Collaboration in the Cloud | Summer 2022 | Issues in Science and Technology

Creating Common Ground With Chinese Researchers

Jay Lloyd — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 13:46:39 +0000

In 2006, China’s biomedical sector was the ninth largest in the world. By 2021, it had become the second largest, after the United States. In the context of the increasing global importance of… Read More

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From Strength to Strength?

Jay Lloyd — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 10:00:00 +0000

The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, claimed in a February 2022 speech that European Union research and innovation is going “from strength to strength.” Her comments reflect the potential for… Read More

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Exploring the Depths of Scientific Patronage

Jay Lloyd — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 10:00:00 +0000

Naomi Oreskes’s Science on a Mission is really three books in one. It’s a history of the fruitful partnership between American oceanographers and the US Navy, focused on ocean research undertaken in… Read More

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The C Word: Artists, Scientists, and Patients Respond to Cancer

Issues — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 10:00:00 +0000

Max Dean, The Gross Clinic, 2016. Image courtesy of Max Dean.

After being diagnosed with prostate cancer on his sixty-second birthday, Canadian multidisciplinary artist Max Dean began to explore his prognosis… Read More

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Academic Mentorship Needs a More Scientific Approach

Jay Lloyd — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 10:00:00 +0000

For an aspiring scientist, intentional support and guidance through effective mentorship can make a career. For that same scientist, negative mentoring experiences—whether well-meaning but neglectful supervision or intentional bullying or harassment—can break… Read More

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A Prehistory of Social Media

Jay Lloyd — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 10:00:00 +0000

Over the past few years, I’ve asked dozens of college students to write down, in a sentence or two, where the internet came from. Year after year, they recount the same stories… Read More

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Cleaning Up Our Mess in Space

Issues — Tue, 06 Sep 2022 17:05:56 +0000

In “A Montreal Protocol for Space Junk?” (Issues, Spring 2022), Stephen J. Garber and Lisa Ruth Rand correctly recognize the challenges to pursuing remediation for removing space debris despite the… Read More

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Some Extensions on the Sovereignty of Science

Jay Lloyd — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 18:15:00 +0000

for my father

Illustration by Shonagh Rae

When the thought came to him it was so simple he shook his head.People are always looking for kidneys when their kidneys go … Read More

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Understanding Noise in Human Judgments

Issues — Tue, 30 Aug 2022 10:00:00 +0000

It was a pleasure to read the interview with Daniel Kahneman, “Try to Design an Approach to Making a Judgment” (Issues, Spring 2022), who is a world leader in research… Read More

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New Theory for Increasingly Tangled Banks

Jay Lloyd — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 10:00:00 +0000

Illustration by Shonagh Rae

Decades before the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated how rapidly infectious diseases could emerge and spread, the world faced the AIDS epidemic. Initial efforts to halt the contagion were slow… Read More

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