For Yet Better Science

My goal is to share some tips, tricks and insights that should help you be(come) a better scientist.   

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson was an English physician and suffragist. She is known for being the first woman to qualify in Britain as a physician and surgeon and as a co-founder and dean of the London School of Medicine for Women, which was the first medical school in Britain to train women as doctors.

Lise Meitner ,  born Elise Meitner, 7 November 1878 – 27 October 1968) was an Austrian-Swedish  physicist  who was one of those responsible for the discovery of the element  protactinium  and  nuclear fission .  While working on radioactivity at the  Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Chemistry  in Berlin, she discovered the  radioactive isotope   protactinium-231  in 1917. In 1938, Meitner and her nephew, the physicist  Otto Robert Frisch ,  discovered nuclear fission . She was praised by  Albert Einstein  as the "German  Marie Curie ".

There's a movement for better posters at science conferences. But are they really better? And how does poster push relate to the ongoing campaign for open science?

Time-starved executives are making bolder decisions with less risk and better outcomes. Their secret: operations research.

 

Under the right conditions, teams may benefit from various types of diversity, including scientific discipline, work experience, gender, ethnicity, and nationality. 

The European Commission will require sex and gender analyses in research design for grant recipients, a policy that will affect most fields of science .

Admit you're not objective. When science is viewed in isolation from the past and politics, it's easier for those with bad intentions to revive dangerous and discredited ideas.

Improving lives is the only end goal. Too much research is done for research sake. We believe that improving lives is the only end goal and that research is only relevant when it has an impact on human lives. The best science for better lives.