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You will be judged; your large team research grant will be reviewed
Once I was involved in deciding who would get an important mentoring prize. One of the candidates was from the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University. He had many students supporting his nomination. They pointed out how empathetic he … Continue reading
Posted in Grants, Group leadership
Tagged Attention, evaluation, evolutionary biology, Finnland, Finns, graduate students, international programs, Michigan State University, postdocs, Research, Rice University, Richard Dawkins, science, Shepherd School of Music, Social Sciences, United States
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Xenophobia – can we get rid of it? Can we understand it in Arizona?
What kind of meeting do you like best, the kind where everyone has the same background you do, or the kind where there are people of different backgrounds? If the meeting is too large, there will be a natural tendency … Continue reading
Posted in Scientific meetings
Tagged Arizona State University, Bert Hölldobler, Brad Armendt, Carlos Navarrete, Charles Blow, David Queller, Douglas Kenrick, Frans DeWall, Freeman Dyson, Herbert Gintis, Jeffrey Sachs, Jim Sidanius, Joan Silk, Kim Hill, Laurie Santos, Lawrence Kraus, Manfred Laubichler, Mark Schaller, Michael Hchter, New York Times, Phobia, Psychology, Rebecca Saxe, Richard Wrangham, Robert Boyd, Robert Kurzban, Social Sciences, Steven Neuberg, Washington University in St. Louis, Xenophobia
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