Fortunately, our science training included a course called "Dialectics of Nature"; Unfortunately, few "dialectics of nature" are taught as comprehensive qualities that integrate reflection on the relationship between science and society and the use of its own communicative power to improve that relationship.
In any case, it is hard to overstate the role of insightful instruction, which begins at the school stage, in fostering a scientific culture of goodwill and popular science. In addition to regular courses,
recalled that when she was engaged in post-doctoral research in neurobiology in the United Kingdom, she entered the path of science reporting by participating in several such short workshops.
Such courses, as well as the Science Media Center and its American version, Sciline, are part of a social support system for popular science that should include scientific intermediaries in addition to training.
Even if scientists are willing to do science, even if they do not care about time, even if they have considerable skills, but the years of professional training of scientists have led to the lack of awareness and habits of communicating with the public on an equal basis.
The lack of a "sloppy spirit" that can tolerate the audience's less precise needs (see my two previous articles "Why do Chinese scientists favor science popularization, but lack action?") Opinion: What Scientists Do We Need for Science?
Presentation to colleague Dr Yang Zheng on the research on demarcation of boundaries by scientists). This is where intermediaries come in to help. In fact, as the Internet penetrates into every corner of our lives,
a large number of traditional science popularizers are struggling under the impact of new media, and they are very happy and good at becoming such intermediaries. This suggests that China has great potential resources to build such intermediaries.
Fortunately, "Science China" has launched the "Starry Sky Program" to train more science creators; But unfortunately, there are too few capacity building programs like the "Star Program", especially in China,
the lack of communication courses that can cover the initial stage of scientific research work and scientific popularization ability training that can cover grassroots scientific workers.
In short, in supporting scientists in the cause of science popularization, in addition to continuing to promote the reform of the evaluation system of goodwill science popularization, there is still a lot of work to be carried out.Alzheimer's in your 20s and 30s?
Serious lack of sleep can lead to health damage and even life-threatening, why overseas a patient with Movan syndrome did not sleep for several months but everything was normal? After accidental brain injury,
patients with severe depression for more than 10 years have completely healed themselves, and patients with untaught painting after brain surgery have made rapid progress. What is the reason?
Chen Tianqiao, founder of TCCI, said: "This idea comes from Chinese clinicians, and we appreciate it very much. We hope to fund and support doctors around the world to find special cases, and cooperate with neuroscientists, cognitive scientists,
artificial intelligence and other cross-research, highlighting the new value of basic research in brain and life sciences, and clinical research on brain diseases, calling on the public to pay more attention to this field, reflecting the humanistic care of science and technology to the good and benefit patients."
It was Professor Zhao Chongbo, vice president of Huashan Hospital and a renowned neurologist, who proposed the concept of "exploring the Venus of life sciences". He said: "Venus rotates in the opposite direction to the other planets in the solar system, and the study of it has made many astrophysical advances. I'm confident that in the life sciences, this kind of personality research will yield surprising results."
Which are the "Gold Stars of Life Sciences"?Professor Xu Yifeng, director of the Brain Health Research Institute of the National Medical Center for Mental Illness and community expert committee member of the special case community released on behalf of TCCI,
said that special cases are different from rare disease cases and difficult and complex disease cases, the key is whether it is special enough, and whether the research on this can find new vision and blind spots in basic research and clinical research, and produce new breakthroughs.
He introduced that the first batch of pilot internal collection of the program received more than 20 domestic and foreign cases, and under the premise of ensuring compliance with medical ethics regulations, five were approved by the expert committee.
The object of a research project is a patient with congenital complete absence of corpus callosum, functional division of the left and right brain, but there is no difference between learning, working and living with normal people for decades,
this phenomenon is very special, and the vast majority of patients will have serious symptoms such as intellectual disability and paralysis. The study of this case provides a rare opportunity to explore the compensatory mechanism of the left-right brain connection and understand the plasticity of the brain.
