Rhodri Leng
@rleng.bsky.social
Lecturer in Science, Technology, and Innovation Studies at the University of Edinburgh. Author of The Matter of Facts https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262043885/the-matter-of-facts/
If you haven’t read it already, take a skim over Merton’s 1938 ‘Science and Social Order’. I stumbled across it again last semester when preparing a lecture on science funding and priority setting.
Science and the Social Order on JSTOR
Robert K. Merton, Science and the Social Order, Philosophy of Science, Vol. 5, No. 3 (Jul., 1938), pp. 321-337
www.jstor.org
January 27, 2025 at 6:40 PM
If you haven’t read it already, take a skim over Merton’s 1938 ‘Science and Social Order’. I stumbled across it again last semester when preparing a lecture on science funding and priority setting.
A bit dated now, but my students tend to enjoy ‘An Introduction to Science and Technology Studies’ by Sergio Sismondo www.wiley.com/en-gb/An+Int...
Steve Yearley’s ‘Making Sense of Science’ is also a lovely read and also goes down well. sk.sagepub.com/book/mono/ma...
Steve Yearley’s ‘Making Sense of Science’ is also a lovely read and also goes down well. sk.sagepub.com/book/mono/ma...
An Introduction to Science and Technology Studies, 2nd Edition
<i>An Introduction to Science and Technology Studies, Second Edition</i> reflects the latest advances in the field while continuing to provide students with a road map to the complex interdisciplin...
www.wiley.com
January 13, 2025 at 8:05 AM
A bit dated now, but my students tend to enjoy ‘An Introduction to Science and Technology Studies’ by Sergio Sismondo www.wiley.com/en-gb/An+Int...
Steve Yearley’s ‘Making Sense of Science’ is also a lovely read and also goes down well. sk.sagepub.com/book/mono/ma...
Steve Yearley’s ‘Making Sense of Science’ is also a lovely read and also goes down well. sk.sagepub.com/book/mono/ma...
Love the "It doesn't work like that" theme. It would also work very nicely for a special issue examining common misconceptions about science...
January 12, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Love the "It doesn't work like that" theme. It would also work very nicely for a special issue examining common misconceptions about science...
Ah great, can I join?
December 4, 2024 at 6:50 PM
Ah great, can I join?
But also just a little over an hour since my first grant rejection since returning to academia. Funders should contemplate consolation lollipops #metascience
November 27, 2024 at 6:42 PM
But also just a little over an hour since my first grant rejection since returning to academia. Funders should contemplate consolation lollipops #metascience
Bem-AI, just what science needs…
September 18, 2024 at 7:37 PM
Bem-AI, just what science needs…