What challenges does synbio face in bringing effective solutions to clinic? How are tools like AI and computational design impacting the field? Find out at #SynBioBeta2023 : synbiobeta.com Aishani Aatresh Dave Hava Dr. Jacob Glanville Synlogic
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Join us for our next Science and Democracy Lecture!
 
AI for Cities or Cities of AI: Who should decide?

with Bill de Blasio (former mayor of NYC)

March 28, 2023
5-7pm
In-person and virtual

sts.hks.harvard.edu/events/lecture…

🎉📖Announcing Future Humans

An anthology of multi-media speculative fiction curated for the 20th Anniversary of HarvardSTS

Read the whole anthology here sts20th.org/about/future-h…

🍾 Announcing the Symposium on Science, Technology & the Human Future, 3 days of exploration on possible futures for knowledge, life, policy, cities, and STS.

Nov 3-5, 2022
Harvard University

Celebrating 20 years of the STS Program Harvard Kennedy School
sts20th.org

Future Humans is an opportunity to collectively meditate upon the shifting ways in which we know ourselves, each other, the world, and what we hold dear — envisioning possible futures to reflect on challenges of today. Send in your submission (of any medium) today! ⬇️

Vaccine Hesitancy: Between Miracle and Mistrust
Sept 8-9, 2022

Join us and Harvard Data Science Initiative for two days of discussion and hands-on demonstrations of the ways researchers at Harvard and beyond are exploring questions of trust in science. sts.hks.harvard.edu/events/worksho… Harvard Kennedy School

One month (sept 5) to submit to our Future Humans anthology! Imagine futures where something fundamental about the world is altered and how that changes ourselves, each other, and what we value.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Across the street from the richest college in the world, people are dying on the street. There are a lot of good people in this town, though, trying their hardest to make a difference and to help others.
harvardpolitics.com/man-dead-harva…

Preprint: impact of immune history and variant on SARS-CoV-2 viral kinetics and viral rebounds: medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
Ct trajectories from ~3000 infections (pre-BA.2) stratified by exposure (vaccine/infection) history, symptoms, variant, and antibody titers to WA1 spike.

1/24

Interested in envisioning potential futures for humanity and inspire us to reflect upon and tackle challenges of today? We are putting together an anthology as part of our 20th anniversary and all @harvard affiliates are welcome to submit. Deadline 5 sept

sts.hks.harvard.edu/call-for-inter…

My most recent for Harvard Political Review written early Dec, with much more to reflect on from the months since. Have we learned lessons from this pandemic? Which ones, why those/not others, for/by whom? How do we know that we've learned? How will that change policy moving forward? ⬇️

Come join us for the next Science and Democracy Lecture
with
Marcia K. McNutt (President, National Academy of Sciences)

on

'For the People'
The Role of Science

March 23rd
Virtual

Register here mailchi.mp/hks.harvard.ed…

Congratulations to my #1 hype-woman and most wonderful human of an amazing friend and coworker Stephanie Wisner — so proud of you and can't wait for your book! #forbes30under30 forbes.com/30-under-30/20…

💉 7.8 billion COVID vaccine doses have been administered

👥 53% of world population with at least 1 dose

🌍 Total doses per 100 people
High-income countries: 147
Upper-middle income: 146
Lower-middle income: 68
Low income: 7

Our data on vaccinations: ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinat…

I think I speak for ⁦CCDD at Harvard Chan⁩ in saying how much we wish ⁦Michael Mina⁩ well in this new exciting role and how much we will miss him as a colleague and continue to value him as a friend. thecrimson.com/article/2021/1…

New paper on at-home self collection of blood specimens for antibody based prevalence studies for SARS-CoV-2.

A wealth of information on attitudes and willingness for participation in serological studies.

Congrats Aishani Aatresh on getting this published, Your 1st published paper!

Today, we wanted to give you a deeper look at what’s inside The Equity Issue: 12 features by some of our favorite authors, covering equity (and the many inequities) in STEM from very particular angles. Read this thread for an overview. growbyginkgo.com

Aishani Aatresh Aishani Aatresh asks young synthetic biologists from all over the world how they think we can make the field more equitable and diverse. growbyginkgo.com/products/equity

What might a new roadmap for science and society look like? Join us next week as Alondra Nelson shares her thoughts, with commentary by Craig Calhoun francesca dominici and Jennifer Hochschild. Moderated by Sheila Jasanoff