Podcasts about Science studies

Doris Zallen, PhD, is Professor Emerita of Science Studies and Humanities at Virginia Tech. Her research explores personal, family, and societal issues arising from advances in genetic testing and gene therapy. Zallen is the author of two books about genetic testing and is developing an online tool to help people make informed choices about testing. Zallen […] The post Genetic Testing; Conversation with a Researcher and Patient Advocate (HLOL #260) appeared first on Health Literacy Out Loud Podcast.

America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Randall Bock – The real work began when he started running replications on public health studies — many of them well-funded, widely cited, and, by his count, mostly junk. “If their results are magnitudes or even directionally different from what I come up with,” he says, “then I say they don't replicate.” Drugs are his focal point. Especially opioids. Rich doesn't buy the...

America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Randall Bock – The real work began when he started running replications on public health studies — many of them well-funded, widely cited, and, by his count, mostly junk. “If their results are magnitudes or even directionally different from what I come up with,” he says, “then I say they don't replicate.” Drugs are his focal point. Especially opioids. Rich doesn't buy the...

Japanese man marries his classmate's mom and likes her pheromones. Scientists are trying to find out why all hockey players sounds Canadian. Two arrested for using a cannon to launch drugs into a prison. // SUPPORT by joining the Weird AF News Patreon http://patreon.com/weirdafnews - OR buy Jonesy a coffee at http://buymeacoffee.com/funnyjones Buy MERCH: https://weirdafnews.merchmake.com/ - Check out the official website https://WeirdAFnews.com and FOLLOW host Jonesy at http://instagram.com/funnyjones

This episode we are joined by the brilliant Stefan Gaillard, the co-founder and current chair of the Journal of Trial & Error, a journal dedicated to highlighting the importance of trial and error in scientific practice and scholarship.Trial and error is part of the scientific method but most of us are risk averse because we are so afraid of failure or we take great lengths to cover up anyone finding out that we have failed. There is so much shame around admitting to failure, especially in cybersecurity when, lets face it, most of us will experience the failure of our security controls eventually. But to hide from failure, not only from ourselves but also our peers, means missing out on important learning opportunities. We need to change this! If we don't think about failure more, we are doomed to keep failing.This episode we explore the importance of removing the stigma from failure, the benefits AND the dangers of tech's ‘fail-fast' mentality, what it's like to live in the information overload age and finally, the importance of trial and error. Key Takeaways:Removing the Stigma of Failure: Learn why it's crucial to view failure as a stepping stone rather than a setback. Stefan discusses how changing our perception of failure can lead to more innovative solutions.Blame the System, Not the Individual: Discover the importance of considering human factors in cybersecurity incidents. Stefan explains why blaming individuals is often counterproductive and how systemic changes can prevent future errors.The Information Overload Age: We've left the "Information Age" behind and entered the era of "Information Overload." With so much data and misinformation circulating, how do we stay focused and make informed decisions? Stefan shares his thoughts on how to navigate this landscape while avoiding cognitive overload.Fail Fast, Innovate Faster: What are the pros and cons of a "fail-fast" mentality in tech? Stefan takes us through the benefits of quick iteration and the dangers of overpromising, using examples from AI winters and the current AI hype cycle. Understanding when to abandon a product or pivot can be the difference between success and stagnation.Changing your mind is part of progress. Don't fear shifting narratives when presented with new facts.Keywords: cybersecurity, trial and error, testing, failure, experimentationShow NotesThe Journal of Trial and ErrorThe British Library's Cybersecurity Incident ReviewCountering the Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Underpinnings Behind Susceptibility to Fake News: A Review of Current Literature With Special Focus on the Role of Age and Digital LiteracyOverpromising in science and technology: An evaluative conceptualizationTen simple rules for failing successfully in academiaAbout Stefan GaillardStefan Gaillard is the co-founder and current chair of the Journal of Trial & Error, a journal dedicated to highlighting the importance of trial and error in scientific practice and scholarship. For this work he was selected for the Forbes 30 Under 30 list of 2024. Besides chairing the journal, Gaillard is currently pursuing a PhD in ‘Philosophy and Science Studies'. His research focuses on overpromising – what is it, how can we recognize it and when does science fail to correct it? In addition, he is project coordinator at The New Utrecht School, an interdisciplinary platform for urgent discussions on the interaction between the health domain, the arts, and the sciences and humanities. The New Utrecht School and the Journal of Trial and Error are currently hosting a series of lunch lectures and publishing a special issue on ‘Scientific failure and uncertainty in the health domain'.LINKS FOR Stefan GaillardStefan's LinkedInStefan's X Account

Steven Spielberg who? No Really, who is that guy? It don't matter anyway, because this episode Jack breaks down his plan for a final paper for his master's programming on war and film. We talk about Come and See, Saving Pvt. Ryan, Schindler's List. We also discuss House of the Dragon, because that too covers WWII.

Topics discussed on today's show: National Zipper Day, Stagecoach, Krak House, Politics, Tornado, Breakfast Breads, Food News, Cancer and HIV, Science Studies, Birthdays, History Quiz, 20 in 24, State of the Nation, Bullied, FAFO Stories, and Apologies.

Rice University -- hey, that's a well-respected school! -- is leading the fight against white supremacy and landing a smashing a blow to the Patriarchy! How? By the introduction of AFROCHEMISTRY, by which the inequity and bias of chemical reactions can be examined and confessed to. Another huge win for Science Studies! Join our crack team of elite anti-elitists by becoming a member or making a one-time donation right here: https://billwhittle.com/register/

In the last episode of the podcast, Amy and Leah explored the ins and outs of Charlotte Mason nature study. While nature study is the foundation for the study of science, there is plenty more to this broad discipline, and so we decided to take an episode to deep dive into Charlotte Mason science. We talk about how to use living books, why we need to make science hands on, and how science is inspiring our own kids. View full show notes on our website: https://thinkinglove.education/2023/10/26/inspiring-living-science/    Subscribe to our newsletter: https://thinkinglove.education/newsletter 

Welcome to Angela's Symposium, your trusted source for scholarly discussions on magic, esotericism, Paganism, and the occult. In today's episode, we are honoured to host Peter J. Carroll, a pioneering figure in Chaos Magick. From the evolution of Chaos Magick to its relationship with technology and empirical science, this interview covers it all. Peter J. Carroll is a key figure in the development of Chaos Magick, and he has authored several books that have become foundational texts in the field. Here is a list of some of his notable works: 1. "Liber Null & Psychonaut" (1987) - https://amzn.to/3LYrvb9 2. "Liber Kaos" (1992) - https://amzn.to/3PVXyK2 3. "PsyberMagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magick" (1995) - https://amzn.to/3S0QBKe 4. "The Apophenion: A Chaos Magick Paradigm" (2008) - https://amzn.to/3QiJR9g 5. "The Octavo: A Sorcerer-Scientist's Grimoire" (2010) - https://amzn.to/45xpwRV 6. "EPOCH: The Esotericon & Portals of Chaos" (2014) - https://amzn.to/3S5ZouB Peter J. Carroll's official website is Specularium (https://www.specularium.org/), where you can find more information about his works, theories, and other contributions to the field of Chaos Magick and esoteric studies. Please note that the years mentioned are for the original publications. CONNECT & SUPPORT

