Research Interests: Performance validation/error assessment practices for automated and semi-automated inference systems where ‘gold standard’ truth data is difficult or impossible to obtain, the ways in which these practices have (and have not) evolved over time, how they privilege certain metrics over others (e.g. quantitative over qualitative, representative cases over edge cases), and how they reflect the valuation of different types of labor (e.g. coding vs. manual review) within the development community.
Research Interests: History of the biosciences; animal models, experimentation, and the production of similarity; aging; globalization of science and capital; military science and technology; continental philosophy.
Science Historian - Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council (NAS-NRC) Research Associateship
Research Interests: History and philosophy of modern physics and mathematics; astronomy and cosmology; energy resources; visualization practices; mathematical invention.
Research Interests: History of technology; surveillance studies; historical epistemology; history of the human & social sciences; STS; media studies; history of computing; history of artificial intelligence; visual & material culture; philosophy of science & technology.
Research Interests: History of environmental monitoring; legal assimilation of biological and environmental data; history of 20th century biology; scientific collaborations between New Zealand and the United States; history of environmental, biological, and meteorological IGOs and cooperative ventures; history of ecology/phenology; history of wildlife conservation and animal welfare; history of carbon dioxide measurement.
Research Interests: Histories of science, medicine, and technology in East Asia; material culture; science and colonialism; time and temporality; weather and disease.
Research Interests: History of geology and seismicity; history of early modern earth science; carbon capture and sequestration; visual representation in earth sciences; STS.
Research Interests: History and philosophy of computer science, computing, mathematics, and electrical engineering; history of information and communication technologies; history of the university; history of gender and science. ... Read more about Tasha Schoenstein