Dominique Brossard

Dominique Brossard receives the 2025 Sharon Dunwoody Excellent Mentor Award

Excited and humbled to have received the Sharon Dunwoody Excellence in Mentoring Award at the 2025 @comsher.bsky.social Convention!Thanks so much to the former students and colleagues who have nominated me, working and learning from all of you is what makes academic life worthwhile!

"Scientists must compete in an attention economy in which they are just one of many voices, and in which ... algorithms now serve as ... gatekeeper."

Is #scicomm becoming its own wicked problem? With huge gratitude to my co-authors, excited to finally see this in "print" ...

#openaccess

‘No Seed Oil’ Restaurants Seize the Moment As the anti-seed-oil movement picks up steam, many restaurants are leaning on “no seed oils” as part of their messaging and marketing.

The only way people seem able to navigate diet is to fixate on ONE THING that is the BAD THING.

That was wrong when it was sugar, HFCS, GMOs, gluten, lectins, meat, whatever. And of course it's just as wrong for seed oils.
www.eater.com/politics/883...

@morgridgeinstitute.bsky.social CEO Brad Schwartz discussing biomedical research and regulatory processe at the Mount Horeb, WI, public library. #scicomm in action!

Ooo! Ooo! This should be a contest. Can you out-predict the Economist's SCOTUS AI model?

Winners get a subscription.

👩‍🏫 Und Olaf Kramer wird zusammen mit @hendriks.bsky.social, Ayelet Baram Tsabari und @brossard.bsky.social Teil des Panels "𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗔𝗜 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴: 𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀" sein.

Missed this weeks talk? You can find a full recording at the link below!

youtu.be/J1wb8hGiNsU

Weekend reads: MIT rescinds support of AI paper; should AI write science papers, anyway?; another pub steps in for paused NIH journal How do retractions impact researchers’ career paths and collaborations? A Q&A with the study’s authors Clarivate to stop counting citations to retracted articles in journals’ impact facto…

Weekend reads: MIT rescinds support of AI paper; should AI write science papers, anyway?; another pub steps in for paused NIH journal

Clarivate to stop counting citations to retracted articles in journals’ impact factors Clarivate will no longer include citations to and from retracted papers when calculating journal impact factors, the company announced today.  The change comes after some have wondered over th…

Clarivate to stop counting citations to retracted articles in journals’ impact factors

Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.

“This is why I must step away from my work with two federal institutions … that offer guidance about how the Executive and Legislative branches can be stewards of knowledge and create structure to enable discovery, innovation, and ingenuity.”

Bright blue lines connect at nodes, set against a black background.

"Governance should not be understood as an impediment to AI innovation but as an essential component of it." A new article in the National Academy of Engineering's The Bridge from @alondra.bsky.social discusses the value of policy and governance for AI systems. Read now: buff.ly/sFRy6qW

It's that season once again 🍂 ☀️ ❄️ 🌱 so please spread the word: Science, Technology, & Human Values are pleased to announce that we are taking proposals for Special Issues of the journal 📬 ⏰ The call closes 21 June 2025 - and you can find details in the form: forms.gle/6uYdQim9J1z5...

At the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Always exciting to be in the beautiful @nationalacademies.org building and see the amazing, important work they do at the intersection of science and policy! Honored to be a member of one of their Advisory Committees

Read European Journalism now! — The European Correspondent The European Correspondent is the place where you read about the climate crisis, migration, digitisation and much more – with an European angle!

Important. Politicians may be getting a “false negative” reading of the state of politics from media and social media that monetise polarisation. This sort of thing and more citizen participation can help.

@eurcorrespond.bsky.social

www.europeancorrespondent.com/article?s=Ri...

... and thank you to alumna Holly Cho for a powerful reminder of what #scicomm is all about in a keynote that I hope a lot of people will read:

lsc.wisc.edu/wp-content/u...

Office of the Director (OD) $4 Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) $5 Biological Sciences (BIO) $15 Engineering (ENG) $25 Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) $34 Geosciences (GEO) $34 Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) $35 Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) $41 STEM Education (EDU) $590

🧪 Data update on NSF grant terminations

Including last Friday's terminations, STEM education grants now account for...

54% of terminated NSF grants (751 of 1381)
75% of terminated NSF funding ($590M of $783M)

The next generation of scientists is being targeted.

#WithoutNSF #SaveNSF

As the DOJ questions journals, how can we reasonably promote “competing viewpoints” in science? We need to focus on doing better science, not filling quotas.

'As the DOJ questions journals, how can we reasonably promote “competing viewpoints” in science?'

heterodoxacademy.substack.com/p/as-the-doj...

Trump’s team, often accused of spreading misinformation, slashes misinformation research Hundreds of grants axed in a field where the United States was a global leader

“As long as COVID and President Trump are the two most easily retrievable examples of what misinformation correction looks like, we have a problem.”

Always great talking to (and getting pushback from) @kakape.bsky.social …

Taught by @wiscobirder.bsky.social and open to all!

Our cover this week.

"LSC was the nation’s first department of agricultural journalism ... and now we are the first to launch a PhD program in science communication."

The end of an era in @uw-lsc.bsky.social. Huge thanks to @brossard.bsky.social for all her work positioning LSC at the very top of our field ...

Dominique Brossard in front of slide reading Trust in "science" but trust in whom? In what context? To do what?

Excited to spend today at the Science Communications Conference at St. Olaf College.

@brossard.bsky.social starts us off "Communicating science is very important but it's also very hard"

When thinking about "trust in science" what do we mean, trust in whom, in what context, to do what? 1/

Science Communication Conference program

Excited to be on the beautiful St Olaf College campus for a #scicomm conference! Thanks for having me!

We are excited to announce that this Saturday, LSC Professor and Chair @brossard.bsky.social will be presenting on "Trust in Science: Where Are We and Where Do We Go From There" at St. Olaf College's Science Communications Conference

Learn more at: wp.stolaf.edu/news/the-ins...

From the Science Communication Incubator Lab (SCI Lab) co-led by @dietram.bsky.social, a new study brings together filmmakers and scientists to assess racial and gender biases in the public's perception of scientists in film.

Race and gender biases persist in public perceptions of scientists’ credibility - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Race and gender biases persist in public perceptions of scientists’ credibility

"Black female scientists received the lowest ratings in both warmth and competence, with ratings dropping further when introducing a story about a White patient."

Depressing findings from one of the more unusual research-practice partnerships I've had the privilege to be part of ...

It was great to participate in this report, thanks for inviting me! #scicomm #trustinscience

Trust in science for policy Nexus - Publications Office of the EU The "Trust in Science for Policy Nexus" workshop, held in Ispra, Italy, on September 12-13, 2024, convened by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre, the International Science Cou...

🌍🔍 Bridging the Gap: Trust in Science for Policy 🌍🔍

Recent months have seen mounting challenges for science globally.

We’re excited to share insights from our recent workshop with the ISC, NSF and JRC, compiled into a report "Trust in Science for Policy Nexus."

dx.doi.org/10.2760/6212...

It was great to participate in this workshop!

New name, same great program.

The Department of Life Sciences Communication has answered the growing demand for experts in science communication with the newly renamed Science Communication PhD program.

Learn more at: lsc.wisc.edu/2025/03/06/d...