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Author Archives: Athene Donald
Practice and Experience
It seems appropriate in this 250th anniversary year of Jane Austen’s birth to use a quote from Pride and Prejudice to kickstart this post. ‘If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.’ says Lady Catherine de … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Science Culture
Tagged critical thinking, Curriculum and Assessment Review, Jane Austen
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What Voice?
It is more than 40 years since the American psychologist Carol Gilligan wrote her book, In a Different Voice, challenging the view that women were morally less developed than men, pointing out this difference arose because the schema had been … Continue reading
Posted in Women in Science
Tagged Carol Gilligan, Caroline Herschel, Gene Machine, Jennifer Doudna, Let Toys be Toys, Roger Highfield
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Botanists in the Family
It is difficult to know where to begin with this post, since several strands have got intertwined. I guess the prompt for this is, as with my last post, the meeting at the Royal Society celebrating women from the past … Continue reading
Posted in Women in Science
Tagged Ellen Wilmott, Erasmus Darwin, Francis Boott, Lucy Hardcastle
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Where Were the Women?
I know that many people feel the Royal Society is a stuffy, white male institution, unwelcoming to women and other minorities, but I cannot agree. It may have had a long history of excluding women, but no more and, in … Continue reading
Posted in Women in Science
Tagged Eleanor Ormerod, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Royal Society, Stella Butler
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The Importance of Community
I mentioned the book by Jeffrey Abbott and Andrew Maynard, AI and the Science of Being Human, in a previous blogpost. I love its optimism about how all of us could work with AI without letting it take us over … Continue reading
Posted in Research, Science Culture
Tagged AI, Brian Pippard, Ray Dolby Centre, screens, tea break
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