Sentences with phrase «scientists in public life»

And this is what is missed in attempts to define a proper public role for scientists in public life.

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For a few, participation in public life may be a full - time job as «scientist - statesmen» (e.g., Conant, Bush, Killian).

Attendees at today's kickoff included: City of Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, Buffalo Public Schools Interim Superintendent Donald Ogilvie, SUNY Trustee Dr. Eunice Lewin, University at Buffalo President Dr. Satish K. Tripathi, SUNY Buffalo State President Dr. Katherine Conway - Turner, Erie Community College President Jack Quinn, Regional Economic Development Council Co-Chair, businessman and developer Howard Zemsky, Staff Scientist Mwita Phelps of Life Technologies / Thermo Fisher Scientific, Director of the Buffalo and Erie County Public Libraries Mary Jean Jakubowski, Dr. Norma J. Nowak, Director of Science and Technology, UB's NYS Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, as well as a number of invited guests, including elected leaders, teachers and students.

A study by scientists at the Center for Infection and Immunity (CII) at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health finds New York City house mice carry bacteria responsible for mild to life - threatening gastroenteritis in people, and some of these bacteria may be resistant to antibiotics.

The study team — which also included Pierre Azoulay of the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge and Joshua S. Graff Zivin of the University of California, San Diego — used public records to reconstruct the careers of 10,004 elite life scientists in the United States from the moment they earned their first independent position until 2006.

The finding tapped into a mystery that has long captivated scientists and the public alike — «why some people can live to 120 with no disease, and others are already in bad shape at age 70,» says molecular

► In this week's Science Careers - produced Working Life column, Kevin Boehnke, a doctoral candidate in public health at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, writes that his training in ancient history has given him a perspective and tools that have made him a better scientisIn this week's Science Careers - produced Working Life column, Kevin Boehnke, a doctoral candidate in public health at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, writes that his training in ancient history has given him a perspective and tools that have made him a better scientisin public health at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, writes that his training in ancient history has given him a perspective and tools that have made him a better scientisin Ann Arbor, writes that his training in ancient history has given him a perspective and tools that have made him a better scientisin ancient history has given him a perspective and tools that have made him a better scientist.

Perhaps the most exciting of these, and one that has increasingly captured the attention of scientists as well as the public, is whether life exists elsewhere in the universe.

Should scientists remove seismic databases from public view to prevent panic among civilians living in hazardous areas?

He captured the public imagination with visions of alien life and intelligence, shattered stereotypes of scientists and undoubtedly inspired many to consider a career in science.

It has become a way of glossing over irresolvable conflict between groups with some interests in common, such as taxpayers (who want to save money), scientists (who want to spend it on exciting projects) and people with disabilities (who hope public funds will improve the quality of their life).

Valorie Aquino, one of three co-chairs of the March for Science and a paleoclimate researcher at the University of New Mexico, says it is crucial for scientists to tell their stories and personalize for the public the role science plays in their daily lives.

These photos and outtakes for Life magazine (some never before published) capture Albert Einstein's 74th birthday in 1953, an unusually public day for the private scientist.

The squalid conditions in which the animals lived also helped spark an animal rights movement in the 19th century and provided the impetus for the opening, in 1828, of a garden in Regent's Park devoted to «the advancement of Zoology and Animal Physiology,» whose goal would be to inspire scientists «rather than encouraging the «vulgar admiration» of the public.»

«Gynecological problems during the reproductive years may be a predictor of diseases, such as cancer, later in life,» said Barbara Cohn, a reproductive health scientist and director of Child Health and Development Studies at the Public Health Institute in Berkeley, Calif..

SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA — 87 % of scientists believe they and their peers should take an active role in public policy debates, according to a Pew Research Center report presented by Lee Rainie of the Pew Internet and American Life Project during «Scientists Engaging with Reporters, the Public, and Social Media: Survey Findings,» a session yesterday at the annual meeting of AAAS, which publishes Sciencscientists believe they and their peers should take an active role in public policy debates, according to a Pew Research Center report presented by Lee Rainie of the Pew Internet and American Life Project during «Scientists Engaging with Reporters, the Public, and Social Media: Survey Findings,» a session yesterday at the annual meeting of AAAS, which publishes Science Capublic policy debates, according to a Pew Research Center report presented by Lee Rainie of the Pew Internet and American Life Project during «Scientists Engaging with Reporters, the Public, and Social Media: Survey Findings,» a session yesterday at the annual meeting of AAAS, which publishes SciencScientists Engaging with Reporters, the Public, and Social Media: Survey Findings,» a session yesterday at the annual meeting of AAAS, which publishes Science CaPublic, and Social Media: Survey Findings,» a session yesterday at the annual meeting of AAAS, which publishes Science Careers.

He is now organizing a group of experts, including evolutionary scientists and theologians who believe in evolution, to counter the SRT's campaign by working to improve the teaching of evolution in the classroom, and in broader public life.

Even today, the general public, and many scientists, are not aware of decades of research in evolutionary science, molecular biology and genome sequencing which provide alternative answers to how novel organisms have originated in the long history of life on earth.

At the ISSCR public symposium in Stockholm, stem cell scientists from Germany, Sweden and the U.S. will explore during a moderated panel discussion the role of stem cells in the brain during our lives from development and through adulthood.

