Did you know that there's an artificial reef the spells HOPE? Learn more via our most recent Antarctic Log post from Karen Romano Young https://blogs.agu.org/sciencecommunication/2022/05/06/antarcticlog-a-reef-called-hope/ 

Prof, você sabe quem é Carol Resonthal, Daniel Lewis e Tan Ju Zhanlan? Por acaso eles já trabalharam na UCLA?

"Estou surpresa por saber esses nomes, senhorita Dankworth. Mas Carol Rosenthal foi uma professora da instituição por muitos anos. Ela começou aqui como secretária nos anos 40 e estudava através de uma bolsa de estudos, até que se formou doutora nos anos 50 e deu aulas de mecânica avançada até os anos 90, quando se aposentou. O filho dela, Michael, trabalha na instituição e é vice coordenador de humanas (contra a minha vontade. Se fosse por mim, já tinha dado um pé na bunda e um Bon Voyage para esse ani... para esse incompetente, mas alguém tem as costas muito quente com um dos doadores da universidade) e professor de SciPol 101.

Daniel Lewis foi jogador dos Bruins Bears nos anos 30 e, mais tarde, um pesquisador importante para instituição até seu desaparecimento nos anos 70. Ele era engenheiro, com foco em aerodinamica, e foi um dos responsáveis pelo McLaren M6A-Chevrolet, carro vencedor do Can-Am de 1967. Rumores de que o avião no qual ele estava, que ia para a Europa, onde ele chefiaria a divisão de desenvolvimento e pesquisa da equipe McLaren teria sido abatido no meio do atlântico, mas nada foi confirmado.

Tan Ju Zhanlan é um industrial chinês, cujo a família veio para os Estados Unidos com a Revolução Chinesa no inicio do século XX. Ele foi um grande micenas para a UCLA, inclusive, um dos pavilhões deveria ter recebido o nome dele nos anos 50, mas direção da instituição não achou de bom tom."

Week 6 - Internship

My mantra in life has always been that mistakes will make me great as long as I'm willing to learn and grow from it. The only way to gain experience is to have a crack at it something and to embrace the moment as it happens. During week 6 of this course, I sat across different mates to practice my response to various interviews questions.

It did help that we had industry personnel visit and share their experiences about interviews. There was focus on attire, posture, preparedness and tone. Building upon the exercises from the past weeks coupled with resume and cover letter writing, there was a pool of knowledge to draw from for these practice interviews.

They say practice makes perfect and I found that to be exceptional true as with every practice I could tell I was getter better at doing interviews. As shown in image 1.0, I continue to show improvement in key areas such as engagement, body language and professional presentation.

Image 1.0 showing peer feedback from practice interviews.

On a personal note, I came into this course knowing how to talk and would normally rumble off topic on several occasions. However, as the practice interviews went on, I realised I was staying more on task with answering questions. This improved my confidence on so many levels. By positively engaging in these exercises, I felt more and more optimistic about my internship applications and interviews.

Liu and Hull (2019) believe the hallmark of a great interview is the ability to prepare and answer questions confidently. Based on this analogy, I can say I am quite prepared for my internship interviews. As image 2.0 has shown, I have prepared outside the scale of interview questions by also putting in time to fine tune my resume, cover letter and LinkedIn page.

Image 2.0 shows a peer feedback form on my resume, cover letter and LinkedIn page.

As explained by Ohio (2021), an elevator pitch is a way to convince another party about an idea or product within a short timeframe. For me it meant that the ability to describe my goals, dreams, aspirations and skills set to a potential employer in the quickest way possible (Palmer et al., 2019). I used this opportunity to develop my elevator pitch and made changes based on feedback received from both lectures and colleagues.

Upon reflection, I can say I am more prepared than I was a couple of weeks ago. My mum used to say all the time that luck favour the most prepared. I feel super confident on what I have learnt, and the experience gained from doing these practice interviews and exercises.

