Episodios

  • Minibabble: Mansplaining muzzles free speech

    Minibabble: Mansplaining muzzles free speech
    Sep 26 2025
    Like all citizens, women in the United States are guaranteed freedom of speech and academic freedom. But in practice, mansplaining and other unquestioned male dominant behaviors curtail women’s freedoms more....
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    12 m
  • Academic Freedom Under Fire with Scholar Bettina Aptheker

    Academic Freedom Under Fire with Scholar Bettina Aptheker
    Sep 10 2025
    In a speech on academic freedom and the freedom of speech, feminist scholar Bettina Aptheker explores the parallels between her student years and early career and the growing suppression of freedoms in 2025.
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    57 m
  • Minibabble: Americans, vote with your eyeballs

    Minibabble: Americans, vote with your eyeballs
    Aug 27 2025
    This morning, a man shot up a Catholic mass full of children. Usually, I don’t write about current events that haven’t been resolved in any way. But as I listened....
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    8 m
  • Listening to Children: In Conversation with Linguist Eve Clark

    Listening to Children: In Conversation with Linguist Eve Clark
    Aug 24 2025
    Dr. Eve V. Clark has spent a career in academia pursuing one seemingly simple question: How do children learn to talk? The theory in vogue at the beginning of her....
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    57 m
  • Minibabble: How US cuts will devastate global science

    Minibabble: How US cuts will devastate global science
    Aug 12 2025
    How are the Trump Administration’s cuts affecting the global science system? Dr. Heather Ford is an American climate scientist working in London. In this mini-episode, she explains how scientific research....
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    14 m
  • Minibabble: What we gain from ‘woke’ science

    Minibabble: What we gain from ‘woke’ science
    Aug 1 2025
    In conversation with Dr. Heather Ford We hear a lot about the idea of getting ‘woke’ out of science, but what does that mean? In this mini-episode based on a....
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    14 m
  • Minibabble: Wading downstream of the poisonous stew

    Minibabble: Wading downstream of the poisonous stew
    Jul 28 2025
    All of us are standing by a stream, experiencing the downstream effects of decisions made in Washington. This week, I felt those decisions acutely. Visit Substack to read the text,....
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    13 m
  • Scientist Navigates a Changing Climate: In Conversation with Dr. Heather Ford

    Scientist Navigates a Changing Climate: In Conversation with Dr. Heather Ford
    Jul 13 2025
    On April 5, 2025 Dr. Heather Ford joined other scientists around the United States to protest the Trump Administration’s witch hunt against his imagined “woke science agenda.” Since World War....
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    59 m