Moore manages EMBO's Science and Society Programme, which offers conferences to debate issues of controversy, such as last year's "Science and Security" conference, media workshops and communication awards for scientists, training workshops for secondary school biology teachers, and policy documents for government and intergovernmental agencies on issues related to science and society.
But before we accept Congress's proclamation of bias, before we start re-educating scientists at workshops, it's worth taking a hard look at the evidence of bias against female scientists.
Once that idea took hold, the scientists held workshops and impromptu discussion sessions, some stretching late into the night, to swap ideas about how to develop such experimental organisms using what Sidney Brenner colorfully described as "steam-age genetic engineering".
And it was really inspiring to see NASA scientists holding workshops at Comic-Con in the San Diego Convention Center.
This annual meeting is an opportunity to listen to scientific talks of great value from other Chilean scientists and workshops aimed at facilitating professional careers, as well as a tool to discuss scientific polices with relevant players of main funding agencies in Chile.
Scientists at a workshop held recently by the Human Genome Project, for instance, discussed the prospects of achieving the "thousand-dollar genome".
Some 50 scientists at a workshop at Louisiana State University predicted these benefits from the dispersants in May, signaling their support for the decision the government had made; some dissenters led by Sylvia Earle have said it was too soon to declare it a success.
Recently, the NIEHS and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPAA) united health and Earth scientists in a workshop charged with two key objectives.
Each keyword was then assigned to one of the 18 conceptual nodes based on general agreement among the authors and other scientists at the workshop (Table 1).
(e)Working with teachers: A scientist-led teacher workshop where simple physical models of lahars were used to help teachers grasp (and later teach) fundamental concepts about lahars (USGS photo by CLD).
