The worst part, though, is that networking feels like spending time marketing yourself in
lieu of doing science.
As you know from
years of doing science, to make technical progress on a good idea you need facilities and the right equipment.
First — and most central to your career — is the political
process of doing science and influencing the opinions of your scientific peers.
At the same time, he is extremely committed to his teaching, and hopes to expose as many people as possible to the
joy of doing science.
Joe Polchinski, who died earlier this month at the age of 63, believed
part of doing science was finding out what kinds of things science can predict.
Instead of doing a science fair with a potato battery powering a light bulb (a project that gets reimagined in Portal 2 as punishment for the AI character GLaDOS), I thrust the students into the role of game designers, where they took control of implementing all aspects of an experiment from start to finish.
Industry can also expose a postdoc to different
aspects of doing science, according to Christopher Campion, director of the chemistry department at HF Scientific in Fort Myers, Florida.
Short
of doing the science research and spending another sleepless night reading charts, you need to make a decision on why you want to use family cloth and own it because there isn't a right or wrong answer.
Science in the Big League, an essay written by Norwegian particle physicist Egil Lillestol, who has spent a lot of time at CERN, is a great introduction to CERN's multinational environment and the joys and
challenges of doing science on such a big scale.
Away from the hype, Jurassic Park was at heart a cautionary tale about the dangers
of doing science without thought for its consequences.
On the other hand, an advantage
of doing science at an institution with «30 people in a department called biology» is exciting opportunities for research collaborations that don't come as easily in the highly specialized departments of major research institutions.
From now on such requests will be considered by the discipline - specific NSF divisions; small grants covering only the incremental
cost of doing science abroad may not fare well in the new system.
In his book Science, Truth and Democracy, scientific philosopher Philip Kitcher argues that the old way
of doing science with its hierarchies, taxonomies and categories, such as could be applied to species, must be...
It sounds materialistic, specially when compared to this romantic
idea of doing science for the progress of human knowledge.
The
logistics of doing science in Turkey can be harder than in countries with scientific infrastructures that are better developed.
Bartke has «really paid his dues» in three different phases of his career, says Roth: grappling with the challenges
of doing science during the Cold War in Eastern Europe, building his reputation in endocrinology in the United States, and then making his largely unbacked foray into biogerontology.
Compared to many federal agencies that have science in their portfolios, USGS is nearly unique in doing science without any regulatory or management responsibilities, which means that for a scientist coming in to run this agency, you get all the
fun of doing science without any of the headaches of regulation or management.
It is not a
matter of doing science in Asia or Singapore but where facilities and funding are amenable to an environment conducive to good science in the whole world.
Comp time is inappropriate because «having postdocs punch a time clock» and count hours like ordinary employees violates «the
reality of doing science,» says PI Brenton Graveley, an assistant professor of genetics and developmental biology who served on the management negotiating team.
Now that we know better, we will explore how to actually do better — how to take Caltech learners» experiences into account, how to best engage their curiosity and potential, and how to bring the nature and culture
of doing science into courses and labs.
Grid computing is enabling all - new ways
of doing science where large data handling and analysis capabilities are required.»
What motivates me is the belief that while science for the
sake of doing science is lovely, as scientists, we owe the public, the people who fund our science, the greatest benefit possible for their investment.
With more than 1,100 free projects, Science Buddies has projects for every student, and the Project Guide helps supplement and guide classroom instruction related to the Scientific Method, Engineering Design Process, or individual
steps of doing a science project.
From the point of
view of doing science, however, I think there can be some secondary benefit to all the attenion (both public and scientific) that such high profile results receive.
Of course, I am embarrassed at the arrogance today (especially because we had nothing but contempt for ecologists who we regarded as «stamp collectors») but it indicates the joy
of doing science simply to learn about how nature works.