RMZ Science Works
von Robert K. Merton Zentrum für Wissenschaftsforschung · Wissenschaft
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- Cornelia Schendzielorz /Justo Serrano-Zamora /Staffan Edling: Science under pressure: Engaging with science and democracy in hybrid sites
22. Juli 2026 · 30 min
Informationen zum Master-Studiengang Wissenschaftsforschung der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: https://hu.berlin/ma_wifo Science and politics are becoming increasingly… - Claudia Göbel: A fresh look at science-public relations, their problems, and digital transformations
24. Juni 2026 · 39 min
Informationen zum Master-Studiengang Wissenschaftsforschung der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: https://hu.berlin/ma_wifo The use of digital media in science is not only linked… - Susanne Wollin-Giering & Markus Hoffmann: Epistemic factors affecting the (dis)continuation of research with missing resources
10. Juni 2026 · 47 min
This talk discusses the possibilities of researchers to continue their work in situations where access to previously held resources is constrained. We start from the assumption… - Yoanna Yankova/Jens Ambrasat: Promotion into the worse? Gendered culture in academia
27. Mai 2026 · 33 min
The study examines whether and to what extent academic culture is gendered. The gendered implications of academic culture are analysed through academics' perceptions of workplace… - Ayat Mirzaie/Masoumeh Qarakhani: Scientific professionalism under constraint: Associations, expertise boundaries, and external pressure
13. Mai 2026 · 35 min
Scientific associations are often seen as neutral professional bodies, yet they are crucial institutional spaces where norms, credibility, and the boundaries of "expertise" are… - Dieter Plehwe: Science and think tanks: A complicated relationship
29. April 2026 · 54 min
Policy research institutes (think-tanks) have become prominent actors. They are widely praised for their capacity to conduct relevant research, to innovate, and for reaching out… - Catherine Herfeld: Model Transfer and its Role in Awakening Sleeping Beauties in Science
15. April 2026 · 46 min
Model transfer—the use of models developed in one domain to address problems in another—is widespread in science. Yet it remains underexplored, both empirically and… - Veit Braun: Memories Are Made of This: Materielle Erinnerung in Biobanken
4. März 2026 · 33 min
Biobanken werden mehr und mehr zu einer allgegenwärtigen Infrastruktur in der Zoologie und anderen Biowissenschaften. Sie versprechen, materielle Forschungsdaten auf unbestimmte… - Paula Muhr: Limits to the Circulation of Epistemic Critique in the Recent Reanalyses of the EHT Images of the M87* Black Hole
18. Februar 2026 · 35 min
In April 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration that gathered over two hundred international scientists famously revealed the first empirical images of a black… - Willem Halffman/Serge Horbach: The library and the database: two imaginaries for the research literature
4. Februar 2026 · 41 min
Two competing imaginaries inform the current wave of innovations in research publishing: one that perceives ‘the literature’ as a library of research accounts, and one that sees… - Sebastian Büttner: In der Wissenskrise? Politisierung von Wissen und Expertise als Herausforderung für die Soziologie
21. Januar 2026 · 50 min
In aktuellen politischen Debatten etwa zur Klimapolitik oder zu Corona ist einmal mehr deutlich geworden, dass es sehr unterschiedliche Vorstellungen zur Rolle, zum Status und… - Sheena F. Bartscherer/Sven Ulpts/Bart Penders/Sarahanne Field: The (anti)social replication of replication: exploring how replication moves across epistemic communities
7. Januar 2026 · 47 min
Since claims about a ‘replication crisis’ started to circulate, the concept and practice of replication have gained new momentum. Some communities have started to promote… - Marco Seeber: The evolution of the scientific publishing market, its drivers and implications
10. Dezember 2025 · 39 min
The seminar describes the dramatic transformation of the scientific publishing market in the last 30 years. It discusses the forces underpinning this process, its implications… - Chérifa Boukacem-Zeghmouri & Jie Xu: The big transformation? Early Career Researchers as they race in the open scholarly world. Perspectives from France and China
26. November 2025 · 47 min
In the ever-changing world of Academia, rules and values are at stake. These form the basis of new regulations, including openness. The Harbinger research project was a six-year… - Jesper W. Schneider: Questionable Research Practices, what are they and so should we worry?
