July 2022 | Professor Joe Cain

WeAreSTS - A Podcast from UCL Department of Science and Technology Studies (STS), hosted by Professor Joe Cain.

#14 Period policies: Exploring the debate on menstrual leave | WeAreSTS

As someone who prides herself on being interested in women’s health and progress related to it, Sofia Sancho still had no idea what “menstrual leave” was when it suddenly was all over the news earlier […]

#13 BBC Wildlife Documentaries in the Age of Attenborough | WeAreSTS

In this episode, Professor Jean-Baptiste Gouyon discusses his recent book, BBC Wildlife Documentaries in the Age of Attenborough. This is a history of British natural history filmmaking across the twentieth century. It also is an analysis […]

George Gaylord Simpson, 1956 (courtesy American Philosophical Society Library).

Patricide in the Repeated Assassination of George Gaylord Simpson

George Gaylord Simpson was the undisputed American heavy-weight in macro-evolutionary theory prior to paleobiology’s disciplinary formation in the 1970s. Memory of Simpson’s intellectual influence on this next generation of thinkers is tied intimately to aggressive […]

Professor Joe Cain

UCL Professor of History and Philosophy of Biology

Month: July 2022

#14 Period policies: Exploring the debate on menstrual leave | WeAreSTS

#13 BBC Wildlife Documentaries in the Age of Attenborough | WeAreSTS

Patricide in the Repeated Assassination of George Gaylord Simpson