Physicist and global security expert Dr. Laura Grego fills us in on the past, present, and future of satellites.
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This week we present two stories from people who have to prove themselves in science acedemia.
Part 1: When there’s an explosion in the chemistry lab, graduate student Chanté Summers springs into action.
Part 2: When Adriana Briscoe’s professor accuses her of cheating, she scrambles to save her reputation and her spot on the biology lab’s field trip.
Chanté Summers is a research chemist at Pfizer Inc where she supports the development of conjugate vaccines. Chanté first became interested in science during high school. Pursuing that dream, she completed a MS in Chemistry from SIUe where her thesis focused on the synthesis of potential biologically active compounds. Outside of the lab, Chanté is proud to engage the community through volunteer work, promote diversity within the sciences, and inspiring local youth to explore STEM fields. With all that extra time, Chanté enjoys traveling, being outdoors, and unwinding with her dog.
Adriana Darielle Mejía Briscoe is an evolutionary biologist and lepidopterist. Her research has been featured in The Los Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, U.S. News and World Report, National Geographic, Scientific American, and on public radio. She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the California Academy of Sciences, and was recently honored with the Distinguished Scientist Award from the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science, the first woman and third person overall to have been given all three of these awards. She is working on her first book, a memoir about butterflies.
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We chat with Kristin Sainani (Stanford University) about a popular statistical method in sports medicine research (magnitude based inference), which has been banned by some journals, but continues to thrive in some pockets of scholarship. We also discuss the role of statistical inference in the current replication crisis.
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What is magnitude based inference and how did Kristin get involved in this?
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Quintana, D.S., Heathers, J.A.J. (Hosts). (2019, September 2) “Shifting the goalposts in statistics (with Kristin Sainani)”, Everything Hertz [Audio podcast], Retrieved from https://osf.io/3q25f/
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Science Historian Naomi Oreskes explains why science’s social character makes it trustworthy, and what we can learn from science’s past.
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This week on UnDisciplined, we’re talking about risk and, as we like to do, we’re coming to that idea from two very different directions. One of our guests studies aquatic predators, like sharks, in an effort to better understand their role in the global ecosystem. The other creates transgenic organisms, like goats with spider genes, in an effort to build new knowledge and solve old problems.
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Brian LaDuca shares about applied creativity for transformation on episode 279 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
How do you take the concept of novel new knowledge and those aha moments and give them purpose?
-Brian LaDuca
We have to find a way to find these micro campuses on the campus to create pivots.
-Brian LaDuca
It’s the ambiguity that is the lock and key to the content and the resulting action is the tension.
-Brian LaDuca
The right and wrong answer isn’t nearly as important as your ability to filter down ideas, work together in ideas, and move ideas back into the system again.
-Brian LaDuca
Applied creativity inevitably has to be applied to something.
-Brian LaDuca
Meet the student where they are, in what they do, and how they think.
-Brian LaDuca
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Scientists have to follow a lot of rules. We have IRB rules, journal submission rules, university rules – lots of rules. But some of the most important rules in science aren’t rules at all – they are norms. Guiding principles that shape the work we do. In this episode, we discuss a classic paper by the sociologist Robert Merton on 4 norms that govern scientific work. Are these norms an expression of scientific values, or just a means to an end? How well do scientists follow them, individually or collectively? Is science doing as well today as Merton thought it was back in 1942 – and is following these norms really the way to make science work right? Plus: We answer a letter about question to ask a prospective PhD advisor.
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This is episode 67. It was recorded on October 8, 2019.
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