This Black History Month, I’ve dug into the founding stories of African-American STEM societies. In previous posts we’ve covered groups from…

After the slow first wave of African-American STEM societies from 1895 to 1947 (part 1), a new wave swept in…

When we celebrate STEM history, we tend to focus on individuals singled out for specific inspiring scientific achievements. And that’s…

I had been losing sight, slowly at first, but later, scarily quickly. By the time I had my first surgery…

It was a turning point. The previous year, the US Civil Rights Act had passed. On 26 January 1969 in…

This story didn’t get off to a very good start. It turns out, it’s not easy to dig out online who’s been…

I knew there wasn’t a steady, inexorable rise of women in science. I still thought of it as a trajectory of progress though: virtually…

Freedom itself is again at stake… It is difficult to believe in progress, at least in decency and commonsense, when this can…

It was one of those lovely, comfortable conversations between people who have known each other a long time. I took this selfie…

Physicists set a new record this year for number of co-authors: a 9-page report needed an extra 24 pages to list its 5,154…

1894: “[T]he acknowledged leaders of the great generation that is now passing away, Darwin notably, addressed themselves in many cases to…

There’s a lot of outrage about outrage storming around women in science and science journalism at the moment. And fear of…