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Sequestration: inadvertently killing biomedical research to score political points

can lead productive research programs, weve already invested heavily in their training. Lets not kick them out on the street because someone in Congress wants to score political points. The health of

From trainee to tenure-track: ten tips

consortium projects turned out well because I honestly found the interactions fruitful instead of an unproductive political game. Meeting senior scientists is a fantastic opportunity to learn from them and ... philosophy is always to have one foot outside of my comfort zone, because that is how I learn and develop. When I get really comfortable and I feel like I really know what I am doing, it is time for the next

A hat trick - Plasmodium, Anopheles and Homo

year? Yes, but only if combined with political will and social change. ... political will and social change. - On August 29th every year, just before the onset of the rains, the devout Orthodox of Greece would celebrate the feast of Ayios Ioannis o Rigologos - St John the

Why won’t it Stick? Positive Psychology and Positive Education

Escamilla Santana, Sir Anthony Seldon, Professor Martin Seligman and Professor Kaiping Peng and during the Summit. 3. Specific virtues or values and character-based education lessons based in philosophy or ... -being has severe competition in the political arena. For example, in the Australia, schools are called on to engage with and implement The National Assessment Program—Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN

The walking dead

, religion, or philosophy. But it has no place in the sciences, and any science teacher who teaches it is incompetent. The Florida bill is really interesting. HB 1854 would actually require a critical ... administrators, bean-counters who claim to know the price of everything but in reality often understand the value of nothing. They close departments and start programs based not on sound educational philosophy or

Advice and dissent

do with the peculiar nature of drugs as a political and social lightning rod. Few issues, short of abortion, raise the moral outrage of the Right as reliably as a suggestion that we should go softer on ... qualified scientists and even nonscientists in scientific advisory positions, so long as they passed the litmus test of political and religious attitudes. The government edited scientific data and conclusions

Digitally deconvolving the tumor microenvironment

effects” on the signature matrix to allow direct estimation of the abundance of certain cell types. Importantly, to gain better accuracy, the authors followed the “less is more” philosophy, choosing to

Editorial for “Positive Computing: A New Partnership Between Psychology, Social Sciences and Technologists”

the creation and blossoming of partnerships between many disciplines including linguistics, neuroscience, psychology, philosophy and what was then the newly-formed field of “cognitive sciences

Raymond Gosling: the man who crystallized genes

to do a fundamental subject like physics. I was very attracted by the thought that the Scots always refer to physics as natural philosophy. And so a career in physics beckoned. But, having graduated ... Randalls. Randalls motto at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Biophysics Unit that he headed at Kings College was to bring the logi of physics to the graphi of biology. This interdisciplinary philosophy

Freedom and happiness in nations: why the Finns are happier than the French

fits that wider pattern. 2. Concepts and measures The terms happiness and freedom are often used in political rhetoric, but are in that context seldom properly defined. Greater precision is required ... available information on choice restrictions in the domains of economic life, political life and private life of citizens (or individuals within that nation). Economic freedom is measured by absence of

On the middle ground between open source and commercial software - the case of the Newbler program

, but free as in for no cost (like free beer), not as in 'free speech' (see https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-sourcemisses-the-point.html). In my experience, Newbler is one of the best programs for

Empowering African genomics for infectious disease control

countries such as the US and UK have increased their investment in genomics research, there is a paucity of governmental, regional political or economic organizational funding in Africa for genomicists to ... governments and of regional political and economic organizations in providing sustained funding for all research fields, including infectious diseases genomics and research infrastructure development. In

Human infectious diseases in the genomics era: where do we go from here?

, and not insignificantly, by substantial political pressure and increased funding from numerous governmental and philanthropic organisations. Despite this, the devastating global burden of infectious ... shifting transmission dynamics of communicable diseases, including how climate change is likely to affect their global spread, and it has reiterated the need for political action to meet challenges in the

Eighty years ago

office under President Woodrow Wilson, yet he abandoned his political career to crusade against the teaching of evolution, which he regarded as a menace to the country. Consulting for the defense was ... , became close friends. It is true that Darrow and Bryan had once been political allies, when Bryan was President Wilsons Secretary of State, but by the time of the trial Darrow had come to regard Bryan as

An approach for determining and measuring network hierarchy applied to comparing the phosphorylome and the regulome

network, human phosphorylation network and worm neural network), one ecological network (food web), one social network (political blogs), and one computer network (P2P file sharing network) (see Materials ... Table 1, we summarize the topological properties of these eight networks being sorted in the increasing order of CHSs. The political blog network contains hyperlinks between weblogs on US politics being

What it’s like to be an editor at a conference

world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour' philosophy from the Dickens book. Editors know just like you that the scientific conference is a great place to merge the best research and

The ethics of sustainable genomic research in Africa

about the sharing and uses of research samples and data across international boundaries are not unique to low-income countries, but they can take on particular moral and political resonance in such

Editorial

the integration of knowledge gained from diverse research fields both within psychology and where psychology intersects with other disciplines (e.g., biology, economics, philosophy, sociology and

The Research Works Act: a comment

opens; recent events in US political life suggest a reconciliation with the concept of open marriage but a relationship with open access to scientific research that may be headed for splitsville. In a ... opponents of RWA cannot rival the political and global reach of the likes of Google and Wikipedia, a spirited, academia-led campaign against RWA is underway on the blogosphere and Twitter. As with many

Surfing waves of data in San Diego: sophisticated analyses provide a broad view of human genetic diversity

observing structure where it had not been seen previously and related this structure to historical geo-political boundaries. John Novembre (University of Chicago, USA) presented on a large project to