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Love & Philosophy#64: Complimentary Science & the Lure of Convenience with philosopher of technology Sabina Leonelli (Fotis Tsiroukis)Send a love message Give Sabina Leonelli (hosted live here by Fotis Tsiroukis) is a philosopher of science and technology renowned for pioneering work in the philosophy of data & open science. As a professor at the Technical University ofMunich (TUM), she directs the Ethical Data Initiative and leads the PHIL_OS project, which develops empirically grounded frameworks for open science in under-resourced research environments. Her interdisciplinary approach bridges high theory with participatory, on-the-ground research—exemplified by her ethnographic collaborations with biologists and data scientists.In this episode, host Fotis engages in a deep and...
2025-07-091h 25
RSam PodcastThe Philosophy of Data (w/ Sabina Leonelli & Vlasta Sikimić)Prof Sabina Leonelli is a philosopher of science and professor at the Technical University of Munich. She is well known for her work on scientific practices, data-centric science, and open science policies. She was awarded the 2018 Lakatos Award for her book 'Data-Centric Biology: A Philosophical Study.' Prof Leonelli is a leading figure in the philosophy of data and technology and the philosophy of Open Science.
Dr Vlasta Sikimić is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Science and a member of the Philosophy and Ethics group at Eindhoven University of Technology. Her research focus is...
2025-01-041h 31
The HPS Podcast - Conversations from History, Philosophy and Social Studies of ScienceS4 Ep 12 - Joshua Eisenthal et al. on 'Philosophy of Science in Practice'Today we have not one, not two, but five fabulous guests who all presented at this year’s conference for the Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice, or SPSP24 for short. Many philosophers of science we have featured on the podcast, including Hasok Chang, Rachel Ankeny and Sabina Leonelli, were founding members of SPSP. Also, our earlier episode on ‘The Turn to Practice’ in philosophy of science has been one of our most popular. Therefore, it seemed an obvious decision to dedicate our final episode of the season to hearing from some of those doing current work in...
2024-12-0528 min
The HPS Podcast - Conversations from History, Philosophy and Social Studies of ScienceS3 Ep 12 - Sabina Leonelli on 'The Philosophy of Open Science'Our guest today is Professor of Philosophy and History of Science at the University of Exeter, Sabina Leonelli. Sabina recently released a book in the Cambridge Elements Philosophy of Science series on The Philosophy of Open Science. In her book, Sabina offers a stimulating perspective on the Open Science movement, discussing both its strengths and some of its unintended downsides, including constraining academic diversity and worsening epistemic injustices in some cases.In this episode, Sabina talks about her own wide-ranging experience with Open Science initiatives and the shift in perspective she would like to see across the...
2024-05-2939 min
Agile RabbitHow safe is Artificial Intelligence?Professor Sabina Leonelli, Professor Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh, Professor Anthony King, Rebecca Kesby.
Whether it’s a deepfake of Taylor Swift or Rishi Sunak’s summit at Bletchley Park, news about Artificial Intelligence seems unescapable. And it’s accelerating at an unprecedented rate. With a group of world experts, we’re getting behind the headlines to look at what’s really happening in AI safety, particularly the role that law and politics play in providing regulation and reassurance.
The AI landscape is complex, ranging from positive impacts such as healthcare advances to those more negative that affect real-life opportunities and services. So...
2024-04-0330 min
Ricercati. Storie dei cervelli italiani nel mondo - Intesa Sanpaolo On AirIl progresso scientifico è sempre una buona cosa?Pensiamo all'intelligenza artificiale. Ma anche le modificazioni genetiche, così come agli interventi biomedici. Viviamo in un mondo dove la tecnologia e la scienza hanno un’enorme ricaduta sociale. Sabina Leonelli insegna Filosofia e Storia della Scienza all'Università di Exeter e ci racconta come ogni nuova conquista comporti nuove domande. Quali di queste tecnologie vanno spinte e su quali potremmo magari frenare?
2024-02-0118 min
The HPS Podcast - Conversations from History, Philosophy and Social Studies of ScienceS2 Ep 1 - Rachel Ankeny on 'Research Repertoires'"That's what ‘repertoires’ is trying to force philosophers to look at - that whole ecosystem that encompasses the doing of science." Prof. Rachel Ankeny We start season 2 with the wonderful Rachel Ankeny discussing scientific change and the concept of research repertoires.Rachel is professor of History and Philosophy at the University of Adelaide, with wide ranging expertise across HPS, bioethics and science policy, as well as food studies. Rachel is also editor in chief of the journal Studies in History and Philosophy of Science and is past president of the International Society for the H...
