science

It’s Time to Diversify and Modernize Science Teaching

The Black Lives Matter movement and the pandemic reveal a need for more inclusive science education. by Dr. Stephanie Knezz Picture yourself in an introductory college chemistry class. What does the instructor look like, and how is the class taught? Whether the curriculum is virtual...

New Study: The Rise of the Temporary Workforce in Science Research

The time over which half of the cohort has left the field has shortened from 35 years in the 1960s to only 5 years in the 2010s. In addition, researchers.

Adjunct Activists in the Sciences: Missing in Action

by Christopher Cumo Science may be remarkable not for Superstring Theory or gene splicing but for the obliviousness of academics in the sciences to the rise of casual labor in.

The Science of Silence

by Amy Rosenberg In the middle of the 19th century, just a couple of years after the formation of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Alexander Dallas Bache remarked, “While science is without organization, it is with out power.” He was in a position to know; Bache...

Female Astronomers & the Glass Ceiling

by Sally Pye EVEN THE COSMOS has a glass ceiling, according to information to be discussed at the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society this week. Things are not as.

All Adjuncts Should Be Scientists

by Chris Cumo THE CRISIS OF underemployment for adjuncts stems from the collapse of the humanities. Ernie Benjamin of the American Association for University Professors notes that in the fall of.

Female Astronomers & the Glass Ceiling

by Sally Pye EVEN THE COSMOS has a glass ceiling, according to information to be discussed at the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society this week. Things are not as bad as they were a half century ago, when women were barred from using some of...