Melissa Jacquart

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

I believe one of the new mRNA vaccines was expected to treat colon cancer, and another had the potential to keep pancreatic cancer from recurring. That’s what they’re taking away.

Shifting Forces: The evolving debate around dark energy In an article in Undark Magazine, a new device has the scientific community questioning whether established theories on dark energy are still valid. Science philosopher Melissa Jaquart weighs in on…

APA member @mjacquart.bsky.social of the University of Cincinnati is quoted in an @undark.org article on new dark energy findings. www.uc.edu/news/article...

🗣️REMINDER: Trump and Republicans are still trying to pass their 3 TRILLION dollar spending bill that would kick 16 million people off of their health insurance and literally take lunches away from school children. 
 
We can’t let them get away with it.

Traditional essays (typically 5000–8000 words, but any length is permitted) as well as Short personal reflections (1,500–3,000 words, akin to Hypatia's Musings). Website CFP has details on potential topics for exploration! ... (3/3)

Deadline is June 2, 2025! We're approaching this from two perspectives: (1) teaching graduate students how to teach, and (2) teaching of graduate students and enhancing graduate student learning. Two types of articles are welcomed for this volume: ... (2/3)

Calls for Abstracts and Essays Current Calls: Volume 11CALL FOR PAPERSAre We Having Fun Yet?Joy and Playfulness in Teaching & Learning Philosophy Edited ByRebecca Scott Paper Submission Deadline: Monday, January 13, 20...

Last Call! Philosophers consider submitting to this @theaapt.bsky.social Studies in Pedagogy Special Issue on Teaching Graduate Students. This special issue is one of (if not the?) first big efforts to think more intentionally about how we as a discipline teach our graduate students ... (1/3)

What is Public Engagement with Science?

We have another great post on the #projectEPIC blog today from @apotochnik.bsky.social that summarises her fantastic new Element co-authored with @mjacquart.bsky.social on public engagement and science: epistemicinjusticeinhealthcareproject.blogspot.com/2025/03/what...

#science #philsky

“We are DEI” Go undergrads go! #NoSB1

Any talk you hear from the current administration about making the US more competitive in science and technology is utter bullshit. What they are doing is sabotaging our country for years if not decades to come.

He nails it.

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office.

Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.

Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children. Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. “Are you feeling all right?” I asked her. “I feel all sleepy,” she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

The American Institute of Physics is looking for an associate director who will lead our new policy research and analysis function, which is within my portfolio. We will be busy. americaninstituteofphysics.applicantstack.com/x/openings

Hanne giving tLm with slide text "Teaching history and philosophy of science Reflections on literacy and proficiency • Traditional introductory courses in history and philosophy of science (HPS) • Structured as introduction to history and philosophy of science as academic disciplines, often focussed on key concepts, positions and theories, how they differ, and how they have developed as seen from within these disciplines • Goal to intrigue and attract students and to prepare them for futher studies in HPS • Proficiency in history and philosophy of science • Courses in history and philosophy of science for aspiring scientists • Structured instead around challenges that scientists commonly face and which call historical and/or philosophical reflection • Goal to be enable students in their future careers as scientists to critically their own practices, and to engage in conversations with policy makers as general public on the role of science and scientific knowledge

Hanne Ven diagram slide

@hanneand.bsky.social kicking off Historical & Philosophical Literacy As Core Elements of Scientific Proficiency session at #AAASmtg #HPS on how to retool our courses in history & philosophy of science for aspiring scientists & how HPS courses are part of required science curriculum in Denmark.

Will & slide text "A Half-Century of Efforts to Diversify the Physical Sciences Journalist declares 'one-man war against critical race il halog an tnd the United States wal be the global leader in STEA VISION theory' after nuke lab holds white privilege training This is really racism masquerading as anti-racism' Baild Streng Foundations for STEM Literac By Victor Garca FeuNirm Increase Diversity, Equiry, and Inclusion in STEM О aAn 12. 3020 11 58am EDT Updated August 17, 2029 7.57pm €0 Prepare the STEM Workforce for the Future 00000 ADVANCING AMERICA'S GLOBAL LEADERSHIP IN SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY TRUMP ADMINISTRATION HIGHLIGHTS: 2017-2020 plan's vision and goals. NUCLEAR LAB EXECS SENT TO "WHITE PRIVILEGE" CAMP

Third talk in Historical & Philosophical Literacy As Core Elements of Scientific Proficiency session at #AAASmtg #HPS is @williamthomas.bsky.social on importance of researching, teaching documenting, & preserving (!) recent history of efforts to diversify the sciences.

