Sentences with phrase «celebrity scientists»

To identify Twitter science stars, we began with celebrity scientists such as Tyson and checked out which scientists they followed.

But the importance of celebrity scientists is not just about narcissism and putting a public face on a field that, many would say, requires no public face because it encompasses The Truth.

To identify Twitter science stars, we began with celebrity scientists such as Neil deGrasse Tyson and checked out which scientists they followed.

Some decried the lack of scientists of color or female scientists on our list — just four women made the top 50, for example — and noted that our search strategy, which started with a handful of Twitter celebrity scientists and looked at who they followed, likely biased our discoveries toward white males.

With more than 2.4 million followers and fewer than 200 citations, the astrophysicist is undoubtedly the top - ranking celebrity scientist on Twitter — and has the highest K - index of anyone on the list.

Their symbiosis with algae is a subtlty missed by an inconvenient and embarassingly wrong Power Point presentation by an American vice-president and some hollywood celebrity scientists.

From the Science Mag top 50 science stars list article: «To identify Twitter science stars, we began with celebrity scientists such as Tyson and checked out which scientists they followed.

If you don't believe me about the scarcity of celebrity scientists, ask nonscientific friends to name one who's alive today.

Last year, Declan Fahy, a communications lecturer at Dublin City University, argued in his book titled The New Celebrity Scientists: Out of the Lab and into the Limelight, that, for good or ill, celebrity scientists are more abundant today than ever.

Yet today — more than 60 years since Einstein's death, despite living in possibly the most celebrity - filled and fame - obsessed culture in human history — where are all the celebrity scientists?

Right, so they started with popular male celebrity scientists like Tyson, and compiled a list of mostly men by following the «celebrity scientist» circles out from there.

He moved on to UCLA to pursue a Ph.D. with Dr. Roy Walford, who had become something of a celebrity scientist while pushing the idea that severely restricting caloric intake would extend life.

THE DRAWING CENTER «Exploratory Works: Drawings From the Department of Tropical Research Field Expeditions» sets the scene with old magazine articles and comic books; imaginative field - station re-creations by Mark Dion; a few tagged animal corpses as neat and compact as folding umbrellas; and a palmetto fan taken undersea in his bathysphere by the celebrity scientist William Beebe (1877 - 1962), whose field work is the subject of this exhibition.

Anyone in small fields with celebrity scientists would be familiar of this «nest of vipers» effect.