Sara Hendren
Friends: if you can think of an academic journal article in any field that is both well written and (sorta) accessible outside its subfield, I’d love a rec. (I don’t need to explain why finding these can be… difficult.)
Jan 13 at 6:06pmWeb
Show threadJ. Nathan Matias 🦣Jan 13

@ablerism any particular audience in mind? Undergrads? Gradstudents? Or a wider audience?

Among 2025 reads, I liked this one on Fungi in Nature Reviews: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08419-4

I also liked this one on the commercial determinants of health in The Lancet: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(23)00013-2/fulltext

Fungal impacts on Earth’s ecosystems - Nature

This Review delves into the fungal kingdom, exploring the relationships among fungi, animals, plants and the environment, and investigating both the threats posed by fungi and their potential benefits.

Nature
Show threadJ. Nathan Matias 🦣Jan 13
@ablerism I especially like the Lancet article because it has a glossary!
Show threadJ. Nathan Matias 🦣Jan 13

@ablerism And Megan & I tried hard to make our article in PNAS accessible to a wider audience. That is for others to judge!

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2421111122

Show threadSara HendrenJan 14
@natematias These all look great — thank you so much! And your article is especially germane for my PhD students (first years in NE’s Integrated Media and Design doctoral program). They come from a wide range of concerns, which is generatie/tricky. Many, many thanks.
Show threadtegabrainJan 23
@ablerism I frequently still think about this paper on cryptography.. https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1162
The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work

Cryptography rearranges power: it configures who can do what, from what. This makes cryptography an inherently \textit{political} tool, and it confers on the field an intrinsically \textit{moral} dimension. The Snowden revelations motivate a reassessment of the political and moral positioning of cryptography. They lead one to ask if our inability to effectively address mass surveillance constitutes a failure of our field. I believe that it does. I call for a community-wide effort to develop more effective means to resist mass surveillance. I plea for a reinvention of our disciplinary culture to attend not only to puzzles and math, but, also, to the societal implications of our work.

IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive
Show threadSara HendrenJan 25
@tegabrain Thank you!! And great to see/hear you.