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The Craft of Science with AI: Evidence, Judgment, and Practice | Public Panel
Episode 138
Friday, 20 March, 2026

As AI is integrated into scientific practice, the practice of science itself is changing. AI models that summarize, categorize, simulate, and predict not only stand to accelerate scientific research; they now sit inside these practices, alternately enhancing and eroding craft while shifting how questions are posed, what counts as evidence, how tacit judgment is taught and exercised, and reshaping trust in results. Dr. Kristin M. Branson (@kristinmbranson.bsky.social) is a senior group leader at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s (HHMI) Janelia Research Campus in Ashborn, Virginia. Dr. Lisa Messeri (@lmesseri.bsky.social) is an associate professor of sociocultural anthropology at Yale University. Dr. Nicole C. Nelson (@nicolecnelson.bsky.social) is an associate professor in the Department of Medical History and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.