Science funding: Science for the masses

Lok, Corie

doi:10.1038/465416a

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“…Academic scientists, in particular, also are challenged to demonstrate real-world application of research results and to connect their work to society's needs (Lok 2010). Last, professionals are often faced with a lack of public support for the research and management that they do.…”

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Integrating freshwater science and local management through volunteer monitoring partnerships: the Michigan Clean Water Corps

Latimore¹,

Steen²

2014

Freshwater Science

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Thousands of local watershed organizations and lake associations are actively involved in protection and management of freshwater systems throughout the USA. These nonprofit organizations may or may not have paid staff and rarely employ trained scientists or natural resource managers. Thus, they face challenges, including lack of access to technical assistance to support their lake and river assessment and management initiatives, and may struggle to convince decision makers of the validity of their efforts. Meanwhile, researchers and managers within academia and agencies are challenged by lack of access to long-term data sets, field sites, funding, and personnel, and sometimes struggle to demonstrate real-world application of research results and to build support for freshwater research and management programs. The Michigan Clean Water Corps (MiCorps) volunteer monitoring program is a partnership-based program involving state and regional organizations and local volunteers that has met the above challenges, resulted in expanded monitoring of lakes and streams in Michigan (USA), and led to synergistic outcomes, such as advancing freshwater science, building public support for research and management, and implementing science-based management and protection projects at the local level.

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Integrating freshwater science and local management through volunteer monitoring partnerships: the Michigan Clean Water Corps

Latimore¹,

Steen²

2014

Freshwater Science

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“…science communication | impression formation | social cognition P ublic discourse and policy are increasingly shaped by scientific research, and scientists are increasingly encouraged to communicate directly with the public (1,2). Newspaper and television interviews, science festivals, dedicated websites, and online videos are just some of the channels by which researchers describe their work to nonexpert audiences (3).…”

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Facial appearance affects science communication

Gheorghiu

Callan

Skylark

2017

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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First impressions based on facial appearance predict many important social outcomes. We investigated whether such impressions also influence the communication of scientific findings to lay audiences, a process that shapes public beliefs, opinion, and policy. First, we investigated the traits that engender interest in a scientist's work, and those that create the impression of a "good scientist" who does high-quality research. Apparent competence and morality were positively related to both interest and quality judgments, whereas attractiveness boosted interest but decreased perceived quality. Next, we had members of the public choose real science news stories to read or watch and found that people were more likely to choose items that were paired with "interestinglooking" scientists, especially when selecting video-based communications. Finally, we had people read real science news items and found that the research was judged to be of higher quality when paired with researchers who look like "good scientists." Our findings offer insights into the social psychology of science, and indicate a source of bias in the dissemination of scientific findings to broader society.science communication | impression formation | social cognition

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“…There is a growing body of knowledge within the futures field, and elsewhere, which describes and theorises what inter-and trans-disciplinarity does or should entail, which addresses the challenges and quandaries that such researchers face and which highlights the problems of evaluating the quality of such research (for example [3][4][5]). Nevertheless, despite long-standing and increasingly insistent calls from national and supra-national funders (for example [6][7][8][9][10][11]) for interdisciplinary and, increasingly, transdisciplinary research as a means to promote scientific and technological advance and to foster its more effective acceptance and beneficial utilisation in society, disciplinary research and teaching still predominate in academia. This paper draws on evaluations of a number of interdisciplinary studentship and fellowship schemes to discuss some of the challenges of developing interdisciplinary research skills in early career researchers.…”

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