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11/06/2018

Speaking about science: a student-led training program improves graduate students' skills in public communication

Melissa D. Clarkson, Juliana Houghton, William Chen and Jessica Rohde

External assessments, self-assessments and survey data have demonstrated that the Engage course - a graduate-student-created and led program at the University of Washington for graduate students in scientific disciplines - has a positive effect on trainees’ skills in communicating with public audiences.

04/06/2018

Open and transparent research practices and public perceptions of the trustworthiness of agricultural biotechnology organizations

Asheley R. Landrum, Joseph Hilgard, Robert B. Lull, Heather Akin and Kathleen Hall Jamieson

The results suggest that commitment to, and communication of, open and transparent research practices should be part of the process of implementing agricultural biotechnologies.” A deep analysis of elements affecting public trust in agricultural biotechnology organizations producing GMOs.

22/05/2018

Communicating science through the Comics & Science Workshops: the Sarabandes research project

Cecile de Hosson, Laurence Bordenave, Pierre-Laurent Daures, Nicolas Décamp, Christophe Hache, Julie Horoks, Nassima Guediri and Eirini Matalliotaki-Fouchaux

Comics & Science workshops where teenagers are asked to create a one-page comic strip based on a scientific presentation given by a PhD student can be a powerful tool to understand the reasons for certain choices of science illustration or storytelling.

15/05/2018

Optimism in a sea of uncertainties: the journalistic coverage on the research of new medicines in Brazil

Carlos Henrique Fioravanti and César Maschio Fioravanti

The journalistic coverage of biologically active compounds presented as promising drugs in Brazil – although only two of them completed the evaluation tests and got approved for commercialization – provides insights and strategies to build a more analytical view on drug research and development.

 

07/05/2018

To know or not to know: uncertainty is the answer. Synthesis of six different science exhibition contexts

Helena Thuneberg and Hannu Salmi

By analysing answers provided by young students before and after visiting a science exhibition, the authors try to identify whether uncertainty of knowing can represent “a matter of emerging critical thinking, self-reflection and weighing of whether one has sufficient evidence to decide.”

13/03/2018

Climate change news reporting in Pakistan: a qualitative analysis of environmental journalists and the barriers they face

Asim Sharif and Fabien Medvecky

From politics to economy, find out what impacts Pakistan's still low media coverage of climate change issues in one of the most affected by its effects countries.

06/02/2018

Appealing to different motivations in a message to recruit citizen scientists: results of a field experiment

Tae Kyoung Lee, Kevin Crowston, Mahboobeh Harandi, Carsten Østerlund and Grant Miller

The appeal of joining a community, or learning about science might not be the most powerful messages to motivate citizens to participate in Citizen Science projects…

16/01/2018

Alter egos: an exploration of the perspectives and identities of science comic creators

Jordan Collver and Emma Weitkamp

Through qualitative, semi-structured interviews with 14 science comic creators, the paper explores their identities and perceptions of their role in science communication.

13/12/2017

The “Gateway Belief” illusion: reanalyzing the results of a scientific-consensus messaging study

Dan Kahan

This paper analyzes data collected but not reported in the study featured in van der Linden, Leiserowitz, Feinberg, and Maibach [van der Linden et al., 2015].

13/12/2017

Gateway illusion or cultural cognition confusion?

Sander van der Linden, Anthony Leiserowitz and Edward Maibach

In this paper, we respond to the critiques presented by [Kahan, 2017].

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