Gisela F Wilson

Davos, Lemonade, The Hate You Give, & Data Extraction

Not managing to make the trip to Davos, I watched The Hate You Give last night. A truly poignant, emotionally-engaging, Oscar-worthy movie.

Maybe the few parts of the movie that annoyed me were intentional omissions, pointing to what’s absent and…

Mission Impossible?: The Need for a Collective Response from Scientists and Scholars in Polarized Times #ScienceMarch #marginsci

Yesterday morning, the first reading assignment Twitter offered up alongside my coffee was Michael Shermer’s newest piece Science for All. The title appears to partially mirror my recent Science is…

Science is Political: The Need for a Collective Response #ScienceMarch

Over recent years I’ve been dismayed at how polarized our societies and countries are becoming, even more so post-election. I’m dismayed because the more polarized mind-sets become, the less people are capable of rational discussions that avoid the most…