David Peterson (Northwestern) spoke with Natasha Myers, Associate Professor of Anthropology at York University and winner of the 2016 Robert K. Merton Book Award for Rendering Life Molecular: Models, Modelers, and […]

On February 14, 2017, the SKAT Council voted unanimously to adopt the following policy statement.  Statement of American Sociological Association Section on Science, Knowledge, and Technology (SKAT) Regarding Recent and […]

From friend of the section Pablo J. Boczkowski of Northwestern University: “Every public has its own universe of discourse and…humanly speaking, a fact is only a fact in some universe of […]

by Shreeharsh Kelkar, University of California at Berkeley As the dust settles after Donald Trump’s shocking upset of Hillary Clinton in the US Presidential Election, and we await the long-term fallout, […]

By Dan Morrison, Vanderbilt University Note: This is a revised version of the leading essay in the November 2016 issue of Skatology. Dan Morrison takes full responsibility for its content, and […]

By Elise Paradis†, Michael W. Freeman*, Michael Kim*, Patricia J. Leake*, and Umesh Poopalarajah* University of Toronto † Corresponding author * Equal contributors, in alphabetical order We, the authors of […]

Over the next day or two, we will publish here three essays on the recent US election and the potential impacts of a Trump administration on science, science policy, and the […]