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Social Studies of Science, Ahead of Print.
Accounts of scientific work at the lab bench largely overlook or sideline the considerable time and effort that scientists devote to the acquisition, management, and dispersal of funding. While multiple studies explore the subject of scientific funding ...

History of the Human Sciences, Ahead of Print.
In 1972, psychologist Jerome Kagan boldly proclaimed that research he had recently conducted on the Maya of Guatemala would overturn the most cherished assumption in his field of child development. He insisted that early deprivation did not doom a child ...

History of the Human Sciences, Ahead of Print.
This article reexamines Frank Ramsey's interest in Freudian psychoanalysis, seeking to understand how it makes sense with his behaviorist legacy which prioritized observable behavior rather than human depth. I analyze the private notes the English ...

Public Understanding of Science, Ahead of Print.

Public Understanding of Science, Ahead of Print.
People often reject scientific evidence that is at odds with their previous beliefs. Here, we examine the role of threat in such motivated science rejection and whether affirmations in science communication can effectively reduce threat, thereby ...

History of the Human Sciences, Ahead of Print.
This article traces the divergent approaches to the scientific analysis of facial and bodily movement from the 1950s to the 1970s. Drawing on the writings and exchanges of anthropologists Margaret Mead and Ray Birdwhistell, as well as psychologists Paul ...

["Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, EarlyView. ", "\nThe first volume of the biographical dictionary Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB) was published in 1953; after the end of the Second World War, the publication was considered a national biography and was seen as a contribution to the cultural foundation of the Federal Republic of Germany. The establishment of the NDB was also made possible by the participation of important personalities such as Federal President Theodor Heuss (1884–1963) and Nobel Prize winner in physics Max von Laue (1879–1960). Based on previously unexamined sources from Laue‘s estate and the Archive of the Historical Commission in Munich, it is shown that Laue not only contributed to the reputation of the NDB, but also used the opportunities available in the early years to help shape the emerging culture of remembrance. An analysis of editorial practices reveals that articles had different contexts of origin. In addition to articles written by the authors who signed them, there were also articles based on a collective authorship and articles in which the signed author and the original author were not identical.\n"]

["Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, EarlyView. ", "\nI present and discuss two drafts of remarks prepared by the mathematician Hermann Minkowski (1864–1909). They were composed in December 1907 while preparing his paper on the “Basic Equations of Electromagnetic Processes in Moving Bodies” for publication in the Proceedings of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences. I discuss the biographical and institutional context as well as the scientific background to highlight a document which illuminates the perception of an emerging academic discipline of mathematical physics.\n"]

History of the Human Sciences, Ahead of Print.
This special issue ofHistory of the Human Sciencesoffers a comparative exploration of the medical or health humanities in France and the United States, highlighting both convergences and divergences in their intellectual trajectories. While French ...

History of the Human Sciences, Ahead of Print.
In this article, we shall discuss the role of collaborative and transdisciplinary research, and its potential for the co-production of scientific and field knowledge that may serve the purpose of the medical humanities. Transdisciplinary research adds to ...

Public Understanding of Science, Ahead of Print.
Recent decades have seen the rising establishment of public engagement professionals supporting communication and engagement in the contexts of science and health research. This article explores how public engagement professionals consider the ethical ...

Public Understanding of Science, Ahead of Print.
This study examines six types of science, health, and medical sources, focusing on public perceptions of each source’s gender, credibility, benevolence, and political affiliation. Results reveal that medical doctors were rated highest in credibility and ...

Public Understanding of Science, Ahead of Print.

Public Understanding of Science, Ahead of Print.
Today’s increasing and indiscriminate use of generative artificial intelligence to access science-related information is a serious cause for concern. Here, we investigated the role of knowledge about generative AI in individuals’ engagement with AI-...

Social Studies of Science, Ahead of Print.
This research note reflects on, and responds to, Lee and Ribes discussion of ‘computational universalism’, setting this in dialogue with Suchman’s account of ‘The uncontroversial “thingness” of AI’ and with wider STS literature. In discussing the ...

Social Studies of Science, Ahead of Print.
This research note reflects on, and responds to, Lee and Ribes discussion of ‘computational universalism’, setting this in dialogue with Suchman’s account of ‘The uncontroversial “thingness” of AI’ and with wider STS literature. In discussing the ...

History of the Human Sciences, Ahead of Print.
This article explores a programme of dream analysis carried out by Major Kenneth Hopkins during the Second World War, conducted in the unlikely circumstances of a POW camp. Hopkins, who was captured in 1940 and held in two camps within Germany, collected ...

Social Studies of Science, Ahead of Print.
Protected areas are seen as one of the primary instruments to halt biodiversity loss, but it is not always clear if a protected status designation contributes to the preservation of endangered species and ecosystems. One way to address the issue is ...

Public Understanding of Science, Ahead of Print.
Scientists often usegenerics, that is, unquantified statements about whole categories of people or phenomena, when communicating research findings (e.g. “statins reduce cardiovascular events”). Large language models, such as ChatGPT, frequently adopt the ...

