Cool, accessible article over at #Aeon about the strangeness and complexity of atoms and their components, and how the popular idea that atoms are mostly empty space is problematic.
(The author mentions an episode of Cosmos in which Sagan says that, and which I remember vividly despite the decades in between)
https://aeon.co/essays/why-the-empty-atom-picture-misunderstands-quantum-theory

#PhilosophyOfPhysics #quantumtheory #ScienceComm

How does the scientific publication process work? What role can #OpenAccess play in #ScienceComm? Learn more in the video "Science communication and the publication process":
YouTube: https://youtu.be/DKMzBmCqPiY
@TIB_AVPortal: https://doi.org/10.5446/59396

"...since there is no scientific concept behind the “spillover”, it might be dangerous to base public health and public protection against future pandemics on it."
This is not just a rant on semantics. Science communication must be precise, now more than ever. 1/2
#spillover #sciencecomm #pandemics #viruses
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0013935123012203?via%3Dihub

📢New Blogpost!
Visual artist Simone Rueß reflects on the hybrid workshop “Visualizing Narrative Spaces”, in which she guided #sfb1265 researchers in developing visual abstractions of their research in a collective, performative action.
Read it here: https://sfb1265.de/blog/visualizing-narrative-spaces/
#wiskomm #visualisation #sciencecomm #humanities #experimental #methods

#introduction

Hi! I'm Amy (she/her). I do not have a big social media presence, so am experimenting with finding a friendlier space on this decentralized platform.

I like #hiking, #gardening, #photography, and #naturejournaling. Inside you can usually find me reading, writing, cooking, or drawing. I try to live and eat seasonally with a little flavor of #minimalism.

I work with data and #dataviz and am really interested in #sciencecomm

I realized I have created some science-inspired "memes" over the past years. To not lose them (and their source files) I organized them here: https://github.com/mszell/sciencememes
Hope to add more in the future #sciencecomm

"Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot."

In the newest issue of my #sciencecomm newsletter, The Cassandra Dispatch, I focus on Carl Sagan's famous passage in his book Pale Blue Dot:

https://cassandradispatch.org/carl-sagan-pale-blue-dot/

Make sure to sign up for free to receive the next issue in your inbox. #Science #Astronomy

Are you interested in #scicomm as a career? Is it your career?
Join the professional science communication community at the Association of Science Communicator's Science Talk '23 conference!
Early-bird registration is open until the end of January:
https://www.associationofsciencecommunicators.org/conferences/science-talk-23/

#scitalk23 #science #sciencecomm

Oh, still looking to build up here. If you have suggestions for whom to follow, let them know my name. Big thanks.
#locksport
#locksmith
#science
#sciencecomm
#lcoksmith
#humanrights
#climatecrisis
#LGBTQ
#Alberta
#Canada
#travel
#parrots

Oh, still looking to build up here. If you have suggestions for whom to follow, let them know my name. Big thanks.
#locksport
#locksmith
#science
#sciencecomm
#lcoksmith
#humanrights
#climatecrisis
#LGBTQ
#Alberta
#Canada
#travel
#parrots

Expressing findings and recommendations in a less complex way seems to be a promising way to reach individuals with a high conspiracy mindset - those we have been struggling to reach.
Grateful for this wonderful collaboration. #sciencecommunication #COVID19 #sciencecomm
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0261927X211044789

Expressing findings and recommendations in a less complex way seems to be a promising way to reach individuals with a high conspiracy mindset - those we have been struggling to reach.
Grateful for this wonderful collaboration. #sciencecommunication #COVID19 #sciencecomm
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0261927X211044789

@noogie60
@SolNataMD The people brainwashed into believing it only think that because the Russians/Chinese/Iranians/Saudis who literally own #Twitter ran not one, but TWO #Covid #COVID19 #disinformation campaigns "promoting" it from January - December 2021.

The foreign state bad actors flooded the replies of ALL science communicators #ScienceComm on #Twitter with extreme volumes of disinformation about it.

Traffic levels of this disinfo hit six tweets PER SECOND, at its second peak aimed at the US:

https://nitter.unixfox.eu/TheSpoonless/status/1436749753627381760#m

This was the tactic they used:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_truth_effect

Even as the UNSAFE Twitter "Safety" did NOTHING about it, because it was being posted by foreign state bad actors as PAID ADVERTISING, e.g. #Twitter's ONLY revenue source.

