In this episode of the American Scientist podcast, digital managing editor Robert Frederick speaks with researchers who have been studying the many factors and nuances that make communication gendered, and their findings include the ways science does not support the stereotypes.
source: American Scientist
Automated algorithms are designed to more efficiently match the unhoused with shelter, but Virginia Eubanks, a political scientist who studies the societal impacts of technology, explains that such databases leave the poor vulnerable to privacy and rights breaches, without...
source: American Scientist
Want to sharpen your science communication skills and learn how to tell compelling stories in new ways?...
source: Sigma Xi
Two workshops have been added to the agenda for the Annual Meeting and Student Research Conference: "Sigma Xi Chapters and Interdisciplinary Professional Development: How Can We Build on Our Strengths" and "How to Survive and Thrive...
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The Northwestern Pennsylvania Chapter, an area chapter that serves the northwestern region of the state, is planning four Science Cafés for its 2018–2019 schedule. Topics listed so far are sustainable forestry, intersex fish, and gravitational waves.
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Until just more than a decade ago, materials scientists had only snapshots...
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It's time to renew your membership or affiliate status for fiscal year 2019. You can check if your dues are current and renew online. Thank you to all members and affiliates who already renewed. Members can earn a free year of dues through the Member-Get-A-Member program...
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Sigma Xi is accepting nominations, including self-nominations, through August 10 for members who wish to serve in elected leadership positions. Open positions include regional and constituency directors and associate directors as well as members of the Committee on Nominations....
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Sigma Xi is pleased to partner with Research!America to support grants that will help science policy groups led by graduate students and postdocs, which may include Sigma Xi chapters, to increase their civic engagement and outreach activities...
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Big data is changing scientific research. Sigma Xi President Joel Primack explains why he is focusing this...
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Using scanning tunnelling microscopy, extremely high resolution imaging of the molecule-covered surface structures of silver nanoparticles is possible, even down to the recognition of individual parts of the molecules protecting...
source: Phys.Org
They're impossible to see with the naked eye. They're difficult to pronounce. But coccolithophores, a single-celled plankton, have an outsized effect on oceans due to their sheer quantity—their blooms are visible from space—and...
source: R&D Magazine
In this episode of the American Scientist podcast, digital managing editor Robert Frederick speaks with researchers who have been studying the many factors and nuances that make communication gendered, and their findings include the ways science does not support the stereotypes.
source: American Scientist
Automated algorithms are designed to more efficiently match the unhoused with shelter, but Virginia Eubanks, a political scientist who studies the societal impacts of technology, explains that such databases leave the poor vulnerable to privacy and rights breaches, without...
source: American Scientist
Want to sharpen your science communication skills and learn how to tell compelling stories in new ways?...
source: Sigma Xi
