[Ludi]

How many folks here on the board are professionally involved in the physical or life sciences? Please list your discipline and what you're currently studying, if you would.

Thanks!

[fossil_fuel]

do students count?

[Andrew_S]

Molecular bioinformatics:

I'm developing algorithms for the analysis of biological sequence evolution.

[Schweinshaxe]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'H')ow many folks here on the board are professionally involved in the physical or life sciences? Please list your discipline and what you're currently studying, if you would.

Thanks!

[Omnitir]

I’m a student doing a minor in humanities, does that count?

I’m currently doing a sociology unit and a human rights unit. I’m finding the study of society to be interesting, especially Marxist theories on socialist society and on capitalism. And for the human rights class I’m learning about the oil company’s violations of basic human rights, and general blood for oil concepts, which is quite interesting. It’s all very left-wing thinking.

The rest of my course is in communication design and the creative industries.

[Ludi]

Oh dear no, Omnitir, I don't think "humanities" qualifies as a science.

the humanities - a. the study of classical languanges and classical literature b. the Latin and Greek classics as a field of study c. literature, philosophy, art, etc, as distinguished from the sciences d.the study of literature, philosophy, art, etc.
(Webster's Unabridged Dictionary)

This does give me a new perspective on your tech-boosterific posts, though! Thanks!

[Liamj]

Grad student in geospatial science/remote sensing, u'grad in env. biology. Am making landcover maps and attempting to correlate ground survey veg condition data with rem.sensed data.
Like we need more information on how fast we're going backwards! but its fascinating work, and i get to stare are g-o-r-g-e-o-u-s pictures of the planet all day. If only didn't have to actually finish..

[Schweinshaxe]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'O')h dear no, Omnitir, I don't think "humanities" qualifies as a science.

the humanities - a. the study of classical languanges and classical literature b. the Latin and Greek classics as a field of study c. literature, philosophy, art, etc, as distinguished from the sciences d.the study of literature, philosophy, art, etc.
(Webster's Unabridged Dictionary)

This does give me a new perspective on your tech-boosterific posts, though! Thanks!

[Omnitir]

The study of humanity, especially sociology certainly does qualifiy as science - I know several professors that would outraged at the suggestion of otherwise.

"The social sciences are a group of academic disciplines that study the human aspects of the world. They diverge from the arts and humanities in that the social sciences emphasize the use of the scientific method and rigorous standards of evidence in the study of humanity, including quantitative and qualitative methods."

Yeah, I realise that life science (biology) is completely different from social science. But social science does concern itself to some degree with biological processes. Not what you were looking for with this thread though...

A humanities minor isn't entirely about human rights and ethics.

[fossil_fuel]

anyways, i'm majoring in geology and minoring in environmental engineering

[Schweinshaxe]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Omnitir', 'T')he study of humanity, especially sociology certainly does qualifiy as science - I know several professors that would outraged at the suggestion of otherwise.

"The social sciences are a group of academic disciplines that study the human aspects of the world. They diverge from the arts and humanities in that the social sciences emphasize the use of the scientific method and rigorous standards of evidence in the study of humanity, including quantitative and qualitative methods."

Yeah, I realise that life science (biology) is completely different from social science. But social science does concern itself to some degree with biological processes. Not what you were looking for with this thread though...

A humanities minor isn't entirely about human rights and ethics.

[Ebyss]

Hell, if sociology counts, then psychology counts too!

Hey.. at least it's an "-ology"

I've got a degree in Psychology if that counts Ludi (though I'm not sure that's where you're going).

[Carmiac]

I'm an astronomer. My observatory looks for NEOs (Near Earth Objects) and we are currently finishing up a project that will allow us to search for TNOs (Trans-Neptunian Objects) with our normal NEO searches.