Welcome CEO and Co-Founder of Citruslabs, Susanne Mitschke to The Whole View! Stacy and Susanne dive into what questions to ask as consumers when researching supplements and cosmetics and why transparency is key in finding brands that are meeting safety and efficacy standards. Susanne gives listeners a crash course in clinical trials, consumer perception studies, and in decoding substantiated product claims amid marketing fluff.  Find Susanne & Citruslabs: Citruslabs.com Linkedin.com/company/citruslabs Linkedin.com/in/susannemitschke Find educational webinars at Citruslabs.com/recorded-citruslabs-webinars Don't forget to subscribe to this channel and visit realeverything.com! If you haven't yet unlocked your bonus content, checkout patreon.com/thewholeview. Your subscription goes to support this show and gets you direct access to submit your questions! We also want to give a big thank you to this week's sponsors! Vegamour.com/wholeview | Use code WHOLEVIEW for 20% off your first order ButcherBox.com/wholeview | Use code WHOLEVIEW to receive Ground Beef for Life + 20 dollars off your first order.  Puori.com/wholeview | Use code WHOLEVIEW to get 20% off sitewide Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If teaching science (or even the idea of teaching science) stresses you out, then pour yourself a cup of coffee and join Carrie for a little coffee break this week.   No textbook? No problem!  In this week's podcast, Carrie shares how to plan, organize, and implement an entire year of science studies that the entire family will enjoy.  No matter what your budget, time restraints, the age of your children, or science knowledge, Carrie will show you how to make your science studies this year simple, stress-free, and super fun.  Pour yourself a cup of coffee, put your feet up, and join Carrie for a little coffee break.Support the showTo purchase Carrie's homeschooling book, Just Breathe (and Take a Sip of Coffee): Homeschool in Step with God), visit Amazon.com. To subscribe to Coffee With Carrie email newsletter and blog, visit https://coffeewithcarrie.org To hear more podcasts about homeschooling, subscribe to Coffee With Carrie Podcast. New episodes are dropped every Thursday.If you enjoy CWC Podcasts, we would love for you to leave a review and a 5-Star Rating. Click HERE#coffeewithcarriepodcast#justbreathesipcoffee#homeschoolencouragement#homeschoolwithcarrie#simplehomeschooling#sabbathhomeschooling

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This week we talk about the Nature of Science. A concept that came out of Science Studies and helped us better understand science as a practice. Things that bring us joy this week: Collaborative Spotify Playlist (https://explore.spotify.com/us/pages/mobile-feature-share-collaborative-playlists) Marvel Snap (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/marvel-snap/id1592081003) on iOS Intro/Outro Music: Notice of Eviction by Legally Blind (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Legally_Blind)

Quantitative Science Studies (QSS) is a newly launched open access journal that was born out of a collaboration between the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI) and the MIT Press. In this episode, Editor-in-Chief Ludo Waltman discusses the origins of QSS, its growing inaugural issue, and its future as a publishing outlet run for and by the scientometric community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/science-technology-and-society

Quantitative Science Studies (QSS) is a newly launched open access journal that was born out of a collaboration between the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI) and the MIT Press. In this episode, Editor-in-Chief Ludo Waltman discusses the origins of QSS, its growing inaugural issue, and its future as a publishing outlet run for and by the scientometric community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Colonel Alex Cann serves as both Chief Instructor, Ghana Military Academy and Operations and Training Staff Officer, Headquarters Central Command, Ghana Army, as well as a Research Fellow, Africa Research Institute, Doctoral School on Security and Safety Sciences, Obuda University. Colonel Cann has over 20 years of military experience with extensive backgrounds in Leadership, Security Policy, Operations Management, Humanitarian Operations, Program Management, Monitoring & Evaluation, Training, And Conflict, Crisis & Security Management. His extensive, management and leadership experience and positions on national and international United Nation missions has equipped him with a variety critical problem-solving skills. Colonel Cann is also a professional security management specialist, a certified protection professional, Senior Consultant for United Nations Institute for Training and Research's Multilateral Diplomacy Program, a member and Subject Matter Expert for the International Association of Professionals in Humanitarian Assistance and Protection (PHAP) Program, and a member of ASIS International, an American professional security management group with about 40,000 members. Colonel Cann previously has served in a wide variety assignments including as Chief Military Training and Evaluation Officer of UN Peacekeeping Mission in Mali; led the operational, logistics, and administrative efficiency of Ghanaian troops UN peacekeepers in South Sudan; led an international team of commissioned Officers to monitor and report cease fire violations in a remote village in Democratic Republic of Congo; served as Director of Army Peacekeeping Operations, Army Headquarters in the Ghana Army. Colonel Cann has studied at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration with a focus on Public Administration and Defense and Conflict studies, the Ghana Military Academy, with a focus on Military Operational Art and Science Studies, has an MBA in Finance from University of Leicester, and is currently completing his PhD, with a focus on Conflict Analysis and Resolution. Support the show

Why are equality, diversity, and inclusion policies important in the academy? The roundtables will discuss the following questions: To what extent are issues embedded or inherent in political science, certain subfields, paradigmatic models, theoretical, conceptual or methodological approaches, or which organizations and institutional environments are more prone to lack of equality, diversity and inclusion. Chair: Petra Meier, Universiteit Antwerpen Panel Discussants: Shardia Briscoe-Palmer, University of Nottingham; Assem Dandashly, Maastricht Universiteit; Merli Tamtik, University of Manitoba, Canada; Reeta Tremblay, University of Victoria ---- Music by Lost Harmonies. This podcast gives the views of the author(s), and not the position of the Department of Political Science. This work by the Department of Political Science at the University of Innsbruck is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).

Mike sits down with Dr. Scull, a Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Science Studies from the University of California San Diego to discuss his latest book, Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry's Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness. We cover the following topics: Intro. - Dr. Scull's background History of mental asylums (Begins at 8:20) People with serious mental illness have been unusually vulnerable to therapeutic experimentation Women and the marginalized were targets for experimentation Community care is a sham Crisis facing Contemporary psychiatry Link to Dr. Scull bio.

Happy Monday! In this episode, I finally got to chat face-to-face (over zoom) with my friend Caitlin who is a marine science student in Australia! We had a lot of fun chatting, comparing schooling and PhDs in America vs. Australia, as well as just sharing our mutual love of marine science. If you are thinking about studying marine science or have ever been curious about Australia this is the episode for you!Links referenced in the episode:My Honors Thesis Blog PostCaitlin's InstagramFollow Oceans of Hope on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok! Don't forget to rate and review the podcast and let me know what you are going to try out and explore in life! Please share this episode with your friends and family if you learned something new!

