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nsheehan@digital
Name: Nathanael Sheehan
Research: philosophy of (open) data
sociology of scientific standards
Code: free & open source software
Outputs: 10 (articles, thesis, reports, data)
Packages: 8 (R, dashboards)
ORCID: 0000-0002-2779-0976
Mail: nps19@proton.me
Shell: bash 5.2
nsheehan@digital:~$ ls -l
total 8
- outputs/ # articles, thesis, reports & data
- software/ # free & open source
- blog/ # posts
- cv.pdf
- notebook.md
- contact.sh
- github -> github.com/natesheehan
- orcid -> orcid.org/0000-0002-2779-0976
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Get to know me
# Nathanael Sheehan
he/him · philosophy & sociology of science
- mail: nps19@proton.me
- orcid: 0000-0002-2779-0976
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Core areas
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Philosophy of (open) data
What data are, how they travel, and what “openness” actually requires of the infrastructures that collect, standardise and share them — from SARS-CoV-2 genomes to global health research.
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Sociology of (scientific) standards
How formats, metadata schemas and submission norms decide whose data count — and how they can exclude researchers whose data are sound but formatted differently.
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Environmental intelligence
Data-intensive research on environment and health, and the open tools that support it — the field of my doctoral training at the University of Exeter.
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Recent outputs
- 2026 Torn between screens and streams Essay · Unhoming Pedagogies
- 2026 The Sequence and the Standard: An Account of Participatory Informational Format Exclusion (PIFE) Journal article · Social Epistemology, 40(5), 571–583
- 2026 Varieties of Openness in Practice: Unrestricted, Regulated, and Controlled Models of Data Governance in Global Health Research Infrastructures PhD thesis · University of Exeter
- 2026 Open Science, Health Data and Epistemic Harms: A Multidisciplinary Reflection Journal article · Data Science Journal, 25(1), 15
- 2026 European Nucleotide Archive: Qualitative Interviews with Data Practitioners Data · Zenodo
5 file(s) · 5 more in outputs/
All 10 outputs: articles, thesis, reports & data →Free and Open Source Software
web-apps/ Web apps · 5
Concept Cartography
Collaborative concept maps for classrooms and research groups.
Storie di Insetti
Stories, sounds and images about cicadas and fireflies, contributed by the public.
RMU₂
Responsible Modelling Under Uncertainty: a two-day workshop in Exeter and online.
GIGWORK.city
Courier stories from three European cities, behind the moving dot on the map.
River Sentiment Dashboard
Social-media sentiment alongside the ecological status of 450+ rivers in the Thames basin.
r-packages/ R packages · 3
abstr
An R interface to the A/B Street transport simulation and network editing software.
eaCatcheR
Programmatic access to the Environment Agency catchment planner.
dimaqdata
Ten global air-quality datasets from the WHO Data Integration Task Force.
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