References:

Ohio, K. E. (2021). The Student Elevator Pitch Is Dead, Long Live the Student Elevator Pitch. Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice, 21(15), 156–164. https://doi.org/10.33423/jhetp.v21i15.4898

Palmer, J., Owens, S., & Doubleday, R. (2019). Perfecting the ‘Elevator Pitch’? Expert advice as locally-situated boundary work. Science & Public Policy, 46(2), 244–253. https://doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scy054  

Liu, H., & Hull, D. N. C. (2019). Lu Xun as the Great Master: An Interview with Li Jing. Chinese Literature Today, 8(2), 30–37. https://doi.org/10.1080/21514399.2019.1674610

Drs Warhol and Eveleigh at Eagleton Workshop

John Warhol and Doug Eveleigh participated in the Scientists in Politics workshop at the Eagleton Institute on Nov 29. It was a great networking experience and we were able to share our experience with getting a State Microbe with the other attendees. Great news is that now Chancellor Molloy has his own  Periodic Table of Microbes poster for his office wall!

75th anniversary of streptomycin is coming up. Get ready for a celebration!

Please read my amazing microbiology book:

https://tinyurl.com/Warhol-Small-Guide

#NJmicrobe

Stand up with Science

Below the cut is a way for people to stand up for science against the stifling of their voice. I ask that you spread the word and pass it on, even if you don’t think this is a way for you to support science. There are all sorts of ways for us to stand with science.

From a colleague of mine, I pass this message to you. Don’t let your voice be unheard and let us be in solidarity.

"To all my friends and colleagues in academia-

I should warn you beforehand, that this is a long-ish post, a call to action in response to the Trump administration's push to keep scientific facts from the public. In short. I have a modest proposal for you...

In the past week, the Trump administration has issued orders of the USDA and EPA that have signaled the administration's intention to determine what scientific information is revealed to the public. Essentially, Trump and his colleagues have indicated that any research that runs contrary to the administration's political agenda should be either modified or withheld from the public altogether. As a staunch believer in empiricism, peer-review, data, transparency, and the scientific method as tools for moving us (i.e., people) forward, I disagree with the Trump administration's actions in the strongest terms.

If there is a silver lining in this mess, it is that the administration has issued orders specifically related to the public dissemination of the departments' research. This includes press releases, announcements, social media engagement, and the like. However, my understanding is that the administration cannot keep any of the federal departments from conducting research and publishing it--unsanitized--in peer-reviewed journals. Unfortunately, most of the public does not have access to these journals. Even if they did, the information in scientific articles (both in the "hard" and "soft" sciences) can be difficult for a layperson to understand.

This is where we come in. I have secured webspace on which I intend to begin constructing a continuously-updated repository of scientific studies performed by (or funded by) personnel in the 15 federal departments in the US: the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Defense, the Department of Education, the Department of Energy, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Department of the Interior, the Department of Justic, the Department of Labor, the Department of State, the Department of Transportation, the Department of the Treasury, and the Department of Veterans Affairs; as well as other independent agencies (e.g., NASA). Ultimately, I hope that the site will become an extensive collection of links to scientific studies with two- or three-sentence synopses of what the studies are about. These synopses will be easily digestible by laypersons. In essence, I want the site to adopt the function of the departments that the Trump administration is trying to remove--public dissemination of critical scientific information. Needless to say, this is going to take some effort.

I am only in the beginning stages of figuring out the logistics of how this will work, the form the site will take, and issues like that. I am presently in the process of designing the site. As of now, it will be housed (though not yet published) at:

www.publicscience.info

But before getting too far ahead of myself, I need to see if anyone in the academic community wants to contribute to the site on an as-you-feel-like-it basis. So, please feel free to share this information in any way you see fit.

Obviously, there will be no obligations to it; we all have teaching, writing, and publishing to do. That said, if you are interested in potentially contributing to the site, please e-mail me to let me know at:

At the least, I will need your e-mail address, but if you want to leave your name and affiliation, that would be okay too.

Helping will take many forms, but primarily I hope to build an extensive and far-reaching stable of scholars to assist in updating the lists of studies that appear in peer-reviewed journals (nothing that has not undergone peer-review will be posted. It shouldn't be too much work, and you are welcome to contribute as much or as little as you like. Think of it as a wiki designed to circumvent the censoring of scientific information.