History is littered with promising innovations that failed to live up to their hype. This week on Disrupted, a look at three revolutionary but doomed disruptions and their legacy on our world today. What became of the made-up language Esperanto, the music streaming platform Napster, and the once-popular treatment for mental illness, the lobotomy? GUESTS: Andrew Scull: Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of the upcoming book, Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry's Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness  Arika Okrent: Linguist and author of the book In the Land of Invented Languages: Adventures in Linguistic Creativity, Madness, and Genius Joseph Menn: Technology reporter at the Washington Post and author of All the Rave: The Rise and Fall of Shawn Fanning's Napster  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Insightful discussion of society's attitude toward new research, and of the nature of science. Henry Bauer shares how science has becoming less trustworthy through conflicts of interest and excessive competitiveness. Evidence tending to challenge established theories is sometimes rejected without addressing its substance. Henry H. Bauer is Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Science Studies and Dean Emeritus of Arts & Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech). Earlier he had worked at the Universities of Sydney, Michigan, Southampton, and Kentucky. His publications include more than a hundred articles and eleven books, most recently Dogmatism in Science and Medicine: How Dominant Theories Monopolize Research and Stifle the Search for Truth From the Archives: This live interview was recorded on November 9, 2001 on the nationally syndicated radio program, hosted by Laura Lee . See more at www.lauralee.com 

Good Sunday brothers, sisters, & non believers. I hope you have an excellent day today!We are in a battle today of good vs evil. And the evil wants to use "science" as a weapon against WE THE PEOPLE which are GOD's Children. This young lady explains GOD vs science. There is no comparison or competition as GOD is Almighty, and "science" is an attempted explanation tied into lies. Do you have the will to follow GOD? Then we offer SM Lockridge "That is My King" segment from a sermon in the 1960s I think. It is an old sermon that is more relevant today than ever before as we are facing tyrants just as the Romans did in days of Jesus Christ. Stand strong brothers & sisters!!!For those who don't know Him, get to know Jesus Christ as He will change your life!!!

On episode 144, we welcome Andrew Scull to discuss the history of psychiatry and the competing perspectives of the origins of mental illness, the chemical imbalance myth and the various genetic and environmental aspects of depression, why mental health is better classified along dimensional lines rather than boxed into categories, the pharmaceutical industry's decision to curtail further research into mental illness, the myth of the mentally ill brain, the limits of genetic and neuroscientific research into emotional disorders, the stigma attached to the biological view of psychiatry, the bio-psycho-social model of mental health being the best explanatory model available, and Andrew's take on the future of psychiatry and psychedelic-assisted therapy. Andrew Scull is an award-winning author, sociologist, historian of psychiatry, and distinguished Professor of Sociology and Science Studies. He taught at the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton before going to the University of California San Diego. He won the Roy Porter Medal for lifetime contribution to the history of medicine and the Eric Carlson award for lifetime contributions to the history of psychiatry. His books include Museums of Madness, Decarceration, Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen, Social Order/Mental Disorder, and many more. His latest book, Desperate Remedies tells the story of psychiatry in the United States from the 19th-century asylum to 21st-century psychopharmacology. Andrew Scull | ► Psychology Today | https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/contributors/andrew-scull-phd ► Desperate Remedies Book Link | https://amzn.to/3wWzrSK Where you can find us: | Seize The Moment Podcast | ► Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/SeizeTheMoment ► Twitter | https://twitter.com/seize_podcast  ► Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/seizethemoment ► TikTok | https://www.tiktok.com/@seizethemomentpodcast ► Patreon | https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32208666

Written by one of the world's most distinguished historians of psychiatry, Psychiatry and Its Discontents provides a wide-ranging and critical perspective on the profession that dominates the treatment of mental illness. Andrew Scull traces the rise of the field, the midcentury hegemony of psychoanalytic methods, and the paradigm's decline with the ascendance of biological and pharmaceutical approaches to mental illness. Scull's historical sweep is broad, ranging from the age of the asylum to the rise of psychopharmacology and the dubious triumphs of “community care.” The essays in Psychiatry and Its Discontents provide a vivid and compelling portrait of the recurring crises of legitimacy experienced by “mad-doctors,” as psychiatrists were once called, and illustrates the impact of psychiatry's ideas and interventions on the lives of those afflicted with mental illness. About the Speaker Dr. Andrew Scull was educated at Oxford, Princeton and University College London; he is the author of more than a dozen books on mental illness and is widely regarded as one of the world's leading historians of psychiatry. Currently a distinguished research professor of sociology and science studies, he has also held faculty positions at Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania, and has been the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies, among others. His work has been translated into 200 languages, and his most recent book was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in history. A past president of the Society for the Social History of Medicine, he has appeared on television and radio on multiple occasions in North America, Europe and Australia. MLF ORGANIZER Patrick O'Reilly SPEAKERS Dr. Andrew Scull Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology and Science Studies, University of California San Diego Patrick O'Reilly Ph.D., Chair, Psychology Member-led Forum, The Commonwealth Club of California—Moderator In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are currently hosting all of our live programming via YouTube live stream. This program was recorded Live on August 2nd, 2022 by the Commonwealth Club of California. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our guest today is sociologist and author, Doctor Andrew Scull. Andrew is a professor of Sociology and Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego, and recipient of the Roy Porter Medal for lifetime contributions to the history of medicine and the Eric T. Carlson Award for lifetime contributions to the history of psychiatry. The author of more than a dozen books, his work has been translated into more than fifteen languages and he has received fellowships from, among others, the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies and the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies. In this interview, we discuss his latest book, Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry's Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness, published by Harvard Press in May 2022. Dirk Wittenborn, the screenwriter and novelist, described the book as "A riveting chronicle of faulty science, false promises, arrogance, greed, and shocking disregard for the wellbeing of patients suffering from mental disorders. An eloquent, meticulously documented, clear-eyed call for change." *** If you find this podcast valuable, rating it 5 stars and leaving a review on iTunes or Spotify or sharing it on social media helps us to get the word out about these important conversations. Thank you.

