Issue 3: Bias

Winter, 2020

Cover Artist: Stephanie Bull

Cover Artist: Stephanie Bull


Editorial

Sadly, the bias that we observe in science permeates far deeper than the relative skewness of our results. For centuries science has been biased towards the actions and voices of a select group of people, meaning that even though huge advances have been made in recent years there is still a certain perception of what a ‘typical’ scientist looks, sounds, and acts like…


Editor’s Picks

Hottentot Speaks by Jenny Mitchell

Radioactive Skłodowska by Ruth Aylett

The Invention of Rational Economic Man by Ali Al-Jamri

Witches’ hats and ballerinas by Rebecca Gethin


Poems

Artificial Intelligence by Marianne Karplus

Fraud Scheme by Akul Anandur

Genetic Gravel by Meg Freer

Hottentot Speaks by Jenny Mitchell

How to Groom a Fox by Ginny Saunders

Information Current by Kirsty Dunnett

Nature Responds by Manjula Silva

Radioactive Skłodowska by Ruth Aylett

Science as Theatre by Manan Bhan

Science soldiers of higher ranks by Masoud Irani

Serendipity String Traps by Alina Gînsac

Silent white by Alwyn Marriage

The Human Virus by Robin Lamboll

The Invention of Rational Economic Man by Ali Al-Jamri

The Map Conundrum by Devayani Khare

The Measurement Manifesto by Dani Salvadori

The Sound of Silence by Doryn Herbst

When Walking on a Slow Ascending Street by Ian Shaw

Witches’ hats and ballerinas by Rebecca Gethin


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