Sprint & Hackathon

Every four years, the major Science and Technology Studies academic societies from Europe and North America, EASST and 4S, gather for a joint meeting. That happened this year, where EASST-4S 2024 took place in Amsterdam. On July 19th, Ale Abdo and Marc Barbier organized the workshop Semantic, social, spatial and temporal network and cluster analyses […]

Martina Zuñiga D, Francisca L. Aranda, Fabian Hernandez-Tenorio, Karla A. Garrido, Manuel F. Meléndrez, Enrique M. Combatt, Manuel Palencia, Daniel A. Palacio: Advances and Applications of Polyelectrolytes. In: Chile, 2024. AbstractIn recent decades, polyelectrolytes (PELs) have attracted significant interest owing to a surge in research dedicated to the development of new technologies and applications at [...]

Muhammad Asif Khan, Humaira Farid, Imtiaz Ali: Bibliometric Analysis of Dubious Research. In: Bibliometrics - An Essential Methodological Tool for Research Projects [Working Title], 2024. AbstractRetracted papers are scientific or scholarly works officially withdrawn by the publisher or journal after their initial publication. The primary goal of retractions is to rectify the literature and alert [...]

Last week, Ale Abdo and Joenio Costa presented at the first ever OpenAlex User Conference a short talk entitled “Analysing OpenAlex data with Cortext”, highlighting the current and future ways in which Cortext Manager (CM) interoperates with OpenAlex data, namely: These features were first mentioned here, together with others underway, on the roadmap presented in […]

On May 2024, Ale Abdo was at the University of São Paulo invited by two departments to talk about different aspects of Cortext. On the 22nd, a workshop organized with professor Gisele Craveiro and doctoral student José Beluzo received students of the Public Policy graduate program of the School for Arts, Sciences and Humanities (EACH-USP). […]

Here in the outskirts of Paris, at Champs-sur-Marne, work is ongoing to build the future of Cortext. It will soon be 8 years since the second version of the open-for-all web service, Cortext Manager, has been released. For the next iteration, we’re preparing a more friendly, robust and flexible system, so users can interact in […]

Mélanie Gornet, Simon Delarue, Maria Boritchev, Tiphaine Viard: Mapping AI ethics: a meso-scale analysis of its charters and manifestos. 2024 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency 2024, (FAccT '24: Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency). AbstractThe recent years have seen a surge of initiatives with the goal of defining [...]

Emiliano Ariel Martínez Viademonte, Mercedes García Carrillo, Matías Blaustein: Argentina: un meta-análisis de la agenda de investigaciones en cáncer y salud socioambiental. Congreso de la Fundación Salud, Ciencia y Tecnología 2024 2024. AbstractIntroduction: The economic agenda and corporate interests can influence and/or drive the public biomedical research agenda, establishing priorities in the study topics. In [...]

Pauline Gourlet, Donato Ricci, Maxime Crépel: Reclaiming artificial intelligence accounts: A plea for a participatory turn in artificial intelligence inquiries. In: Big Data & Society, 2024. AbstractHow to participate in artificial intelligence otherwise? Put simply, when it comes to technological developments, participation is either understood as public debates with non-expert voices to anticipate risks and [...]

Benjamin Blackwell, Albena Yaneva: School buildings as performative machines: the new architectural devices of control. In: Social & Cultural Geography, 2024. AbstractThe past two decades saw a growing attention to the role of design for the geography of education and simultaneously shifted architectural attention towards the understanding of different forms of pedagogy. Yet, careful empirical [...]