Rebecca Jackson, PhD
@beccajackson.bsky.social
Bridging Fellow in Medical Humanities
Durham University - Institute of Medical Humanities
The Measurement Lab 🤓
Philosopher + Historian + Human
📏 talk measurement to me 📐
Measuring-well.com
Durham University - Institute of Medical Humanities
The Measurement Lab 🤓
Philosopher + Historian + Human
📏 talk measurement to me 📐
Measuring-well.com
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New publication! Our v. own @beccajackson.bsky.social discusses the racial history of the Apgar Score – a score assigned to infants one minute after birth. Find out more: medhumsplatform.org/the-apgar-sc...
October 20, 2025 at 8:52 AM
New publication! Our v. own @beccajackson.bsky.social discusses the racial history of the Apgar Score – a score assigned to infants one minute after birth. Find out more: medhumsplatform.org/the-apgar-sc...
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Welcome and congratulations to @beccajackson.bsky.social, who joins us as a Postdoctoral Research Associate 🥳 Rebecca was previously a Bridging Fellow, and we are excited to continue working with her.
Read about her upcoming work in this written interview 👇
medhumsplatform.org/welcoming-re...
Read about her upcoming work in this written interview 👇
medhumsplatform.org/welcoming-re...
Welcoming Rebecca Jackson: New Postdoctoral Research Associate
Read our interview with Rebecca Jackson, previously a Bridging Fellow and now a PDRA in the Affective Experience and the Measurement Lab.
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September 30, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Welcome and congratulations to @beccajackson.bsky.social, who joins us as a Postdoctoral Research Associate 🥳 Rebecca was previously a Bridging Fellow, and we are excited to continue working with her.
Read about her upcoming work in this written interview 👇
medhumsplatform.org/welcoming-re...
Read about her upcoming work in this written interview 👇
medhumsplatform.org/welcoming-re...
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Huge congratulations to my dear & brilliant friend Sebastian on his thesis defence today, "Values in psychosocial measurement". It's been a privilege to be a part of this journey, Dr. Duque! 🤍 #philsci @erantal.bsky.social
August 11, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Huge congratulations to my dear & brilliant friend Sebastian on his thesis defence today, "Values in psychosocial measurement". It's been a privilege to be a part of this journey, Dr. Duque! 🤍 #philsci @erantal.bsky.social
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Weighing in at 827 pages and 2 1/4 inches, our Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the 19th Century is HERE! Huge thanks to @oupphilosophy.bsky.social and our 50+ authors. Restoring women to the philosophical canon is a matter of justice, but it is also better scholarship!
July 15, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Weighing in at 827 pages and 2 1/4 inches, our Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the 19th Century is HERE! Huge thanks to @oupphilosophy.bsky.social and our 50+ authors. Restoring women to the philosophical canon is a matter of justice, but it is also better scholarship!
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Join us for this free online event to discuss the meaning, limits, and prospects of assigning numbers to the social and natural world. All online with free registration. #philsci #philsky #histsci #sts #histtech #sociology
Onilne workshop on quantification! The Society for the Study of Measurement is delighted to host an event on the philosophy, sociology, and history of quantification across the sciences on August 9. Free with registration. #philsci #philsky #histsci #histtech #sts #sociology 🧪 tinyurl.com/5rn7p7sk
Quantification in History, Philosophy, Sociology, and Practice – The Society for the Study of Measurement
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July 6, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Do you love socio-material approaches to reproductive history? Come check out the special issue of Bulletin of the History of Medicine I’m in. My paper is on the history of centimeters as a unit for measuring cervical dilation.
Check out our newly released special issue, "Reproductive Objects"! Through a collection of stellar articles, it traces the material "stuff" that constitutes the uneven tapestries of power, authority, and knowledge making around human reproduction.
www.press.jhu.edu/journals/bul...
www.press.jhu.edu/journals/bul...
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
www.press.jhu.edu
July 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Do you love socio-material approaches to reproductive history? Come check out the special issue of Bulletin of the History of Medicine I’m in. My paper is on the history of centimeters as a unit for measuring cervical dilation.
