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Joy Zhang @joyzhang.bsky.social · 7d

Absolutely intellectually spoiled these past 2 days! At ‘A New Odyssey for Public Engagement’ in London, leading thinkers in science, diplomacy & public engagement from 4 continents came together to explore how the ODESSI framework (doi.org/10.5281/zeno...) can guide global dialogues on science 🌍✨

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Critical Zone News @cznews.bsky.social · 23d

From epistemology to ontology to politics, community-based approaches reveal that knowledge is not singular. Partial overlaps, not binaries, guide how communities understand and act. Transformative Transdisciplinarity argues for a philosophy of science rooted in agency and diversity: bit.ly/4gswVsU

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David Ludwig @davidludwig.bsky.social · 28d

“Transformative Transdisciplinarity. An Introduction to Community-Based Philosophy” is out with Oxford University Press! I’m actually pretty proud of this book. It’s Open Access, so feel free to share fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/...

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Holger Kiik @holgerkiik.bsky.social · Jun 10

Cheeky title, lively examples & points.
E.g. on epistemic justice and it's relationship with 3 dimensions of social justice- distribution, recognition & representation. Epistemic extraction. Not reductionism to economic inequality!

by David Ludwig @davidludwig.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1080/0269...

It’s a Shame That You Can’t Afford Rent, But We Can Offer Epistemic Compensation. On Relating Epistemic and Social Justice

Reflecting on the rapid growth of epistemic injustice scholarship, this article proposes an ‘active alignment account’ for relating epistemic and social justice. The account contains both critical ...

doi.org

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David Ludwig @davidludwig.bsky.social · Apr 11

Awww, thanks! I feel it's all still quite clumsy and I'm mostly confused myself - but yeah: fun times experimenting with "doing philosophy differently" :)

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David Ludwig @davidludwig.bsky.social · Apr 11

"'The people of Techiman eat Teporo': migrant farming and epistemic pluralism in Forikrom, Ghana" - our new article explores knowledge diversity beyond the simple divide of scientific vs. local knowledge. Unfortunately not OA yet but happy to share the paper. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

“The people of Techiman eat Teporo”: migrant farming and epistemic pluralism in Forikrom, Ghana - Agriculture and Human Values

Local knowledges of farmers often remain marginalized in wider agricultural development interventions. Scholars, practitioners and non-profit organisations have stressed the importance of including fa...

link.springer.com

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David Ludwig @davidludwig.bsky.social · Apr 4

Exciting times for philosophy of economics

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Anita Välikangas @anikangas.bsky.social · Apr 2

Defended my doctoral dissertation on grand challenges and research policy yesterday. Such a wonderful day! Big thanks to opponent @davidludwig.bsky.social and custos @ustagan10.bsky.social & all who joined! 🌸🌷💖

Doctoral defence, with opponent, custos and me - opponent speaking to the audience and me looking at the opponent.

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David Ludwig @davidludwig.bsky.social · Mar 25

This looks great - thanks for sharing! I just ordered the book for our library, and looking forward to reading it

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David Ludwig @davidludwig.bsky.social · Mar 25

The cited papers/books by @lastpositivist.bsky.social @kylewhyte.bsky.social @gscoulthard.bsky.social & @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social have been helpful in shaping my thoughts on this - thanks :)

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David Ludwig @davidludwig.bsky.social · Mar 25

"It’s a shame that you can’t afford rent, but we can offer epistemic compensation." - my paper on relating epistemic and social justice is out. Mostly written as self-therapy, struggling with my own scholarship. But we also need a broader discussion on ways forward in "epistemic injustice" debates.

It’s a Shame That You Can’t Afford Rent, But We Can Offer Epistemic Compensation. On Relating Epistemic and Social Justice

Reflecting on the rapid growth of epistemic injustice scholarship, this article proposes an ‘active alignment account’ for relating epistemic and social justice. The account contains both critical ...

www.tandfonline.com

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David Ludwig @davidludwig.bsky.social · Mar 21

Join us in Newcastle for the "Understanding Science Co-Creation in Climate and Environmental Research" conference 19-20 June!

