It’s not Saturday, it’s not morning, and it’s not even entirely science. But being between my job in the lab and starting grad school I currently don’t have access to all the articles I’ve been finding to read. So taking this as a good opportunity to read up on how we got to this present moment, and what it’s going to take to fix it. So, a mixture of things read in the last week or so:

• This isn’t so recent, but re-found while digging through saved links: “Sexism in the Academy”
• “For Scientific Institutions, Racial Reconciliation Requires Reparations”
• “The Diversity-Innovation Paradox in Science”
• Cool advancements in the world of coral biology
• COVID-19 and sense of smell
• “Our Evolutionary Moment”
• “How the Science of Vaccination is Taught or Not in US Schools”
• Just started listening to this podcast series on policing in the US
• This was a pretty cool paper – taking genes for potentially useful enzymes from environmental DNA and putting them in a more conveniently cultivable microbe to produce their products, then testing the function.
• A little Robin Wall Kimmerer for a reminder to appreciate little things