Sentences with phrase «of junior scientists»

It seems to me the guys I used to interact with at judithcurry.com, well, the brighter ones appreciate a clever argument, and some of them even have their own elaborate theories, though they don't compare or criticize each other's theories - it is enough that any one of them «disproves» CAGW - but these theories don't have to stand up to the next group of junior scientists who, to get beyond their current low paid adjunct position must prove something unexpected.

Filled with animal facts, hands - on craft projects and other fun activities, this book will satisfy the curiosity of junior scientists.

Devoting less than 10 % of this increase to the salaries of junior scientists would be sufficient to remedy the problem.

The council has, for example, published a guide that outlines what they believe constitutes «Good Research Practice» and MRC team leaders are required to include this as part of the research training of junior scientists.

This list is distilled from various sources with the needs of junior scientists in mind but is by no means exhaustive.

In repelling these individuals from biomedical research, we reduce the quality of the junior scientist pool and ultimately the entire scientific enterprise as junior scientists ascend the career ladder.

Not exact matches

A study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that, when asked to rate junior scientists based on scholarly accomplishments and job interview performance, academics in the traditionally male - dominated STEM fields rated female candidates as being more hireable than their equally qualified male applicants.

«A lack of diversity at the faculty level is an enormous problem in biomedical science, so I applaud HHMI's efforts to support junior scientists from underrepresented backgrounds,» writes Jessica Polka, president of the Future of Research board of directors, in an email to Science Careers.

A new program aims to launch the careers of diverse life scientists — including women and members of other underrepresented groups — by providing up to 8 years of support, covering both the postdoctoral training and junior faculty stages.

In particular, there is a «lack of money for junior scientists, especially those who are coming from longer [stays] abroad and wanting to establish their own research group,» he says.

As Gary McDowell, executive director of the San Francisco, California - based grassroots organization Future of Research, writes in an email to Science Careers, «[t] he Declaration certainly covers many key issues faced by today's junior scientists very well.»

Choosing promising junior investigators as session chairs whenever possible helps introduce these younger scientists to the field as a whole, and it creates a new group with a stake in the success of the meeting.

«There may be structural inequities in the way we've built the system that increase junior scientists» sense of organizational injustice.»

The motivations most frequently cited by investigators who withheld data were that sharing required too much effort (80 %) and that scientists needed to protect the ability of a graduate student, postdoctoral fellow, or junior faculty member to publish (64 %).

From its inception, the Career Development Center for Postdocs and Junior Faculty (CDC) has aimed to fill this deficit by educating young researchers in the large body of nonscience knowledge that young academic scientists need to advance their careers and the research infrastructure of the United States.

With such an obvious disparity — widely acknowledged in a burgeoning mass of surveys, publications, and speeches from all sides of the scientific community, from junior scientists to top levels of government — the question is «What can be done to remedy the situation?»

«The situation of young families can be especially problematic given the long road (from undergraduate to graduate to postdoc to junior scientist) that certainly extends through a woman's fertile years,» says a postdoc, who is also a parent of a young child.

Mentoring is, above all, a relationship of support and trust between a senior and a junior scientist, and the experience can be tremendously rewarding for both, professionally and personally.

She worked with Ganz for 3 years as a junior scientist, learning about cancer and chronic disease and charting a course in the relatively new field of psycho - oncology before applying for her own research funding.

««Underground» networks of women pass information about Geoff to junior scientists in an attempt to keep them safe.»

As federal sequestration and other disruptions of government funding have forced academic labs to cut their staffs, some junior scientists are reportedly turning to adjunct teaching to pay their bills.

The majority of Science's Next Wave readers are junior scientists.

Junior scientists will be able to offer more recent knowledge of the job market.

Put bluntly, established scientists are taking advantage of their junior colleagues.

As Alex Lewis, president of the Council for Postgraduate Students and Junior Researchers in Europe (Eurodoc), pointed out during the meeting, young scientists have an obligation to use their own networks to learn about different career tracks and to seek opportunities.

