New Viewpoint article in BioScience on scientific black boxes

Jarić, I., Pipek, P., Anderson, K., Baktoft, H., Bertram, M.G., Canavan, S., Elliott, L.R., Říha, M., Gaston, K.J. 2026. The black-box future of ecology and conservation. BioScience 0, biag119. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biag119 | PDF

ABSTRACT

The scientific community is increasingly delegating trust and responsibility to data sources and tools that it cannot control or fully understand. When their functioning cannot be independently inspected, evaluated, or reproduced, such systems effectively operate as scientific black boxes.