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S Schnorr @schnorrax & A Crittenden @an_crittenden presented an impressive approach to the ethics of science & field work that embodies our motto #HometoTheorythatMatters. Thread below summarizes messages important for anyone working with vulnerable populations! #KLIColloquium 
The push across scientific disciplines to collect biological samples outside of #WEIRD societies (western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic) has led to an increase in research teams collecting bio-specimen data from an ever-expanding global participant pool. /1
Many of the most sampled populations are from low income countries in the #GlobalSouth – many are Indigenous and marginalized. It is the responsibility of the scientist(s) to acknowledge this and communicate the benefits of their work (or lack thereof) to the community. /2
The KLI just hosted a Virtual #KLIColloquium open to the public! Exciting to see new faces! David Ludwig offered a unique blend of science engagement X philosophy to bring phil from the abstract to impact real world, social-environ issues. Here's /a thread/ summarizing his talk:
Sustainability development projects often fail because systems are complex &problems are wicked. A crucial source of failure is epistemic: not integrating local expertise. But how can we integrate diff ontologies, knowledge, values, esp those incommensurable with Western science?
Ludwig shows how #philsci can help. Local & scientific knowledge are created & validated in different ways, intertwined with diff values &ontologies. How to proceed? We can't simply stack them up into one happy family. But no need to give in to nihilist incommensurability either.
