In this first module of the ACES Science Communication certificate... we start nice and gently. We cover how and why communications skills are a core professional skill, how your career will benefit from being a crack communicator and finally the secret sauce in the recipe of great communication.
Here's the Randy Olson video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERB7ITvabA4
For certificate participants, the remaining details of this module can be found in your inbox.
In this first module of the ACES Science Communication certificate... we start nice and gently. We cover how and why communications skills are a core professional skill, how your career will benefit from being a crack communicator and finally the secret sauce in the recipe of great communication.
Here's the Randy Olson video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERB7ITvabA4
For certificate participants, the remaining details of this module can be found in your inbox.
Strategic science communication (Short Version): Delivered in Stellenbosch Se...John C. Besley
This is a shortened version of a talk I've prepared on science communication goals and objectives. I'll continue to update the presentation over time and appreciate the opportunity to talk about the ideas contained.
The presentation gives an overview on the role of IT in Science Communication. Being a faculty member for the NISCAIR training programme, the author presented the slide the NISCAIR training programme on 11th Feb. 2011.
Playing the Past, Seeing the Future: Game Design in the HumanitiesSeriousGamesAssoc
This session will explore the role of the humanities — history, literature, philosophy, civics, jurisprudence — in the practice of designing serious games. While serious games have long and storied history (no pun intended) with engaging the humanities, recent humanities-based games such as Assassin’s Creed Origins, 1979 Revolution, Walden, a game, and others have opened up new possibilities for not only reasserting game-based learning in humanities contexts, but also re-evaluating the design paradigms through which these games are made. This session will explore the process of designing games in the humanities, the challenges and affordances of doing so, and the possibilities for developing and producing humanities games through grant funding, including the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Science Communication: New ways to reach citizens and policy-makers in the po...Jorge Aguado Sánchez
Science communication is the key for the future of science. The world is living in a post-fact world where the fact-checking and agility of answers from the scientist are becoming vital for policy decision-making. Citizens are also a piece of the puzzle of science; the effectiveness and the engagement of our research will shape futures society.
The scientific community is taking a step towards the creation of new connection models and tools to reach policy-makers and citizens. These current methods are moving towards the path of storytelling and data visualisation, which in practise, all scientist and communication teams should learn how to do. Emotions and visuals are becoming more popular in the XXI century. Learning how to work with it will make the role of science essential again.
Therefore, this report provides a tool box with new ideas on how to develop the competences and skills of professionals. Examples include: how to create a message box and infographics, how to debunk myths and how to engage with media and other stakeholders. Science communication doesn’t start at the end of a project; it’s part of the whole process (beginning till end).
The Basics of Science Communication - in a formulaJacopo Pasotti
I was invited to speak about science communication at a meeting of chemists, in Lion (France). Having short time to present such a huge field, I decided to condense it in a three elements formula (there is one element, you will notice, it has been introduced for the first time). This presentation has been changed (more text) hoping that it will be self-explaining. Glad if you download and thankful if you send me a notice!
scientific communication has become crucial to make you a successful in scientific community. Become aware of various modes available to communicate the scientific knowledge and add this skill to your career, see the change!!!
Uberisation of writing symposium, QPR April 2016Pat Thomson
a contribution to a symposium, raising questions about the various actions that might taken to address the variable quality of writing support and advice.
Strategic science communication (Short Version): Delivered in Stellenbosch Se...John C. Besley
This is a shortened version of a talk I've prepared on science communication goals and objectives. I'll continue to update the presentation over time and appreciate the opportunity to talk about the ideas contained.
The presentation gives an overview on the role of IT in Science Communication. Being a faculty member for the NISCAIR training programme, the author presented the slide the NISCAIR training programme on 11th Feb. 2011.
Playing the Past, Seeing the Future: Game Design in the HumanitiesSeriousGamesAssoc
This session will explore the role of the humanities — history, literature, philosophy, civics, jurisprudence — in the practice of designing serious games. While serious games have long and storied history (no pun intended) with engaging the humanities, recent humanities-based games such as Assassin’s Creed Origins, 1979 Revolution, Walden, a game, and others have opened up new possibilities for not only reasserting game-based learning in humanities contexts, but also re-evaluating the design paradigms through which these games are made. This session will explore the process of designing games in the humanities, the challenges and affordances of doing so, and the possibilities for developing and producing humanities games through grant funding, including the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Science Communication: New ways to reach citizens and policy-makers in the po...Jorge Aguado Sánchez
Science communication is the key for the future of science. The world is living in a post-fact world where the fact-checking and agility of answers from the scientist are becoming vital for policy decision-making. Citizens are also a piece of the puzzle of science; the effectiveness and the engagement of our research will shape futures society.
