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Category Archives: Science Culture
How did we manage before the Internet?
If you’ve read George Eliot’s Middlemarch (the Guardian’s recent choice as the best novel in the English language), you will recognize the problem Mr Casaubon faced in trying to write his magnum opus, relying on multiple books in a range … Continue reading
Posted in Research, Science Culture, Women in Science
Tagged Aspasia, Hildegard of Bingen, HJ Mozans, JA Zahm
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Team Working and Loneliness
Some years ago, the Science Council created a list of ten different kinds of scientists, to showcase the fact that not every scientist does the same kind of work. Ranging from technician scientist to entrepreneur scientist via the more obvious … Continue reading
Victims and Perpetrators
Some readers may have noticed in the media, recent (separate) reports that two Fellows of Kings College, Cambridge, have resigned/been stripped of their fellowship due to allegations of harassment and misconduct. I haven’t seen any particular details about the accusations, … Continue reading
Science, Society and Responsibility
The Royal Society’s recent report Science for Society spells out the importance of Public Engagement around science for wider society. It is the successor to the so-called Bodmer Report of 1985, which had a profound impact across the sector, indeed … Continue reading
Posted in Communicating Science, Science Culture
Tagged public engagement, Soapbox Science, Walter Bodmer
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Jealousy, Bullying, Harassment and Other Bad Behaviour
Recently I sat down to dinner with two old friends, one male,one female. Our conversation turned to harassment and what emerged was pretty grim. The man referred to an incident when an older and powerful woman had groped him during … Continue reading
Posted in Science Culture
Tagged competition, insecurity, power imbalance
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