Friday watch tip: How do we know Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas? The new explainer video from the Planetary Boundaries Science Lab shows you how with a simple experiment that you can try!
#ClimateChange #PlanetaryBoundariesScience #SciComms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYQ9dBIwfu0
#scicomms
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Weekend watch tip: Want climate change explained in under two minutes? The new explainer video from the Planetary Boundaries Science Lab has it covered. #PlanetaryBoundaries #SciComms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8ByMS7e_Bs
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Please don't misunderstand me: I'm not saying that this is something we shouldn't do. I think it's something we have to do.
But I think the people who do #sciencecommunication need to prepare themselves for a new onslaught of weaponized stupidity.
The link above mentions how science was done more publicly during COVID. I'm sure the editors meant something different, but the entire US scientific community is being destroyed right now because of what happened then.
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#News: Making clever climate 
comparisons over time increases public perception of #climatechange impacts. This approach could be key to breaking through #climate apathy. #SciComms #ClimateAction #Comms #Campaigns https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/04/250424165638.htm?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer
#News: 
#Research reveals that thinking about the future and writing a letter to a child in the future motivates #climateaction and boosts engagement with environment. #BehavioralScience #Campaigns #SciComms #Comms 
️ #Boycott4Wildlife
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/05/250514180737.htm?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer
Australian #science #scicomms expert @JulianCribb tackles the most pressing needs for our survival on #Earth as we reach the pointy end of the #Anthropocene era #ClimateActionNow #BoycottGold4Yanomami #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect https://palmoildetectives.com/2023/08/05/op-ed-a-plan-for-preserving-a-habitable-earth-by-julian-cribb/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer
#News: Scientists call for #storytelling in #science to effectively communicate #climatechange and #extinction in order to push for urgent action. Time to connect data with emotion to inspire people. #Biodiversity #ScienceCommunication #SciComms https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/04/250402123035.htm?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer
We have an opening for a Reviews Editor on our journal Development @Dev_journal. If you love #DevelopmentalBiology and its academic community, and have an interest in publishing and science communication, this could be the role for you. Full details here: https://biologists.com/wp-content/uploads/RevEd_DEV.pdf
The application deadline is 31 March 2025, but we will consider candidates on a rolling basis so encourage early application.
#careersinpublishing #editor #scicomms
Looks like #iflscience went to a #paywall and #personaldata gathering model. Sad, it had potential.
Any recommendations for good #science #blogs , #websites , and the like. Any topic is fine as long as #rss is available.
Last few days to apply to become @the_node and @focalplane_jcs conference reporters at our Biologists @ 100 conference, 24-27 March 2025 in Liverpool, UK.
So if you are you keen to get more science communication experience, find out more and apply by 29 November:
- the Node conference reporter (developmental and stem cell biology): https://thenode.biologists.com/apply-to-become-a-reporter-at-the-biologists-100-conference/news/
- FocalPlane conference reporter (cell biology and microscopy): https://focalplane.biologists.com/2024/10/03/apply-to-become-a-reporter-at-the-biologists-100-conference/
I'm off to Coogee today, where tar balls have been washing up on the beach.
My oceanography colleague Matt England was interviewed and explains where they might have come from:
Hundreds of tar balls have surfaced on Sydney beaches. But what are they? - ABC News
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-17/coogee-beach-tar-balls-everything-you-need-to-know/104482828
ABC News · Hundreds of tar balls have surfaced on Sydney beaches. But what are they?
Extinct Biblical Tree Resurrected From 1,000 Year Old Seed Found In Cave, study published by Communications Biology
#Extinct #trees #archaeology #botany
#Levant #Bible #SciComms
https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2024/09/27/extinct-biblical-tree-resurrected-from-ancient-seed-found-in-cave/
Extinct Biblical Tree Resurrected From 1,000 Year Old Seed Found In Cave, study published by Communications Biology
#Extinct #trees #archaeology #botany #Levant #Bible #SciComms https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2024/09/27/extinct-biblical-tree-resurrected-from-ancient-seed-found-in-cave/
A walking tour of Sydney's historical water supply systems, 22nd Sept, led by my former colleague Stuart Khan.
Sign up here and get your steps in!
https://atse.eventsair.com/professor-khans-historic-walking-tour-of-sydney-2/register/Site/Register
atse.eventsair.comProfessor Khan's historic walking tour of Sydney
Really interesting piece by @Andy_Tattersall from #LSE which asks where have all the #academic #Twitter and #SocialMedia #SocMed accounts gone (now that X is a burning dumpster fire)?
Also provides a very handy spreadsheet of *where* those accounts have gone.
Interesting finding - many of the accounts on alternative platforms such as Threads and BlueSky are inactive - they appear to be reserving name only.
Impact of Social Sciences · If ‘academic X’ is sinking, where are research organisations going?For research communications professionals and academics, X can feel a little like being the band on the Titanic, defiantly playing on as the once great ship slides under the water. As a number of a…
On anti-science, in the Journal of Virology, this quote from the authors:
"For the health of scientific inquiry, the attacks on scientists should be a priority for national science institutions and foundations. Major scientific organizations must unite in developing programs to counter anti-science movements."
Read the article here:
https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jvi.01240-24
#science #research #scicomms #COVID #anti-science #journaliam #academia
Congratulations to SWC postdoc Jasmine Reggiani on being awarded an ABSW Media Fellowship! She’s writing for IFLScience, supported by the SWC 
Check out one of her latest articles 
IFLScience · Where Does Creativity Come From? Scientists Work Out A Piece Of The Puzzle
The rain stayed away from the official opening of the Wild Deserts garden at UNSW Sydney. Which happens to be outside my office, so I was there.
The garden is celebrating the team of researchers working to re establish bilbies. The giant bilby in the photo is made from offcuts of the fence that has been keeping the bilbies safe and allowing a population to establish before 'rewilding'.
Must-listen interview with Dr. @ayanaeliza, as brilliant a climate communicator as @kathhayhoe, and sharing very similar concepts, but with a very distinct voice.
Her own summary:
Q&A in NYT on unsatisfying consumerism, not eating octopuses 
, anger and hope, political polarization, possible climate futures, and how the answer is community. Also, I interview the interviewer about his “soft climate denial.” And, of course: What if we get it right? 
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/18/magazine/ayana-elizabeth-johnson-interview.html?unlocked_article_code=1.tE0.ltV8.-moxc5kT0Zfy&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb #climate #scicomms
The New York Times · ‘The Interview’: Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
AI-generated nonsense is leaking into scientific journals
Text outputs from large language models are littering paper mills—and even some peer-reviewed publications.
https://www.popsci.com/technology/ai-generated-text-scientific-journals/
Popular Science · AI-generated nonsense is leaking into scientific journalsText outputs from large language models are littering paper mills—and even some peer-reviewed publications.