The scientific community is taking a step towards the creation of new connection models and tools to reach policy-makers and citizens. These current methods are moving towards the path of storytelling and data visualisation, which in practise, all scientist and communication teams should learn how to do. Emotions and visuals are becoming more popular in the XXI century. Learning how to work with it will make the role of science essential again.
Therefore, this report provides a tool box with new ideas on how to develop the competences and skills of professionals. Examples include: how to create a message box and infographics, how to debunk myths and how to engage with media and other stakeholders. Science communication doesn’t start at the end of a project; it’s part of the whole process (beginning till end).
The Basics of Science Communication - in a formulaJacopo Pasotti
I was invited to speak about science communication at a meeting of chemists, in Lion (France). Having short time to present such a huge field, I decided to condense it in a three elements formula (there is one element, you will notice, it has been introduced for the first time). This presentation has been changed (more text) hoping that it will be self-explaining. Glad if you download and thankful if you send me a notice!
scientific communication has become crucial to make you a successful in scientific community. Become aware of various modes available to communicate the scientific knowledge and add this skill to your career, see the change!!!
Uberisation of writing symposium, QPR April 2016Pat Thomson
a contribution to a symposium, raising questions about the various actions that might taken to address the variable quality of writing support and advice.
Presentació a càrrec de Lluís Anglada, director de Ciència Oberta al CSUC, duta a terme a la Training Session on Open Science and Open Access al Centre de Recerca Matemàtica de la UAB l'11 de novembre de 2018
AstroInformatics2010: Crowdsourcing science communication, outreach and educa...skendrew
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STEAM to STEM: Redesigning Science Itself by Roger Malinaroger malina
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Digital Humanities at Small Liberal Arts Colleges
Digital methodologies and new media are changing the landscape of research and teaching in the humanities. Scholars can now computationally analyze entire corpora of texts or preserve and share materials through digital archives. Students can engage in authentic applied research linking literary texts to place or study Shakespeare in a virtual Globe Theater. Such developments collectively fall under the name “digital humanities,” which includes the humanities and humanistic social sciences and has largely been characterized by computing-intensive, collaborative, interdisciplinary projects at research institutions. Faculty, staff and students at small liberal arts colleges, however, are making significant contributions to the digital humanities, especially by engaging undergraduates both in and out of the classroom. Rebecca Frost Davis, Program Officer for the Humanities at the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE), will introduce the digital humanities landscape and share examples from small liberal arts colleges.
Combining the quantitative and qualitative domains a geographic perspective u...Hamish Robertson
Slides from a presentation I did with Professor Jo Travaglia on the quant-qual 'divide' and its limitations from a geographical and visual perspective.
Remapping the Global and Local in Knowledge Production: Roles of Open AccessLeslie Chan
It is generally acknowledged that researchers and institutions in the Global South suffer from knowledge isolation because of poor infrastructure and lack of access to key resources, including the current literature. The remedy is therefore capacity building and the transfer of not only knowledge, but also the institutional framework of knowledge creation from the North to the South. In this context, Open Access to the scholarly literature is seen as a means of bridging the global knowledge gap.
In this presentation, I argue that a key contributor to the continual knowledge divide and the invisibility of knowledge from the Global South is the persistence and dominance of Northern frameworks of research evaluation and quality metrics, coupled with outmoded national and international innovation policies based on exclusion and competitiveness. These narrow measures have tended to skew international research agenda and undermine locally relevant research.
A great opportunity that Open Access provides is the means to develop alternative metrics of research uptake and impact that are more inclusive of knowledge from the South, particularly those with development outcomes. In particular, it is important to re-conceptualize and re-design the metrics of research impact to reflect new scholarly practices and the diverse means of engagement enabled by OA and the new wave of social media tools. At the same time, appropriate policies need to be developed to reward open scholarship and to encourage research sharing — issues of particular importance for ending knowledge isolation. Examples of the new kinds of “invisible college” enabled by networking tools and OA will be presented, and particular attention will be paid to innovations emanating from the periphery.
Community studies have evolved as more sophisticated methods have emerged, as well as in response to criticisms.
One example is the development of on-line research methods to study on-line communities.
Case by case: Open research in different disciplines (Dr Dorka Tamas)UoLResearchSupport
Funded by Research England, post-doctoral researcher Dorka Tamás and PhD candidate Christopher Cox have conducted interviews with colleagues from different faculties, schools and services across the University of Leeds, to raise awareness of open research practices across disciplines and career stages.
These are Dorka's slides from an online event held on 22 September 2022.
For more information see the Library blog: https://leedsunilibrary.wordpress.com/tag/open-lunch/
Case by case: Open research in different disciplinesUoLResearchSupport
Slides from an online event held at the University of Leeds on 22 September 2022: Case by case: Open research in different disciplines
Together with Chris Cox, Dr Dorka Tamás has developed open research case studies from across the University of Leeds.