HSS President Evelynn Hammonds at podium

Great reflections by @historyscience.bsky.social Pres. Evelynn Hammonds @ #HPS session @ #AAASmtg on history of HPS in science efforts; how build trust in science every step of process & need for critical reflection along way; current complicated media world & how HPS needs to engage more w/ media

Jane Maienschien asking a question to panel

Audience at AAAS

Great turn out at the "The Value of History & Philosophy of Science for a Strong Scientific Ecosystem" session at #AAASmtg #HPS

Melissa and slide w text "What does philosophy (of science) offer? V Content 2. Skills • "Diagnosis and Prescription" of reasoning Jacquart & Dunlap, forthcoming). • Dialogue Skills not at persuasion but understanding. • Question-asking, Curiosity & Wonder И. Jacquart | melissa.jacquart@uc.edu SCIENCE SHAPINO

Second talk in Historical & Philosophical Literacy As Core Elements of Scientific Proficiency session at #AAASmtg #HPS is @mjacquart.bsky.social on what philosophy of science can contribute to public engagement with science.

Panelists + Historical and Philosophical Literacy As Core Elements of Scientific Proficiency Hanne Andersen, Section for History and Philosophy of Science, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark • Room 204 (Hynes Convention Center) + Role for Philosophy of Science in Public Engagement With Science Melissa Jacquart, Department of Philosophy, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH • Room 204 (Hynes Convention Center) + Integrated Research Program Focused on the Physical Sciences Enterprise Will Thomas, AlP Research, American Institute of Physics, College Park, MD • Room 204 (Hynes Convention

The Value of History and Philosophy of Science for a Strong Scientific Ecosystem I Friday, February 14, 2025 • 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EST • Room 204 (Hynes Convention Center) Registration Type Deluxe Registrant - Live event only Newsroom Registrant - Live event only Attendees can participate In-person only Organizer Hanne Andersen University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark Moderator Evelynn Hammonds Harvard University, Cambridge,

This Friday 10-11 at #AAASmtg a fantastic session on "The Value of History & Philosophy of Science for a Strong Scientific Ecosystem"
with talks by @hanneand.bsky.social @mjacquart.bsky.social @williamthomas.bsky.social
Moderated by Evelynn Hammonds #HPS

sreenshot from the new york times reporting that Stanford University’s provost is talking about how the loss of funding from national institutes of health funding will cost the university $160 million. that’s not the way to get this changed — the people think “stanford is rich; no big deal.” leaders need to talk about what this will cost the public

for pity’s sake, I am BEGGING university leaders to stop framing this issue in terms of what this will cost the university. people dont care!

EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession

Public Engagement with Science Cambridge Core - Environmental Policy, Economics and Law - Public Engagement with Science

Professors Angela Potochnik (@apotochnik.bsky.social) and Melissa Jacquart (@mjacquart.bsky.social) recently published a Cambridge Element titled ‘Public Engagement with Science: Defining the Project’! It’s open access, check it out at this link!
#philsky #Philsci

Public Engagement with Science Cambridge Core - Environmental Policy, Economics and Law - Public Engagement with Science

We are excited to announce a new Element on Public Engagement with Science by PEWS Founder and Center Director Angela Potochnik and PEWS Curriculum and Pedagogy Director Melissa Jacquart! 🌟

The Element is open access - just follow the link to read! ⬇️

www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Yep! Grant-funded PhD students' entire income is at stake. Their tuition as well. And maybe also their health insurance. There are lots and lots of students who are funded on federal grants.

This series anticipates that treating these topics alongside one another in an interdisciplinary forum will advance both theory and practice of public engagement with science. #publicengagementwithscience #science

Public engagement with science is an umbrella term that includes science communication, formal and informal science education, community participation in scientific research, science policy, and any other interfaces between science and the public. ... ...

Our aim is to make accessible to a broader audience of academics and public engagement professionals (1) specialized knowledge bearing on public engagement with science, and (2) ground-breaking research in areas of public engagement with science. ...

We're really excited about some of the Elements that are in the works to come out over the next 1-2+ years. We're always looking for suggestions and want to hear your thoughts on what else you hope the series should cover (or who should write an element for us!) ... ...

This element is the *first* in a new @cambridgeup.bsky.social Cambridge Elements Series that focuses on Public Engagement with Science (and that Angela and I are also co-editing). It's also Cambridge's first interdisciplinary elements series. ... ...