Managing Performative Science (MAPS) seeks to assess & manage the ethical risks of performativity. Team: Philippe van Baßhuysen, Nadia Ruiz @jakobortmann.bsky.social, George Kwasi Barimah, Matthias Ackermann, & @becklukas.bsky.social https://bsky.app/profile/mapsproject.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/mapsproject.bsky.social/post/3mllmrnnvzc2cAt CELLS’ colloquium, MAPS member @dkhosrowi.bsky.social gave a presentation titled: “What kind of thing are ML systems like AlphaFold, and what kinds of things do they produce?” Followed up by a fruitful Q&A.11 May 2026 15:48 +0000at://did:plc:dcibubinuyeosfwqaqwswsez/app.bsky.feed.post/3mllmrnnvzc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/mapsproject.bsky.social/post/3mldtt7stmc231/2 Just accept. MAPS member George Barimah & co-authors examine ethical issues in international health research collaborations between researchers from the global north and south. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/dewb.7002608 May 2026 13:33 +0000at://did:plc:dcibubinuyeosfwqaqwswsez/app.bsky.feed.post/3mldtt7stmc23https://bsky.app/profile/mapsproject.bsky.social/post/3mjwmq7k3x22f1/2 MAPS team members presented at the Hannover-Groningen Philosophy of Science Workshop.20 Apr 2026 13:57 +0000at://did:plc:dcibubinuyeosfwqaqwswsez/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjwmq7k3x22fhttps://bsky.app/profile/mapsproject.bsky.social/post/3mjeqxi5plc2yThe CELLS' colloquium series continues. Today we had Annalisa Costella, from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Annalisa gave a talk titled "Of Green Frequently Flyers and Wealthy Socialists: A Defense of Apparent Hypocrisy."13 Apr 2026 11:24 +0000at://did:plc:dcibubinuyeosfwqaqwswsez/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjeqxi5plc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/mapsproject.bsky.social/post/3mj2cgot5a22kYesterday, the CELLS' colloquium series had its first speaker. Armin Schulz, from the University of Kansas. Armin gave a talk titled: Institutional Conflicts of Interest: A Novel Functionalist Account.09 Apr 2026 07:38 +0000at://did:plc:dcibubinuyeosfwqaqwswsez/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj2cgot5a22khttps://bsky.app/profile/mapsproject.bsky.social/post/3mhps3l5772221/2 Team member @jakobortmann.bsky.social has a new publication out in @philscijournal.bsky.social : "But what is 'Performativity of Science'? Austin, Perlocutionary Sequels, and Referent Malleability." philpapers.org/rec/ORTBWI https://philpapers.org/rec/ORTBWI23 Mar 2026 09:53 +0000at://did:plc:dcibubinuyeosfwqaqwswsez/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhps3l577222https://bsky.app/profile/mapsproject.bsky.social/post/3mczd247f5k231/2 Team member George Barimah presented on "Medical AI Regulation and Inductive Risks: A Case by Case Perspective" at the Rethinking AI in Practice – Culture and Ethics’ Role in Shaping the Future of Digital Health Care Technologies Conference.22 Jan 2026 13:45 +0000at://did:plc:dcibubinuyeosfwqaqwswsez/app.bsky.feed.post/3mczd247f5k23https://bsky.app/profile/mapsproject.bsky.social/post/3madii2kuxc23Welfare Econ faces a core problem: preference endogeneity. What should we do when the yardstick used to assess policies changes with the analysed system? MAPS member @becklukas.bsky.social tackles this issue in the context of large-scale interventions. New paper in Politics, Philosophy & Economics. https://www.lukasbeck.co/uploads/1/3/6/9/136946569/penultimate_version_-_endogenous_preferences%5Elj_environmental_economic_and_welfare.pdf19 Dec 2025 10:33 +0000at://did:plc:dcibubinuyeosfwqaqwswsez/app.bsky.feed.post/3madii2kuxc23https://bsky.app/profile/mapsproject.bsky.social/post/3m7pfv73suc2zTeam member Philippe van Basshuysen's paper has just been published: Performative power in Science in the European Journal for Philosophy of Science. