{"id":3477,"date":"2024-07-09T17:49:23","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T01:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/?p=3477"},"modified":"2024-08-19T18:51:38","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T02:51:38","slug":"the-state-of-the-science-address-national-academy-of-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/2024\/07\/09\/the-state-of-the-science-address-national-academy-of-science\/","title":{"rendered":"The State of the Science Address &#8211; National Academy of Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I stumbled upon the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalacademies.org\/event\/41687_06-2024_the-state-of-the-science\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.nationalacademies.org\/event\/41687_06-2024_the-state-of-the-science', 'The State of the Science Address']);\" >The State of the Science Address<\/a> from Marcia McNutt,\u00a0the President of the National Academy of Science, through the always very interesting <a href=\"https:\/\/ww2.aip.org\/fyi\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/ww2.aip.org\/fyi', 'AIP FYI weekly newsletter']);\" >AIP FYI weekly newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>Here&#8217;s a tl;dr version:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The US win 15% of the medals at the Olympics, but 60% of the Nobel \u2013 really efficient at attracting and retaining talents<\/li>\n<li>The US science workforce is increasingly International, but the US become less attractive (and visas are getting harder to get)<\/li>\n<li>China is rapidly increasing as a global force in science. Not only they publish a lot of science, but the quality of the output has increased<\/li>\n<li>International collaboration is important to avoid the possibility a single player flaunts the rules.<\/li>\n<li>researchers are underpaid (industry pays 70% better)<\/li>\n<li>The quality of STEM education in K-12 is not keeping pace with the world<\/li>\n<li>Philanthropy is a major funder of science (about 10%)<\/li>\n<li>Public support for science is important<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_3480\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/mcnutt_address_conclusion.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3480\" class=\"wp-image-3480 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/mcnutt_address_conclusion-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/mcnutt_address_conclusion-1024x575.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/mcnutt_address_conclusion-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/mcnutt_address_conclusion-768x431.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-3480\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Concluding slide from\u00a0from Marcia McNutt&#8217;s State of the Science Address (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalacademies.org\/event\/41687_06-2024_the-state-of-the-science\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.nationalacademies.org\/event\/41687_06-2024_the-state-of-the-science', 'full talk']);\" >full talk<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div><p>Five years ago, I had a chance to meet Dr. McNutt at Berkeley Lab. She was seeking input from postdocs on how the envisioned science.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3479\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/marcia_3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3479\" class=\"wp-image-3479 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/marcia_3-1024x473.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/marcia_3-1024x473.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/marcia_3-300x138.jpg 300w, http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/marcia_3-768x355.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-3479\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An old picture from 2019 with the President of the National Academy of Science Marcia McNutt and the Berkeley Lab postdocs (my besties Sinead, Valentine, Fadji, Maria and I)<\/p>\n<\/div><p>I told her that I really enjoyed being a scientist in federal lab (i.e. not a professor on campus), but I bluntly put that in my opinion academia (on campuses) is increasingly becoming a ponzi scheme \u2013 the PI recruits postdocs who take care of grad student who supervise intern. I guess she doesn&#8217;t disagree.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/mcnutt_underpaid_labor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3482 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/mcnutt_underpaid_labor-1024x570.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/mcnutt_underpaid_labor-1024x570.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/mcnutt_underpaid_labor-300x167.jpg 300w, http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/mcnutt_underpaid_labor-768x428.jpg 768w, http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/mcnutt_underpaid_labor.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>All the conclusion slides:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3481\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/mcnutt_address_OPPORTUNITIES.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3481\" class=\"wp-image-3481 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/mcnutt_address_OPPORTUNITIES-1024x385.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/mcnutt_address_OPPORTUNITIES-1024x385.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/mcnutt_address_OPPORTUNITIES-300x113.jpg 300w, http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/mcnutt_address_OPPORTUNITIES-768x289.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-3481\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Opportunity slides from from Marcia McNutt&#8217;s State of the Science Address (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalacademies.org\/event\/41687_06-2024_the-state-of-the-science\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.nationalacademies.org\/event\/41687_06-2024_the-state-of-the-science', 'full talk']);\" >full talk<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stumbled upon the\u00a0The State of the Science Address from Marcia McNutt,\u00a0the President of the National Academy of Science, through the always very interesting AIP FYI weekly newsletter.Here&#8217;s a tl;dr version: The US win 15% of the medals at the Olympics, but 60% of the Nobel \u2013 really efficient at attracting and retaining talents The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8,16,9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-resources","category-science","category-science-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477","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=3477"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3487,"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477\/revisions\/3487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}