Postdoctoral Research Associate in Medical Humanities
Durham University - Institute of Medical Humanities
The Measurement Lab + Affective Experience Lab 🤓
Philosopher + Historian + Human
📏 talk measurement to me 📐
Measuring-well.com
Rebecca Jackson, PhD
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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
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 👇
This is going to be brilliant. I can't wait to discuss all things measurement with this incredible line up of speakers!!
Rebecca Jackson recaps the three-day workshop Measurement Heretics: Being, Meaning and Measuring Well.
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...
Rebecca Jackson, PhD
Durham Institute for Medical Humanities
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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
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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
🎚️[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! 🎚️
A recently published paper co-authored by PDRA Rebecca Jackson has won the Trevor Levere Best Paper Prize.
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
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. 🧠 🧵👇
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?"
Durham Institute for Medical Humanities
This 3-day workshop brings together international & interdisciplinary perspectives to guide the future of ethical, meaningful health data.
🚨 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...
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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
We invite proposals from researchers in the philosophy, history, sociology and anthropology of measurement for a new edited collection. Deadline 15 June 2026.
