Call for abstracts to NanoBubbles panels at 4S/EASST

Are you interested in the role of hype or ignorance, replications, metrics regimes, or epistemic activists in science correction? Have a look at the call for abstracts to our panels at 4S/EASST, which takes place in Amsterdam from July 16-19, 2024. This open panel aims to address a) how hype and other factors encourage scientists to make erroneous or even fraudulent claims and discourage error correction; and, conversely, b) how, when, and why scientists do attempt to correct errors.  We invite interested researchers to explore questions that may include, but are not limited to, the following topics:

• Field transformations through hype and ignorance
  • the formation and bursting of bubbles
  • hype around emerging technologies and converging fields
  • the creation of sites of ignorance
• Metric regimes and epistemic activism
  • metrics of evaluation in science or academia
  • the influence of science-based movements in research integrity
  • whistleblowing  in the scientific or academic field
  • post-production manipulation, evaluation, and correction
• Situating replications in the 21st century
  • replication practices in contemporary transdisciplines
  • insights into institutionalized replication projects
  • ways of historicizing the ‘reproducibility crisis’
  • (mis)use of problems with reproducibility in (climate) denialism
• Obstacles for scientific (self-)correction in academia and industry
  • publication biases and registered reports
  • the role of editors in correcting the scientific literature
  • corporate conflicts of interest

The 250-words abstract would need to be submitted on the conference page until February 12, 2024. We look forward to receiving your abstract and collaborating at 4S/EASST!