Receipts:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Qult_Headquarters/comments/updkbo/comment/i8khufb/

Receipts:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Qult_Headquarters/comments/yeyxbr/comment/iu1poki/

Anyone (OK OK only me) who tried to call out the foreign state bad actors running these campaigns, was censored. BY #twitter

https://www.reddit.com/r/Qult_Headquarters/comments/yl4nwe/comment/iuwnm83/

@MasonBee A lot of us looking for the science communicators on the other site to try and find #ScienceComm news that the h*llscape of a h*llsite deliberately de-algorithmized - but not hidden from the Russians and Chinese trolls who attacked them at volume.

How do we convey history and culture of #science more meaningfully?

I've been giving presentations at least 15 minutes long sometimes up to 50 minutes - but YouTube shows me the online audience does not stay that long. 70% are gone at 4 minutes.

I'm looking at ways to construct more impactful #scienceComm products.

Thinking of ways to efficiently grab attention, build interest and empathy, and leave audience inspired and curious to learn more. #stayTuned

Ice Crystallization of Soap Bubble is so magical. ❄

This beautiful crystallization of soap bubbles is due to a fluid dynamics effect called the Marangoni flow. This phenomenon occurs when a fluid needs to flow from areas of lower surface tension to areas of higher surface tension, or from hot to cold at an interface.

#sciencecomm #icecrystal

Interesting piece on NY Times about a supposed “wood wide web” — an underground fungal network that allows trees to cooperate by sharing nutrients and “communicating”. The widely believed theory is falling apart under scrutiny, and it's becoming clear it should not have been widely accepted in the first place.

One particular item that I found interesting is how the criticisms of the hypothesis were presented very early, but since the original publications were done in a fancy journal (Nature), the debunked claim flourished nevertheless, while the criticisms were forgotten.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/07/science/trees-fungi-talking.html

This also reminds me of a modern problem with science communication. We're often asked to accept two things simultaneously:

1. Science is a human endeavor, and hence is subject to ideological and cultural biases, societal pressures, consensus dynamics, etc.

2. We need to trust The Science™, and accept the opinion of experts, without second-guessing them.

Obviously we can't have both. This cognitive dissonance is obvious to anyone, and causes distrust in the general population.

It should be clear to any scientist that point 1 is largely true — although not to the same extent across all fields, and certainly not to the absurd levels claimed by some (e.g. that mathematics is inherently white supremacist and needs to be “decolonized”).

Any scientist exerts skepticism in their own field, and there is no reason not to do so for other fields, and not allow the general population to do the same.

I take vaccines and I'm worried about climate change not simply because scientists (even a majority of them) have said so, but because of the evidence and logic presented, which affects my trust on the scientists. I do not trust other fields of science based on the same criteria, despite not having the credentials or detailed expertise — although, of course, one needs to exercise careful humility in these cases.

It's rare to see science communication that embodies skepticism in a healthy way.

#science #sciencecomm #fungus
@complexsystems @networkscience

Jetzt hat sich also wieder jemand die Finger verbrannt. Bald werden solche Systeme wahrscheinlich nicht mehr im Schaufenster liegen, aber immer mehr im Backoffice werkeln. Zur Erinnerung: Elsevier arbeitet daran, Peer Review durch AI erledigen zu lassen. Dann sind Forschende aus der Entscheidung, was relevant für den Diskurs ist, verdrängt und stören nicht mehr.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/18/1063487/meta-large-language-model-ai-only-survived-three-days-gpt-3-science/

#AI #DataCartels #sciencecomm

#introduction 
💼 Job: Assistant Professor of Public Relations at the James Madison University, Virginia, US. 
🔍 Research: how transnational #media and #health organizations #communicate health-related issues within this hyper technological environment and how people consume and engage with that health #information and #mis/disinformation.
📖 Currently: Working on public opinion about #vaccines and #climatechange in the US. 
#️⃣ #academic, #climatexhange, #GlobalSouth, #healthcomm, #sciencecomm

#introduction 
💼 Job: Assistant Professor of Public Relations at the James Madison University, Virginia, US. 
🔍 Research: how transnational #media and #health organizations #communicate health-related issues within this hyper technological environment and how people consume and engage with that health #information and #mis/disinformation.
📖 Currently: Working on public opinion about #vaccines and #climatechange in the US. 
#️⃣ #academic, #climatexhange, #GlobalSouth, #healthcomm, #sciencecomm