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 E-Mail IMAGE: Gerald Holton, winner of the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Humanities. view more  Credit: BBVA FOUNDATION The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Humanities category has gone in this thirteenth edition to Gerald Holton "for his numerous seminal contributions to the history of 19th and 20th century science, in which he has shown a special sensitivity to cultural, philosophical, and sociological and gender contexts," says the committee in its citation. Holton, it continues, has developed "a reasoned analysis of the complex phenomeno...

Kyoto University Graphical abstract The Kazuo Takayama lab shows how iPS cells can be used to study SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19. With more than 125 million people infected and nearly 3 million dead, the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the world in inconceivable ways. Adding to the challenge is that the patient condition varies widely, from the asymptomatic to respiratory failure and death. A new study by CiRA researchers shows how iPS cells can be used to study infection by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), revealing gender differences seen with the disea...

The Atlantic The Danger of a ‘Dudes Only’ Vaccine We still don’t know who’s most at risk of getting the Johnson & Johnson vaccine blood clots. Katie Martin / The Atlantic The Johnson & Johnson shot is teetering on the precipice of becoming America’s “dudes only” vaccine. On Tuesday, the CDC and FDA advised halting the vaccine’s nationwide rollout to investigate six cases of a rare blood-clotting disorder that’s occurred in people within about two weeks of receiving the vaccine—all of them women under the age of 50. In an emergency meeting convened Wednesday by the CDC, exp...

Brian Wood This digital rendering of GPS data highlights the movements of men (red) and women (blue-green) from one Hadza camp. A study led by UCLA professor of anthropology Brian Wood yields new insight into the ways gender roles and ecology influence men’s and women’s patterns of movement through the landscape in which they live. The findings are based on a long-term research project among the Hadza people of northern Tanzania, one of the few remaining hunter-gatherer societies in the world. Recently published in the journal Nature Human Behaviour, the study has broad implications for u...

Date Time Gender in geosciences: leaky pipeline needs fixing Hacking through the jungle. An uphill battle. Being the Road Runner but on an ice-skating rink. These are just some of the ways a woman’s career path in geosciences is described by those working in the field. The responses are part of a new University of South Australia research project that is looking at the power of perception to understand the lack of gender diversity in geosciences. According to UniSA geoscientist Associate Professor Caroline Tiddy, more than 80 per cent of Australia’s mining workforce are male while just se...