Dr. Víctor Penchaszadeh played a crucial role in connecting the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo with scientists such as Mary-Claire King to develop the index of grandparentage and forging the international networks that sustained what would become the National Genetic Data Bank, whose archive is now named after him.
In Romania, the divide between public and private healthcare has grown into a structural split. Many doctors work in both sectors and informally redirect patients from public hospitals to private clinics for faster care. Public insurance...
The path toward sustainable food security and ecosystem protection may well depend on our ability to learn from those who have maintained healthy relationships with their environments for generations. By valuing Indigenous science not as a...
What does it mean for researchers to go on strike? What lessons can be drawn from this strike for other unionizing researchers?
Israel is bent on continuing the genocide and it is incumbent on every human being to do what they can to stop it. We must not look away.
Reimagining disability as a social construct rather than a personal deficit demands a cultural transformation. Current narratives often reduce disability to a limitation, feeding a culture of shame and exclusion. Instead, we must...
In Hasan’s telling, cancer is a disease of capitalism. It is not just that the disease symbolises the growth-addicted, violently expansionist, and self-destructive nature of capitalism. Instead, Metastasis lays out the story of cancer...
burning grasses, burning trees,
fire
surging to form smoke, the shape of leaves,
meshwork, seeds, hiding somewhere behind the hills,
I turn to the trees, their truncated bodies like ghosts of women
in ashen amber sheaths.
It is undeniable that science generally and GW research specifically are shaped by the politics of the society in which they are done. Rather than pretend to exist in a politically neutral space, GW scientists should embrace their part in...
The Art of Becoming Ecologists in a Dying World By Vijay Kolinjivadi and Aaron Vansintjan This is a modified excerpt from The Sustainability Class: How to Take Back Our Future from Lifestyle Environmentalists, published by The New...
