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New data from the WHO show that during the pandemic’s first two years, Sweden had half the excess death rate of the UK, Germany or Spain – and a quarter of the excess death rate of many countries in Eastern Europe.
Doubravka Olšáková and Sam Robinson, argue that we are at the beginning of a new era of ‘post naïve’ science diplomacy.
Doubravka Olšáková and Sam Robinson discuss how the conflict in Ukraine highlights the limitations of conceptions of ‘science diplomacy’ since the turn of the 21st century.
How has the COVID-19 pandemic impacted science research itself, but also how Americans view science in their daily lives? The […]
In the third and final panel in “Democracy in the Balance,” a series of virtual discussions about democratic vulnerability and resilience in the United States, “Frontiers of Democratic Reform” on April 20 will explore the practical steps that can be taken to guard against democratic backsliding in the United States and bolster the integrity of a functional national government.
The UK’s Science Media Centre (SMC) is an internationally admired, and occasionally emulated, model for facilitating interactions between the science […]
Good social science research has ultimate social relevance. In Nigeria, however, the authors’ study shows that research evidence and policies are disconnected.
Supreme Count=rt nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson’s rise is, in part, due to the work of those women and Black men – and to Black women judges dating back almost a century.
As we pass two years from the beginnings of the pandemic, many commentators are scrambling to distance themselves from their […]
Citing statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “more Americans died of gun-related injuries in 2020 than in any other year on record,” reports the Pew Research Center in a new report.
By popular request, I am posting this as a free-access version of one of the first commentary pieces that I […]
On Wednesday, President Joseph Biden handed sociologist Alondra Nelson interim leadership of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Nelson currently serves as OSTP’s deputy director for science and society