Andrew Scull is an award-winning author, sociologist, historian of psychiatry, and distinguished Professor of Sociology and Science Studies. He received his B.A. from Oxford University and his Ph.D. from Princeton. He taught at the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton before going to the University of California San Diego. His books include Museums of Madness, Decarceration, Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen, Social Order/Mental Disorder, The Most Solitary of Afflictions: Madness and Society in Britain, and many more. His latest book, Desperate Remedies tells the story of psychiatry in the United States from the 19th-century asylum to 21st-century psychopharmacology. We talk about...  The different beliefs surrounding the origins of mental illness The desperate remedies psychiatry has used to cure mental illness What happened to mental health patients when asylums closed The impact the psychopharmacological revolution had on mental health The role drug companies played in perpetuating the chemical imbalance theory What Andrew thinks the future of psychiatry will look like Why it's easy to be seduced by the idea that there is an effective remedy to mental health struggles   Episode goodies...  Save 10% off your order of Kion coffee when you use code COURAGE at checkout.   Like the show? Please leave me a review here. Even just one sentence helps! Post a screenshot of you listening on Instagram and tag me at courageously.u so I can send you a virtual hug.    TODAY'S SHOW NOTES: https://courageouslyu.com/andrew-scull/   HANGOUT WITH ME ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/courageously.u/    

History is littered with promising innovations that failed to live up to their hype. This week on Disrupted, a look at three revolutionary but doomed disruptions and their legacy on our world today. What became of the made-up language Esperanto, the music streaming platform Napster, and the once-popular treatment for mental illness, the lobotomy? GUESTS: Andrew Scull: Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of the upcoming book, Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry's Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness  Arika Okrent: Linguist and author of the book In the Land of Invented Languages: Adventures in Linguistic Creativity, Madness, and Genius Joseph Menn: Technology reporter at the Washington Post and author of All the Rave: The Rise and Fall of Shawn Fanning's Napster Disrupted is produced by James Szkobel-Wolff, Zshekinah Collier, and Catie Talarski. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

May 10, 2022 - Join us as Dr. Todd A. Henry, Associate Professor in the Department of History and affiliate faculty member of Critical Gender Studies, Science Studies, and Film Studies at the University of California, San Diego (USCD), launches the Society's new Current Directions in Korea Studies Series. Dr. Henry, a specialist of modern Korea, a social and cultural historian, and an expert in LGBTQ studies, is well-suited to launch our new series. From 2013 to 2018, he served as the inaugural director of Transnational Korean Studies at UCSD and has researched, lectured, and written extensively on topics of place, race, identity, and nation. From his first book, Assimilating Seoul: Japanese Rule and the Politics of Public Space in Colonial Korea, 1910-1945 (University of California Press, 2014) — the Korean translation of which was awarded a 2020 Sejong Book Prize in History, Geography and Tourism — to his recent edited volume, Queer Korea (Duke University Press, 2020), as well as two forthcoming books and a co-produced documentary on queer histories of authoritarian South Korea (1948-1993), Dr. Henry has been a groundbreaking scholar and an empowering educator in the field. A frontrunner in promoting explorations of same-sex sexuality, gender variance, and other marginalized aspects of Korean society, culture, and history, Dr. Henry will examine how the field in general and his path specifically have evolved over the past few decades. He will discuss current scholarly, artistic, and activist approaches to non-normative embodiment, including the journey and impact of Queer Korea and his hopes for the future of Korean Studies. For more information, please visit the link below: https://www.koreasociety.org/education/item/1583-queerness-as-an-embodied-and-critical-approach-to-korean-studies-with-todd-henry

Marine science papers can be hard to interpret if you are not a scientist so I decided to take you through how to interpret them and where there could be some room for error. You may or may not have read a marine science journal article in the past, but there are certain things you need to know before you read them. First off, marine science searches for the truth using the scientific process. The studies can be proven wrong down the road, but the studies go through a rigorous review process before they are published. Connect with Speak Up For Blue: Website: https://bit.ly/3fOF3Wf Instagram: https://bit.ly/3rIaJSG Twitter: https://bit.ly/3rHZxpc 

Exposing ethical dilemmas of neuroscientific research on violence, this book warns against a dystopian future in which behavior is narrowly defined in relation to our biological makeup. Biological explanations for violence have existed for centuries, as has criticism of this kind of deterministic science, haunted by a long history of horrific abuse. Yet, this program has endured because of, and not despite, its notorious legacy. Today's scientists are well beyond the nature versus nurture debate. Instead, they contend that scientific progress has led to a natureandnurture, biological and social, stance that allows it to avoid the pitfalls of the past.  In Conviction: The Making and Unmaking of the Violent Brain (Stanford UP, 2021), Oliver Rollins cautions against this optimism, arguing that the way these categories are imagined belies a dangerous continuity between past and present. The late 80s ushered in a wave of techno-scientific advancements in the genetic and brain sciences. Rollins focuses on an often-ignored strand of research, the neuroscience of violence, which he argues became a key player in the larger conversation about the biological origins of criminal, violent behavior. Using powerful technologies, neuroscientists have rationalized an idea of the violent brain--or a brain that bears the marks of predisposition towards "dangerousness." Drawing on extensive analysis of neurobiological research, interviews with neuroscientists, and participant observation, Rollins finds that this construct of the brain is ill-equipped to deal with the complexities and contradictions of the social world, much less the ethical implications of informing treatment based on such simplified definitions. Rollins warns of the potentially devastating effects of a science that promises to "predict" criminals before the crime is committed, in a world that already understands violence largely through a politic of inequality. C.J. Valasek is a Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology & Science Studies at the University of California San Diego. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Exposing ethical dilemmas of neuroscientific research on violence, this book warns against a dystopian future in which behavior is narrowly defined in relation to our biological makeup. Biological explanations for violence have existed for centuries, as has criticism of this kind of deterministic science, haunted by a long history of horrific abuse. Yet, this program has endured because of, and not despite, its notorious legacy. Today's scientists are well beyond the nature versus nurture debate. Instead, they contend that scientific progress has led to a natureandnurture, biological and social, stance that allows it to avoid the pitfalls of the past.  In Conviction: The Making and Unmaking of the Violent Brain (Stanford UP, 2021), Oliver Rollins cautions against this optimism, arguing that the way these categories are imagined belies a dangerous continuity between past and present. The late 80s ushered in a wave of techno-scientific advancements in the genetic and brain sciences. Rollins focuses on an often-ignored strand of research, the neuroscience of violence, which he argues became a key player in the larger conversation about the biological origins of criminal, violent behavior. Using powerful technologies, neuroscientists have rationalized an idea of the violent brain--or a brain that bears the marks of predisposition towards "dangerousness." Drawing on extensive analysis of neurobiological research, interviews with neuroscientists, and participant observation, Rollins finds that this construct of the brain is ill-equipped to deal with the complexities and contradictions of the social world, much less the ethical implications of informing treatment based on such simplified definitions. Rollins warns of the potentially devastating effects of a science that promises to "predict" criminals before the crime is committed, in a world that already understands violence largely through a politic of inequality. C.J. Valasek is a Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology & Science Studies at the University of California San Diego. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/neuroscience

www.patreon.com/hootnhollerpod @hootnhollerpod on Twitter and Instagram facebook.com/hootnhollerpod hootnhollerpod@gmail.com "He said 'son if you ain't having fun just wait a little while Momma's gonna wash it all away" - Sturgill Simpson, 'Living the Dream' This week it's a split episode: first up, Joshua unsticks himself from a temporal anomaly to bring us hot gossip from the recent past; later, Pat sits down with Seth Merritt, a PhD candidate in Sociology and Science Studies at the University California San Diego, to talk about the IPCC report, the stakes, and the myriad obstacles to a livable future. It's a bleak one folks. Theme: "Old Shoes and Leggins" As sung by David Krussel, Turners Station, Missouri on March 26, 1975. Cat #1539 (MFH #687) in the Max Hunter Folk Song Collection at Missouri State University. Transition: "When The Moon Comes Down In Blood" As sung by Reba Dearmore, Mountain Home, Arkansas on January 7, 1969 #0647 (MFH #709) in the Max Hunter Folk Song Collection at Missouri State University.

