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 Send to email | Science and science policy in unexpected places in Policy and Politics |  By Thoughts
el 07-Jun-2011 | I'm super-excited for the panel I'm organizing at this year's Netroots Nation conference. As you may know, Netroots Nation is an annual gathering of progressive bloggers, policy wonks, policymakers, activists, and groupies. It's an amazing event, featuring senior officials in the Democratic party, and fascinating discussions of the movement's future, not to mention serious partying.
This year, the event is in Minneapolis, June 16-18. And I'll be organizing a panel on the 17th, in the afternoon. We'll be talking about ways to work science and science policy discussions into unexpected places, ideas for sneaking science up on people who think they don't care about it.
I'll be talking about things like the card game Phylo, which is a Pokemon-style game that uses real animals and habitats, to help kids learn more about the evolution and conservation of real animals and not just imaginary ones. We'll also have Shawn Otto, a Hollywood screenwriter, and a founder of ScienceDebate, the massive effort in 2008 to get the presidential candidates to dedicate one full debate to science policy issues. I'm hoping we'll hear about the group's plans for 2012, and I'm sure we'll talk about the group's effect on the 2008 campaign. We'll also have ClimateCentral's Heidi Cullen, a former TV meteorologist who's now working to educate tv weathercasters about climate change, so that they can educate the public. Darlene Cavalier, the Science Cheerleader, will talk about citizen science, and how she and a ton of other professional cheerleaders who've pursued careers in science are able to reach different audiences. And John Abraham will talk about the ways he and other climate scientists are trying to counter media coverage of climate change denial and better inform the public discourse on this crucial issue.
I don't know if there are plans to stream video from the session, but if so, I hope to bring in questions from twitter. And if you can make it to Minneapolis next week, I hope to see you there, or at the parties afterward. Read the comments on this post...
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 | Thoughts From Kansas |  Blogger | Weblog of a University of Kansas ecology and evolutionary biology student, fighting for progressive politics, evolution, and endangered species.
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| Science and science policy in unexpected places | | I'm super-excited for the panel I'm organizing at this year's Netroots Nation conference. As you may know, Netroots Nation is an annual gathering of progressive bloggers, policy wonks, policymakers, activists, and groupies. It's an amazing event, featuring senior officials in the Democratic party, and fascinating discussions of the movement's future, not to mention serious partying.
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| Thoughts From Kansas | Blogger | Weblog of a University of Kansas ecology and evolutionary biology student, fighting for progressive politics, evolution, and endangered species.
Thoughts from Kansas You will notice that it lacks definiteness; that it lacks purpose; that it lacks coherence; that it lacks a subject to talk about; that it is loose and wabbly; that it wanders around; that |
| Science Denial and Science Policy brief recap |  Of the assembled luminaries of the science/science policy world, guess who dropped the f-bomb?
And guess who was quoting RFK to do that, so it's totally cool?
Anyway, shorter panel: You don't have to be a scientist to defend science, and you do need to get involved. Schools matter, and politicians need to hear from you from the White House to the school house.
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| Thoughts From Kansas | Blogger | Weblog of a University of Kansas ecology and evolutionary biology student, fighting for progressive politics, evolution, and endangered species.
Thoughts from Kansas You will notice that it lacks definiteness; that it lacks purpose; that it lacks coherence; that it lacks a subject to talk about; that it is loose and wabbly; that it wanders around; that |
| Science denial and science policy panel: Ask my panel your questions |  At 3 o'clock today (Eastern), I'll be on a panel about ways that scientists and nonscientists alike can improve the use of science in policymaking, the use of policy to boost science, and ways to keep denialists from derailing that process.
We've got Susan Wood, a professor of public policy at George Washington University with a doctorate in biology. She made news in 2005 when she resi [..] Read complete article | | Published 14-Aug-2009 by Thoughts in Policy and Politics
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| Thoughts From Kansas | Blogger | Weblog of a University of Kansas ecology and evolutionary biology student, fighting for progressive politics, evolution, and endangered species.
Thoughts from Kansas You will notice that it lacks definiteness; that it lacks purpose; that it lacks coherence; that it lacks a subject to talk about; that it is loose and wabbly; that it wanders around; that |
| Science Education Policy Bleg |  I'm in the process of reworking my blog reading, and one area I'd like to expand is science education policy beyond the creation/evolution fight. I'm finding fairly slim pickings, alas. If you've got a favorite source of information (blog or non-blog) on science education policy, please leave your suggestion in the comments. It doesn't have to be a blog. Journals, newsletters, etc. are all [..] Read complete article | | Published 15-Dec-2008 by Thoughts in Policy and Politics
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| Science Doing Some Science On Wii Fit [Nintendo] | ![Click here to read John Carmack Has Three Lifetime Achievement Awards, No Early iPad - John Carmack Has Three Lifetime Achievement Awards, No Early iPad [Gdc]](http://cache-02.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/03/160x120_7c99dcb31e1de0c2f4.jpg) Does Wii Fit work? It's hard for me to tell, personally, as my Little Debbie Zebra Cake intake ratio is tied proportionally to my progress in the non-game. See, I'm not a scientist. Thankfully, researchers at the University of Mississippi — [..] Read complete article | | Published 02-Jan-2009 by Michael McWhertor in Nintendo Research Wii Wii Fit
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| Thoughts From Kansas | Blogger | Weblog of a University of Kansas ecology and evolutionary biology student, fighting for progressive politics, evolution, and endangered species.
