SciComm Success

As a classicist, I think there's a lot to from ancient cultures. But miasma theory has been debunked by science. Why is US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr, still wedded to it?

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#scicomm #standupforscience #scienceloteracy

Self-Collection for Cervical Cancer Screening in a Safety-Net Setting This randomized clinical trial compares the effectiveness of mailed self-collection kits, with and without patient navigation, to telephone reminders to increase cervical cancer screening in a safety-...

📬🧫 Mailing it in: home HPV kits boost screening

A new trial shows mailing cervical cancer self-test kits doubled screening rates in underserved communities.

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#SciComm #PublicHealth 🧪

Funny-not-funny... Dare I include a wry puddle-y sort of smile? 🫠

#StandUpForScience In these uncertain times, "every university, not just across the US, but around the globe, must unite in standing up for truth-telling." - Andrew Graham

Hear, hear!

Read the full piece:
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We're excited! 💃 We've been nominated for the European Enterprise Awards "Excellence In Furthering Science Communication 2024" category.

The winners will be announced in January 2025, so fingers crossed... 🤞

#sciencecommunication #scicomm #awards #EuropeanEnterpriseAwards2024 #scicommsuccess

I Want a Better Catastrophe · Flowchart A flowchart for navigating our climate predicament

Here's a fascinating way to communicate science and in particular, climate communication. Take a look, and then tell me what you think...

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Could this inspire better #scicomm?

#climatechange #climatecrisis #flowchart #climatecommunication #sciencecommunication

„Farmers need to be active actors in climate communication“ While scientists, policymakers and activists are very present in the climate dialogue, other voices are less likely to be heard. In her study, İlkay Unay-Gailhard from the Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO) analyzed how young farmers are using TikTok to get involved the global discourse on agriculture and climate change.  Mrs […]

"Farmers need to be active actors in climate communication" - on TikTok, no less!

Interview: İlkay Unay-Gailhard talks about her research into how young farmers are using TikTok to get involved the global discourse on agriculture & climate change.

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#scicomm #tiktok

A few months old, but an interesting read nonetheless.

Mastodon over Mammon: towards publicly owned scholarly knowledge:
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#socialmedia #research #science #communication #scicomm

ChatGPT generates fake data set to support scientific hypothesis Nature - Researchers say that the model behind the chatbot fabricated a convincing bogus database, but a forensic examination shows it doesn’t pass for authentic.

ChatGPT generates fake data set to support scientific hypothesis: www.nature.com/artic...

How much harder does this make science communication?!

#nature #chatgp #sciencecommunication #scicomm

The new Twitter is changing rapidly — study it before it’s too late Nature - Social-media researchers overemphasized the platform now called X for years. But now, as it rapidly changes into something new and frightening, we risk paying too little attention.

The new Twitter is changing rapidly — @mikecaulfield.bsky.social suggests that we it before it’s too late: social-media researchers overemphasized the platform for years. But now, as it rapidly changes into something new & frightening, we risk paying too little attention.

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The wealth of nations from #fossil fuels is mind-boggling...

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#bostonuniversity #bu #VisualizeEnergy

Good grief - Blue Sky. Spelling... 🙃

Caption; The physicists’ attempt to unify their theories faltered almost immediately due to a fundamental disagreement on the nature of gravity. Image: A scientist stands before a blackboard upon which is written, upside down, the equation for Newton's law of universal gravitation. “You’ve written it upside down!” he shouts to another scientist who is standing on the ceiling (so that the equation reads correctly to him) and who replies “I have not!”

A recent cartoon for New Scientist 🧪

University of Innsbruck focuses on Mastodon The communications team at the University of Innsbruck will increasingly rely on the microblogging service Mastodon for science communication. Mastodon is a non-commercial and data protection-friendly platform with functions similar to the former Twitter. For this purpose, an instance has been created at social.uibk.ac.at on university servers, which is open to the university's organizational units. The active use of X will be significantly reduced.

Great to see Innsbruck University shifting away from TwitteX & over to Mastodon. The question is how long it will take other universities, research orgs, researchers & scientists to move to #Mastodon or #BlueSky - and which platform will become the new space for #scicomm.

www.uibk.ac.at/en/ne...

Thousands of scientists are cutting back on Twitter, seeding angst and uncertainty Nature - A Nature survey reveals scientists’ reasons for leaving the social-media platform now known as X, and what they are doing to build and maintain a sense of community.

Thousands of scientists are cutting back on Twitter/X: A Nature survey reveals scientists’ reasons for leaving the social-media platform, and what they are doing to build and maintain a sense of community.

So where to now? (Blue Skye, of course!)

www.nature.com/artic...

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