https://bsky.app/profile/issuesinst.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/issuesinst.bsky.social/post/3mjf5l5sdkc2g“When institutions privilege a narrow range of cognitive practices as legitimate knowledge,” Michael Crow, David Rosowsky, and William Dabars write, “they marginalize the exploratory, embodied, and relational forms of intelligence through which innovation often emerges.” https://issues.org/pluralistic-intelligence-american-research-university-crow-rosowsky-dabars/13 Apr 2026 15:10 +0000at://did:plc:6ccfypyybsfziselvv7jypfo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjf5l5sdkc2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/issuesinst.bsky.social/post/3mj5y2lipvs2mOn our podcast, Emily Packard Dawson, a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Michigan Medical School, speaks with ISSUES managing editor Jason Lloyd about the ethical and policy challenges that assistive reproductive technologies raise for egg donations. https://issues.org/the-future-of-making-babies/10 Apr 2026 18:43 +0000at://did:plc:6ccfypyybsfziselvv7jypfo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj5y2lipvs2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/issuesinst.bsky.social/post/3mj3kaofgfc2pIn our latest piece, US Representative Brian Babin argues that a disciplined division of labor between government agencies and commercial actors is critical for the US to maintain leadership in space. Read: https://issues.org/america-next-era-space-babin/09 Apr 2026 19:30 +0000at://did:plc:6ccfypyybsfziselvv7jypfo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj3kaofgfc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/issuesinst.bsky.social/post/3miz2rcjplk24How should the public fund science? How can research improve the quality of life in local communities? Our new Spring 2026 issue explores these questions and more to better understand how the social contract between science and society is evolving. issues.org/issue/42-3/08 Apr 2026 19:48 +0000at://did:plc:6ccfypyybsfziselvv7jypfo/app.bsky.feed.post/3miz2rcjplk24https://bsky.app/profile/issuesinst.bsky.social/post/3mivycspn2k2qKathryn Freeman Hunting Season, 202407 Apr 2026 14:26 +0000at://did:plc:6ccfypyybsfziselvv7jypfo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mivycspn2k2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/issuesinst.bsky.social/post/3mitkbsn6nc2y“Robots would not be restrained by ‘human compassion, which can provide an important check on the killing of civilians.’” Stuart Russell details the complexities of finding an international consensus to support a ban on lethal autonomous weapons in our Spring 2022 issue. https://issues.org/banning-lethal-autonomous-weapons-stuart-russell/06 Apr 2026 15:10 +0000at://did:plc:6ccfypyybsfziselvv7jypfo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mitkbsn6nc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/issuesinst.bsky.social/post/3milx75iclc2q“Think globally, act locally.” Amid a fragmented R&D system, Martin Ho, Pramod P. Khargonekar, and Eoin O’Sullivan propose a grand challenge framework to make coordination across a decentralized and diverse network of public agencies, private industries, and philanthropic organizations effective. https://issues.org/grand-challenge-framework-ho-khargonekar-osullivan/03 Apr 2026 14:39 +0000at://did:plc:6ccfypyybsfziselvv7jypfo/app.bsky.feed.post/3milx75iclc2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/issuesinst.bsky.social/post/3miji5dixlc2pTavares Strachan Shadow Maps (The Snowy Owl), 202202 Apr 2026 15:05 +0000at://did:plc:6ccfypyybsfziselvv7jypfo/app.bsky.feed.post/3miji5dixlc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/issuesinst.bsky.social/post/3mihfjabpvc22“As a technologist, I absolutely believe in increased productivity, but that doesn’t automatically translate into shared prosperity.” @drfeifei.bsky.social shares her thoughts with ISSUES on the ethical responsibilities surrounding AI in our Spring 2024 issue. https://issues.org/interview-godmother-ai-fei-fei-li/01 Apr 2026 19:12 +0000at://did:plc:6ccfypyybsfziselvv7jypfo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mihfjabpvc22https://bsky.app/profile/issuesinst.bsky.social/post/3mif42jx3wc2bIn the latest installment of our podcast, Edward You, a former special agent in the FBI’s Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate, joins ISSUES editor-in-chief @lisamargonelli.bsky.social to discuss how You helped reframe how policymakers understand biosecurity. https://issues.org/edward-you-protected-america-from-bioterror/31 Mar 2026 21:18 +0000at://did:plc:6ccfypyybsfziselvv7jypfo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mif42jx3wc2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/issuesinst.bsky.social/post/3mickmgtcec2gIn the latest installment of our #FutureTenseFiction newsletter, our managing editor Jason Lloyd introduces Gunnar Anderson‘s “The Pocket Box™,” this month‘s story, along with a behind the scenes conversation with Anderson and related readings. futuretensefiction.substack.com/p/what-if-yo...30 Mar 2026 21:00 +0000at://did:plc:6ccfypyybsfziselvv7jypfo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mickmgtcec2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/issuesinst.bsky.social/post/3mi2xlxzao22sHow long does it take for a ground-breaking scientific discovery to become a mass consumer product? Gunnar Anderson’s “The Pocket Box™,” the new #FutureTenseFiction story, explores when a world-changing breakthrough in physics becomes a commodity with next-day shipping. https://issues.org/futuretensefiction/fiction-the-pocket-box-gunnar-anderson/27 Mar 2026 20:31 +0000at://did:plc:6ccfypyybsfziselvv7jypfo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mi2xlxzao22shttps://bsky.app/profile/issuesinst.bsky.social/post/3mhyhnjwtn22aMarc Rotenberg, @csmarcum.