«Many
scientists do good work, make progress, and don't have a high h - index,» Chakrabarty says.
Scientists do their best work in a respectful environment that «encourages the free expression and exchange of scientific ideas» — to quote the AAS Anti-Harassment Policy, which is codified in our Bylaws.
Yes I do want to see the climate
scientists do good work for some selfish reasons.
One sign of it is the fact that most outstanding
scientists do their best work when they are still young or very young.
There are no doubt many good
scientists doing good work who are involved in the IPCC process — maybe most.
«All we're trying to do is to make people more aware of the hundreds of
scientists doing good work who actually do show that.»
Not exact matches
We are, in our daily
work,
doing the
work of evolution, or, as the Jesuit
scientist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, S.J., put it
best, «we are all collaborators in creation.»
«These are agencies that have absolutely no political agenda, just collections of
scientists that are
doing work to
better society.
To rely upon activities or patterns of behavior outside the daily
work of the
scientist as means for expressing a Christian response to God's call would be to abandon the conviction of Reformed theology that any useful
work done soberly and
well can be a valid means of serving God.
Yes, religion has
done some
good along the way, and some of the earlier
scientists were religious and even church - funded, but science has since been able to explain much of how the world
works.
Why thinking like a
scientist doesn't
work in industry and the
best way to leverage your academic background.
Ultimately, if
scientists «
do good work, and
do what
scientists are supposed to
do well, i.e. communicate their findings, vision, plans, results, etc. to their community, they
do not have to write numerous proposals and put the fate of each in the hands of a single review panel.
The multi-society letter called on the OMB to
work with leaders of government agencies to back the use of the
best scientific evidence in their decision - making and to see that federal agencies support
scientists doing the
work required to «produce the knowledge upon which the nation relies.»
Meredith:
Well, a lot of young
scientists have grown up with the Internet now, they know about Web sites, they know about blogs and Twitter and all that, but I don't think any of them have thought about how they apply these new tools to advance their
work, to
work to make their research reach out, to audiences with the research.
That is exactly what the INL
scientists are aiming to
do, however, confident that their
work is essential to the planet's
well - being.
One of the reasons
scientists in the U.S.
do top - flight
work, argues Paula Stephan of Georgia State University, is that the
best are
better paid — in other words, income disparity in science is not all bad.
Dr Stewart Owen, Principal Environmental
Scientist at AstraZeneca, added: «We are
working to develop sustainable tools to help us
better understand the impact of pollutants; and we must
do this using the
best science available.
For
scientists to
do their
work well, they need steady, adequate funding.
«Both stories are
well done and provide the viewer with insights into how
scientists do their
work,» said judge Larry Engel, a filmmaker and associate professor of communication at American University.
The specific duties of staff
scientists — who can
work in core facilities as
well as in labs in academia, non-profit research institutions, and government — generally include both
doing independent research and helping others get
work done, though the specifics vary.
Adarsh Sandhu, a professor of physics and electronics at the Toyohashi University of Technology, notices that younger
scientists typically
do not want to go overseas to pursue their research and therefore may miss opportunities to
work with the
best researchers in the world.
«I wanted my colleagues to take me seriously and not just say, «She's a
scientist and she
does good scientific
work but doesn't know how to look at market opportunities.»»
Scientists still don't know what dark matter is, but thanks to some cosmic advances in 2012, they at least have a
better idea of how it
works.
So early - career
scientists who aren't eager to head up their own research enterprise should consider opportunities to teach or to find
work outside academia — at government labs or in private industry — where they can
do good work without having to build and support a laboratory and a team.
Scientists who don't
work well with the press can get a reputation for being difficult — just like reporters who don't get a story right.
Biopharmas that have fared
well despite global economic turmoil have
done so using various strategies — and by valuing and respecting the
scientists who
work for them.
While the researchers don't know precisely how the gene influences beak size, the
work may help
scientists better understand the genetic underpinnings of evolution, she says.
