Top 2 Percent Scientists’ Post

Congratulations to the #NSRIFellows and all researchers awarded funding through the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL)'s Grand Challenges initiative. "The Grand Challenges underscore the university’s dedication to advancing research that has meaningful impacts on our communities and future generations,” said UNL Chancellor Dr. Rodney Bennett. “This strategic investment empowers our researchers to address complex issues with creativity and collaboration, further establishing our flagship, land-grant institution as a leader in transformative and interdisciplinary innovation.” NSRI Fellows involved in catalyst projects or leading planning grants include: 🔹 Craig Allen and Brian Wardlow, "Advancing Development of Assessments, Practices and Tools (ADAPT) to Produce Climate Smart Beef in Grazing Systems" 🔹 Sina Balkir, “Integrating Microelectronics in Precision Agriculture: Toward Energy-Efficient Sensing Solutions for Soil, Plant and Animal Monitoring" 🔹 Angela Pannier, “Center for Arthropod Research, Education and Materials Innovation (CAREMI)" --- Details ➡ https://lnkd.in/gh4id3Hs --- The University of Nebraska–Lincoln is a Carnegie Research-1, Big 10 Conference academic institution. In FY23 its total research expenditures were more than $617 million. It has seen a 54% increase in federal research expenditures over the past 10 years. According to Academic Analytics data, Nebraska scholars publish 50 books and 11,500 reviewed articles annually.  #research #highereducation #highered #nationalsecurity #defenseresearch #Nebraska

AgroStat2024. Last days for abstract submission. #PredictiveMicrobiology, #RiskAssessment, #Sensometrics, #ProcessControl, #Chemometrics, #ExperimentalDesign, #MetaAnalysis, #BigData, #MachineLearning, #AI

As multidisciplinary higher-education institutions targeting farm sciences & technologies, USP - Universidade de São Paulo -Brazil and Magyar Agrár- és Élettudományi Egyetem (MATE) -Hungary embrace subjects concerning plant and animal production, whose introductory disciplines to their freshmen are prone to share common issues. The webinar aims to identify and discuss educational challenges and opportunities mutually tackled by Faculty Instructors at the Department of Basic Sciences and the Department of Biosystems Engineering from the Brazilian side and at the Institute of Mathematics & Basic Science and the Institute of Technology from the Hungarian side. Date: Nov 22, 2024 Link to the webinar: https://lnkd.in/dswUGRUM

I am deeply honored to be recognized for the second consecutive year in Stanford University's 'World's Top 2% Scientists' list. 👉 https://lnkd.in/d34_R9-z This achievement would not have been possible without the support from FAPESP, CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior, CNPq, Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas da USP, and USP - Universidade de São Paulo, as well as the invaluable collaboration of my colleagues, students, partners, and friends. My heartfelt thanks to everyone who has been part of it. The August 2024 data-update for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators" provides standardized information on citations, h-index, co-authorship adjusted hm-index, citations to papers in different authorship positions, and a composite indicator (c-score).

Zebrafish have been an ever growing part of behavioral research for quite some time now. However, not many labs are solely focussed on expanding the field of zebrafish research. At the Gerlai lab not only do the researchers and students perform conventional behavioral tests, they also research new applications of zebrafish and other fish species, like ram cichlids. https://hubs.li/Q02LyDhv0

THE big day for Emmanuelle Clervil who defended her PhD thesis at the university of French Guiana. The topics ? Is the Wolbachia method possible in French Guiana to limit the burden of Aedes aegypti-borne arboviruses ? A multidisplinary approach and wide view combining field collected mosquitoes screening, experimental science with local infected aegypti strains and social science with students interviews about new methods of vector control. Thanks to collaborations with CSIRO and Melbourne Uni. Members of jury present in French Guiana and surrounding Emmanuelle.

So we’re entering science project season again, and as someone who’s found themselves judging a weirdly large number of high school science fairs, I would BEG all educators, parents, and judges to review the Dan Roche number one rule for judging and grading student science projects: Do NOT punish a science project for a null result. Sometimes a science project kicks off with a cool, fun, and interesting question! And sometimes the answer to that question is “no”. That isn’t just okay, that’s GREAT. Science, when performed successfully, will burst your bubble 95% of the time. If the project is called “does listening to Kendrick Lamar influence the growth rate of plants” and the conclusion is “no, not in the least bit”, give that kid an A. Better yet, give them a ribbon. Judges NEVER award projects with a null result, and it’s an atrocity. Science is great! And science is usually boring and predictable! And that’s not a contradiction! Please do your part to break the myth that kids need to “shock the system” or upset conventional expectations to be good scientists.

🌌🎉 4th of July we celebrated.. Higgs Boson Discovery Anniversary! Any Impact on Food Safety So Far? 🍽️🔬 Today, we celebrate the anniversary of the Higgs boson experimental confirmation, a discovery that reshaped and solidified our understanding of the universe, once theorized and predicted by Professor Peter Higgs. In 2012, the news of the Higgs boson discovery personally influenced, as a final drop, and inspired me to restart my academic career and pursue a doctorate degree in computational and quantum chemistry. So July 4th is a bit special date for me. The Higgs field, which gives particles mass, can be compared to a pond. Imagine particles as swimmers moving through the water. Some glide easily (massless particles), while others struggle and slow down (massive particles). This resistance is due to their interaction with the Higgs field, the pond. At CERN’s Large Hadron Collider by 2012, countless high-energy collisions were created and caused splashes in this metaphorical pond. Among the splashes, the droplets of the Higgs field were discovered—the Higgs boson, the particle that defines the field and gives mass to other fundamental particles (not to all though; the mass of particles, like protons or neutrons, primarily comes from the binding energy of quarks and gluons, as explained by E/c2 = m, remember Einstein...). This discovery took decades of science, research, and technological innovation, not to mention the heavy engineering behind CERN. In the end, this discovery sparked innovation across multiple technologies, such as advanced #detection systems, #bigdata processing, precision in high energy and #Xray technologies, and the basis of #machinelearning. Some of these advancements are now directly or indirectly making our food safer by enhancing our ability to detect contaminants, optimize supply chains, and ensure quality. As we celebrate this scientific milestone, let's appreciate the interconnectedness of all sciences and how foundational discoveries can inspire and influence various fields, including #foodsafety. Here’s to a future where every science drives us towards greater understanding of the universe and ... safety. #HiggsBoson #ScienceAnniversary #FoodSafety #Innovation #Collaboration #Higgs

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🎉 Shout-out to TIDE student Sherry Fang on submission of her MPhil Thesis titled 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢fi𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐛𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐚 𝐬𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐨𝐦 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐥𝐮𝐢𝐝. Sherry's research has focused on the dynamics of convective cooling on a sloping continental shelf - looking to characterize the generation and development of dense water and the eddy field, while quantifying the roles of eddies and mean flows in coastal cross-shelf transport 🌊 𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐒𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐲!