The Time of Young Scientists Response

Science, 2010

BioEssays, 2010

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Social, economic, and academic leadership (ICSEAL-6-2019), 2020

Over the past few years, systemic and structural-functional transformations in science have taken place in the Russian Federation: the reorganization of the Russian Academy of Sciences, reforms in the activities of dissertation councils, a reduction in the funding of scientific foundations, jobs in budgetary scientific and educational institutions, and a reorientation of the focus of scientific organizations from fundamental to applied. All these transformations primarily affect young scientists. I n the context of the transformation of science, the ambiguity of the choice of professional guidelines and the career growth of young scientists can lead to a systemic crisis in the reproduction of scientific personnel. The problems and contradictions that arise in the life of young scientists are caused by the peculiarities of the position of the young scientist as an emerging, emerging subject of the scientific community. The motivating factor in attracting science is the satisfaction of the need to realize intellectual and creative potential. However, the socioeconomic situation of the majority of young scientists is unstable as there are certain shortcomings in the personnel policy and the social security system, the distribution of income and material wealth, and the opportunities for realizing personal potential in the scientific community .

A s young scientists from all five continents, we are passionate about science, and we are passionate about science contributing to a better world. We wish to enhance the contribution that we can make to science and that science can make to society. Science and technology play an important role in addressing the challenges we face today, from reducing hunger and poverty, finding a cure for diseases such as malaria, to protecting the environment. We believe that these are universal aspirations, shared by young scientists around the world and deserving global solutions. Actions are required at local, national and international levels by young scientists themselves, senior scientists, science policy makers, politicians, the private and civil society sectors and the general public. F or science and young scientists to play the role required in the modern, technological and challenging world, public support is essential. For this support to be fostered, scientists -and especially young s...

2007

EMBO reports, 2014

The Global State of Young Scientists in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Exploration of Constraints and Strategies, 2022

This report provides an overview of the first phase of The Global State of Young Scientists in Latin America and the Caribbean (GloSYS LAC), a research project developed by the Global Young Academy (GYA). Its aim is to contribute to current debates on social dimensions of scientific activities and the impact that they have on the trajectories of young scientists. This research was performed using qualitative interviews with thirty-one early-career researchers from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Guatemala and Panama. As a result of the analysis of these interviews, this report highlights the interplay between the constraints that young researchers currently face and the strategies they use to confront them

EMBO reports, 2003

2022

The reward (and punishment) system of science is an expression of its putative autonomy, i.e., the ability to govern itself based on criteria it has authored. It has put in place processes that recognize those among its members who have made substantive contributions to scientific knowledge. The validation of these accomplishments is said to be based entirely on “internal,” i.e., scientific, principles. As a community with strict rules of entry and boundaries that purport to separate the scientific from what is not, science has often resisted strenuously any encroachments into its affairs from the outside, lay, society. The laity is excluded from matters scientific because, in science’s view, it is not competent to do so; it does not possess the specialized knowledge necessary to evaluate science’s practices—hence, lay considerations are irrelevant to the affairs of science. However, in the recent past, events appear to have the potential to upend this idyllic construct. I will examine two cases (the American Statistical Association’s recommendation in 2020 to remove the name of R. A. Fisher from a lectureship and, in 2021, the cancellation of the Carlson Lecture at MIT) that could be harbingers of a reconfigured reward system of science—one in which “external” criteria to science are used to reward or punish an individual scientist.