All the details will be ironed out in the next eight weeks or so, and I will keep all those who are interested apprised.

Trump can force federal departments to withhold data and release scientific information to the public at his discretion. I suppose he is their boss. But we don't need to follow Trump's rules. He's not OUR boss.

We're his."

January 10, 2019, Part I

TV shows where the parents don’t leave or insist on asking questions during a critical moment, drive me nuts.

Yesterday, I learned that you can cook pasta in the ‘sauces’ you’re making for it. Grr. I’ve wondered from time to time, but never quite experimented. Now I know. I feel stupid it took me so long.

I read something that said you should celebrate the small things you do (it was one of those things about how to treat yourself better or some shit), and when you catch yourself being mean to yourself, stopping it. Regardless of whether or not it’s true.

So....I went grocery shopping a bit. To buy ice cream instead of going to basken robin’s. And get some la croy. Damnit I know it’s expensive and not worth it, but sometimes I want it. And I picked up my coffee so I didn’t skip a day. And I got some fruit and veggies. But you know what I really did? I bought milk, and cereal. I guess I just want it, and fuck it, I’m gonna have it.

I need to get back into the scipol groove. Just so I don’t screw over my group.

I didn’t go to work today, and I didn’t work from home. I did do some sleeping. Here’s hoping I feel human tomorrow.

And now I have more proof I’m not crazy about these inspections. There’s another one tomorrow. It really annoys my chaps that they don’t give 24hr notice. There’s no way they don’t know these things at least another day in advance.

So besides being a failure in general, and having my mental illness making me sabotage myself, there’s another reason I’m giving up. Opportunity costs. In this economy, I should be grateful for the ‘career’ I have. I mean, say I got a master’s and gave up. What are the odds I could get a science/science policy job? And if I did, one that would make a decent amount of money? Now, say I had been able to get into a phd program. We already know the job market for stem phds is shit. It could be better later. It could be worse. But the amount of money I make now, vs. what I *might* be able to make after a phd.....I’m too old at this point. I have too much student debt at this point. It’s impractical to follow my passions or my dreams any longer. So do the smart thing and ‘lean in’ to the fucking clerical career. It’s the smart thing to do. There are too many people getting trapped into part time work, gig work. I can do a job that can’t yet be automated; believe me, they tried for decades. I’m pretty sure that’s why computers were invented in the first place lol!

oooh do the thing for Lyle! (Im asking everyone this and can't bring myself to care its fun)

First impression: I didn’t know a lot about him when I was looking into LoSH, thought he was kinda lame and just a background character.

Impression now: Holy shit I…. love him?? So much?? I would take a bullet for that boy, he’s sassy and really kind and brilliant and a great leader and I just??? Could scream about Lyle Norg all day.

Favorite moment: I really enjoyed him in the Legionnaires issue with Charma and getting to see a little bit into his past with Earthgov and Jacques. (I also think that was the issue where he opened the door for a SciPol officer but did it while invisible?? I don’t remember but I loved it.) 

Idea for a story: I don’t even know just something where he’s alive and happy and actually gets screen time?? Maybe something with him like showing his scientific prowess and snarking at Brainy? I don’t know.

Unpopular opinion: I really hated his originally retro outfit tbh.

(I’m also super salty that he was only really prominent in Legionnaires/Reboot continuity and that he played a smaller role in everything else. ALSO why was he not in the cartoon? I love Jacques and all but I wanted to see my dumb science boy in the background instead.)

Favorite relationship: I’m pretty open to him with anyone tbh, I like him with Brainy, I like him with Condo. I just want him to be happy.

Favorite headcanon: Lyle always had a sweet tooth, especially for ice cream, this lead to him experimenting with flavors and eventually patenting his own flavors and selling them for a nice profit. Also that he’s super nosey and probably sneaks around HQ for fun and sometimes falls back into his spy tendencies.

How can the social and economic impact of AI be anticipated and modelled, given that they are predicated on technological advances yet to be made?

How can the social and economic impact of AI be anticipated and modelled, given that they are predicated on technological advances yet to be made?

