Podcast Episode · The HPS Podcast - Conversations from History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science · 30 July · 39min

This week, Thomas Spiteri speaks with Dr. Magdalena Skipper, Editor-in-Chief of Nature. Skipper has held the role since 2018, and has a background in the genetic sciences. She is also notably the…

In 1993, she squeezed a $333m settlement from a Californian energy company in a scandal over contaminated water. Three decades later, she has a new target in her sights – and it’s global

Dismissal of the National Science Board is widely seen as latest move to erase NSF’s independence

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This fund offers grants biennially of up to $10,000 to support research access to archives that record the history of science in Australia.

Part of a visual tradition that reaches back to Romanticism, images from the Hubble Space Telescope awe as they inform.

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Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...

Decoherence and the superposition of capital in the OpenAI ecosytem

For decades, primatologists believed that primate societies were structured around aggressive alpha males - until a remarkable push from feminist scientists in the 1960s and 70s changed the narrative....

Researchers told to respond within 48 hours to more than 30 questions, including on DEI, gender and climate