Making Science Public
Becoming Tom Good
May 1, 2013
Research can do funny things to a Fellow. For example, I work on the food provisioning project as part of the Leverhulme programme. I am, therefore, interested in food beyond being concerned with what my dinner tonight will be. However, before this spring that interest did not extend to trying to grow my own food. …
Unseasonable weather; unseasonable climate? Facts, fictions and fantasies
July 15, 2012
I have just come back from a place in Dorset that my husband’s family has visited every summer for the last forty years or so and that I have visited for the last twenty. I sometimes needed to take and wear an anorak. This has changed and I have been wearing it more often over …
GM food, war metaphors and the perils of political entrenchment
June 3, 2012
It’s the Jubilee weekend. It’s raining. So I am looking through some tweets. Some make me think I should cheer myself up by writing a blog about songs used to make science (especially quantum physics!) public, others make me think that I really should write something about war metaphors in the current GM debate. As …
Putting Science in its Place
March 30, 2012
Guest post by Beverley Gibbs (Beverley.Gibbs@nottingham.ac.uk), PhD student at the Institute for Science and Society I was at a seminar a few weeks ago at Nottingham University on The Political Economy of Food Security by Gerardo Otero who is visiting us from Canada. Gerardo has published empirical studies analysing the impact of biotechnology on small …
MSP bookmarks
- Let's review the peer review process May 21, 2013
- Physicist: data opacity belies journal’s transparency May 21, 2013
- Impact agendas and public value via @cliveyb May 21, 2013
- Concordat on Openness on Animal Research | Understanding Animal Research May 21, 2013
- Taking the Corporate Pound- Why Universities and Companies Collaborate | attheinterface May 17, 2013
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