Welcome to Tell Me More!, a podcast for amplifying the work of graduate students. In this episode, we hear from Joel Bergholtz, a fourth-year PhD candidate at Florida State University in the Department of English. Joel walks us through his dissertation project on birther artifacts and the spreading of birther conspiracies, or the notion that various politicians of color must be publicly investigated. Joel also talks about race-based skepticism in public spaces and what we can do to understand them. If you'd like to learn more, chat about digital literacy and methodology, or discuss his topic further, email Joel at jmb10c@my.fsu.edu. If you'd like to learn more about the show, find transcripts, or sign up to be a guest, please check out tellmemorepod.com. Feel free to follow us on Twitter at @TMM_Pod, too. See you in the next episode! Links to things discussed in this episode: Richard Nordquist. (2019, February 17). “What Does the Term ‘Doxa' Mean? Glossary of Grammatical and Rhetorical Terms.” ThoughtCo. Takis Poulakos. (2001). “Isocrates; Use of ‘Doxa.'” Philosophy & Rhetoric, 34(1), 61–78. Jennifer Sano-Franchini. (2015). “Cultural Rhetorics and the Digital Humanities: Toward Cultural Reflexivity in Digital Making.” In Jim Ridolfo and Bill Hart-Davidson (Eds.). Rhetoric and the Digital Humanities. The University of Chicago Press. Caroline Dadas. (2015). “Messy Methods: Queer Methodological Approaches to Researching Social Media.” Computers & Composition, 40, 60–72. John Law. (2003). “Making a Mess with Method.” Published by the Centre for Science Studies, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YN, UK. Elaine Chun, “The Meaning of Ching-Chong: Language, Racism, and Response in New Media.” In H. Samy Alim, Arnetha F. Ball & John R. Rickford (eds.). Raciolinguistics: How Language Shapes Our Ideas About Race, 81-96. New York: Oxford University Press. John R. Gallagher. (2019). “A Framework for Internet Case Study Methodology in Writing Studies.” Computers & Composition, 54.

Patrícia Martins Marcos maps out Portugal's designs for imperial civilisation in the 18th century, through Carlos Julião's Four Ports Panorama. From urban slaves to street peddlers, the Four Ports Panorama charts the diverse peoples of the Portuguese Empire on a universal path to civilisation, via clothing and Catholicism. Administrators and military men like Carlos Julião used the visual language of mapping to enforce assimilation within an exclusive Portuguese identity. But such maps reflect their makers' selective sight, revealing how Portugal really occupied a precarious, peripheral position by the 1780s. The Four Ports Panorama exposes the faulty design at empire's core - that abstract ambitions could only ever be concretised in violence and resistance. PRESENTER: Patrícia Martins Marcos, doctoral candidate in History and Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego, Visiting Scholar at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, and Associate Editor at the History of Anthropology Review. She specialises in the history of race, medicine, and visual culture in Portuguese colonialism. ART: Four Ports Panorama, Carlos Julião (c. 1780s). IMAGE: ‘Four Ports Panorama'. SOUNDS: Stealing Orchestra and Rafael Dionísio. PRODUCER: Jelena Sofronijevic. Follow EMPIRE LINES at: twitter.com/jelsofron/status/1306563558063271936 Support EMPIRE LINES on Patreon: patreon.com/empirelines

Podcast Intro and Outro Theme Song Audio - Playing indigo IG: @indigo.player77 Follow and listen to Playing indigo on Spotify for healing and anti-capitalist tunes Title Card and Social Media Design - Ariel Mengistu IG: @rellyrooo Arielmengistu.com On this week's episode of Foot On Yo' Neck we will be discussing Black Feminist Health Science Studies with Ugo Edu, who we first encountered as our professor at UCLA last year. However, Ugo's work and scholarship go so much further. Ugo's pronouns are she/her/hers and lives in So Cal. Ugo is a medical anthropologist and an Assistant Professor in the Department of African American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She received her PhD from the joint Medical Anthropology program at University of California, San Francisco/UC Berkeley, with a designated emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality. Ugo's scholarship has a strong interdisciplinary approach to issues of aesthetics, affect, race, gender, body knowledge and modification, and social justice. Her work is situated at the intersections of medical anthropology, public health, black feminism, and science, technology, and society studies. If you resonate with any part of our conversation and would like to further support Ugo's work, be sure to visit ugofedu.com Link to this episode's playlist: coming soon How You Can Support Our Podcast - Follow us on IG and Twitter @footonyoneck. Interact with us on these platforms too; we love reading the comments! Rate and review us on Apple Podcasts! We love our listeners so let us know how you feel! FYN needs financial support to keep this ship running so feel free to donate via Venmo: @planetcrab (Jana) and @Nia-McClinton.

