ISC Presents
ISC Presents is a podcast by the International Science Council. Our short episodes provide listeners with a melting pot of insightful discussions and thought provoking debates through the voices of guests and experts of the international scientific community. We discuss the challenges, stories, and celebrations of science while seeking to encourage international action on concerns to both science, and society. We look forward to listening with you.
Episodes
53 episodes
Science Fiction and the Future of Science: Cory Doctorow - Leveraging Digital Advancements for the Future
In this last episode, we invite Cory Doctorow, a science fiction author, activist, and journalist from Canada. He is the author of many books, most recently The Lost Cause, a solarpunk science fiction novel of hope amidst the climate e...
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Season 7
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Episode 6
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15:05
Science Fiction and the Future of Science: Qiufan Chen - Values and Senses in Artificial Intelligence
Qiufan Chen is an award-winning Chinese speculative fiction writer, author of Waste Tide and co-author of AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future. He is also a research scholar at Yale University and a fellow of Berggruen Institut...
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Season 7
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Episode 5
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13:57
Science Fiction and the Future of Science: Fernanda Trías - Lessons from an Eco-Dystopia
This fourth episode invites Fernanda Trías, an award-winning writer from Uruguay and an instructor of creative writing in Colombia. She has published a short story collection and four novels, including the English-translated book Pink Slime...
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Season 7
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Episode 4
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11:14
Science Fiction and the Future of Science: Vandana Singh - Data, Narrative, and Transdisciplinarity
In this third episode, we invite Vandana Singh, a science fiction writer hailing from India, to speak about her views on the science and fiction intersection. She is also a transdisciplinary scholar of climate change and a professor of physics ...
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Season 7
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Episode 3
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14:42
Science Fiction and the Future of Science: Karen Lord - Long-Term Thinking in Policymaking
Barbadian writer Karen Lord is an award-winning author of Redemption in Indigo, The Best of All Possible Worlds, and The Galaxy Game. Her latest book, The Blue, Beautiful World, was published in August 2023. ...
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Season 7
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Episode 2
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14:44
Science Fiction and the Future of Science: Kim Stanley Robinson - Science as a Political and an Ethical Project
In this first episode, we speak to Kim Stanley Robinson, a New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards. He is the author of more than twenty books, including The Ministry for the Future. ...
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Season 7
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Episode 1
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20:42
How do we talk about science and knowledge?
In the last episode, we spoke about the many ways that distrust in science is expressed and the need for scientists to consider their own positions, including who they speak to and for. Which leads us neatly into today’s episode, where we focus...
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Season 6
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Episode 4
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20:03
How do we talk about science and distrust?
In this episode, we explore different ways that distrust can be expressed and what drives that historically, situationally, even structurally. We will also look at how competing narratives can mean making sense of the science is an often diffic...
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Season 6
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Episode 3
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16:38
How do we talk about science and identity?
In this episode, we explore how our sense of identity affects our willingness to trust certain sources of information. We look at why the authority of traditional gatekeepers of expertise, like science academies, seems to be eroding. Have we mi...
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Season 6
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Episode 2
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22:55
How do we talk about science and uncertainty?
In this episode we explore how uncertainties play a role in the process of scientific discovery and why this is such a challenge for the way we need to talk about science – with Courtne...
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Season 6
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Episode 1
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19:54
Freedom and responsibility in science in the 21st century: episode 6, trust in science
How can we combat malpractice and misconduct in research? And how do we promote trust in scientists and the work they do? This final episode explores the topics of trust, malpractice, and misconduct in scientific research.&nb...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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10:01
Freedom and responsibility in science in the 21st century: episode 5, emerging technologies
In this fifth episode, Professor Françoise Baylis (philosopher and bioethicist at Dalhousie University) and Ocean Mercier (Associate Professor at the School of Māori Studies at Victoria University of Wellington) explore new technologies, the as...
