Tag Archives: science communication
For shame: Trolls defeat Scientific American, Popular Science
Every publication makes mistakes. Great publications learn from those mistakes, and the best publications also learn from the mistakes of others. So imagine my surprise at seeing two legendary publications make compounding mistakes by taking serious missteps with their communities. I'm talking about Popular Science and Scientific American, two of the oldest and most revered publications for the popularization and support of the scientific enterprise. Both publications will easily survive these missteps, but they are leaders in the field, and those who follow their recent moves will be led astray.
ars technica.
What Does a Scientist Want?
Do you belong to professional societies? What journals are central to your work? Do you attend conferences? What is your view of open access? If you could fix one thing about scholarly communications, what would it be?
The scholarly kitchen.
The pleasure of talking about science
'The Incomplete Map of the Cosmic Genome' shows off the friendly, enthusiastic faces of science in a new iPad app
I've got a riddle for you: when is a documentary not a documentary? When it's an iPad app called The Incomplete Map of the Cosmic Genome by Robin Ince. It's funny because it's true.
The Guardian, Occams's Corner.
IT WAS A VERY BIG YEAR, I THINK, FOR OPEN ACCESS
Stephen Curry, professor for biophysics at Imperial College, London and open access advocate, in an interview with Katherine Powell, currently studying an MSc in Science Communication and one of the editors of Refractive Index, a bog on science communication, Imperial College London.The transformation of science communication: from subscription to open access
The transformation of science communication: from subscription to open accessCheck out this presentation (In German) by Heinz Pampel.
Introducing: Scicurious Guest Writers!
Introducing: Scicurious Guest Writers!In my many travels as a science blogger, I have run across many young scientists who are in the position I was in when I started my blog: unsure, wanting to get writing experience and try something new, but not having any idea how to begin.
Well, you can start by practicing!
Scientific American Blogs.
Frist German crowdfunding platform for science: Sciencestarter
Frist German crowdfunding platform for science: SciencestarterWissenschaft im Dialog aims at supporting small research projects as well as science communication.
How about using horse dung in biogas plants?
Or how about a German language version of mapping the (illegal) growth of cannabis in various countries across the world?
Or would you rather have a deeper insight into Africa’s (oral) literature?
Have a look at the first projects and see also the résumé being the first week online.
http://vimeo.com/50738950
Crowdsourcing Discovery:
“It is time to experiment with the way we experiment. Using the Internet, we will enable the public to fund and participate in an open model of basic scientific research.”
See also the post from Oct., 15th 2012 referting to the Ethan O. Perlstein Lab.
(Source: http://vimeo.com/)
Popular Science Writing by a Scientist: An Interview with Rob Dunn
Popular Science Writing by a Scientist: An Interview with Rob DunnRob Dunn, biologist and writer in the Department of Biology at North Carolina State University on popular science writing:
My writing opens up new perspectives I had been missing. It changes how I think about what matters. I feel an obligation to the public to help people understand the ecology and evolution of the world around us, and I think that this sense of obligation is an opportunity. On a more ordinary level, my writing allows me to engage more and different audiences.
SciLogs.