The Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT is excited to welcome Dr. Shayla L. Monroe of Harvard for a seminar on zooarchaeology. Human-animal relations have always been essential for the survival of Saharan peoples. These relationships between people, wild fauna, and domesticated animals, however, go far beyond survival, impacting the ideology, sociality, and political relationships […]

The Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT is excited to welcome Dr. David Kaiser for a talk on black holes and dark matter. For fifty years, physicists have been stymied by the puzzle of dark matter. From the motion of enormous clusters of galaxies to the rate at which individual galaxies spin, decades of careful […]

The Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT is honored to welcome Dr. Jennifer Allen for a seminar on the impact of misleading headlines and vaccine hesitancy. The talk will focus on recent work published in Science quantifying the impact of misinformation and vaccine-skeptical content on Facebook. In the paper, Allen and her co-auther find that […]