Sentences with phrase «important values of science»

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With its festival atmosphere and a panel of judges from the worlds of venture capital and communications as well as science, the Skolar Award contest also expresses a somewhat subversive notion: that researchers need not only to discover important new knowledge, but also to convey it beyond the lab and readers of scientific journals so that society at large can understand it, value it, benefit from it, and support it.

Professor José Mariano Gago, Portugal's minister for science, technology, and higher education, spoke about valuing science over bureaucracy and the importance of stability for creating important science projects.

Saying «communicating the value of science has never been more important to human well - being,» AAAS will make an online science advocacy toolkit available on April 19 to provide scientists and engineers and science advocates with resources and information needed to advance science in the public sphere.

Communicating science to lay audiences is an important skill for all scientists because, if called upon, we all need to be ready to explain our work or demonstrate the value of public investment in research.

Misconduct is «a betrayal of trust» and «a betrayal of the most important value in science, and that's the truth,» Resnik says.

Churchill was a science enthusiast and advocate, but he also contemplated important scientific questions in the context of human values.

Slotten's timely and well - written book reminds us of two important facts of modern life: that a society that can not uphold the values of science will not be able to benefit from it; and that a science that can not address the values, needs and questioning of society and inspire its support will lose its public patronage.

This type of training is important, he says, because public outreach «is valued in the science community, be it by peers, institutions — or as a specific activity in research projects.

ISPRA, Italy — The landscape is familiar to science policy experts on both sides of the Atlantic: To address serious global problems and to take advantage of important future discoveries, they will have to work effectively with elected officials and members of the public who have complex and sometimes conflicting values and interests.

Though my parents, who are not scientists, don't always understand exactly what it is that I'm doing on a day - to - day basis, they are supportive at every step, encouraging me to be the best version of myself in scientific pursuits, but reminding me that the world is larger than just science, and that it's important to stay grounded in my personal values.

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This property also contains an internationally important combination of earth science values.

Understanding the social and cognitive components of science is certainly important, but the abstract reads as if the possibility that we are discussing estimates of an objective quantity with an actual quantitative value is a matter of complete irrelevance.

Watch the first 1 to 2 minutes section of the UP Stream Pt 4 doco / research prject specifically being directed at all Climate Scientists about how important Values are, and why Listening to the community (the target market) is absolutely critical: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyRKTqsXfjM Watch how people (the general public) are treated by others (climate scientists included) on all climate blogs when they indicate they are not yet convinced of AGW or can't work out who to believe is telling the truth and in doing so reference someone else's «opinion»... and try and measure the level of paranoia exhibited by pro-agw folks about such negative comments about the science.

There's loads of social science out there indicating that things like values are more important predictors of viewpoint and policy attitudes than scientific knowledge.

In science, it is important to fully describe your methods (so that others can evaluate their efficacy, dangers, etc. and so that «even if your method is flawed», some of the value of the work can be preserved by corrections».)

The American Statistical Association of which I am a longtime member issued an important statement today which will hopefully move statistical practice in engineering and especially in the sciences away from the misleading practice of using p - values and hypothesis tests.

It is important to them to have a science - approved stamp to their dogma (Western techno - civilisation has hurt mother Gaia, and it is really time that we repent from our sins and go back to a «natural» way of life (that will be extensively described by their prefered high priest, usually involving actions ranked more from symbolic value than effectiveness in reducing CO2.

Today — due to the important, irreplaceable values of its Arctic waters for Indigenous, Alaska Native and local communities» subsistence and cultures, wildlife and wildlife habitat, and scientific research; the vulnerability of these ecosystems to an oil spill; and the unique logistical, operational, safety, and scientific challenges and risks of oil extraction and spill response in Arctic waters — the United States is designating the vast majority of U.S. waters in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas as indefinitely off limits to offshore oil and gas leasing, and Canada will designate all Arctic Canadian waters as indefinitely off limits to future offshore Arctic oil and gas licensing, to be reviewed every five years through a climate and marine science - based life - cycle assessment.