Sentences with phrase «science policy advocate»

Brinton talks about his journey from nuclear engineer to science policy advocate.

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Here are some ways you can keep advocating to support the role of science in guiding conservation action and environmental policy.

Similarly, James Weill, president of Food Research & Action Center, a leading anti-hunger group, referred to the bill in a press release as «ill conceived» and «deeply flawed,» while Margo Wootan, Nutrition Policy director for the Center for Science in the Public Interest, stated that the bill «would roll back key progress that schools, health advocates, and the Administration have worked so hard to achieve over the last six years.»

Perhaps best known for advocating that the nation guard against the potential influence of the military — industrial complex, a term he is credited with coining, the speech also expressed concerns about planning for the future and the dangers of massive spending, especially deficit spending, the prospect of the domination of science through Federal funding and, conversely, the domination of science - based public policy by what he called a «scientific - technological elite».

Nutt seems an ideal role model for aspiring scientist - advocates, standing up for rational, practical, science - driven approaches to policy in place of the much more common moralistic, ideology - driven approach.

Promoting the power and consequence of science «is more important than ever right now,» particularly as critics question the role of evidence - based science in policymaking and as Congress considers significant proposed cuts to federal funding for scientific research that drives innovation, said Tobin Smith, vice president of policy at the Association of American Universities, during the March 27 S&T Policy Forum session «Advocating for Science: More Than a One - Day Activity.science «is more important than ever right now,» particularly as critics question the role of evidence - based science in policymaking and as Congress considers significant proposed cuts to federal funding for scientific research that drives innovation, said Tobin Smith, vice president of policy at the Association of American Universities, during the March 27 S&T Policy Forum session «Advocating for Science: More Than a One - Day Activity.science in policymaking and as Congress considers significant proposed cuts to federal funding for scientific research that drives innovation, said Tobin Smith, vice president of policy at the Association of American Universities, during the March 27 S&T Policy Forum session «Advocating for Science: More Than a One - Day Activity.&policy at the Association of American Universities, during the March 27 S&T Policy Forum session «Advocating for Science: More Than a One - Day Activity.&Policy Forum session «Advocating for Science: More Than a One - Day Activity.Science: More Than a One - Day Activity.»

Here are some tangible examples of what our Science Policy Committee has been doing and is committed to doing in the coming months — because who, if not scientists, will advocate for sScience Policy Committee has been doing and is committed to doing in the coming months — because who, if not scientists, will advocate for sciencescience?

«If you advocate for inclusion in science, if you believe scientists should be engaged with the public and decision makers in policy, then you should walk the walk and share your data,» she said.

This April, AAAS members came together with thousands of scientists and supporters in the March for Science to advocate for the importance of scientific progress and evidence - based policies.

► In this week's Science editorial, Joanne Padrón Carney, the director of government relations at AAAS, wrote about the relationships among science, advocacy, and policy, and outlined the skills scientists need to become more effective advocates for science — namely, communication skills and knowledge about how science policy iScience editorial, Joanne Padrón Carney, the director of government relations at AAAS, wrote about the relationships among science, advocacy, and policy, and outlined the skills scientists need to become more effective advocates for science — namely, communication skills and knowledge about how science policy iscience, advocacy, and policy, and outlined the skills scientists need to become more effective advocates for science — namely, communication skills and knowledge about how science policy iscience — namely, communication skills and knowledge about how science policy iscience policy is made.

A strong science advocate can communicate research effectively, engage various audiences, understand policy nuances, and work with politicians.

While the recommendations call for OSTP to develop the science and technology strategy within the first 100 days of the new administration, the speakers stressed that the bipartisan report is intended to put in place a structure to facilitate science policymaking, not to advocate any particular policy position.

He also asked about comments she made that likened acceptance of climate change science to a «kind of paganism» and suggested that top United Nations climate policy advocates were effectively supporting communism.

Government agencies in the United Kingdom do a poor job of keeping tabs on the research they fund to set policies, according to a report released this week by Sense About Science, a London - based group that advocates for the use of scientific evidence in policymaking.