Readings:

PWC. “The macroeconomic impact of artificial intelligence.” Online at this link. Full report posted on course site.

Duke SciPol. “Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and the Economy.” Online at this link. Full report posted on course site.

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Understanding how changes in technology impact on the way humans communicate and the ethical issues that surround these changes. (updated version)

Updated with the following feedback:

Thanks to the advancements in technology, we can communicate faster and more effectively than ever before. 

(Marker, 2015)

The fast and constantly changing state of mobile phones, computers, tablets, and other forms of technology have enabled us as humans to find more effective, fast and immediate forms of communication through the likes of instant messaging, facebook, and email. Not to mention the range of communication technology has enabled us to have with people across the world on global issues and topics on platforms such as Twitter, which enables users to quickly and effectively share thoughts and ideas.   (Wong, 2016). The evolution of technology has also enabled us to have the highest level of access to an endless expanse of information, at the touch of a button thousands of results appear before our eyes to use at our discretion.  

However there are many ethical issues that have arisen with the rapid changes in technology, some of the following are issues that we may all experience when it comes to the constant technological advancements we are faced with.

(Willis, 2017)

As each tiny thing we do on our smart devices (phones, laptops, tablets, etc) is tracked and recorded, privacy is a prominent ethical issue.  (Carsten Stahl, Timmermans & Flick, 2017). As well as lack of privacy being an issue, loss of personal autonomy is also an issue, as we rely more on it to help us make everyday decisions - what to eat, where to go, what movie to see, what to write that essay on, and so on.   (Carsten Stahl, Timmermans & Flick, 2017). As well as the formers, technology also poses an increased risk of identity theft, with our lives based around technology, keeping most of our information on one form of technology or another, the risk of theft of identity becomes higher.  (Carsten Stahl, Timmermans & Flick, 2017).

I know I myself have fallen victim to the risks of using technology, with facebook and other social media accounts being hacked and having personal information taken, along with the loss of personal autonomy, due to becoming reliant on often leaving technology such as Siri and Google to be the final decider in many matters. And I know there are many other people out there who have fallen victim too.

References

Carsten Stahl, B., Timmermans, J., & Flick, C. (2017). Ethics of Emerging Information and Communication Technologies: On the implementation of responsible research and innovation. Science And Public Policy, 44(3), 369-381. http://dx.doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scw069 Marker, G. (2015). Evolution of mobile phones. Retrieved from http://easytechnow.com/learn-technology/the-evolution-of-mobile-phones/ Willis, A. (2017). Social Media and Communication. Retrieved from http://circaedu.com/hemj/how-social-media-changed-the-way-we-communicate/ Wong, W. (2016). How Technology Has Changed the Way We Communicate. WPS Office Blog. Retrieved 17 September 2017, from http://blog.wps.com/how-technology-has-changed-the-way-we-communicate/

The latest #AntarcticLog by Karen Romano Young features some of the lesser-known #climatechange indicators, i.e., the "canaries in the coal mine." https://tinyurl.com/y7tvhtdm

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Glenn Cohen (@CohenProf) from @Harvard_Law & @PetrieFlom captivates a full house with discussion of policies relating to human gene editing http://pic.twitter.com/dEZe4Hgy9R

— Harvard SciPol Group (@HarvardSciPol) November 2, 2017

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NJ Microbe news coverage!

While Drs Eveleigh and  Warhol were at the Eagleton workshop, the Rutgers Daily Targum (university newspaper) ran a cover story on our efforts to get an Official State Microbe  for New Jersey!  Great timing!

http://www.dailytargum.com/article/2018/11/rutgers-professor-aim-to-make-tuberculosis-cure-state-microbe

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Please read my amazing science book:

https://tinyurl.com/Warhol-Small-Guide

Sam Nunn School of International Affairs Ph.D. candidate Jon Schmid has coauthored a piece with Sergey Kolesnikov and Jan Youtie, both from the School of Public Policy at Georgia Tech. The article titled, “Plans versus experiences in transitioning transnational education into research and economic development: a case study” was recently published in Science and Public Policy. You can access the article here: https://academic.oup.com/spp/article/doi/10.1093/scipol/scx051/4139726/Plans-versus-experiences-in-transitioning

February 13, 2019 Part II

Interesting latter half of the day.

