Rebuilding the Infrastructure for Discovery
A central theme of President Trump's campaign and a stated goal of his administration are that the United States must reinvest in our national infrastructure. Most Americans who experience potholes, power outages, unreliable public transportation, or unsafe drinking water would agree. Click here to read more.
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Science Communication
The recent March for Science that took place in Washington, DC, and in cities around the world, represented a collective attempt by members of the scientific community and its supporters to communicate the value of science and objectively derived facts in decision-making and everyday life. Click here to read more.
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Time for Collective Action
Science has long provided a foundation for economic growth and sound environmental- and health-policy decision-making in the United States. However, evidence continues to mount that the Trump administration has little interest in investing in research or in using science to guide public-policy decision-making. If the scientific community fails to unite with common and strategic responses to this changing policy environment, the future of science in the United States is uncertain. Click here to read more.
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Opportunities Lost?
Over the summer, public attention was focused on President Trump’s June 2017 declaration of intent to withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Accords. Sadly, climate change is only a high-profile example of a growing list of science-related issues the Trump administration has shown little interest in addressing.
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Applying Science
Not too long ago, the public somewhat blithely accepted the latest scientific discoveries and applications with few questions. Arguably, this is less the case today, particularly when it comes to biology.
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BioScience Signs TOP Guidelines
The face of scientific publication is changing. Enabled by new technology, transparency and openness have emerged as priorities of unmatched importance, with publishers across fields and geographies rushing to stay abreast of the latest developments.
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Implementing Interdisciplinarity for Science and Society
A central purpose of the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) and our journal, BioScience, is to foster the cross pollination of ideas among the different fields within the biological sciences and to bridge the biological sciences to other professional communities.
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The Cost of Ignoring Environmental Trends
In 1992, the Union of Concerned Scientists, along with some 1700 signatories, issued the "World Scientists' Warning to Humanity (www.ucsusa.org/about/1992-world-scientists.html). In this declaration, the scientists warned that human impacts on the natural world were likely to lead to "vast human misery" and a planet that was "irretrievably mutilated."
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Specimens, Collections, and Tools for Future Biodiversity-Related Research
Natural-history collections are a part of the foundation of the global biological-sciences research and education infrastructure. It is important to recognize that these collections are more than shelves stacked with preserved specimens; they also include tissue and gene samples, parasites associated with a specimen, environmental data captured when the specimen was collected, audio and video recordings, and field notes, among other information.
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Making Our Planet Great Again
Climate change is widely regarded by the scientific community as a significant threat to human health and well-being. Scientific evidence for human-caused climate change is beyond dispute.
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Science: A Global Enterprise
In his February 2018 BioScience editorial (doi:10.1093/biosci/biy004), Scott Collins discussed French President Emmanuel Macron's Make Our Planet Great Again (MOPGA) initiative. In brief, MOPGA is a €30 million commitment designed to entice climate-change researchers from outside of the country to move their research programs to France.
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Editorial Boards Must Be Internationally Representative
The United States continues to produce the largest number of scientific papers per year. However, on a per capita basis, several northern European countries top the list, and China's scientific output is increasing in both number and quality each year. .
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#CitizenScience
Recently, after giving a talk about advocating for science, I spoke with several audience members who shared their frustration about the lack of public engagement--politically--in matters related to biodiversity conservation and environmental policy.
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Time to Swim in the Data Sea
Eight years ago, the Deepwater Horizon explosion in the Gulf of Mexico focused the world's attention on a catastrophic human and environmental tragedy. Not long after oil began to gush into the Gulf of Mexico, it became clear that there was inadequate scientific knowledge about the effects of an oil release of such magnitude on the environment.
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Preparing Graduate Students for Success
Not long ago while perusing old issues of BioScience, I stumbled across a report in the May 1970 issue, in which Elwood B. Ehrle asked, "Will Graduate Programs in Biology Survive the Seventies?". Calls to re-envision, transform, and modernize graduate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education are not new or uncommon. Click here to read more.
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