If an endorsement by Ted Kennedy, Dick Cheney's daughter, The New York Times or even Chuck Norris isn't enough to thrust you onto a particular presidential candidate's bandwagon, the Scientists & Engineers for America, a nonpartisan organization that advocates evidence - based debate and decision - making in Washington, offers another metric: their science platforms.Examining subjects like energy policy, healthcare, views on evolution, stem cells and the like, the Science, Health and Related Policies (SHARP) Network unfurls each candidate's positions (and past) in a wiki science platforms.Examining subjects like energy policy, healthcare, views on evolution, stem cells and the like, the Science, Health and Related Policies (SHARP) Network unfurls each candidate's positions (and past) in a wiki Science, Health and Related Policies (SHARP) Network unfurls each candidate's positions (and past) in a wiki format.

Governmental organizations including the CDC and IOM advocate for population - wide salt reduction, but some researchers question the science behind these policies.

«They tend to be bioaccumulative, persistent and they also tend to be toxic,» says Arlene Blum, executive director of the Green Science Policy Institute, which advocates against industrial flame retardants.

Government agencies in the United Kingdom do a poor job of keeping tabs on research they fund to set policies, according to a report released today by Sense About Science, a London - based group that advocates for the use of scientific evidence in policymaking.

Scientists train advocate for life - science research learn about and advocate for local and regional science policy issues affecting their communities, and build lasting and substantive relationships with their representatives.

Josh also joined with colleagues at the American Geophysical Union and the Aerospace Industries Association to spearhead the formation of a broad - based NASA advocacy coalition, now known as the Coalition for Aerospace and Science, and he was a community - wide leader in advocating for reforms to burdensome government travel and conference policies which have significantly impacted the AAS community's ability to collaborate effectively.

These include life science industry representatives from pharmaceutical, medical devices and diagnostic industries, clinical innovators, hospital executives, payers, policy makers, multidisciplinary researchers, patient advocates, angel, venture capital investors and academia.

See, e.g., Jeffrey Mervis, An Invisible Hand Behind Plan To Realign U.S. Science Education, 341 Science 338, 339 - 40 (2013)(describing an RMO official as «a good example of how a career civil servant can help shape policy at the White House» and quoting an advocate saying «we should be glad that she uses her powers for good, and not evil»).

As Minister of State for Science and Technology Policy, and for Okinawa and Northern Territories Affairs, he advocated for - and was very influential in - promoting the founding of the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, regarded as an international and interdisciplinary graduate university with a «best - in - the world» concept in mind.

The Adviser serves as an advocate for science - based policy at the State Department, helps to identify and evaluate emerging scientific and technical issues that affect U.S. strategic interests, brings scientific expertise to the Department, and helps to promote scientific and technological capacity - building and science - based policymaking internationally.

The ASA Director of Science Policy's job is to advocate on behalf of statisticians» interests and to raise the profile of statisticians in policymaking.

But along with the preening admiration bestowed on Taylor from many of those most stridently rejecting climate science or any effort to manage climate risks, he also won the very begrudging respect of those mainstream climate scientists and policy advocates who, while admiring his communications savvy and stage presence, trashed what they dismissed as his pseudo-science proclamations.

Policy for science relates to the first aspect of my job, advocating on behalf of statisticians» interests.

To that end, CZI is aspiring to foster «a collaborative community of leading researchers, practitioners, advocates, and policymakers committed to: continuing to explore and advance the science, including by testing new research methodologies that surface the unique needs of individual children; designing and providing the tools and systems of support necessary to help educators and school leaders implement SoLD - aligned practice shifts; advancing science - informed national, state and district policies; and working to limit practices and policies that the science makes clear are detrimental to children's learning and development.»

The multi-disciplinary membership of SPR is international and includes scientists, practitioners, advocates, administrators, and policy makers who value the conduct and dissemination of prevention science worldwide..

The advocates cite the science, the benefits to students, and the AAP Policy Statement in support of their request.

