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When Gregor Mendel published the results of his experiments on pea plants in 1866 he initiated a fierce debate about the nature of heredity and genetic determinism that continues today. The battle lines were drawn in England in the late 19th century by William Bateson, who believed in fixed genetic inheritance, and W.F.R. Weldon, who argued that Mendel's experiments revealed far more variation than Bateson and his supporters acknowledged. In this episode Lorraine Daston joins Tom to chart the development of these arguments, described in a new book by Gregory Radick, through scientific and cultural discourse over the past 150 years, and consider why the history of science has a tendency to track such controversies in antagonistic terms, often to the detriment of the science itself.Read Lorraine's piece: https://lrb.me/dastonpodSing up to our Close Readings podcast:Directly in Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3pJoFPqIn other podcast apps: https://lrb.me/crpod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Please take a minute or two to fill out our listener survey and help shape the future of the podcast: https://geneticsunzipped.com/surveyIn this episode, we talk to Greg Radick from the University of Leeds to explore the impact that Gregor Mendel and his populariser William Bateson have had on the past century of genetics, and ask whether there could have been a more Weldonian view of the world.Full show notes, transcript and references online at GeneticsUnzipped.com Follow us on Twitter @GeneticsUnzipThis episode of Genetics Unzipped was written and presented and produced by Kat Arney with audio production by Emma Werner.This podcast is produced by First Create the Media for the Genetics Society - one of the oldest learned societies dedicated to promoting research, training, teaching and public engagement in all areas of genetics.

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1038, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Genetics 1: "Genetics" as we use the word was coined in a 1905 letter by William Bateson, who popularized this monk's work. (Gregor) Mendel. 2: The "23" of 23andme.com, a site tracing ancestry and personal genetic information, refers to pairs of these. chromosomes. 3: Way faster than it used to be, it's the act of determining a series like ACAAGATGCC and with it your genetic blueprint. sequencing a genome. 4: This test performed between the 15th and 18th weeks of pregnancy can detect fetal genetic disorders. amniocentesis. 5: In 1986 the U.S. issued the first patent on a plant produced through genetic engineering, a hybrid of this grain. corn. Round 2. Category: Surviving Prohibition 1: Many breweries tried making this rhyming product, like Schlitz Famo, with less than .5% alcohol content. near beer. 2: Unable to brew, Pabst started making Pabst-ett, a Velveeta-like cheese; eventually this competitor sued. Kraft. 3: In 1925 this Milwaukee family couldn't sell its brewery but was living the "High Life" after Prohibition ended. Miller. 4: This brewery bought a Colorado ceramics company and sold porcelain under the brand name; the ceramics co. is worth billions today. Coors. 5: Many breweries struggled but got by selling beer ingredients like syrup made from this, sprouted barley grains. malt. Round 3. Category: Aye Aye, Captain 1: A national park on this country's South Island is named for Captain Abel Tasman. New Zealand. 2: In 1837 Captain Matthew Perry took command of the U.S. Navy's first ship powered by this. steam. 3: This New World settlement was founded May 14, 1607 by a group led by Captain Christopher Newport. Jamestown. 4: After his fleet took New Orleans in April 1862, this captain was promoted to rear admiral. David Farragut. 5: This British explorer of the Pacific Northwest has his own herb as well as an island. George Vancouver. Round 4. Category: Makeup 1: Some women dye their lashes instead of using this traditional eyelash makeup. mascara. 2: Common color of beauty patches, which were sometimes cut in silhouettes of friends or family. black. 3: As its name implies, one of these, often in stick or cream form, is used especially to cover up dark circles and blemishes. concealer. 4: Here are an array of eye shadows in one of these, like what a painter uses. a palette. 5: An alternative to foundation, BB cream can stand for beauty or blemish this soothing 4-letter word. balm. Round 5. Category: Fearful Quotes 1: According to Alexander Pope, these "rush in where angels fear to tread". fools. 2: This larger-than-life tenor said, "Am I afraid of high notes? Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?". Pavarotti. 3: Hard to believe she was ever alone, but this Gallic sex kitten revealed, "Solitude scares me". Brigitte Bardot. 4: "I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer" is an axiom used by Bene Gesserit witches in this '65 Herbert novel. Dune. 5: "The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear", opined this master of horror novels like "The Lurking Fear". H.P. Lovecraft. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!Special thanks to https://blog.feedspot.com/trivia_podcasts/ AI Voices used