Prison abolition and decarceration are increasingly debated, but it is often without taking into account the largest exodus of people from carceral facilities in the twentieth century: the closure of disability institutions and psychiatric hospitals. Decarcerating Disability (2020, University of Minnesota Press) provides a much-needed corrective, combining a genealogy of deinstitutionalization with critiques of the current prison system. Liat Ben-Moshe (https://www.liatbenmoshe.com/) provides groundbreaking case studies that show how abolition is not an unattainable goal but rather a reality, and how it plays out in different arenas of incarceration—antipsychiatry, the field of intellectual disabilities, and the fight against the prison-industrial complex. Ben-Moshe discusses a range of topics, including why deinstitutionalization is often wrongly blamed for the rise in incarceration; who resists decarceration and deinstitutionalization, and the coalitions opposing such resistance; and how understanding deinstitutionalization as a form of residential integration makes visible intersections with racial desegregation. By connecting deinstitutionalization with prison abolition, Decarcerating Disability also illuminates some of the limitations of disability rights and inclusion discourses, as well as tactics such as litigation, in securing freedom. Decarcerating Disability's rich analysis of lived experience, history, and culture helps to chart a way out of a failing system of incarceration. C.J. Valasek is a Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology & Science Studies at the University of California San Diego. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Prison abolition and decarceration are increasingly debated, but it is often without taking into account the largest exodus of people from carceral facilities in the twentieth century: the closure of disability institutions and psychiatric hospitals. Decarcerating Disability (2020, University of Minnesota Press) provides a much-needed corrective, combining a genealogy of deinstitutionalization with critiques of the current prison system. Liat Ben-Moshe (https://www.liatbenmoshe.com/) provides groundbreaking case studies that show how abolition is not an unattainable goal but rather a reality, and how it plays out in different arenas of incarceration—antipsychiatry, the field of intellectual disabilities, and the fight against the prison-industrial complex. Ben-Moshe discusses a range of topics, including why deinstitutionalization is often wrongly blamed for the rise in incarceration; who resists decarceration and deinstitutionalization, and the coalitions opposing such resistance; and how understanding deinstitutionalization as a form of residential integration makes visible intersections with racial desegregation. By connecting deinstitutionalization with prison abolition, Decarcerating Disability also illuminates some of the limitations of disability rights and inclusion discourses, as well as tactics such as litigation, in securing freedom. Decarcerating Disability's rich analysis of lived experience, history, and culture helps to chart a way out of a failing system of incarceration. C.J. Valasek is a Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology & Science Studies at the University of California San Diego. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Prison abolition and decarceration are increasingly debated, but it is often without taking into account the largest exodus of people from carceral facilities in the twentieth century: the closure of disability institutions and psychiatric hospitals. Decarcerating Disability (2020, University of Minnesota Press) provides a much-needed corrective, combining a genealogy of deinstitutionalization with critiques of the current prison system. Liat Ben-Moshe (https://www.liatbenmoshe.com/) provides groundbreaking case studies that show how abolition is not an unattainable goal but rather a reality, and how it plays out in different arenas of incarceration—antipsychiatry, the field of intellectual disabilities, and the fight against the prison-industrial complex. Ben-Moshe discusses a range of topics, including why deinstitutionalization is often wrongly blamed for the rise in incarceration; who resists decarceration and deinstitutionalization, and the coalitions opposing such resistance; and how understanding deinstitutionalization as a form of residential integration makes visible intersections with racial desegregation. By connecting deinstitutionalization with prison abolition, Decarcerating Disability also illuminates some of the limitations of disability rights and inclusion discourses, as well as tactics such as litigation, in securing freedom. Decarcerating Disability's rich analysis of lived experience, history, and culture helps to chart a way out of a failing system of incarceration. C.J. Valasek is a Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology & Science Studies at the University of California San Diego. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jim Crow Sociology: The Black and Southern Roots of American Sociology (U Cincinnati Press, 2020) is an extraordinary new volume that examines the origin, development, and significance of Black Sociology through the accomplishments of early African American sociologists at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) such as Atlanta University, Tuskegee Institute, Fisk University, and Howard University. Black Sociology is a concept that weaponizes the discipline for that which is “right and good" and prioritizes scholar-activist inspired research directed at impacting real world conditions of African Americans. Guided by this approach, this book debunks the idea that the sociology practiced by early African Americans does not exemplify scholarly excellence. Instead, Earl Wright II demonstrates that Tuskegee Institute, under the leadership of Booker T. Washington, established the first applied program of rural sociology. Fisk University, first under the guidance of George Edmund Haynes then Charles S. Johnson, developed one of the earliest and most impactful programs of applied urban sociology. Wright extends our understanding of W. E. B. Du Bois's Atlanta Sociological Laboratory with an articulation of the contributions of women to the first American school of sociology.  Jim Crow Sociology forces contemporary scholars to grapple with who are and who are not included in the disciplinary canon. Specifically, this book forces us to ask why early African American sociologists and HBCUs are not canonized. What makes this book most consequential is that it provides evidence supporting the proposition that sociology began in earnest in the United States as a Black and southern enterprise. C.J. Valasek is a Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology & Science Studies at the University of California San Diego. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When is sorrow sickness? That is the question that this book asks, exploring how our understandings of sadness, melancholy, depression, mania and anxiety have changed over time, and how societies have tried to treat something which lies on the border between the natural and the pathological. Jonathan Sadowsky's book The Empire of Depression: A New History (Polity, 2020) explores the various medical treatments for depression, classed as a modern illness with definite (but changing) symptoms from the 20th century onwards, in relation to a longer history of treatments for ‘melancholia' and related states considered either as biological or social sicknesses or as a natural part of some people's constitution. He also compares the western history of medicalising depression with the experiences of both sadness and clinical depression in non-western cultures, such as Nigeria and Japan. He asks, what have we lost as a consequence of the hegemony of the western clinical model, and how can we reclaim the patient experience in the face of sometimes hostile doctors and pharmaceutical companies? The book is poetic but well-researched, written by a leading medical historian, and distinguished from the crowd of books about depression through its global focus, and its historical rigour. C.J. Valasek is a Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology & Science Studies at the University of California San Diego. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When is sorrow sickness? That is the question that this book asks, exploring how our understandings of sadness, melancholy, depression, mania and anxiety have changed over time, and how societies have tried to treat something which lies on the border between the natural and the pathological. Jonathan Sadowsky's book The Empire of Depression: A New History (Polity, 2020) explores the various medical treatments for depression, classed as a modern illness with definite (but changing) symptoms from the 20th century onwards, in relation to a longer history of treatments for ‘melancholia' and related states considered either as biological or social sicknesses or as a natural part of some people's constitution. He also compares the western history of medicalising depression with the experiences of both sadness and clinical depression in non-western cultures, such as Nigeria and Japan. He asks, what have we lost as a consequence of the hegemony of the western clinical model, and how can we reclaim the patient experience in the face of sometimes hostile doctors and pharmaceutical companies? The book is poetic but well-researched, written by a leading medical historian, and distinguished from the crowd of books about depression through its global focus, and its historical rigour. C.J. Valasek is a Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology & Science Studies at the University of California San Diego. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/neuroscience

