Objectives As a significant component of protest culture, protest placards illustrate the way
protesters see, understand and share their environmental concerns, and the School Strike 4 …

Conspiracy theories have accompanied vaccination since its mass introduction, circulating,
among other forms, in humour–such as cartoons, and now, memes. Importantly, humour has …

Stereotypical representations about what scientists do, look like, and how they behave are
cognized in early childhood and refined throughout life, through direct or indirect contact …

Enacting reflexivity in techno-scientific research systems is an ongoing challenge for
responsible innovation (RI) researchers and practitioners. Drawing on one of the most …

This editorial introduces the special collection Conjuring a New Normal: Monstrous Routines
and Mundane Horrors in Pandemic Lives and Dreamscapes. The collection brings together …

Among the many restrictions implemented at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the
transition from face-to-face learning to distance learning was perhaps the most important …

This article explores how environmental knowledge about global warming and the melting of
ice is communicated through humour in the computer-animated films Ice Age: The Meltdown …

A funny thing happened on the way to this essay–we decided to eliminate over one hundred
possible entries! Why would we do such a thing? Because, dear reader, the scholarship in …

Background Mouthparts that not only slice skin apart, but also slurp blood; body armour that
in comparison makes a tank look like a soap bubble and body snatchers that take over the …