Public Attitudes to Science Survey 2025: What this means for scientific research and researchers
Han Cai discusses the public’s attitude on scientific research and important consequences of public attitude on science.
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Science for science’s sake
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The research accidentally tackling antibiotic resistance
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Evolving with, not evolving to: On Instagram dieticians, human evolution, and language
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Internship at the Smithsonian: Blog 5
Blog 5: The Taxonomist’s Assistants So far in these posts I have practically maintained a fiction that the entirety of research is done by curators and students—however, this gives a great disservice to a class of scientist just as large, if not larger, than the curators and researchers themselves. At the Smithsonian they are called…
Internship at POST: Blog 3
Blog 3: Working in Parliament The three months during which I was interning at POST were a particularly chaotic time for UK politics. When I arrived in February 2017, people were still reeling from the results of the BREXIT vote, and that was reflected in the type of work that was being carried out by…
Internship at the Smithsonian: Blog 4
Blog 4: The Taxonomist’s Psyche You might wonder, with fair justification, just what sort of madness drives someone into systematics, let alone molluscan systematics. After all, it is a field that offers no great financial rewards, nor any chance to enter the history books. Systematics as a field is far too unscientific to merit any…
Internship at École Normale Supérieure: Blog 1
Blog 1: The Secret Lives of Diatoms This summer I’m lucky enough to be interning in a laboratory based at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. The group research diatoms, which are microscopic, single-celled phytoplankton. Despite being unfamiliar to most people, they are ubiquitous in the earth’s aquatic habitats, and in contrast to their humble…
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