(Created with a grant from the Sloan Foundation, the Postdoc Network was part of Science's Next Wave, the predecessor to Science Careers).
Under the predecessor EU science programme, FP7, Switzerland had been a full associated country and done particularly well.
Her predecessor, former science and innovation minister Cristina Garmendia, had a similar profile and worked hard to make knowledge and innovation a cornerstone of economic development in Spain.
Bigger savings, Griffin says, would come from deferring work on human exploration technologies, reducing the number of contractors involved in building a new human exploration vehicle, and scaling back the Prometheus nuclear propulsion system championed by his predecessor Sean O'Keefe (Science, 30 January 2004, p. 614).
Nowadays, researchers take for granted a huge array of precision instruments and machines that would have dazzled their predecessors in science and engineering.
(Newton's much-cited claim to have stood on the shoulders of giants was inverted some years ago to illustrate the potency of predecessors in science: "If I have seen less far than others, it was because giants were standing on my shoulders").
Unfortunately, today's review boards still face lackluster proposals from researchers who continue to make the same mistakes that doomed their seafaring predecessors: The science is mediocre, sentences ramble, there are no headings, figures are unclear, sections are disorganized, and the writing is uninspired.
Unlike their predecessors in science fiction, the cyberpunks didn't evangelize gleaming rockets or futuristic weapons.
Then, via an acquaintance in Pakistan this was early online networking, before LinkedIn and Facebook—I heard about a writer/editor position at Science's Next Wave, Science Careers' predecessor.
In this respect, DI has again imitated its creation science predecessors.
