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An area of study within metascience that examines the infrastructure and deep structure of science—the underlying frameworks, assumptions, institutions, and systems that make scientific knowledge production possible. Infrascience asks not what science discovers, but what makes discovery possible: the funding structures, publication systems, laboratory architectures, training pipelines, and invisible hierarchies that shape what gets studied and what gets ignored. It also examines the presence of ideology, politics, economics, and social factors within all areas of science—not as contaminants but as constitutive elements that structure scientific practice. Infrascience reveals that science doesn't happen in a vacuum; it happens within infrastructure, and that infrastructure shapes outcomes as surely as any method or theory.
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