Does #scicomm training work? Paul Brewer, Erin Oittinen, Wyatt Dawson & Barbara Ley studied a university programme: researchers came away more confident & more willing to talk about their work, though their (already positive) views on engagement barely shifted. - jcom.sissa.it/article/pubi...

How do politicians argue about science? 🏛️🔬 Daniel Wiesner, Jakob-Moritz Eberl & Sophie Lecheler analysed 104,000+ Austrian parliamentary speeches (1996–2022) and found that party ideology shapes how science gets invoked. #SciComm #SciencePolicy - jcom.sissa.it/article/pubi...

Indigenous-led storytelling, relationships and community authority, could transform Australia's National Science Week into inclusive, decolonial knowledge exchange, with a framework for co-design. #scicomm jcom.sissa.it/article/pubi.... This new practice insight was written by Rachelle Warner.

New in JCOM: Shalev, Pappas & Steinke analyse 194 Instagram posts by astronaut influencers Kellie Gerardi, Norah Patten & Shawna Pandya. Personal stories, humour and trends drive engagement and challenge who we picture as scientists. #scicomm jcom.sissa.it/article/pubi...

#CA125 By studying Instagram accounts, Jill van der Kamp, Lotte Krabbenborg & Afke Wieke Betten show how women living with incurable cancer mobilise biomedical knowledge to juggle everyday life and illness. Image: Vanya Samkov #scicomm - full text at doi.org/10.22323/371...

Can #marketing tools help #science to build public #trust? A new essay in JCOM - doi.org/10.22323/369...
#scicomm [Image: Atomium, by Fabian Kleiser, Unsplash]

Can journalism help people grasp climate risk before it hits?
This JCOM practice insight follows journalists & climate scientists working together on more anticipatory, explanatory & accessible extreme-weather reporting.
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Turn a planetarium inside out to creat a dome built for the cosmos, aimed instead at microbial life. Symbiosis pairs live cello with videomicrography to tell the human–gut microbe story. New JCOM Practice Insight about creative #scicomm: doi.org/10.22323/411...

New research about news factors in university press releases and their effect on media uptake - from the University of Utrecht (Michelle ten Dam, Nieske Vergunst & Mark Bos) - doi.org/10.22323/383... #scicomm

The places where we encounter science can shape how we feel, think & engage with it. New JCOM practice Insight by Jacob Thorek Jensen & Marianne Achiam explores #scicomm as a spatial practice. Read the open-access article here: doi.org/10.22323/391...
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The #ICA Science Communication Interest Group debuted strongly in Cape Town. Looking forward, however,
@johnbesley.bsky.social & Jenni Metcalfe also encourage more focus on connecting research to the needs of practitioners and communities. #scicomm
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New practice insight from South Africa: Anton Binneman on how ancient San knowledge of the night sky endures in the Central Karoo; now home to #MeerKAT & the #SKA. How can science communication help older ways of knowing the sky carry forward? Image: NRF SARAO #scicomm #IKS doi.org/10.22323/385...