In this TED talk Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg looks at why a smaller percentage of women than men reach the top of their professions — and offers 3 powerful pieces of advice to women aiming for the C-suite. Watch: Why …
Explanations for women’s under representation in math-intensive fields of science often focus on sex discrimination in grant and manuscript reviewing, interviewing, and hiring. Claims that women scientists suffer discrimination in these arenas rest on a set of studies undergirding policies …
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FORWARD to Professorship conference May 23-25, 2011 FORWARD in SEM stands for: Focus on Reaching Women for Academics, Research and Development in Science, Engineering and Mathematics is a joint program of the George Washington and Gallaudet Universities funded by a …
Blaustein Postdoctoral Scholar in Earth and Planetary Sciences The Johns Hopkins University invites applications for the Morton K. Blaustein Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences (EPS). We seek an outstanding individual with a recent Ph.D. in …
A study of the Royal Society’s archives reveals that women played a far more important role in the development and dissemination of science than had previously been thought, says Richard Holmes. Read the full article from the Guardian: The Royal …
Applications are invited for up to three postdoctoral research associates and up to three high-level PhD scholarships to work on a long-term project investigating future risks associated with surface ocean warming: including impacts on climate, rainfall, carbon uptake, sea level, …
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) invites applications for tenure track or tenured scientific staff positions. Scientific Staff Positions in Physical Oceanography: http://www.candidatemanager.net/cm/Micro/JobDetails.aspx?&mid=YWWY&sid=FDB&jid=FDAZEVBY&site=Scientific Scientific Staff Positions in Climate Research: http://www.candidatemanager.net/cm/Micro/JobDetails.aspx?&mid=YWWY&sid=FDB&jid=FDAZEVBB&site=Scientific Scientific Staff Positions in Coastal Oceanography: http://www.candidatemanager.net/cm/Micro/JobDetails.aspx?&mid=YWWY&sid=FDB&jid=FDBAZDY&site=Scientific
Full-time position: to participate in National Science Foundation funded projects that are focused on underanding physical-biological interactions of antarctic continental shelf systems, with particular emphasis on the Ross Sea. This position will involve development of a coupled circulation-food web model …
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DISCCRS VI (Dissertations Initiative for the Advancement of Climate-Change Research) Interdisciplinary Climate Change Research Symposium http://disccrs.org/disccrsposter.pdf 22-29 October, 2011 La Foret Conference and Retreat Center Colorado Springs, CO Application Deadline: March 1, 2011 Participation limited to 30 early-career Ph.D. scholars …
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Psychologists have repeatedly shown that a single statistical factor—often called “general intelligence”—emerges from the correlations among people’s performance on awide variety of cognitive tasks. But no one has systematically examined whether a similar kind of “collective intelligence” exists for groups …
Evidence for a Collective Intelligence Factor in the Performance of Human Groups Read more »
