by Gary McDowell | Jun 21, 2018 | Grassroots movements, Ideas for change, Policy, Surveys & Forums
In Defense of Science: The National Science Policy Network Is Helping the Next Generation of Civic Scientists and Engineers to Organize Nationwide Network Receives More than $100,000 in Grants for Local Work See this op-ed in Scientific American. From...
by Gary McDowell | Jun 20, 2018 | Ideas for change, Surveys & Forums
See below for a call for nominations on the BoD of the International Network for the Science of Team Science (INSciTS) – they are interested in applications from emerging scholars: INSciTS Board of Directors Nominations, Deadline June 22, 2018 For those of you...
by Gary McDowell | Jun 11, 2018 | Ideas for change, News, NIH, NSF, Policy
From the National Academies site: “The study scope will include the following: Review of the research on the extent to which women in the fields of science, engineering, and medicine are victimized by sexual harassment on college and university...
by Gary McDowell | Jun 4, 2018 | Diversity in science, Ideas for change, NIH, Policy, Postdoc benefits, Postdoc population size
Future of Research has issued a statement on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine report, “The Next Generation of Biomedical and Behavioral Sciences Researchers: Breaking Through. You can find the text of the statement below, and a downloadable...
by Gary McDowell | May 29, 2018 | Grad school curriculum, Ideas for change, News, Policy, Webinar
The National Academies will launch “Graduate STEM Education for the 21st Century” today, which you can view remotely via webcast, at 1.30pm EST. This consensus study re-visits a 20-year old report on the state of science, technology, engineering and...
by Gary McDowell | May 28, 2018 | Data, Events & Networking, Grassroots movements, Ideas for change, Policy, Rigor and Reproducibility, Surveys & Forums
Data from an eLife Early Career Researcher Group survey At a recent meeting about journal peer review, one of the key outcomes was the realization that there needs to be a greater effort to recognize the scholarly contributions of graduate students and...
