Continue Our Standard Biology Teaching Practices? Bologna
Recently, a colleague and I stumbled onto a conversation about the (now) iconic painting by Laurentius de Voltolina. The painting depicts an image of a University of Bologna lecture, complete with sleeping and gossiping students. The painting reminded most of us how science has grown and matured as a discipline while science education has moved relatively little since the 1300s. Click here to read more.
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Source: AIBS BioScience Editorials - October 23, 2018 Category: Biology Authors: AIBS Source Type: news
No More Bag!
If you live in the United States, you may have noticed that this issue of BioScience did not come inside a plastic wrap. And you probably know why. Plastic does not degrade, and contrary to the claims of the plastic industry, single-use thin plastics such as plastic bags are rarely recycled. Click here to read more.
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Source: AIBS BioScience Editorials - October 23, 2018 Category: Biology Authors: AIBS Source Type: news
What Are the Rules of International Biology?
Biology is a global endeavor. Regardless of whether the international dimensions of your research are immediately obvious to you, they do exist--and they are important.Click here to read more.
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Source: AIBS BioScience Editorials - October 23, 2018 Category: Biology Authors: AIBS Source Type: news
No More Bag!
If you live in the United States, you may have noticed that this issue of BioScience did not come inside a plastic wrap. And you probably know why. Plastic does not degrade, and contrary to the claims of the plastic industry, single-use thin plastics such as plastic bags are rarely recycled. Click here to read more.
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Source: AIBS BioScience Editorials - September 5, 2018 Category: Biology Authors: AIBS Source Type: news
Continue Our Standard Biology Teaching Practices? Bologna
Recently, a colleague and I stumbled onto a conversation about the (now) iconic painting by Laurentius de Voltolina. The painting depicts an image of a University of Bologna lecture, complete with sleeping and gossiping students. The painting reminded most of us how science has grown and matured as a discipline while science education has moved relatively little since the 1300s. Click here to read more.
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Source: AIBS BioScience Editorials - August 2, 2018 Category: Biology Authors: AIBS Source Type: news
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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Source: AIBS BioScience Editorials - July 11, 2018 Category: Biology Authors: AIBS Source Type: news
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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Source: AIBS BioScience Editorials - June 13, 2018 Category: Biology Authors: AIBS Source Type: news
Unraveling Ecosystem Responses to Climate Change on the Antarctic Continent through Long-Term Ecological Research
Although climate change is occurring on a global scale, its ecological impacts are often specific, and they vary from region to region. Climate changes in polar regions are amplified, making these high-latitude areas sentinels not only for monitoring climate variability but also for the determination of how ecosystems respond to this variability. To read more, click here. (Source: AIBS BioScience Editorials)
Source: AIBS BioScience Editorials - June 12, 2018 Category: Biology Authors: AIBS Source Type: news
How Scientists Can Help End the Land-Use Conflict
In the last 6 months, we have seen an increase in conflicts about how to use public lands. And scientists have the tools to assist in solving those conflicts. Recently, we saw Native Americans occupying a prairie in North Dakota to protest the construction of a pipeline through tribal land. To read more, click here.
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Source: AIBS BioScience Editorials - June 12, 2018 Category: Biology Authors: AIBS Source Type: news
From Politics to Science: The Way Forward
This column was written on the heels of the 8 November United States national elections. As with all elections, political operatives and pundits are consumed in the days immediately following by an eagerness to forecast what a new Congress or president may mean for a specific interest or issue. To read more, click here.
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Source: AIBS BioScience Editorials - June 12, 2018 Category: Biology Authors: AIBS Source Type: news
Building the BioScience Community
First, do no harm. That is all I have been thinking about since I took over as editor in chief of BioScience. This is a humbling experience. I have inherited a great journal from former editor Tim Beardsley. His leadership over the past 14 years yielded a journal with a strong reputation that fills a unique and important niche in scientific publishing. To read more, click here.
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Source: AIBS BioScience Editorials - June 12, 2018 Category: Biology Authors: AIBS Source Type: news
Advancing Team Research for Science and Society
As frequently exemplified by the institutional and disciplinary diversity of coauthors of BioScience papers, the biological sciences are increasingly a collaborative endeavor. It is no longer the case that only "large science" requires teams. click here.
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Source: AIBS BioScience Editorials - June 12, 2018 Category: Biology Authors: AIBS Source Type: news
The Coming Era of Open Data
The culture of science is changing. Both funding agencies and journals are placing increasing pressure on authors to provide the data that underlie their publications. Indeed, the US Long Term Ecological Research program and many of its partner programs have been pioneers in ecological informatics and data accessibility. Click here to read more.
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Source: AIBS BioScience Editorials - June 12, 2018 Category: Biology Authors: AIBS Source Type: news
Telling the Story of Science
Members of the scientific community increasingly recognize the importance of sharing science with the public. This is crucial, if for no other reason than science requires broad public support to move forward. A challenge, however, is figuring out how to effectively engage nonscientists. Click here to read more.
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Source: AIBS BioScience Editorials - June 12, 2018 Category: Biology Authors: AIBS Source Type: news
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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Source: AIBS BioScience Editorials - June 12, 2018 Category: Biology Authors: AIBS Source Type: news
