Jaco de Swart, a historian and anthropologist of science at the University of Cambridge, participates in meetings for the Tau Air-shower Mountain-based Observatory (TAMBO), a proposed detector planned for the Peruvian Andes. The project aims to detect cosmic particles called tau neutrinos.
Social scientists make up one-quarter of attendees at TAMBO meetings, an unusually high proportion. De Swart jointly leads aspects of the project, which is uncommon for scholars in the social sciences to do at astronomical observatory meetings.