I edit @ISSUESinST, searching for idea on how science can strengthen society, and how society should guide science
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I hope to see many of you at our Lit Crawl event on October 25, 2025. For SFWW, our theme this year is "We've Got Notes for You!" Five of our current and former regulars will read their writing and tell us how workshop feedback has informed their revision process.
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ALT An image of a blackboard with a stack of yellow pencils in the foreground. Text in yellow and white reads: San Francisco Writers Workshop Presents Five writers read their stories and share the feedback that made them great. Then YOU get to critique a juicy story, Live! Below: Author's portraits with signatures: Beverly Parayno Peng Ngin Tim Sullivan Jo Beckett-King Tony Tepper Below: We've Got Notes for You! October 25, 2025 Lit Crawl, Phase II, 6:30 pm Noisebridge, 272 Capp Street
Theories of change, applied to open science. A thirty minute chat with @BrianNosek @ISSUESinST issues.org/episode-36-open-s…
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How can replicating science be fun? @tedmiguel @fhoces et al explain how @I4Replication has made replicating experiments into a game - and how normalizing replication intimately improves science. Read more in @Nature nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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US drug companies turn taxpayer-funded innovation into astronomical profits. @twhitfill and @MazzucatoM argue that the new @ARPA_H offers an opportunity to rethink how medical advances are funded so that they benefit all stakeholders fairly. issues.org/arpa-h-taxpayers-…
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Well-designed policies alone cannot prevent social harm from new technologies, @idonibrasco writes in our Summer issue. Instead, watchdogs must have tools to scrutinize how such policies are implemented, paving the road for digital accountability. issues.org/digital-tech-scru…
ASU Scholar Jane Maienschein dissecting Dobbs arguments: "many competing social, political, and legal claims that purport to be grounded in “the science” but are instead matters of metaphysical conviction and belief"
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Federal Research Funding: Is There a Fairer Way to Share the Pie?
Join us Tuesday, June 27, at 3 PM ET to discuss the distribution of funding with @AQuider, @VaSansone, @DinaMyersStroud, & Chris Nomura—moderated by @FYIscipolicy’s Mitch Ambrose. Register:
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ALT Federal Research Funding: Is There a Fairer Way to Share the Pie? on Tuesday, June 27, at 3 PM ET. ISSUES.ORG/EVENTS. With FYI Science Policy's Mitch Ambrose, Anna Quider, Vanessa Sansone, Chris Nomura, and Dina Stroud
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“The field of medicine exists to take care of people,” writes Guo-Fang Tseng, “but the gray and grueling atmosphere medical schools create seems to drive away essential human characteristics that medical professionals need.” issues.org/silent-mentors-ts…
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An obsession with gauging accuracy of individual posts is misguided, @cward1e in our new collection on misinformation and disinformation. To strengthen information ecosystems, focus on narratives and why people share what they do. issues.org/misunderstanding-…
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In June 2022, the Supreme Court decided in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization to leave decisions about abortion to states. @ASU prof Jane Maienschein evaluates the claims made in Dobbs and argues for establishing sound, consistent definitions: issues.org/metaphysics-embry…
An exemplar of how the language of debate limits discussion: “The language used now forces debate into binary extremes of 'no moral worth' versus 'personhood.'”
In June 2022, the Supreme Court decided in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization to leave decisions about abortion to states. @ASU prof Jane Maienschein evaluates the claims made in Dobbs and argues for establishing sound, consistent definitions: issues.org/metaphysics-embry…
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This afternoon! Join ISSUES online at 1 PM ET to discuss how to change academic culture to combat sexual harassment with Vassiki Chauhan, Karen Stubaus, @ProfCooky, and @meredithwadman. Register here:asu.zoom.us/webinar/register…
It's up to policy, not technology, to stall harm from AI. Scholar Kate Crawford has real-world ideas to move from hand-wringing to reasonable regulation and fairer frameworks
On the latest episode of #TheOngoingTransformation podcast, @katecrawford sits down with ISSUES senior editor @Monya_science to discuss AI as an extractive industry, the idea of enchanted determinism, and—of course—policy. Listen or read the transcript: 1/ issues.org/episode-29-artifi…
ALT "Just becuase something is possible doesn't mean that it has to be done." —Kate Crawford on The Ongoing Transformation podcast from ISSUES, episode 29
I'm at #AAASmtg scoping out authors and article ideas for @ISSUESinST. I'll be in booth #409 from noon to 1p Fri-Sat. Come say hello!
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📣📣 Nature is hiring a news intern 📣📣
As part of our commitment to diversity and inclusion, @nature seeks a journalism intern in London with a passion for science, reporting and writing to join our friendly news team.
Find out more and apply: go.nature.com/3IByVyc
"I would never have become a scientist had I not had my abortion. I have never regretted my decision, but I grieve the experience, which was made so much harder by unnecessary barriers. Brave, necessary words @JacquelynGill @nature
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Deadline 7/29! @PCORI needs new members for its Methodology Committee, the only major health funder with a congressionally mandated leadership committee to support use of good methods. A position that can make a difference. Please RT. #epitwitter pcori.me/3brf0VW
Last week, @Nature ran an article by immunologist Kondwani Jambo who grapples with running a well-funded, cutting-edge lab in Malawi just metres from a hospital where people die when they can't get cheap antibiotics. Please tell us if you've faced similar docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
"We think that scientists sometimes confuse harshness with intellectual rigour"
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Climate law can help set up norms for effective pandemic and global health law.
To start weaving cloth, you have to build a loom
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