Class 9, November 3
Readings to do before class:
- Read: Who Pays for Science? (<2 pages)
- Read: Science policies: How should science funding be allocated? Meirmans et al. 2019 (13 pages of text/tables in PDF format)
- NSF Fact Sheet (February 2019)
- NIH Research Grants Press Kit
Reading Response questions: https://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/rice21sf/2021/11/01/class-9-reading-response/
In class activities:
Andre’s slides: https://files.eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/7380/2021/11/17032848/So-you-want-to-make-a-scientific-poster.pdf
No Class Recording
Assignments for after Class 9 (these will be the same for the next two weeks):
Work with your group to add an abstract (PDF: how to write an abstract) and an annotated bibliography (full reference for each source, 1-2 sentences summarizing the sources, and 1-2 sentences describing the relevance of the source to your project) of at least three sources to your RPP worksheet.
AND
Work with your group to create a draft chart (plot, graph, map, or other data visualization) for your RPP. Add and/or link to the data and the chart in your RPP worksheet, and ping Prof. Rice to review it.
Readings/Videos for Class 10:
- Watch: Science Forward Climate Change (10 min)
- Read: Why we are poles apart on climate change by Dan Kahan in Nature [PDF]
- Read: Americans Are Smart about Science: And educating them won’t solve political problems by Maggie Koerth for 538 [PDF]
- Watch: Most American Still Trust Scientists (9 min)
- Watch: Global Weirding (8 min)
- Optional reading: How Science Beat the Virus. And what it lost in the process by Ed Yong for The Atlantic
Reminder: You should be working on Science in Our City – 15% of course grade
This category has three assignments: two blog posts, and comments on (at least) three other blog posts by your classmates. Each blog post requires attending an event or participating in an activity, and writing up a summary and reflection on your experience posted on the course website. One assignment requires contributing to a community (“citizen”/crowdsourced) science research project, and one assignment will require participating in a free science event of your choice (both can be done online). The third assignment is to leave substantive, thoughtful comments on at least three of your classmates’ blog posts (not just “sounds cool!”, but a specific comment or question). For full credit, blog posts should be guided by a series of questions posted on the course website, include at least one image (with caption and alt text), be tagged with at least five relevant terms, and should be well-written (clear, concise, complete, and correct). Find more information on this assignment here.
