Berna Devezer
--A warrior, a scholar, a sage-- Uni of Idaho Assoc Prof • 🦣 @devezer@mastodon.social • @OnSailbatical
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Very sad to hear of Ian Hacking's passing. Here's a thread of mine on his Representing and Intervening. I have yet to read something from him that I didn't like or learn from. http...
So this preprint, titled "Rigorous exploration in a model-centric science via epistemic iteration" with Erkan Buzbas is now out. It is a long commentary on a target article by Patr...
One thing I've experienced many times myself and heard from several colleagues is that women scientists get often treated with disrespect, condescension, smugness, even contempt by...
Finally reading Hasok Chang's Is Water H2O? Evidence, Realism and Pluralism. Yet another sobering historical exposition against simplistic, fairy tale accounts of how science works...
@bayesianboy I worked at a department where bullying PhD students, Jr faculty, especially women and international scholars was a major pastime. I witnessed brilliant friends gettin...
New preprint "Minimum viable experiment to replicate" by Erkan & me. It's a short idea paper we wrote for a workshop and we hope to update it based on feedback for a volume in Minn...
Links to keynotes from our workshop "what makes a good theory?" by @o_guest @kaznatcheev @APotochnik @giosuebaggio @NeuroStats Patricia Rich and Sashank Varma are available to all...
“Philosophers long made a mummy of science.” Opening words of Hacking’s Representing and Intervening. Maybe this’ll be a thread too. Maybe not. Only if it inspires interesting tho...