A new paper by myself and three UC Davis collaborators (David Coil, Carl Stahmer, and Jonathan Eisen), “Network analysis to evaluate the impact of research funding on research community consolidation,” has just been published in PLOS One. This paper will most be of interest to the science policy, science of...
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Luck and the Academic Job Market
First, some news: starting this fall, I will be an assistant professor in the Department of Cognitive and Information Sciences at the University of California, Merced. I wrote the bulk of this post on May 26, the day after the 9th annual Conference on Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology...
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Paper: Legitimizing Values in Regulatory Science
A new paper by Manuela Fernández Pinto and me, “Legitimizing Values in Regulatory Science,” has just been published in Environmental Health Perspectives. This paper will be of interest to philosophers of science as well as the environmental public health community.
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Slides: Explainable Machine Learning: An Integrated Epistemic-Ethical Analysis
Machine learning (ML) algorithms have become widely adopted over the past decade. Contemporary ML can achieve near-human levels of accuracy, but operates as an inscrutable “black box.” This has stimulated significant research in methods to explain the behavior of ML systems. However, many of the proposed methods violate a common...
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Slides: Why Baier? Feminism, Trust, and Power
Here are the slides for my talk at the Philosophy of Science Association meeting this past weekend in Seattle: Why Baier? Feminism, Trust, and Power
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