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Preparing next week in our interdisciplinary #ProfDoc programme:
"...without being completely obsolete, the qualitative versus quantitative binary is largely overrated and does not deserve to organise curricula, research programmes, and academic fields in such an extensive way"
#DundeeUni #RD62001
"...without being completely obsolete, the qualitative versus quantitative binary is largely overrated and does not deserve to organise curricula, research programmes, and academic fields in such an extensive way"
#DundeeUni #RD62001
📣 Associate Professor @audreyalejandro.bsky.social has written a blog for students exploring "Why the Qualitative Versus Quantitative Divide is Overrated".
She says "we teach students to problematise categories but ask them to take these for granted."
Read more ⤵️
https://buff.ly/3D3r11N
She says "we teach students to problematise categories but ask them to take these for granted."
Read more ⤵️
https://buff.ly/3D3r11N
June 11, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Preparing next week in our interdisciplinary #ProfDoc programme:
"...without being completely obsolete, the qualitative versus quantitative binary is largely overrated and does not deserve to organise curricula, research programmes, and academic fields in such an extensive way"
#DundeeUni #RD62001
"...without being completely obsolete, the qualitative versus quantitative binary is largely overrated and does not deserve to organise curricula, research programmes, and academic fields in such an extensive way"
#DundeeUni #RD62001
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Getting ready for @beccajackson.bsky.social 's talk at our School. Activating all the brain cells ☕😅
#Cofaidh #Coffee #PhilSky #Psychometrics #Measurement
#Cofaidh #Coffee #PhilSky #Psychometrics #Measurement
May 8, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Getting ready for @beccajackson.bsky.social 's talk at our School. Activating all the brain cells ☕😅
#Cofaidh #Coffee #PhilSky #Psychometrics #Measurement
#Cofaidh #Coffee #PhilSky #Psychometrics #Measurement
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🏆 Delighted to share that Measurement Lab researcher @beccajackson.bsky.social & co-author Michele Luchetti have been named IUHPST Essay Prize runners-up for their essay on 'History & Philosophy of Measurement: Past, Present & Future Integrations'!
Find out more: t.co/7ikOij78Qb
Find out more: t.co/7ikOij78Qb
April 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
🏆 Delighted to share that Measurement Lab researcher @beccajackson.bsky.social & co-author Michele Luchetti have been named IUHPST Essay Prize runners-up for their essay on 'History & Philosophy of Measurement: Past, Present & Future Integrations'!
Find out more: t.co/7ikOij78Qb
Find out more: t.co/7ikOij78Qb
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Congratulations to Dubian Cañas & runners-up Rebecca Jackson @beccajackson.bsky.social and Michele Luchetti for their essay “History and Philosophy of Measurement: Past, Present, and Future Integrations.” #HPS
The Joint Commission of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, IUHPST, 2025 Essay Prize
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The winner is Dubian Cañas, México, for his essay “Three epistemological desiderata for HPS practitioners.”
iuhpst.org/pages/inter-...
The winner is Dubian Cañas, México, for his essay “Three epistemological desiderata for HPS practitioners.”
IUHPST - International Union of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
iuhpst.org
April 10, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Congratulations to Dubian Cañas & runners-up Rebecca Jackson @beccajackson.bsky.social and Michele Luchetti for their essay “History and Philosophy of Measurement: Past, Present, and Future Integrations.” #HPS
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Thanks, @frabellazzi.bsky.social, for co-organizing a great multidisciplinary workshop on Scale and Measurement at the Center for Philosophy and the Sciences at the University of Oslo. Here's a picture from @beccajackson.bsky.social 's talk on the Apgar Score and "Construct Realization".
March 30, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Thanks, @frabellazzi.bsky.social, for co-organizing a great multidisciplinary workshop on Scale and Measurement at the Center for Philosophy and the Sciences at the University of Oslo. Here's a picture from @beccajackson.bsky.social 's talk on the Apgar Score and "Construct Realization".
