Sentences with phrase «academic scientists about»

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After talking about their idea for a company with academic leaders, they were connected to Gordon Keller, a senior scientist at the University Health Network in Toronto.
Macron on the other hand, is pro-businesses, pro-EU, and even urged American scientists, academics, and entrepreneurs, who feel uneasy about President Donald Trump's administration, to move to France.
That all makes it a treasure trove of health data for scientists, and it's resulted in more than 1,000 academic research projects about life choices and health.
With his academic background as social scientist, he is passionate about new trends in urban affairs and the creative labor market, two things which are perfectly combined in the concept of coworking.
Yes, I like thousands of highly credentialed scientists from the world's leading academic and scientific institutions who have written dozens, if not hundreds of books casting doubt on Evolutionary Theory, I do have our doubts about evolutionary theory and Darwinism.
I recently listened to a distinguished academic computer scientist who told us joyfully how electronic data bases piped into homes through fiber - optic cables are about to put newspapers out of business.
While religious perspectives have nothing to do with the technical content of a lecture, they are relevant to a number of aspects of the academic situation.1 Where appropriate to the objectives of the course and closely connected with the subject matter, some of the questions which we have raised about the effects of an invention on society or the ethical dilemmas faced by the scientist can legitimately be mentioned in the classroom.
Third, acknowledging that some of the blame for the biased and one - sided media reporting on head injuries rests with some members of the scientific community who issue one - sided press releases and feed cherry - picked results about their findings to selected members of the media, the authors look to a day when the «harsh division and polarization» in the research community (an almost inevitable byproduct, unfortunately, of the intense competition for grant money in Concussion, Inc.), gives way to greater collaboration among researchers and a more «cordial discourse» between scientists via letters and responses to journal editors and back - and - forth debates at large academic conferences.
I don't really put too much stock in academic authority of people in social sciences until they talk about testable predictions like real scientists do; or at the very least deal with # s. Without that, they're just people who have opinions that are no more nor less valid than anyone who isn't an academic social scientist.
2011 Daniel Colón - Ramos is passionate about contributing to the development of future scientists and has spoken broadly about his experience on the academic path to a research career, the importance of mentoring and role models in science education, and the need for an open dialogue between scientists and the general public.
She is especially concerned about the attrition rate of physician - scientists — men and women — who come up against the academic tenure clock at a time when many are starting families.
Scientists from the University of Melbourne in Australia used a computer program to determine the number of men and women authors listed on more than 10 million academic papers in nearly 5,000 academic journals and about 120 arXiv.org subcategories, published from 2002 to 2016.
Why Students Need Professors» Perspective on Family Issues After bucking her mother's advice to remain childless, Donna Nelson, a committed and successful academic chemist, urges that any scientist thinking about becoming a parent should seek the counsel of their more experienced colleagues.
The Physician Scientist Training Program in Internal Medicine, a research - oriented residency training program at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has reported that more than 80 % of the residents who completed the program remained in academic medicine, and about 70 % of those had faculty positions at Washington University (4).
«I know personally dozens of academic scientists... who have unanswered questions about the risk issues,» said Doug Gurian - Sherman, a senior scientist in the Food and Environment Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, in an interview after the Lynscientists... who have unanswered questions about the risk issues,» said Doug Gurian - Sherman, a senior scientist in the Food and Environment Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, in an interview after the LynScientists, in an interview after the Lynas speech.
The second in a series of four articles about women scientists in academia, this paper explores the extent of female filtration from U.S. academic science.
- I believe that academic scientists need to think about the translation of their work into commercial products.
Academic scientists should think realistically about how many intellectual offspring they ought to produce over a career and talk candidly with current students about the job market.
Few academic scientists were well - informed about industry's needs even before these rapid changes began.
Iran, with its large academic community, seemed likely to top the list, an impression borne out by new analyses of publications and mobility data from Elsevier's SciVal and Scopus databases (below) and Science's own analysis of data from ORCID, a nonprofit with rich data about scientists» professional affiliations (below).
So, if you're an academic scientist looking to break into industry, think about getting involved in an industry collaboration — it could well help to lower the activation energy of your own career transition.
More than 1,000 scientists from nonprofit, corporate, academic, and private institutions say public doubts about genetically modified food crops are hindering the next Green Revolution.
We wrote about scientists who started their own businesses, either as a supplement to their academic pursuits or as a full - time endeavor.
For 40 years, a high - prestige, low - profile group of about 40 academic scientists has advised the U.S. government on some of the most sensitive technical issues of the day.
Some senior academic scientists have told Teitelbaum they are «very worried» about the fact that the supply of scientists that this country's universities train is thus totally unrelated to the demand for researchers in the market for career positions, but they find it «difficult to be open about it because it's very threatening to the structure by which research is done,» Teitelbaum says.
