Crises present the scientific community with unusual demands, including the need for rapid solutions. This can translate into a greatly compressed time frame that curtails data collection and analysis procedures used in 'normal' science. Researchers cope with these demands, while maintaining professional standards and a personal commitment to producing reliable work, by engaging in what we call performed separations. These are practices that allow people to adopt an ethical epistemic position while operating within constrained and urgent research situations. We distill the core features and effects of performed separations in the case of experts working to study archaeological looting in wartime Syria. We look specifically at how different practices of control allow for varying degrees of separation and the production of knowledge claims. By extension, performed separations facilitate making ethical claims about one’s role in the production of research and use of findings.

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危机科学中的合作实践：跨学科研究挑战和叙利亚战争

危机给科学界带来了不同寻常的需求，包括对快速解决方案的需求。这可以转化为大大压缩的时间框架，从而减少“常规”科学中使用的数据收集和分析程序。研究人员通过参与我们所谓的执行分离来应对这些需求，同时保持专业标准和个人对产生可靠工作的承诺。这些实践允许人们在受限和紧急的研究情况下运作时采取道德认知立场。对于致力于研究战时叙利亚考古掠夺的专家，我们提炼了执行分离的核心特征和影响。我们专门研究不同的控制实践如何允许不同程度的分离和知识声明的产生。