, and (ii) critically engage with conceptions of science that shape the visions and actions for the future.
2. There are many interesting similarities between approaches in futures research and philosophy of science. For example, philosophy of science has provided insight similar to those provided by causal layered analysis (CLA).
