What’s it mean to “look like a dancer”? What if you don’t?

What does it all mean to you?

Nearly 20 years ago, I introduced a special series of articles for Trends in Neurosciences (5:295, 1982) that sought to illustrate some of the then-latest developments in molecular neuroscience. That was the time when neuroscientists were beginning to borrow heavily from the nascent field of molecular genetics, just as we had previously borrowed flagrantly from the previously powerful fields of...

Fired! What to do if it happens to you.

Man, You Might Look Like a Woman—If a Child Is Next to You

Gender categorization seems prone to a pervasive bias: Persons about whom null or ambiguous gender information is available are more often considered male than female. Our study assessed whether such a male-bias is present in non-binary choice tasks and whether it can be altered by social contextual information. Participants were asked to report their perception of an adult figure's gender in t...

If you like it , does it matter if it ' s real ?

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What might philosophy of science look like if chemists built it?

Had more philosophers of science come from chemistry, their thinking would have been different. I begin by looking at a typical chemical paper, in which making something is the leitmotif, and conjecture/refutation is pretty much irrelevant. What in fact might have been, might be, different? The realism of chemists is reinforced by their remarkable ability to transform matter; they buy into redu...