The SciCommer: 11 March 2025

A webinar a day helps a science communicator...

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A new report from UN Global Pulse ‘Beyond Numbers: A New Approach to Impact Storytelling’ which is all about breaking silos and communicating change.

NEW SPECIAL ISSUE (I am one of the editors for this call): We invite presenters at the PCST 2025 Conference to submit original research and/or practitioner articles, commentaries, and essays for a special issue of Cultures of Science dedicated to “Identifying, disentangling and reflecting on traditions in science communication”.

Book review: “The Science Media Interface: on the Relation Between Internal and External Science Communication” JCOM 24(01), R04.

There’s a joint statement from the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing and the National Association of Science Writers regarding the ScienceWriters2025 conference as the conference looks for a new host location as University of Pittsburgh and their partners at Carnegie Mellon University are no longer hosting the conference.

The COALESCE project have published a new report Strategies to address critical challenges to effective science-society relations, including misinformation and trust.

In Undark this week an interview with political scientists Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee ‘Did Scientists and the Media Get Covid All Wrong?’

From The Open Notebook: A day in the life of Kamala Thiagarajan, a freelance journalist reporting on global health, science, and environmental issues from Southern India.

Become a More Inclusive and Effective Science Communicator - blog post from the New York Academy of Sciences

CE&N ‘Stephanie Beaupark sees chemistry through an Indigenous lens’

Listen to the Research Unravelled Podcast ‘What counts as a 'meaningful' engagement when involving patients and public with research? How can we elevate the voices of people with lived experience as experts?’

Find grant schemes and funding resources to support community engagement with the global health network, MESH

How best to shape, implement and embed public engagement (PE) in R&I policies and practices in Europe? Join a hybrid event on the 1 of April in Brussels and online, where results and recommendations from the mutual learning exercise PE will be shared and discussed.

Applications are open for the Collaborative Futures Academy 2025. Join passionate engagers from across the globe to share and reflect about your engagement practice. This year's Academy is on the theme of Place, and will run online 1-3 July 2025. Places are funded and therefore free of charge to participants.

I am tempted to agree with this from the LSE Impact of Social Science Blog ‘If we want better academic writing, we should rethink IMRaD’

New Research

• Public discourses and personal narratives of learning from disaster. npj Clim. Action 4, 20 (2025).

• Attitudes and perceptions regarding knowledge translation and community engagement in medical research: the PERSPECT qualitative study. Health Res Policy Sys 23, 29 (2025).

• Endorsement of scientific norms among non-scientists: The role of science news consumption, political ideology, and science field. Public Understanding of Science, 0(0).

• The power of communication to enhance restoration in the Mediterranean region ; Rome Vol. 75, Iss. 255, (2024): 109-116.

• Bringing art and science together to address climate change. Climatic Change 178, 47 (2025).

• Science Communication Project: Articulating Teaching, Research and Outreach Journal of Chemical Education

• “Could I become a scientist?“: Exploring Theater's power to connect the public with science, Technovation, Volume 143, 2025, 103206, ISSN 0166-4972.

• Effective communication during disease outbreaks: the role of data journalism in pandemic and epidemic intelligence. BMC Proc 19 (Suppl 4), 6 (2025).

• "Decisionmakers™ Assessment of Science Communication and Scientific Media Coverage. A Qualitative Study Focussing on Materials Science," Studies in Media and Communication, Redfame publishing, vol. 13(1), pages 163-179, March.

• A manuscript from the Health Professions Education Trends in Science Outreach Research through Social Media through Social Media (2000-2023): A Comprehensive Bibliometric Analysis

• The Effects of Inquiry Lessons Emphasizing the Argumentation Process on Scientific Communication Skills. Journal of the Korean Society of Earth Science Education , 17 (3), 194–207.

🗓 The SciComm Diary

NEW ENTRIES TO THE DIARY! I can’t fit all entries in the newsletter here so I just include the new ones. If you are a paid subscriber you can access the full diary listings at any time. You can also see what is coming up this week, for free, via the button below.

• Science communication remote coworking sessions still happen weekly if you are looking for a virtual community!

• WEBINAR 19 MARCH: PCST Member Forum: Supporting Inclusive and Participatory Science Communication in the Face of Challenges

• WEBINAR 19 MARCH: Effective Community Engagement in Global Health Research for Sustainable Change in Africa

• UK OPEN DAY 22 MARCH: MSc Science Communication open event In person [Bristol]

• LONDON EVENT 26 MARCH: Creating knowledge together - how to involve communities in shaping research

• WEBINAR 27 MARCH: Join the Curiosity In Communities Network to connect and share learning with others interested in the role of STEM in youthwork

• LONDON/HYBRID EVENT 28 MARCH: Ri Join Nira Chamberlain as he explores the idea of treating Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) as a purely scientific problem

• HYBRID EVENT 1 APRIL: Mutual Learning Exercise on Public Engagement in Research and Innovation - from policy to practice [Brussels]

• WEBINARS 1 APRIL ONWARDS: The Interact Symposium has a brilliant set of virtual webinars relating to public engagement, running from the 1 of April.

• UK CONFERENCE 10 - 12 APRIL: British Society for Literature and Science (BSLS) Conference 2025 [Lancaster]

• VIRTUAL COURSE 22 APRIL: 10 week online course - Science Communication: Online and Media Writing

• SPAIN CONFERENCE 14-15 May : EUSEA25 Early-Bird Registration now live [Gran Canarias]

• UK CONFERENCE 27 - 29 MAY 2025: PCST (Public Communication of Science and Technology Network Conference [Aberdeen]

• CANADA CONFERENCE 12 - 13 JUNE 2025: Science Writers & Communicators of Canada (SWCC) [New Brunswick, Fredericton campus]

• VIRTUAL ACADEMY 1-3 JULY: Collaborative Futures Academy 2025: The place of engagement

• Netherlands SUMMER SCHOOL 7 - 11 JULY: Summer School Science Communication [Leiden]

• GERMANY SUMMER SCHOOL 7 - 8 JULY: Summer School 2025 on Resilience to Science Hostility led by the The Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG), Berlin School of Public Engagement and Open Science (BSOPE) and Scicomm-Support [Berlin]

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