Shilpi Chhotray is a storyteller with a purpose. An environmentalist from an early age, her perspective has developed and deepened during her career. Having found inspiration in the social justice….
Like all citizens, women in the United States are guaranteed freedom of speech and academic freedom. But in practice, mansplaining and other unquestioned male dominant behaviors curtail women’s freedoms more….
In a speech on academic freedom and the freedom of speech, feminist scholar Bettina Aptheker explores the parallels between her student years and early career and the growing suppression of freedoms in 2025.
This morning, a man shot up a Catholic mass full of children. Usually, I don’t write about current events that haven’t been resolved in any way. But as I listened….
Dr. Eve V. Clark has spent a career in academia pursuing one seemingly simple question: How do children learn to talk? The theory in vogue at the beginning of her….
How are the Trump Administration’s cuts affecting the global science system? Dr. Heather Ford is an American climate scientist working in London. In this mini-episode, she explains how scientific research….
In conversation with Dr. Heather Ford We hear a lot about the idea of getting ‘woke’ out of science, but what does that mean? In this mini-episode based on a….
All of us are standing by a stream, experiencing the downstream effects of decisions made in Washington. This week, I felt those decisions acutely. Visit Substack to read the text,….
On April 5, 2025 Dr. Heather Ford joined other scientists around the United States to protest the Trump Administration’s witch hunt against his imagined “woke science agenda.” Since World War….
Why are you proud to be American? In these interviews at an Independence Day parade on Coastal California, residents talk about reaching for their pride at a time when our political landscape is so fraught.
