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Creating Collaborative Science Leaders
How the Global Young Academy is empowering early career researchers to collaborate instead of compete The conference cut-down. It’s an occupational hazard of being a scientist. It’s not unusual for someone to raise their hand and poke holes in your ideas, tell you your experiments can’t be done or, worse, that they’ve already been done…
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KI’s Virtual Journey
When going virtual became the new normal in 2020, our clients and potential clients had to confront the core question: “Can teams of scientists work together and be creative online?”
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Accelerating Science With Big Data
Many scientific fields have yet to realize the potential of Big Data. That’s where NSF’s Harnessing the Data Revolution (HDR) comes in — from improving our chances of detecting dark matter to resolving the tree of life. The HDR All-hands meeting brought together principal investigators to share best practices and discuss how to grow the community.
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Realizing the Benefits of Basic Research
It takes more than innovative science to get funding for basic research these days. Researchers applying for grants must also demonstrate the “So what?” of their science. In addition to convincing grant reviewers of the intellectual merit of their proposals, scientists must also show the potential for broader impacts and how they plan to work…
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Next-Level Bioelectric Medicine
How the first all-virtual Ideas Lab brought experimentalists and computational modelers together to accelerate bioelectronic device development In recent months, some scientists have found themselves asking: “Do we let this pandemic slow down the science that could help people live healthier lives?” Last month, organizers, mentors and 29 researchers decided the answer was ‘no’ and…
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Empowering Ambassadors of Science
Researchers who collaborate with others must be able to describe and discuss their work with fellow scientists, both within and outside their area of expertise. We’ve noticed that those who work best on the cross-disciplinary teams that form at KI events are not just translators, but ambassadors. They are sensitive to differences in language and…
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Big Single-Cell Science
Creating a molecular map of the human body requires unprecedented coordination—and virtual meetings proved they could deliver It sounds like science fiction: a searchable Google Maps-like app of the 30 trillion cells of the human body. But, that’s exactly what teams of scientists around the world are working together to create. Their efforts have been…
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CAREER Workshop Goes Virtual
The decision to go virtual was for organizers of the 2020 NSF Engineering CAREER Proposal Workshop. Sure they’re a group of tech-savvy engineers, but they had never offered a multi-day event online before. Eventually, they decided they needed help with the tech side of things so that could focus on the event and with making…
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Reducing Opioid Deaths
The State of Connecticut sees a disproportionately high number of opioid-related deaths. In response, UConn’s Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention, and Policy held an Ideas Lab to bring together a diverse group of academics and stakeholders to come up with innovative ways to address the problem.
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Breaking Down Silos to Stop COVID-19
Scientists across the country are focused on stopping, treating and developing a vaccine against COVID-19. For those things to happen, the science must go on. But how can researchers collaborate at a time when labs are shutting down and there are restrictions on meeting face-to-face? Researchers at the University of Utah’s Immunology, Inflammation & Infectious Disease…
