Science | Future presented @ AESIS 2018
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This talk was presented at the June 14-15th 2018 AESIS conference on finding shared approaches to assess, enable and accelerate impact on society, in Ottawa Canada. The panel was on research policy and strategy; recent reports from the USA National Academies of Science were discussed.
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- 2. Science|Future AESIS: Impact of Science 2018 Research & Policy Strategy Session June 15th 2018 Kennan Kellaris Salinero http://reimaginescience.org Kennan@reimaginescience.org
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- 5. Post-docs and the alternative career landscape
- 6. The next generation Photo by Tim Umphreys on Unsplash
- 7. Purpose of Science Tun Razak Exchange, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Izuddin Helmi Adnan on Unsplash
- 8. "Reversible Automata / Irreversible Automata" John Bruneau, 2005 Nature & Simple Rule Sets
- 9. Self-organizing – if we can do it for tomatoes ….
- 10. Culture of Science Policy is from the post-WWII era
- 11. Shame/Grief What’s lost? To them? To society?
- 12. Policy suggestions from Breakthrough report • Shared oversight, responsibility from all levels/institutions involved • Transparency and data regarding outcomes • Don't train only for academic careers • Experiment
- 13. Three components that form behavior & outcome Saadi Lahlou, Installation Theory • The external physical structure • Embodied competencies • Social regulation
- 14. The world is awaiting with awe Photo credit: Greg Rakozy (@grakozy) Unsplash
- 15. Recent publication - available if interested
Editor's Notes
- Ronald J Daniels, Chair, National Academy of Sciences report: “The Next Generation of Biomedical and Behavioral Science Researchers: Breaking Through.” President of Johns Hopkins University - quote: “There have been warning signs for years that the [scientific] enterprise may be calcifying—in ways that create barriers, in particular for the incoming generation of researchers.”
- My specialties in biochemistry are cell biology, protein chemistry, genomics and evolution. I’ve worked in and out of academia. After doing a genome project using Hidden Markov Models to allow proteins to self-organize to predict their function, I learned that proteins can self organize but scientists not so much. I have dedicated a big part of my life for the past 10 yrs discovering what has emerged from the tech sector in terms of how they organize themselves to work on very complicated challenges. Software and businesses have been built by teams of engineers that have discovered what it takes to work together effectively toward a common cause and vision.
- 2000 Enhancing the postdoc experience, 2005 Bridges to Independence, 2012 NIH Workforce report, 2014 Postdoc revisited, THIS YEAR: April 12th and May 29th 2018. These two reports were released by the National Academies of Science. The USA is stepping up and doing something about the current state of science in the United States. These reports noted that all previous reports had a lot of the same solutions suggested, over and over again. Change is hard. Some of the proposals suggest approaches I feel aren’t going to work. And this is why it is important to you.
- I believe we need to be looking at a further horizon, with bigger umbrella: Ronald J Daniels of JHU systems perspective. In the STEM edu for 21st Century Alan Leshner talks about prototyping, entrepreneurship. Belly button perspective. Good start BUT need to look at broadening it. Where are we going and who is going with us?
- Bootcamps. Putting the locus on the postdoc is a bad idea – I’ve been a content mentor for several entrepreneurial bootcamps in science, both at UCDavis, at Stanford, and have watched as other projects such as Steve Blanks’ at UCSF were started. If you want this to work, look at MIT and Stanford – would need to train the Principal Investigators who do the spin offs through their PhD and postdoc pool. Startups. 23& Me company was founded by Linda Avey, Anne Wojcicki and Paul Cusenza in 2006. In 2007, Google invested $3,900,000 in the company, but note that Wojcicki was married to Google co-founder Sergey Brin. Postdocs in general will not have this kind of family backing and large investment capability from ‘F&F’ (friends and family). We need a better plan.
- Fresh growth is trying to blossom in the sciences. When we have a baby, we don’t look at them and ask “how much money will you generate?” we nurture them and (hopefully) create the conditions for growth and for them to create their own path. Not to create more bureaucracy but a completely different approach.
- Millenials are worried – no planet for them, their children’s children, life/babies/future. Systems thinking: no ‘out there’ --- we can’t keep polluting, creating green house gases, chemical impacts. The current generations of younger scientists are outcomes driven re: disease, clean energy, clean water, food. A nice environment – at work, at home, in nature is keenly desired and wanted. The reports put forward a ‘simple idea’ that we owe the young scientists coming into the system to give clear information that supports sound decision-making. However, decisions are appropriate when you know the variables, in a closed system. We are now working in an open system, where many of the variables are yet to be created. You need a different operating schema in that situation. We can start by looking at First Principles. What is our ‘rule set?’
- Look to nature and the tech sector; Need a simple rule set to true-up. Complex system, self-organizing. Silicon Valley and Science. What’s next must be tied to our biological system for it to work Diversity issue will be served by looking at basic principles and how we do our business.
- Tech sector – Agile, Scrum, Teal. Unexpected. Manage themselves – 1970 Chris Rufer and Doug Kirkpatrick young college grads. Took on tomatoes – processing and distribution – with a new mind set. Chris asked Doug about why recreate extra work – trust based. Two rules only: keep your word, and no person shall dominate another. Manage themselves, high productivity. Doug now writes for Huff Post and travels around the world to share how the self-management process works for them.
- Ethics and culture. We need a different lens b/c the world is changing. Time for a new policy.
- In a recent conversation with Gary McDowell, executive director of the Future of Research, he stated that the main emotion for post-docs that leave the path of pursuing a tenure-track faculty position is shame. That is a tragedy. I believe that underneath the shame there is also grief. At the point of a matured post-doc, you are talking about a scientist that is the world expert in that particular focus of study. They are then being asked to throw it out the window and try something new. They came to make a contribution. And they want it to address existential issues, in my experience. They are being asked to ‘abandon their babies.’
- Transformative - the idea of shared responsibility of the entire system; first part is great, but the experiment part is off to a rough start.
- At a recent talk by Saadi Lahlou at Stanford (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uc8vtsf2s_0), a lot of things fell into place for me. Installation theory was designed with real-world intervention in mind. Data over two decades. Culture of science – social reg Internal beliefs – embodied competencies External physical structures – science policy, physical plant, institutions
- What’s next? Build it together. Science IS the location for our curiosity And for inquiring into how the universe ticks. Don’t underestimate society’s love of discovery and awe.
- See ReImagining Science and the Ivory Tower (links to downloadable pdf)