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Season 5
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Episode 5
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10:01
Freedom and responsibility in science in the 21st century - Episode 4: The Role of the State
In this fourth episode, Sir Peter Gluckman (ISC President and former and former chief scientific advisor to Prime Ministers in New Zealand) and Saja Al Zoubi (Development economist at St Mary’s University in Canada) explore the role of science ...
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Season 5
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Episode 4
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10:00
Freedom and responsibility in science in the 21st century - Episode 3: Science Communication
How can we convey accurate scientific information in a world of disinformation, information overload, and politicization? Tune in as our guests, Guy Berger (Professor Emeritus at Rhodes University) and Courtney C. Radsch (Postdoctoral Res...
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Season 5
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Episode 3
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10:00
Freedom and responsibility in science in the 21st century - Episode 2: Scientific autonomy
“The current world needs science, to develop well informed decisions. And that can only come from scientific autonomy.”“Scientific autonomy does not mean that individual scientists can or should be able to do whatever they want...
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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9:54
Freedom and responsibility in science in the 21st century - Episode 1: Scientific freedom and responsabilities
This new ISC podcast series explores contemporary perspectives on science's free and responsible practice in the early 21st century while questioning the challenges science faces today.In this first episode, Anne Husebekk (ISC Vice-Pres...
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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9:58
Episode 5- Preventing Crisis: Science Diplomacy and Track Two Organizations
In our final fifth episode we explore the importance of informal and non-governmental channels in maintaining and building international scientific collaborations, the role of informal diplomatic channels such as science and culture in building...
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Season 5
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Episode 5
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34:32
Episode 4 - Rebuilding Mosul’s ‘Lighthouse of Knowledge’
In this episode, we’ll discuss the impact of crisis, specifically conflict, on an individual scientist, Dr Alaa Hamdon from Mosul, Iraq. Recorded over a series of voice notes during power cuts in Iraq, we spoke to Alaa about his experience befo...
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Season 5
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Episode 4
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24:23
Episode 3 - The Fallout of Conflict: The Arctic and Outer Space
This episode will unpack the worrying impact that conflict has on the capacity of organized science and scientists to respond to global challenges. Some of the critical spaces in which the most pressing issues of our modern era are being resear...
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Season 5
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Episode 3
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29:32
Episode 2 - The Current Clash: Science and the National Interest
In this episode of our series 'Science in Times of Crisis', we will explore two examples of how perceived national interests can impact on the capabilities of collaborative science, the scientific community and society. Firstly, the COVID...
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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30:58
Episode 1 - Science, Geopolitics and Crisis: What can we learn from history?
For our first episode, and the introduction to our series, we delve into contemporary history to explore two examples of science in times of crisis. We’ll be looking at the the Cold War period from 1950 to 1990 and the Apartheid era in South Af...
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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36:10
Trailer: Science in Times of Crisis
Discover the new podcast series from the International Science Council’s Committee for Freedom and Responsibility in Science (CFRS), which explores what living in a world of crisis and geopolitical instability means for science and scientists a...
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Season 5
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Episode 0
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0:47
Science in Exile - Syrian political scientist Radwan Ziadeh on continuing human rights research and activism across borders
In the final episode of Science in Exile, political scientist Radwan Ziadeh shares his story of leaving Syria to continue his research on and advocacy for human rights and democracy. Radwan Ziadeh - who is a member of the Steering Committee for...
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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15:06
Science in Exile - Phyu Phyu Thin Zaw on the crisis facing medics and scientists in Myanmar
Following the February 2021 coup d’état in Myanmar, medical doctors and other scientists have been prominent in resistance movements, with many doctors striking to protest against violence and persecution. In this episode of Science in Exile, D...
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13:00
Science in Exile - Early-career scientist Eqbal Dauqan shares her story of leaving Yemen to continue her research overseas
This episode of Science in Exile features Eqbal Dauqan, a Yemeni biochemist whose research interests include therapeutic nutrition and the antioxidants in food. Eqbal was forced to halt her research work when war broke out in Yemen, and later l...
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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12:36