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13194-025-00705-w11 Dec 2025 10:53 +0000at://did:plc:dcibubinuyeosfwqaqwswsez/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7pfv73suc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/mapsproject.bsky.social/post/3m7kbrescl225Great initiative from @belewollesen.bsky.social (team member of @modeltransfer.bsky.social ). Thank you for inviting us!!! [contains quote post or other embedded content]09 Dec 2025 09:56 +0000at://did:plc:dcibubinuyeosfwqaqwswsez/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7kbrescl225https://bsky.app/profile/mapsproject.bsky.social/post/3m7idjzc2is2kTeam member Matthias Ackermann gave a talk entitled "Predictable Uncertainty’ and Locally Reliable Climate Change Information" at CELLS Colloquium. @iphilluh.bsky.social08 Dec 2025 15:23 +0000at://did:plc:dcibubinuyeosfwqaqwswsez/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7idjzc2is2khttps://bsky.app/profile/mapsproject.bsky.social/post/3m6wl6ol5n22iSOCRATES Fellow Doohyun (Richard) Sung gave a talk titled "Persistence is Futile: On Pursuit and Futility Analysis in Pharmaceutical Research" at the CELLS colloquium @iphilluh.bsky.social01 Dec 2025 13:52 +0000at://did:plc:dcibubinuyeosfwqaqwswsez/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6wl6ol5n22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/mapsproject.bsky.social/post/3m6h5q7du5s2p1/2 Team member @becklukas.bsky.social is sharing his forthcoming chapter (Desire in Economics) in the Routledge Handbook on the Philosophy of Desire. [contains quote post or other embedded content]25 Nov 2025 10:41 +0000at://did:plc:dcibubinuyeosfwqaqwswsez/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6h5q7du5s2phttps://bsky.app/profile/mapsproject.bsky.social/post/3m62jb4dik22c1/2 Team member Nadia Ruiz's paper has just been published: "Dan Hausman on Macroeconomic Models." https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1350178X.2025.2571090 Ruiz critiques Dan Hausman’s 2023 The Inexact and Separate Science of Economics by examining his view of economic models as predicate models ...20 Nov 2025 10:03 +0000at://did:plc:dcibubinuyeosfwqaqwswsez/app.bsky.feed.post/3m62jb4dik22chttps://bsky.app/profile/mapsproject.bsky.social/post/3m5ygtqbsqk2d1/2 Team member Philippe van Basshuysen and @simonlohse.bsky.social just published "Three Problems for Predictive Policy Advice." Predictive policy advice faces three fundamental challenges: the choice of disciplines providing the advice; value judgments implicit in forecasts; [contains quote post or other embedded content]19 Nov 2025 14:14 +0000at://did:plc:dcibubinuyeosfwqaqwswsez/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5ygtqbsqk2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/mapsproject.bsky.social/post/3m5vr6u573s2dYesterday, Sebastian Meller gave a talk entitled "Olfaction––a forgotten sensory tool? Biomedical perspectives across species boundaries" at the CELLS colloquium.18 Nov 2025 12:41 +0000at://did:plc:dcibubinuyeosfwqaqwswsez/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5vr6u573s2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/mapsproject.bsky.social/post/3m5je6agvcc23MAPS' office Performing Hannover's Night Sky13 Nov 2025 14:16 +0000at://did:plc:dcibubinuyeosfwqaqwswsez/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5je6agvcc23https://bsky.app/profile/mapsproject.bsky.social/post/3m5gpjbzrj22eTeam member @becklukas.bsky.social gave a talk entitled "Policy Optimization IAMs as Normative Models" at the Institute of Philosophy Colloquium. @iphilluh.bsky.social12 Nov 2025 13:01 +0000at://did:plc:dcibubinuyeosfwqaqwswsez/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5gpjbzrj22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/mapsproject.bsky.social/post/3m4xamlwrn22kTeam member Philippe van Basshuysen gave a talk entitled "Performative Power in Science" at the Institute of Philosophy Colloquium. @iphilluh.bsky.social06 Nov 2025 09:25 +0000at://did:plc:dcibubinuyeosfwqaqwswsez/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4xamlwrn22khttps://bsky.app/profile/mapsproject.bsky.social/post/3m4djwzjgh22wLast Monday, Kevin Elliot gave a talk on "Revisiting Values and Science Through the Lens of Reflexive Performativity," which is a paper in collaboration with MAPS team member @jakobortmann.bsky.social.29 Oct 2025 13:19 +0000at://did:plc:dcibubinuyeosfwqaqwswsez/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4djwzjgh22whttps://bsky.app/profile/mapsproject.bsky.social/post/3m4dj6aemvk2wCongratulations to Edoardo Peruzzi. 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