A philosopher and a historian meet in a Geisterbahn... ...and give no ibids. At #Prater with @beccajackson.bsky.social #Vienna #Wienliebe

Guest lecture tomorrow in #Vienna with @beccajackson.bsky.social! #HistMed #HPS #HistSTM

Hanna Lucia Worliczek@hworliczek.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We are excited to have @beccajackson.bsky.social as a guest speaker in the HoSK research colloquium: Why Study Nonstandard Measuring Practices? The Case of 20th Century Cervimetry. June 16 11:30h HS2, Währingerstr. 29, 1090 Wien @fakzen-thks.bsky.social @univie.ac.at #HistMed #HPS #HistSTM 1/2

Don't miss this exciting talk by @beccajackson.bsky.social in beautiful Vienna, organized by the Chair of History of Medicine and the Biosciences! #HistMed #HPS #HistSTM 2/2

🎚️[Turns excitement-level up to 11] My brilliant colleague Dr Rebecca Jackson @beccajackson.bsky.social is co-editing this collection on the philosophical, historical and cultural dynamics of measurement. Do consider submitting a chapter proposal! 🎚️

Durham Institute for Medical Humanities@durhamimh.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🚨 Call for Abstracts: The New Measurement Heretics We welcome proposals from researchers in the philosophy, history, sociology, and anthropology of measurement who would like to address themes around formal & informal measurement concepts ⚖️ Find out more 👇 medhumsplatform.org/call-for-abs...

In March we hosted ‘Measurement Heretics: Being, Meaning and Measuring Well’. Organiser @beccajackson.bsky.social reviews of this international workshop which brought together researchers to rewrite the story of what it means to measure 📏 ⚖️ Read the recap 👇

95 Measurement Theses: A Creative Output of the Measurement Heretics Workshop

Rebecca Jackson recaps the three-day workshop Measurement Heretics: Being, Meaning and Measuring Well.

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In today's AIP History Weekly Edition @janpotters.bsky.social looks at Tom Kuhn's frustrations interviewing ~100 physicists for the landmark Sources for History of Quantum Physics project. An important lesson in what we want from oral history and what it can give us. 📷Niels Bohr & Homer Dodge #HPS

“Why would you expect me to remember that?” Thomas Kuhn and the uses of oral history

AIP History Weekly Edition: April 3, 2026

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How big is a ‘drop’? 💧 @beccajackson.bsky.social, Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Measurement Lab and the Affective Experience Lab, recently co-authored a prize-winning paper on the story of the non-standard unit of a 'drop'. Read the paper: medhumsplatform.org/the-drop-and...

The drop and the metric system: how an unruly unit survived revolutions

A recently published paper co-authored by PDRA Rebecca Jackson has won the Trevor Levere Best Paper Prize.

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Researcher Meg Briers participates in Brewing Minds in Vagabund Brauerei Kesselhaus! "Women Who Chased The Sun" deals with hidden & forgotten figures of 19th-century astronomical expeditions. 🗓️ Mar 18 (18:30–21:30) 📍 Oudenarder Str. 16–20 (Berlin) 🔗 bit.ly/4u3ASd 🎫 10.90–45.00€ #HistSci #Astronomy

"Is there any “middle-way” between rigor and relevance, or is one always at the expense of the other?"

Rebecca Jackson, PhD@beccajackson.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Excited to host the Measurement Heretics Workshop: Being Meaning and Measuring Well on March 11-13, at the Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham University. The keynote will be hybrid so register for this free event! @durhamimh.bsky.social #histsci #histmed #hps #philsci #medhums #histtech #sts

This is going to be brilliant. I can't wait to discuss all things measurement with this incredible line up of speakers!!

Rebecca Jackson, PhD@beccajackson.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Excited to host the Measurement Heretics Workshop: Being Meaning and Measuring Well on March 11-13, at the Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham University. The keynote will be hybrid so register for this free event! @durhamimh.bsky.social #histsci #histmed #hps #philsci #medhums #histtech #sts

Excited to host the Measurement Heretics Workshop: Being Meaning and Measuring Well on March 11-13, at the Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham University. The keynote will be hybrid so register for this free event! @durhamimh.bsky.social #histsci #histmed #hps #philsci #medhums #histtech #sts

Measurement Heretics Workshop: Being, Meaning, and Measuring Well

This 3-day workshop brings together international & interdisciplinary perspectives to guide the future of ethical, meaningful health data.

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OUT NOW: The highly controversial issue of Psychological Inquiry (Vol. 36, Issue 4) is live! Are we rethinking everything we know about autism? In our newest target article, @travislacroix.bsky.social argues that the "Theory of Mind" paradigm in #autism research is actually pseudoscience. 🧠 🧵👇

New publication! Our v. own @beccajackson.bsky.social discusses the racial history of the Apgar Score – a score assigned to infants one minute after birth. Find out more: medhumsplatform.org/the-apgar-sc...

Welcome and congratulations to @beccajackson.bsky.social, who joins us as a Postdoctoral Research Associate 🥳 Rebecca was previously a Bridging Fellow, and we are excited to continue working with her. Read about her upcoming work in this written interview 👇 medhumsplatform.org/welcoming-re...

Welcoming Rebecca Jackson: New Postdoctoral Research Associate

Read our interview with Rebecca Jackson, previously a Bridging Fellow and now a PDRA in the Affective Experience and the Measurement Lab.