This week's episode is a wonderful conversation with Nora Bateson (https://batesoninstitute.org/nora-bateson/). In my opinion, Nora is one of the most important thinkers working today to challenge the dominant paradigm of optimization, separation and machine-like efficiency that pervades our institutions. She does so in her own beautiful style and in deep continuity with the ideas of her father, Gregory Bateson, and her grandfather, William Bateson, among many others. Nora's work with the International Bateson Institute (https://batesoninstitute.org/) brings the fields of biology, cognition, art, anthropology, psychology, and information technology together into a study of the patterns in ecology of living systems. She coined the term "Warm Data" and, as you will hear in our conversation, this was in response to the disproportionate credibility and authority given to information derived by decontextualizing. I have had the privilege of working with Nora and her team to explore what Warm Data means for the way schooling and education happens. If you would like to find out more, we are hosting some online sessions in early October and also visiting schools to run Warm Data Labs with young people, in partnership with International Baccalaureate. Nora is the author of Small Arcs of Larger Circles (https://www.triarchypress.net/small-arcs.html), released by Triarchy Press, in 2016. Her forthcoming book, Combining, which she is launching at an event in New York on September 30. You can find out more about the event here: https://nysgs.org/event-5402217 In our conversation you can hear Nora read two excerpts from the book - 'Mama Now' and 'Harvest'. Nora also wrote, directed and produced the award-winning documentary, An Ecology of Mind, a portrait of her father, Gregory. http://www.anecologyofmind.com/ Social Links LinkedIn: @nora-bateson Twitter: @NoraBateson

Repost from October 2019. The history of genetics has a few famous partnerships - such as James Watson and Francis Crick or Francois Jacob and Jacques Monod. But there’s one pair without whom this podcast wouldn’t exist at all, and that’s Edith Rebecca Saunders and William Bateson, who founded The Genetics Society one hundred years ago. But while Bateson tends to get the glory, particularly for his popularisation of Gregor Mendel’s ideas about heredity, much less is heard about Saunders - the ‘mother of British plant genetics’. It’s time to tell her story.Full show notes, transcript, music credits and references online at GeneticsUnzipped.com Follow us on Twitter @GeneticsUnzipGenetics Unzipped is written and presented by Kat Arney with audio production by Hannah Varrall. This podcast is produced by First Create the Media for the Genetics Society - one of the oldest learned societies in the world dedicated to supporting and promoting the research, teaching and application of genetics.

“To be a participant in a complex system is to desire to be both lost and found in the interrelationships between people, nature and ideas.” Nora Bateson writes these words in the first chapter of her 2016 book Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing Through Other Patterns (Triarchy Press, 2016). It is hard to put this thoughtful anthology into a single, neat category. And that’s the beauty of it. Not your typical Systems book, Small Arcs of Larger Circles combines lectures and essays, with personal stories, inspired reflections and original poems—crafting a story of systems from Bateson’s unique perspective as writer, filmmaker, expat, educator, daughter, mother and lover of all things messy and complex. Building on the work of her late father—anthropologist, social scientist and cybernetican Gregory Bateson—and with a nod to her grandfather William Bateson, biologist and geneticist (fun fact: he coined the term ‘genetics’), Ms. Bateson pays homage to an inquiry that started two generations ago—encouraging the reader to not only look for the ‘patterns that connect’, as her father put it, but to spend time in and relish the space—the relationships—between the parts in the system. Bateson describes this as ‘warm data’. Bateson writes that systems science “is still the best option for preparing for the changes we are facing globally,” but “the word ‘system’ itself has gathered meanings that are distracting”. She suggests there are blind spots in systems thinking that we can address through mutual learning—a process Bateson calls Symmathesy, which just might have the potential to provide the kind of “contextual rehabilitation for addressing dysfunctional and stuck relationships within the ecology of institutions” we need right now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“To be a participant in a complex system is to desire to be both lost and found in the interrelationships between people, nature and ideas.” Nora Bateson writes these words in the first chapter of her 2016 book Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing Through Other Patterns (Triarchy Press, 2016). It is hard to put this thoughtful anthology into a single, neat category. And that's the beauty of it. Not your typical Systems book, Small Arcs of Larger Circles combines lectures and essays, with personal stories, inspired reflections and original poems—crafting a story of systems from Bateson's unique perspective as writer, filmmaker, expat, educator, daughter, mother and lover of all things messy and complex. Building on the work of her late father—anthropologist, social scientist and cybernetican Gregory Bateson—and with a nod to her grandfather William Bateson, biologist and geneticist (fun fact: he coined the term ‘genetics'), Ms. Bateson pays homage to an inquiry that started two generations ago—encouraging the reader to not only look for the ‘patterns that connect', as her father put it, but to spend time in and relish the space—the relationships—between the parts in the system. Bateson describes this as ‘warm data'. Bateson writes that systems science “is still the best option for preparing for the changes we are facing globally,” but “the word ‘system' itself has gathered meanings that are distracting”. She suggests there are blind spots in systems thinking that we can address through mutual learning—a process Bateson calls Symmathesy, which just might have the potential to provide the kind of “contextual rehabilitation for addressing dysfunctional and stuck relationships within the ecology of institutions” we need right now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/systems-and-cybernetics