Public Understanding of Science, Ahead of Print.
Research involving animal experimentation is a contentious issue at the intersection of science and society, making science communication about it especially challenging. Yet, we lack a systematic account of the barriers researchers and communicators face ...

["Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Volume 49, Issue 1, Page 31-49, March 2026. ", "\nThis article examines how oral histories of twentieth‐century human genetics in Brazil reveal the politics of memory of fieldwork. Through a comparative analysis of interviews with prominent geneticist Francisco M. Salzano and technician Girley V. Simões, who worked with him for most of his career, this study explores the narrative strategies each employed to establish their historical accounts. Attending reflexively to the oral history encounters, the analysis examines how each narrator negotiates professional identity and moral legitimacy in light of changing ethical norms surrounding research with Indigenous communities. Simões's vivid recollections foreground invisible forms of technical and logistical labor, offering him the opportunity to recast his position as one of active knowledge‐making. Salzano's controlled and diplomatic accounts, by contrast, illustrate how the senior scientist curated memory to stabilize his professional legacy and defend disciplinary ethics in the wake of controversy. Contrasting Salzano and Simões's approaches to describing their shared experiences drives home the complex social and political realities of narrating fieldwork, as well as the political valences of remembering and documenting these histories in the present.\n"]

["Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Volume 49, Issue 1, Page 66-81, March 2026. ", "\nThis article is about the act and practice of doing interviews. In contrast to an ascendant enthusiasm for automation, computation, and digitization, it focuses on the process of interviewing as a relational mode of historical research and on uses of interviews that occur prior to their mobilization as evidence in historical accounts. The central argument is that, well before interviews can be used as historical sources, the practice of interviewing is useful for charting scientific networks, creating textual records, and generating archival questions. After setting the analytic stage, the article proceeds almost ethnographically through a series of conversations and interviews in order to illustrate some of the ways that interviewing—as a practice of knowing in and through relations—resists formalization and remains irresolvably human, social, and staged. In the conclusion, the article turns to epistemological questions raised when using interviews in historical writing. It argues that incorporating research interviews into the methodological repertoire of the history of science and medicine offers an occasion to practice reflexivity with respect to the narrative grounds of historical claims. It suggests that this might encourage a confrontation with the discipline's inherited epistemic valuation of naturalism.\n"]

["Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Volume 49, Issue 1, Page 50-65, March 2026. ", "\nThe West German drug Duogynon was internationally marketed as a “hormone pregnancy test” (HPT) between the 1950s and 1980s. In the late 1960s it came under suspicion for inducing miscarriage, spina bifida, and a spectrum of birth defects similar to those caused by the sedative thalidomide. In contrast to thalidomide, medical consensus did not form around the teratogenicity of Duogynon and many people who identify as Duogynon‐affected continue to campaign for recognition. The informal use of Duogynon as an abortion pill adds a further layer of shame, secrecy, and silence. In this article, we reflect on the value of oral history and the ethics of inclusion within a larger research project that investigates the rise and fall of HPTs, globally. We ask what collaborating with patient campaigners in a more participatory mode than is typical of archival research can contribute to the historical understanding of the Duogynon affair and other drug scandals.\n"]

["Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Volume 49, Issue 1, Page 82-96, March 2026. ", "\nWhat is special about historical research interviews in the history of science, technology, and medicine, and how do they compare to the tools of oral historians and social scientists? This essay reflects on three interview projects I have undertaken, each taking a distinct shape. I address methodological and pragmatic aspects of these projects, especially concerns related to anonymity and recovering memories of practice, as well as institutional challenges for placing historical research interviews among the more familiar and structured projects in the social sciences, notably around questions of anonymity. I suggest that we have most to learn from oral historians in thinking about research ethics and empowering the interviewee to decide what they want to happen to the recording and transcript, and whether and how they want to claim credit. At the same time, we can make different choices when it comes to designing, interpreting, and publishing our interviews. I suggest it may be beneficial to think of our work as triangulation across sources, within broader practices of what we might call “historical fieldwork”.\n"]

Social Studies of Science, Ahead of Print.
Anti-doping policy is a key component of integrity in sports, and one for which science and technology are central resources. It represents a genuinely transnational sector of policy-making that so far has received little attention in science and ...

Public Understanding of Science, Ahead of Print.
This article aims to advance our understanding of the communication of science conducted within the framework of externally funded research projects, also known as project-based science communication. It deploys semi-structured interviews to explore the ...

Public Understanding of Science, Ahead of Print.
Citizen science (CS), which integrates the public into research processes, has been shown to enhance public understanding of science. Consequently, CS is increasingly employed across various disciplines, including the social sciences. In citizen social ...

History of the Human Sciences, Ahead of Print.
This article maps the entangled (re-)birth of pathological gambling as a medical issue in 1980s West Germany, exploring how self-help group members and ‘psy’ scientists negotiated expertise on excessive gambling behaviour. Taking into account ...

Public Understanding of Science, Ahead of Print.
This article analyses interviews with experts on German television news concerning the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine in the context of debates about the public contribution of the social sciences and humanities. Considering the first 13 months of the ...

