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UW-Madison Medical History & Bioethics @mhbuwmad.bsky.social · 28d

We are co-sponsoring this event - make sure to attend!
Saving Hearts and Killing Rats: Karl Paul Link and the Discovery of Warfarin
Friends of the Libraries 2025 Annual Schewe Lecture
Thursday, September 25, 2025 | 5:00 – 7:00 PM
Steenbock Library
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Nicole C. Nelson @nicolecnelson.bsky.social · Aug 18

Happy to... I will get in touch over email!

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Nicole C. Nelson @nicolecnelson.bsky.social · Aug 18

I am happy to help with building a repository of oral histories, if folks are interested! I have an open human subjects protocol they could be collected under. @stuartbuck.bsky.social's post is also a good example of a self-archiving model for personal histories: bit.ly/4oESiL5

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Nicole C. Nelson @nicolecnelson.bsky.social · Aug 8

Thanks for the shout out @scurry.bsky.social!

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Sabina Leonelli @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social · Jul 15

Job Opening at the Chair of Philosophy and History of Science and Technology at TUM! Research Fellow for 3 years (renewable). Preferably philosopher w interest in plant, crop & agricultural research (& their history and social studies)
All details: www.sts.sot.tum.de/en/sts/arbei... #philsci #sts

Jobs

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Nicole C. Nelson @nicolecnelson.bsky.social · Jul 5

I had the pleasure of talking with @lucileveissier.bsky.social at #metascience2025 about what metascience is, how reproducibility problems rose to public attention, and more!

Lucile Veissier @lucileveissier.bsky.social · Jul 4

Suite à la conférence #metascience2025, mon interview de l'historienne des sciences @nicolecnelson.bsky.social à lire dans @themeta.news !

#VeilleESR #metascience

𝖳𝗁𝖾𝖬𝖾𝗍𝖺𝖭𝖾𝗐𝗌 @themeta.news · Jul 4

🟢 Aux origines de la metascience

Comment améliorer la science alors même qu'elle est attaquée ? Retour sur l'histoire du mouvement de la #metascience avec l'historienne des sciences Nicole Nelson

themeta.news/nicole-nelson/

#VeilleESR #metascience2025

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Nicole C. Nelson @nicolecnelson.bsky.social · Jul 3

Really sorry to have missed your panel... unfortunately my talk was scheduled at the same time!

Nicole C. Nelson @nicolecnelson.bsky.social · Jul 2

Her talk was 🔥🔥🔥

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Nicole C. Nelson @nicolecnelson.bsky.social · Jul 1

We Canadians should all find each other for Canada day drinks!

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Sabina Leonelli @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social · Jun 25

#OpenScience lobbyists, skeptics and everything in between: consider coming to Munich in May 2026 (gorgeous time to visit..) to discuss the future of Open Research!

FOR2026 is open for submissions: opensciencestudies.eu/for-2026-con... pls help spread the word 🙏 #philsci #sts #methods #policy 🧪

FOR 2026 Conference – A Philosophy of Open Science for Diverse Research Environments

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Nicole C. Nelson @nicolecnelson.bsky.social · Jun 11

Wanaka Suzuki has a nice article on Japanese practices around research animals in SSS! journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Improvising care: Managing experimental animals at a Japanese laboratory - Wakana Suzuki1, 2021

Japanese scientists and technicians are expected to adhere to international standards of humane animal experimentation, but their understandings of human-animal...

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Nicole C. Nelson @nicolecnelson.bsky.social · May 29

This depressing thought is perhaps my sign to now get off social media and go to the gym! 😂

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Nicole C. Nelson @nicolecnelson.bsky.social · May 29

Maybe @briannosek.bsky.social is right that we just have to embrace the chaos, but I find myself leaning more towards @avastmachine.bsky.social 's view that "hypertransparency" could be paralyzing for the scientific system as it currently exists (and which I very much want to survive!)