2023-10-0428 min
Agile RabbitCan I Trust Science?CAN I TRUST SCIENCE?
From anti-vaxxers to climate deniers, not everyone trusts science. A special live event with a panel of international experts to look at why there is mistrust and positive antidotes to deal with it.
This discussion explores the Open Science movement, which is sweeping the globe promoting practices to make science more transparent and less biassed.
One method is sharing data – that increases trust through openness and accelerates the quality of research. There are hurdles to sharing data: who owns it, how it’s arranged, and the motivation of scientists when their careers are driven by publishing resu...
2023-04-2755 min
Colloques et journées d'études des AHPHow Big Data affect understandings of biomedical evidence ? (Sabina Leonelli)Colloque « Objectivité, Big Data et médecine/ Objectivité graphique en sciences »
Jeudi 15 Décembre 2022
Sabina Leonelli (Exeter Centre for the Study of the Life Sciences (Egenis), University, of Exeter), “How Big Data affect understandings of biomedical evidence ?”
2022-12-1900 min
Drug Safety Matters#19 Lessons in pandemic pharmacovigilance – Elena RoccaSend a text message to the show!The COVID-19 pandemic forced pharmacovigilance experts to revisit their processes to deal with unprecedented volumes of data and catch unexpected safety issues. Elena Rocca from Oslo Metropolitan University reviews the challenges of a global healthcare emergency – and what it can teach us about the science of drug safety.Tune in to find out:How to handle uncertain evidenceWhy clinical expertise matters in the age of big dataWhy pharmacovigilance requires interdisciplinary thinking Want to know more?In the article that inspired thi...
2022-12-1533 min
INGSA HorizonsA cacophony of evidence - Daniel Sarewitz and Sabina LeonelliFeaturing:Prof Daniel Sarewitz, Emeritus Professor, Arizona State UniversityProf Sabina Leonelli, Philosophy and History of Science, University of ExeterEven before the pandemic, the role that robust knowledge and experts played in our democracies was a complicated one. Technology, globalisation, demographic change, and other major shifts in all of our lives feel like they have been moving faster than the collective processes we put in place to understand and deal with them as societies. The solutions to these issues are likely to be as complicated as the problems.Prof Daniel Sarewitz has been...
2022-01-1046 min
Campus Fryslân - GlobalCastGlobal Cast - Data and Society - a critical introduction by two authorsIn this episode we discuss the brand new book : Data and Society: A Critical Introduction. Our guests and authors of the book, Sabina Leonelli and Anne Beaulieu will give a short introduction on this topic and the reason why they wrote it. This book investigates the growing importance of data as a technological, social, economic and scientific resource. It explains how data practices have come to underpin all aspects of human life and explores what this means for those directly involved in handling data. It might be clear that (big) data are part of our eve...
2021-12-0926 min
CABTalks by SynthaceCABTalk S2E8: Scaling Biotech with Jesse JohnsonJesse Johnson is head of Data Science and Data Engineering at Dewpoint Therapeutics, an R&D-stage biotech startup, and the author of the Scaling Biotech blog where he pursues his goal to find ways to scale biotech research platforms through better software and organizational design.
In this episode of CAB Talk, we discuss Jesse's framework for scaling biotech, explore the three big trade-offs of Cost vs Reliability, Immediacy vs Generality, and Flexibility vs Consistency, and touch on how we can better communicate the need for computer-aided biology.
FYI - the book Jesse mentions is Data-Centric...
2021-09-3044 min
Open Source, Privacy, Data, Ethics, AI, etcWho's afraid of data misuse? - Panel Discussion, #SciData19Grace Baynes moderates the panel discussion entitled 'Who's afraid of Data Misuse?' at Better Science through Better Data 2019.
The panelists are:
Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye, Imperial College London
Sabina Leonelli, University of Exeter
Shel...
