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‘This is not a Miss America contest’: Sexism in science, research is challenged
When a medical student posted a photo of herself in a bikini top and shorts, she sparked a movement—and set off an uproar over sexism in science.
I explore a recent spate of studies whose authors have been challenged for alleged sexism and other biases, and how a furor over bias in research is helping reinvigorate a years-long struggle to make academic publishing more diverse.
Why this famed Anglo-Saxon burial was likely the last of its kind
When archaeologists covered a buried Anglo-Saxon ship in Sutton Hoo, England in 1939, they discovered a dizzying number of elaborate grave goods. But when the last spade of dirt was tossed over the Anglo-Saxon warrior and his treasures, the practice of burying the dead with piles of bling was falling out of fashion. Within a century of Sutton Hoo, most English burials contained little more than decaying bodies.
What caused the shift? I spoke with the curator caring for the precious hoard, and the archaeologist working to find out more about early medieval Europeans’ abandonment of their most cherished burial rites.