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After two really enjoyable days at #Metascience2025, I wrote about how one 🌶️ moment encapsulated the controversy over metascience's issues 📑, inclusivity 🤗and future public value 🔮 #STS #AcademicSky
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July 4, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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thanks to and more for all your contributions on this 🙏
Thanks for the report on what was a troubling moment. For me the lesson was that the Metascience ‘discourse coalition’ absolutely has to question/critique the shifting power dynamics as more private organisations enter the open science space. And associated questions of trust. 1/2
Those issues did surface from time to time during #metascience2025 but the next meeting in 2027 I’d like to see even more time & scope in the programme for debate and ‘constructive confrontation’ of the chewier topics. 2/2
I spoke to the Q'er afterwards, as part of the panel where he and others presented their work on (and this is my synergetic attempt at their collective work, not their language) how language, claims, facts and expectations travel through countries and communities and acquire new meaning there. 1/2
We need to take care, collectively, not to allow a few dominant actors to impose social, political and economic conditions in which this process of meaning-making is captured for their benefit. 2/2