Issues in Science and Technology
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Introducing our new podcast miniseries: “Not Now, But Soon”!
In the first episode, @boriscrito.bsky.social talks with host @older.bsky.social about his academic life researching data centers, his #speculativefiction life, & how those worlds collide in his book SOLIDEZ. issues.org/hurricane-of...
In the first episode, @boriscrito.bsky.social talks with host @older.bsky.social about his academic life researching data centers, his #speculativefiction life, & how those worlds collide in his book SOLIDEZ. issues.org/hurricane-of...
September 16, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Introducing our new podcast miniseries: “Not Now, But Soon”!
In the first episode, @boriscrito.bsky.social talks with host @older.bsky.social about his academic life researching data centers, his #speculativefiction life, & how those worlds collide in his book SOLIDEZ. issues.org/hurricane-of...
In the first episode, @boriscrito.bsky.social talks with host @older.bsky.social about his academic life researching data centers, his #speculativefiction life, & how those worlds collide in his book SOLIDEZ. issues.org/hurricane-of...
“Call it the Vannevar Index: The greater the pressure on the scientific enterprise, the more one hears about Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s science advisor.”
Read @lisamargonelli.bsky.social’s Editor’s Journal for the Summer ISSUES: issues.org/innovation-h...
Read @lisamargonelli.bsky.social’s Editor’s Journal for the Summer ISSUES: issues.org/innovation-h...
July 18, 2025 at 3:58 PM
“Call it the Vannevar Index: The greater the pressure on the scientific enterprise, the more one hears about Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s science advisor.”
Read @lisamargonelli.bsky.social’s Editor’s Journal for the Summer ISSUES: issues.org/innovation-h...
Read @lisamargonelli.bsky.social’s Editor’s Journal for the Summer ISSUES: issues.org/innovation-h...
How should scientists navigate research that lies somewhere on a slippery slope between “unquestionably morally acceptable” and a “dystopian scenario that must be avoided”?
A group of biologists and ethicists discuss a controversial call for a ban on “mirror life”: issues.org/mirror-life-...
A group of biologists and ethicists discuss a controversial call for a ban on “mirror life”: issues.org/mirror-life-...
July 15, 2025 at 7:35 PM
How should scientists navigate research that lies somewhere on a slippery slope between “unquestionably morally acceptable” and a “dystopian scenario that must be avoided”?
A group of biologists and ethicists discuss a controversial call for a ban on “mirror life”: issues.org/mirror-life-...
A group of biologists and ethicists discuss a controversial call for a ban on “mirror life”: issues.org/mirror-life-...
The Summer ISSUES has shipped! It explores the hidden scaffolding of US innovation—for ethical slippery slopes, the bioeconomy, the chemical industry, science diplomacy, in Navajo Nation, and more—and is, as usual, filled with art, book reviews, & poetry. Browse and subscribe: issues.org/issue/41-4/
July 10, 2025 at 7:21 PM
The Summer ISSUES has shipped! It explores the hidden scaffolding of US innovation—for ethical slippery slopes, the bioeconomy, the chemical industry, science diplomacy, in Navajo Nation, and more—and is, as usual, filled with art, book reviews, & poetry. Browse and subscribe: issues.org/issue/41-4/
“Our commission envisions a future in which Americans engage with biotechnology the same way they do with cell phones and computers.”
We spoke with Indiana senator Todd Young, chair of the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology, for the Summer ISSUES: issues.org/interview-se...
We spoke with Indiana senator Todd Young, chair of the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology, for the Summer ISSUES: issues.org/interview-se...
July 7, 2025 at 2:22 PM
“Our commission envisions a future in which Americans engage with biotechnology the same way they do with cell phones and computers.”
We spoke with Indiana senator Todd Young, chair of the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology, for the Summer ISSUES: issues.org/interview-se...
We spoke with Indiana senator Todd Young, chair of the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology, for the Summer ISSUES: issues.org/interview-se...
In response to Helgadóttir’s story, human geographer Anna Pigott wrote about climate politics and apocalyptic narratives—and how important it is to be able to imagine that a better world is actually possible. issues.org/futuretensef...
June 30, 2025 at 5:42 PM
In response to Helgadóttir’s story, human geographer Anna Pigott wrote about climate politics and apocalyptic narratives—and how important it is to be able to imagine that a better world is actually possible. issues.org/futuretensef...
On the ocean floor, an isolated roadside bar buried in a vast network of tunnels is staffed by a claustrophobic waitress who dreams of life above the surface.
