Sentences with phrase «as a biologist who»

As a biologist who was presented with a mechanistic, substance image of reality, the author found that process theology lifted the richness of human experience to a level that gave him a new perspective of care for all creation.

I'm coming at this as a biologist who has necessarily had to learn outside of his comfort zone.

The film follows Natalie Portman as a biologist who volunteers for an expedition into cordoned - off alien territory after her husband (Oscar Isaac) goes missing.

Natalie Portman stars as a biologist who leads a quintet of women — including Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodriguez, Tessa Thompson, and Tuva Novotny — into «the Shimmer,» a nebulous disaster area that seems like «the Zone» in Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker reimagined as a Predator movie.

At any rate, as a biologist who sometimes helps set up nature conservation areas, often near sea level, I'm fully aware that there isn't going to be any open land left in the near future.

Not exact matches

«Rome is burning at the moment,» Christopher Page, a biologist who oversees production and growth of new coral seeds at Mote, told me as he pointed to a tank full of polyps, the name for individual coral organisms.

«Pop thought organic was the same thing as health food, which in those days didn't necessarily taste very good,» said Nell, a biologist and environmentalist who now runs her own charitable foundation.

Nils Lonberg, a Harvard - trained molecular biologist who worked at Medarex, had figured out not only how to engineer a mouse with human immune genes but also how to make antibodies from these genes that were fully human as well.

Anyone who doubts this need only consider the rhetoric used to attack the University of Alberta's plan to award an honorary degree to renowned biologist and environmentalist David Suzuki, whose views on oilsands extraction have literally been characterized on social media as treasonous and terroristic in the past few days.

Last August, we told you about Laura Deming, a New Zealand native who was home schooled before moving halfway around the world as a 12 - year - old to work alongside Cynthia Kenyon, a renowned molecular biologist who specializes in the genetics of aging.

(iii) you are a complete blowhard who has never studied one subject of university level biology, never been on an archaeological dig, never studied a thing about paleontology, geology, astronomy, linguistics or archaeology, but feel perfectly sure that you know more than the best biologists, archaeologists, paleontologists, doctors, astronomers botanists and linguists in the World because your mommy and daddy taught you some comforting stories from Bronze Age Palestine as a child.

They are much like the physicists of the past who refused to see life as the direction toward which physical, mechanical and chemical transformations were tending, or again like the biologists of old who refused to see in consciousness the direction that life was tending.

According to a 1994 essay in the New York Review of Books by John Maynard Smith, the dean of British neo-Darwinists, «the evolutionary biologists with whom I have discussed his [Gould's] work tend to see him as a man whose ideas are so confused as to be hardly worth bothering with, but as one who should not be publicly criticized because he is at least on our side against the creationists.

Like Francisco J. Ayala, who is a renowned biologist and philosopher, a staunch defender of evolution, as well as a critic of creationism and ID, but since he is the 2010 Templeton Prize winner, they ridicule him just like they would ridicule any creationist freak.

As a biologist I have long been immensely impressed by and beholden to Whitehead's philosophy of organism (Process and Reality), in that it seems to me that he is the first great philosopher who really took trouble to comprehend the biological developments of his time.

So here was a biologist who accepted mind and feelings and sentience as real and not just epiphenomena.

Anyone who suggests anything else is dismissed by many leading biologists, such as Monod and Luria, as a Lamarckist if not a Lysenkoist.

(iii) you are a complete blowhard who has never studied one subject of university level biology, never been on an archeological dig, never studied a thing about paleontology, geology, astronomy, linguistics or archeology, but feel perfectly sure that you know more than the best biologists, archeologists, paleontologists, doctors, astronomers botanists and linguists in the World because your mommy and daddy taught you some comforting stories from Bronze Age Palestine as a child.

