{"id":3410,"date":"2023-11-15T09:27:59","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T17:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/?p=3410"},"modified":"2023-12-21T09:56:49","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T17:56:49","slug":"hotline-bling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/2023\/11\/15\/hotline-bling\/","title":{"rendered":"Hotline bling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was lucky to meet the President of the University of California <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucop.edu\/president\/about\/index.html\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.ucop.edu\/president\/about\/index.html', 'Michael V. Drake']);\" >Michael V. Drake<\/a>, in my capacity of co-chair of the Berkeley Lab Global Employee Resource group (<a href=\"http:\/\/global.lbl.gov\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/global.lbl.gov', 'global.lbl.gov']);\" >global.lbl.gov<\/a>), dedicated to providing support to international employees at the national laboratory.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3411\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IDEA-DAKE.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3411\" class=\"wp-image-3411\" src=\"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IDEA-DAKE-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IDEA-DAKE-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IDEA-DAKE-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IDEA-DAKE-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-3411\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Berkeley Lab Employee Resource Groups meeting with UC president Michael Drake in November 2023<\/p>\n<\/div><p>I made the point the re-<strong>building communities<\/strong> should be a priority after the pandemic, and particularly <strong>early career scientists, who do not have family or go to school where they could thread their social fabric<\/strong>. The participation of international scientist at Berkeley Lab is an important strength, because the national lab is de facto at the center of international research, and that gives it a competitive edge compared to other countries such as China or Saudi Arabia, where large research expenditure cannot compensate the lack of free flow of ideas.<\/p>I think my talking points were well received, and president Drake encouraged collaboration on these topics with the University of California, Berkeley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was lucky to meet the President of the University of California Michael V. Drake, in my capacity of co-chair of the Berkeley Lab Global Employee Resource group (global.lbl.gov), dedicated to providing support to international employees at the national laboratory.I made the point the re-building communities should be a priority after the pandemic, and particularly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,11,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-berkeley-lab","category-english","category-science-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3410"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3414,"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3410\/revisions\/3414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}