Elba Serrano, a professor of biology at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, says that any "outside the box" experience can make someone a good team science player.
Despite the bad timing on the media front, these efforts reflect important new attention to early-career scientists on the part of some very significant science policy players.
The book criticizes the so-called Merchants of Doubt, some predominantly American science key players, above all Bill Nierenberg, Fred Seitz, and Fred Singer.
In total, 274 participants are competing in NSC 2. These participants include life sciences industry players, serial entrepreneurs, angel investors, broadly trained scientists and engineers, experienced attorneys, and budding entrepreneurs with complementary backgrounds.
"If you can find science, it gives players an advantage.
We already use technology to analyse opponents and sports science to help players, so I don't see why we should not embrace it to help the referees.
To encourage people to explore these ideas, seven research institutes have recently launched a computer game, informed by the science, which lets players manage their own forest landscape.
The game was so addictive that its effect on users sounds like the plot of a B-grade science fiction movie: players suffering from Doom-induced motion sickness would vomit after spending hours glued to their computer screens, while others would just fall off their chairs and pass out.
We would be happy to rephrase this in the title: "Fraxinus: a citizen science game where players can improve software DNA alignments & a model for strategising in crowdsourcing".
A satisfactory balance was achieved, but it was at the limits of what was tolerable by an experienced research team with coaches receptive to the science and young players who were compliant.
