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While my academic background is in the socialsciences and more specifically educational studies, I believe that regardless of your discipline, socialsciences or naturalsciences, the research process, structurally speaking, is more or less the same.
I experienced collaborations between biology, engineering and socialsciences with a playful attitude. For my PhD, I switched to information processing in biological systems, and have been fascinated by how the brain interprets sensory information ever since. My PhD in computational and neural systems was a formational time.
Our team includes socialscience and humanities researchers who look at the policies and implications of synthetic biology,” says Ian. On the other hand, being able to produce the compound synthetically might threaten the livelihood of a farmer in a developing country.
And one of the great feelings of power has been that even in fields—like the socialsciences—where there haven’t really been much more than “verbal” models before, it’s now appeared possible to get models that at least seem much more “scientific”. In some ways, ruliology is like naturalscience.
Processes in nature—like, for example, the weather—can be thought of as corresponding to computations. Yes, we can do naturalscience to figure out some aspects of what’s going to happen. We’ll be able to say some things—though perhaps in ways that are closer to psychology or socialscience than to traditional exact science.
The Second Law also found its way into the socialsciences—sometimes under names like “entropy pessimism”—most often being used to justify the necessity of “Maxwell’s-demon-like” active intervention or control to prevent the collapse of economic or social systems into random or incoherent states.
Because computational methods originated in the naturalsciences, some disciplines, such as chemistry and physics, have lots of research software at their disposal. This software is needed to collect and analyse the data from images, as well as to create simulations and compare their results.
The liberal arts consist of the naturalsciences, like biology, ecology and neuroscience, formal sciences, like physics and maths, socialsciences, and the humanities. Other skills that will help you become a successful anthropologist include research, writing and public speaking skills.
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