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Stitches and STEM

Jay Lloyd — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +0000

When I was about eight years old, my grandmother took me to a local fabric store to pick out a pattern for a dress we could sew together. Piecing together the brown… Read More

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Preparing Researchers for an Era of Freer Information

Jay Lloyd — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 10:00:00 +0000

If you Google my name along with “Monsanto,” you will find a series of allegations from 2013 that my scholarly work at the University of Saskatchewan, focused on technological change in the… Read More

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The Slippery Slope of Scientific Ethics

Jay Lloyd — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 14:33:00 +0000

Christopher Nolan’s film Oppenheimer, based on the life of the physicist known as the father of the atomic bomb, has surpassed blockbuster status to become a cultural juggernaut. It has spawned… Read More

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No Ordinary Documentary

Jay Lloyd — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 10:00:00 +0000

In 2017, Brian Wallach, a lawyer from Washington, DC, was told he had half a year to live after being diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS. It’s now six years and… Read More

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Making the Most of the “Ethical and Societal Considerations” in the CHIPS and Science Act

Jay Lloyd — Thu, 04 May 2023 10:00:00 +0000

At its passage, the CHIPS and Science Act promised, among other goals, a sea change in research and development funding in the United States. Almost immediately, following the Democrats’ loss of the… Read More

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The Camouflaged Metaphysics of Embryos

Kelsey Schoenberg — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 10:00:00 +0000

In the United States, diverging interpretations of what constitutes life coexist across public, policy, and legal environments. Many draw on what I call a hypothetical embryo, an entity that is almost… Read More

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Disaster Response Must Help Protect LGBTQ+ Communities

Jay Lloyd — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 11:00:00 +0000

In late September 2022, as Tropical Storm Ian intensified into a hurricane, someone threw a brick through the front door of the Pride Community Center of North Central Florida in Gainesville. The… Read More

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Collaborate for the Future

Jay Lloyd — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 11:00:00 +0000

National science policy reflects a country’s sense of its internal and external challenges and its place in the world. Since the end of World War II, US science policy has embodied the… Read More

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CRISPR’s Icarus

Jay Lloyd — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 11:00:00 +0000

The documentary Make People Better is the result of three years of work by a team that witnessed the dawning of human genome editing using CRISPR, a breakthrough technique for precisely editing… Read More

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Pathways to More Rapidly Reduce Transportation’s Climate Change Impact

Jay Lloyd — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 11:00:00 +0000

Current US energy policies are laser-focused on addressing climate change—as they should be. Meanwhile, this summer’s soaring gasoline prices show that US dependence on foreign oil continues to be a significant vulnerability… Read More

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