Climate change, African women and the editor’s job: looking back on 2014
December is the month when most people look back on their year – but I think it’s just about not...
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Getting with the times on scientific advice — deciding by dissensus?
The discussions I heard about scientific expertise and evidence-based policy at the STEPS Symposium in Brighton last month still reverberate...
From scientist to journalist
A couple of weeks ago I came across a Wellcome Trust blog post by Kathryn Lougheed, a microbiologist who writes...
Scientific jargon: wrong means, right end
On July 25th Nature published a commentary by science writer Trevor Quirk, who called for the use of jargon in...
Development goals and multidisciplinarity
The buzz around Rio+20 — the UN Conference on Sustainable Development — was hard to miss last June and in...
News on emerging health threats
If you’ve tried to read a story through the news page of this website over the past few weeks, you...
A matter of drug quality
I can’t think of many issues that would engage an INTERPOL officer, a lawyer working with a major humanitarian organisation,...