As a biological anthropology major I've read Richard Dawkins (who I admire as an intellectual and work as a biologist) but the difference is I know see the natural world and life itself with a different lenses, not denying anything that science, reason and logic has to offer but only enhancing it with a different purposAs a biological anthropology major I've read Richard Dawkins (who I admire as an intellectual and work as a biologist) but the difference is I know see the natural world and life itself with a different lenses, not denying anything that science, reason and logic has to offer but only enhancing it with a different purposas an intellectual and work as a biologist) but the difference is I know see the natural world and life itself with a different lenses, not denying anything that science, reason and logic has to offer but only enhancing it with a different purposas a biologist) but the difference is I know see the natural world and life itself with a different lenses, not denying anything that science, reason and logic has to offer but only enhancing it with a different purpose.

Funny how you religious types never have a problem with the people who invent bombs, but as soon as us biologists start talking about evolution, then we've crossed a line.

Miller's remark that the triumph of theory «is evident in the violence and irrationality» of attacks on it repeats the scornful confidence with which Haeckel refers to those (distinguished contemporary physicists and biologists among them) who refused to abandon the «faith of our fathers» as they attacked his new monistic religion.

Bohm's paper indicates that, whether or not biologists are ready to take account of internality in their theoretical formulations, there is at least one physicist who sees this as the way ahead in quantum theory.

There are important differences between the altruism observed by zoologists, and caritas as described by St Thomas (Chapter 8), and a biologist who ascribes the «emotion of forgiveness» to hyenas is betraying a conceptual hinterland quite unlike that of the Thomist (Chapter 4).

The only people who refer to women as «females» are biologists, zoologists, and MRAs.

Biologist Eric Powers, who volunteers at the Clark Botanic Garden, says that it is especially important to use natural remedies, such as bats, because past pesticide use nearly wiped out certain species of birds on Long Island.

Stacey Baker, public engagement program associate at AAAS and a trained biologist, spoke with a teenager who wants to study biology about the many paths open to scientists and the other elements beyond your field of study — such as they type of work environment a candidate might be seeking — to keep in mind when selecting a career.

«Being able to walk around in something that is going to grow larger as you grow larger, that's a big plus,» says Jan Pechenik, a biologist at Tufts University in Medford, Mass., who was not involved in the study.

Responding to the European case: «It's not a surprise, but we don't know what it means,» says Jeremy Coleman, a U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service biologist who serves as national white - nose - syndrome coordinator.

Americans are growing more distrustful of science and researchers according to recent studies — doubt that is emerging at a point in time when society needs science more than ever to solve pressing problems, said Jane Lubchenco, a marine biologist and environmental scientist who served as the administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

«As phenology is advancing around the globe, there are concerns that plant - pollinator interactions may be disrupted through phenological mismatches, or mismatches in the timing of when flowers bloom and their pollinators emerge, leading to reduced plant reproduction,» says lead author Zak Gezon, who conducted the research as a doctoral student at Dartmouth and who is now a conservation biologist with Disney's Animal ProgramAs phenology is advancing around the globe, there are concerns that plant - pollinator interactions may be disrupted through phenological mismatches, or mismatches in the timing of when flowers bloom and their pollinators emerge, leading to reduced plant reproduction,» says lead author Zak Gezon, who conducted the research as a doctoral student at Dartmouth and who is now a conservation biologist with Disney's Animal Programas a doctoral student at Dartmouth and who is now a conservation biologist with Disney's Animal Programs.

Also look at the institution's broader scientific environment, because «you can benefit from help even from people that are not with the label «biomaterials,»» says Dupont - Gillain, who, as a bioengineer and physical chemist, collaborates with colleagues in surface science and cell biologists to develop biomimetic surfaces that can trigger desired cell behaviors.

Yet, as Collins, a biologist at the University of Miami's College of Arts and Sciences who studies the mechanics of neural circuits, notes, «Even the simplest animal with the simplest neural circuits have so much going on.»

The language of the Wilderness Act describes man as a «visitor who does not remain»; Jim and Holly Akenson, wildlife biologists with an exemption, live at the property year - round.

Plant biologist Romain Pierron, who at the time of the survey had a 1 - year contract as a tech transfer officer, went through two periods of unemployment — one between the end of his doctoral contract and his defense in 2015, and another as he was applying for positions the following year — before recently taking a 2 - year postdoc at the Stellenbosch University in South Africa.

