science communication

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• The "CRU hack" and the deplorable state of reporting and blogging

  
  maribo — Authority: 460
  This episode is a sad sad sad comment on the state of blogging and news reporting. Three reasons. First, for legal reasons, Id like to think that no news organization should be allowed to report on the content of that mail. This is the equivalent of someone breaking into your mailbox in front of your house, opening ...
  2 days ago

• Public confusion about scientific consensus

  
  maribo — Authority: 460
  The Globe and Mail reports that a new poll from Hoggan & Associates found Canadians are embarrassed over the lack of Canadian action on climate change. Now it is possible that readers will dismiss that finding because the pollsters are connected with a number of environmental organization (an observation, not a ...
  4 days ago

• BigShot: A little camera with a Big potential — inspired by a film!

  
  Moving Images, Moving People! — Authority: 123
  “Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door.” This remark is attributed to one of my favourite essayists and philosophers, Ralph Waldo Emerson.That was probably true for the 19th century in which he lived and died, but it takes a bit more than a mousetrap to generate a buzz [...]
  5 days ago

• Like a Phoenix . . .

  
  On Research... — Authority: 93
  Warren Kornberg’s email was as unexpected as a snowfall in July, and equally as welcome.Years have passed since I’d seen him, decades perhaps.  Who can remember such things?  But Kornberg was of the “old guard,” the troop of masters who reigned in the wondrous heyday of science writing in the late 1970s and ...
  1 week ago

• Himalayan glaciers and the virtue of reading beyond the headline

  
  maribo — Authority: 460
  My number one pet peeve with the blogosphere is that too many bloggers post on a new report or paper without actually looking at the new report or paper. Bloggers regularly bash mainstream media for lazy reporting then often go ahead and base entire posts solely on newspaper stories. Hypocrisy aside, it is a real ...
  2 weeks ago

• Billions suspended in a sunbeam

  
  A Sea Change — Authority: 100
  Today is writer and scientist Carl Sagan ’s 75 th birthday. Carl Sagan is remembered for his remarkable ability to take scientific knowledge and present it in an elegant and comprehensive way to the broader public. An ability that I’ve truly come to appreciate as I’ve become more involved with communicating ...
  2 weeks ago

• Primer on The Psychology of Climate Change Communication

  
  Framing Science — Authority: 415
  Columbia Universitys Center for Research on Environmental Decisions has released a primer on the "Psychology of Climate Change Communication," synthesizing much of the research of the Center over the past several years. Written by Debika Shome and Sabine Marx, the primer is available both in HTML (by chapter) and in ...
  2 weeks ago

• More online resources

  
  Dave Hone's Archosaur Musings — Authority: 128
  So it turns out that I have been put on yet another list of ‘blogs for X’, in this case a list of “ 100 excellent blogs for science teachers “. A number of other famous / infamous palaeobloggers are on there too, but the whole thing has quite a few good looking sites that are probably worthy of perusal if you ...
  2 weeks ago

• Science by press release

  
  Dave Hone's Archosaur Musings — Authority: 128
  Hot on the heels of my post the other day, this is a subject that has been raised before by many and is a multi-layered thing as there are lots of ways of giving the public the impression that there is a solid bit of science when in fact it is not there. This is obviously problematic as a pattern since those ...
  2 weeks ago

• On Angry Mobs and Science Activism

  
  The Lay Scientist — Authority: 528
  There’s been a lot of talk lately about angry mobs. When Jan Moir wrote a viciously homophobic attack on the recently deceased singer Stephen Gately and his grieving friends and family, she was confronted by an angry mob. When ace lawyers Carter-Fuck attempted to gag the Guardian’s reporting of a parliamentary ...
  2 weeks ago

• Tabletop Transitional – Scale down to an Angstrom, baby, yeah!

  
  Homologous Legs — Authority: 119
  Good science education tools are useful, as they help get scientific concepts across to the public without breaking brain cells in the process. This one is particularly neat – it’s a clever bit of Flash that lets you scale down from a coffee bean and a grain of rice (the millimeter scale) to a single carbon atom ...
  2 weeks ago

• One last thing on science and the public

  
  Dave Hone's Archosaur Musings — Authority: 128
  Since this has rather turned into science communication, allow me to present a little counter-point to yesterday’s essay by Neil Gostling . Namely this effort from the frankly often extreme and much derided UK daily, the Daily Mail. Read it if you dare / can and worry that, while this might be reactionary ...
  2 weeks ago

• Guest post: Now is not the time to sell science short

  
  Dave Hone's Archosaur Musings — Authority: 128
  I seem to have drifted into ’science communication’ week rather by chance so this gives me an opportunity to put up this piece my my old friend and developmental biologist Neil Gostling that he recently had published in his ‘local’ newspaper in the US. Here it is in full, but you can read the original and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Science lesson on the Late Show

  
  maribo — Authority: 460
  Al Gores long interview with David Letterman last night could serve as an object lesson for scientists on how to relate a complex subject like climate change to a popular audience. Though it is a sad comment on the media that a late night comedian asks better questions about science and the planet than a network news ...
  3 weeks ago

• AGU Workshop on Communicating Climate Change: Media, Dialogue, and Public Engagement

  
  Framing Science — Authority: 415
  For their upcoming annual meetings in San Francisco, the American Geophysical Union is sponsoring a pre-conference workshop introducing scientists, public information officers, journalists, and other attendees to several areas of social science research that examine dimensions of climate change communication and ...
  3 weeks ago

• A concern with internet discussions and academic honesty

  
  Dave Hone's Archosaur Musings — Authority: 128
  In many ways this post is a continuation of the recent one on open access . This post is not intended as a criticism of online discussions (though there are some things that I think are more genuinely problematic) but merely an observation of a problem that is novel thanks to the internet and will I suspect cause ...
  3 weeks ago

• The effect of the media

  
  Dave Hone's Archosaur Musings — Authority: 128
  Clearly I discuss the media on here a lot, and in general they don’t come out of it too well when it comes to science reporting. But the important thing is that it really does matter – the media has a marked and measurable effect on people’s perceptions of reality. Here (in PLoS 1, so free to read) a new study ...
  3 weeks ago

• Global warming survey

  
  My view on climate change — Authority: 108
  Tom Fuller is doing a survey on global warming . He’s writing for the Examiner, with regular commentary about environmental (usually climate change) issues. He’s framing the survey as a search to see where common ground could be found in terms of policy reponses to global warming, which is an interesting and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Slides from public talks

  
  My PhD Blog — Authority: 93
  Yesterday I gave four public talks in Aalborg under the headline “ Facebook and the digital youth culture ” (all talks in Danish, though). During the day I talked at three different high schools and the last talk was in the evening at Studenterhuset . Since many of the attendants asked for my slides I will ...
  3 weeks ago

• Link When Charles Darwin, FRS,(12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) dared not publish: "On the Origins of Species "(1859) until after his death

  
  Materials Science and Engineering Defined — Authority: 406
  Science and scientists in Victorian and Edwardian literary novels: insights into the emergence of a new profession, Public Understand. Sci. 16 (2007) 205–222 comes as good reminder of, who the authors of the time were, and, of their efforts and those of the literary world to bring Science to the wider Public. Link ...
  4 weeks ago

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