Author Archives: Marisol Marini

Anthropologist of science, technology, and medicine. Her analytical approaches have navigated around scientific imagination, sensitive/sensory aspects and bodily engagement in technoscientific production, inequalities, responsible innovation and interdisciplinarity.
Image composed of several smaller images next to each other representing skin lesions. The skins are all white, with a pinkish hue. The lesions are darker red

“The Day I Discovered I Was Collaborating on a Eugenics Project”: On Imponderables in Collaborative Research

The title that opens this reflection is a statement by computer scientist Sandra Avila, who is also a co-author of the lines that will flow here. Her account took place during the recording of a podcast on science and feminism. In that situation, Avila recounted a non-trivial research experience. She may never have been able to talk about it with her colleagues in computer science, let alone with collaborators in dermatology who offered their “expertise advice.” It was in informal conversations with feminist researchers that Avila found a safe place to talk about a situation that had made her cry with anger because she felt cheated. (read more...)