First, because it actually is most important, I forgot my nebulizer thingies at the pharmacy. I struggled all day to make sure that I remembered to pick them up. Went, and they didn’t have a prescription. I gave them the piece of paper I had. They said 30mins. I went back to the office. And forgot.

Therapy. I feel like there’s definitely deception. I think of what I can and cannot tell him. What he will or will not understand. I tell him things to make him happy without necessarily making him think that things he likes are helping or more important than they are. Like, I like anchoring. I think it’s probably really helped. I don’t think meditation has really added to anything in a significant way, though I can’t say it hasn’t helped at all. I didn’t bring up the idea of skipping it for a while to see the difference without it. But like, I have a conversation with him, and he’s like ‘there’s soooo much to unpack.’ Today we talked about my job. A teeny tiny part. I was anxious b/c a coworker was worrying me; that she might expect me to do something for her (that isn’t my job) and that it would set a precedent. And so I had to explain several of the issues in my job, not in detail, and he just couldn’t handle it all. He knew I hate my job, but I don’t think he understood, and I don’t think he understood that he didn’t understand, until I gave him a taste of the issues. Schmuck. Milquetoast.

And I can’t tell him that CBT is not all that. Even if I think I, wittingly or unwittingly, insinuate. But, it’s not. And while I feel like DBT is better (not great), I don’t know that it’s really all that much better. Studies have shown that CBT only has short term effects. Where I’m at, I’ll take it, even if it was only a few days.

Men twist things to suit their feelings. I say this not as men men, but as ‘men’ stands for ‘humans.’ We say things that are illogical to make ourselves ‘happy’ or to justify our actions.

Chatted with my work friend. That’s actually what kept me late. My predecessor and my boss were quite close. I’ve heard intimations in the past that they were unseemly close. Who knows? But my boss and I are nowhere near ‘close.’ Our convo made me think of the old boss. I miss him, pain in the ass as he was. And his wife. I think she must have died because once he died their kids took away her independence. I have no idea really, but from what I know of them/her....From what I know if kids with their parents (including me)...

After work, I walked a bit. Not as much as I wanted or needed, but the fear of running into anyone from archery or scipol scrred me. Went to the store to get some burgers and it was old home week at the bar. Ran into one of the two chicks I partied with in September. Found out the store’s pizza is cheap and good (nothing that a clove of garlic can’t improve). Talked about, well really it was a heated discussion about, Nikki and Cardi. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again - why can’t we like them, support them, both?

I think, for my mental health, I should go there on wednesdays (particular bartender - the one who bought me a drink when she was off duty). And also, I got a nice buzz, I felt it, but it wasn’t too much.

Of course, I’m too tired and relaxed to work on my resume lol.

On the way home, I was thinking of my adopted family. I know they never loved me like I loved them, and don’t anymore. But I still love them, regardless. So I sent ‘mom’ a text. Despite that instinct I had that ‘she hasn’t texted me.’

So, the coworker that I was worried about today, that she would expect me to do something for her, did in fact ask me (in a way that wasn’t a request) to do said thing for her. But the anxiety I had felt wasn’t as bad, in my opinion, because I had talked it out at therapy. So he could understand why I was simultaneously extremely anxious as well as knowing it wouldn’t be a big deal.

The women, par usual in life, are the smartest, wisest, in Knightfall.

NASA gave up on Opportunity today. I will always remember my favorite, the first of the twins, the siblings, Spirit.

Social network sites, privacy and the blurring boundary between public and private spaces Science and Public Policy, Volume 40, Issue 6, 1 December 2013, Pages 724–732 

The article discusses many discourses around social media - especially the privacy implications - and how it blurs the boundaries of the public and private sphere and space, suggesting that the SNS (online space) has become a semi-pulic space. The article was helpful in offering new understandings of how the boundaries of public and private spaces are shifting through the expansion of social media.