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SUMMARY:CEFISES Seminar: Emmanuelle Maciel\, "Hybridizing omics and traditional molecular biology"
DESCRIPTION:Livestream  https://youtu.be/wX0lKi5gCIY \nSeries: MolDevBio \nSpeaker: Emmanuelle Maciel (Université de Toulouse) \nTitle: “Hybridizing omics and traditional molecular biology” \nAbstract \nThe development of high-throughput techniques aiming at studying whole classes of biomolecules\, grouped under the name of “omics” have triggered change in practices in biological research. For many observers\, this change has both practical and epistemic consequences. Indeed\, many think that omics challenge the way of thinking in molecular biology. In particular\, omics are often described as data-driven approaches yielding correlations\, and distinguished from “traditional” molecular biology\, which is supposed to be hypothesis-driven and to establish causation. This way of conceptualizing omics is expressed in the work of some philosophers of science\, as well as in opinion articles written by biologists. However\, given the limitations of analyzing opinion articles\, relying on this format alone to understand how biologists conceptualize omics may be misleading. For this reason\, I conducted a study based on interviews of 24 biologists and bioinformaticians to understand how they describe and analyze the changes triggered by omics in molecular biology. For molecular biologists\, this change consisted mainly in the creation of new collaborations\, and the incorporation in molecular biological research of practices from another epistemic community -bioinformatics. This can cause disruption of their practices\, and lead to inadequate ways of using omics\, especially because of the appearance of “black boxes”. In response to this\, biologists and bioinformaticians develop strategies to protect certain standards in biological research. One of them is to try to fit omics in a pre-existing conception of the scientific method. Many participants propose a model of hybridization between omics and traditional molecular biology\, in which omics are hypothesis-generating\, and validated with wet lab experiments. Based on my own research experience in a molecular biology lab\, I show another mode of hybridization between omics and traditional molecular biology\, which raises further questions regarding the relevance of ascribing general epistemic roles to omics. \n  \n 
URL:https://cefises.be/en/event/cefises-seminar-nov-8/
LOCATION:Salle Ladrière\, Place du Cardinal Mercier 14 (bâtiment Socrate\, a.124)\, Louvain-la-Neuve\, 1348\, Belgium
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SUMMARY:CEFISES Seminar: Alexandre Guay\, "Why there is change?"
DESCRIPTION:Livestream  https://youtu.be/1-BMzcLba3Q\n \nSeries: OLOFOS \nSpeaker: Alexandre Guay (UCLouvain) \nTitle: “Why there is change?”
URL:https://cefises.be/en/event/cefises-seminar-nov-15/
LOCATION:Salle Ladrière\, Place du Cardinal Mercier 14 (bâtiment Socrate\, a.124)\, Louvain-la-Neuve\, 1348\, Belgium
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SUMMARY:CEFISES Seminar: Thomas Feliciani\, "Funding lotteries and their impact on conservatism and the wider research landscape"
DESCRIPTION:Livestream  https://youtu.be/IvHlh1SZZtI \nSeries: Digital Approaches \nSpeaker: Thomas Feliciani (School of Management\, Politecnico di Milano) \nTitle: “Funding lotteries and their impact on conservatism and the wider research landscape” \nAbstract \nIn recent years\, concerns have grown over biases in science funding\, particularly a potential aversion to funding innovative\, interdisciplinary\, and ‘high-risk\, high-reward’ research projects (a tendency referred to as conservatism). Various interventions have been proposed to reduce such biases\, aiming to encourage the submissions of disadvantaged proposals and leverage the wisdom of crowds within review panels\, while minimizing the influence of bias on panel deliberations. \nFunding lotteries are among the proposed interventions. In a funding lottery\, peer reviewers identify the most promising project proposals\, and grants are randomly allocated among them. Despite the growing adoption of funding lotteries by funders\, their effectiveness in reducing conservatism and other biases remains contested – particularly as lottery implementations vary widely\, complicating direct comparisons. \nIn this seminar I present an extended taxonomy of funding lotteries informed by empirical examples\, and I evaluate their efficacy using empirical data from a large funder (Novo Nordisk Foundation) and counterfactual simulations. Specifically\, I assess: (1) the ability of different lottery types to reduce biases such as conservatism; (2) a comparison among lottery types and between lotteries and other bias-reduction interventions; (3) some potential downsides of lotteries\, relative to other interventions. Additionally\, I also touch on key issues such as standards of correctness for evaluating funding decisions; aggregation and deliberation as competing models for social choice; the definition and measurement of the concept of novelty in scientific research\, and the limitations of counterfactual simulations along with possible remedies. \n 
URL:https://cefises.be/en/event/cefises-seminar-nov-22/
LOCATION:Salle Ladrière\, Place du Cardinal Mercier 14 (bâtiment Socrate\, a.124)\, Louvain-la-Neuve\, 1348\, Belgium
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