12. November 2025 · 42 min
Prof. Jesper W. Schneider (Aarhus University, Denmark) will introduce and discuss the concepts of questionable research practices and misconduct. We will discuss their alleged… - Christian Greiffenhagen: Judging importance before checking correctness: quick opinions in mathematical peer review
29. Oktober 2025 · 48 min
Peer review has never been a uniform practice, but is now more diverse than ever. Despite a vast literature, little is known of how different disciplines organise peer review.… - Monika Krause: The model systems of global science
15. Oktober 2025 · 58 min
The talk explores the role of models and model systems in the production of scientific knowledge in the context of the institutions and inequalities of internationalised science.… - Julian Hamann: Orientierung und Überlastung: Postdocs im multiplen Wettbewerb
1. Oktober 2025 · 38 min
Der Postdoc-Phase wurde als zentraler Qualifizierungsphase zuletzt auch wissenschaftspolitisch viel Aufmerksamkeit zuteil. Doch die Rolle von Postdocs ist offen und… - Tanja Bogusz: Meereswissen explorieren. Heterogene Kollaborationen an der Station Marine Concarneau
20. August 2025 · 46 min
Biologische Stationen wurden in den STS bislang maßgeblich als „Grenzobjekte“ (Star & Griesemer) zwischen Feld und Labor (Kohler) untersucht. Im Gegensatz zu zeitlich begrenzten… - Berna Devezer: Claims about scientific rigour require rigour
16. Juli 2025 · 54 min
Protzko et al. describe a project in which internal tests of pilot-tested hypotheses and independent replications embraced “rigour-enhancing practices” such as confirmatory… - Amelia Acker: Platform Power and Data Integration Services in Scientific Infrastructure
2. Juli 2025 · 40 min
This talk examines how commercial cloud services and data integration platforms are shaping scientific knowledge infrastructure and institutional approaches to digital… - Martin Reinhart & Felicitas Hesselmann: From scandal to reform: approaches to research integrity at a turning point
18. Juni 2025 · 1 h 02 min
This talk explores the historical evolution of scandals related to academic integrity and their implications for the relationship between science and politics. We argue that… - Björn Hammarfelt & Gustaf Nelhans: Styles of valuation: Disciplinary differences in assessing research
4. Juni 2025 · 37 min
Academic disciplines have distinctive ways of valuing research. These differences exist not only across fields but also between collegial and organisational evaluations. This… - Catalina Quiroz-Niño, Ana María Villafuerte & Margaret Meredith: Hermeneutical Justice in International Projects
21. Mai 2025 · 32 min
International research collaborations can base their research focus, questions and interpretations of the issue on Western assumptions of knowledge. This can delegitimise the… - Justo Serrano Zamora: Liberal Epistemologies, Participatory Initiatives, and the Current Existential Crisis of Democracy
7. Mai 2025 · 41 min
In my talk, I explore two main responses to democracy’s current existential crisis and their mutual relation. On the one hand, many argue that we should address the phenomenon of… - Sarah Schönbauer: Meeresforschung zwischen Wissenschaft und Aktivismus
30. April 2025 · 34 min
Der Klimawandel führt zu vielschichtigen und komplexen Veränderungen. Diese Veränderungen bringen unter anderem soziale, epistemische, ökonomische und politische Auswirkungen… - Stefan Skupien: Defining science for and in ‘Eastern Germany’ in right-wing populism
23. April 2025 · 27 min
Defining Science for and in ‘Eastern Germany’ in right-wing populism “Eastern Germany”, as a socio-political and geographical region, hosts significant scientific infrastructure… - Malte Jansen/ Aishvarya Aravindan Rajagopal: The Reproducibility and Robustness of Secondary Analyses in Educational Research: The Role of Publication Bias and Researcher Degrees of Freedom
9. April 2025 · 52 min
