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In May 2003, the executive committee, led by Harold Varmus, Rick Klausner, and Elias Zerhouni, announced a call for ideas from scientists around the world.
For the ocean sciences conference, Renner, APECS's networking coordinator, sent out a call for early-career polar scientists to meet up.
Outlining the coalition government's vision for science and research, Cable will call for scientists to abandon work that is "neither commercially useful nor theoretically outstanding" as part of the UK's austerity drive.
But it has resisted the call for scientists' emails.
This approach has much in common with Ashford's seminal call for scientists to be transparent about their values (Ashford 1988) and with Pielke's vision of scientists as "honest brokers" who open up discussions about the range of options available to decision makers (Pielke 2007).
Nearly 20,000 academics signed a petition calling for scientists to be exempt from the ban.
Towards the end of 2007, a call for the submission of cases by scientists, policymakers, administrations and civil society organisations yielded a list of 85 very diverse potential hotspots.
A perceptive 2012 analysis by Fang and Casadevall identified imbalances in the career structure and incentivisation of scientists as core difficulties, but although framed as a call for reform, their study concludes by simply calling for a 'conversation' among scientists about what changes to implement.
According to her foundation, Ride applied to Nasa after seeing an ad in the Stanford student newspaper, calling for scientists and engineers, including women to apply to the astronaut corps.
