Live, interactive conversations from New York. Join us in person or online!

Creepy, Crawly, and Uncharismatic: Telling the Stories of Unloved Animals

A conversation with Bethany Brookshire and Gwen Pearson.

Communicating the Climate Crisis in Word and Image

A conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning author and New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert and acclaimed illustrator Wesley Allsbrook, who have collaborated on Kolbert's new collection of climate change reporting. 

Covering Long Covid: Beyond ‘Mystery’ and Misunderstanding

Join us for a conversation with journalist Betsy Ladyzhets and Long Covid clinician Dr. Monica Verduzco-Gutierrez.

Taking UFOs Seriously: Science, Pseudoscience, and Culture

A conversation for journalists and everyone else, featuring Sarah Scoles and Nadia Drake.

You, the Publisher

A conversation on the new world of DIY newsletters with Substackers Jane Hu (The Microdose) and Michael Easter (2 percent).

Storming the Lab

A conversation for journalists, health care providers, and everyone else, featuring Amy Dockser Marcus, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of We the Scientists: How a Daring Team of Parents and Doctors Forged a New Path for Medicine, and Elaine Schattner, author of From Whispers to Shouts: The Ways We Talk About Cancer.

Heat, Smoke and Climate Justice

A conversation for journalists, scientists and everyone else, featuring Jeff Goodell, author of the bestseller The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet, and Joseph Wilkens, PhD, an atmospheric scientist at Howard University who studies the health effects of wildfire smoke.  

Towards Neurodiverse Journalism

A Kavli Conversation with Devon Price and Eric Garcia, moderated by Anna Rothschild.

Rethinking the Interview

In an Unequal World, Do We Need New Rules? A Kavli Conversation with Tara Haelle and Naseem Miller, moderated by Robin Lloyd.

This Changes Everything | This Changes Nothing

ChatGPT, Journalism, and the Future of Creativity. A Kavli Conversation with Joanna Stern and Jean Oh, moderated by Anna Rothschild.

When the Story is You

Singular first-person journalism. A Kavli Conversation with Sabrina Imbler and Helen Santoro, moderated by Robin Lloyd.

Covering Maternal Health in Post-Roe America

A Kavli Conversation on Science Communication with Diana Greene Foster and Shefali Luthra. Moderated by Anna Rothschild.

They write about poop. So what are the rest of us so freaked out about?

A Kavli Conversation on Science Communication with Lina Zeldovich and Bryn Nelson. Moderated by Anna Rothschild.

Why do we keep blowing it? Covid, monkeypox and the next pandemic

A Kavli Conversation on Science Communication with Katherine Wu and Jay Varma. Moderated by Robin Lloyd.

Covering the Trans Health Crisis

A Kavli Conversation on Science Communication with Tuck Woodstock and Jules Gill-Peterson. Moderated by Robin Lloyd.

Can Better Journalism End the Drug Wars?

A conversation about shifting the narrative with asha bandele (The Prisoner’s Wife) and Carl Hart (Drug Use for Grownups) moderated by Molly Webster.

Inside the Minds of Conspiracy Theorists: What Journalists Should Know

A conversation with Kaleigh Rogers (FiveThirtyEight) and Joseph Uscinski (Conspiracy Theories: A Primer), moderated by Anna Rothschild.

Animating Science: Design and Motion in STEM Storytelling

A conversation with Sabrina Cruz, Vanessa Hill, Alex Rosenthal and Anna Rothschild.

All News is Local: Reviving specialized coverage where it matters most

A conversation with Sabrina Shankman, Rose Hoban, and Marion Renault.

Visualizing Climate Change: An online conversation, illustrated

A conversation with Kennedy Elliot, Alberto Cairo, Rosamund Pearce, and Sara Chodosh.

Fluorescent Wombats and Ig Nobel Prizes: Reporting Weird Science

A conversation with Marc Abrahams, Cara Giaimo and Jessica Boddy.

Wild Deep Yonder: Covering Piracy, Overfishing, Mining and Other Crises Above and Below the Surface

A conversation with Ian Urbina, Helen Scales and Douglas Main.

Science Podcasting is People!

A conversation with Rose Eveleth (Flash Forward), Dr. Janina Jeff (In Those Genes) & Emily Kwong (Short Wave).

The Toughest Audience: Writing Science-Themed Books for Young People

A conversation with Melissa Stewart, Loree Griffin Burns and Lita Judge.

Crypto Journalism: Making sense of Bitcoin

A conversation with Nathaniel Popper, Neha Narula and Mike Orcutt.

Hey, policy stories don’t have to be boring! (it just feels that way sometimes)

A conversation with Dave Levitan, Rebecca Leber and Sudip Parikh.

Baby Business: Biotechnology, journalism and the future of fertility

A conversation with Antonio Regalado, Dr. Norbert Gleicher and Katherine Foley.

Looking for Life as We Don’t Know It: A Conversation about Journalism and Life in the Universe

A conversation with David Grinspoon, Rebecca Boyle and Miriam Kramer.