We so often take our senses as natural, but perhaps we should understand them as historically situated. Sensory Experiments: Psychophysics, Race and the Aesthetics of Feeling (Duke University Press, 2020) allows us to reconsider the history of psychophysics and psychology through the lens of sensory studies and to rethinking science in the context of racial capitalism. Breathing new life into nineteenth century psychophysics, Erica Fretwell presents a history of how science, technology, and literature came together to both reinforce and challenge racial boundaries.  While each central chapter of Sensory Experiments deals with the recognized five senses, Fretwell also writes short intervals, or what she calls intervals, on the synthesis of particular senses (for instance, color and sound or mouthfeel). The synthesia assumed in these intervals challenge the hierarchy of senses often assumed by scientists during this time period. Through examining these scientific models of sense and sensitivity, Fretwell provides the reader with the nineteenth and early twentieth century evolutionary frameworks of Lamarckism and Darwinism, alongside Galton's eugenics program. Fretwell contrasts these theories with psychophysics, including the spiritually motivated psychophysicist, Gustav Fechner, as well as many media and literature that focuses on sensitivity. Spirit photography provides one such example, a visual medium intended to provide some healing to family members who lost loved ones during the American Civil War. Through these images sight is transformed into a sense of loss; this was particularly the case for white bodies, which were more likely to have their pictures taken and more likely to be seen as “particularly capable of feeling loss.” To help us understand the racial politics of sound, Fretwell not only turns to the nascent field of psychoacoustics led by Hermann Helmholtz, but also the utopian fiction stories of Pauline Hopkins and Edward Bellamy. Each of these writers thought that differences in tonal sensitivity renders difference as racialized, and thus promoted segregated forms of social harmony from the most sensitive, civilized ear to the least sensitive, “primitive” ear. Meanwhile, inventions in chemistry and manufacturing of perfume performed functions of designating socially appropriate odors, which often segregated individuals by race and gender, while at other times challenging such segregation. In her taste chapter, Fretwell positions gastronomy and culinary science as ostensibly racial uplift projects. This can be further seen in Fretwell's discussion of the racial framing of sweetness and black cake (the latter of which is taken up in the work of Emily Dickinson). In her penultimate chapter, Fretwell explores the relationality of touch through some of Helen Keller's biography. While figures such as W.E.B. Du Bois thought that Keller could be an example of going beyond the sight of racial differences, as Fretwell points out, Keller, a deaf-blind woman, was actually attentive to the sensation of racial difference. In the Coda, Fretwell implores humanities and social science scholars to think about the historical dimensions of our sensory experiences. Overall, Sensory Experiments delivers a much needed history of senses that can provide important context for the racial politics of today.  C.J. Valasek is a Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology & Science Studies at the University of California San Diego. CJ's research interests include the history of the human sciences, the influence of the behavioral sciences on medical practice and health policy, and digital wellness culture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brandi Bernoskie is owner and Chief Alchemist at Alchemy+Aim, a website development and business strategy agency that helps thought-leaders and entrepreneurs craft custom websites to enhance client experience and help them step into their genius work. She has always sought to find new ways to co-create with collaborators and clients, and to connect people with each other and help them craft bigger picture visions for themselves and their companies, by combining insightful questioning with strategic planning. Her path and diverse background (BFA in Theatre with minors in Physics and Math from New York University; BA in Physics, Philosophy and Religion from Rutgers University, and graduate work at University of California San Diego in Philosophy of Science and Science Studies) has informed her work deeply as she integrates the practical with the esoteric to help inspire a new conversations around what we can create in business and life. Here's what we cover during episode 042: How I met Brandi, and why we both believe biz friendships are a key element of success as a creative business owner The story behind her original dream of going into theatre and why she changed her mind Why asking “am I willing to give up what I love, to do what I love” has helped her continue to love what she does every day Why she doesn't think you should sacrifice what you love to do what you love The story behind the A-List client she said no to The perspective she takes when deciding when to take on (or not take on) a client The type of next-level convos you should have when you have a business How much money she made when she first got started The client she got 6 months after she started her business - and how the relationship has grown over the years Her tips for building awesome relationships with clients Why referrals and relationships have been her biggest client attraction method Why her first hire was a project manager and how they helped her The incredible learning experience she had to go through when hiring her first developer What her team looks like today Why 2018 was her best financial year yet, yet one of the hardest years Her tips for those who may have to care for loved ones while running a business Tips for designers who want to go from freelancer to CEO Links mentioned: Brandi's Company Website Like what you heard? Click here to subscribe + leave a review on iTunes. Click here to join the free community!  Let's connect on Instagram!

While most people in the US are familiar with the ubiquitous Kellogg cereal brand, few know how it relates to US geography, science and technology around the turn of the 20th century. In A Geography of Digestion: Biotechnology and the Kellogg Enterprise (University of California Press, 2017), Nicholas Bauch explores the digestive system as a sociomaterial landscape developed from the Battle Creek Sanitarium, as run by Dr. John Kellogg. Bauch wants to focus less on Kellogg the man, but rather on Kellogg's ability to enroll actants (a la Latour) in his geographical digestive network. Kellogg's religious background as a Seventh-Day Adventist, and his scientific and medical training, made purity and cleanliness his central goals at the Battle Creek Sanitarium. Responding to the social and personal problems of indigestion and stagnation, Kellogg instituted a regime of tests, procedures and strict dieting (amongst other restrictions) to cure such prevalent ills. Kellogg thought that natural food was too impure a diet, so instead he turned to highly processed foods as developed in his experimental kitchen, which incidentally was how the first cereal flakes were made. Even with such plain and processed dieting, Kellogg found the human digestive system unable to process substances efficiently on its own. This problem led Kellogg to conceptualize an extended digestive system by developing a sewage system. Eventually, Kellogg became reliant upon industrial farming in rural Michigan. New developments in industrial equipment, such as grain-threshing machines, and industrial chemicals, to enrich the soil, provided a relatively clean and efficient food production process to fulfill the sanitarium's needs. Before his death, Kellogg thus purified the nature/culture binary of food in favor of scientific approach, and engineered a collective digestive system across Battle Creek and nearby areas. While some of Kellogg's ideas seem antiquarian to today's standards, Bauch makes a compelling argument for why we can see Kellogg's paradoxical influence on today's US food production and consumption. While Kellogg railed against the dominant “natural” cuisine of his day in favor of a new approach to processed foods, the new food movements of today are decidedly critical of processed foods; while Kellogg wanted zero bacteria in the gut, today there are numerous products that are probiotics. What the new food movements gain from Kellogg is not his precise views, but rather his focus on the gut and the potential medicinal properties of food. A Geography of Digestion presents not only a geographical history, but a methodology for exploring sociomaterial processes as landscapes for future researchers to use in other contexts. As such, scholars interested in the relation between science and space, food studies, and materialist approaches to the body will find much use of this recently published work. Chad J. Valasek is a Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology & Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego. His research interests includes the history of the human sciences, the influence of the behavioral sciences on medical practice and health policy, and political activism around science and the arts. You can follow him on Twitter @chadjvalasek. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A fundamental problem in science, and in philosophy of science, is that of theory choice. Scientists propose theories to explain data, but when two scientific theories can both explain the same data, what criteria do scientists use to choose between them? And given that even very popular scientific theories can turn out to be wrong, how are the criteria for theory choice related to truth? Do scientists even aim at true theories, as realists hold, or, as anti-realists hold, do they just care that the theories can explain what's observed? In Theoretical Virtues in Science: Uncovering Reality Through Theory (Cambridge University Press, 2018), Samuel Schindler lays out an extended case for realism based on a close critical look at the main virtues that scientific theories are thought to aim for besides empirical adequacy, such as simplicity, explanatory scope, and fruitfulness. On Schindler's view, the extra-empirical virtues are also epistemic: for example, a simpler theory is also more likely to be true, and so scientists are epistemically justified in choosing a simpler theory over an empirically adequate but more complicated rival. Schindler, who is associate professor at the Centre for Science Studies at Aarhus University in Denmark provides an excellent discussion of the theoretical virtues themselves, their roles in actual theory choices, and their roles in realist-anti-realist debates about the nature of scientific theories.

