Scheduled meetings are associated with standardization and understood as a bureaucratic form of coordination, control, and rule observation. In attending assemblies of a research team in optical physics for over a year, we found regular lab meetings are compulsory for all their members and are an avenue to announce and give information about new and changed institutional regulations, to supervise members' activities and their output. But more importantly, they offer an environment for continuous thinking through talk that goes beyond announcements. Meetings are a protected space to comment on conducted research, to amend experimental set-ups, to test argumentation, and to outline potentially new directions of research. By participating in these practices, researchers, become members of the team as they get acquainted with the ongoing research; its scope, problems, and limits; the solutions at hand; and the know-how within the team. In functional terms, observed internal meetings seem to (a) ensure that the research team focuses on a specific research agenda by talking about and discussing ongoing research in the lab, (b) be used to discuss and assure the quality of the team's research output, and (c) generate and inspire new research within the team. Our findings suggest regular internal meetings, like shop talk, are constitutive of doing science by talking about ongoing research.

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在定期的实验室会议中：研究团队的社会建设和光学物理的想法。


预定的会议与标准化相关，被理解为协调、控制和规则观察的官僚形式。在参加光学物理研究团队的集会一年多的过程中，我们发现定期的实验室会议对于所有成员来说都是强制性的，并且是宣布和提供有关新的和更改的机构法规的信息、监督成员的活动及其成果的途径。但更重要的是，它们提供了一个通过谈话进行持续思考的环境，而不仅仅是公告。会议是一个受保护的空间，可以评论已进行的研究、修改实验设置、测试论证以及概述潜在的新研究方向。通过参与这些实践，研究人员在熟悉正在进行的研究后成为团队成员；其范围、问题和限制；手头的解决方案；以及团队内部的专业知识。从功能上来说，观察到的内部会议似乎（a）通过谈论和讨论实验室正在进行的研究来确保研究团队专注于特定的研究议程，（b）用于讨论和确保团队研究成果的质量，以及 (c) 在团队内产生并激发新的研究。我们的研究结果表明，定期的内部会议（如车间谈话）是通过讨论正在进行的研究来开展科学研究的组成部分。