You can access the event recording on the University of Leeds Libraries blog: https://leedsunilibrary.wordpress.com/2022/11/04/case-by-case-open-research-in-different-disciplines/
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Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
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2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
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The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
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• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
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2. Situating myself
• Early obsession with weather and astronomy
• College education
• Planned to be an astronomer
• But transferred into the humanities: philosophy and English
• “Real world” experience in business technology (MIS)
• Back to the academy
• HCI -> STS
• Currently
• Science communication
• Philosophy of technology and science
• Science/social informatics
3. Problem
• Citizen science
• “Citizen science [is the] participation of the general public in
scientific research”
• RQ: How is citizen science framed in different discourse
communities?
• RQ: How does information travel from experts to non-
experts?
• RQ: How does citizen science alter the relationship
between public(s) and science(s)?
5. Significance
• STS –
• Public understanding of science
• Expert and non-expert divides
• Science communication
• Frame creation and diffusion
• Information science
• Everyday information creation
• Amateur information seeking (?)
8. How/Why to communicate science?
• The world is becoming more complex
• Increasing levels of technology and scientific knowledge
• Easier to share across wide areas
• Grand challenges for science
• How do scientists communicate large-scale issues like global
warming among themselves?
• How do scientists communicate to the public?
• Examples: global warming, nuclear power, genetically modified
organisms, vaccine use
9. Science Communication
• Laypeople just need more
education to understand the
issues and concepts
Deficit
model
• Laypeople have local
expertise that can be
harnessed to help
understand a problem
Lay
expertise
Brossard & Lewenstein, 2009
10. Science communication
• Laypeople understand
based on their contextual
experiences
Contextual
model
• Laypeople should be
integrated into science
and technical discussions
Public
understanding
Brossard & Lewenstein, 2009
11. Public understanding
• A more sophisticated understanding of science
communication
• Framing effects are present
• Emotion, class, and other background factors effect the
transmission of scientific knowledge to the public
• Brings in democratic theory and practice
• Builds a forum for communication between scientists and laypeople
• Does not put one group above the other
14. Citizen science – an opportunity
To bring public and science together.
15. History of Citizen Science
• Introduced in the 1990s
• But earlier antecedents exist
• National Weather Service, Audubon Society Christmas bird
count, AAVSO
• Two traditions
• Critical-emancipatory
• Pragmatic-instrumental
• Factors for growth
• Improvements in technology
• Public is a potential labor source
• Funding requirements for public outreach
16. Projects, Papers
• Recent project counts
• 280 projects from
Cornell lab mailing list
(Wiggins &
Crowston, 2010)
• 500 projects currently
listed at SciStarter.org
18. Where is the internet?
• Recruitment: Mediator for connecting scientists to non-
scientists
• Data collection and analysis: project websites provide an
interface for the collection and analysis of data
• Data sharing: collected data may be shared with other
scientists or the public via internet data stores or reports
• Infrastructure: wires, routers, mobile, GPS, standards
• Paradigms: 4th paradigm of data intensive science
• But does it create a community, a crowd, or a public?
20. How critical do I go?
• Balancing act between disciplines and traditions
• Science communication
• STS
• Information science
• Two traditions
• Critical-emancipatory
• Pragmatic-instrumental
21. To be critical =? theory
• Currently working with Habermas
• Communication and rationality
• Technical, practical, and emancipatory inquiry
• Can there be communicative action between citizen scientists and
professional scientists?
• Other options
• ANT, sociotechnical imaginaries, trading zones, social
epistemology, leisure science, participatory culture, user generated
content, sociology of professions, informal learning, common-pool
resources, feminism, rhetoric of science communication
• What other options might work?
23. Problems
• How critical do I go?
• The problem of online crowd labor.
• Other critical problems you may notice?
• How much theory should I include?
• The problem of scale:
• Micro, meso, or macro?
• What scale do you think would you be interested in hearing about
at a conference or in a reading about in a journal paper?
24. References
• Brossard, D. & Lewenstein, B.V., 2009. A Critical
Appraisal of Models of Public Understanding of Science:
Using Practice to Inform Theory. In L. Kahlor & P. A.
Stout, eds. Communicating Science: New Agendas in
Communication. London: Routledge.
• Nisbet, M. & Scheufele, D.A., 2007. The future of public
engagement. The Scientist, 21, pp.38–44.
• Wiggins, A. & Crowston, K., 2012. Goals and tasks: Two
typologies of citizen science projects. In Forty-fifth Hawai’i
International Conference on System Science (HICSS-45).
Wailea, HI.
Editor's Notes
Mention the importance of science communication and why it matters to society.
Citizen science is the participation of non-scientists in scientific research.Why does it arise? Changes in technology enable new forms of collaboration (in 1833 it took months to gather reports on a famous meteor storm via postal mail and newspapersNew availability of tools, such as GPS and cheap sensors.Scientists need to approach the public for participation in order to get funding.USA National Phenology NetworkGalaxyZooOpen Street Map