Meeting notes
This page is the group’s shared record of what was actually said. It is public, so keep unpublished results, confidential data, and anything a collaborator has not agreed to share in the private group notes instead.
Add an entry under the meeting you attended. Sign and date it. Do not edit anyone else’s entry; disagree by adding your own underneath. The fastest route is the “Edit this page” link in the right-hand margin, which opens this file on GitHub and turns your change into a pull request.
Each session page ends with the same four prompts, and they are the ones worth answering here: the evidence for your main claim, what changed your mind, what remains unresolved, and one change to the agent or its evaluation. A note that records a disagreement is more useful later than one that records a consensus.
Meeting 1: Is there a scientific method?
September 8, 2026. Reading: session page.
No notes recorded yet.
Meeting 2: Exploratory experimentation is not theory-free
September 15, 2026. Reading: session page.
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Meeting 3: From coastal traces to earthquake histories
September 22, 2026. Reading: session page.
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Meeting 4: Plate tectonics: concept formation and a discriminating test
September 29, 2026. Reading: session page.
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Meeting 5: New sensing capability versus trustworthy measurement
October 6, 2026. Reading: session page.
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Meeting 6: Explore freely; distinguish exploration from confirmation
October 13, 2026. Reading: session page.
No notes recorded yet.
Meeting 7: Field and marine research under real constraints
October 20, 2026. Reading: session page.
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Meeting 8: Serendipity, anomaly, and scientific interestingness
October 27, 2026. Reading: session page.
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Meeting 9: Hypothesis testing when several models fit
November 3, 2026. Reading: session page.
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Meeting 10: Scientific novelty: new to whom, compared with what?
November 10, 2026. Reading: session page.
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Meeting 11: Scientific advance: cumulative work and field-shaping change
November 17, 2026. Reading: session page.
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Meeting 12: Scientific polymathy: breadth, specialization, and borrowed competence
November 24, 2026. Reading: session page.
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Meeting 13: What architecture follows from practice, and what would show it worked?
December 1, 2026. Reading: session page.
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Unresolved across the quarter
Disagreements that outlived the meeting they started in. Move an item here when it comes up a second time, and record who holds which position.
Nothing recorded yet.