A group of philosophers and sociologists have come up with the idea to regularly poll scientists in order to establish and maintain a “scien...

Innovation is slowing, research productivity is declining, scientific work is becoming more disruptive. In this video I summarize what we kn...

[I didn't write the title and byline and indeed didn't see it until it appeared online.] For reasons I don’t fully understand, parti...

[This is a transcript of the video embedded below. Some of the explanations may not make sense without the animations in the video.] Sc...

The major purpose of the talk was to introduce our SciMeter project which I've been working on for a few years now with Tom Price and T...

Screenshot from Zoom meting. Image Source: Reshape . I live about 100 kilometers away from my workplace. A round trip takes at least 2 hours...

Today I want to talk about a topic that is much, much more important than anything I have previously talked about. And that’s how cognitive ...

downward spiral In the foundations of physics, we have not seen progress since the mid 1970s when the standard model of particle physics...

[image: theskillsfarm.com ] The task of scientists is to find useful descriptions for our observations. By useful I mean that the descri...

“Motte and bailey” is a rhetorical maneuver in which someone switches between an argument that does not support their conclusion but is ea...

Once upon a time, the task of scientists was to understand nature. “Merchants of Light,” Francis Bacon called them. They were a community ...

[slide 8 of this presentation ] Physics World recently interviewed the current director of CERN, Fabiola Gianotti . When asked how parti...

Gian-Francesco Giudice [Image: Wikipedia ] Gian-Francesco Giudice is a particle physicist and currently Head of the Theoretical Physics...

Jeremy Butterfield is a philosopher of science in Cambridge. I previously wrote about some of his work here , and have met him on various oc...