“To be a participant in a complex system is to desire to be both lost and found in the interrelationships between people, nature and ideas.” Nora Bateson writes these words in the first chapter of her 2016 book Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing Through Other Patterns (Triarchy Press, 2016). It is hard to put this thoughtful anthology into a single, neat category. And that’s the beauty of it. Not your typical Systems book, Small Arcs of Larger Circles combines lectures and essays, with personal stories, inspired reflections and original poems—crafting a story of systems from Bateson’s unique perspective as writer, filmmaker, expat, educator, daughter, mother and lover of all things messy and complex. Building on the work of her late father—anthropologist, social scientist and cybernetican Gregory Bateson—and with a nod to her grandfather William Bateson, biologist and geneticist (fun fact: he coined the term ‘genetics’), Ms. Bateson pays homage to an inquiry that started two generations ago—encouraging the reader to not only look for the ‘patterns that connect’, as her father put it, but to spend time in and relish the space—the relationships—between the parts in the system. Bateson describes this as ‘warm data’. Bateson writes that systems science “is still the best option for preparing for the changes we are facing globally,” but “the word ‘system’ itself has gathered meanings that are distracting”. She suggests there are blind spots in systems thinking that we can address through mutual learning—a process Bateson calls Symmathesy, which just might have the potential to provide the kind of “contextual rehabilitation for addressing dysfunctional and stuck relationships within the ecology of institutions” we need right now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Part 2 of our interview with Nora Bateson, an award-winning filmmaker, writer, educator, and the President of the International Bateson Institute, we continue our discussion on sense-making, on order and chaos, complex systems and cultures, and what we really need for social and cultural change. Nora comes from a family lineage of complexity thinkers - her father was the systems theorist Gregory Bateson and her grandfather was the biologist William Bateson, who coined the term genetics. Nora’s book Small Arcs of Larger Circles came out in 2016, and she is currently working on her next book about Warm Data, or the interrelational processes between and among systems. Her work brings the fields of biology, cognition, art, anthropology, psychology, and information technology together into a study of the patterns in ecology of living systems. To check out the show notes for both parts of the interview, go to  http://www.futurethinkers.org/106  Learn how to thrive in this fast changing world. Sign up for our mailing list and get the 50+ page guide: http://futurethinkers.org/signup  Upgrade your mental operating system, increase personal sovereignty and gain deeper self-knowledge with our Courses in Personal Evolution. Register at http://courses.futurethinkers.org 

Our guest in the following two episodes is Nora Bateson, an award-winning filmmaker, writer, educator, and the President of the International Bateson Institute. Nora comes from a family lineage of complexity thinkers - her father was the systems theorist Gregory Bateson and her grandfather was the biologist William Bateson, who coined the term genetics. Nora’s book Small Arcs of Larger Circles came out in 2016, and she is currently working on her next book about Warm Data, or the interrelational processes between and among systems. Her work brings the fields of biology, cognition, art, anthropology, psychology, and information technology together into a study of the patterns in ecology of living systems. In part 1 of this interview, we discuss the complexity of understanding climate change, and why sense-making isn't common sense. Show notes: http://www.futurethinkers.org/106  Learn how to thrive in this fast changing world. Sign up for our mailing list and get the 50+ page guide: http://futurethinkers.org/signup  Upgrade your mental operating system, increase personal sovereignty and gain deeper self-knowledge with our Courses in Personal Evolution. Register at http://courses.futurethinkers.org 

In this second episode we are very pleased to welcome Nora Bateson, a filmmaker, lecturer, writer, and interloper. She made an award winning film ‘An Ecology of Mind’ about her father Gregory Bateson - the groundbreaking anthropologist, philosopher and cyberneticist. She also wrote a great book called ‘Small Arcs of Larger Circles’, and she now runs what she calls Warm Data Labs all around the world which she mentions in this episode. Her work draws upon her own personal history including her grandfather William Bateson, who was a Professor of Biology at Cambridge University, who first proposed the term “genetics”, back in 1906. To find out more about An Ecology of Mind see here: http://www.anecologyofmind.com/ To find out more about Small Arcs of Larger Circles see here: https://www.triarchypress.net/small-arcs.html To find out more about Warm Data Labs see here: https://hackernoon.com/warm-data-9f0fcd2a828c And to find out more about The International Bateson Institute please see here: https://batesoninstitute.org/ Lastly, to follow Nora on twitter, please do so here: https://twitter.com/NoraBateson