2019-12-3000 min
Information EcosystemsSabina LeonelliThe interviewee in this episode is Dr. Sabina Leonelli. The interviewer is Jane Rohrer. The website for the seminar can be found at https://infoecosystems.pitt.edu, where listeners can find a calendar of public events from September 2019 to May 2020. Our blog can be found at https://medium.com/information-ecosystems, and our Twitter account is @Info_Ecosystems. Dr. Leonelli's website is https://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/sociology/staff/leonelli/. She can be also found on Twitter at @SabinaLeonelli. This episode was recorded on November 15, 2019. The podcast team includes Jane Rohrer, Sarah Reiff Conell, S...
2019-12-2025 min
The ORION Open Science PodcastPlan S: Solution or Short-sightedness?Episode Summary:
In this episode we are discussing Plan S. Plan S is a new approach to Open Science publishing; an initiative which would require researchers receiving funding from state and EU funding to publish fully open access. Our interview guest will be Professor Sabina Leonelli who is closely involved with researching and advising on Open Science issues, and who has co-authored a statement on Plan S from the Global Young Academy. We will cover what Plan S is, the potential positives and negatives of Plan S, and the difficulties in making changes to research structures.
2019-02-2133 min
Technoculture#13 The Open Science movementSabina Leonelli is an expert in Open Science, a movement that promotes 'openness', transparency, participation, and innovation in science. She is professor of philosophy and history of science at the university of Exeter in the UK, and her research focuses on big data for discovery, the challenges involved in the extraction of knowledge from digital infrastructure, and the role of the open science movement within current landscapes of knowledge production.
2018-12-1645 min
New Books in Biology and EvolutionSabina Leonelli, “Data-Centric Biology: A Philosophical Study” (U Chicago Press, 2016)Commentators have been forecasting the eclipse of hypothesis-driven science and the rise of a new ‘data-driven’ science for some time now. Harkening back to the aspirations of Enlightenment empiricists, who sought to establish for the collection of sense data what astronomers had done for the movements of heavenly bodies, they appeal to a general consensus that the acceleration of data collection through computing technologies requires a parallel shift toward computational thinking. This raises the question, however, of how computational practices have changed over the last few decades. Sabina Leonelli’s Data-Centric Biology: A Philosophical Study (U of Chicago Press, 2016) is the fi...
2018-07-2741 min
The University of Chicago Press PodcastSabina Leonelli, “Data-Centric Biology: A Philosophical Study” (U Chicago Press, 2016)Commentators have been forecasting the eclipse of hypothesis-driven science and the rise of a new ‘data-driven’ science for some time now. Harkening back to the aspirations of Enlightenment empiricists, who sought to establish for the collection of sense data what astronomers had done for the movements of heavenly bodies, they appeal to a general consensus that the acceleration of data collection through computing technologies requires a parallel shift toward computational thinking. This raises the question, however, of how computational practices have changed over the last few decades. Sabina Leonelli’s Data-Centric Biology: A Philosophical Study (U of Chicago Press, 2016) is the fi...
2018-07-2741 min
New Books in ScienceSabina Leonelli, “Data-Centric Biology: A Philosophical Study” (U Chicago Press, 2016)Commentators have been forecasting the eclipse of hypothesis-driven science and the rise of a new ‘data-driven’ science for some time now. Harkening back to the aspirations of Enlightenment empiricists, who sought to establish for the collection of sense data what astronomers had done for the movements of heavenly bodies, they... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/science
2018-07-2741 min
The Centre for the Study of Existential RiskSabina Leonelli - 29 January 2018 - How to (Re)Use Big DataThis public lecture is organised by the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk.
Abstract
Big data bring great opportunities for both understanding the complex world we live in and making our lives better—but they are also ripe for misuse. In many areas of science increasingly powerful technologies allow researchers to generate a whole lot of data, which are then disseminated via digital databases. Having heaps of data available online sounds great, but it raises real problems. How are we to explore and make sense of this enormous quantity of data? Philosophers have had a lot to say about ho...
2018-02-081h 04
NouveautésWhat Difference Does Quantity Make ? On the Epistemology of Big Data in BiologySabina LEONELLI, University of Exeter
2014-02-2048 min
Sciences sociales et politiquesWhat Difference Does Quantity Make ? On the Epistemology of Big Data in BiologySabina LEONELLI, University of Exeter
2014-02-2000 min
SAGE MASTER LISTBSTS: Why the Current Insistence on Open Access to Scientific Data? Big Data, Knowledge Production, and the Political Economy of Contemporary BiologyAuthor Sabina Leonelli discusses her article in the Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society
2013-09-2500 min