• Question: What's your worldview? Like what moral system to do you subscribe to and how does the field you work in or the scientific method itself affect it?

    Asked by anon-320324 on 11 Mar 2022.
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      Elpida Vounzoulaki answered on 11 Mar 2022:

      I believe in kindness and being a good person! 🙂 As I don’t do experiments and work with code, I am not directly involved with ethics. I just make sure the best interest of my research is to help people be healthy 🙂

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      Emily Clarke answered on 11 Mar 2022:

      Previously answered, but always try to be a good person and help and support others.

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      Chigozie Onuba answered on 11 Mar 2022:

      Treat people the way you would like to be treated.

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      Sara Luzzi answered on 12 Mar 2022:

      I try to be a good person and not judge people if they have different opinions or different backgrounds. I think everyone deserves a chance, and should be able to ask for help. This is very important also as a scientist, because we always have to keep an open mind, be self-critical and work as a team.

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      Kerry Ann Brown answered on 14 Mar 2022:

      Thoughtful question! I try to do my best and make the world a bit of a better place in anyway I can.

      My work is related to sustainable diets in the UK but also globally. I work with international teams and often need to travel. This causes me a conflict, as I would like to minimise my air travel! So, as a team we think creatively about how we can engage with each other over different online platforms. My colleague Pauline designed a whole online world (like a computer game) for us to hold a remote conference – with different rooms etc. Also when I visit my colleagues in India I tend to go for a month at a time to justify the travel.

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      Rebecca Locke answered on 16 Mar 2022:

      That’s a tough question! I would probably say a worldview of wherever you go you should leave things a little better than how you found it. I work in helping to diagnose genetic conditions, so I like to think that everything I do is going to improve the life of a patient, even if in a small way. I’ve done other jobs in the past where it wasn’t obvious how they helped people, and I didn’t find them half as rewarding 🙂

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