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From intuition to inference: how experts inform Bayesian models
Science, Maths & Technology

From intuition to inference: how experts inform Bayesian models

...thinking Bayesian statistics provides a framework for combining prior knowledge with observed data. Named after Thomas Bayes, an eighteenth-century mathematician, this approach is based on a simple idea: our beliefs about an unknown quantity can be updated as new evidence becomes available. Rather than eliminating uncertainty, Bayesian methods quantify it using...
Feeling Stuck in your Job or Career? The ACT Matrix may be the Tool you Need
Health, Sports & Psychology

Feeling Stuck in your Job or Career? The ACT Matrix may be the Tool you Need

...think of the ‘T’ as ‘taking action’, so overall, ACT is about being open, aware and active – doing what matters, so that personal and working lives become more meaningful. Let’s explore this further... Open, aware and active So how could ACT help in our working lives? Importantly, ACT is not about reviewing your past to find hidden meaning and answers, nor...
Teaching secondary science
Education & Development

Teaching secondary science

...think would be said? Although most students’ formal science learning begins in school, they learn a great deal informally outside of school. Consider for one moment the out-of-school encounters you have had with science this week – science is all around us. Through this, students learn about the nature of science; how science is done, who does science, what science is...
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Beyond the Babble: A conversation about the art of listening
Society, Politics & Law

Beyond the Babble: A conversation about the art of listening

...thinking out loud… Giota: You mention that this is about inviting and getting people to reflect deeper about certain things, moving away from the ‘superficiality’ of voice in places like say, twitter …. In a sense it’s an opportunity to express themselves in confessional and autobiographical narratives in a different format, without having to worry about issues...
What does an engineer look like?
Science, Maths & Technology

What does an engineer look like?

...systems engineers behind our #TyphoonJet http://t.co/e5pcFiW4Sa #ILookLikeAnEngineer pic.twitter.com/0fIaSqJ75l — BAE Systems Air (@BAESystemsAir) August 6, 2015 Both the Wellcome Trust and the Aspires Project at King’s College London have found that girls and young women are less likely to see themselves in a career in science. Parents also discourage girls’...
The Open University's Carbon Calculator
Nature & Environment

The Open University's Carbon Calculator

...system, some other sectors and embedded in imports have fallen as the UK and other countries attempt to move towards net zero. According to official statistics, by 2019 total UK consumption-based emissions were 774 million tonnes CO2e (Figure 1) meaning that the average carbon footprint was about 11.6 tonnes CO2e/person/year. By 2022 the average footprint is estimated to...
Planetary Protection of Mars
Science, Maths & Technology

Planetary Protection of Mars

...System bodies from contamination by Earth life and protecting Earth from possible life forms that may be returned from other Solar System bodies.​ Approaches to this taken by space agencies and mission teams have changed over the 60 years of Mars exploration and will continue to adapt to new scientific understanding of the planet and of life itself. However, the central...
Disseminating across the margins: bridging communities and academia through a Black feminist lens
Education & Development

Disseminating across the margins: bridging communities and academia through a Black feminist lens

...system that has historically marginalised voices like mine. My current research project, titled ‘Mothering at the Margins’, has been designed with another researcher who is also a Black female academic and mother to autistic children. The study explores the perspectives of Black mothers of autistic children to gain an insight into how race, gender and disability...