By David Houston Jones The need to visualise COVID-19 has permeated official coverage, frequently in the form of charts showing daily infection growth rates and…
Category: Science and Data
By Dora Vargha “We know a good deal about beginnings: those first signal cases of pneumonia in Guangdong, influenza in Veracruz, and hemorrhagic fever in…
By Sabina Leonelli with Kaushik Sunder Rajan, Thomas Cousin and Michelle Pentecost ‘Struggles for a more just, fair, inclusive, or caring politics in the time of…
By Ginny Russell Since the start of the COVID-19 outbreak, the UK has the highest reported rate of “excess” deaths in Western Europe, if not…
By Laura Salisbury As social media and different forms of populism continue to undermine trust in top-down expertise, it’s clear that facts are coming under…
By Arthur Rose and Luna Dolezal During the COVID-19 crisis, metaphors of “saving face”, and its corollary “losing face”, have emerged as motivating forces that explain…
By Sabina Leonelli Data have been at the centre of the pandemic response, in terms of which data are being collected, how they are being…
By Sabina Leonelli This journal special issue brings together scholarly reflections on the COVID-19 pandemic from scholars in the history, philosophy and social studies of…
By Sabina Leonelli The pandemic has thrown questions around both scientific and public trust into the spotlight. On the one hand, attempts to manipulate public…
By John Dupré Viruses are usually portrayed as stable and distinct individuals that do not fit the more integrated and collaborative picture of nature implied…
By Kirsten Bell and Judith Green One novel outcome of the current pandemic has been the proliferation of accessible published research. Many academic journal editors have…
By Angela Cassidy There are many parallels between the UK’s response to the arrival of COVID-19 in recent months and its much longer policy history…
By Angela Cassidy The past decade has seen an explosion in the availability and uptake of new technologies enabling the rapid testing, diagnosis and detection…