For the majority of scientists who won't get tenure - track positions — and may not want them — Research Universities states that the great need is to «better position new PhDs for the careers they will have by providing more information about career options and by providing opportunities to acquire, in addition to the knowledge of one's field, skills that are useful for academic positions (teaching, grant writing, publishing, presentations) and positions in government, business and non-profits (oral and written communication, project management, regulatory compliance, business ethics and innovation.)»
And here are the answers to the questions we asked last week, which were taken from the quiz at the Edinburgh Science Festival aiming to find out whether New Scientists's journalists know as much about science as University of Edinburgh academics.
During graduate school and the postdoc, you learn plenty about what scientists expect at an academic job interview.
Despite the generally glum articles about academic careers for scientists, she tells herself that she'll be able to find something.
In the five short years of its existence, the Science Book Prize has so far been awarded to two American academics, one British writer resident in the US, one British scientist resident in Britain, and one committee — and it has never gone to a book about the physical sciences.
The food scientist and safety expert is co-creator of Academics Review, a Web site that seeks to clear confusion about GM food safety by responding to unsubstantiated anti-GM claims.
She notes that stories about academic scientists «being stigmatized because they were contaminating their effort with their industrial pursuits... are historical to my generation.»
Academic scientists are stewing about a recently issued patent that gives a private company the rights to CCR5, a human gene that plays a key role in HIV infection.
About the Anna - Maria Kellen Clinical Accelerator The Anna - Maria Kellen Clinical Accelerator, the clinical research program of the Cancer Research Institute, leverages CRI's partnerships with nonprofit organizations, pharmaceutical and biotech companies, and academic research and treatment centers worldwide, to provide scientists and clinicians with expertise in cancer immunotherapy access to resources they need to advance ambitious clinical and translational research ideas, while simulataneous solving for competitive and regulatory hurdles that would otherwise impede innovation.
Habitable Press is operated by scientists and educators who are passionate about bridging the gap between academic and everyday knowledge.
The Wrinkled Brain Project is pleased to collaborate with Blue Marble Space on Habitable Press, a publishing initiative operated by scientists and educators who are passionate about bridging the gap between academic and everyday knowledge.
I became a faculty member in 1995, shortly before the doubling of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) budget, and never thought much about insecurity as an academic scientist.
One of the things we scientists and academics have to keep reminding ourselves is that many of the people outside the science community who write about this don't regard it as their job to educate people.
About Michigan Medicine At Michigan Medicine, the academic medical center of the University of Michigan, we create the future of healthcare through the discovery of new knowledge for the benefit of patients and society; educate the next generation of physicians, health professionals and scientists; and serve the health needs of our citizens.
Although academics, including cognitive scientists, neuroscientists, and education researchers, have waged fierce debates about what these different needs are — some talk about multiple intelligences and learning styles whereas others point to research that undermines these notions — what no one disputes is that each student learns at a different pace.
The program was peer - reviewed by animal scientists and canine welfare experts from major academic institutions to corroborate credibility and the most up - to - date scientific knowledge about dogs, how their brains work and what makes them healthy and happy.
Animal Ethics was formed to carry out outreach to provide information about the reasons to respect all animals, to promote discussion and debate about issues in animal ethics and among academics and scientists and to do research and provide resources for animal advocates.
Time for climate scientists and their supporters to really listen to the scientific facts about the science of science communication from other scientists and academics.
It's a nonprofit entity that aims to blend academic and communications talent to help society better absorb what scientists are saying about the challenges posed by an accelerating buildup of a long - lived heat - trapping gas that also happens to be the bubbles in beer — not your grandparents» idea of a pollutant.
We conclude that ExxonMobil contributed to advancing climate science — by way of its scientists» academic publications — but promoted doubt about it in advertorials.
Then, at a rather obscure academic conference, I was speaking about my research on a scientist named Gordon MacDonald
While those who stand in denial of climate change have failed in the last 15 years to produce a single, peer - reviewed scientific journal article that challenges the theory and evidence of human - induced climate change, mainstream media was, until very recently, covering the story (in more than half the cases, according to the academic researchers Boykoff and Boykoff) by quoting one scientist talking about the risks and one purported expert saying that climate change was not happening — or might actually be a good thing.
If sceptics were taken more seriously, if there was a debate... if there was a political, or academic culture which accepted debate... Cardiff wouldn't produce such rank pseudo-science, and social scientists in Nottingham could be more confident about the definition of «space in the ecosystem of climate change discourse», but probably would chose his words — and his coordinates — more carefully.
But for the first time, two scientists have published a peer - reviewed paper in an academic journal, advocating lying about global warming.
In the academic world, I think this has partly been brought about by the funding approach which is now very much «publish and be cited or die», where research for its own sake is not funded and where scientists must compete for funding on designated topics — in other words it's just like running a business.
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