Byline: Martijn van der Meer
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Final Report: ‘Beyond Switching Plastic Straws’
Tenth Belgian-Dutch PhD Conference in the History of Science, Medicine, and the Humanities Eibergen, 8-10 April 2025 The PhD conference ‘Beyond Switching Plastic Straws’ was a success. There were 24 people: (a) 15 were women, (b) at least 5 were foreigners, (c) many talked about recovering the agency of historical actors, (d) several had car-shared,…
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The Manifesto for Trial and Error in Science
It is now more than a year ago that we, master students at the Descartes Center for History and Philosophy of Science and the Humanities at Utrecht University, started the Journal of Trial and Error: a platform that encourages researchers to publish and discuss failure. In other words, we facilitate scientists to publish results that…