{"title":"On the Limits of the Data Economy: The Case of Autonomous Vehicles.","authors":"Björn Lundgren","doi":"10.1007/s11948-025-00540-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11948-025-00540-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49564,"journal":{"name":"Science and Engineering Ethics","volume":"31 4","pages":"16"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12213976/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144545822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Points of departure and developing good practices for responsible internationalization in a rapidly changing world.","authors":"Tommy Shih","doi":"10.1080/08989621.2024.2318789","DOIUrl":"10.1080/08989621.2024.2318789","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Responsible internationalization is a term increasingly used to promote relationship building in a world shaped by the growing impact of global challenges and geopolitical competition. In these changing global conditions, researchers and universities have learned that they need to adhere to an expanded set of research norms. Today these norms include aspects well known to researchers, such as research integrity, academic freedom, openness, research excellence, and research ethics, but also newer aspects related to societal impact, research security, and science diplomacy. However, managing these aspects is complicated by the fact that they are quite contradictory in tandem. Hence the term responsible internationalization has been used to raise awareness of the changing conditions for academic research and induce more responsible research practices. Nonetheless, the term presently lacks systemization and agreed definitions driving clear narratives, well-articulated goals, or structured responses and behavioral changes. This paper seeks to clarify some of the underlying premises and strategies in working with responsible internationalization and a way forward to the development of clearer guidelines.</p>","PeriodicalId":50927,"journal":{"name":"Accountability in Research-Policies and Quality Assurance","volume":" ","pages":"845-851"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139737086","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SystemPub Date : 2025-07-01DOI: 10.1016/j.system.2025.103738
Min Fan , Xia Liu , Xiaohua Song , Jianling Xie
{"title":"The effects of group size on critical thinking and writing development in collaborative writing: A mixed methods study","authors":"Min Fan , Xia Liu , Xiaohua Song , Jianling Xie","doi":"10.1016/j.system.2025.103738","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.system.2025.103738","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In recent years, research on collaborative dialogue and peer interaction patterns in ESL/EFL collaborative writing (CW) and their relation to the co-constructed text quality has been burgeoning. However, scarce is the research on the interplay between CW and critical thinking (CT). This study employs a mixed-methods research (MMR) design, integrating a quasi-experimental study with focus group interviews, to examine the influence of CW group sizes on CT and writing proficiency among 184 intermediate EFL tertiary-level learners. The participants were divided into four experimental groups—pairs, triads, quads, and quintets—and a comparison group that engaged in independent writing. Over eight weeks, all groups completed pre- and post-tests in writing proficiency and produced two argumentative essays to assess CT skills. After the posttest, four focus group interview sessions were conducted, one for each of the four experimental groups. The quantitative results indicate a trade-off: larger CW groups cultivate collective CT but impair individual writing proficiency. The interview data reveal a different trade-off: despite their higher CT performance, larger groups may report more conflicts and less favorable perceptions of CW tasks in fostering CT. The study discusses the pedagogical implications of these findings and offers recommendations for optimizing CW group sizes to balance CT development with writing proficiency.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48185,"journal":{"name":"System","volume":"133 ","pages":"Article 103738"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144523419","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mathew D Marques, John R Kerr, Arthur A Stukas, Jim McLennan
{"title":"The effect of scientific conspiracy theories on scepticism towards biotechnologies.","authors":"Mathew D Marques, John R Kerr, Arthur A Stukas, Jim McLennan","doi":"10.1177/09636625241300896","DOIUrl":"10.1177/09636625241300896","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Many conspiracy theories implicate scientists and science. We investigated the impact of exposure to scientific conspiracies about biotechnologies. Across three preregistered online studies (<i>N</i>s = 1,000), participants who read information about conspiracies involving agribiotechnology companies or biobank scientists were more likely to endorse conspiracies. Other effects of exposure to conspiracy information were mixed. In Study 1, reading about an agricultural biotechnology conspiracy had a small significant effect on reducing intentions to eat genetically modified food. In Study 2, exposure to a conspiracy involving biobank scientists decreased support for biobanks, mediated by decreased trust in biobank scientists. In Study 3, this conspiracy had no effect on wider beliefs of the role of science in society (science populism), nor support of genetically modified food-promoting policies. Overall, we found that exposure to conspiracies involving scientific claims increased conspiracy belief endorsement and can further negative effects. However, the effects of conspiracies on science populism appear limited.</p>","PeriodicalId":48094,"journal":{"name":"Public Understanding of Science","volume":" ","pages":"646-664"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12177199/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142773713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chinese public risk perception and acceptance of Facial Recognition Technology applied in law enforcement.","authors":"Min Wang, Kunran Zhang, Haomiao Xu","doi":"10.1177/09636625241300894","DOIUrl":"10.1177/09636625241300894","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study integrates the Perceived Risk Theory and the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology, along with factors such as trust and procedural legitimacy, to assess the Chinese public's risk perception and acceptance of Facial Recognition Technology (FRT) in law enforcement. Analyzing 1,561 valid questionnaires collected from February to July 2023, the results demonstrate that trust and procedural legitimacy positively influence public acceptance of FRT. Trust also mediates the effects of perceived privacy and functional risks on FRT acceptance. Privacy and social risks deter public acceptance, while functional risks surprisingly show positive effects. The study identifies a descending order of negative impact among these risk categories. In addition, the convenience, location and purpose of FRT use, and the severity of crimes it targets significantly delineate public acceptance boundaries, reflecting a consequentialist approach to technology ethics that prioritizes utility and outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":48094,"journal":{"name":"Public Understanding of Science","volume":" ","pages":"580-598"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142752039","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Annals of SciencePub Date : 2025-07-01Epub Date: 2025-04-12DOI: 10.1080/00033790.2025.2490050
Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh
{"title":"Wild horses: Tartar warfare and the history of civilization.","authors":"Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh","doi":"10.1080/00033790.2025.2490050","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00033790.2025.2490050","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In 1644, the Manchus, a Tungusic population from northeast Asia, conquered Ming China, establishing the Qing Empire. Four years later, Crimean Tartar horsemen joined a major uprising against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, gravely destabilizing one of Europe's largest states. These near-simultaneous incursions by ostensibly nomadic, horse-riding 'Tartars' into firearm-defended sedentary states generated extensive historiographical reflection on the role of nomads and their warhorse-centred armies in shaping human history. This article explores how the Jesuit Martino Martini drew on these Tartar wars to articulate a dialectical theory of human history, oscillating between civilization and barbarism, respectively embodied by agriculturalism and nomadic-pastoralism. Such theories, I argue, emerged in dialogue with pressing concerns about military security in metropolitan Europe. Indeed, the shock of the near-simultaneous Tartar wars spurred European writers to critically examine their own states' defences, contributing to controversies between Ancient and Modern military technologies. As this article shows, several Europeans came to construe Tartars simultaneously as 'barbarians' and a source of valuable martial expertise to be studied and selectively appropriated.</p>","PeriodicalId":8086,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Science","volume":" ","pages":"381-406"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143970824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Annals of SciencePub Date : 2025-07-01Epub Date: 2025-06-09DOI: 10.1080/00033790.2025.2514438
Linda Andersson Burnett, Hanna Hodacs, Staffan Müller-Wille
{"title":"Writing history into the economy of nature: Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) and Lars Montin (1723-1783) on the Reindeer Warble Fly (<i>Hypoderma tarandi</i> L.).","authors":"Linda Andersson Burnett, Hanna Hodacs, Staffan Müller-Wille","doi":"10.1080/00033790.2025.2514438","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00033790.2025.2514438","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the summer of 1732, a young medical student named Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) journeyed through Sápmi. Just under two decades later, Lars Montin (1723-1778), a student of the now famous Uppsala professor Linnaeus, followed his teacher's footsteps. We will focus on the accounts that both naturalists gave of the parasitic reindeer warble fly <i>Hypoderma tarandi</i>. While Linnaeus integrated the life history of this fly with his image of Sámi pastoralism as representing a 'silver age' of humanity in tune with the balance of nature, Montin mused about ways in which the fly's damaging effects on reindeer could be weaponized to force the Sámi into 'productive' labour. As a consequence, Linnaeus's timeless conception of an economy of nature was infused by Montin with notions of historical development and an open future. We will suggest that the differing attitudes of Linneaus and Montin can be explained by changes in the political context - most notably an emerging effort to enforce national borders and fiscal regimes in Northern Scandinavia in the 1740s and 1750s. But the different attitudes they developed towards the reindeer warble fly also point to deeper connections between natural history practices and the writing of human histories.</p>","PeriodicalId":8086,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Science","volume":" ","pages":"436-462"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144257248","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Publisher and journal reciprocity for peer review: Not so much.","authors":"David Moher, Anna Catharina Vieira Armond","doi":"10.1080/08989621.2025.2450451","DOIUrl":"10.1080/08989621.2025.2450451","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Peer reviewers provide a critical role in helping journals keep publishing. To understand the rewards and incentives offered to peer reviewers, we assessed what journals/publishers offered to one peer reviewer in biomedicine over a 1-month period (June 2023). After receiving 88 peer reviewer invitations, we noted that incentives were minimal. They include access to journal/publisher peer review training materials, reduced author processing charges of future article submissions, and free access to the journal/publisher website. Depending on the acceptance rate (30% or 50%) of recommendations to publish the article, peer review from this sample could generate anywhere from $USD 897,000 to $USD 1.45 million dollars when annualized. However, little, if any of this revenue is shared directly or indirectly with peer reviewers. With almost no reciprocity in the peer review process, journals and their publishers need to promote and establish more reciprocity in a system that currently largely favors them disproportionately. This study is an anecdotal perspective of one peer reviewer's experience over a single month. While anecdotal, these findings highlight issues about the fairness and sustainability of the peer review system. We encourage others to expand on what we have done and include more empirical investigations.</p>","PeriodicalId":50927,"journal":{"name":"Accountability in Research-Policies and Quality Assurance","volume":" ","pages":"832-837"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142958377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Digital JournalismPub Date : 2025-07-01DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2025.2524705
Elena Savinova, Jet Hoek
{"title":"Is Social Media News More Subjective? 😱 A Comparative Study of British Quality and Popular News Sources’ Adaptation to Facebook","authors":"Elena Savinova, Jet Hoek","doi":"10.1080/21670811.2025.2524705","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2025.2524705","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11166,"journal":{"name":"Digital Journalism","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144520332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}