When you scroll through the projects listed on the Cobra website, one word seems to pop up frequently: alignment. What does this mean, and why is it interesting? Let’s first look at a scenario everyone has experienced: you are in a room full of people. Somebody yawns. Within a few minutes, everybody seems to be...
Author: Joanna Kruyt
Gender in science by Dr. Susanne Fuchs
What is gender and how can we measure it? Is science sexist? During the first Cobra training event Dr. Susanne Fuchs discussed questions such as these in her lecture series titled ‘Gender in Science’. What is gender? Dr. Susanne Fuchs began her presentation by highlighting perhaps the most important fact about gender: it is not...