How is technology transforming the way we connect? Google Hangout with Professor Gerard Goggin
How will technology change the way we connect? Watch expert panellist Gerard Goggin, a professor on the social aspects of mobile phones from the University of Sydney, discuss how we’ll interact in the future with ScienceAlert host Dr Carin Bondar. Thank you all who took part in the discussion and asked such intelligent questions! We’ll be hosting more hangouts soon.
CORRECTION: Carin said Gerard was from the University of New South Wales, when he’s actually from the University of Sydney. Apologies for the mix up!
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Duration: 46:37
via Science Alert.
Elisabeth Cornwell - The Emotional Side of Communication
Speech from Center For Inquiry Student Leadership Conference 2012
To learn more about Center For Inquiry On Campus, go to: http://www.centerforinquiry.net/oncampus
Duration: 36:41
by CFI on Campus.
Boston Skeptics in the Pub - Julia Wilson - February 16th, 2013
A special Skeptics in the Pub with Julia Wilson of the UK science education organization Sense About Science. She is here in Cambridge to help organize a new campaign, Ask For Evidence USA. The goals of the campaign, along the lines of a similar campaign in the UK, are to encourage people to ask for the evidence behind scientific claims made by scientists, politicians, public officials, the press and random people on the Internet, to teach the basics, such as critical thinking and how the peer review process works, so that they (i.e. we) can ask intelligent questions, and to teach scientists how to communicate with non-specialists and the general public. One of her first events is a Boot Camp for PhD students, post-docs, and other young scientists, to be held this week at MIT, to teach communications skills. She may well inspire the next Carl Sagan or Eugenie Scott.
Play time: 41:55
The Secret Language of Bacteria - An ASM “Microbes After Hours” Event
No bacterium lives alone — it is constantly encountering members of its own species as well as other kinds of bacteria and diverse organisms like viruses, fungi, plants and animals. To navigate a complex world, microbes use chemical signals to sense and communicate with one another.
Live streamed on Monday, January 28th, 2013, from 6-7:30 p.m. at ASM’s headquarters, 1752 N St., NW, Washington, D.C.
Dr. Bonnie Bassler, Princeton University
Bonnie Bassler Ph.D. is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and the Squibb Professor of Molecular Biology at Princeton University. The research in her laboratory focuses on the molecular mechanisms that bacteria use for intercellular communication. This process is called quorum sensing. Bassler’s research is paving the way to the development of novel therapies for combating bacteria by disrupting quorum-sensing-mediated communication. Dr. Bassler was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 2002. She was elected to the American Academy of Microbiology in 2002 and made a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2004. Dr. Bassler was the President of the American Society for Microbiology in 2010-2011; she is currently the Chair of the American Academy of Microbiology Board of Governors. She is also a member of the National Science Board and was nominated to that position by President Barak Obama. The Board oversees the NSF and prioritizes the nation’s research and educational priorities in science, math and engineering.
Dr. Steven Lindow, University of California, Berkeley
Steven Lindow Ph.D. is a Professor at the University of California, Berkley where his research focuses on various aspects of the interaction of bacteria with the surface and interior of plants. Dr. Lindow’ s lab uses a variety of molecular and microscopy-based methods to study the ecology of bacterial epiphytes that live on the surface of plants as well as certain bacteria that are vascular pathogens of plants. They also study bacteria that live in and on plants that are fostered by consumption of the alkaloids produced by endophytic fungi. The longer-term goal of their research is to improve plants’ productivity by achieving control of plant diseases through altering the microbial communities in and on plants. Dr. Lindow is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and was elected to fellowship in both the American Academy of Microbiology and the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1999.
Duration: 55:30
by Microbe World.
Science Cheerleader interviewed at Pop Warner’s National Championship
Darlene Cavalier, the Science Cheerleader, explains who the Science Cheerleaders are, what they do, and why youth cheerleaders may hold the key to advancing scientific research in America!
Science Cheerleader, Darlene Cavalier, interviewed at Pop Warner Super Bowl!
Current and former NFL and NBA cheerleaders pursuing science, technology, engineering and math careers. Playfully challenges stereotypes, inspiring young women towards science careers, engaging people from all walks of life in citizen science projects via http://www.scistarter.com . Learn more about the Science Cheerleaders here: http://www.sciencecheerleader.com
Breaking Bio Episode 13 (Part 1)
In this episode, we talk with the fantastic Jacquelyn Gill (@jacquelyngill)! We had a great conversation but it was so meaty that I decided to break this one up into three parts. In this first part, we talk with Jacquelyn about paleoecology, dung, scicomm, and mammoth cloning!
Play time: 32:25
Breaking Bio Episode 13 (Part 2)
In this second part, we talk with Jacquelyn about science and social media, imposter syndrome, and Bug Girl arrives to talk about the standing of women in science and how we can improve things.