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Nicole C. Nelson @nicolecnelson.bsky.social · May 29

I am with you in worry ❤️ And to argue against myself @avastmachine.bsky.social's work on climate science shows at least a few hopeful case where adversarial data collection/reanalysis does at least somewhat quell disputes between skeptics and mainstreamers: www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...

Knowledge infrastructures under siege | 2 | Climate data as memory, tr

Both trust in climate knowledge and the truth it delivers descend from the organizational routines and truces necessary to share and maintain climate data.

www.taylorfrancis.com

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Nicole C. Nelson @nicolecnelson.bsky.social · May 29

Oh, I definitely don't think that restricted access is the right solution, but I also don't think that data no longer matters. I've been really convinced by Becky Mansfield's analysis of the first Trump EPA, curious to hear what you think of it! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Deregulatory science: Chemical risk analysis in Trump’s EPA - Becky Mansfield, 2021

While critics cast the Trump administration as anti-science, requiring in response vigorous defense of science, analysis of the Trump EPA reveals instead a stra...

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Nicole C. Nelson @nicolecnelson.bsky.social · May 29

I don't disagree with you... EOs like this could be used to exclude! But the historian in me sees a longer pattern where commentators tend to point out the "shutting down" risks and not their inverse. @naomioreskes.bsky.social's 2018 piece is another example: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Beware: transparency rule is a Trojan Horse

Like tobacco lobbyists and climate-change deniers, the US Environmental Protection Agency is co-opting scientific trappings to sow doubt, warns Naomi Oreskes.

www.nature.com

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Nicole C. Nelson @nicolecnelson.bsky.social · May 29

Yep, I agree... IMHO it's expedient but unprincipled to try to shut down policy debates by excluding studies or people from the debate, but I have deep worries about what we do with the chaos that could ensue from that kind of true openness.

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Nicole C. Nelson @nicolecnelson.bsky.social · May 29

Yeah, the so-called Shelby amendment, which made access to research data produced with federal funding available via FOIA request, is named after Alabama Republican Senator Richard Shelby. It was a response to Harvard's refusal to give access to an important data set. An uncomfortable history :-/

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Nicole C. Nelson @nicolecnelson.bsky.social · May 29

*above :)

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Nicole C. Nelson @nicolecnelson.bsky.social · May 29

Yep, in the preprint linked about we talk about access to two key studies (Harvard's Six Cities study and the American Cancer Society's CPS-II study) that have been the subject of decades long access disputes and the basis for important PM2.5 air pollution regulation

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Nicole C. Nelson @nicolecnelson.bsky.social · May 29

You can read more here about this history and my take (along with my excellent students @bennettmcintosh.com and Kelsey Ichikawa) on why adjudicating between competing analyses is likely to be difficult, time consuming work: osf.io/preprints/me...

OSF

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Nicole C. Nelson @nicolecnelson.bsky.social · May 29

Calling the Trump EO "fool's gold" and the like may feel like a pithy way of maintaining a preserve of "genuine" open science advocacy, but this boundary making is exactly the kind of exclusionary practice that has galvanized dissident scientists and motivated them to keep showing up.

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Nicole C. Nelson @nicolecnelson.bsky.social · May 29

The difference is important because access to data is increasing with or without the specific laws/policies that Republicans have championed. Adversarial reanalysis is likely to become more of a feature of our scientific/political landscape, and we don't have great tools to deal with it.

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Nicole C. Nelson @nicolecnelson.bsky.social · May 29

*That* is what conservative advocacy for open science is about... enabling the production of "deregulatory science", as Becky Mansfield calls it, rather than enabling the exclusion of existing science. The end goal (deregulation) may be the same, but the mechanism is importantly different.

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Nicole C. Nelson @nicolecnelson.bsky.social · May 29

For 30 some years, Republicans have recognized that they are under-gunned when it comes to regulatory science disputes because they don't have access to the large scale, longitudinal studies with which good science is made. And so they've been trying to pry open that can to get access to that data.

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