Templeton World Charity Foundation

@TempletonWorld

By funding high-caliber projects across disciplines and countries, we aim to provide scientific breakthroughs and foster ambitious thinking on diverse topics.

Joined December 2018

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    Templeton World Charity Foundation now has an official blog. President Andrew Serazin, initiative directors, and TWCF grantees will be sharing their perspectives on philanthropy, open science, technology, new discoveries, and more. Please follow and share the blog!

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  2. Feb 1

    I spoke to some students about writing yesterday. Here’s my advice: 1000 words a day (I call this unit an ‘Updike’), read your writing out loud, cut your first draft introduction and rewrite it, go for a walk. Cut adverbs, passive constructions, jargon, and divide long sentences.

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  3. Jan 31

    Excited to see the printed version of my first publication in psychology! I critique the VIA classificaton of virtues and character strengths from a philosophical perspective.

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  4. Jan 31

    Spontaneous helping behavior in (only some!) dogs. With Linda Jaasma, Annemie Ploeger and Isabelle Kamm.

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  5. Applications for the 2020 Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI) are now open! 🥳 June 28 - July 18, 2020 University of St Andrews, Scotland Apply today!

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  6. Through our Power of Information research fellowship, we awarded $300K to , a postdoc at@TuftsUniversity's Levin Lab & Allen Discovery Center. Learn more about her project, From Microbes to Minds:

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  7. Jan 22

    Really exciting opportunity to join us as we seek a new coordinator to work with schools, events & develop research skills. Sound like you?

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  9. Dr. Seth Lazar from the Australian National University is looking for a research fellow to work on his "Moral Skill and Artificial Intelligence" project. Apply today!

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  10. Correction: This event will be held on 2/27, not 1/27.

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  11. Jan 28

    .'s been awarded £3.4m to help Church leaders better understand scientific developments. We asked the principal of the College why Christians should engage with science. Listen here: /

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  12. Jan 29

    Dr. Larry Allen (our former Dean) & colleagues from Maasai Mara University were recently in Kenya, where they interviewed more than 90 students, teachers, social workers & street youth to inform a new measure of character in Kenyan youth. (1/2)

    Researchers talking to students in a classroom in a community in Kenya.
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  13. Jan 28
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  14. In 2015 we supported 's launch. Our sister organization, Templeton Religious Trust, has awarded £3.4M to fund its new project educating church leaders about science:

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  15. "It's not that it's not interesting or useful to study your American middle-class population. But they don't want to claim they're just studying that population." – . An important look at using diverse samples in psychology research.

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  16. Jan 24

    So happy to see this in print. Great example of a high impact result from a teensy wee but high quality, totally participatory project.

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  17. 7pm ET tonight at : Join evolutionary biologist () & National Book Award-winning author Richard Powers for a dialogue on plant intelligence. Physicist , winner of the , will moderate.

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  18. We’re recruiting! 5 post doctoral fellows and an administrator to join our team starting Sept 1. Job ads coming soon.

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  19. Jan 21

    Would you like to join the team? We're recruiting for new administrative posts as part of a Templeton Religion Trust funded project 'Equipping Christian Leadership in an Age of Science'. , Further details 👇

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  20. Jan 26

    We are hiring up to 3 post-docs interested in misinformation or meta-cognition - review starting Feb 1. Please apply!! Looking for wide range of backgrounds: eg psych, computational social science, poli sci, comm, econ, comp sci - DM with qs. Share/RT appreciated!

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