Beginning with a discussion about Black Lives Matter may seem like an unlikely place to start a book about nineteenth century science and culture. However, by contrasting Black lives with White feelings, Kyla Schuller sets up the central conflict of her book. The Biopolitics of Feeling: Race, Sex, and Science in the Nineteenth Century (Duke University Press, 2017) interrogates the role of sexual difference in the management of racialized populations, making this book a necessary read for understanding the history of such current social movements as Black Lives Matter and the trans* exclusionary “Pussy hat” feminism. From the very beginning of the book, our conceptions of nineteenth-century science are challenged. For much of the century, many US scientists championed Jean-Baptiste Lamarck over Charles Darwin as their most prominent influence. In their quest to refute determinist theories of heredity, the neo-Lamarckians of the American School of Evolution advocated for a self-directed version of evolution. These scientists argued that Anglo-Saxons have the most adaptable features and impressionable heredity. This impressionability was what made Whites more sentimental and civilized than other races, who were not as impressionable and seen as largely stuck in a prior stage of progressivist evolution, according to E.D. Cope and the American School of Evolution. Whites were also seen as having greater sexual dimorphism than other races, while women of color were not seen as achieving true womanhood. Kyla therefore finds the origin of binary sex enveloped in racialized difference. Beyond the subject of evolutionary science, this book introduces us to the Black uplift project of Frances Harper, the vagina politics of Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell and Dr. Mary Walker, the biophilanthropy of Charles Loring Brace, and the assemblage theories of W.E.B. DuBois. The Biopolitics of Feeling is packed with interesting, and sometimes shocking, historical anecdotes, such as Walker's sex advice book to men in 1878, E.D. Cope's sometimes destructive and violent rivalry with O.C. Marsh, and the “orphan trains” that took two hundred thousand kids out West for educational and labor purposes. The breadth of this book shouldd be of interest to a number of scholars interested in the history of science, literature, and medicine. Meanwhile, Kyla's engagement and challenge to New Materialist theories is likely to be canonical for future Feminist STS scholars. Chad J. Valasek is a Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology & Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego. His research interests includes the history of the human sciences, the influence of the behavioral sciences on medical practice and health policy, and political activism around science and the arts. You can follow him on Twitter @chadjvalasek. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Beginning with a discussion about Black Lives Matter may seem like an unlikely place to start a book about nineteenth century science and culture. However, by contrasting Black lives with White feelings, Kyla Schuller sets up the central conflict of her book. The Biopolitics of Feeling: Race, Sex, and Science in the Nineteenth Century (Duke University Press, 2017) interrogates the role of sexual difference in the management of racialized populations, making this book a necessary read for understanding the history of such current social movements as Black Lives Matter and the trans* exclusionary “Pussy hat” feminism. From the very beginning of the book, our conceptions of nineteenth-century science are challenged. For much of the century, many US scientists championed Jean-Baptiste Lamarck over Charles Darwin as their most prominent influence. In their quest to refute determinist theories of heredity, the neo-Lamarckians of the American School of Evolution advocated for a self-directed version of evolution. These scientists argued that Anglo-Saxons have the most adaptable features and impressionable heredity. This impressionability was what made Whites more sentimental and civilized than other races, who were not as impressionable and seen as largely stuck in a prior stage of progressivist evolution, according to E.D. Cope and the American School of Evolution. Whites were also seen as having greater sexual dimorphism than other races, while women of color were not seen as achieving true womanhood. Kyla therefore finds the origin of binary sex enveloped in racialized difference. Beyond the subject of evolutionary science, this book introduces us to the Black uplift project of Frances Harper, the vagina politics of Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell and Dr. Mary Walker, the biophilanthropy of Charles Loring Brace, and the assemblage theories of W.E.B. DuBois. The Biopolitics of Feeling is packed with interesting, and sometimes shocking, historical anecdotes, such as Walker's sex advice book to men in 1878, E.D. Cope's sometimes destructive and violent rivalry with O.C. Marsh, and the “orphan trains” that took two hundred thousand kids out West for educational and labor purposes. The breadth of this book shouldd be of interest to a number of scholars interested in the history of science, literature, and medicine. Meanwhile, Kyla's engagement and challenge to New Materialist theories is likely to be canonical for future Feminist STS scholars. Chad J. Valasek is a Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology & Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego. His research interests includes the history of the human sciences, the influence of the behavioral sciences on medical practice and health policy, and political activism around science and the arts. You can follow him on Twitter @chadjvalasek. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“What is needed now is not liberal reform or withdrawal, but a radical attack, a strategy of opposition. Scientific workers must develop ways to put their skills at the service of the people and against the oppressors.” (Zimmerman, et al. 1972). Following the 2014 conference, “Science for the People: The 1970s and Today,” Sigrid Schmalzer, Daniel Chard, and Alyssa Botelho, edited a volume of the Science for the People (SftP) movement, curating numerous documents from the group that are as relevant today as when they were published several decades ago. Science for the People: Documents from America's Movement of Radical Scientists (University of Massachusetts Press, 2018) encapsulates the diverse themes, research, and actions of the movement, which included chapters across the US at one time. Emerging from the radical political culture of the 1960s, and predecessor group, Scientists for Social and Political Action, SftP challenged the value-neutrality of science and technology, and instead sought to democratize science by engaging with other political movements and conducting research with non-experts. While much scientific research continues to be funded by the state or by corporations, SftP provided grassroots scientific and technological assistance and education in a multitude of settings. Just to take a few examples from the volume, these efforts included research for social movements, providing electrical power for a Black Panther free medical clinic, promoting the farming technique of intercropping, as well as distributing resources, literature and education to countries such as Vietnam and Nicaragua. The direction of assistance between SftP and other groups was rarely one-sided, as SftP members absorbed knowledge from other movements and places, as documented in the China: Science Walks on Two Legs selection, wherein several SftP members visited China and learned about some of the traditional science and peasant research conducted in the nation. In addition, through working groups and publications, SftP critiqued racist and sexist science, reductionist biology, nuclear power, weapons research, commercial agriculture, US imperialism, and much more. As their many articles and actions show, SftP did more than just critique mainstream science, they attempted to provide alternatives. Finally, SftP had a formative and lasting effect on Science and Technology Studies through its various studies on the social embeddedness of science and its political uses. Since the 2014 conference, Science for the People has been revitalized through new efforts. Check out https://scienceforthepeople.org/ to see continued and original projects. Chad J. Valasek is a Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology & Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego. His research interests includes the history of the human sciences, the influence of the behavioral sciences on medical practice and health policy, and political activism around science and the arts. Follow him on Twitter @chadjvalasek. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1 - David Drucker from the Washington Examiner talks 2016 stuff with us. 2 - Meat bowls are now a thing. 3 - The News with Marshall Phillips. 4 - What's up with all those BS science studies that get published and make it into Marshall's newscasts?; Final Thoughts.