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David Ludwig @davidludwig.bsky.social · Feb 18

If you're in the Netherlands, join us for this little "political economy/ecology meets political epistemology/ontology" event next Monday afternoon, 24 Feb

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David Ludwig @davidludwig.bsky.social · Feb 3

you're already on the list :)

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David Ludwig @davidludwig.bsky.social · Jan 24

Agree - I didn't mean to suggest that current funding priorities are in the public interest. They are often evidently not. What can be disentangled & quantified though: whether public funding priorities change or whether they disappear in a privatized model of commodified research. Guess we'll see.

David Ludwig @davidludwig.bsky.social · Jan 24

Agree with everything in the thread but the issue of the day seems less about public control of scientific priorities but about the eradication of public interest science in a vision of fully commodified research?

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David Ludwig @davidludwig.bsky.social · Jan 21

Epistemic diversity is great but often becomes reduced to a superficial management & mainstreaming tool. Excited that the lovely magazine _Science for the People_ published our little article "Reclaiming Epistemic Diversity. Between Community Struggles and Corporate Capture"

Reclaiming Epistemic Diversity • SftP Magazine

magazine.scienceforthepeople.org

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David Ludwig @davidludwig.bsky.social · Jan 14

German Research Foundation DFG closing its Twitter account and landing here. Every day, bluesky seems to become a little bit more attractive & useful. At least as a nerdy hangout for academics.

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft @dfg.de · Jan 14

Hallo Bluesky!
Wir sind die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. #DFG Als Selbstverwaltungsorganisation der #Wissenschaft in Deutschland fördern wir erkenntnisgeleitete #Forschung. Hier erhaltet Ihr Infos u.a. zu Förderangeboten, Ausschreibungen und Anträgen. Wir freuen uns auf den Austausch!

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David Ludwig @davidludwig.bsky.social · Jan 4

If you're in Belgium, join us for this nice seminar with David Azupogo (Millar Insitute, Ghana) on "Doing Development. Epistemic Justice and the Integration of Indigenous and Local Knowledge in Research and development." in Ghent on Jan 9.

Event poster - "Doing Development", 9 Jan, University of Ghent

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David Ludwig @davidludwig.bsky.social · Jan 4

2025 is a great year to get into transdisciplinary & participatory action research. Reposting this starter pack I made a while a ago, full of awesome researchers

David Ludwig @davidludwig.bsky.social · Nov 25

I made a starter pack for transdisciplinary & participatory action research. Please share and let me know who else to add (including yourself, maybe) go.bsky.app/DBBkc6g

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David Ludwig @davidludwig.bsky.social · Dec 27

Back home in Berlin for the winter holidays and for evening walks at the Schlachtensee

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David Ludwig @davidludwig.bsky.social · Dec 19

My favorite news headline today. I'm imagining an investigative Bloomberg journalist unmasking the sinister union plot: "We'll make it look like an effort to improve labor conditions but what we truly desire is to disrupt Christmas! 🎄"

Bloomberg article with headline "Amazon Is Targeted by Teamsters Union in Effort to Disrupt Christmas"

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David Ludwig @davidludwig.bsky.social · Dec 18

Apparently, more work went into it as the website actually says quite a bit on its methodology and even open sourced its algorithm. So better as a slide for the talk on "algorithmic bullshit" than "AI bullshit" 😅 thegreatestbooks.org/rankings

Ranking Details

The Ranking Details of The Greatest Books of All Time

thegreatestbooks.org

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David Ludwig @davidludwig.bsky.social · Dec 18

thegreatestbooks.org casually putting Hitler's Mein Kampf on Nr. 28 of the greatest German books of all time between Thomas Mann & Max Weber is not what I was looking for...

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David Ludwig @davidludwig.bsky.social · Dec 17

I did not notice! Now I have to travel back to Edinburgh and double-check :)

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