Many educational researchers conduct secondary data analysis using large-scale school assessment studies that usually include various variables based on representative samples.… - Stefanie Haustein: Challenges of closed vs opportunities of open: A data feminist reflection on the bibliometrics community’s shift to open infrastructure
26. März 2025 · 49 min
For decades, research assessment infrastructure has been shaped by closed, centralized systems that prioritize selectivity, reinforce hierarchies, and define what counts as… - Cornelia Schendzielorz/Martin Reinhart: The role of research collaborations in the governance of science (Vortrag auf Deutsch)
19. März 2025 · 41 min
Our contribution is dedicated to the topic of large research collaborations. We frame the issue of large research collaborations in the context of their long history in the study… - Holger Straßheim: Politische Epistemologie
5. März 2025 · 39 min
Der Beitrag setzt sich mit Perspektiven der politischen Epistemologie auseinander, die sich mittlerweile zu einem soziologischen, politikwissenschaftlichen, philosophischen und… - Julia Baumann: Cultures of no-feeling? Ethnografische Gefühlswelten im deutschen akademischen Arbeitsalltag
26. Februar 2025 · 37 min
Die akademische Kultur ist eine Kultur, in der Gefühle abwesend sind - eine Kultur des 'Nicht-Gefühls'. [...], aber Gefühle sind in der Wissenschaft reichlich vorhanden" (Bloch,… - Marianne Noel & Lucile Ottolini: Opening up science as a work: An international comparison of openness to society and openness of publication
19. Februar 2025 · 30 min
The last twenty years of open science advocacy and the more recent proliferation of programs and funding have shown that open science has become a veritable mantra. In this… - Henning Laux: Dummheit – eine soziologische Kartographie
12. Februar 2025 · 36 min
Der Vortrag stellt erste Überlegungen zu einer Soziologie der Dummheit vor. Dummheit wird dabei als systematisch vernachlässigte, aber konstitutive Außenseite der… - Anna Ahlers: China als neue Wissenschaftsmacht - soziologische Annäherungen
5. Februar 2025 · 48 min
Zu den interessantesten Entwicklungen im gegenwärtigen globalen Wissenschaftsystem gehört der rasante Aufstieg der Volksrepublik China. Als kollektiver Akteur hat es das Land… - Olof Hallonsten: Stop evaluating science – a historical-sociological argument
22. Januar 2025 · 45 min
Although science has been a formidably successful force of social and technological development in the modern era, and a main reason for the wealth and well-being of current… - Dimity Stephen & Meta Cramer: Predatory publishing practices: Paper tigers or actual threats from evaluation systems?
15. Januar 2025 · 48 min
The recent shift in evaluation systems to more diverse quality criteria has increased the visibility of lower quality research, incurring a moral panic about the effects of… - Marta Wróblewska: From centre to (semi)periphery: policy-making in the area of research impact evaluation in UK, Poland and Norway
8. Januar 2025 · 37 min
The talk will offer a comparative review of policy-making in the area of research impact evaluation in UK (REF), Poland (EJDD) and Norway (Humeval and Sameval). Poland and Norway… - Georgia Samaras: What’s it got to do with the brain? Challenges in doing clinical relevance in epigenetic research on mental health
18. Dezember 2024 · 38 min
The talk explores the epistemic dynamics catalysed by researchers advocating for the clinical relevance of environmental epigenetics in psychiatry. I do so based on an in-depth… - Nicole Nelson: Reproducibility reforms in American biomedicine and the diffusion of the “regulatory ethos”
11. Dezember 2024 · 47 min
Recent scholarship has described the “reproducibility crisis” and its associated reform movement as a social movement or a scientific-intellectual movement. This talk will argue…
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Die neueste Episode „Cornelia Schendzielorz /Justo Serrano-Zamora /Staffan Edling: Science under pressure: Engaging with science and democracy in hybrid sites“ erschien am 22. Juli 2026.