Six months ago, Samba made a brave, unprecedented escape from Marwell zoo. Her life on the lam continues today. We join the team hunting desperately to find her in the Hampshire countryside

Lindsay Owens, author of the incredible new book Gouged, tells us why the Robin Hood theory of surveillance pricing is a myth.

Note : This post builds on a series of PubPeer comments made here . Last year the World Bank made news when it announced that all its outp...

Exclusive: Charity says NHS data shows increased chances of death due to preventable physical illnesses

The first fall runs of chinook salmon since the project in California and Oregon was completed have surpassed researchers’ expectations.

On disability, exclusion, and archaeology's enduring fieldworker archetype. I always joke that working mainly with computers and satellite imagery was the best way to avoid long, uncomfortable field s...

Artist Maya Barkai assembled a collection of pedestrian traffic signals from around the world: Walking Men Worldwide. I love all of these little people. The Warsaw one reminds me somewhat of Rocky from

Class action lawsuit seeks to stop censorship and termination of federally funded scientific research

Alt: Terry Crews in a lavender zip up shouting WHY?!?!

Green Street Friends Meeting, a Quaker congregation in Germantown, pledged to spend $50,000 a year for 10 years as part of its reparations work. It’s helping Black Philadelphians become homeowners.

Three national surveys reveal how factors such as gender, age, political alignment and income are correlated with support for white nationalism in the United States.

The following is adapted from my book, White Power: Policing American Slavery  (Hodding Carter III Books/University of North Carolina Press...

From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it "age" verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we've been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn't waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a...

“The whole of my field has been flattened into a single lazy question: Did the health care system fail her?” writes Jennifer Okwerekwu.

Alt: Loki screaming and shifting reality

Some thoughts on the reader response the Scholarly Kitchen has seen regarding AI use by authors, a recent Nature News article on the efficacy of AI detection tools, and why it's important to keep expe...

Researchers re-create the chorus of noise produced by ancient insects

New study is among the first to quantify and explain slavery’s influence in contemporary U.S. health disparities

One of the purposes of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY is to expose eugenic principles and practices within professional philosophy. As Shelley Tremain has argued persistently since founding this blog, the…