Read “Tunnel Fever,” our new #FutureTenseFiction short story by Margrét Helgadóttir:
issues.org/futuretensef... #speculativefiction
Read “Tunnel Fever,” our new #FutureTenseFiction short story by Margrét Helgadóttir:
issues.org/futuretensef... #speculativefiction
June 30, 2025 at 5:39 PM
On the ocean floor, an isolated roadside bar buried in a vast network of tunnels is staffed by a claustrophobic waitress who dreams of life above the surface.
Read “Tunnel Fever,” our new #FutureTenseFiction short story by Margrét Helgadóttir:
issues.org/futuretensef... #speculativefiction
Read “Tunnel Fever,” our new #FutureTenseFiction short story by Margrét Helgadóttir:
issues.org/futuretensef... #speculativefiction
Most major environmental statutes in the United States contain “citizen suit provisions” that allow any citizen to sue the federal government to enforce environmental laws. So how well does civil enforcement work? Sociologist Christopher Rea looks at the numbers: issues.org/environmenta...
June 2, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Most major environmental statutes in the United States contain “citizen suit provisions” that allow any citizen to sue the federal government to enforce environmental laws. So how well does civil enforcement work? Sociologist Christopher Rea looks at the numbers: issues.org/environmenta...
Tomorrow! How did science become so polarizing? At 3 p.m. ET, join us to talk about trust in science with Cary Funk, Emily Garner, M. Anthony Mills, and @scipolguy.bsky.social—moderated by @thekibosch.bsky.social. Register here: asu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
May 28, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Tomorrow! How did science become so polarizing? At 3 p.m. ET, join us to talk about trust in science with Cary Funk, Emily Garner, M. Anthony Mills, and @scipolguy.bsky.social—moderated by @thekibosch.bsky.social. Register here: asu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
How did science become so polarizing? On Thursday, May 29, at 3 p.m. ET, join ISSUES for a conversation about trust in science with Cary Funk, Emily Garner, M. Anthony Mills, and @scipolguy.bsky.social—moderated by @thekibosch.bsky.social. Register here: asu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
May 26, 2025 at 4:26 PM
How did science become so polarizing? On Thursday, May 29, at 3 p.m. ET, join ISSUES for a conversation about trust in science with Cary Funk, Emily Garner, M. Anthony Mills, and @scipolguy.bsky.social—moderated by @thekibosch.bsky.social. Register here: asu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Scientific information does not flow into policy the way most scientists think. Twenty years after her jarring first day as a fisheries-biologist-turned-Senate-staffer, @sheril.bsky.social lays out what every scientist hoping to influence policy on the Hill needs to know: issues.org/information-...
May 12, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Scientific information does not flow into policy the way most scientists think. Twenty years after her jarring first day as a fisheries-biologist-turned-Senate-staffer, @sheril.bsky.social lays out what every scientist hoping to influence policy on the Hill needs to know: issues.org/information-...
“Libraries are a trusted source. Let the books battle it out on the shelves. We have different perspectives, and you can choose.”
Carla Hayden, who sat down with ISSUES last year, was fired from her position as leader of the Library of Congress yesterday. issues.org/interview-li...
Carla Hayden, who sat down with ISSUES last year, was fired from her position as leader of the Library of Congress yesterday. issues.org/interview-li...
May 9, 2025 at 3:27 PM
“Libraries are a trusted source. Let the books battle it out on the shelves. We have different perspectives, and you can choose.”
Carla Hayden, who sat down with ISSUES last year, was fired from her position as leader of the Library of Congress yesterday. issues.org/interview-li...
Carla Hayden, who sat down with ISSUES last year, was fired from her position as leader of the Library of Congress yesterday. issues.org/interview-li...
All Future Tense Fiction stories are published with an expert-written response essay. @sfiscience.bsky.social professor Christopher Moore responds to “Coda”: “Ratnakar’s protagonist Ray makes a key discovery in ‘Coda’ by disproving a conjecture from my PhD thesis.” issues.org/futuretensef... 3/3
May 6, 2025 at 8:09 PM
All Future Tense Fiction stories are published with an expert-written response essay. @sfiscience.bsky.social professor Christopher Moore responds to “Coda”: “Ratnakar’s protagonist Ray makes a key discovery in ‘Coda’ by disproving a conjecture from my PhD thesis.” issues.org/futuretensef... 3/3
Ratnakar is the author of “Coda,” a recent story in our Future Tense Fiction series. She describes the narrative as “a philosophical exploration about the substrate of consciousness and what a self-aware human personality can potentially exist as.” 2/ issues.org/futuretensef...
May 6, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Ratnakar is the author of “Coda,” a recent story in our Future Tense Fiction series. She describes the narrative as “a philosophical exploration about the substrate of consciousness and what a self-aware human personality can potentially exist as.” 2/ issues.org/futuretensef...