In this episode from our series exploring 100 ideas in genetics, we’re taking the train to London with William Bateson as he brings Mendel's ideas to Britain, seeking the secrets of snapdragons, and discovering how to build an army of MinIONs.Genetics Unzipped is written and presented by Kat Arney, and produced by First Create the Media for the Genetics Society - one of the oldest learned societies in the world dedicated to supporting and promoting the research, teaching and application of genetics. Production by Hannah Varrall.Full show notes, music credits and references online at GeneticsUnzipped.com

Las investigaciones de Gregor Mendel tuvieron una segunda vida y alcanzaron el reconocimiento que merecía después de su muerte. El zoólogo inglés William Bateson leyó el escrito de Mendel en 1900, en un viaje en tren de Cambridge a Londres. Se dio cuenta de la importancia del contenido y se impuso la tarea de hacerlo conocer. Bateson se convirtió en un verdadero discípulo y se sumergió de lleno en su afán para que el mundo entero supiera de Mendel: se encargó de la traducción al inglés y de la publicación del escrito original en alemán, visitó Brno para hacerse una idea más clara del origen del trabajo del monje en su abadía y se dedicó a aplicar los principios de Mendel a sus propios experimentos con animales. Como el propio Mendel lo había dicho, “algún día lo sabrán”, su legado se clavó en el pensamiento de todos los que trabajaban en la biología.

La historia de la ciencia está llena de casos de grandes científicos que han sido ignorados. Pero el de Mendel es, en palabras de Siddhartha Mukjerkee, una barbaridad. “Ser redescubierto una vez muestra un desconocimiento científico pero tres veces es un insulto”. Con su trabajo silencioso y pertinaz, Mendel había puesto en evidencia la existencia de corpúsculos de información que se heredan, que se mueven de una generación a la siguiente. No lo sabía pero había plantado la semilla de las características esenciales de lo que es un gen. La inmensidad de la contribución de Mendel permaneció sepultada muchos años. Primero el botánico Hugo de Vries conoció sus experimentos y se apropió de sus resultados sin mencionar al autor. Posteriormente otro botánico encontró semejanzas con sus propios estudios pero tampoco hizo nada. Hasta que, por fin, un científico inglés, William Bateson, descubrió de nuevo el trabajo de “un tal Mendel” y dedicó su vida a darlo a conocer al mundo de la ciencia.

In 1900 three papers by three botanists, unknown to each other, appeared in the same scientific journal. Each had independently "rediscovered" the rules of inheritance that Gregor Mendel had found four decades earlier in his solitary investigations of pea plants. Kathy Willis reassesses Mendel's famous pea experiments in the light of his attempts to uncover what happens over several generations when hybrid plants are created. As historian Jim Endersby explains, Mendel's initial results may have stunned him and shown what plant breeders might have suspected for decades, but science now had mathematical laws to create new varieties. Historian Greg Radick sheds light on how Mendelism, in the years leading up to the First World War, became heavily promoted by Cambridge botanist William Bateson and was put into action by the first Professor of Agricultural Botany, Roland Biffen. His success in creating new wheat hybrids is explained by a unique international assembly of wheat ears from the early 1900s, curated by Mark Nesbitt, Head of Kew's economic botany collection. Producer Adrian Washbourne.

The Balfour Chair of Genetics was established at Cambridge in 1912. As part of its centenary celebrations the Department of Genetics has produced a short film following the development of the subject in the University over the past 100 years. In the early 20th century the establishment of genetic research in Britain was driven primarily by William Bateson. As Steward of St John's College and later Professor of Biology in the University,  Bateson played a key role in demonstrating the applicability of Mendel's laws to a variety of organisms, particularly animals. As well as laying the foundations for a renewed interest in the study of heredity, it was Bateson who coined the term Genetics. In 1912, largely as a result of Bateson's championing of the subject, the University established the Balfour Professorship of Genetics that in time would lead to the formation of the modern Department of Genetics. The first incumbent of the Chair was Reginald Punnett, known to students of biology throughout the world for his eponymous square. In the hundred years since this event Genetics has passed from being an eccentric mixture of mathematics, gardening and biology to become the core of the biological sciences. Our film tells the story of the role of Cambridge and the Department of Genetics in this journey.