Kathryne Metcalf
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 296587 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Kathryne Metcalf |
| PRENOMES | Kathryne |
| SOBRENOME | Metcalf |
| ASSINATURA | METCALF K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of California San Diego |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6529-1695 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 8 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 3 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 8 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2021 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
The cost of (data) community
This essay closely examines the ongoing development and use of an open-source software tool commonly used in microbiome research in order to make three interlocking contributions. First, I identify data cleaning as a set of richly epistemic practices which are functionally inextricable from data analysis. This means that ‘good’ data cleaning decisions are not necessarily universal, but must be made suitably for the specific analytic purposes inte…
A Postgenomic Quilt
How do experts stitch together seemingly irreconcilable scientific objects? This paper examines the way “endophenotypes” and “deep phenotyping” are deployed to bridge the infamously recalcitrant genotype–phenotype divide. The endophenotype concept emerged in mid-20th-century evolutionary biology/entomology and was briefly adopted in schizophrenia genetics in 1972 before virtually disappearing for a generation. Decades later, in the “postgenomic” …
Categorical misalignment
The opaque relationship between biology and behavior is an intractable problem for psychiatry, and it increasingly challenges longstanding diagnostic categorizations. While various big data sciences have been repeatedly deployed as potential solutions, they have so far complicated more than they have managed to disentangle. Attending to categorical misalignment , this article proposes one reason why this is the case: Datasets have to instantiate …
Asserting the public interest in health data
Recent reporting has revealed that the UK Biobank (UKB)-a large, publicly-funded research database containing highly-sensitive health records of over half a million participants-has shared its data with private insurance companies seeking to develop actuarial AI systems for analyzing risk and predicting health. While news reports have characterized this as a significant breach of public trust, the UKB contends that insurance research is "in the p…
Data plantation
Purpose The development of the Northern VA and the Washington, DC metro area as a key node in the globalizing digital urban system is well established. This essay investigates the growth of that technological geography in the 1990s and 2000s as a part of the planetary epoch of human transformation that some have called the “Plantationocene” (vs. Anthropocene). Approach A historical and critical interpretive analysis of race, landscape, and techno…
Contested Care
Within the ongoing disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic, technologically mediated health surveillance programs have vastly intensified and expanded to new spaces. Popular understandings of medical and health data protections came into question as a variety of institutions introduced new tools for symptom tracking, contact tracing, and the management of related data. These systems have raised complex questions about who should have access to health…
Accounting for Complexity
What does it mean to call something complex? This Review essay describes three recent books which take up complex problems and the problem of complexity: philosopher Angela Potochnik's Idealization and the Aims of Science (2017); science and technology studies (STS) scholar Nicole Nelson's Model Behavior: Animal Experiments, Complexity, and the Genetics of Psychiatric Disorders (2018); and historian of science Bruno Strasser's Collecting Experime…
Affective Economies in Blood Banks and Biobanks
Medical blood banks and research biobanks are frequently figured as immobile middlemen in the larger machinations of biomedicine, possessing little power to influence the meaning or mobilisation of the biomaterials they accumulate. However, as the institutions that facilitate the collection and circulation of blood for a variety of purposes, blood and biobanks—much like their financial namesakes—legitimate certain practices and constitute the con…
Affective Economies in Blood Banks and Biobanks
Medical blood banks and research biobanks are frequently figured as immobile middlemen in the larger machinations of biomedicine, possessing little power to influence the meaning or mobilisation of the biomaterials they accumulate. However, as the institutions that facilitate the collection and circulation of blood for a variety of purposes, blood and biobanks—much like their financial namesakes—legitimate certain practices and constitute the con…
Asserting the public interest in health data
Recent reporting has revealed that the UK Biobank (UKB)-a large, publicly-funded research database containing highly-sensitive health records of over half a million participants-has shared its data with private insurance companies seeking to develop actuarial AI systems for analyzing risk and predicting health. While news reports have characterized this as a significant breach of public trust, the UKB contends that insurance research is "in the p…
Affective Economies in Blood Banks and Biobanks
Medical blood banks and research biobanks are frequently figured as immobile middlemen in the larger machinations of biomedicine, possessing little power to influence the meaning or mobilisation of the biomaterials they accumulate. However, as the institutions that facilitate the collection and circulation of blood for a variety of purposes, blood and biobanks—much like their financial namesakes—legitimate certain practices and constitute the con…
Accounting for Complexity
What does it mean to call something complex? This Review essay describes three recent books which take up complex problems and the problem of complexity: philosopher Angela Potochnik's Idealization and the Aims of Science (2017); science and technology studies (STS) scholar Nicole Nelson's Model Behavior: Animal Experiments, Complexity, and the Genetics of Psychiatric Disorders (2018); and historian of science Bruno Strasser's Collecting Experime…
Data plantation
Purpose The development of the Northern VA and the Washington, DC metro area as a key node in the globalizing digital urban system is well established. This essay investigates the growth of that technological geography in the 1990s and 2000s as a part of the planetary epoch of human transformation that some have called the “Plantationocene” (vs. Anthropocene). Approach A historical and critical interpretive analysis of race, landscape, and techno…
Contested Care
Within the ongoing disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic, technologically mediated health surveillance programs have vastly intensified and expanded to new spaces. Popular understandings of medical and health data protections came into question as a variety of institutions introduced new tools for symptom tracking, contact tracing, and the management of related data. These systems have raised complex questions about who should have access to health…
Categorical misalignment
The opaque relationship between biology and behavior is an intractable problem for psychiatry, and it increasingly challenges longstanding diagnostic categorizations. While various big data sciences have been repeatedly deployed as potential solutions, they have so far complicated more than they have managed to disentangle. Attending to categorical misalignment , this article proposes one reason why this is the case: Datasets have to instantiate …
Asserting the public interest in health data
Recent reporting has revealed that the UK Biobank (UKB)-a large, publicly-funded research database containing highly-sensitive health records of over half a million participants-has shared its data with private insurance companies seeking to develop actuarial AI systems for analyzing risk and predicting health. While news reports have characterized this as a significant breach of public trust, the UKB contends that insurance research is "in the p…
The cost of (data) community
This essay closely examines the ongoing development and use of an open-source software tool commonly used in microbiome research in order to make three interlocking contributions. First, I identify data cleaning as a set of richly epistemic practices which are functionally inextricable from data analysis. This means that ‘good’ data cleaning decisions are not necessarily universal, but must be made suitably for the specific analytic purposes inte…
A Postgenomic Quilt
How do experts stitch together seemingly irreconcilable scientific objects? This paper examines the way “endophenotypes” and “deep phenotyping” are deployed to bridge the infamously recalcitrant genotype–phenotype divide. The endophenotype concept emerged in mid-20th-century evolutionary biology/entomology and was briefly adopted in schizophrenia genetics in 1972 before virtually disappearing for a generation. Decades later, in the “postgenomic” …
Computer Science (5 obras) · Sociology (5 obras) · Biobank (3 obras) · Data science (3 obras) · Health care (3 obras) · Political science (3 obras) · Psychology (3 obras) · Big data (2 obras) · Biology (2 obras) · Business (2 obras)