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Dr Franziska Kohlt

@frankendodo.bsky.social

Historian& Sociologist of Science at King's College, London | Formerly HPS Leeds, York SATSU & Inaugural USC Carrollian Fellow | Tutor Oxford ContEd | Keynote Speaker, Alice in Wonderland Expert & Polymath | Erdős–Bacon No 8 | https://linktr.ee/frankendodo

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Cordelia Beattie@cordeliabeattie.bsky.social · 4d ago

I see some people are reading this post as being about Exeter but it’s referring to the University of Hertfordshire. And that’s Owen’s point. Less coverage about the axe falling there but it’s equally sad.

Owen Davies@odavies9.bsky.social · 4d ago

So a whole lot of my talented Humanities colleagues are now unemployed as of today. A lot of understandable concern over Exeter. But for over two decades my Hums colleagues were in the top quartile for their research contribution to society. History top 10. Now gone with only a national whisper.

Mark Rubin@markrubin.bsky.social · 3w ago

"Contemporary narratives often frame Open Science and metascience as novel frontiers of transparency and rigor, obscuring their deep roots in feminist methodologies and critical social science traditions." New work by @maddipow.bsky.social

Abstract Recent years have seen growing emphasis on “Open Science,” a movement to enhance research transparency, robustness, and accountability. Prompted by concerns over fraud, questionable research practices, and low reproducibility in psychological research that emerged in the 2010s, Open Science has been framed by some dominant advocates as a new approach to research in psychology and across the social sciences. However, women in social science have long practiced and promoted principles now hailed as innovative, although their contributions are often left out of mainstream narratives. This erasure is troubling, especially as feminist scholars have critiqued the increasingly exclusionary culture of mainstream science reform. This article traces the overlooked contributions of five pioneering women: Mary Whiton Calkins and her replication efforts in the 1890s; Helen Bradford Thompson Woolley, who advocated for analytical precision in the 1910s; Alice Bryan’s 1940s adversarial collaboration; Carolyn Wood Sherif’s metascientific work in the 1960s; and Leonore Tiefer’s promotion of conflict-of-interest declarations of sex research in the 2000s. I document how their contributions laid the intellectual foundations of what is now contemporary Open Science in the social sciences. In doing so, I celebrate a lineage of feminist scientific labor that has always emphasized openness, ethics, and equity.
Dr Madeleine Pownall@maddipow.bsky.social · 3w ago

New paper! Values such as openness, transparency, collaboration, clarity about conflict of interests have been promoted by women for *decades*, and now we have reframed this around the branding of 'open science' that we start to take them seriously. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Gunnar Hamann@ostprog.bsky.social · last wk.

Wobei die Mechanismen mit der „Ikonisierung“ (gab es bei Lauterbach wie auch bei anderen) sehr breit aufgetreten sind während der Pandemie. Ich nehme mich da auch nicht aus. Hatte darüber mit @frankendodo.bsky.social vor fast vier Jahren (time flies) gesprochen und viel mitgenommen.

Der neoliberale John Snow

“Ignorance is Schiss”. Die Forscherin Franziska Kohlt und der Online-Satiriker Neoliberal John Snow über pandemische Parallelen der Viktorianischen Zeit zum ...

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 3w ago

"contemporary understandings of Open Science, as both an epistemological orientation and a set of practical tools, may be strengthened by more clearly connecting them to the scholarship and practices developed by women throughout the history of the social sciences." — @maddipow.bsky.social

Women as the First Open Scientists: Five Stories of the Neglected Contributions of Women in (Social) Science Reform History - Madeleine Pownall, 2026

Recent years have seen growing emphasis on “Open Science,” a movement to enhance research transparency, robustness, and accountability. Prompted by concerns ove...

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Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 3w ago

We’ve released the full data maps here looking at changing staffing in social science, humanities and arts (SHAPE) which especially shows how precarious things are for the pipeline of researchers www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/loss-of...

Loss of academic staff and "cold spots" for humanities and social science degrees threaten strategically important skills for UK, says British Academy

A new data map released today shows a sharp and widespread decline in opportunities for university staff in the humanities, social sciences and arts subjects in 2024-25. The data shows a precarious la...

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Dr Franziska Kohlt@frankendodo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Well here's the news: Very excited to be joining King's College London as Research Fellow in Historical Climatology& Glaciology to work on historical- indigenous& colonial -narratives of the Himalayan glacier regions to design effective climate interventions through storytelling. Absolute dream job!

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Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM)@sshmedicine.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Final week to register for #SSHM2026! Registration Closes 15 June The Society’s biennial conference takes place 30 June - 3 July at University of Leeds The theme is In/Out

SSHM 2026: In/Out University of Leeds 30 June – 3 July 2026

Conference Co-Convenors: Dr Alexia Moncrieff & Dr Katherine Rawling and Conference Committee: Dr Alex Bamji, Professor Shane Doyle, Megan Graham, Professor Robert Hornsby, Dr Will Jackson, Dr J…

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The British Society for Literature and Science @thebsls.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The BSLS Want to help keep the BSLS running smoothly? Ahead of the 2026 annual conference, we are seeking expressions of interest and nominations for two positions on the executive committee: Treasurer and Book Reviews Editor. Interested? More info here: www.bsls.ac.uk/2026/03/bsls...

BSLS Executive Committee: Call for nominations and expressions of interest – The British Society for Literature and Science

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