The Crisis Within the Crisis: Covering the CDC and Public Health During the Pandemic

A conversation with Helen Branswell, Richard Besser and Apoorva Mandavilli.

Phallus Fallacies and Whale Snot: Writing About Weird Biology for More than Just Laughs

A conversation with Emily Willingham, Nick Caruso and Mara Grunbaum.

Watching Them Watching Us: Reporting on Surveillance Capitalism

A conversation with Jillian York, Kashmir Hill and Shoshana Wodinsky.

After COVID: Public Health, the Environment, and What’s Next

A conversation with Ron Klain and Katharine Hayhoe via Zoom webinar.

Seeing Data: A Conversation on Visualization

A conversation with Betsy Mason and Enrico Bertini.

Blind Spots: A Screening, Live-Audience Test, and Conversation About Implicit Bias

A conversation with Robin Hauser and Mahzarin Banaji

Moving Images: A Conversation on the Power of Photography

A conversation with Lynn Johnson and Jennifer Tucker

Drug Stories: Covering the Opioid Crisis

A conversation with Beth Macy and Travis Rieder

Ebola & Beyond: Covering Epidemics

A conversation with award-winning writer Amy Maxmen and Boston University physician Nahid Bhadelia

Journalism on the Brain: The More We Look the Less We Know?

A conversation with Alix Spiegel and Brian Nosek

Vidsplaining: Explanatory Videos that Reach Millions

A conversation with Joss Fong and Anna Rothschild

Bad Medicine: Digging into Dysfunctional Health Care

A conversation with Laura Beil and Marty Makary

Jurassic Journalism: Fossils, Evolution and Science Denial

A conversation with Riley Black and Shaena Montanari

Food Fights: Covering Disputed Science About Food and Nutrition

A conversation with Paul Greenberg and Marion Nestle

The Most Unknown: A Special Screening

Followed by a conversation with Ian Cheney and Jennifer Macalady

Why You’re You: Explaining Heredity to a Confused Public

A conversation with Jennifer Raff and Carl Zimmer

Poached: Covering the Illegal Wildlife Trade

A conversation with Rachel Nuwer and Timothy Tear

The Future of Wild on a Tamed Planet

A conversation with Emma Marris and Joe Roman

How Science Distorts Gender

A conversation with Anne Fausto-Sterling and Angela Saini

CANCELLED: Peeking Inside the Brain: What Do We Really Know?

Cancelled due to weather.

Humans by Design: Covering the Gene Editing Revolution

A conversation with Samuel Sternberg and Antonio Regalado

The ‘Doomed Earth’ Controversy

The author of the controversial New York magazine cover story about worst-case climate scenarios in conversation with a prominent critic

Making Sense of Mind-Blowing Physics

A conversation with Sabine Hossenfelder and Natalie Wolchover

Digging Into Polluted Science: Environmental Investigations in an Era of Spin

A conversation with Sharon Lerner and David Michaels

Making Science Movies

A special screening of The Farthest, followed by a conversation with producer John Rubin and astronomer Heidi Hammel.

Covering and Uncovering Harassment in Science

A conversation with Azeen Ghorayshi and Kate Clancy

Bad Science and Good: Telling the Difference

A conversation with John Ioannidis and Richard Harris

Life in the Universe: One in a Billion Trillion?

A conversation with Caleb Scharf and Lee Billings

Age of Algorithms: Data, Democracy and the News

A conversation with Cathy O'Neil and Julie Angwin

Shiny Things: Technology and its Discontents

A conversation with Danah Boyd and Christopher Mims. Webcast begins at 6:30 p.m. EST.

What Does the Fox Say? Understanding Animal Cognition

A conversation with Virginia Morell and Alexandra Horowitz. Webcast begins at 6:30 p.m. EST.

Planet Human: Surviving the Extinction Crisis

A conversation with Elizabeth Kolbert and Stuart Pimm. Webcast begins at 6:30 p.m. EST.

Being Ridiculous: Finding the Humor in Science

A conversation with Mary Roach and Randall Munroe. Webcast begins at 6:30 p.m. EST.

The Swarm Inside: Making Sense of the Microbiome

A conversation with Ed Yong and Susan Perkins. Webcast begins at 6:30 p.m. EST.

Explaining Evolution: Communicating the Origin of (Our) Species

A conversation with Ann Gibbons and Ian Tattersall. Webcast begins at 6:30 p.m. EST.

The Fragile Brain: Neuroscience that Hits Home

A conversation with R. Douglas Fields and Andrea McDaniels. Webcast begins at 6:30 p.m. EST.

The Frankenstein Problem: How to Talk About Genetic Engineering

A conversation with George Church and Amy Harmon. Webcast begins at 6:30 p.m. EST.

Particle Fever and the Grandfather Paradox: Physics for Everyone

A conversation with Charles Adler and Mark Levinson. Webcast begins at 6:30 p.m. EST.

Getting Real About Climate: Storytelling for a Warming Planet

SHERP invites you to our inaugural Kavli Conversation with Suzanne Goldenberg and Gavin Schmidt, moderated by Robert Lee Holtz.