Amanda Webber

Congratulations to Polly Doodson who successfully defended her PhD "Exploring Public Perceptions of ‘Meet & Greet’ Animal-Visitor Interactions in BIAZA Zoos" earlier this month.

Her supervisors were Professor Vicky Melfi, Dr Lucy Dumbell (Hartpury University) and @doc-webber.bsky.social (SCU).

We are very excited to be one of the exhibitors at the Minoritised Life Scientists Future Forum (MLSFF) 31 March to 2 April 2025!

@doc-webber.bsky.social will be representing the SCU on day 2 of the event.

mlsfutureforum.com/exhibition/e...

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✨️ Interested in finding out more about our MSc Science Communication? Join me in Bristol on 22 March or online on 25 March (details below).

The MSc has been running for 20 years and has a great international reputation. Find out what our graduates are up to now:
blogs.uwe.ac.uk/science-comm...

@scicommsuwe.bsky.social @uwebristolofficial.bsky.social

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3 people in headphones in radio studio

Photo of radio studio with people at mixing desk and others in the studio

Fabulous day at BBC Cardiff yesterday - our MSc Science Communication students were doing their 'as live' radio broadcasts and then got a tour of all of the studios. Brilliant opportunity 🎙✨️

Come and find out more about our MSc Science Communication at our Open Day! I will be there to answer any questions you may have. Registration info 👇

@scicommsuwe.bsky.social @uwebristolofficial.bsky.social

📢 Our 10 week Online & Media Writing course is open for applications!

#scicomm #sciwriting

🆕 Blog post

Read all about MSc Science Communication student Isabelle Baxter's MSc project exploring how visual storytelling can make complex #forensicscience more accessible in the courtroom! ⤵️

blogs.uwe.ac.uk/science-comm...

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#scicomm #sciencecommunication

list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

✨️ It is TODAY✨️
Log in online and we can chat about all things MSc Science Communication and @scicommsuwe.bsky.social (all details below). Our programme has been running for 20 years and has a great international reputation. Come and find out more....
#scicomm @uwebristolofficial.bsky.social

Most of us trust scientists, shows a survey of nearly 72,000 people worldwide A global new survey shows there’s no crisis of trust in scientists, as some might claim. But there are some nuances.

📣 *New science alert*

🌏Global trust in scientists project led by @colognaviktoria.bsky.social and @nielsmede.bsky.social is out today in Nature Human Behaviour: go.nature.com/40pox5P

🦘Some interesting Australia-specific results in our Conversation piece below, led by @mdmarques.com

New #preprint! We surveyed 71,922 people in 68 countries to find out: Where do they come across information about #science? How do they #communicate about it? We also tested country factors like #AcademicFreedom and #PressFreedom and identified interesting patterns 🔎
➡️ osf.io/preprints/os...
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If you are interested in an MSc in Science Communication join me on 30 January 7-8pm (uk time). Joining info below....

What does a scientist look like? Where I Work is an award-winning photography feature from the journal Nature. It celebrates the many roles and types of research undertaken by scientists globally, and challenges stereotypical percept...

What does a scientist look like?
www.nature.com/immersive/wh...
#scicomm

Reimagining the language of engagement in a post-stakeholder world - Sustainability Science Language matters in shaping perceptions and guiding behaviour. The term stakeholder is widely used, yet little attention is paid to the possibility that its use may inadvertently perpetuate colonial n...

"Ultimately, if the goal is to include and enable more people to engage with and benefit from research... then to be truly inclusive and facilitate both human and non-human agency, we need to move beyond the term stakeholder".
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

"If we continue with the same old messages, the same old 'narrative frames', then we will keep losing the climate fight"

www.wearefuterra.com/thinks/stori...

Welcome @coalesceproject.eu ✨️

Very pleased to be part of this special issue with @clarewilk4.bsky.social looking at threshold concepts in #scicomm ✨️

Insects (Issue 19) — Consilience Issue 19 of Consilience features poetry and artwork that explores the topic of 'insects'.

#LoveLD - love #creativeHE - love that Issue 19 of the science, poetry, & art journal Consilience, has just been published!
www.consilience-journal.com/issue-19
The issue features poetry and artwork that explores the scientific topic of ‘Insects’.
#SciComm #SciArt #Poetry #seda #LTHEchat

“Communication, to succeed, requires empathy. Empathy requires not just understanding what someone knows, but what drives them, and what connects them to you and the science you are presenting to them”

Read my piece on Geoscientist on the use of art for scicomm > geoscientist.online/sections/une...

‘It’s kind of placed a real challenge in my head’: threshold concepts and science communication education ‘Threshold concepts' have recently been identified as a key component for higher or university level teaching in science communication, concepts which can offer a ‘transformative' experience amongs...

New open access paper: uniting #teachingHE and #scicomm
Here @clarewilk4.bsky.social and myself worked with some of our MSc Science Communication students to consider threshold concepts. Great to reflect on our teaching and contribute to this important research field
doi.org/10.1080/2154...

Join me at our January online open event for the @scicommsuwe.bsky.social MSc Science Communication - ask me ALL the questions ✨️

A new episode of 'SciComm Conversations' with @achintyarao.in: measuring trust in scientists #scicomm

a cartoon fox is waving its paw in the air and says hello . ALT: a cartoon fox is waving its paw in the air and says hello .

Hello #scicomm peeps, the Science Communication Unit here at @uwebristolofficial.bsky.social are excited to be on Bluesky! 😀

Do give us a follow for all things #sciencecommunication research, teaching and practice!

🆕We're recruiting for an Assistant Editor & Network Developer to join our Science for Environment Policy
team at UWE Bristol!

⏰ Apply by 5 Jan 2025

Search for 'Editor & Network Developer' via the link below for more info & how to apply:
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You too! Would love to catch up in person at some point too!

A place for natural history in the 21st century Natural history provides an important basis for observing interactions between organisms in their environments. Biotropica recently inaugurated a new paper category called “Natural History Field Note....

Quote: "It is very hard to interpret big data in ecology in meaningful ways if you do not know anything about who the organisms are and what they do in the environment."
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Don't just take it from me, see where are graduates are now!
blogs.uwe.ac.uk/science-comm...

blogs.uwe.ac.uk/science-comm...

Interested in finding out more about our UWE MSc Science Communication? We have been running for 20 years and have built a strong international reputation in that time. Find out more at our online open event on 30 January:
www.uwe.ac.uk/events/msc-s...

I'm new to the place and wanted to say hi ✨️
Lucky enough to be based in UWE's Science Communication Unit and Prog Lead of their MSc. Interested in research that explores people and the environment. I'll be posting about all things #scicomm and #conservation 🌿