Drs. Fishbein and Wollman have worked tirelessly to develop the National Prevention Science Coalition to Improve Lives (NPSC) as a national network to advocate for the use of prevention science in federal and state Science Coalition to Improve Lives (NPSC) as a national network to advocate for the use of prevention science in federal and state science in federal and state policy.

Its Animal Welfare and Science teams participate in important research efforts to confront pressing ocean conservation issues and advocate for smarter policies at local, state and federal levels.

Leading scientists, veterinarians, animal advocates and others interested in the range of concerns associated with the presence of cats outdoors will convene in Marina del Rey, Calif., on Dec. 3 - 4, for «The Outdoor Cat: Science and Policy from a Global Perspective,» a conference devoted to the latest scholarship and knowledge on the subject.

«Advocate for Eliminating OSTP Appointed to Trump Transition Team,» Mitch Ambrose, American Institute of Physics Science Policy News, Nov. 23.

On a science development, I don't seek input from policy advocates, whether from Greenpeace or the Cato Institute.

I don't think anyone advocates significant policy action based on individual studies or results — it is the weight of evidence from hundreds of studies that have formed the basis of the IPCC conculsions and that is what is propelling policy action, not the paper - de-jour in this weeks Nature or Science.

John P. Holdren, the head of Harvard's Program on Science, Technology and Public Policy and a longtime advocate of prompt curbs in greenhouse gases, sent me a note about the reaction he received after the Boston Globe and International Herald Tribune published his opinion piece earlier this month asserting that «climate change skeptics are dangerously wrong.»

The community of policy advocates — especially folks drawn from academic science and engineering — is shockingly naïve about politics and the strategy of political action.

Advocating for more rigorous science, and so more rapid scientific progress, is not the same as advocating for specific policy choices; I am pretty sure Joshua does not really apprecAdvocating for more rigorous science, and so more rapid scientific progress, is not the same as advocating for specific policy choices; I am pretty sure Joshua does not really apprecadvocating for specific policy choices; I am pretty sure Joshua does not really appreciate that.

The only specific policies that I have advocated are (1) that scientists be required to archive their data and methods; (2) that proxies used in multiproxy studies be brought up to date to permit validation against the warm 1990s; (3) that disclosure and due diligence practices in climate science be improved.

The delineation between politics and science has become blurred and this has reduced scientists» credibility as experts — especially those that have become strident policy advocates.

The roles of Science Arbiter and Honest Broker of Policy Options are ways for scientists to engage with the public and in the policy process without being an Issue AdvPolicy Options are ways for scientists to engage with the public and in the policy process without being an Issue Advpolicy process without being an Issue Advocate.

IMO, it shows the stupidity of the climate science establishment, the IPCC, the environmental NGOs and the mass of climate alarmists for proposing and advocating economically irrational (mostly ideologically driven) policies to mitigate climate change.

Nigel Lawson describes the GWPF as an «all - party and non-party think - tank and a registered educational charity which, while open - minded on the contested science of global warming, is deeply concerned about the costs and other implications of many of the policies currently being advocated.»

Most climate - change - mitigation advocates have overhyped the science and underdelivered on policy, Lomborg argues.

Therefore, as a concrete vision of resolution, please let me offer this prediction: before the end of 2012, the policies of many climate forums (including Climate Etc. and WUWT) will be revised to publicly acknowledge and advocate that the principle «Be First with the Truth» is fundamental to the reconciliation of the strongest science with the strongest skepticism.

It does not directly address which federal ministry should administer climate - change policy, but delegates to the Katoomba meeting clearly advocate a change from the current practice of leaving it up to the Ministry of External Relations (MRE, Ministério das Relações Exteriores) and the Ministry of Science and Technology (MCT, Ministério da Ciência e Tecnologia), which critics say are overly concerned with issues of sovereignty and energy.

This explains inclusion of a Global Warming policy advocate like Boulton, to defend claims about the general validity of «mainstream» IPCC science.

Developing the capacity to implement policies if the uncertainty of the science is reduced is distinctly different than advocating immediate action irrespective of uncertainties.