In each case, an expert group calls for, among other things, supporting more postdocs and graduate students on training grants and fellowships instead of on professors» research grants, employing more staff
scientists in permanent posts and fewer temporary trainees to
do scientific
work, providing higher pay and
better working conditions for postdocs, and publishing information on the career outcomes of departments» and labs» graduate students and postdocs.
But the strategy is so
good that it's essentially pointless to keep looking for a
better algorithm, says computer
scientist Murray Campbell of IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, who
did not
work on the program.
«How [
do] you create
scientists who aren't only
good at all these different technical skills, but are very
good at asking and thinking seriously about ethical questions, about moral questions, and coming to terms with the ramifications of their
work?»
I find that
work is a lot more rewarding and that I am making a much
better contribution to science than I ever
did as a
scientist.
The people who
do research to
work out the right temperature and humidity levels to keep paintings, manuscripts, and other artifacts in
good condition are generally physical
scientists with expertise in particular analytical techniques.
There's much
work to be
done, and for young and aspiring materials
scientists, who have their careers ahead of them, that's a very
good thing.
By piling on one example after another of problems that have resisted the onslaughts of our very
best minds, Maddox gives us a bracing affirmation that future
scientists will have a lot more to
do than to add footnotes to the
work their predecessors
did in their first three hundred years.
Now, this crowd is mostly
good guys, and they
do important
work, to the extent that some
scientists advocate classifying these collective microbiota as its own organ.
It elicits the
best ideas and
best work from highly motivated
scientists because it chooses the grantees through a competitive system of merit rankings
done by peer committees composed of academic experts in each field who serve as part - time judges.
Biopharmas that have fared
well despite global economic turmoil have
done so by making smart acquisitions, paying attention to global opportunities, investing in R&D, looking beyond the bottom line — and valuing and respecting the
scientists who
work for them, according to this year's Science Careers Top Employers Survey.
«Some of the
best scientists in the area of polymer chemistry are
doing beautiful
work that's absolutely beyond reproach,» Sijbesma says.
Doing a master's degree first is a
good idea, he suggests, because it gives would - be Ph.D.
scientists the opportunity to
better inform themselves about fields in which they might want to specialize for their doctoral
work.
And the companies on this year's top 20 list make it clear that
scientists working in the industry can indeed «
do well by
doing good.»
Worse, when an antibody
does work well enough for publication, the next batch of it may not, and
scientists can't trace the problem.
You want to be in a successful lab where you can get
good advice and
work with other
scientists and trainees who will help you learn how to
do good work.
Animal
scientists have had trouble cloning pigs; techniques used in other livestock didn't
work as
well.
But either way, the
work suggests that chimps could help
scientists better understand the disease and how to fight it — if they could get permission to
do such studies on these now - endangered animals.
Still,
work being
done by IBM as
well as Culver City, Calif. — based Nanogea, Inc. (which makes a nanoparticle coating to improve the precision of AFM probes and substrates) is crucial to expanding
scientists» ability to study molecular structures.
«Knowing, scientifically, that people who have been trained to identify individual bears can
do so with a reasonable expectation of accuracy helps us to know that the
work we are
doing to learn about these bears is based on
good science, not just personal opinion» said Russ Van Horn, Ph.D., a lead researcher on the study and a research
scientist for the San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research.
Trenberth says, and some
scientists agree, that attribution studies that use climate models
do not
work well for weather events that are local and dynamic — a flash in the pan.
He says the NSABB
did not fully analyse the risks and benefits of publishing, including the chances that «
well - meaning
scientists seeking to repeat the
work might not have adequate biosafety measures».
DiChristina: Yeah, I mean I think one of the things we don't realize
working on the insides of Scientific American all the time is that the editor is not just
working with the
scientists but also they're reporting and going out to meetings and
doing other things; they're [scouring] the world for the
best science that matters for readers, have a lot of expertise themselves and it just seemed to me that this would be the kind of thing that readers might really find fascinating — what the editors of Scientific American [are] thinking based on all their conversations with the experts of the day covering the various areas of science and technology and how it affects our lives; and this was the genesis of this story.
«The
work being
done by SHARP project
scientists is a step towards improving forecasts and providing
better warnings for the public.»