As for Darwin, Wolfe presents the greatest biologist in history as a petty thief who stole credit for the theory of evolution by natural selection from Alfred Russell Wallace, who was (Wolfe alleges) screwed over by the British gentlemen's club conspirators who rigged the system to give Darwin credit for prioritAs for Darwin, Wolfe presents the greatest biologist in history as a petty thief who stole credit for the theory of evolution by natural selection from Alfred Russell Wallace, who was (Wolfe alleges) screwed over by the British gentlemen's club conspirators who rigged the system to give Darwin credit for prioritas a petty thief who stole credit for the theory of evolution by natural selection from Alfred Russell Wallace, who was (Wolfe alleges) screwed over by the British gentlemen's club conspirators who rigged the system to give Darwin credit for priority.

But Craig Packer, a biologist at the University of Minnesota who is in charge of a long - term study of the Serengeti lions, believes the population will recover as long as the disease doesn't spill over into the park again.

«I have found that [if you become] known in biology as somebody who can talk to [biologists], you become incredibly popular,» says Professor Jaroslav Stark of the Mathematics Department at Imperial College London.

Janies said, noting that the wildlife biologists and veterinary doctors who know and observe animal diseases often do not often belong to the same communication networks as physicians.

A physician and cell biologist who won a 1972 Nobel Prize for his work describing the structure of antibodies, Edelman is now obsessed with the enigma of human consciousness — except that he does not see it as an enigma.

Scientists knew that fruit flies, cockroaches, and other simple organisms have sensory processors that resemble a cortex, but these were «always interpreted as a striking example of convergent evolution of unrelated structures,» says molecular biologist Raju Tomer, who led the study at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Germany.

«The percentages we saw last week, they were as high as 40 to 60 percent of the population that's showing signs of wasting,» said Bruce Menge, a marine biologist at Oregon State University, who is studying the wasting disease in Oregon.

Join biologist and photographer Mark W. Moffet of the Smithsonian Institution — who has been called the «Indiana Jones of entomology» — as he journeys to the Amazon, Nigeria, Borneo and beyond to uncover the secret lives of ants.

At Tufts, Weidhaas worked with John Coffin, a leading molecular biologist who saw her as extraordinarily gifted and focused.

Harvard University evolutionary biologist Daniel Lieberman, who was not involved in the study, called it a «creative analysis» and saw the team's conclusions as reasonable.

«Circulating testosterone isn't the whole story,» says Susanne Schultz, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Manchester, UK, who describes the finding as «a very surprising result».

«As long as the older trees are not so stressed that they do not produce many viable seeds, [and] the dispersal mechanism — for example, wind, birds, mammals — is present, and the habitat where the seed lands has the appropriate soil, nutrients and temperature,» says biologist Terry Root of Stanford University, who was not involved in the study, «then the trees will be able to shift.&raquAs long as the older trees are not so stressed that they do not produce many viable seeds, [and] the dispersal mechanism — for example, wind, birds, mammals — is present, and the habitat where the seed lands has the appropriate soil, nutrients and temperature,» says biologist Terry Root of Stanford University, who was not involved in the study, «then the trees will be able to shift.&raquas the older trees are not so stressed that they do not produce many viable seeds, [and] the dispersal mechanism — for example, wind, birds, mammals — is present, and the habitat where the seed lands has the appropriate soil, nutrients and temperature,» says biologist Terry Root of Stanford University, who was not involved in the study, «then the trees will be able to shift.»

Ctenomys erikacuellarae was named in honor of Erika Cuellar, a Rolex award - winning conservation biologist from Bolivia who participated in field expeditions as a student in the 1990s.

I might as well hire someone who demonstrated the interest and tenacity to stay in science,» says Bob van de Water, a molecular cell biologist at Leiden University.

I can think of a dozen British biologists who have as much claim to inclusion as some of those whose names do appear.

There he met biologist Imre Friedmann, who was looking for someone to build temperature and moisture sensors as part of a field expedition to Antarctica's Dry Valleys.