The SciCommer Newsletter: 17 June - Vaccine hesitancy and scicomm prizewinner
The latest from science communication
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📰 In the News
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In Nature ‘How to speak to a vaccine sceptic: research reveals what works’
In the LSE Impact Blog ‘How to master data visualisation for impactful storytelling’ and ‘Why science needs better knowledge maps’
‘Beyond Tragedy and Hype: Covering Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease Accurately’ The Open Notebook provides guidance, support, training and networking for science journalists.
AI-generated podcasts open new doors to make science accessible
From the European Science Media Hub ‘Science communication beyond the headlines: interview with science journalist Kai Kupferschmidt’
Show and tell: Using honesty to confront uncertainty in science communication
Professor Bruce Lewenstein wins science communication prize
These projects are using food to get audiences to care about climate change and the Guardian runs this opinion peice from COP30 ‘World faces new danger of ‘economic denial’ in climate fight, Cop30 head says’
From America: NIH staff break ranks in open letter to Director Jay Bhattacharya and in Undark ‘Opinion: The U.S. Government Is Starving Its Own Scientists of Knowledge’. You can get up-to-date news on the impact Trump is having on science and Higher Education in the USA via Unbreaking.
New Research
Integrating Bioethics and Science Communication Insights to Promote Translational Justice, Critical Consciousness, and Global Health Equity in COVID-19 Vaccination. The American Journal of Bioethics, 25(6), 120–124.
Gerken, M. Scientific values and value-based science reporting. Philos Stud (2025).
Accessibility in online exhibitions of Brazilian science museums and centers: identifying strategies and barriers. Front. Educ. 10:1542430.
Micro-patronage for research communication: the Lingthusiasm podcast as a case study of a sustainable funding model JCOM 24(03), N04.
Supporting the Emergence of Science Capital in Minoritized Youth Through Guided Experiences as Facilitators of Science Outreach. J Res Sci Teach.
Scientist versus nonscientist: identity, threat, derogation and agreement with the knowledge deficit hypothesis among STEM students in the US. International Journal of Science Education, Part B, 1–18.
Disease, denomination and de-stigmatisation: A content analysis of SARS-CoV-2 variant naming and re-naming in Australian news media JCOM 24(03), A05.
Generative AI in Science Communication: Fostering Scientists’ Good Working Habits for Ethical and Effective Use. Science Communication, 0(0).
🗓 The SciComm Diary
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WEBINAR 19 JUNE 2025: Cluster Event Advancing Public Engagement and Citizen Science in the ERA – Registration for online participation
UK CONFERENCE 24 - 25 JUNE 2025: The Ethics of Health Communication [London]
UK CONFERENCE 26 JUNE 2025: ABSW Summer School 2025 [London] - there are diversity scholarships available
USA CONFERENCE 14 -17 JULY 2025: Medicine in the Media [New York]
UK/Hybrid CONFERENCE 28 - 30 AUGUST 2025: Talking Maths in Public - and now bursaries are available [Warwick]
UK CONFERENCE 9 SEPT 2025: Association for Science and Discovery Centres (ASDC) Conference: The next 25 years - In person at the National Science and Media Museum [Bradford]
VIRTUAL WEBINAR 24 SEPT 2025: Working With Audiences Underrepresented in the Physical Sciences
UK: Filmmaking course 20-22 OCT 2025: Popular Science Filmmaking course is back! [Bristol]
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USA: Apply for the Health and Climate Change Reporting Fellowship (for journalists)
UK: Royal Society of Biology is looking for a Communications Intern [London based] London Living Wage - £13.85 per hour
UK: The Science Media Centre is looking for a Trainee Press Officer (one-year, fixed term) £27,000 [London]
UK: Health Sciences University is looking for a Outreach & Participation Officer £23,073 to £27,879 [Bournemouth]
UK: University of East Anglia is looking for a Public Events & Engagement Assistant (Part-time, 0.8 FTE) £24,344 per annum, pro rata with an annual increment up to £25,733 per annum pro rata [Norwich]
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