Just some announcements this time

In contrast to what was promised in the last podcast episode, we don’t have a full question and answer episode this time. I hope this will not happen too often, in future.

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We wish everybody best of luck and success and a wonderful time at their local March for Science, today!

We are not having a march in Portugal, but I want to share with you a video we took of the rally following the march, last year.

It’s in Portuguese, of course 😉

cheers!

On Thursday we had the first meeting of Science for Progress and it was great. Only three of us made it (there was a Science Communication Conference going on in Coimbra), but we established a couple of discussion points. Most importantly, we got to know each other.

Getting to know each other certainly is a main factor at this point. So we exchanged our expectations for the group, the social impact we hope for, and the personal growth we want to get out of it. It appears that our goals match well. 🙂

We also made some decisions. On a more practical side we decided that we need a regular meeting room (and we may already have found one!). We also would need more organizers on board.

Another point of discussion was a hypothetical program for the science convention which I consider the flagship project for this first year. We allowed ourselves to dream a bit, which was fun. It gives us something to work towards. 😉

Now we need to figure out what we can do to get as close to that goal as possible. At the next meeting we will discuss ways of attracting new members.

I think this first meeting was as productive as it could have been, and I am looking forward to the next one!

Hi,

things are moving on and we are having our first meeting on Thursday. Sadly some interested people, who coincidentally also had been co-organizers at the March for Science, preferred to attend a Science Communication Conference in Coimbra!

Anyways, I will meet some new faces. We are a small group so far, so if you’d like to come by spontaneously, shoot me an email: info@scienceforprogress.eu and I can fix you up with time and location.

I’m excited!

Dennis

A week ago I informed the other organizers and volunteers of the March for Science via an internal email newsgroup. Today I began sending out emails to publicly available email addresses of institutions, asking the recipients to forward the mail as they find appropriate.

Here is the content:

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[reposted from facebook, Aug 2017]
(this has become a long text, if you go all the way down there will be concrete action plans for you ;))

Being a continuation of the March for Science, my main goal for Science for Progress is to raise awareness for the essential role that the natural and human sciences play in modern life, and to increase support for the scientific endeavor by the public and the governments they elect.

If we’ve learned one thing from the rise of the Western world, enlightenment, industrialization, and the digital age, then that ‘science works’ as a tremendous source of power for good or evil, by providing reliable knowledge through empirical evidence and thought models to understand and use it.

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(repost from facebook, Aug 11th, 2017)

Hey, there, I made a survey for you! Just a couple of things I’m curious to know, and to figure out if there is somebody out there who wants to join our efforts! 😀

SHARE AWAY! 🙂
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(repost from facebook, Aug 9th 2017)

Hello STEM and Humanities lovers,

I’m Dennis Eckmeier and I’m a neuroscience PhD at Champalimaud Research in Lisbon, Portugal.
Since I was co-organizer at the March for Science Portugal, I’ve been thinking about what to do next to increase the support for science. I think the most powerful ally we can get are the voters, or simply: the general public!
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