Search Results: SF declaration 2012

“People in this country have had enough of experts”: How Brexit Could Affect Scientists in the UK

…overly dependent on EU funding. In 2012, the UK spent only 1.63% of its GDP on research, lagging behind other countries with large research output. Jo Johnson, UK Science Minister,…

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Why PhDs should consider a career in academia

…pay, and even briefly discuss the 2012 NIH Workforce Report infographic shared in the COMPASS blog post “Where will a Biology PhD take you?”, written by Jessica Polka for ASCB…

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Women in STEM: Still So Few and Far Between

…more likely reason for driving women out of STEM careers, as indicated by two studies published in PNAS, one study in 2012 and another in 2014. But the pipeline may…

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Cell Biology of the Stem Cell

…human stem cells.2 In the spring of 2012, the ASCB leadership under the presidency of Ron Vale organized a retreat with several thought leaders in biomedical research to discuss key…

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ASCB Ensures Access to Conferences for Federal Scientists

…ASCB has been working since 2013 to correct one of those mistakes. In 2011 and 2012, there was a media and political firestorm about revelations that certain federal agencies had…

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Extending the olive branch: collaborating in science

…each has gone up almost four fold (Adams J., 2012). The resulting publications are also more diverse and tend to have comprehensive data covering multiple aspects of the research question….

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ASCB Ensures Access to Conferences for Federal Scientists

…In 2011 and 2012, there was a media and political firestorm about revelations that certain federal agencies had spent large amounts of money for employees to travel to and participate…

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Ahmet Yildiz wins Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science

…will be presented, along with other Vilcek Prizes, at a ceremony in New York this spring. Yildiz joined the American Society of Cell Biology in 2012 and won an ASCB-Gibco…

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How Cell Biologists Work: Ron Vale on converting chemical energy into mechanical work and curiosity into discovery

…for improving publication, including encouraging and facilitating the use of preprints* in the life sciences. He is a former president of the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB, 2012), and…

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Communication + Outreach + Leadership = ASCB Ambassador

The ASCB wants to create new opportunities for members’ participation. Currently, most members participate by attending the Annual Meeting, where they present exciting new data, develop collaborations, and learn more…

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