Macroscopes on Earth – Why we live in the golden age of satellites
As most of us know, our planet is changing on several fronts such as climate change, polluted oceans, biodiversity declines, land degradation, and so on....
An ethical blind spot in the natural sciences
Imagine this – you go to your local park in Europe (or North America) and you take pictures of, and with, random children. Then, without...
To communicate or not to communicate science
Should scientists be concerned if their research output is inaccessible to non-experts? Put another way, should scientists make an effort to communicate their science to...
So you’ve obtained postdoc funding
Running an independent project is different from writing the proposal for it. I know it seems obvious but for a person who is running their...
