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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 🙏
Following this 👆
…new Jacobin article clarifies the massive exploitation and extraction built into #AI’s current trajectory 📉
This needs to be front and centre of any public discussion of the technology’s potential benefits 🧐 jacobin.com/2025/07/altm...
#AcademicSky
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
Thanks for amplifying this tension, apparently realised starkly on day 2 (I'd left just before). Along these lines, the session on critical metascience on day 1 was great but inadvertently set out a simplistic dichotomy of pro/anti MS (as called out by ). 1/2
As people working in research, I'd argue that it's literally our job to critically analyse the field; to acknowledge and challenge power imbalances. The critical should be inherent in the movement/ self-styled discourse coalition. 2/2
Reform began as a critique of the status quo. The irony that It will now brook no arguments is evident to most.