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  • September 2025

  • Mon 15

    If peer review is broken, what can fix it? Some suggestions from the repliCATS project (Collaborative Assessments for Trustworthy Science) – Prof Fiona Fidler

    September 15, 2025 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
    Michael Spence Building F23,Level 5, Room 501, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

    Abstract In many scientific fields, post-publication surveys of the literature find that peer reviewers routinely overlook methodological flaws and statistical errors, avoid reporting suspected instances of fraud, and commonly reach […]

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  • Mon 22

    A Defence of Minimal-Rewrite Counterfactuals in the History of Science – Prof Gregory Radick – University of Leeds

    September 22, 2025 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
    Michael Spence Building F23,Level 5, Room 501, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

    Abstract: What if,  at the 1927 Solvay conference, the causal interpretation of quantum mechanics had received a more sympathetic hearing?  What if Charles Darwin had died on the Beagle voyage […]

  • October 2025

  • Mon 13

    Quantifying the Human? – Dr Cristian Larroulet Philippi – The University of Melbourne

    October 13, 2025 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
    Michael Spence Building F23,Level 5, Room 501, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

    Abstract: Quantitative measurement in the human sciences remains both widespread and controversial. Are depression scales, intelligence tests, etc. valid measurement instruments? Do they deliver quantitative or merely ordinal information? I […]

  • November 2025

  • Mon 3

    GenAI and mental health – Elena Walsh – University of Wollongong

    November 3, 2025 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
    Michael Spence Building F23, Ground Floor, Auditorium 1, The University of Sydney, Australia

    Human beings are social and dependent creatures. We rely on friends, romantic partners, family, communities, therapists, and other confidantes for support, insight, and understanding. And yet, we have recently entered […]

  • Mon 17

    The Ian Langham Memorial Lecture – Uncle Rob Cooley, Gamay Rangers

    November 17, 2025 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
    Michael Spence Building F23,Level 5, Room 501, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

    Bio: Uncle Rob Cooley is a saltwater man with connections to Gamay-Botany Bay and the NSW South Coast. Currently, Uncle Rob is Senior Ranger and Leader of the Gamay Rangers, a […]

  • March 2026

  • Mon 2

    Planetary Health beyond Spaceship Earth? – Warwick Anderson

    March 2 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
    Carslaw Building Lecture Theatre 275 Carslaw Building (F07), Level 2, Room 275, The University of Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Abstract For more than ten years, concern about the impacts on human health of degradation of the earth’s life-support systems has been expressed in terms of ‘planetary health’. The current […]

  • Mon 9

    Jim Crow in the Asylum: Psychiatry and Civil Rights in the American South

    March 9 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
    Carslaw Building 450 Carslaw Building (F07), Level 4, Room 450, The University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

    Abstract: “Jim Crow in the Asylum: Psychiatry and Civil Rights in the American South” documents the impact of racial segregation and the fight for medical civil rights in the state […]

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