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy, Amina Fazlullah, and Joshua Joseph & @zittrain.bsky.social respond to @jbbranch.bsky.social‘s piece on regulatory frameworks for AI companions in our Forum section. Read the discussion here: https://issues.org/reducing-potential-harms-ai-companions-branch-forum/26 Mar 2026 20:41 +0000at://did:plc:6ccfypyybsfziselvv7jypfo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhyhnjwtn22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/issuesinst.bsky.social/post/3mhxx2grqo22s"Then one day the workshop was shuttered and a bright, desiccant, metallic soot took place from the pleasant and hectic comings and goings, and we none of us recalled what had been done…." Read more of G. L. Ford's poem "Industry" in our recent issue: https://issues.org/industry-poem-ford/26 Mar 2026 15:43 +0000at://did:plc:6ccfypyybsfziselvv7jypfo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhxx2grqo22shttps://bsky.app/profile/issuesinst.bsky.social/post/3mhvrj5f7oc2sNathalie Miebach’s series "The Floods" explores how experiencing data through art can deepen our engagement with the realities of climate change. It asks not how art can explain science, but how it can help us feel the systems we seek to understand. Read: https://issues.org/sculpting-the-floods-miebach/25 Mar 2026 18:59 +0000at://did:plc:6ccfypyybsfziselvv7jypfo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhvrj5f7oc2shttps://bsky.app/profile/issuesinst.bsky.social/post/3mhtbyniw2k2g“We should be deeply skeptical of the promotion of AI as a solution to the fog of war, which imagines that the right technology will find the important signals amid the noise.” In our Winter 2024 issue, Lucy Suchman questions the narratives underlying AI-enabled warfare. https://issues.org/ai-pretense-military-precision-suchman/24 Mar 2026 19:16 +0000at://did:plc:6ccfypyybsfziselvv7jypfo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhtbyniw2k2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/issuesinst.bsky.social/post/3mhr2dpq6vc2cIn 2017, Wilmington, North Carolina, was faced with what seemed to be a worst case scenario: a chemical pollutant had been found in the region’s drinking water, and researchers weren’t sure how to remove it. So the state’s General Assembly called the NC Collaboratory. https://issues.org/north-carolina-collaboratory-state-directed-research-warren-rhoades/23 Mar 2026 21:54 +0000at://did:plc:6ccfypyybsfziselvv7jypfo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhr2dpq6vc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/issuesinst.bsky.social/post/3mfada6dbcc24“If you want to make impact, this is a great place to play.” On the latest episode of our podcast, @ansidotorg.bsky.social president & CEO Laurie Locascio discusses all things standards with host Megan Nicholson. Listen or read the transcript: https://issues.org/who-sets-the-standard/19 Feb 2026 19:27 +0000at://did:plc:6ccfypyybsfziselvv7jypfo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfada6dbcc24https://bsky.app/profile/issuesinst.bsky.social/post/3me2nsghr7c2mOn “productive struggle” and the AI expertise paradox: “The tools that enable novices to perform more like experts simultaneously make them less likely to become experts.” Christopher Cotton & Lydia Scholle-Cotton respond to our podcast with labor economist David Autor: https://issues.org/ai-expertise-paradox-autor-forum/04 Feb 2026 19:55 +0000at://did:plc:6ccfypyybsfziselvv7jypfo/app.bsky.feed.post/3me2nsghr7c2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/issuesinst.bsky.social/post/3mdobatomjs2iOur January #FutureTenseFiction story is here! Read @andrewliptak.com’s “Deficiency Agent,” which follows a Marine whose role in an AI-led decision loop is to “root out any weirdness the AI might spit out” on the battlefield. [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Jan 2026 21:39 +0000at://did:plc:6ccfypyybsfziselvv7jypfo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdobatomjs2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/issuesinst.bsky.social/post/3mdglzizzys2k“Learning that Texas champions a progressive funding regime for biomedical research may come as a surprise,” @kennethmevans.bsky.social, Kirsten Matthews, & Heidi Russell write. But the state’s bipartisan funding model can help other state-led social contracts for science. https://issues.org/texas-research-funding-cprit-dprit-evans-matt/27 Jan 2026 20:30 +0000at://did:plc:6ccfypyybsfziselvv7jypfo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdglzizzys2khttps://bsky.app/profile/issuesinst.bsky.social/post/3ma4r2ozle22dISSUES is hiring! We’re looking for an Assistant Editor, based in Phoenix, to support editorial operations: producing and optimizing articles for web, copyediting, fact-checking, creating for social media, assisting with podcast and event production, and more. We all wear many hats! And so will you.16 Dec 2025 18:18 +0000at://did:plc:6ccfypyybsfziselvv7jypfo/app.bsky.feed.post/3ma4r2ozle22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/issuesinst.bsky.social/post/3m7ip42mh422v“How did the system come to use superglue to fix my brain? Who in the world would do such a thing?” Physician and science policy scholar Robert Cook-Deegan shares lessons he learned from “being the guy on the operating room table”: https://issues.org/subdural-hematoma-brain-injury-superglue-cook-deegan/08 Dec 2025 18:50 +0000at://did:plc:6ccfypyybsfziselvv7jypfo/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7ip42mh422v