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Tag Archives: #scicomm
This. Is. Not. Science’s. Job.
My title is a paraphrase of something Michael Tobis said during the marathon Twitter discussion about RCP8.5, which I thought I would use to discuss something about science communication that I’ve mentioned a number of times before. During the RCP8.5 … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, Research, Scientists, The philosophy of science
Tagged #scicomm, Chris Nelder, Lobbyists, Persuasion, Science communication
83 Comments
Public involvement in science
I had a brief discussion on Twitter yesterday about science communication, in which the other party seemed to be suggesting that we should recognise that lots of science comes up from the streets and that we should have more people … Continue reading
Scientists need to….
There was a recent article by Roger Highfield called Scientists need to ditch tribalism and stop shouting down outsiders. It was mostly an interesting interview with Hannah Fry who said I think that scientists and science supporters often close ranks … Continue reading
Posted in ClimateBall, Personal, Pseudoscience, Scientists
Tagged #scicomm, civility, Hannah Fry, Roger Highfield, Science communication, Tribal
107 Comments
Political Scientists
Gavin Schmidt had a bit of a rant on Twitter about some political scientists find[ing] ways to blame climate scientists for the lack of progress in CO2 emission reductions. We should dedicate February as #findaclimatescapegoat month as yet again some … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, ClimateBall, Gavin Schmidt, Policy, Politics
Tagged #scicomm, Climate action, Climate policy, Political Scientists, Science communication
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SciComm for the IPCC
There is a newly released Communications Handbook for IPCC scientists. It’s already been covered in a Guardian article and in a Realclimate post. There are six basic principles Be a confident communicator Talk about the real world, not abstract ideas … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, Global warming, Policy, Research, Scientists
Tagged #scicomm, Adam Corner, Climate communications, Climate Outreach, RealClimate
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Science communication – again
There are a number of possible things to write about, but I thought I might have a brief rant about a topic I find of interest. A tweet by David Roberts (who I mostly like) caused a bit of a … Continue reading
Climate communication
Doug McNeall recently gave a talk about surviving the climate communication environment, which he discusses in this post. A lightly edited version of the slides are available here. The slides, of course, don’t tell you precisely what was said in … Continue reading
