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Episode 7 features GYA alumna and SLP-LAC Project Lead Paulina Carmona-Mora and SLP LAC fellow from Ecuador Xavier Chiriboga discussing the Declaration of Leticia “Transforming the STEM future: Visibilizing the social responsibility of young academics in Latin American and Caribbean”.
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Yensi Flores Bueso (United States)
With the GYA, I was not only able to co-lead the first global study on research assessment but also to serve as a steering board member of CoARA. GYA opened platforms for me as a researcher coming from a country without research infrastructure.
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Nova Ahmed (Bangladesh)
With a GYA WG colleague, Dr Shabana Khan, we wrote a grant and received the GDN Outstanding Research and Development Grant to address misinformation and fake news during disaster periods.
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Mohammad Hosseini (United States)
Through a Sasha Kaganski Grant, I was able to hire a talented student (who comes from a low-resourced area) to gain academic experience.
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Gregory A. Weiss (United States)
I met Prof. Colin Raston while travelling on GYA business. Based on our quick-to-develop collaboration, we won an Ig Nobel Prize for “unboiling the egg” and published about a dozen papers together.
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Paulina Carmona-Mora (United States)
Through GYA contacts, I identified researchers from Egypt to write a joint grant. Also, two years ago, my GYA «roommate» and I got a grant to organise the first Central Asia Genomics Symposium.
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Jane Yau (Germany)
Through the GYA, several opportunities to collaborate with international organisations including UNESCO, ISC and Smithsonian have been made available to me.
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