McDowell foresees two groups working in the organization: «one that is effecting advocacy and communication between junior scientists and the rest of the community; and another that is working with data about the system and driving evidence - based policy changes.»

Hilde Janssens currently works as a lab manager in the laboratory of a junior principal investigator (PI) at the Centre for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona, Spain — except when she's teaching other scientists how to manage their own laboratories.

Consistent with this approach, scientists at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) just published their research on ADHD in a most unusual academic journal: the Frontiers for Young Minds is an electronic scientific journal whose primary audience comprises children from elementary and junior high schools.

The idea is to provide junior scientists with the opportunity to become independent and the capital to pursue risky research, says Georg Scholl, head of communications at the Humboldt Foundation.

For example, a relatively junior scientist told me about her efforts to get more done during the workday to save time for family and friends — along the lines of what manager Susan would recommend.

The kudos attached to each of these differs considerably in degree and it is usually the junior scientists associated with a project that suffer.

Candace Hassall, a member of the Wellcome Trust's Career Development Group, outlined her approach to giving career advice to junior scientists.

Salaries vary widely, but don't undervalue yourself — postdocs in industry earn far more than their academic counterparts, and staff scientist salaries are typically higher than those of junior academic faculty.

Next Wave: So are there really any opportunities for junior scientists to participate in this kind of research, despite the expense?

Nine will be selected on the basis of academic excellence and ability to communicate, and the top junior scientist will receive a cash prize of # 1500.

When New Scientist claimed in «Sites of special lack of interest» (Comment, 7 August) that the government was half - hearted about the implementation of the European Commission's habitats directive, and that no new legislation was planned, I put the criticism to Tim Yeo, the junior environment minister.

«When you are a junior faculty [member] and you have a family and children and large medical school debts, even if you want to be a physician - scientist, the thought of private practice or industry definitely crosses your mind,» says Vonderheide, who is now an associate professor of medicine and an investigator at the Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute at the University of Pennsylvania.

An interdisciplinary junior research group at the Cluster of Excellence BrainLinks - BrainTools at the University of Freiburg (led by computer scientist Dr. Michael Tangermann) has developed a self - learning algorithm that allows predictions concerning the precision of an action.

Teachers, students, parents, kids, junior - scientists, senior citizens and enthusiasts of all stripes are involved in collecting ants in schoolyards and backyards using a standardized protocol to help make detailed maps of the wildlife that lives just outside our doorsteps.

Some of its awards are reserved for junior scientists.

For many postdoctoral scientists and junior faculty, applying for grants and awards is their first exposure to the administrative and financial worlds of scientific bureaucracy.

For the predoctoral and junior faculty members, of whom 10 from each group are accepted each year, they are given the opportunity to do a rotation at a local industry laboratory to see what the intramural scientists are doing, how deals are negotiated, and what sort of applied skills are needed to work with industry.

It also allows scientists significant input into the overall direction and control of projects even as junior members of the team.

The courteous 64 - year - old chemist welcomed their initiative to encourage the hiring of more women scientists at both the junior and senior levels.

Gary McDowell is the Executive Director of Future of Research, a non-profit organization that promotes grassroots advocacy among junior scientists to advance improvements and reform of the scientific enterprise.

The conference is open to scientists of all levels and therefore provides an excellent opportunity for PhD students and junior scientists to attend a high level conference that showcases the latest developments of high throughput methodologies, which can be used in basic science.

The Burroughs Wellcome Fund launched the Diversity in Science program in 2012 to advance the careers of underrepresented minority postdoctoral fellows by enhancing the postdoctoral training and experience of underrepresented minority junior scientists.

She worked on creating and fundraising for the Career Momentum Award for postdocs and research scientists and guided the organization of the 3rd Annual Junior Scientist retreat in 2016.

I took an AP Chemistry course my junior year of high school that inspired me to become a scientist.

iCubed seeks to make a strong impact in the fields of immunology, microbiology, and vaccinology both locally, in Rhode Island and beyond, by providing junior researchers with opportunities to learn from our institute's most skilled scientists.