This opinion piece draws attention to the disadvantage of the academic STEM system, especially for female academics.

Our lab is growing! In our Three Questions series, we’re profiling each of our members and the amazing work they’re doing. This week’s post features Fatou Bah, a master’s student in the School of Information Studies (ÉSIS) at the University of Ottawa (UOttawa), Data Support Specialist in Research Data Management at the UOttawa Library, and research assistant at the ScholCommLab.

Vor kurzem hat es also die Büros der großen NGOs getroffen. In einem wenig überraschenden Schritt hat die russische Staatsführung am 8. April entschieden, den Auslandsbüros von Amnesty International und Human Rights Watch die Rechtsgrundlage für ihre Arbeit zu entziehen. Da die beiden Organisationen im Sektor Menschenrechte arbeiten, war das – auf eine traurige Art – auch irgendwie konsequent.

Nachdem in den letzten Jahren die Familie viel Raum beansprucht hat, starte ich jetzt mit diesem Blog ein Projekt, auf das ich mich lange gefreut habe. In den letzten drei Jahren hatte ich weder die Zeit noch die Ruhe zum Schreiben und Recherchieren.

“Denying a professor tenure, Harvard sparks a debate over ethnic studies,” reads a New York Times story published in January 2020. “After twice being denied tenure, this Naval Academy professor says she is seeking justice,” a more recent headline proclaims. “Academic tenure: In desperate need of reform or of defenders?” asks another.

The case of pandemic prevention is one of many examples to show that holistic perspectives in disaster prevention and related fields have gained prominence in recent years.

Our lab is growing! In our Three Questions series, we’re profiling each of our members and the amazing work they’re doing. Our latest post features Olivia Aguiar, a lab manager at the ScholCommLab and a doctoral student at Simon Fraser University’s Injury Prevention and Mobility Lab (IPML). In this Q&A, she tells us about creating science comics, interviewing “super seniors,” setting boundaries, and more.

In spring 2020, Italy, like other countries in Europe and around the world, was in the midst of the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. Lockdown measures were in place in the entire country in the attempt to limit the spread of the virus.

This short analysis is showing up ways of how the quality of scientific policy advice, as an important part of the recognition of scientific activity, can be checked and how these processes and results can be made usable again for science.

In this short analysis P. Atkinson highlights the uncertainties associated with the field of evidence-informed policy making, especially in crisis situations such as Covid-19.