Angela Potochnik

They then offer science communication strategies based on these insights for science communicators, mothers, and other caregivers. This original research demonstrates the value of understanding stories and identities in mobilizing mothers for both science skepticism and science advocacy.

explores the obstacles and opportunities for public engagement with scientific topics. After an overview of the nexus of science communication, stories, and identities, the author applies insights from these topics to the case study of motherhood in the climate change and vaccination controversies.

Mothers as Science Storytellers explores how scientific meaning and decision-making are filtered through the stories we tell about science and through our social, cultural, and personal identities. Focusing on mothers as a prominent and important identity in science communication, this Element...

Mothers as Science Storytellers Cambridge Core - Environmental Policy, Economics and Law - Mothers as Science Storytellers

Check out the newest Element in Public Engagement with Science: Mothers as Science Storytellers, by Emma Frances Bloomfield.

Full text free to download until March 12.
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Read "Mothers as Science Storytellers" FREE online until Mar 12! 📖

New in the @universitypress.cambridge.org series edited by @apotochnik.bsky.social & @mjacquart.bsky.social.

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#SciComm #ScienceCommunication #PublicEngagement #STEM #ScienceStorytelling

oops should've tagged: #philsci #philsky

Philosophers tend toward the literal, so engagement with broad themes like this might not feel natural, but many philosophers work on topics related to a metaphorical meaning of "counter." Our department would be happy to engage with any philosophers (or others with related work) in this position.

They are "interested in scholars whose work can speak to the 2026–27 theme “Counter,” which explores questions of quantification, representation, and opposition, asking what kinds of accounting the current moment demands, as well as reflections and responses to what the humanities are up against."

Postdoc opportunity at the Taft Research Center here at the University of Cincinnati for which philosophers are eligible to apply. See here for details and to apply: jobs.uc.edu/job/Taft-Pos...

Patient and Family Perspectives for Trauma-Informed Ethics Consultation: A Pilot Study | The Journal of Clinical Ethics: Vol 37, No 1 Abstract This article reports on a pilot study soliciting patient and caregiver views on trauma-informed principles to influence the provision of trtauma-informed ethics consultation (TIEC). The study...

Excited to have this new paper out, a qualitative study with Sachika Singh and Dani Clark on Patient and Family Perspectives for Trauma-Informed Ethics Consultation.

We piloted a case-based focus group methodology, inviting participants to reflect on two clinical ethics consultation situations. 🧵

Audiobook now available for this introductory philosophy collection. I coauthored a chapter with Dana Tulodziecki @193.bsky.social. Overall it seems like a really interesting approach to introducing philosophical topics.#philsky

Hello all! The PSA DEI Caucus is coming to BlueSky! Hoping to share news about our wonderful membership and our @philsci.bsky.social community at large! Doggo Pic for attention. #philosophy #hps #dei

Thanks Anna! My talk partly drew from Ch 2 of my Science and the Public Element, where I introduce the Vienna Circle as a different model of how philosophy can engage with science and also the public, supplemented with material I've used in teaching. Happy to share the slides if you are interested.

Listening to the first panel on history of #philsci in CEE. Inspiring that so many colleagues around the world tuned in. A wonderful first talk by Marta Sznajder on Janina Hosiasson (her heartbreaking story below). Now Angela Potochnik on the role of Marie Neurath (Reidemeister) in the Vienna Circle

Good question! This collection is new, so I hadn't gotten around to looking into preprint sharing permissions and making a preprint available if allowed. I'll figure that out now and share (assuming possible)!

Check out this video about the chapter Dana Tulodziecki @193.bsky.social and I wrote for the philosophy book, Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny. It's a neat collection, congrats to the editor, Cliff Sosis!

#philsky #philsci #scicomm 🧪

Thanks very much to The Royal Institute of Philosophy for awarding me the Nayef Al-Rodhan Book Prize 2025. Thanks as well to the ERC who funded it, Peter Momtchiloff who commissioned it for OUP, all my LSE team members past and present, and everyone who made the book possible!

I just learned Recipes for Science is coming out in Italian this month! That's fun. (See info about the original English-language version here: www.angelapotochnik.com/recipes.html)

#philsci #philsky #scicomm 🧪
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Check out the schedule of the online conference PSA Around the World Eastern Europe (pm of Nov 6,14,22). A collaboration between @philsci.bsky.social and @eenphilsci.bsky.social it showcases #philsci from, about, and otherwise connected to the region. Wonderful names and titles, looking forward!

Science Communication: The Basics & Public Engagement with Science: Defining the Project Review by Felicity Mellor

This review in Public Understanding of Science puts Melissa Jacquart's and my recent short book, Public Engagement with Science: Defining the Project, in conversation with a recent introduction to science communication.

You can get a PDF of our open access Element here: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

S5 E9 – Miriam Solomon on How Stigma Shapes Psychiatry

This week, we’re joined by Professor Miriam Solomon to discuss stigma and its impact on psychiatry — how it has shaped diagnoses, DSM revisions, and ideas of what counts as disorder

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#hps #philsci #psych

Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk NEW YORK—Insisting your fate was sealed the moment you clicked the link, a report released Tuesday found that you will be fired for reading this headline about Charlie Kirk. “Shortly after you navigat...

Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk

"...The scientific world-conception serves life, and life receives it." Good ol' Vienna Circle.

"...We witness the spirit of the scientific world-conception penetrating in growing measure the forms of personal and public life, in education, upbringing, architecture, and the shaping of economic and social life according to rational principles..."

"Thus, the scientific world-conception is close to the present. Certainly it is threatened with hard struggles and hostility. Nevertheless there are many who do not despair but, in view of the present sociological situation, look forward with hope to the course of events to come..."

Yay more PSA for me!

Just registered for PSA Around the World Eastern Europe. Hope you do too! Organised by @philsci.bsky.social with @eenphilsci.bsky.social this online conference over three afternoons in November covers the past and the present of #philsci in Eastern n Central Europe (where it arguably started!)

Philosophy of Biology Welcome to Cambridge Core

Read all Elements in The Philosophy of Biology series for FREE during the ISHPSSB conference 20 - 25 July. You can find all of these Elements free to download and read here: cup.org/4kEgivL

Tomorrow #ISHPSSB2025

(PDF) On worms, mirror neurons and explaining human behavior PDF | A key challenge for psychological theorizing is: At what level(s) should we look for the best explanations and predictions of human behavior? The... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...

What is more useful for explaining human behavior, neuroscience or folk psychology? In this new book chapter, co-authored with Laura Bringmann, we argue for the latter. Featuring mirror neurons, tiny worms, and Steve buying a banana! www.researchgate.net/publication/...