Sentences with phrase «think citizen scientists»

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It's not even true, as some excessively literal students of Plato today seem to think, that we're either detached philosopher - scientists or deluded citizens.

Of course I also spend time taking pictures of the beautiful world, spending time with my wife, reading books or magazines, playing video games, enjoying a great meal, engaging in citizen scientist projects, spending time in thought or contemplation about the universe or our planet, or in other words generally loving and enjoying life!

While many researchers think of citizen science as a way to engage children and teenagers, many of citizen scientists are adults, some of whom bring scientific expertise from other fields, she said.

Using examples from a range of scientific controversies, The Honest Broker challenges us all - scientists, politicians and citizens - to think carefully about how best science can contribute to policy - making and a healthy democracy.

Although there's no clear causal link between the two types of thinking yet, the new work could provide a simple, affordable way to track mental decline in senior citizens, scientists say.

But I think one of the things that scientists and other people concerned about science education in the country need to do is make it clear to publishers that as citizens and voters, wherever they live, whatever state or town that they live [in], they will make sure that their elected officials know that textbook X, Y or Z is not to be used in this district because of its bad science.

NIAC partners with forward - thinking scientists, engineers and citizen inventors from across the nation to help maintain America's leadership in air and space.

I hope this has inspired you to experiment as a citizen scientist, and provoked thought around how powerfully you can show up as the best mom, dad, brother, sister or person you want to be.

While I want a science curriculum that is more demanding, I want it to be more demanding in the right way — to make sure our future scientists and citizens learn to think.

But I think it makes sense for an effort like this to cater to «citizen scientist» types too.

Most of America's universities suffer problems of infrastructure, and it would be eye - opening if citizen - scientists looked into the polcies and funding of data storage and management widely, I think.

Nor do I think that your word «citizen auditor», one of Judy's terms that I don't use myself and rather dislike, does justice to the fact that the «core» statistical commenters at Climate Audit and related blogs (Jean S, UC, Ross McKitrick, Roman Mureika, Hu McCulloch, Nic Lewis, Ryan O'Donnell, Jeff Id, Lucia and myself) to name only a few) are more «credentialed» in statistical analysis than the «scientists» that are being criticized.

An obvious but key point is that scientists are citizens, and as Nelson states in an interview,»... citizens in a democracy have a moral obligation to actively promote within their society that which they are justified in thinking is right or good and to actively opposing that which they are justified in thinking is wrong or bad.

I'd think anyone aspiring to the title of «citizen scientist,» or frequenting a blog where the idea of challenging mainstream assumptions is championed, would want to look directly at what the research says rather than having it filtered by bloggers of whatever bias or just making WAGs.