Social Studies of Science, Ahead of Print.
Overshadowed by expert and public debates over reactor safety and waste disposal solutions, nuclear decommissioning is a variably long transitional phase during which host communities face numerous uncertainties regarding their future and nuclear sites’ ...

Social Studies of Science, Ahead of Print.
Computer ontology languages aggregate a number of properties that can be used to model knowledge for machine consumption. These languages are increasingly playing a role in gatekeeping the conveyance and dissemination of knowledge. This article presents a ...

Social Studies of Science, Ahead of Print.
Nanotechnology is a scientific field where STS scholars have observed the influence of magical thinking. Here we contribute to that literature by describing a phenomenon in the field of drug delivery called the EPR (Enhanced Permeability and Retention) ...

History of the Human Sciences, Ahead of Print.
As Britain’s first professor of epidemiology, Major Greenwood (1880–1949) is an important figure in the formalisation of British epidemiology. His contribution derives less from enduring methodological innovations than from his advocacy for analytical ...

Social Studies of Science, Ahead of Print.
The paradigm of scientific medicine is among the most influential epistemic shifts in the past century, wherein randomized controlled trials (RCTs) represent the impartial arbiter of medical claims. Nevertheless, not all RCTs agree, and systematic reviews ...

Social Studies of Science, Ahead of Print.
This article examines how hacker culture, often conceptualized as immaterial and virtual, is in fact materially and spatially constituted through its entanglement with physical places. Focusing on Las Vegas and DEF CON, this article shows the emergence of ...

Public Understanding of Science, Ahead of Print.
The rapid integration of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science into daily life raises ethical concerns and stimulates discussions among stakeholders responsible for their development. Given the media’s role in shaping imaginaries of ...

Public Understanding of Science, Ahead of Print.
The filmOppenheimer(2023) portrayed the Manhattan Project, which led to the first atomic bombs, and its aftermath. Shown through the eyes of Director J. Robert Oppenheimer, the film takes us through the scientific, political, and personal struggles of a ...

Public Understanding of Science, Ahead of Print.
Individuals vary in their reliance on science and on religion to make sense of the world. We aimed to determine if these two approaches to making meaning differentially associated with specific domains of adaptive behaviors and well-being, and the extent ...

Public Understanding of Science, Ahead of Print.
This essay argues for the need to understand and study science communication ‘in the wild’ – as a set of practices that are not only ‘organised, explicit, and intended actions that aim to communicate scientific knowledge’, but that take on a variety of ...

Public Understanding of Science, Ahead of Print.
The public is said to be misled by Internet fakery amplified by social media, which contributes to conspiracy belief among those on the political right who feel dispossessed and powerless. In fact, conspiracy belief is difficult to attribute to any one ...

Public Understanding of Science, Volume 35, Issue 4, Page 490-507, May 2026.
This study explores how scientists’ experiences during the pandemic influenced their trust in journalism and their willingness to engage with the media. The study employed a survey approach, collecting data from 4089 scientists affiliated with German ...

Public Understanding of Science, Ahead of Print.
As a pervasive social phenomenon, climate change skepticism has been extensively studied in Western contexts, where it is deeply intertwined with local sociopolitical structures. In China, despite the government’s firm commitment to mitigation, a growing ...

Public Understanding of Science, Ahead of Print.
The ‘conflict thesis’ between scientific and supernatural beliefs has attracted considerable intellectual interest. However, empirical studies examining its impact on health behaviours are scarce. To address this gap, drawing on the Health Locus of ...

History of the Human Sciences, Ahead of Print.
The article explores the transnational circulation of sound-based expertise that came together in the establishment of audio forensics in Cold War Poland and Czechoslovakia. It is the first to study the Polish Phonoscopy Lab, the first ever audio forensic ...

History of the Human Sciences, Ahead of Print.
This paper demonstrates the important role that Oswald Spengler's skeptical philosophy played in motivating Edmund Husserl'sThe Crisis of European Sciences(1936). To date, almost no scholarship has considered the place of Spengler in Husserl's critique ...

Public Understanding of Science, Volume 35, Issue 4, Page 470-489, May 2026.
Communicating uncertainties is central to science communication, yet evidence on its effects is inconclusive. In an online experiment with a quasi-representative sample in Austria (N= 1126), we investigated the effects ofmessage(uncertainty type) and...

Public Understanding of Science, Volume 35, Issue 4, Page 515-516, May 2026.

Public Understanding of Science, Volume 35, Issue 4, Page 402-420, May 2026.
This scoping review examines how uncertainty has been measured in science communication research, analyzing 58 studies published between 1976 and 2024. The review identified 68 uncertainty measures, categorized into three main types: (1) trait uncertainty,...

Public Understanding of Science, Volume 35, Issue 4, Page 455-469, May 2026.
Despite the growing interest in citizen science, many projects continue to operate in isolation. This study explores the current state and potential for cooperation among citizen science projects in Austria by analyzing the extent, reasons and obstacles ...

Social Studies of Science, Ahead of Print.
How does knowledge production during crises challenge or maintain contemporary institutions? This article investigates expert knowledge on nuclear accidents in France in the aftermath of the Fukushima Daiichi accident in March 2011. It examines the French ...