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Sigma Xi
 Big data is changing scientific research. Sigma Xi President Joel Primack explains why he is focusing this year's Annual Meeting and Student Research Conference on Big Data and the Future of Research, and how he hopes to connect researchers in the discussion of these important topics.
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Sigma Xi
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 to candidates running for national office in the 2018 midterm elections. The goal of this initiative is to elevate the importance of scientific research in the elections. Proposal submissions are due August 10.
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Sigma Xi
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. This committee is responsible for selecting at least two nominees for Sigma Xi president each year and at least two nominees for treasurer every four years. Active members are eligible to vote. Voting will take place online October 29 through November 27.
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Sigma Xi
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 by nominating five new members.
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Sigma Xi
 Until just more than a decade ago, materials scientists had only snapshots of materials on an ultrasmall scale. Dave Flannigan, an associate professor and director of Undergraduate Studies for Materials Science and Engineering at University of Minnesota, is the recipient of Sigma Xi's 2018 Young Investigator Award for his contributions to an emerging technology, ultrafast electron microscopy, which can produce videos that capture extraordinarily fast nanoscale processes essentially happening in real time.
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Sigma Xi
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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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 in a Research Career." Sigma Xi also offers five tiered sponsorship packages to organizations that support big data in scientific research. Thank you to our returning and new sponsors: GEICO, Annual Reviews, Kaiser Permanente, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, SAS, SunTrust, CGJC Enterprises—Education and Research Consulting, Science Careers at AAAS, Georgia Institute of Technology Sigma Xi Chapter, South Dakota State Sigma Xi Chapter, and Virginia Commonwealth University Sigma Xi Chapter.
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Sigma Xi
 Want to sharpen your science communication skills and learn how to tell compelling stories in new ways? SciCommCamp in southern California November 2–4 is a camp-style retreat for science communicators and scientists from all career stages. SciCommCamp 2018 features a keynote by renowned science journalist Maryn McKenna in addition to workshops on social media, pitching articles, interview skills, working with artists, book proposals, and more. Of course, camp wouldn't be complete without stargazing, horseback riding, hiking, and s'mores!
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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 guaranteeing services.
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American Scientist
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.
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R&D Magazine
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 because of the fundamental role they play in food chains and the carbon cycle. Small fish and zooplankton feast on them, and they remove huge amounts of carbon from the ocean.
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Phys.Org
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 the surface. This was the finding of joint research between China and Finland, published in the journal Nature Communications.
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