Too few scientists recognize how our values and cultural suppositions influence the questions we think to ask, the hypotheses we consider plausible, and the areas of inquiry we believe are worth pursuing. Diversity is good for science. https://theconversation.com/women-have-disrupted-research-on-bird-song-and-their-findings-show-how-diversity-can-improve-all-fields-of-science-142874
Women have disrupted research on bird song, and their findings show how diversity can improve all...

For decades, scientists believed that only male birds sang. Then women entered the field and showed what their predecessors had missed.

https://theconversation.com/women-have-disrupted-research-on-bird-song-and-their-findings-show-how-diversity-can-improve-all-fields-of-science-142874
This reminds me of the emergence of interest in female mate choice - which proved tremendously important in animal behavior - that coincided with second-wave feminism in the 70s and 80s.
As well as the more contemporary example of queer biologists (like my student @tweetingmouse) revisiting assumptions about same-sex behavior. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-019-1019-7
An alternative hypothesis for the evolution of same-sex sexual behaviour in animals

The authors hypothesize an ancestral condition of indiscriminate sexual behaviours directed towards all sexes, rather than a state in which different-sex sexual behaviour is a baseline and same-sex...

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-019-1019-7
This is also a strong practical (and moral) argument for involving marginalized groups as partners in research that explores their experience. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/bioethics-crispr-indigenous-genome/
An Indigenous bioethicist on CRISPR and decolonizing DNA

Gene-editing technology is progressing faster than our ethical conversations about how we should use it. Krystal Tsosie thinks that’s a problem.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/bioethics-crispr-indigenous-genome/
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