The narrative paintings of Kathryn Freeman erase the boundaries between inside and outside, imagining peaceful coexistence of humans and animals. “We should be living with nature, not imposing ourselves on it,” Freeman argues, “accepting it, letting it exist with us.” issues.org/kathryn-free...
April 25, 2025 at 9:35 PM
The narrative paintings of Kathryn Freeman erase the boundaries between inside and outside, imagining peaceful coexistence of humans and animals. “We should be living with nature, not imposing ourselves on it,” Freeman argues, “accepting it, letting it exist with us.” issues.org/kathryn-free...
Tomorrow: What IS Going On in Science Policy?
Join us online at 3 PM ET to discuss this era of destabilization—with @dkaushik.bsky.social, Jason Rittenberg, Caroline Wagner, Carrie Wolinetz, and moderator @mitchambrose.bsky.social. Register here: asu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Join us online at 3 PM ET to discuss this era of destabilization—with @dkaushik.bsky.social, Jason Rittenberg, Caroline Wagner, Carrie Wolinetz, and moderator @mitchambrose.bsky.social. Register here: asu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
April 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Tomorrow: What IS Going On in Science Policy?
Join us online at 3 PM ET to discuss this era of destabilization—with @dkaushik.bsky.social, Jason Rittenberg, Caroline Wagner, Carrie Wolinetz, and moderator @mitchambrose.bsky.social. Register here: asu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Join us online at 3 PM ET to discuss this era of destabilization—with @dkaushik.bsky.social, Jason Rittenberg, Caroline Wagner, Carrie Wolinetz, and moderator @mitchambrose.bsky.social. Register here: asu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
In “The Minnesota Diet,” @charliejane.bsky.social imagines a zero-carbon-footprint city that still relies on food deliveries from the outside—until they mysteriously stop. “I wanted people like myself to be confronted with what food insecurity would feel like,” she writes: issues.org/futuretensef...
April 17, 2025 at 4:58 PM
In “The Minnesota Diet,” @charliejane.bsky.social imagines a zero-carbon-footprint city that still relies on food deliveries from the outside—until they mysteriously stop. “I wanted people like myself to be confronted with what food insecurity would feel like,” she writes: issues.org/futuretensef...
“Trust in science has emerged as a central dividing line in our society, fueling a strange new politics of science.” M. Anthony Mills and Price St. Clair argue that a defining but overlooked factor is the public’s growing wariness toward powerful institutions overall. issues.org/new-politics...
April 14, 2025 at 9:41 PM
“Trust in science has emerged as a central dividing line in our society, fueling a strange new politics of science.” M. Anthony Mills and Price St. Clair argue that a defining but overlooked factor is the public’s growing wariness toward powerful institutions overall. issues.org/new-politics...
“If the currency of power is increasingly becoming science and technology,” Darío Gil asks, “how are we going to handle that?” The Winter ISSUES explores how the US scientific enterprise has continually reinvented itself—and the need for a new story about where we’re going. 1/ issues.org/issue/41-2/
January 23, 2025 at 8:34 PM
“If the currency of power is increasingly becoming science and technology,” Darío Gil asks, “how are we going to handle that?” The Winter ISSUES explores how the US scientific enterprise has continually reinvented itself—and the need for a new story about where we’re going. 1/ issues.org/issue/41-2/
That was supposed to be a GIF. We’re still figuring Bluesky out. 7/6
November 27, 2024 at 10:01 PM
That was supposed to be a GIF. We’re still figuring Bluesky out. 7/6
When the magazine was launched in 1984, Frank Press, then @nationalacademies.org president, dedicated it to “the broadening of enlightened opinion, reasoned discussion, and informed debate of national and international issues in which science and technology play a critical role.” 2/
November 27, 2024 at 9:53 PM
When the magazine was launched in 1984, Frank Press, then @nationalacademies.org president, dedicated it to “the broadening of enlightened opinion, reasoned discussion, and informed debate of national and international issues in which science and technology play a critical role.” 2/
ISSUES is thrilled to join the Bluesky community!
A brief introduction: We’re a digital and print opinion journal published by @nationalacademies.org and Arizona State University. We provide a forum for discussion of public policy related to science, technology, and society. 1/ issues.org
A brief introduction: We’re a digital and print opinion journal published by @nationalacademies.org and Arizona State University. We provide a forum for discussion of public policy related to science, technology, and society. 1/ issues.org
November 27, 2024 at 9:53 PM
ISSUES is thrilled to join the Bluesky community!
A brief introduction: We’re a digital and print opinion journal published by @nationalacademies.org and Arizona State University. We provide a forum for discussion of public policy related to science, technology, and society. 1/ issues.org
A brief introduction: We’re a digital and print opinion journal published by @nationalacademies.org and Arizona State University. We provide a forum for discussion of public policy related to science, technology, and society. 1/ issues.org