<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">STEM, social science & humanities scholars are joining forces to create high-quality videos of black holes with an Earth-sized virtual telescope. New white paper out now (open access): </span><a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2139392">https://www.mdpi.com/2139392</a></font><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div><font color="#000000" style="" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">If you are an historian, philosopher, sociologist, HPS, STS or legal scholar interested in joining the Next Generation Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration (<a href="http://ngEHT.org">ngEHT.org</a>), contact <a href="mailto:n.c.m.martens@uu.nl">n.c.m.martens@uu.nl</a> with a brief description of your background and thoughts about contributing.</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" style="" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">GOAL 1: Responsible telescope siting---taking into account not only environmental & technical but also social, cultural and ethical specifications when choosing and developing telescope sites.</span> </font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></font></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">GOAL 2: tailoring the aesthetic choices of the final black hole videos to the context of our broader visual culture, taking into account scientific considerations and public perception.</font></span></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></font></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">GOAL 3: Mitigating risks like user bias, holism, opacity and entrenchment within the various algorithms and inferences that come into play when imaging black holes, using, for instance, robustness-type arguments.</font></span></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></font></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">GOAL 4: Bridging the gap between theory and observation. How to apply idealised mathematical results such as no-hair theorems to the messy real world?</font></span></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">GOAL 5: Be a role-model for other large collaborations in terms of the relationship between individual members and the whole collaboration in terms of transparent decision-making, diversity, fair credit assignment and accountability. Designing a governance structure that enables the desired social epistemology.</span> </font><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:TwitterChirp,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><font face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br clear="all"></span></font></font><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><i style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font size="1">NB: My working hours may not be your working hours so please do not feel obligated to reply outside your own normal work schedule</font></i><div><font color="#000000"><i><br></i></font><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="NL" style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:gray">­­Dr Niels
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Co-lead of <a href="https://www.ngeht.org/" target="_blank">ngEHT Collaboration</a> </span><span lang="NL" style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#c00000">| </span><span lang="NL" style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:gray">Utrecht
University </span><span lang="NL" style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#c00000">|</span><span lang="NL" style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:gray"> Freudenthal Institute</span><span lang="NL" style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:gray"> </span><span lang="NL" style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#c00000">| </span><span lang="NL" style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:gray">Buys Ballot Building,</span><span lang="NL" style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:gray"> room 3.11 </span><span lang="NL" style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#c00000">|</span><span lang="NL" style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:gray"> </span><span style="color:rgb(128,128,128);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:11.3333px">Princetonplein 5, 3584 CC Utrecht</span><span lang="NL" style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:gray"> </span><span lang="NL" style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(192,0,0)">|</span><span lang="NL" style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:gray"> <a href="mailto:n.c.m.martens@uu.nl" target="_blank">n.c.m.martens@uu.nl</a></span><span lang="EN-US"><a></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:gray"> </span><span lang="NL" style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(192,0,0)">| </span><span lang="NL" style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:gray"><a href="https://martensniels.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">martensniels.wordpress.com</a> </span><span lang="NL" style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(192,0,0)">| </span><span lang="NL" style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:gray">Present on Thu-Fri</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NL" style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:gray"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:small;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,33,36)">New open access publications: </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:small;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10701-021-00524-y" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">"Dark Matter Realism"</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:small;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,33,36)">, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:small;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/studies-in-history-and-philosophy-of-science-part-b-studies-in-history-and-philosophy-of-modern-physics/special-issue/10CR71RJLWM" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">"Editorial of special issue on dark matter & modified gravity"</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:small;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,33,36)">, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:small;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11229-020-02658-4" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">"Sophistry about symmetries?"</span></a></span><br></span></p>

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