https://freerepublic.com/tag/globalscience/ en-us Mon, 19 Mar 2018 04:57:04 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3640717/posts The co-director of a company that harvested data from tens of millions of Facebook users before selling it to the controversial data analytics firms Cambridge Analytica is currently working for the tech giant as an in-house psychologist. Joseph Chancellor was one of two founding directors of Global Science Research (GSR), the company that harvested Facebook data using a personality app under the guise of academic research and later shared the data with Cambridge Analytica. {snip} Chancellor is still working as a researcher at Facebook’s Menlo Park headquarters in California, where psychologists frequently conduct research and experiments using the company’s vast... The Guardian https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3640717/posts#comment Mon, 19 Mar 2018 04:57:04 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402224/posts CONTACTS Name Email Phone Room Therese  . Moretto Jorgensen tjorgens@nsf.gov (703) 292-8518    PROGRAM GUIDELINES Solicitation  09-523 Please be advised that the NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) includes revised guidelines to implement the mentoring provisions of the America COMPETES Act (ACA) (Pub. L. No. 110-69, Aug. 9, 2007.) As specified in the ACA, each proposal that requests funding to support postdoctoral researchers must include a description of the mentoring activities that will be provided for such individuals. Proposals that do not comply with this requirement will be returned without review (see the PAPP Guide Part I:... National Science Foundation https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402224/posts#comment Mon, 7 Dec 2009 19:17:21 GMT