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Huge congratulations to my dear & brilliant friend Sebastian on his thesis defence today, "Values in psychosocial measurement". It's been a privilege to be a part of this journey, Dr. Duque! 🤍 #philsci @erantal.bsky.social

Weighing in at 827 pages and 2 1/4 inches, our Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the 19th Century is HERE! Huge thanks to @oupphilosophy.bsky.social and our 50+ authors. Restoring women to the philosophical canon is a matter of justice, but it is also better scholarship!

Join us for this free online event to discuss the meaning, limits, and prospects of assigning numbers to the social and natural world. All online with free registration. #philsci #philsky #histsci #sts #histtech #sociology

Eran Tal@erantal.bsky.social · last yr.

Onilne workshop on quantification! The Society for the Study of Measurement is delighted to host an event on the philosophy, sociology, and history of quantification across the sciences on August 9. Free with registration. #philsci #philsky #histsci #histtech #sts #sociology 🧪 tinyurl.com/5rn7p7sk

Do you love socio-material approaches to reproductive history? Come check out the special issue of Bulletin of the History of Medicine I’m in. My paper is on the history of centimeters as a unit for measuring cervical dilation.

Scottie Buehler@midwifehistory.bsky.social · last yr.

Check out our newly released special issue, "Reproductive Objects"! Through a collection of stellar articles, it traces the material "stuff" that constitutes the uneven tapestries of power, authority, and knowledge making around human reproduction. www.press.jhu.edu/journals/bul...

Preparing next week in our interdisciplinary #ProfDoc programme: "...without being completely obsolete, the qualitative versus quantitative binary is largely overrated and does not deserve to organise curricula, research programmes, and academic fields in such an extensive way" #DundeeUni #RD62001

LSE Methodology@lsemethodology.bsky.social · 2y ago

📣 Associate Professor @audreyalejandro.bsky.social has written a blog for students exploring "Why the Qualitative Versus Quantitative Divide is Overrated". She says "we teach students to problematise categories but ask them to take these for granted." Read more ⤵️ https://buff.ly/3D3r11N

Getting ready for @beccajackson.bsky.social 's talk at our School. Activating all the brain cells ☕😅 #Cofaidh #Coffee #PhilSky #Psychometrics #Measurement

Jan R. Boehnke@jrboehnke.bsky.social · last yr.

Very much looking forward to hosting @beccajackson.bsky.social at the School of #HealthSciences next week. In addition to exploring potential for collaboration, she will be giving a talk 👇 Find out more about her excellent work here: measuring-well.com #DundeeUni #Measurement #Psychometrics

🏆 Delighted to share that Measurement Lab researcher @beccajackson.bsky.social & co-author Michele Luchetti have been named IUHPST Essay Prize runners-up for their essay on 'History & Philosophy of Measurement: Past, Present & Future Integrations'! Find out more: t.co/7ikOij78Qb

Congratulations to Dubian Cañas & runners-up Rebecca Jackson @beccajackson.bsky.social and Michele Luchetti for their essay “History and Philosophy of Measurement: Past, Present, and Future Integrations.” #HPS

Marcos Cueto@marcoscuet.bsky.social · last yr.

The Joint Commission of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, IUHPST, 2025 Essay Prize iuhpst.org/pages/inter-... The winner is Dubian Cañas, México, for his essay “Three epistemological desiderata for HPS practitioners.”

Thanks, @frabellazzi.bsky.social, for co-organizing a great multidisciplinary workshop on Scale and Measurement at the Center for Philosophy and the Sciences at the University of Oslo. Here's a picture from @beccajackson.bsky.social 's talk on the Apgar Score and "Construct Realization".

Last week us&CPS organised a great workshop on “ScaM: scales and measurement in the sciences”. We kicked off with some group work and ended up with a panel discussion. Thanks to all the attendees and speakers! @federicabocchi.bsky.social @beccajackson.bsky.social @uio.no

9/x Rebecca Jackson honed in on the problem of the meaning of measurement "units" in #SocialSciences. Although not dissimilar to other areas of measurement, it is important to remember how many steps are necessary to establish that the units can be meaningfully interpreted. #PhilSky #Validity

7/x Leah took the last straw the audience was holding on to: No, even when thinking about clocks and time, ongoing coordination is an issue. There is no #GoldStandard for time, its #measurement is under constant development. #PhilSky #ISOQOL

6/x @ricksawatzky.bsky.social's recorded input focused on #Exchangeablility and discussed how the term #PatientCentered measurement may relate to ideographic and nomothetic methods. You can find out more about Rick's work here: healthyqol.com/about-ephm #PhilSky #ISOQOL

4/x One of the core ideas for me is the notion of aiming for an #EpistemicDialogue as an approach to understand and meaningfully integrate the positions of different stakeholders, enabling us to "foreground and examine our own assumptions and values." #Measurement #Gadamer #PatientCentered #PhilSky

3/x Sebastian Rodriguez Duque (McGill U) discussed "ongoing coordination", i.e. the process how we establish a link btw our instruments and the constructs they purport to measure. One of the points of modern validity theory is, that this process essentially never ends. #Measurement #HRQL #PhilSky

8/x The last chapter focuses on the contexts of use of #HRQL measures (e.g., #FDA, agencies, #PatientCentered initiatives). Kevin Weinfurt (👇) and Rebecca Jackson discussed how even the often ignored response options reflect assumptions of how we want to represent what we are measuring! #PhilSky