By Nicola Slawson. Academics and industry workers rally in British cities amid fears that ‘post-truth’ era is devaluing evidence-based research. More...
29 avril 2017
27 avril 2017
Why I Am Marching
Andrew Hamilton, president of New York University and an organic chemist, writes of the urgency and importance of tomorrow’s March for Science. More...
27 avril 2017
Mad Science
In Paranoid Science: The Christian Right’s War on Reality, Antony Alumkal shows that hostility toward science -- including a kind of fearful contempt toward scientists -- is fairly palpable, writes Scott McLemee. More...
27 avril 2017
A Focus on Funding
By Andrew Kreighbaum. Researchers, academics say communicating about importance of federal funding key to march success. More...
27 avril 2017
Scientists to March on Washington
By Andrew Kreighbaum. Cautioning that the event is not an anti-Trump protest, supporters of the March for Science plan to take a more vocal role in advocating for support of research and inquiry. More...
27 avril 2017
Australia's National Science Statement 2017
The Australian Government's National Innovation and Science Agenda identified science as one of the critical elements for Australia to deliver new sources of growth, maintain high‑wage jobs and seize the next wave of economic prosperity. Science—including the natural, physical and life sciences, medical and health sciences, mathematics, engineering and technology–related disciplines—already plays an important role in today's workforce, and will become increasingly important to job creation opportunities in the future. More...26 avril 2017
Marching for Science Internationally
By Elizabeth Redden. Events advocating for science and research are scheduled around the world Saturday. More...
24 avril 2017
Marching for Science Internationally
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Marching for Science Internationally
Elizabeth Redden, Inside Higher Ed, 2017/04/21
Let's do this thing. "We want to speak out against the muzzling of government scientists, we want to advocate for evidence-based policy making, we want to see better and more inclusive STEM education". More...
24 avril 2017
Eliminativism and the Neuroscience of Consciousness
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Eliminativism and the Neuroscience of Consciousness
Richard Brown, 2017/03/21
The idea of 'eliminativism' is that our common-sense psychological concepts such as 'beliefs', 'desires', etc., don't actually exist. This has important implications for education, since pretty much all of educational theory depends on these concepts. I am an eliminativst philosophically. More...
24 avril 2017
Canada's Fundamental Science Review
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Canada's Fundamental Science Review
C. David Naylor, et.al., Government of Canada, 2017/04/11
This report (280 page PDF) (if you don't have time to read it have a machine read it for you) addresses Canada's investment in research and development and is known colloquially as the Naylor Report. More...
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