The SciCommer: 7 Jan 2025

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Hello, it’s 2025! Welcome back to the newsletter. I had a nasty case of the flu that seems to be doing the rounds in Europe at the moment. I do not recommend! As always, you can say thanks through ‘buy me a coffee’ or by taking out a paid subscription to the newsletter.

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📰 In the News

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Early-bird registration is open for the Public Communication of Science and Technology (PCST) Conference 2025 - to be held in Aberdeen, UK.

Published at the end of 2024, a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in the USA provides a comprehensive assessment of the literature on science misinformation.

There’s a new issue of the science poetry journal ‘Consilience’ and the theme is ‘insects’

From the Foresight Africa Blog - From data to dialogue, inclusive science for local change.

Creating an Irish Science, Technology, and Society (STS) Community: an Unconference? - published on the EASST website.

‘Creating a collaborative future between science and society’ in The Analysis

UK based? There’s still time to apply for the fully funded Genetics Society ‘Communicating Your Science Workshop’ residential (but be quick because the deadline is 10 Jan)

New Research

Understanding the experiences of public experts on COVID-19 in Australia Sec. Science and Environmental Communication

The Public Trust in Science Scale: A Multilevel and Multidimensional Approach. Science Communication, 0(0).

Being vulnerable with viewers: Exploring how medical YouTubers communicated about COVID-19 with the public PLOS ONE 19(12): e0313857.

The Lab Report Podcast: Enhancing the Visibility and Communication of Laboratory Medicine, The Journal of Applied Laboratory Medicine, Volume 10, Issue 1, January 2025, Pages 211–213,

Enfoques e abordagens de artigos sobre divulgação científica publicados em periódicos brasileiros . Educação E Pesquisa, 50, e275685. ENGLISH - Perspectives and approaches of articles on science communication published in Brazilian journals^{* 1}

Participatory engagement to reduce communication gaps. Nat Hazards (2024).

A new approach for increasing graduate students’ science communication capacity and confidence. Peer J Life and Environment

🗓 The SciComm Diary

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• TRAINING 15 - 17 JAN 2025: The Scholar’s Voice - A Communications Masterclass for Women in Research

• 16 & 18 JAN 2025: New to STEM Communication? Join the Little Event online

• UK TRAINING 21 JAN: Impact through engagement - FULLY FUNDED by New Scientist Live [London]

• WEBINAR 22 JAN 2025: NCACE Evidence Café 14: Artists and Universities

• VIRTUAL OPEN EVENT 30 JAN: 19:00–20:00 (BST) MSc Science Communication open event | UWE Bristol for an overview of the MSc and the Science Communication Unit.

• USA CONFERENCE 3-4 APRIL 2025: Early-Bird Registration for ScienceTalk 25! is open now [Raleigh, North Carolina]

• JAPAN CONFERENCE 11 - 13 NOV 2025: PCST Tokyo Symposium, Japan – Save the date

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