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Last week us&CPS organised a great workshop on “ScaM: scales and measurement in the sciences”. We kicked off with some group work and ended up with a panel discussion. Thanks to all the attendees and speakers! @federicabocchi.bsky.social @beccajackson.bsky.social @uio.no
March 31, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Last week us&CPS organised a great workshop on “ScaM: scales and measurement in the sciences”. We kicked off with some group work and ended up with a panel discussion. Thanks to all the attendees and speakers! @federicabocchi.bsky.social @beccajackson.bsky.social @uio.no
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9/x Rebecca Jackson honed in on the problem of the meaning of measurement "units" in #SocialSciences.
Although not dissimilar to other areas of measurement, it is important to remember how many steps are necessary to establish that the units can be meaningfully interpreted.
#PhilSky #Validity
Although not dissimilar to other areas of measurement, it is important to remember how many steps are necessary to establish that the units can be meaningfully interpreted.
#PhilSky #Validity
October 21, 2024 at 10:30 AM
9/x Rebecca Jackson honed in on the problem of the meaning of measurement "units" in #SocialSciences.
Although not dissimilar to other areas of measurement, it is important to remember how many steps are necessary to establish that the units can be meaningfully interpreted.
#PhilSky #Validity
Although not dissimilar to other areas of measurement, it is important to remember how many steps are necessary to establish that the units can be meaningfully interpreted.
#PhilSky #Validity
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7/x Leah took the last straw the audience was holding on to:
No, even when thinking about clocks and time, ongoing coordination is an issue. There is no #GoldStandard for time, its #measurement is under constant development.
#PhilSky #ISOQOL
No, even when thinking about clocks and time, ongoing coordination is an issue. There is no #GoldStandard for time, its #measurement is under constant development.
#PhilSky #ISOQOL
October 21, 2024 at 10:17 AM
7/x Leah took the last straw the audience was holding on to:
No, even when thinking about clocks and time, ongoing coordination is an issue. There is no #GoldStandard for time, its #measurement is under constant development.
#PhilSky #ISOQOL
No, even when thinking about clocks and time, ongoing coordination is an issue. There is no #GoldStandard for time, its #measurement is under constant development.
#PhilSky #ISOQOL
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6/x @ricksawatzky.bsky.social's recorded input focused on #Exchangeablility and discussed how the term #PatientCentered measurement may relate to ideographic and nomothetic methods.
You can find out more about Rick's work here:
healthyqol.com/about-ephm
#PhilSky #ISOQOL
You can find out more about Rick's work here:
healthyqol.com/about-ephm
#PhilSky #ISOQOL
October 21, 2024 at 10:12 AM
6/x @ricksawatzky.bsky.social's recorded input focused on #Exchangeablility and discussed how the term #PatientCentered measurement may relate to ideographic and nomothetic methods.
You can find out more about Rick's work here:
healthyqol.com/about-ephm
#PhilSky #ISOQOL
You can find out more about Rick's work here:
healthyqol.com/about-ephm
#PhilSky #ISOQOL
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4/x One of the core ideas for me is the notion of aiming for an #EpistemicDialogue as an approach to understand and meaningfully integrate the positions of different stakeholders, enabling us to "foreground and examine our own assumptions and values."
#Measurement #Gadamer #PatientCentered #PhilSky
#Measurement #Gadamer #PatientCentered #PhilSky
October 21, 2024 at 9:21 AM
4/x One of the core ideas for me is the notion of aiming for an #EpistemicDialogue as an approach to understand and meaningfully integrate the positions of different stakeholders, enabling us to "foreground and examine our own assumptions and values."
#Measurement #Gadamer #PatientCentered #PhilSky
#Measurement #Gadamer #PatientCentered #PhilSky
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3/x Sebastian Rodriguez Duque (McGill U) discussed "ongoing coordination", i.e. the process how we establish a link btw our instruments and the constructs they purport to measure.
One of the points of modern validity theory is, that this process essentially never ends.
