In the latest installment of our podcast, Edward You, a former special agent in the FBI’s Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate, joins ISSUES editor-in-chief @lisamargonelli.bsky.social to discuss how You helped reframe how policymakers understand biosecurity. issues.org/edward-you-p...
“It makes you rethink in history all those heroes,” Ms. Lopez said. “The movement — that’s the hero.”
Gonna hold on to this croissant metaphor for the rest of my creative life
Marvel-themed Oreo packages that say “stuf of DOOM.”
When I was coming up the songs were about nuclear war but the Oreos were stuf of optimism. Not anymore.
EntSoc's Chrysalis Fund gives out grants to K-12 educators for insect-themed projects. Applications due June 1st.
I spoke with @bloomberg.com about the designation of Anthropic as a "supply chain risk" by the Trump Administration www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCQ0...
Revenge of the beloved Beast….
…cause sometimes love don’t feel like it should?
Alas, I am not at #aaasmtg because I got Covid! Who’da thunk? But you can visit @issuesinst.bsky.social’s Kelsey Schoenberg and Monya Baker in the (great big) @arizonastateuni.bsky.social booth. Get your own copy of the glorious Buttercow issue!
Kropotkin wrote Mutual Aid in 1902– featuring social insects and pushing back against the survival of the fittest. It was a hot topic for a long time.
I think the leaders of the WaPo owe hair an apology.
But… is our attic the moon?
I am here for posts that start with “Have you ever broken down a deer?”
You should definitely subscribe. AIP’s FYI science policy is an incredible resource.
This confirms my priors.
The best kind of mad is toe-biting mad.
You got it! That’s exactly what I wanted the book to be about! Thank you.
I misread this as Limitless Pedant.
These are both really good.
I gotta let the poets know. They’ll be psyched.
Note to self: Do not search “zip ties near me.”
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
That hurts.
I am very much alive! Dong-Ding!
This is how you blurb
Why was science’s social contract such a useful myth? Let me count the ways… Or, as Heather Douglas says: “a shield can become a weapon.”
Funny. Yesterday I had the Oscar Meyer baloney song.
“Rather than saying, as we have traditionally, that engineering is only for people who are good at math and science... It should be more like: ‘Who’s interested in helping invent new things that will solve problems for people?’”
—Tsu-Jae Liu, @nationalacademies.org issues.org/engineering-...
Termites. Termites. Termites. They work at the micro scale and they also remodel land and ecosystems.
Amid the political upheaval of 1967, a group of bureaucratic innovators within the federal government released a manifesto. Their message: “Invention and innovation lie at the heart of the process by which America has grown and renewed itself.” Read the story: issues.org/nation-of-in...
