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Tag Archives: national academy of sciences
Radical thoughts on awards, or who should get into the National Academy of Sciences
The annual meeting of the National Academy of Sciences ended with a President’s Dinner at a museum, and the business meeting, with announcement of new members. There is intense silence as we stare at the three screens of names. The … Continue reading
Posted in Awards and prizes, equity, Judging
Tagged awards, diversity, national academy of sciences, quality
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Apply now to attend exciting meeting on social behavior
Have you heard of NAKFI? It is the National Academies Keck Futures Initiative. The meeting 13 to 15 November 2014 is taking applications now and it is about social behavior, most broadly interpreted. Its official title is Collective Behavior: from … Continue reading
Posted in Grants, Scientific meetings
Tagged collaboration, collective behavior, cooperation, grants, meetings, NAS, national academy of sciences, social behavior
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The language of sociomicrobiology: report from a meeting for the Forum on Microbial Threats
Last night I got back from an excellent small meeting at the Institute of Medicine‘s Forum on Microbial Threats. You may wonder what on earth I was doing there, but the actual topic of this workshop was The Social Biology … Continue reading
Posted in Microbes, Scientific meetings, Social interactions
Tagged altruism, bacteriocin, colicin, community, forum on microbial threats, inclusive fitness, institute of medicine, kin selection, Microorganism, mutualism, national academy of sciences, population, social biology, sociobiology
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