#Measurement #HRQL #PhilSky
One of the points of modern validity theory is, that this process essentially never ends.
#Measurement #HRQL #PhilSky
October 21, 2024 at 9:02 AM
3/x Sebastian Rodriguez Duque (McGill U) discussed "ongoing coordination", i.e. the process how we establish a link btw our instruments and the constructs they purport to measure.
One of the points of modern validity theory is, that this process essentially never ends.
#Measurement #HRQL #PhilSky
One of the points of modern validity theory is, that this process essentially never ends.
#Measurement #HRQL #PhilSky
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8/x The last chapter focuses on the contexts of use of #HRQL measures (e.g., #FDA, agencies, #PatientCentered initiatives). Kevin Weinfurt (👇) and Rebecca Jackson discussed how even the often ignored response options reflect assumptions of how we want to represent what we are measuring!
#PhilSky
#PhilSky
October 21, 2024 at 10:25 AM
8/x The last chapter focuses on the contexts of use of #HRQL measures (e.g., #FDA, agencies, #PatientCentered initiatives). Kevin Weinfurt (👇) and Rebecca Jackson discussed how even the often ignored response options reflect assumptions of how we want to represent what we are measuring!
#PhilSky
#PhilSky
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5/x Alessandra Basso (LSE) highlighted hermeneutic marginalisation and misrepresentation as injustices 👇
An important question the book raises is how to elicit and integrate all voices and still recognising that all positions are fallible. #Epistemology
#Measurement #HRQL #PhilSky #PatientCentered
An important question the book raises is how to elicit and integrate all voices and still recognising that all positions are fallible. #Epistemology
#Measurement #HRQL #PhilSky #PatientCentered
October 21, 2024 at 9:59 AM
5/x Alessandra Basso (LSE) highlighted hermeneutic marginalisation and misrepresentation as injustices 👇
An important question the book raises is how to elicit and integrate all voices and still recognising that all positions are fallible. #Epistemology
#Measurement #HRQL #PhilSky #PatientCentered
An important question the book raises is how to elicit and integrate all voices and still recognising that all positions are fallible. #Epistemology
#Measurement #HRQL #PhilSky #PatientCentered
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1/x It was great fun to co-organise the #ISOQOL discussion of Leah McClimans' book
" #PatientCentered #Measurement: Perspectives from philosophy and health-related quality of life"
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
You can read the book review by Sebastian Rodriguez Duque here:
rdcu.be/dXACh
#HRQL
" #PatientCentered #Measurement: Perspectives from philosophy and health-related quality of life"
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
You can read the book review by Sebastian Rodriguez Duque here:
rdcu.be/dXACh
#HRQL
October 21, 2024 at 8:48 AM
1/x It was great fun to co-organise the #ISOQOL discussion of Leah McClimans' book
" #PatientCentered #Measurement: Perspectives from philosophy and health-related quality of life"
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
You can read the book review by Sebastian Rodriguez Duque here:
rdcu.be/dXACh
#HRQL
" #PatientCentered #Measurement: Perspectives from philosophy and health-related quality of life"
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
You can read the book review by Sebastian Rodriguez Duque here:
rdcu.be/dXACh
#HRQL
@smellosopher.bsky.social Seems like you would enjoy this piece… A taxonomy of Science Journal Editors. Sent to me by, yes, a science journal editor.
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Science journal editors: a taxonomy
After many years of publishing papers, I have come to recognise wide diversity among journal editors. This variation has major consequences...
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November 1, 2023 at 1:14 PM
@smellosopher.bsky.social Seems like you would enjoy this piece… A taxonomy of Science Journal Editors. Sent to me by, yes, a science journal editor.
deevybee.blogspot.com/2010/09/scie...
deevybee.blogspot.com/2010/09/scie...
A great perk of #ISOQOL2023 being in Calgary: proximity to Banff National Park
October 26, 2023 at 8:15 AM
A great perk of #ISOQOL2023 being in Calgary: proximity to Banff National Park