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Two Metres or One: What is the Evidence for Physical Distancing in Covid-19?
Are Children Able to Continue Learning During School Closures?
In response to the unprecedented educational challenges created by school closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 90 per cent of countries have implemented some form of remote learning policy. This UNICEF factsheet estimates the potential reach of digital and broadcast remote learning responses, finding that at least 463 million students around the globe remain cut off from education, mainly due to a lack of remote learning policies or lack of equipment needed for learning at home.
Why COVID Deniers and Climate Skeptics Paint Scientists As Alarmist
And why they also try to "feminize science," labeling experts as shrill or emotional.
'The Biggest Monster' Is Spreading. And It's Not the Coronavirus.
Tuberculosis kills 1.5 million people each year. Lockdowns and supply-chain disruptions threaten progress against the disease as well as H.I.V. and malaria.
You Must Not 'Do Your Own Research' When It Comes To Science
Research is for the experts. Listen to them instead.
'Huge Hole' in COVID-19 Testing Data Makes It Harder to Study Racial Disparities
How the Coronavirus Will Reshape Architecture
What kinds of space are we willing to live and work in now?
IBM Will No Longer Offer, Develop, or Research Facial Recognition Technology
IBM Will No Longer Offer, Develop, or Research Facial Recognition Technology
IBM is also advocating for police reform.
A Comic to Explain Academic Publishing
Easy-to-understand comic explains how rigorous science is peer-reviewed and published. Hint: it's not via YouTube.
How to Address the Coronavirus's Outsized Toll on People of Colour
US scientists say that better data, testing and hospital preparedness are key to erasing inequalities - and to defeating the pandemic overall.
Beyond sex and gender analysis: an intersectional view of the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak and response
Coronavirus Means Science is Suddenly Being Done Differently - and So is Politics
Let's Hear Scientists with Different Covid-19 Views, Not Attack Them - STAT
The Pandemic Isn't a Black Swan but a Portent of a More Fragile Global System
The Pandemic Isn't a Black Swan but a Portent of a More Fragile Global System
Nassim Nicholas Taleb is frustrated whenever the coronavirus crisis is referred to by the term he coined for an unpredictable, rare catastrophe.
Imagining a Higher Education System Beyond Covid-19
Andy Westwood sets out the not-insignificant challenges that the government now faces in deciding what it wants from universities after the pandemic.
Universities Must Help Shape the Post-COVID-19 World
To create a better post-COVID-19 world requires democratic civic universities dedicated to producing knowledge and educating ethical, empathetic stude...
We Created This Beast
Opinion piece argues that there is nothing 'natural' about the coronavirus pandemic: global capitalism has created it. Social distancing is like a general strike: an experiment taking back control over our own time.
International Travel Restrictions in Response to the Coronavirus Outbreak
International Travel Restrictions in Response to the Coronavirus Outbreak
Tracking the closure of the borders that governments implemented to contain the spread of COVID-19.
Stop the Coronavirus Stigma Now
The pandemic is fuelling deplorable racism and discrimination, especially against Asian people. Education and research will also pay the price.
Strong Caveats Are Lacking As News Stories Trumpet Preliminary COVID-19 Research
Strong Caveats Are Lacking As News Stories Trumpet Preliminary COVID-19 Research
Some argue that rapid data sharing is ideally suited for infectious disease outbreaks like the one we’re experiencing now. However, the prospect of public access to unvetted work sparked worry about potential health scares and patients demanding unproven treatments.
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