Τhe 2011 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, Prof. Bruce Beutler, will be visiting Fleming, on Tuesday May 24th, 2016, and at 12 noon, he will be discussing his life in science in an «Ask the Nobelist» Q&A session targeted to young scientists (open to the public).

More than 100 scientists, animal welfare officers, representatives of advocacy groups and stakeholders from different countries met for a 2 - day conference in San Francisco to discuss how to improve transparency and to increase the public understanding of the essential contributions that animal research makes to modern life science and biomedical research.

In a public meeting with NASA's chief, the agency's top scientists have said that they expect to find alien life within the next 20 years.

Scientists have a responsibility to make sure their work is used for the benefit of humanity, and part of that is taking the time to talk about what we do in terms that anyone can understand, and to clarify all potential implications (both positive and negative), so that there can be an informed public discussion, and hopefully a solution everyone can live with.

Based on a real - life story of a tobacco - company research scientist (Russell Crowe) and the ramifications of his decision to disclose industry secrets to the American public on an episode of 60 Minutes, it was a moody, intense affair that many critics touted as one of the year's best films; it netted 7 Oscar nominations in the process.Mann was back in the Academy Award hunt two year's later with Ali, a biopic of the beloved boxer Muhammad Ali that focused on both his athletic accomplishments and his political battles.

In a culture too often dominated by expediency and self - interest, I came to view climate scientists as visionaries and altruists, flawed and flummoxed like all such people who are suddenly called by forces outside themselves to excel themselves, fighting not just their own reluctance to become publicly involved, and their own ill - adaption to public and activist lives, but, ultimately, fighting for the truth in the face of falsehood, not just because truth matters in some abstract or even in moral terms, but because the fate of the Earth itself, and all who live here, is ever more obviously at stakIn a culture too often dominated by expediency and self - interest, I came to view climate scientists as visionaries and altruists, flawed and flummoxed like all such people who are suddenly called by forces outside themselves to excel themselves, fighting not just their own reluctance to become publicly involved, and their own ill - adaption to public and activist lives, but, ultimately, fighting for the truth in the face of falsehood, not just because truth matters in some abstract or even in moral terms, but because the fate of the Earth itself, and all who live here, is ever more obviously at stakin the face of falsehood, not just because truth matters in some abstract or even in moral terms, but because the fate of the Earth itself, and all who live here, is ever more obviously at stakin some abstract or even in moral terms, but because the fate of the Earth itself, and all who live here, is ever more obviously at stakin moral terms, but because the fate of the Earth itself, and all who live here, is ever more obviously at stake.

Looks like the only rational comments posted here are those posted by other scientists, while the rest reflects the fully understandable concerns of the lay public who, also understandably, think that science always has a complete answer at the ready, cast in stone, to hold true for the life - time of the universe.

I ask only that each scientist recognize that we each wear multiple hats in our lives, and that it is a tragic mistake to insist on wearing exclusively your scientist hat when addressing the public.

Countless arguments across the web and in public life fail ever to make it plain what it is they are actually about, precisely because such esteemed scientists as Mann — who want to influence politics — have not made any progress in identifying their own argument, either.

That's not to say that there is no place for banjos, kazoos — or scientists — in public life (though I can not think what they might be), but that the idea of them being essential is one ultimately borne out of the immediate problems of politics, not out of the necessity of public policy.

Thank God I had the sense to follow the good advice of my Local 6 colleagues and wear ear plugs when playing the big Broadway shows downtown in S.F. for the years that they were hiring real live string players — now we have a buying public that understands not the difference — chalk it up to the absence of music education, never mind what Plato said about the only two things we really need to study («music and gymnastic»), because, after all, those «useless» subjects just won't get us the rocket scientists who can come up with the formulas so that the richest, most «powerful» of our species can simply blast off and wave Earth «buh - BYE...» after, like hogs at the trough, they've finished plundering, polluting and otherwise raping this once - beautiful paradise..., to which I will now say: «GOOD RIDDANCE TO BAAAAD RUBBISH!»

I've seen Monkton» s exchanges with John Abraham, don't think he'd step up to the plate and publicly debate a real scientist, live and in public.

If the «climate scientists» were not advocating huge imposts on the Public's daily lives, would anyone in the Public care very much what they said and did?

The scientists are now setting to work devising a website that would allow the public to enter personal data in order to find out how long the model predicts they'll live.

We are so quick as scientists, non experts, the lay public, some ill informed undergrads, ad infinitum, to argue in this blog, however, you as a first hand expert modeling paleoclimate and modern climate trends and obviously with a handle on chemistry and physics, also have a vested interest in our planet and though you do the modeling for a living, I do not doubt it has helped you gain inisghts and opened up your eyes to the complexity and current to future detriments and potentialities we all face as humanity.

A new study by scientists from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that these small spills add up and may cause public health risks in communities living near gas staPublic Health found that these small spills add up and may cause public health risks in communities living near gas stapublic health risks in communities living near gas stations.

The most unforgiveable unethical behavior surrounding the entire issue of «hiding the decline» and similar biases in published research, is when climate change scientists who know about their — «cherry picking the data», — biased and selective presentation of all data pertinent to published paper conclusions, and — outright errors in their data and peer - reviewed papers, don't speak out loudly in the media outlets that have misled the general public in reporting about their flawed, misleading research, as well as, associated journals and professional societies, to stop politicians and government regulators from using their flawed and misleading research results to pass laws and regulations that have severe effects on the prosperity and quality of life of their fellow citizens of the US and the world.