Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation & the future of text
Inventors, engineers, scientists and innovation experts from silicon valley and beyond gathered at the Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation Dec 9th and 10th, 2015.
Change the Conversation; Making a Qualitatively Different Future
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Systems Thinking (and Wicked Messes) with Robert Horn
Robert Horn receiving the 2015 Donald N. Michael award We made sure to attend Robert E Horn's Don N. Michael Award. Bob lead the audience of visionary culture change agents through an overview of wicked problems and tools to address them. Our work with Robert (Bob) Horn began after seeing him present his visual [...]
We think change from within is the formula for science
Tana Paddock talks to Anita Nowak in this interview about social change work. This is part of a course series for the 'GROOC' out of McGill University McGillX: GROOCx Social Learning for Social Impact Tana Paddock interview Tana Paddock talks about Organization UnBound Tana talks about bringing the whole person to the workplace, [...]
Sean Carroll and E.O. Wilson have a conversation on saving the planet….and the (potential) role of scientists
A recent post* from Wellcome Trust on their Mosaic blog quotes evolutionary biologist Sean Carroll talking about scientists who take on the biodiversity issue as an existential crisis, worthy of hitting the streets for (*the original post has since been archived - a tidbit still exists here). Kappy Wells, an artist who resides in New Mexico, has dedicated [...]
Science of Team Science National Academies webinar
National Academies of Science is sharing its webinar discussing the Science of Team Science report. Symposium: Enhancing the Effectiveness of Team Science September 18, 2015 (9:00 am - 3:00 pm) from the Keck Center in Washington, DC The report, which came out earlier this year, can be accessed at the National Academies of Science site [...]
Keynote, UC Berkeley – ‘The Art of Collaboration’
The Art of Collaboration from Kennan Salinero As executive director of ReImagine Science, I was honored to be selected for the keynote at UCBerkeley's recent Career Colloquium. The September 1st event focused on emergent trends of collaboration. Collaboration is a desired attribute featured in approximately 80% of current job posts for PhD scientists, according to panelist Andrew Green, a career coach at UCBerkeley. The rub [...]
Living Room Salons – taking part in the global conversation about science for the future
A Living Room Conversation - to impact global collaboration, the future of the planet, and science's place in both. Linda's Living Room - a salon for Global CoLab Network and ReImagine Science. On June 19th, 2015 several people in the science and science policy domains met in Linda Staheli's living room for one [...]
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The events that convene stakeholders across different domains of science, as well as members of society that have a stake in what science does (or are citizen scientists themselves!). We also help fund like-minded organizations to create critical mass in a new approach in how we ‘do’ science, including She’s Geeky Unconferences (held nationally), and [...]