Play time: 27:04
Breaking Bio Episode 13 (Part 3)
In this third part, we talk with Jacquelyn about how to be social in science, getting a faculty job, dealing with the NSF (if you’re American), and using Skype during your thesis defense!
Play time 37:42
by Steven Hamblin.
David Blackburn, Frog Communication
It takes a finely tuned ear to describe the characteristics of a frog’s call—is it chirping, trilling, or is that more of a chucking sound? Each frog’s call is unique to its species, and by studying these animals, scientists like herpetologist David Blackburn are finding new evidence about how Africa itself has evolved. Highly sensitive to their surroundings, frogs can be very particular about the places where they live, and probably have been for 250 million years. When a frog’s habitat changes, it often must shift to a more suitable area if it is to survive, so studying the modern-day distribution of frog species helps reveal the history of the landscapes in which they live.
In 2011, Blackburn was part of a small team which mounted an expedition to Burundi, a small but densely populated country which borders the vast Congo River Basin, the Great Rift Valley, and Lake Tanganyika—an intriguing geographic crossroads for biologists. Their objective: to seek out the long-lost Bururi long-fingered frog (Cardioglossa cyaneospila) which hadn’t been seen there by scientists since 1949, during surveys conducted while the nation was under Belgian administration.
Since then, the country has seen political unrest, population growth, and habitat loss, so the research team was pleasantly surprised to find the habitats of the Bururi Forest Reserve were still relatively intact when they arrived. Blackburn had a hunch that the Bururi long-fingered frog’s call would sound similar to that of its suspected relatives in Cameroon, more than 1,400 miles away. Sure enough, on the fifth night he found one on a log by following the sound of its call. Scientists believe that many of the species in Burundi’s high-elevation forests may be closely related to plants and animals found in Cameroon’s mountains, suggesting that at some point in the past, a cooler climate may have allowed the forests to become contiguous between them. The lone long-fingered frog specimen collected, which now resides in the Academy’s herpetology collection, can now be used for DNA studies to estimate how long the Cardioglossa species from Burundi and Cameroon have been genetically isolated from one another. The results will shed light on Africa’s historical climate conditions, a topic that has far-reaching implications for understanding the evolution of life in the continent that gave rise to our own species. Events that impacted frog evolution, like a wet or arid period a million years ago, would also have affected human ancestors.
by California Academy of Sciences.
Inside a cartoonist’s world - Liza Donnelly
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/inside-a-cartoonist-s-world-liza-donnelly
From cave drawings to the Sunday paper, artists have been visualizing ideas — cartoons — for centuries. New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly walks us through the many stages every cartoon goes through, starting with an idea and turning into something that connects us on a deeply human level.
Lesson by Liza Donnelly, animation by TED-Ed.
by TED Education.
Dance vs. PowerPoint, a modest proposal - John Bohannon
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/dance-vs-powerpoint-a-modest-proposal-john-bohannon
Use dancers instead of PowerPoint. That’s science writer John Bohannon’s “modest proposal.” In this spellbinding choreographed talk he makes his case by example, aided by dancers from Black Label Movement.
Talk by John Bohannon.
by TED Education.
Ben Still on the art of physics communication
Ben Still is a particle physicist with a passion for communicating physics to audiences who aren’t normally interested in science. He is particularly known for his collaborations of art and science.
Please see more from the physics communicators group:
http://www.iop.org/activity/groups/subject/physcom/index.htmlHe recently won the Early Career Physics Communicators prize at the Institute of Physics which was presented by Jim Al-Khalili.
He takes physics into pubs and clubs across London and has been instrumental in the Jigging Atoms and LEGO physics projects.
Graphing Data by Spreadsheet
Paul Andersen shows you how to create a scatter plot with a best fit line in Microsoft Excel.
Click here to download the data:
http://www.bozemanscience.com/storage/sample%20data.xls
by Bozeman Biology.
Graphing Data by Hand
Paul Andersen shows you how to graph data by hand. He explains the required elements of a scatter plot with a best fit line. He shows you how to properly scale and label the axes.
by Bozeman Biology.
A Beginner’s Guide to Graphing Data
Paul Andersen explains how graphs are used to visually display data that is collected in experimentation. He describes five main types of graphs; line graph, scatter plot, bar graph, histogram and pie chart. He describes the important elements of a successful graph including labeled axis, title, data and a line of fit.
Links at the end of the video include:
How to graph by hand:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUYRMdcEs00
How to graph by spreadsheet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvYvHU83_6Y
by Bozeman Biology.
Pankaj Ghemawat: Actually, the world isn’t flat
It may seem that we’re living in a borderless world where ideas, goods and people flow freely from nation to nation. We’re not even close, says Pankaj Ghemawat. With great data (and an eye-opening survey), he argues that there’s a delta between perception and reality in a world that’s maybe not so hyperconnected after all.
via TED talks Director.