Thoughts from Kansas You will notice that it lacks definiteness; that it lacks purpose; that it lacks coherence; that it lacks a subject to talk about; that it is loose and wabbly; that it wanders around; that |
| A war on science? | | Dave Bruggeman, whose blog on science policy I find generally indispensable, has an odd distaste for the idea of a Republican war on science. Most recently, this emerged in response to a review by the Department of Interior's Inspector General into a report on the post-BPocalypse oil drilling moratorium. The original report was found to have implied inaccurately that scientists reviewing the [..] Read complete article | | Published 05-Dec-2010 by Thoughts in Culture Wars
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| Thoughts From Kansas | Blogger | Weblog of a University of Kansas ecology and evolutionary biology student, fighting for progressive politics, evolution, and endangered species.
Thoughts from Kansas You will notice that it lacks definiteness; that it lacks purpose; that it lacks coherence; that it lacks a subject to talk about; that it is loose and wabbly; that it wanders around; that |
| There really is a war on science | | FDA Admits Politics Trumped Science on Knee Device:
For the first time, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has publicly admitted that politics has trumped science. The agency acknowledged yesterday that it approved a device to help with knee-replacement surgeries?a device the agency?s own scientists said often failed?only after it received pressure from a cohort of Democrat [..] Read complete article | | Published 26-Sep-2009 by Thoughts in Policy and Politics
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| Thoughts From Kansas | Blogger | Weblog of a University of Kansas ecology and evolutionary biology student, fighting for progressive politics, evolution, and endangered species.
Thoughts from Kansas You will notice that it lacks definiteness; that it lacks purpose; that it lacks coherence; that it lacks a subject to talk about; that it is loose and wabbly; that it wanders around; that |
| No war on science? |  Roger Pielke, Jr. is a respected scholar of science policy, but he's got a contrarian streak a mile wide that gets him into trouble occasionally, as for instance his feud with Joe Romm of Climate Progress. It is also apparent in his survey of a fight over oyster farming off the coast of Point Reyes. His title, "The War on Science Continues" is, he insists, "a bit of irony, of course, as there [..] Read complete article | | Published 08-May-2009 by Thoughts in Planet Earth
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| Thoughts From Kansas | Blogger | Weblog of a University of Kansas ecology and evolutionary biology student, fighting for progressive politics, evolution, and endangered species.
Thoughts from Kansas You will notice that it lacks definiteness; that it lacks purpose; that it lacks coherence; that it lacks a subject to talk about; that it is loose and wabbly; that it wanders around; that |
| There really is a war on science | | FDA Admits Politics Trumped Science on Knee Device:
For the first time, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has publicly admitted that politics has trumped science. The agency acknowledged yesterday that it approved a device to help with knee-replacement surgeries?a device the agency?s own scientists said often failed?only after it received pressure from a cohort of Democrat [..] Read complete article | | Published 26-Sep-2009 by Thoughts in Policy and Politics
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| Thoughts From Kansas | Blogger | Weblog of a University of Kansas ecology and evolutionary biology student, fighting for progressive politics, evolution, and endangered species.
Thoughts from Kansas You will notice that it lacks definiteness; that it lacks purpose; that it lacks coherence; that it lacks a subject to talk about; that it is loose and wabbly; that it wanders around; that |
| Science and Faith | | Let's set aside contentious topics like the PepsiBlog wars and try a nice, soothing discussion of science and religion.
You'll recall that, a month ago, I agreed with Chad Orzel that it was OK for the World Science Festival not to put a New/Affirmative/Explicit Atheist on their panel about Science and Faith. Then people got angry at me and I responded angrily, after which I got more fl [..] Read complete article | | Published 07-Jul-2010 by Thoughts in Policy and Politics
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| Thoughts From Kansas | Blogger | Weblog of a University of Kansas ecology and evolutionary biology student, fighting for progressive politics, evolution, and endangered species.
Thoughts from Kansas You will notice that it lacks definiteness; that it lacks purpose; that it lacks coherence; that it lacks a subject to talk about; that it is loose and wabbly; that it wanders around; that |
| Science advisor | | This summer, I sat in with some big shots to discuss the future of science policy in an Obama Presidency, and of space policy in particular. One of the ideas I pushed, and which received general support, was the importance of a cabinet-level science advisor to the President, one who would be appointed and confirmed quickly, and given maximal access to the President and his decision-making proc [..] Read complete article | | Published 06-Nov-2008 by Thoughts in Policy and Politics
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