Dr. Laura Alex Frye-Levine
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Dr. Laura Alex Frye-Levine
@unhyp.bsky.social
Research Scientist @MIT Anthropology
"Good governance of emerging technologies requires inclusion of a variety of experts from the outset, and decision-makers—including scientists—must understand that concerns that may seem ignorant or irrelevant may actually represent different, but valid, understandings of the problem."
Wrote an editorial about the famed Asilomar conference (celebrating its 50th anniversary) saying it "made it more difficult for scientists to take seriously global public concerns about emerging technologies, which has impeded governance and eroded trust in science." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Viewing Asilomar from the Global South
To many in the scientific community, the 1975 Asilomar Conference on Recombinant DNA stands as a singular achievement. This experiment in governance seemed to demonstrate that citizens could trust sci...
www.science.org
January 31, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Reposted by Dr. Laura Alex Frye-Levine
Two stages of writing:

1) This shouldn't take too long
2) Oh no
December 4, 2024 at 7:36 PM
Reposted by Dr. Laura Alex Frye-Levine
This was Austrian Airlines' final post over on the Twitter.
November 13, 2024 at 6:08 PM