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philosophy of data
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== ID-CARD.TXT == NAME .... Nathanael Sheehan (he/him) FIELD ... philosophy & sociology of science MAIL .... nps19@proton.me ORCID ... 0000-0002-2779-0976
== PATH.LOG == 1. BSc computer science 2. MSc geography 3. PhD environmental intelligence 4. philosophy & sociology of science
== QUESTIONS.MD == ? what counts as data? ? who sets the standards? ? openness vs. accountability ? whose knowledge gets left out?
== TOOLBOX.SH == > ethnographic observation > semi-structured interviews > quantitative modelling > free and open source software development
== PROJECTS.LOG == [x] Concept Cartography ↗ [x] Epistemic Diversity reading group ↗ [x] The Protocollege ↗ [x] RDA: research data management ethics ↗ [x] gigwork.city ↗
Core areas
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Philosophy of (open) data
What data are, how they travel, and what “openness” actually requires of the infrastructures that collect, standardise and share them — from SARS-CoV-2 genomes to global health research.
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Sociology of (scientific) standards
How formats, metadata schemas and submission norms decide whose data count — and how they can exclude researchers whose data are sound but formatted differently.
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Environmental intelligence
Data-intensive research on environment and health, and the open tools that support it — the field of my doctoral training at the University of Exeter.
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Recent outputs
- 2026 Torn between screens and streams Essay · Unhoming Pedagogies
- 2026 The Sequence and the Standard: An Account of Participatory Informational Format Exclusion (PIFE) Journal article · Social Epistemology, 40(5), 571–583
- 2026 Varieties of Openness in Practice: Unrestricted, Regulated, and Controlled Models of Data Governance in Global Health Research Infrastructures PhD thesis · University of Exeter
- 2026 Open Science, Health Data and Epistemic Harms: A Multidisciplinary Reflection Journal article · Data Science Journal, 25(1), 15
- 2026 European Nucleotide Archive: Qualitative Interviews with Data Practitioners Data & code · Zenodo
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All 10 outputs: articles, thesis, reports & data →Free and Open Source Software
Concept Cartography
Collaborative concept maps for classrooms and research groups.
Storie di Insetti
Stories, sounds and images about cicadas and fireflies, contributed by the public.
RMU₂
Responsible Modelling Under Uncertainty: a two-day workshop in Exeter and online.
GIGWORK.city
Courier stories from three European cities, behind the moving dot on the map.
abstr
An R interface to the A/B Street transport simulation and network editing software.
River Sentiment Dashboard
Social-media sentiment alongside the ecological status of 450+ rivers in the Thames basin.
eaCatcheR
Programmatic access to the Environment Agency catchment planner.
dimaqdata
Ten global air-quality datasets from the WHO Data Integration Task Force.
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